Departmental Activities

Student Enrichment programmes

In last academic year Department pursued various academic and extra curricular activities, as described below chronologically, for overall grooming of its students. The Department of Physics and Computer Science, in association with IQAC of our College conducted a Faculty Development Programme and Workshop on Python language entitled “Python Programming - The Modern Era of Scientific Computation”. The two-day workshop was held on 28th and 29th of June, 2019 at Seminar Hall, Subarno Jayanti Bhaban. Resource persons were Dr. Abhijit Kar Gupta, Associate Professor at Panskura Banamali College and the author of the book “Scientific Computing in Python” and Dr. Arunabha Adhikari, Associate Professor at West Bengal State University. 35 teachers from different colleges joined this workshop to learn Python, which is just introduced in CBCS syllabus.

At the beginning of the academic year, senior students of our Department arranged for a hearty Freshers’ Welcome, a cultural program with much fun fare and refreshment on 7 th Sept ’19.

In an endeavour to incorporate passion for the subject and to inculcate the habit of public speaking the Department has introduced "Chat Physics with Tea" sessions for its students. Here students prepare a power point presentation on a topic of their choice, of course with guidance from teachers and present it before an audience comprising of Principal, Professors from various departments and of course other fellow students. An interesting and rigorous discussion follows after each presentation along with tea and snacks. This year the session was on 11 th Nov ‘19.

Dept of Physics along with Dept of Mathematics in collaboration with International Academy of Physical Sciences organised a National Seminar on ‘Recent Trends in Mathematics and Physical Sciences’ on 10 th Dec ’19. A talk on ‘Gravitation, General Relativity and Black Holes: A Layman’s View’ was delivered by Dr. Goutam Gangopadhyay, Dept of Physics, CU. Another talk on ‘ Metric on n-dimensional unit hypercube’ was delivered by Dr. Dilip Kumar Bhattacharya, Dept of Mathematics, CU.

20 students of Honours course, along with 3 teachers and 2 staff went for an Academic Tour to Dept of Physics, Jadavpur University on 29 th Feb ’20. There they participated in a DST-SERB sponsored one day Workshop on Material Synthesis & Characterization Technic, organised by Dept. Of Physics, Jadavpur University.

Activities during LOCKDOWN period

As we all know college was closed in the mid session from 16 th March to contain Covid 19 spread. In this lockdown period Department conducted regular on-line classes using Google Meet and Zoom platform and Google classrooms for its Honours and General students to complete the syllabus.

Department also celebrated Rabindrajayanti on 8 th May 2020 in Zoom platform. ’Kobi pranam’ was an hour long program comprising of a commendable srutinatak ‘ Pete o Pithe’, by first year students, along with few solo recitations and songs by students and teachers.

We have conducted three sessions of on-line Chat Physics with Tea in zoom platform, for our students in June 2020

An International Webinar was conducted by the Department on 15 th July 2020, on Google Meet . The titled of the talk was ' Mathematical Modelling of Covid-19 Propagation Kinetics : Herd Immunity to Containment'. The talk was delivered by an eminent Scientist Dr. Amit K Chattopadhyay, Reader in Mathematics at Aston University, Birmingham, England, UK. He is a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy of Aston University & a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Applications ,UK. More than 300 Teachers, Professionals, Students from all over India registered with us for this aptly-timed webinar.

A You tube channel “Physics PJC” is introduced, where our the Talk delivered at Webinar and Talks by our students in Chat Physics with Tea sessions are uploaded.

 

To take care of the mental health of our students during this pandemic our Department conducted a Students’ Mentoring Meeting on Google Meet on 22 nd August 2020. Dr. Prajna Moitra & Dr. Sutapa Roy delivered their lectures to eradicate stress of situation and boost their morals.

Faculty are always in touch with their students in this stressful period and take utmost personal care of their students. One to one Counselling Sessions were held during August 2020 for its Honours students.