• Ms. Anulekha De from the group of Prof. Anjan Barman has won the IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School Project Award (USD 5000) at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA, June 2-7, 2019.
  
• Ms. Suraka Bhattacharjee from the group of Prof. Ranjan Chaudhury and Dr. Manoranjan Kumar has got the Best Poster Award in the international conference ICPYS-LTP(2019) held at Kharkiv in Ukraine during 3rd to 7th June 2019.
  
• Ms. Anulekha De from the group of Prof. Anjan Barman has won the Best Poster Award in the IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA, June 2-7, 2019.
  

• C. K. Majumdar memorial summer workshop in physics at the Centre during 28^th May - 7^th June, 2019.
  
  C. K. Majumdar memorial summer workshop in physics at the Centre during 28^th May - 7th June, 2019.

  Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the talk
  Prof. Amitava Raychaudhuri	Department of Physics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata	The Many Novelties of Neutrinos
  Prof. Jayanta Kumar Bhattacharjee	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata	Renormalization Group I
  Prof. Jayanta Kumar Bhattacharjee	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata	Renormalization Group II
  Dr. Ananda Dasgupta	Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur	Exploring Quantum Mysteries I
  Dr. Ananda Dasgupta	Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur	Exploring Quantum Mysteries II
  Prof. Priya Mahadevan	Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake, Kolkata	Why do solids behave the way they do ?
  Dr. Kanik Palodhi	Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta, Salt Lake	Optical Nanometrology
  Prof. Swapan K. Ghosh	UM-DAE-Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, University of Mumbai	Atoms and Molecules : A view through Electronic Window
  Dr. Supratim Sengupta	Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur	Physics of Cooperation and Conflict I
  Dr. Supratim Sengupta	Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur	Physics of Cooperation and Conflict II
  Prof. Somnath Dasgupta	Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur	Planet Earth: Early history of its inhabitants and their evolution as revealed from fossil record
  Prof. Ansuman Lahiri	Department of Biophysics, Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata	Decoding the molecular codes of life
  Dr. Santanu K. Maiti	Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata	Persistent current for beginners: Aharonov-Bohm effect and related issues
  Prof. Kalyan Mandal	Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake, Kolkata	Magnetism: Bulk to Nano
  Dr. Goutam Bhattacharya	Department of Physics, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math, Howrah	Introduction to ARDUINO.UNO by Simple Experiments
  Dr. Syed Minhaz Hossain	Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah	Surface states: theory and applications
  Dr. Ananda Dasgupta	Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur	Exploring Quantum Mysteries III
  Dr. Ananda Dasgupta	Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur	Exploring Quantum Mysteries IV
  Prof. Deb Shankar Ray	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata	Kinetics of escape over a barrier
  Dr. Achintya Pal	Exploration Geophysicist, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited	Geo-magnetism: facts and a few questions.
  Prof. Amit Ghosh	Scientific Information & Resources Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Salt Lake, Kolkata	An introduction to Black hole Physics
  Prof. Amit Ghosh	Scientific Information & Resources Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Salt Lake, Kolkata	An introduction to Cosmology
  Prof. Anjan Barman	Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake, Kolkata	Introduction to Laser and its applications
  Dr. Soumen Mondal	Department of Astrophysics and High Energy Physics, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake, Kolkata	High Angular Resolution Astronomy: Black hole Imaging
  Dr. Ramkrishna Das	Department of Astrophysics and High Energy Physics, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake, Kolkata	The Universe and Us
  Dr. Atindra Nath Pal	Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake, Kolkata	How does current flow through a single atom?
  Prof. Amitabha Lahiri	Department of Theoretical Science S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake, Kolkata	Elementary particles
  Prof. Samit Kumar Ray	Director, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake, Kolkata	Physics of Surfaces & Heterostructures
  Prof. Gour P Das	Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur	Graphene: the simplest Dirac material

• An interactive yoga session, slogan and article writing competitions on International Day of Yoga were organized on 21^st June, 2019 in the Centre.
  

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