{"id":43,"date":"2023-11-04T14:33:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T14:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-cxcp1.tifrh.res.in\/~pranavrs\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T10:17:56","slug":"courses-and-lab-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~pranavrs\/?page_id=43","title":{"rendered":"Courses and Lab News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.23&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;4px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.23&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; border_width_bottom=&#8221;1px&#8221; border_color_bottom=&#8221;#e2e2e2&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.23&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_post_title meta=&#8221;off&#8221; featured_image=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.23&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_post_title][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row use_custom_gutter=&#8221;on&#8221; gutter_width=&#8221;2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.23&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; border_width_bottom=&#8221;1px&#8221; border_color_bottom=&#8221;#e2e2e2&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.23&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.23&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"site-content\" role=\"main\">\n<article id=\"post-37\" class=\"post-37 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>Courses<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Spectroscopy of Atoms and Molecules, Code: CHM-113.7<\/li>\n<li>Lasers and Non-linear optics (jointly with Prof S Dutta Gupta), Code: PHY-305.7<\/li>\n<li>Experimental methods, Code PHY-108.7 (Jointly with TNN, GR, PKS)<\/li>\n<li>Advanced Experimental Methods\u00a0Code PHY-208.7 (Jointly with KR, TNN, GR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>LAB NEWS<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Feb 2025: Bidding farewell to Avinash and wishing him the best for his new job towards developing photonics based technologies !!<\/li>\n<li>Dec 2024: Saurabh sucessfully defends his PhD thesis<\/li>\n<li>Oct 2024: Avinash successfully defends his PhD thesis<\/li>\n<li>Aug 2024: Our latest work on understanding CO2 dissociation dynamics on Cu(110) surface is available as a preprint<\/li>\n<li>June 2024: Avinash submits his thesis<\/li>\n<li>Feb 2024: Saurabh presents his synopsis seminar<\/li>\n<li>Feb 2024: Minali and Pranav present their work at SDMC 2024 meeting<\/li>\n<li>Dec 2023: Avinash presents his synopsis seminar<\/li>\n<li>Nov 2023: Pranav, Avinash, Saurabh and Ardra present participate in the iCOMET-2023 conference<\/li>\n<li>Oct 2023: Saurabh and Pranav presented their work on CO2 dissociation in the SDSS-2023 conference<\/li>\n<li>Sept 2023: Anushree Dutta (visiting student from IACS Kolkata) will be working with us to develop pulsed high-voltage switching systems for mass spectrometry and molecular beam applications<\/li>\n<li>Aug 2023: We have been awarded a grant by IHUB-QTF to further develop our wavemeter designs<\/li>\n<li>July 2023: Patent application for the cross fringe Fizeau interferometer based wavemeter developed in our lab is filed<\/li>\n<li>June 2023: Prof. Nabanita Deb (IACS) visits our lab and this visit kick starts our discussions on atomic\/molecular collisions and chemical transformations in the cold regime<\/li>\n<li>June 2023: Geetika successfully defends her PhD thesis \u2026 Congratulations !!<\/li>\n<li>Feb 2023: Geetika submits her PhD thesis<\/li>\n<li>Feb 2023: Pranav gives a talk at the National conference on atomic and molecular physics 2023, Trivandrum<\/li>\n<li>Jan 2023: We had a great time demonstrating basic spectroscopy concepts to school students at the India science festival<\/li>\n<li>Jan 2023: We conduct the DIY spectrometer building session for school students at the <em>Be a Scientist for a Day<\/em> workshop at TIFR-Hyd<\/li>\n<li>Jan 2023: Ardra P.S. starts her work on developing stable ECDL systems\u00a0 in our lab as a part of her PhD<\/li>\n<li>Jan 2023: M. Balamurugan joins our group as a Post doctoral Researcher. He will be working on atom scattering microscopy experiments<\/li>\n<li>Jan 2023: Saurabh participates in the the Global Young Scientists Meeting in Singapore<\/li>\n<li>Dec 2022: Our proposal on developing QCL based excitation schemes for quantum state selected scattering experiments is accepted<\/li>\n<li>Nov 2022: Geetika, Avinash and Saurabh present their work in the 18th SDMC meeting<\/li>\n<li>Nov 2022: We see the first signal for the vibration state selected preparation of CO molecules using our home-built narrow line width and high intensity OPO\/A system !<\/li>\n<li>Nov 2022: Our work on Neutral Atom Microscopy is recognized by the Indian Physics Association for this years award under the instrumentation category<\/li>\n<li>Oct 2022: An improved version of our stabilized red He Ne laser achieves ~ 0.42 MHz stability (3 std dev, 17 hrs). See details on <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2202.09577\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2202.09577<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sept 2022: Geetika and Saurabh perform the first Helium reflectivity experiments in our new UHV chamber. Using the compact He source designed by Geetika, they are able to follow the oxidation of a Cu(110) surface in real-time !<\/li>\n<li>Sept 2022: Pranav and Avinash participate in the Scattering of atoms and molecules from surfaces meeting organized by Cambridge University, UK.<\/li>\n<li>Sept 2022: Measurements of Helium reflection and using it to measure reaction probability on surfaces using our compact \u2018segmented needle based compact atom source\u2019 shows very promising results.<\/li>\n<li>Aug 2022: Molecule surface scattering set up designed by us finally arrives in our lab<\/li>\n<li>July 2022: Geetika presents her thesis synopsis seminar successfully<\/li>\n<li>May 2022:\u00a0 Pranav gives a talk at the Lorentz Center workshop: Energy Dissipation at Interfaces: From Catalysis to Astrochemistry (Leiden University, Netherlands)<\/li>\n<li>April 2022: Pranav presents the work on atom scattering microscopy in SDMC online meeting<\/li>\n<li>July 2021: Geetika presents her work at International Symposium on Molecular beams as a part of the <em>\u2018Hot topic talk series\u2019<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courses Spectroscopy of Atoms and Molecules, Code: CHM-113.7 Lasers and Non-linear optics (jointly with Prof S Dutta Gupta), Code: PHY-305.7 Experimental methods, Code PHY-108.7 (Jointly with TNN, GR, PKS) Advanced Experimental Methods\u00a0Code PHY-208.7 (Jointly with KR, TNN, GR) &nbsp; LAB NEWS Feb 2025: Bidding farewell to Avinash and wishing him the best for his new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~pranavrs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~pranavrs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~pranavrs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~pranavrs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~pranavrs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~pranavrs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~pranavrs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/256"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~pranavrs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~pranavrs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}