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Conversation with Joyee Ghosh

Joyee is an experimental optical physicist who explores Quantum Photonics

She is an associate professor of physics at IIT Delhi https://web.iitd.ac.in/~joyee/.

How did she get interested in optics? What is her intellectual journey?

We discuss many interesting aspects of her explorations in this episode.

Listen as we humanize science.

References:

  1. “Joyee’s Webpage.” Accessed August 22, 2024. https://web.iitd.ac.in/~joyee/.
  2. “‪Joyee Ghosh – ‪Google Scholar.” Accessed August 22, 2024. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7weUE7IAAAAJ&hl=en.
  3. News from the Quantum Photonics Lab in IIT Delhi: Entangled Photons & Hot Atoms… by Joyee Ghosh, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xIMj5tid_k.
  4. QIQT 23 | Joyee Ghosh – Entangled Photons — Experiments & Applications in Quantum Communication, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZhXLSjGDUU.
  5. “Rupamanjari Ghosh.” In Wikipedia, February 18, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rupamanjari_Ghosh&oldid=1140131659.

Conversation with Joy Mitra

Joy Mitra is an experimentalist who tinkers with interfaces at the nanoscale.

He is a professor of physics at IISER Tvm https://www.iisertvm.ac.in/faculty/j.mitra/personal_information

What motivated him to become an experimental physicist?

What motivates him to explore nano-junction and plasmonics?

These and many other aspects are part of the conversation.

Listen as we humanize science.

References:

  1. “Prof. Joy Mitra – Personal Information | IISER Thiruvananthapuram, MoE, Govt. of India.” n.d. Accessed August 15, 2024. https://www.iisertvm.ac.in/faculty/j.mitra.
  2. “Joy Group (SPMP).” Joygroup. Accessed August 15, 2024. https://jmitra.wixsite.com/joygroup.
  3. “‪Joy Mitra – ‪Google Scholar.” Accessed August 15, 2024. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dChZK08AAAAJ&hl=en.
  4. “Joy Mitra – Professor – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram | LinkedIn.” n.d. Accessed August 15, 2024. https://in.linkedin.com/in/joy-mitra-459649176.
  5. “Crucible.” Accessed August 20, 2024. https://sites.google.com/iisertvm.ac.in/crucible/.

Conversation with Pramod Pillai

Pramod is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at IISER Pune – https://www.pramodpillai.com/members

Pramod explores various aspects of chemistry, from physical and material chemistry to photochemistry and photophysics and prepares and studies a variety of nanomaterials from light-matter interaction and catalysis viewpoints.

How did he develop chemical intuition, and what has been his intellectual journey?

We discuss this and many more aspects in this video episode

Listen as we humanize science.

References:

Dr. P. Pillai Group. Accessed August 8, 2024. https://www.pramodpillai.com/members.

“Pramod Pillai – IISER Pune.” Accessed August 8, 2024. https://www.iiserpune.ac.in/research/department/chemistry/people/faculty/regular-faculty/pramod-pillai/314.

Demirörs, Ahmet F., Pramod P. Pillai, Bartlomiej Kowalczyk, and Bartosz A. Grzybowski. 2013. “Colloidal Assembly Directed by Virtual Magnetic Moulds.” Nature 503 (7474): 99–103. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12591.

Kashyap, Radha Krishna, and Pramod P. Pillai. 2024. “Plasmonic Nanoparticles Boost Solar-to-Electricity Generation at Ambient Conditions.” Nano Letters 24 (18): 5585–92. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c00925.

Pramod, Padmanabhan, and K. George Thomas. 2008. “Plasmon Coupling in Dimers of Au Nanorods.” Advanced Materials 20 (22): 4300–4305. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.200703057.

Whitesides, George M., and Bartosz Grzybowski. 2002. “Self-Assembly at All Scales.” Science 295 (5564): 2418–21. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1070821.

Conversation with Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty

Jeevan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. 

⁠http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ac.in/~jeevanjyoti/⁠

He is an excellent teacher and mentor. He runs a very popular YouTube channel (>106k subscribers) that combines his pedagogy, mentorship and engineering: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@Prof_JC⁠

In this episode, we discussed about his motivation, teaching, research and his thoughts on education. There are also many interesting strands around these topics.

Listen as we humanize science.

References.

1.     “Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty.” n.d. Accessed July 26, 2024. ⁠http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ac.in/~jeevanjyoti/⁠.

2.   “‪Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty – ‪Google Scholar.” n.d. Accessed July 26, 2024. ⁠https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=C6Qb0s0AAAAJ&hl=en⁠.

3.     YouTube. Accessed July 26, 2024. ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9xXDSEwLeBmT3B9ihxnoeg⁠.

4.     Learn All about Engineering Physics and Physics from IIT Prof (Ft. Prof. Nirmalya Kajuri). ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMcXrZBRiOo⁠.

5.     jc, dir. 2021. IIT Prof Reacts to His Own Student’s Video (Tharun Speaks)! ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaejuA5ZpIs⁠.

Masterpiece: The Book of Optics by al-Haytham

#history of #science #optics #geometry

References :

Sabra, A. I. (1989). The Optics of Ibn alHaytham: Books IIII: On Direct Vision. London: The Warburg Institute.

Sabra, A. I. (2002). The Optics of Ibn alHaytham: Edition of the Arabic Text of Books IVVII. Kuwait: National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters.

Sabra, A. I. (2023). The Optics of Ibn alHaytham Books IV–V: On Reflection and Images Seen by Reflection (Revised ed.). Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.

“Kitāb almanāẓir | work by Ibn alHaytham Britannica.” [Online]. Available: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kita…. [Accessed: 15Jul2024].

“Ibn alHaytham or Alhazen The Institute of Ismaili Studies.” [Online]. Available: https://www.iis.ac.uk/learningcentre/…. [Accessed: 15Jul2024].

Sadi Carnot – a brief biography

Sadi Carnot’s book : https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/2559_Therm_Stat_Mech/docs/Carnot%20Reflections%201897%20facsimile.pdf

Other references:

  1. Thomson, William. 1849. “XXXVI.—An Account of Carnot’s Theory of the Motive Power of Heat; with Numerical Results Deduced from Regnault’s Experiments on Steam.,” January. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800022481.
  2. Klein, Martin J. 1974. “Carnot’s Contribution to Thermodynamics.” Physics Today 27 (8): 23–28. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3128802.
  3. Asimov, Isaac. 1982. Asimov’s Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology : The Lives and Achievements of 1510 Great Scientists from Ancient Times to the Present Chronologically Arranged. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday. http://archive.org/details/asimovsbiographi00asim.
  4. Carnot, Sadi. 2005. Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire : And Other Papers on the Second Law of Thermodynamics by E. Clapeyron and R. Clausius. New York : Dover. http://archive.org/details/reflectionsonmot0000carn_a8p6.
  5. Dass, N. D. Hari. 2013. The Principles of Thermodynamics. 1st edition. Boca Raton: CRC Press.