Physics Club
Mathematica Worshop
Sarabhai Lecture Series: Talk 1
On 7th and 8th August 2021, a 2day Mathematica workshop was conducted under the guidance of Dr. Vikash Kumar Ojha. On the first day, theory and specifications of Mathematica were addressed. Dr. Vikash assigned the participants with a tutorial, to be solved within the session to gain firsthand knowledge of the new software. Students raised various doubts during the tutorial session, which Dr. Vikash enthusiastically answered. He was glad to solve them and welcomed further questions from the audience. He individually guided everyone in the meet by asking the students to share the screen and show the problem where they were stuck. He explained various concepts in the process of solving the questions. In the third session, participants solved more questions, and then some concepts and problems related to quantum mechanics were addressed. Dr. Yogesh Sonvane was also present in the session for solving doubts about quantum mechanics. Lastly, Dr. Yogesh Sonvane explained how to construct a 3D plot, and then the session was finally concluded.
The first talk of the online Sarabhai Lecture series, presented by Dr. Soumya Bagchi from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, was a fantastic start attracting many physics enthusiasts from over the country as the professor narrated the story about the "Journey of the Humble Nucleus". Dr. Soumya Bagchi talked about how we can stare into the whole universe by looking into an atomic nucleus with a radius that is almost a trillionth of a meter! Showing that science fiction may not just be fiction for too long, he gave us a lucid insight into the stability of elements. He shared a fun way to visualise these concepts using LEGO blocks implemented at the RICKEN facility in Tokyo, Japan. He talked about Halo nuclei and how they provided an insight into the Shell Model of The Atomic Nucleus discovery, which fetched the Nobel Prize for Maria Goeppert Mayer in 1963. He explained the strange behaviour of higher nuclei in the Island of Inversion and their correlation with the Halo nuclei. Dr. Bagchi also explained the procedures employed by scientists at GSL, Germany, to create exotic and unstable nuclei. He engaged in interesting discussions with the audience and enthusiastically answered their questions.
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Times of SVNIT - December 2021
