DAMP Physics, IITB

Intern Experiences Summer 2018 TIFR, Mumbai Mekhala Paranjpe Process of securing the intern: I was introduced to the NIUS program in my first year, which was a series of lectures and camps and has finally culminated in this project. You need to send an sop with other required docs to HBCSE, followed by a series of lectures where you get to choose who you plan to work with. What was I working on? The project is still ongoing - the end goal as of now is to understand how axions help solve the problem of why CP violation is not observed in strong interactions, although theoretically expected. These particles are hypothetical - not yet part of the Standard Model either - and are also being considered as candidates for dark matter. Workload: The project is purely theoretical and involves reading a lot of literature. My guide (professor) is pretty chilled out, probably because it wasn't a formal intern. Also, I didn't have to work there everyday; in fact the only ti...

Intern Experiences Summer 2018 Centre for Biomedical Engineering, IIT Delhi Sagar Kumar Seth Process of securing the intern: IAF on Placement Cell described it as Opto-electronics, sounded interesting to me. What was I working on? We were a group of 3 including 1 Elec Sophie and 1 Elec thirdie and me. Our work was to develop a hand-held device for a new method of rapid detection of Typhoid. It involved sensing of very small concentrations (25 microliters) of sample prepared from 5 CFU/ml of cells for presence of Typhoid. The novice method was a PhD project of Avinash Ma'am. We worked in collaborationwith her to develop and test the device. Workload: Workload was average, although it was made compulsary for us to work full day on Saturday too. We used software's including SolidWorks to design different models and 3D print them, Eagle CAD to design PCB's, MIT App Inventor to develop the APP and Arduino IDE. Courses that helped me: My knowledge of optics ...

Intern Experiences Summer 2018 Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahbad Saipriya Satyajit Process of securing the intern: I mailed the professor (Apping) What was I working on? I was working on trade off relations between coherence of a quantum state undergoing an efficient measurement process and the information gain from that dynamic evolution using entropic measure for coherence and Groenewold’s definition of information gain. Workload: There was no fixed hours of work as such. It was very flexible and was upto me, I tried to work 7-8 hrs daily. No hardware requirements were needed. Tools used were IBMq's cloub based quantum computer, and qiskit to access the 16 qubit quantum computer. Courses that helped me: QIC, QM1, Linear Algebra What did I learn during the internship? Got a very good introduction to theoretical research and resource theories. Places I went to:  Well, not many places. Occasionally went for dinner and gaming evening cou...

Intern Experiences Summer 2018 University of Bonn, Germany Vedant Basu Process of securing the intern: DAAD via Apping What was I working on? I was studying detectors used across experiments such as the CAST Axion Helioscope at CERN. I worked specifically on the design of a readout system for the Timepix3 pixel detector chip, which also taught me about the operation and characterisation of gaseous detectors. Courses that helped me: Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics What did I learn during the internship? I learned about ongoing and future work on experiments searching for BSM physics, such as direct detection of dark matter. Places I visited: I had a lot of fun exploring the trails around Bonn and Cologne   Contact details:  vedant8basu@gmail.com

Summer Intern Experience 2018 -  Nived CENSE IISc Bangalore Process of securing the intern  Apping. CENSE (Centre for Nanoscience Engineering) offers an internship program for UG students (you can find out more on their website). They give accommodation and some nominal stipend. But I didn't know about this, so the Prof told me that I'll have to look for my own accommodation etc. What were you working on? I was working on Metal Oxide Semiconductor Nanosensors. The project was mainly funded by an organization that wanted indigenous gas sensors to detect gas leakage and sense concentration of the gas. (The current sensors that they use aren't very accurate and need to be replaced every month, on top of being imported). There were some other organisations too that wanted to use these sensors in healthcare ( for breath analysing etc) and air quality monitoring. The work including characterization, testing of devices, interfacing different units to automate data log...

Summer Intern Experience 2018 -  Ananay Garg IIT Bombay Process of securing the intern  I just approached the prof. What were you working on? Data analysis primarily - the prof was working on making a portable haemoglobinometer and he wanted to perform principle component analysis on the data from a sensor. I did that bit.   Workload and tools used Very light. I don't work for the whole summers as I wanted a little bit of a break. First year's summer was hectic. Courses that were relevant Data analysis What did you learn during the internship? Team work, bigger research picture What are the places that you visited? Mumbai Contact details ananay98@gmail.com

Summer Intern Experience 2018 -  Abishek Sahu Prof. Arun Kumar Pati, HRI Allahabad Process of securing the intern  I was accepted by apping first, and the logistics were taken care of by the Visiting Summer Program in Physics. What were you working on? I worked on what is called the resource theory of coherence. With the Bell's theorem and it's experimental verification, it was established that Quantum Mechanics is indeed a theory with no classical counterparts. This led to the second quantum revolution, in which a careful enquiry was launched into identification of essential quantum phenomena. This was accompanied by usage of these properties for developing quantum computers and other technologies. It was clear that entanglement and superposition are the essential features or resources that gave these new technologies an advantage over their classical analogues. Around the 90s a proper theory was built around this idea, that quantified the 'resourcefulness...