Brief History of The Department of Physics

In 1882 Surendranath Banerjea took over the Presidency School and converted it in January, 1884 into Presidency Institution affiliated to I.A.Standard and later in the same year into The Ripon College as a full –fledged degree college. The Law Department was added in 1885 (later converted into a separate College in 1911 named as Ripon Law College), the Department of Commerce in 1940 (converted into a separate Degree College in 1961), a branch College at Dinajpur (now a separate College in Bangladesh) in 1942, the Evening science Section in 1947 (now a part of Surendranath Evening College) and the Women’s section in 1948 (converted into an independent unit of Degree College in1960). In 1948-49 the Trustees renamed the college as Surendranath College in homage to the Founder of the institution and author of ‘A Nation in making’. In accordance with the instruction of U.G.C., the State Government and the Calcutta University, all the day Sections of the institution have been incorporated in Surendranath College. The Department of Physics, Suerendranath College started functioning before independence.

1. The Department of Physics, Surendranath College, Kolkata is going to organize a Two-Days Alumni Webinar on “A Guide to ARDUINO Projects” on 30-06-2022 and 01-07-2022 at 9:00PM on Google Meet platform. Speaker: Abhasita Das Munshi, M.Sc. Data Science, VIT, Andhra Pradesh. All the Physics Honours students and the teachers are hereby asked to join thewebinar without fail. Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/ijr-ekrg-gad by order HOD, Department of Physics, Surendranath College (Date: 27/06/2022).

2. The Department of Physics, Surendranath College, Kolkata is going to organize a Student Seminar on 04-06-2022 at 11:00 AM in Physics gallery.The lectures will be delivered by the students of Semester VI Physics Hons.All the Physics Honours students are required to attend the seminar without fail. by order HOD, Department of Physics, Surendranath College (Date: 28/05/2022.

3. The Department of Physics, Surendranath College, Kolkata will be conducting a laboratory visit to University of Kalyani on 13th May, 2022 (Friday).Host Laboratory: Department of Physics, Kalyani University, Nadia, West Bengal. All the Physics Hons students are asked to arrive at the Surendranath College by 9:00 AM on that date.For other detailscontact at the Department of Physics. by order HOD, Department of Physics, Surendranath College. (Date: 10/05/2022)

4. The Department of Physics, Surendranath College, Kolkata is going to organize a one-day International level popular Physics webinar on February 28, 2022 (Monday) from 7:00 PM (under DBT-STAR College Scheme, Govt. of India). Join us live to get your astronomy questions answered and learn more about the wonders of our Universe!
Topic: The Accelerating Expanding Universe – Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Einstein’s Cosmological Constant
Speaker: Prof. Bharat Ratra, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Kansas State University, United States
Registration link: https://forms.gle/cSJ3DPK9s4R7XeLGA.
by order HOD, Department of Physics, Surendranath College. (Date: 22/02/2022)

5. The Department of Physics, Surendranath College, Kolkata is going to organize a Student’s Seminar on “A Guide to ARDUINO PROJECTS” on July 14, 2021 at 4:00PM on Google Meet platform. Speaker: Abhasita Das Munshi, Semester VI, Physics Hons. All the Physics Honours students and the teachers are hereby asked to attend the seminar. by order HOD, Department of Physics, Surendranath College (Date: 10/07/2022).

6. The Department of Physics, Surendranath College, Kolkata is going to organize a Student’s Seminar on “Introduction to ARDUINO” on July 8, 2021 at 5:00 PM on Google Meet platform. Speaker: Abhasita Das Munshi, Semester VI, Physics Hons. All the Physics Honours students and the teachers are hereby asked to attend the seminar. by order HOD, Department of Physics, Surendranath College (Date: 05/07/2022).

7. The Department of Physics, Surendranath College, Kolkata is going to organize a one-day national level popular Physics webinar on July 3, 2021 (Saturday) from 4:00 PM (under DBT-STAR College Scheme, Govt. of India).
Topic 1: “In Search of Dark Matter”, by Dr.Subhaditya Bhattacharya, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati. Topic 2: “Hawking and His Universe”, by Dr.Sudipta Sarkar, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, IIT Gandhinagar.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/rbGZSsESSL295hs18
by order HOD, Department of Physics, Surendranath College. (Date: 30/06/2022)

8. The Department of Physics, Surendranath College, Kolkata is going to organize a Student Seminar on 29-06-2021 at 4:00 PM in Google Meet platform. The lectures will be delivered by the students of Semester IV and VI. All the Physics Honours students are asked to attend the seminar without fail. by order HOD, Department of Physics, Surendranath College (Date: 20/06/2021.

