March 2, 3, 2024

Open House at IIT Madras!  Thousands of students and public visited IIT at demonstrations and stalls.  Besides that for physics department, we had one for CQuICC as well at KV grounds.

Dec. 14-15, 2023

Sugandh (Distinction of quantum dots of MoS2 prepared by laser ablation to that via solvothermal method") and Debojyoti  (Dark core laser beam for generation of first order high Q whispering gallery modes) received best poster presentation awards at IMPULSE 2023, at IIT Madras.

Dec. 14, 2023

Prof. Bisht delivered an invited talk on “Tunable beams for light-matter interaction, bio-engineering and quantum optics” at at IMPULSE 2023 at IIT Madras.

Sep. 29, 2023

Prof. Bisht delivered an invited talk on " Single particle fluorescence microscopy, whispering gallery modes and applications" PRL Ahmedabad

Sep. 25, 2023

Prof. Bisht delivered two talks on " Selected topics in photonics: a review at UGC refresher course at DSB College Naini Tal, Kumaun university. 

Jul 21 , 2023

60th Convocation of IIT Madras with CJI Chandrachud as the chief guest.  Dr. Tulika Agrawal received her degree in person! Congratulations Tulika.

May 30, 2023

“One day hybrid joint workshop” was held between IITM-ORC Southampton.

May 20-Jun 20, 2023

Prof. Bisht spent a month as visiting professor at ORC, Southampton, UK under a travel award from Dean (GE), IIT Madras.

March 3, 2023

Ms. Tulika Agrawal defends her Ph.D. thesis successfully. Congratulation Tulika.

Feb. 28, 2023

Prof. Bisht delivered a public lecture at Uttarakhand Open Univ. Haldwani campus (Science day celebrations, Feb 28, 2023), Title: Cutting edge science in India: Modern optics and microscopy

Jan 23-27, 2023

 Under the banner of pCoE “Centre for Quantum Information, Communication, and Computing (CQuICC)” a conference “Progress in Quantum Science and Technologies” was held at IIT Madras.

Jan 9-11, 2023

Under the auspices of pCoE Biosensing, “International conference on advanced biomedical imaging” was held  at IIT Madras Research park.

Dec. 23, 2022

Professor Periasamy delivered a lecture on “Dynamic Imaging of Live Prostate Cancer Cells: FLIRR Microscopy” in Bose Hall at 3 PM.

Dec. 20, 2022

Prof. Bisht delivered a lecture on "Optical parametric amplification and experiments in quantum optics" at DSB College Naini Tal, Kumaun university.  There was a special interaction session with the M.Sc. and Ph.D. students.

Dec. 20, 2022

Professor Periasamy delivered a lecture on “Fundamentals  of Lifetime Imaging and Resonance Transfer" in Bose Hall at 10:30 AM.

Dec 15, 2022

Professor Periasamy University of Virginia  is visiting IIT Madras as Honorary Visiting Faculty under pCoE on  Biosensing  for 1 month

Nov. 21, 2022

Ph.D. Scholar Ms. Tulika Visits ORC, Southampton under International immersion program of IIT Madras for 3 months.

Oct. 15, 2022

The video on  “ Author spotlight” on the new book at IoP is here ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS030G-_rJI )

Sept. 8, 2022

Delivered two lecture (online) on (i). “Optoelectronic devices” and (ii). “Propagation of EM waves in optical fibres” at faculty development program of VIT University Vellore.

Aug. 17, 2022

A new text book written by Prem B Bisht published! An Introduction to Photonics and Laser Physics with Applications

Book Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-5226-0, [444 pages containing 24 chapters, 95 solved examples, over 250 problems and over 250 figures, 30 tables and 196 references].

Jul 20, 2022

Professor Arnold delivered his second lecture at Bose Hall titled “Applying the Photonic Atom and its Whispering Gallery Modes to multiplexing virus sensing on a single micro-cavity structure”.

 

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