National symposium on nuclear physics

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KANNUR: A three-day national symposium on nuclear physics will be held at the Payyannur College here from January 13.

The symposium is being organised by the Department of Physics of the college and sponsored by the University Grants Commission and the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment.

The college had secured an 'A' grade in the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)'s assessment recently. It is the lone college Physics Department in the State to be actively engaged in nuclear physics research, a release issued here said.

The department has many papers in various international journals to its credit. In addition, researchers had also presented 17 papers in various national and international symposia, it said.

In the symposium beginning January 13, there would be 13 invited talks and 20 presentations by participants from various parts of the country. The resource persons would include emeritus scientists and professors from universities like the Aligarh Muslim University, Sardar Patel University (Gujarat), Bharathiar University (Tamil Nadu), Manglore University and Calicut University.

Cluster radioactivity, particle accompanied fission, complete and incomplete fusion, nuclear track detectors, multi-detector arrays and hot rotating rare earth nuclei will be among the topics discussed.

This apart, the symposium would also discuss 'new avenues of nuclear particle research such as the Large Hadron Collider and Symmetries in Physics.'

The college would bring out a 'symposium proceedings' in honour of Homi J. Bhabha, the father of India's nuclear energy programme.

The symposium would be inaugurated by Kannur University Vice-Chancellor P. Chandramohan. The proceedings would be released by V.V. Karunakaran, former Head of the Application Development Division, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre.

The release said K.P. Santhosh, a research guide of the department, was a referee at the Institute of Physics Publishing, United Kingdom.