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About
The Department of Physics started functioning in the university campus in July, 1958. From the inception, the department is known to be the most disciplined department in the university, both in administration and in academic activities. Academic members are very particular in completing their courses, taking examinations and publishing results according to the calendar published by the department at the beginning of every academic year. It is the tradition of the department to publish the examination results within the quickest possible time and thus it has become possible for the department to avoid the academic backlog in the university. The department constantly reviews its curriculum and takes steps to enhance facilities to match the present day need and thus prepares the students to face the challenge of the coming century.
Research activities
The department has a long tradition of research in various areas of physics under MSc, MPhil and PhD programmes. The faculty members along with their research students pursue research in diverse fields which have resulted in a large number of research publications in various journals of international repute, like Nature, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review, Nuclear Physics, Physics Letters, European Physical Journal, Journal of Materials Science, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, Physica Status Solidi, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Journal of High Energy Physics, Physics and Chemistry of Glasses, Nuovo Cimento, Annals of Physics, etc. Staff of the department are also working under different international collaboration programmes with India, Japan, UK and USA.
Current research areas
- Nuclear Physics: Nuclear reaction & nuclear structure
- Radiation Physics and Medical Physics
- Atomic Physics
- Condensed Matter Physics: a) Perfect and defect crystals - computer simulation studies (theoretical). b) Solid state reaction (experimental)
- Superconductivity
- Semiconductors: Thin film deposition and characterization
- Structural properties of glass and glass ceramics
- Solar Energy
- High Energy Physics: lattice QCD.
Facilities
Seminar Library
The department may boast to have the biggest seminar library in the university with text and reference books. It also has some international journals, such as Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, which the department has been receiving as a joint contribution from the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy and American Physical Society. The library is constantly being updated with reference books and other reading materials.
eJournal Access
A very large proportion of the leading physics journals of the world are accessible here. For example, all journals from APS, IoP, AIP, Springer, Wiley are accessible directly from the department through institutional subscription. Some journals from Elsevier etc. are also available via OARE, eJDS, EBSCO etc.
Computer Facilities
The department has established a computer lab with the Internet facilities of its own to carry out research activities.
Workshop
A mechanical workshop was established in the department from the beginning of the department. The students get training in the workshop on some instrumentation, as a part of their laboratory experiments. It also serves as a centre for minor repairing of laboratory equipments.
Contact Details
Professor M Obaidul Hakim
Chairman, Department of Physics
Rajshahi University, Rajshahi 6205, Bangladesh
Email:
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Tel: +88-0721-750041/ext 4102
Fax: +88-0721-750064
Location: First science building
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 12 November 2008 09:35 )
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