Department of Physics, IIT Bombay

© DEPARTMENTAL COORDINATOR AND STUDENT COMPANIONS, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, INSTITUTE STUDENTS’ COMPANIONS TEAM (2016-17)
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Disclaimers: The information has been obtained from students themselves. Hence the authenticity
of the report relies on the sense of responsibility of the contributors. The list of M.Sc. projects is
incomplete. Its volume depends on the intention of contribution from students. Moreover, since
this is not mandatory for students enrolled in 2 year M.Sc. course many of the current M.Sc. 2nd
year students have not finalized it yet. Photos are collected from unofficial sources.

Contributors : Shreejit Prafulla Jadhav, Sushovan Dhara, Aritra Sen & students from three
batches whose names are present in the list of M.Sc. projects.

© Departmental Coordinator and Student Companions, Department of Physics, Institute Students’ Companions Team
(2016-17)

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Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Faculties
3. Academic Interest in Department
4. Co-curricular Activities
5. Useful Contacts and Links

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Hello,
Welcome to the department of Physics and the
divine campus of IIT Bombay! The more you
explore it more you enjoy. The faculties, your
seniors and batch mates are always with you in
the journey. Here is the place you can pave along
the path of fulfilling your dreams.

All the best and cheers!

Next pages enlist all faculty members of our department and their broad research
interest. For details, please have a look at the website. In next four pages, the details of
M.Sc. projects of three batches have been compiled, which might provide some idea how
diverse the academic interest among the students is. The world beyond academics and
the marvel of students in the same has been cherished in next two pages. The last page
contains some contacts you might need any time while living inside the campus.

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Theoretical High Energy Physics
Faculty Members:
Urjit A. Yajnik, Professor
S. Umasankar, Professor
P. Ramadevi, Professor
Asmita Mukherjee, Professor
Kumar Rao,Assistant Professor
Vikram Rentala, Assistant Professor
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yajnik@phy.iitb.ac.in
uma@phy.iitb.ac.in
ramadevi@phy.iitb.ac.in
asmita@phy.iitb.ac.in
kumar.rao@phy.iitb.ac.in
rentala@phy.iitb.ac.in
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Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

Faculty Members:
P .P. Singh, Professor
Alok Shukla, Professor (on lien)
Aftab Alam, Assistant Professor
Gopal Dixit, Assistant Professor
Sai Vinjanampathy, Assistant Professor
ppsingh@phy.iitb.ac.in
shukla@phy.iitb.ac.in
aftab@phy.iitb.ac.in
gdixit@phy.iitb.ac.in
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Theoretical Soft Matter Physics

Faculty Members:
Anirban Sain, Professor asain@phy.iitb.ac.in
Punit Parmananda, Professor punit@phy.iitb.ac.in
Dibyendu Das, Professor dibyendu@phy.iitb.ac.in
Mithun Kumar Mitra, Assistant Professor mithun@phy.iitb.ac.in
Raghunath Chelakkot, Assistant Professor raghu@phy.iitb.ac.in
Amitabha Nandi, Assistant Professor amitabha@phy.iitb.ac.in

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Experimental Condensed Matter Physics

Faculty Members:
Shiva Prasad, Professor shivap@phy.iitb.ac.in
S. S. Major, Professor syed@iitb.ac.in
Avinash V. Mahajan, Professor mahajan@phy.iitb.ac.in
Tomy C V, Professor (HOD) tomy@phy.iitb.ac.in
K. G. Suresh, Professor suresh@phy.iitb.ac.in
M Senthil Kumar, Professor senthil@iitb.ac.in
N. Nambudripad, Associate Professor nnam@phy.iitb.ac.in
Subhabrata Dhar, Associate Professor dhar@phy.iitb.ac.in
M Aslam, Associate Professor aslam@phy.iitb.ac.in
Kantimay Das Gupta, Associate Professor kdasgupta@phy.iitb.ac.in
Dinesh Kabra, Associate Professor dkabra@phy.iitb.ac.in
Suddhasatta Mahapatra, Assistant Professor suddho@phy.iitb.ac.in

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Experimental High Energy Physics

Faculty Members:
Raghava Varma, Professor (on sabbatical) varma@phy.iitb.ac.in
Basanta Kumar Nandi, Professor basanta@iitb.ac.in
Pragya Das, Professor pragya@phy.iitb.ac.in
Pradeep Sarin, Associate Professor pradeepsarin@iitb.ac.in
Sadhana Dash, Assistant Professor sadhana@phy.iitb.ac.in

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Photonics Experiments

Faculty Members:
B. P. Singh, Professor bhanups@phy.iitb.ac.in
Tapanendu Kundu, Professor tkundu@phy.iitb.ac.in
Parinda Vasa, Associate Professor parinda@phy.iitb.ac.in