9. The Department of Physics, Surendranath College, Kolkata will conduct two online Parent Teachers Meetingsfor the Semester II and IV Physics Hons.students. The participation of the parent/guardian is mandatory for all the students. The overall performance and the development of the student will be discussed. Schedule: For Semester IV,16-06-2022, 07:00-08:00PM. For Semester II,17-06-2022, 07:00-08:00PM. by order HOD, Department of Physics, Surendranath College. (Date: 12/06/2022)

Research Activities: Paper publication

(Since 2017 35 research papers have been published)

2021 (4)

1. “CosmoReionMC: a package for estimating cosmological and astrophysical parameters using CMB, Lyman-α absorption, and global 21 cm data”, Atrideb Chatterjee, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, and Sourav Mitra, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 507 (2), 2405–2422, 2021, (Accepted: 06 August 2021 and Published: 11 August 2021). (Scopus indexed journal).
2. “Hybrid analytic and machine-learned baryonic property insertion into galactic dark matter haloes”, Ben Moews, Romeel Dave, Sourav Mitra, Sultan Hassan, and Weiguang Cui, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 504 (3), 4024–4038, 2021, (Accepted: 12 April 2021 and Published: 22 April 2021). (Scopus indexed journal).
3. “Theoretical study of the control of absorption, transparency, and amplification in a microwave- and RF-driven four-level (Δ+∇)-type closed-contour interaction system”, Aparajita Das, Jayanta Saha, and Md Mabud Hossain, Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Vol. 54 (7), 075404, 2021 (Accepted 27.11.2020 and Published 30.04.2021).
4. “A comparison of analog performance, linearity, and distortion characteristics between symmetric InGaAs and asymmetric InGaAs/InP MOSFETs”, Emona Datta, Avik Chattopadhayay, and Abhijit Mallik, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 68 (4), 1570-1576, 2021 (Accepted 22.02.2021 and Published 9.03.2021).

2020 (5)

5. “Heavy dark matter particle annihilation in dwarf spheroidal galaxies: radio signals at the SKA telescope”, Arpan Kar, Sourav Mitra, Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya, and Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, Physical Review D, 101, 023015, 2020 (Published 27.01.2020).
6. “Temperature dependence of analog performance, linearity, and harmonic distortion for a Ge-Source Tunnel FET”, Emona Datta,, Avik Chattopadhayay, Abhijit Mallik, and Yasuhisa Omura, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 67 (3), 810-815, 2020 (Accepted 19.01.2020 and Published 13.02.2020).
7. “Relative study of analog performance, linearity, and harmonic distortion between Junctionless and Conventional SOI FinFETs at elevated temperatures”, Emona Datta,, Avik Chattopadhayay, and Abhijit Mallik, Journal of Electronic Materials, Vol. 49 (5), 3309-3316, 2020 (Accepted 13.02.2020 and Published 26.02.2020).
8. “Dark matter annihilation in w Centauri: Astrophysical implications derived from the MWA radio data”, Arpan Kar, Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya, Steven Tingay, Ben McKinley, Haverkorn, Marijke; Sam McSweeney, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Sourav Mitra, and Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, Physics of the Dark Universe, Vol. 30, 100689, 2020, (Accepted 15.07.2020 and Published December 2020).
9. “Probing dipole and quadrupole resonance mode in non-plasmonic nanowire using Raman spectroscopy”, Sreyan Raha, Sreemanta Mitra, Prasanna Kumar Mondal, Subhajit Biswas, Justin D Holmes, and Achintya Singha, Nanotechnology, Vol. 31 (42), 425201, 2020 (Accepted 15.06.2020 and Published 24.07.2020)

2019 (4)

10. “Tailoring light-matter interaction in WS2-gold nanoparticles hybrid systems”, Tara Shankar Bhattacharya, Sreemanta Mitra, Shib Shankar Singha, Prasanna Kumar Mondal, and Achintya Singha, Physical Review B, 100, 235438, 2019 (Published 20.12.2019).
11. “Constraints on dark matter annihilation in dwarf spheroidal galaxies from low frequency radio observations”, Arpan Kar, Sourav Mitra, Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, and Steven Tingay, Physical Review D, 100, 043002, 2019, (Published 01.08.2019).
18. “First study of reionization in tilted flat and untilted non-flat dynamical dark energy inflation models”, Sourav Mitra, Chan-Gyung Park, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, and Bharat Ratra, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 487 (4), 5118-5128, 2019, (Accepted 03.06.2019 and Published August 2019).
19. Kar, Arpan, Mitra,Sourav, Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya, and Tirthankar Roy Choudhury,Can SKA-Phase 1 go much beyond the LHC in supersymmetry search? Phys. Rev. D, 99, 021302 (2019), arXiv:1808.05793, Impact factor: 4.394

