SYMPHY 2011

The SYMPHY 2011 was a great success. Keeping an eye on the fact that, it was the very first time that the physics department is organizing such an in-house symposium, the responses from the students as well as the faculties were quite good. Couple of undergraduates also turned up (we don't expect them to come to in-house symposium on a weekend as they hardly come to attend their classes on weekdays). The responses from the research scholars were awesome, most of them showed up sooner or later. Among the faculties, we probably had expected a bit more. Prof Yajnik, Prof P.P.Singh and Prof Varma were there with us from the very beginning till the end of the symposium (9 am to 6:30 pm) which was remarkable. Some other faculty members showed up later as well. The invited speakers' talks were also good, Deepak Dhar talked about pattern formation in biological systems and Sandip Trivedi gave a basic summary of CMBR, Dark Energy, Cosmological constant etc at an undergraduate level. My talk went alright although I did not have much audience at 9 30 am, but at least two-three people (including my guide) could follow the talk and asked questions at the end. During the condensed matter talks however, there were lots of discussions, comments from students as well as faculties (since majority of the research scholars as well as faculties in the department work in Cond-mat). It was good to see such active discussions specially among the students for the first time probably for me. I hope this will continue in future with many more active participants as well as speakers.