Had 'enlightening' #outreach session with students of University Of Pune. #Optics demonstrations explaining interference, polarisation, and interactions of light with liquid crystals. Optica Student Chapter Advisor: G V Pavan Kumar, IISER Pune

The paper is online: Emergence of Directional Rotation in an Optothermally Activated Colloidal System | ACS Photonics pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… rahul chand Eksha & Diptabrata Paul

Had a fun interaction session yesterday with class 11th students from Pune. Did Optics demonstrations explaining interference, polarisation, and light-liquid crystals interactions. Optica StudentChapter Advisor: G V Pavan Kumar, IISER Pune PhotoCredits:Eksha

Researchers in G V Pavan Kumar IISER Pune experimentally probe emergence of directional rotation in active-passive colloidal system. It is at the interface of optical trapping, active-matter and thermodynamics rahul chand Eksha Diptabrata Paul pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

4 contributions from #softphotonics group at #Compflu2023 #iitmadras Ashutosh Shukla spoke on trapping nanodiamonds Posters:- Sumant - nematic droplets in temporary optical field Eksha - evanescent plasmonic trapping rahul chand - emergence of directional rotation

We are happy to announce the first offline event of this year. Kishan Menghrajani will be talking about Molecular Strong Coupling. The event is on 9th Jan, 4PM. Join if you are around. ChapterAdvisor: G V Pavan Kumar IISER Pune #events #optics

Announcing a movie screening at IISER Pune with Murali. FireInTheBlood shows the struggle of poor countries against bigPharma and their patent laws to have access to life saving generic drugs. Screening will be followed by QnA on law, innovation, and IPR. Optica

We've uploaded the enlightening conversation of the session on our YouTube Channel. youtube.com/watch?v=aF8VUh… We thank the brilliant Murali again for his time. G V Pavan Kumar IISER Pune Thanks ScienceMediaCentre and Sourabh Jain for helping in recording.

We are happy to have another interesting online talk in our seminar series! Prof. Síle Nic Chormaic will give a talk titled: 'From cold atoms to microbeads - manipulation using ultrathin optical fibres' Feb 13, 12PM IST on Zoom @ bit.ly/496vFaz IISER Pune Optica

We are happy to announce an amazing event this week! Prof Deepak Jain will talk about The Art of Self-Promotion for Young Researchers! The event is in person on Feb 15th, 11AM, in Seminar room 31 in Main Building IISER Pune Drop in if you're around Optica

An awesome, houseful session with a very knowledgeable speaker: Prof Deepak Jain from IIT Delhi! Optica chapter of IISER Pune continues to host amazing events Online and Offline. IISER Pune IISER Pune Physics Optica IIT Delhi

We have uploaded the recording of the excellent talk by Prof Prof. Síle Nic Chormaic on our YouTube channel! We also have other talks that we have hosted on our channel. Check out if interested! ✌️ Optica IISER Pune IISER Pune Physics

We will be hosting our alumni, Deepak Kumar Sharma, at IISER Pune for an offline talk on 'All-dielectric metasurfaces for 3D detection and holographic projection.' March 1st, 4PM in the Seminar Room 31 in the Main Building. IISER Pune Physics Optica

As I mentioned in the essay, Raman was conversant in German and could give a technical talk. Here is a rare audio recording of Raman speaking on crystal physics in German in 1956, Lindau meeting...here photographed with another great... mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/recordings/315…

IISER Pune Optics Team participated in the National Science Day event at IISER Pune. We showed the concepts of optics & our research to school students and teachers using simple experiments! We thank ScienceActivityCentre IISER Pune and @IISERPune for the amazing opportunity! Optica

Big thanks to my supervisor G V Pavan Kumar whose guidance and support have been crucial throughout my MS at IISER-P. Filled with gratitude for such an incredible experience at our Soft-Photonics lab, where I decided to venture into experimental physics and enjoyed every bit of it

We have a preprint arxiv.org/abs/2407.00343 We computationally show how trapping potentials can be made deeper at a larger scale (several micrometres)...via some interesting optothermal effects.. Will be glad to get comments Eksha rahul chand Ashutosh Shukla

Now online in ACS Appl. Optical Mat. Super effort by Eksha rahul chand Ashutosh Shukla We show how to expand the depth & breadth of nanoparticle-trapping potential using evanescent plasmonic excitation + CTAC surfactants. doi.org/10.1021/acsaom… IISER Pune 1/2

The paper is also part of a special issue, “Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Chemical Research Society of India”. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

💦Our researchers have exclusively observed molecules participating in hydrogen bonds in liquid water, measuring electronic and nuclear quantum effects that were previously accessible only via theoretical simulations. Sylvie Roke EPFL School of Engineering ➡️ go.epfl.ch/bb0ffe