Program Overview

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Vigyan Vidushi Physics

Vigyan Vidushi (VV2021) programme in Physics is a three-week programme for women students in the first year of their two-year M.Sc. degree in physics, or the fourth year of their Integrated B.Sc.-M.Sc. degree in physics. This programme will provide these students an exposure to advanced physics topics and research opportunities, and encourage them to take up research in physics as a career option. The students will also get an opportunity to be taught, inspired, and mentored by successful women scientist role models.

Programme Details

Duration

The duration of the online programme is 31 May 19 June, 2021.

Structure of the Programme

The basic structure of the VV2021 (Physics) programme will be like an online summer school. There will be normally six courses, each of which will run for a week. In every week, two courses will run in parallel. A course will typically consist of lectures in the morning, and approximately equal time devoted to tutorials in the afternoon. Students may be divided into smaller groups during the tutorials. There will be online interaction sessions in the evening.

Courses

The programme will consist of the following lectures:

• Quantum Mechanics | Arvind Kumar | Ankita Budhraja, Disha Bhatia, Shamayita Ray
• Statistical Mechanics | Rajdeep Sensarma | Kusum Dhochak, Nisheeta Desai, Prerna Sharma
• Experimental Techniques in Physics | Shirish Pathare, Shriganesh Prabhu, Vandana Nanal | Ananya Kundu, Aparajita Mazumdar, Bhagyashri Latad, Praveen Pathak, Saurabhee Huli
• Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics | Bhaswati Mookerjea | Anwesh Mazumdar, Poonam Chandra, Varsha Chitnis
• Introduction to Laser and Plasma Physics | G. Ravindra Kumar | Aparajit Chandrasekaran, Vandana Sharma
• Introduction to Quantum Computation | R. Vijayaraghavan | Madhavi Chand, Sumeru Hazra

Unique Features

In addition to the regular courses, the VV programme will have the following unique features:

• Special lectures by women scientists, as well as on women scientists that would serve as role models
• Ample opportunities for interacting (online) with subject experts, including many women scientists
• Special mentoring dealing with gender-related issues
• Exposure to Physics Education Research

Special Lectures

• Nuclear Reactions: Spanning Fundamental Physics to Applications by Prof. Mahananda Dasgupta, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, on 31st May 2021, 4.30 pm
• The Strange World of Fractionalized Quantum Numbers in Quantum Matter by Prof. Nandini Trivedi, Ohio State University, USA, on 7th June 2021, 4.30 pm
• Women in Science: Breaking Barriers by Prof. Srubabati Goswami, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, on 10th June 2021, 4.30 pm
• Photonic Quantum Science and Technologies by Urbasi Sinha, Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, on 14th June 2021, 4.30 pm

Financial Support

Financial support for the programme is provided by:

• TIFR (DAE)
• Buti Foundation