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Year : 2015 - 2017

Guide Topic Student E-mail ID

Urjit A. Yajnik General Relativity Arnab Seth sarnabh@gmail.com

Experimental Nirvikar
S.S. Major Condensed Matter Kushwaha nirvikark11@gmail.com
Mithun Kumar
Mitra Neuroscience Arnab Sarkar arnabsarkar013@gmail.com
Asmita Saiyad
Mukherjee Astroparticle Physics Ashanujjaman saiyadjaman@gmail.com
Urjit A. Yajnik Cosmology Vikram Singh singhvikram@iitb.ac.in
Urjit A. Yajnik General Relativity Sudipta Hensh sudiptahensh2009@gmail.com
Shreejit
Urjit A. Yajnik General Relativity Jadhav jadhav.shreejit@gmail.com
Amitabha Chemical Basis of Shobhan Dev
Nandy Morphogenesis Mandal mandalshobhandev@gmail. com
R.Pandinhateeri Statistical Mechanics
(Co-Guide- of Complex
Dibyendu Das) Biological Systems Arnab Barua arnabbaruaphysics@gmail.com
High Energy Particle Akhil
Pradeep Sarin Physics Premkumar akhilprem.k@gmail.com
S. Umasankar Neutrino Mass Model Arpit Agrawal arpit.agrawal23@gmail.com
Punit Kanishk
Parmananda Nonlinear Dynamics Chauhan kanishkchauhan.iitb@gmail.com
Theoretical Adhip
Gopal Dixit Condensed matter Pattanayak adhippattanayak@hotmail.com
Theoretical
Gopal Dixit Condensed matter Sucharita Giri sucharitagiri2@gmail.com
Experimental
Condensed matter Deepika
M. Aslam Physics Yadav deepikaiitb25@gmail.com
Sanskriti Das dassanskriti@gmail.com
High-Energy
Vikram Rentala
Astrophysics
(Co-guide)
Amit
Urjit A. Yajnik Cosmology Mazumder amazumder64@gmail.com
Electromagnetic
K.G.Suresh Material Amit kumar amu5863@gmail.com
Virendra Sethi
(Co-guide- Environmental
Gopal Dixit) Physics Puja Roy pujaroyiitb@gmail.com
P. Ramadevi High Energy Theory Monica Bapna monica.bapna13@gmail.com
Tapanendu Satyanu
Kundu Optics Bhadra satyanu7993@gmail.com

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Year : 2014 – 2016

Guide Topic Student E-mail ID
Punit Stochastic Resonance in Ishant
Parmananda Electrochemical Cell Setup Tiwari itiwari93.iitb@gmail.com
Gauge Invariance and
Spontaneous Symmetry
Breaking, Higgs
Asmita Mechanism and GWS Santu
Mukherjee Model Mondal santu.iitb@gmail.com
Suddhasatta Electrical Spin Injection in
Mahapatra Germanium Surajit Dutta surajitphysics07@gmail.com
Mithun Tug-of-war of Molecular Supriyo
Kumar Mitra Motors Naskar supriyo199331@gmail.com
CZTS- An emerging
Material for Photovoltaic
Applications
(Characterisation and
Mohammad Synthesis of CZTS Ink for Sachin
Aslam Thin Film Application) Kumar itsme.sachin2010m@gmail.com
Effect of The Cell Division
on Collective Cell Navneet
Anirban Sain Dynamics Roshan navneetroshanp@gmail.com
A Study of The Quantum
Correlations in Two Flavour
Uma Sankar Neutrino Oscillations Abhijit Dash abhijitdash@gmail.com
Numerical Studies on
Mithun Surface Directed Spinodal
Kumar Mitra Decomposition Niranjan S insbhat@gmail.com
Pradeep
Magnetic Properties of Kumar
Shiva Prasad Ni-Zn Ferrite Thin Films Singh --
Magnetic Properties of Durgesh
Shiva Prasad Co-Ferrite Thin Films Kumar durgeshkumarllg@gmail.com
Separation From Photons
from Hadronic Background
on PMD,ALICE Using
Raghava Multivariate Analysis and Abhishek
Varma Machine Learning Methods Das --

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Year : 2014 – 2016

Guide Topic Student E-mail ID
Φ­Measure of
Event-by-Event
Fluctuations in High
Energy Heavy-Ion
Collisions with
Sadhana Dash ALICE Amartya Rej amartya.rej@gmail.com
Exactly Solvable
Models and New Link
Polynomials( Knot
Invariants and The
Critical Statistical Lokesh
P.Ramadevi Systems) Kumar lokeshmehla@gmail.com
Preparation and
Characterization of
Subhabrata Pure Monolayer MoS2 Poulab
Dhar and Mn doped MoS 2 Chakrabarti poulab007@gmail.com
Magnetic Properties
of Certain
K.G. Suresh Intermetallic Vibhav Singh
Compound
Mithun Kumar
Mitra Cluster Length Scale
(Co-Guide- In 2D Active Ising Soumyadeep
Dibyendu Das) Model Chatterjee chatterjee.soumya11@gmail.com

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Year : 2013 – 2015

Guide Topic Student E-mail ID

DMRG Calculations Of
PI Conjugated Systems Roopayan
Alok Shukla Ghosh roopayanghosh@yahoo.co.in