2018 (8)

20. Abhinav, Kumar, A. Ghose Choudhury, and Partha Guha, Backlund transformation and quasi-integrable deformation of mixed Fermi-Pasta-Ulam and Frenkel-Kontorova models, 7(1) (2018) 31-41 ISSN 2164-6376 (print) ISSN 2164-6414 (online)
21. Chanda, Sumanto, Anindya Ghose-Choudhury, and Partha Guha, Jacobi-Maupertuis metric of Lienard type equations and Jacobi last multiplier, Electronic. J. Differential Equations, Vol. 2018 (2018), No. 120, pp. 1-9
22. Mitra, Sourav, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury, and Bharat Ratra, First study of reionization in the Planck 2015 normalized closed ΛCDM inflation model, MNRAS, 479, 4566, (2018), arXiv:1712.00018, Impact factor: 5.194
23. Kar, A., Mitra, Sourav, Mukhopadhyaya, B., & Choudhury, T. R., Dark matter, extra-terrestrial gamma-rays and the MSSM: a viability study, JCAP, 02, 045, (2018), arXiv:1711.11477, Impact factor: 5.126
24. Hassan, S., Davé, R., Mitra, Sourav, Finlator, K., Ciardi, B., & Santos, M. G., Constraining the contribution of active galactic nuclei to reionisation, MNRAS, 473, 227, (2018), arXiv:1705.05398, Impact factor: 5.194
25. Mitra, Sourav, T. Roy Choudhury, and Andrea Ferrara, Cosmic reionization after Planck II: contribution from quasars, MNRAS, 473, 1416, (2018), arXiv:1606.02719, Impact factor: 5.194 24. Sarkar, Rupa, Mondal, Prasanna Kumar, and Barun Kumar Chatterjee, The Gamma Ray Detection Threshold Temperature of Different Superheated Droplet Detectors, Applied Radiation and Isotopes 139, 127-130 (2018) 25. Mondal, Prasanna Kumar, et al., Evaluation of Neutron Contamination in 241Am Gamma-ray Source, Radiation Measurements 119, 1-5 (2018)

2017 (10)

26. Ghose-Choudhury, A., and Partha Guha, An Analytical technique for the solutions of nonlinear oscillators with damping using the Abel equation, Discontinuity, Nonlinearity and Complexity, 6(1) (2017) 65-74 ISSN 2164-6376 (print) ISSN 2164-6414 (online)
27. Pandey, Ankan, A. Ghose-Choudhury, and Partha Guha, Chiellini integrability and quadratically damped oscillators, Int. J. Nonlin. Mech. 92 (2017) 153-159
28. Choudhury, A. Ghose, and Partha Guha,Chiellini integrabiltiy condition, Planar isochronous systems and Hamiltonian structures of Lienard Equation, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series B 22 (6) (2017) pp 2465-2478
29. Ghose-Choudhury, A., and Partha Guha, Monotonicity of the period function of the Lienard equation of second kind, Qual. Theory Dyn. Syst. (2017), DOI 10.1007/s12346-017-0227-2, ISSN 1575-5460
30. Ghose-Choudhury, A. , Guha, P., Paliathanasis, A., & Leach, P. G. L., Noetherian Symmetries of noncentral forces with drag term, Int. J. Geom. Mod. Phys. 14 (2017) 1750018 (14 pages) DOI: 0.1142/SO219887817500189
31.Mitra, Sourav, Romeel Davé, Vimal Simha, and Kristian Finlator, Equilibrium model prediction for the scatter in the star-forming main sequence, MNRAS, 464, 2766, (2017), arXiv:1606.07436, Impact factor: 5.194
32. Singha, S. S., Nandi, D., Bhattacharya, T. S., Mondal, Prasanna Kumar, & Singha, A., Photoluminescence Modulation due to Conversion of Trions to Excitons and Plasmonic Interaction in MoS2-metal NPs Hybrid Structures, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 723, 722-728 (2017)
33. Sarkar, R., Mondal, Prasanna Kumar, Datta, M., & Chatterjee, B. K., A New Optical Method for the Detection of Bubble Nucleation in Superheated Droplet Detector, Review of Scientific Instruments 88 (6), Art. No. 066106, (2017)
34. Sarkar, R., Mondal, Prasanna Kumar, & Chatterjee, B. K., Study of Acoustic Emission due to Vaporisation of Superheated Droplets at Higher Pressure, Physics Letters A 381 (31), 2531-2537, (2017)
35. Mondal, Prasanna Kumar, Rupa Sarkar, and Barun Kumar Chatterjee, Response of Superheated Droplet Detector (SDD) and Bubble Detector (BD) to Interrupted Irradiations, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 857, 111-114, (2017)

