Department Activities 15-19 July 2019

Let me start with a photo shared by my friend, Vishnu Sir, Director, Centre for Language Studies, Department of English, University of Kerala.




On 15.07.2019, Open defence of the PhD thesis entitled “Synthesis and Characterization of doped and undoped nanostructured nickel oxide” by the candidate Ms. Lakshmi S Nair was carried out at Auditorium with Prof. N V Unnikrishnan as the chairman of the proceedings. The minutes and some photos are attached herewith.
Minutes




Synopsis of the PhD work-See above

On 15.07.2019 AN, Department level induction program was conducted for PG first-year students “Enigma”. Professor Ramesh Chandra Nath was the chief speaker. For the information for my blog reader, I am attaching some details of him.
Ramesh Chandra Nath was born and brought up in Mayurbhanj, Orissa. After finishing B.Sc. (Physics) from MPC College, Baripada, Orissa, he obtained his M.Sc. in Physics from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. He did his PhD in experimental condensed matter physics, from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay with Prof. Avinash V. Mahajan on "low-dimensional spin systems". Subsequently, he moved to University of Dortmund as a postdoc and worked on experimental soft condensed matter physics in the group of Prof. Roland Bohmer. He then spent two years at the Max-Planck Institute of Chemical Physics of Solids (MPI - CPfS), Dresden, Germany in the group of Prof. Christoph Geibel and one and half years at the Ames Laboratory, Iowa, USA in the group of Prof. David Johnston as a postdoc and worked on strongly correlated systems. In October 2009 he joined as an assistant professor in the school of physics, IISER Thiruvananthapuram. His research interests range from soft condensed matter to hard condensed matter physics. His areas of expertize are synthesis, crystal growth, structural properties, thermodynamic properties, and low-temperature solid-state NMR.
Dr. Mamtha Sahoo is the spouse of Dr. Ramesh Chandra Nath. I am thankful to both for giving a helping hand to the first-year students who have come to this department with big dreams. Attaching some photos of the same






Youtube video link


On 16.07.2019, Xerxes along with Enigma offered farewell to Questa Nova, 2017-19 PG batch of our department. I congratulate Priyalekhmi as well as all her friends who effectively arranged the send-off party at Auditorium, Department of Physics, University of Kerala. Attaching some photos of the same.

Questa Nova- Video footage







On 16.07.2019, The general body and send off for teachers was conducted by Kerala University Teachers Association was conducted at Auditorium, Department of Aquatic Biology. Attaching some photos of the events which I had the privilege to attend.


Thank you all for your patience

 Sibi

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