Dynamics of Active
Anirban Filaments Indrajit
Sain Mondal indrajitmondal898@gmail.com
Quantum Information
Processing Using
Superconducting Qubits
Amartya
and Cavity QED
Alok Shukla Saha amartya92@gmail.com
Lalitha
Sairam
(TIFR,
Mumbai)
(Co-Guide- Shah Ekta
Urjit Yajnik) X-ray Astronomy Arjunkumar ektaphysics7@gmail.com
Preparation of Ag-Au
Core Shell
Nanoparticles for
Tapanendu Surface Enhanced Nafia
Kundu Raman Scattering Rahaman nafia.rima@gmail.com
Mithun Totally Asymmetric Partho Sakha
Kumar Mitra Exclusion Process De partho9791@gmail.com
Electron Confinement
in Nanowire Due to
Subhabrata Surface Charge Suddhasattwa
Dhar Accumulation Mandal m.suddhasattwa@gmail.com
Anirban Modelling the Motility
Sain of a Living Cell Koyel Das koyeldas92@gmail.com
Crystal Structure and
Chemical Analysis of
Epitaxial GeSn|Si and
Gd2O3|Si Layers by
High Resolution X-ray
Diffraction and
Suddhasatta Reflectometry Swagata
Mahapatra Bhunia swagatabhunia@gmail.com

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Sports GC 2015-16 (INTRA IIT)

Event Participants and Positions

TT(5) Pranab mohapatra-1, Poulab Chakrabarty-1, Subhaskar Mandal-1, Buddhadeb

Pal-1, Samik Mandal-1

Crossy(2+1) Pawan Dahiya - 3, Umakant Lamani - 5, Pragati Chaturvedi - 5

Aquatics(3+1+4) Amal Sarkar (Freestyle) - 2, Amal Sarkar (Breaststroke) - 2, Amal Sarkar

(Backstroke)-2; Shreejit Jadhav(Butterfly Stroke)-2; Relay (50 X 4) - Amal Sarkar , Nishchay Suri ,
Shreejit Jadhav, Dilip Chakma -2

Carom(4) Jyoti Sharma, Debadrita Saha, Anuradha Yadav, Deepika Rani -3

Cycling(1) Jyoti Rani-2

Badminton(7+5) Amal Sarkar , Himadri Chakrabarty, Pintu Ghosh, Poulab Chakrabarty, Vikram
Sharma,Pritam Bhattacharya, Vinod Kumar - 2 ; Cijy Mathai, Neelima Agrawal, Preeti Dhankher,
Pragati Chaturvedi, Garima Chaudhari - 3

Kho Kho(12) Vinod Kumar, Umakant lamani, Pawan Dahiya, Vibhav Singh, Laxman Mekala,
Siddhesh Sawant,Aditya Jain, R.K. Mayank, Shreejit Jadhav, Navneet Singh, Pravin Rathod, Deepak
Kumar-3

Squash(4) Cijy Mathai, Garima Chaudhary, Rashmi Gangwar, Jyoti Sharma -1

Athletics (14+5) 100 mts- Pawan Dahiya-1 ,Umakant Lamani - 3; 200 mts - Umakant Lamani-2;
400 mts - Umakant Lamani- 2; High Jump - Umakant Lamani -2; Triple Jump -
Pawan Dahiya - 1; 100 X 4 Relay - Umakant Lamani ,R.K. Mayank, Shreejit
Jadhav ,Pawan Dahiya - 2; 400 X 4 Relay - Navneet Singh, Vinod Kumar, Sudipta Hensh ,Himadri
Chakrabarty - 4; 100 X 4 (G) - Amrita Purkayastha , Rashmi
Gangwar, Lata K Joshi, Priyanka Mandal -2; Long Jump(G) - Priyanka Mandal - 4

Tennis(1) Garima Chaudhary - 1

Tug-of-war(12) Deepak Kumar rai, Gaurav Kumar, Susanta Kundu, Chiranjit Roy, Shreejit
Jadhav, Pinti Ghosh,Barun Barick, Satyanu Bhadra, Himanshu Kumar singh, Balram Singh , Pawan
Dahiya, Vikram -3

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Cultural and Management Events :: 2015-16

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Student Companion Team 2016-17

Name Role GPO ID Contact no.
Sanskriti Das DC 155120018@iitb.ac.in 8599917611

Shreejit Prafulla Jadhav SC 155120011@iitb.ac.in 9619859636

Balram Singh SC 155120009@iitb.ac.in 7503413500

Sudipto Hensh SC 155120004@iitb.ac.in 8454891055

Aritra Sen SC 155120006@iitb.ac.in 7045845956

Nishchay Suri SC 155120029@iitb.ac.in 7045800439

Sushovan Dhara SC 15k410001@iitb.ac.in 9167545126

Nirvikar Kushwaha SC 15i120008@iitb.ac.in 9323737244

DC: Department Coordinator, SC: Student Companion

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