Book and Book Chapters Published:

2021 (8)

Book Chapters:

Eight book chapters were published in the “Recent Trend in Physical Sciences”, ISBN: 978-0-6488798-5-5. Lincoln Research and Publishing Limited, Australia in collaboration with Lincoln University College, Malaysia (Web Link)
1. Variational Monte Carlo Approach for Solving Quantum Mechanical Systems, Rohit Kumar Thapa, Subha Pritam Pal, Soumyadeeep Mandal, and Sourav Mitra.
2. A Review on the Phenomenological Theory of Phase Transitions, Argha Deb, Animesh Mallick, Avijit Sen Majumder, Deepanwita Das, Eram Tanwir, and Asok Kumar Das.
3. Characteristics of the Detectors for Nuclear Radiation, Indranil Sadhya, Jamal Uddin, Mihir Kumar Das, Naved Akram, Nilay Sankar Chattopadhyay, and Prasanna Kumar Mondal.
4. Optical Phase Locked Loop Advancement, Poushali Mallick, Pritam Mandal, Rahul Paul, Santanu Moi, and Purnendu Prakas Pal.
5. Coulomb Blockade Effect in the Context of Set, Rajibul Islam, Rajdeep Saha, Snehasis Mondal, and Ranjit Maity.
6. Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Coherent Atomic Media, Arin Bhattacharya, Abhasita Das Munshi, Abhiroop Ghosh, Anand Singh, and Aparajita Das.
7. Limitations of MOSFET Scaling and its Solution, Ishan Saha, Mohammad Javed Imam, Bonsari Choudhury, Haridas Kanji, Budhaditya Das, and Emona Datta.
8. A Comprehensive Study of the Past, Present and Future of Solid-state Drive, Subhrangshu Hait, and Shib Shankar Biswas.

Student Projects:

2020

01. “Cryptography”, Eram Tanwir, Deepanwita Das, Snehashis Mandal, and Santanu Moi.
02. “de Broglie wave is merely a wave of not achieving simultaneity”, Soumyadeep Mandal, Shuvrangshu Hait, and Arin Bhattacharya.
03. “Game Theory Analysis of E-Commerce’s Price War”, Nilay Sankar Chattopadhyay, Subha Pritam Pal, and Ishan Saha.
04. “Landau Theory of the Nematic Isotropic Phase Transition”, Abhasita Das Munshi, Indranil Sadhya, Poushali Mallick, and Rohit Thapa.
05. “Gravitational Waves and its Detection”, Budhaditya Das, Rajibul Islam, Avijit Sen Majumder, Jamal Uddin, and Rajdeep Saha.
06. “The Fourth State of Matter: Plasma”, Sudipta Ghosh, Tanmoy Nath, and Sujoy Sadhukan.
07. “Time Independent Non-Degenerate Perturbation Theory”, Argha Deb.
08. “Magnetism and its universal effect”, Animesh Mallick, Bonasri Choudhury, Haridas Kanji and Pritam Mondal.
09. “Gravitational Wave Physics”, Anand Singh, Rohit Gupta, and Sayan Roy.

2021

1. Variational Monte Carlo Approach for Solving Quantum Mechanical Systems, Rohit Kumar Thapa, Subha Pritam Pal, Soumyadeeep Mandal, and Sourav Mitra.
2. A Review on the Phenomenological Theory of Phase Transitions, Argha Deb, Animesh Mallick, Avijit Sen Majumder, Deepanwita Das, Eram Tanwir, and Asok Kumar Das.
3. Characteristics of the Detectors for Nuclear Radiation, Indranil Sadhya, Jamal Uddin, Mihir Kumar Das, Naved Akram, Nilay Sankar Chattopadhyay, and Prasanna Kumar Mondal.
4. Optical Phase Locked Loop Advancement, Poushali Mallick, Pritam Mandal, Rahul Paul, Santanu Moi, and Purnendu Prakas Pal.
5. Coulomb Blockade Effect in the Context of Set, Rajibul Islam, Rajdeep Saha, Snehasis Mondal, and Ranjit Maity.
6. Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Coherent Atomic Media, Arin Bhattacharya, Abhasita Das Munshi, Abhiroop Ghosh, Anand Singh, and Aparajita Das.
7. Limitations of MOSFET Scaling and its Solution, Ishan Saha, Mohammad Javed Imam, Bonsari Choudhury, Haridas Kanji, Budhaditya Das, and Emona Datta.
8. A Comprehensive Study of the Past, Present and Future of Solid-state Drive, Subhrangshu Hait, and Shib Shankar Biswas.