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09/02/2026

Prof. Anjan Kumar Gupta, Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur, will deliver a Physics Society Outreach Lecture on“2025 Physics Nobel Prize: Discovery of Macroscopic Quantum Mechanical Tunnelling and Energy Quantization in an Electric Circuit” on Tuesday, February 17, 2026, at 5:00 PM, in Lecture Hall Complex (LHC-16).

31/01/2026

Prof. Duncan Lorimer, West Virginia University (WVU), will deliver a Joint Physics and SPASE Colloquium on“Rolling The Dice: Monte Carlo Simulations of Pulsars and FRBs”on Wednesday day, February 04, 2026, at 6:15 PM in LHC 16 (Lecture Hall Complex). All are cordially invited.

29/01/2026

Dr. Shashi Thutupalli, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, will deliver a colloquium on “The Engine Before the Machine: Towards the Physics of Life” on Friday, January 30, 2026, at 5:15 PM in FB-382 (Prof. A. K. R Seminar Room). All are cordially invited.

19/01/2026

Prof. Y. N. Mohapatra, Department of Physics and Materials Science Programme, National Centre for Flexible Electronics, IIT Kanpur, will deliver a colloquium on “Printed Random Network of C**s as an Electronic Material: Transport, Trapping, and Transients”on Thursday, January 22, 2026, at 5:15 PM, in FB-382 (Prof. A. K. R. Seminar Room).
All are cordially invited.

13/01/2026

Prof. Rohit Medwal, Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur will be giving a colloquium on "Magnetic Anisotropy: The“swiss Army Knife”For Spintronics" on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026 at 5:15 PM, at FB-382 (Prof. A. K. R Seminar Room), All are Cordially Invited.

08/01/2026

Dr. Mohit Bhardwaj, SPASE, IIT Kanpur will be giving a colloquium on "Fast Radio Bursts: From a Millisecond Mystery to a Precision Tool for Exploring the Universe" on Friday, Jan. 09, 2026 at 5:15 PM, at FB-382 (Prof. A. K. R Seminar Room), All are Cordially Invited.

26/12/2025

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Amit Kumar Agarwal of the Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur, has been awarded the 2025 Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar (Vigyan Yuva – Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize), one of India’s most prestigious recognitions in science and technology.
This esteemed honor recognizes Prof. Agarwal’s pathbreaking contributions to theoretical condensed matter physics, particularly in the areas of quantum transport, topological materials, and low-dimensional systems. He is the first alumnus of the Centre for High Energy Physics (CHEP), Indian Institute of Science, to receive this distinguished national award.

19/12/2025

We are delighted to share that Ms. Deepika Behmani, Ph.D. scholar from the Department of Physics, IIT kanpur, has been awarded the AAPPS-DPP Poster Prize 2025 at the 9th Asia Pacific Conference in Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP 2025), held in Fukuoka, Japan.

Her poster, titled “Flow Field Dynamics in an Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet: A Tale of Turbulence and Transition,” co-authored with Pawan K. Karn, Prof. Debopam Das, and her thesis supervisor Prof. Sudeep Bhattacharjee, was recognised for its excellence and contribution to plasma physics research.

Congratulations to Ms. Deepika Behmani on this prestigious international recognition!

Academics and Career Council, IIT Kanpur | Science and Technology Council, IIT Kanpur | Ministry of Education | Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

13/11/2025

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Mahendra K. Verma from the Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur, has published a research paper in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The study offers groundbreaking insights into the mechanisms of thermal convection, which efficiently transport heat in astrophysical and engineering flows. Conventionally, hot plumes are expected to ascend and cold plumes to descend, resulting in a positive heat flux. However, the PNAS paper by Tiwari et al. presents compelling evidence that, in turbulent convection, the upper boundary can deflect hot plumes downward, thereby inducing a negative heat flux.

The study further reveals that the difference between the positive and negative heat fluxes decreases with the Rayleigh number, yielding the classical Nusselt number scaling that aligns with experimental findings. This work indicates a likely absence of the “ultimate regime” in turbulent convection. These subtle features of heat flux help resolve a long-standing problem in understanding heat transport in turbulent convection.

Heartiest congratulations to Prof. Mahendra K. Verma and his research team on this distinguished publication and their continued pursuit of excellence in fundamental physics.

Read The Paper here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nKEuBQMg3rh-m6D3-z2QEUdQIdjD5QNy/view?fbclid=IwY2xjawOCWPpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFyOW55ZEM3VHRVN09EbWZpc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHukyHpELnk3B0L2ShTdk6nRzWImnxDqj2FvhXj273RR-cnc96POmIBEofGAe_aem_mVtIWgGDjm75E8-aOlb_xg

12/11/2025

Prof. Arabinda Haldar, Department of Physics, IIT Hyderabad will be giving Colloquium on "Magnon Spintronics" on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM, at FB-382 (Prof. A. K. R Seminar Room), All are Cordially Invited.

11/11/2025

Prof. Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Duke University, USA will be giving Special Colloquium on "Building Our Universe with Qubits" on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM, at FB-382 (Prof. A. K. R Seminar Room), All are Cordially Invited.

06/11/2025

Department of Physics organize an outreach programme title “Prof. Rakesh Popli and Mrs. Rama Popli Distinguished Lecture Series 2025" on “The Wonderful Lab called Home” by Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya, Centre Director of HBCSE, TIFR Mumbai on 11 Nov., 05.00 PM at the Lecture Hall Complex (LHC)-17, IIT Kanpur

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