Important Points for press note

Convener of the workshop-Dr. Jaswinder Pal, AP, Department of Physics, Baba Farid College

Organizing Secretary– Dr. Sudhir Mittal, Head, Department of Physics, Baba Farid College

Workshop Director-Dr. Manish Bansal, Vice Principal, Baba Farid College

Patron- Dr. Pardeep Kumar, Principal, Baba Farid College

Chief Patron- Dr. Gurmeet Singh Dhaliwal, Chairman, Baba Farid Group of Institutions

August 18, 2021 (Wednesday)-Day 1

Registration – Coordinators were Dr. Amandeep Kaur and Mr. Lakhwinder Singh

Inaugural session- The chief guest was Dr. Jasbir Singh Hundal, Professor and Head, MRSPTU, Batinda and Dr. Mehar Chand, President MathTech Thinking Foundation (MTTF), India. Dr. Jasmeeet Kaur started the session by welcomed the chief guest and all the participants from various colleges. The various undergraduate, post graduate, research scholars and faculty members from different institutes such as Punjab University Chandigarh, Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar, Punjabi University Patiala, Central University Punjab, Bathinda, SD College Barnala, SAS Hisaar, HMV College Jalandhar, OSG University Hisar and many more, have attended this workshop. The badges ceremony was conducted by Dr. Amandeep Kaur and PG students of BFC. Dr. Jasmeet Kaur also gives the brief introduction of BFGI.

Introduction to Workshop– Dr. Jaswinder Pal gives the brief introduction to this national workshop. Dr, Jaswinder Pal informed that this workshop has been organized with the collaboration of Material Research Society of India (MRSI) and Nuclear Track Society of India (NTSI).Sir also told that this workshop will be funded by BRNS, Mumbai and MathTech Thinking Foundation (MTTF) India.

Welcome Speech- Dr. Pardeep Kumar welcomed to all the student participants and teacher participants to attend this workshop. They motivated all the participants present in the conference hall and appreciate the hard work and dedication of the Physics department faculty to organize this event.

Session I- The keynote speaker for this session was Prof. Jasbir Singh Hundal. Dr. Hundal appreciates the initiative taken by the Baba Farid College. In their lecture Dr. Hundal focuses on the polymers and ceramics. They explained the various methods of the synthesis of the polymers-ceramics composites materials and also they explained the various applications of these materials.

Welcomes to President MTTF- After session-I, Dr. Jaswinder Pal welcomed Dr. Mehar Chand President of the MathTech Thinking Foundation, India for providing the partial funds for this workshop. Also Dr. Mehar Chand appreciates all the organizing committee members to organize this event.

Vote of Thanks- Dr. Sudhir Mittal thanks the Dr. Jasbir Singh Hundal and Dr. Mehar Chand for their talk and sparing the time for this workshop from their so much busy schedule. Both the Guest was honored by Principal BFC.

Session -II– After lunch, session -II was conducted online through Zoom meeting. Dr. SK Mondal, Scientist CSIO Chandigarh was the guest speaker for this session. Dr. Mondal in his lecture explained the various approaches used for the fabrication of optical fibers and also, they explained the various applications of optical fibers.

Visit takhat Sri Damdama Sahib, Talwandi Sabo- After the session-II all the participants were visited to takhat Sri Damdama Sahib, Talwandi Sabo to get the blessing of God. The first day of this workshop ends with the dinner in the college hostel.

 August 19, 2021 (Thursday)-Day 2

Visit Central University Punjab (CUP) Bathinda- The second day of the workshop started with a visit of all the participants and organizing committee to CUP Bathinda. In the CUP Bathinda, there was an excellent arrangement of demonstrations for visitors on various major equipments like XRD, NMR, SEM, FTIR, XPS, UV Spectrometer, Mass Spectrometer and many more. All the students were learnt about the various uses of these equipments for the characterization of various types of materials through demonstrations and they were happy to see and learn about such major instruments.

Session –III- After lunch, the session-III was conducted by Dr. Jaswinder Pal and Dr. Jasmeet Kaur. Dr. A L Sharma, Assistant Professor Physics, CUP Bathinda was the guest speaker for this session. Dr. Sharma has focused his lecture on the different types of renewable energy resources and their uses in our daily life. Dr. Sharma explained briefly about the supercapacitors, their fabrication and their application in this current age. Dr. Sharma successfully solved the all inquires generated by the participants. Students were felt happy to attend that valuable lecture. At the end of this session the Dr. Sharma was honored by Dr. Sudhir Mittal, Dr. Jaswinder Pal and Er. Sahil Gupta.  

August 20, 2021 (Friday)-Day 3

Session -IV– This was conducted online through Zoom meeting. Dr. B.K Sapra, Head of Division Radiological Physics & Advisory Division BARC, Mumbai was the guest speaker for this session. Dr. B.K. Sapra gave a popular informative talk on “Understanding COVID-19 aerosol transmission: Tools and techniques”. She highlighted on the laboratory set ups that can be put together by well equipped aerosol laboratories for first level assessments of performances of face masks and other PPE materials. Such set ups can help in the development of new materials for PPEs that satisfy the performance criteria as per international standards. These set ups are also useful for assessing the performance following various sterilization techniques on the face masks. Dr. Sapra also discussed the use of CFD coupled aerosol Dynamics package that is very powerful tool to understand the transmission of virus loads and particulates, especially in closed spaces. The ventilation patterns in the room govern the spread of virus particles and the concept of ‘safe distance’ in some cases becomes questionable. Considering all these factors, use of face mask will remain mandatory for quite some time in the near future. It was a very interesting lecture and all the participants really enjoyed that lecture.

Session–V- The Dr. Prashant S. Alegaonkar, Head of Physics Department, CUP, Bathinda was the guest speaker for this session. Dr. Prashant has focused his lecture on the carbon nanotubes and Microwave absorbers. Dr. Alegaonkar explained the various aspects of current age research where the nano materials are used widely. In his lecture Dr. Alegaonkar explained the various technological applications of carbon nanotubes and other nano materials. All the participants listened the lecture very carefully and all of their queries were solved affectively by Dr. Alegaonkar.

Valedictory session– The Dr. Prashant S. Alegaonkar, Head of Physics Department, CUP, Bathinda was the chief guest for this session. The participation certificates to all the participants were given in this session. In the end of this session Dr. Manish Bansal, Vice Principal BFC has honored the Dr. Prashant S. Alegaonkar by giving them a memento.

Vote of Thanks- This workshop was ends with the vote of thanks by Dr. Manish Bansal, Vice Principal BFC. Dr. Bansal thanked to the chief guest, all the student participants and faculty members to attend this national workshop. Also they presented vote of thanks to all the members of organizing committee. Dr. Gurmeet Singh Dhaliwal (Chairman BFGI) congratulated the faculty of Physics Department of Baba Farid College for organizing this national workshop.