Faculty Member

Puspajit Mandal
Professor-in-Charge
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Department
Integrated Science Education and Research Centre (ISERC)

Areas of Specialisation
 Quantum mechanics

Atomic and molecular collisions

Positron collisions

Mathematical Physics

Computational Mathematics
   

 
Date of Birth 23rd July 1948
Qualification
Year Degree College/University
1969 B.Sc. (Hons.) Visva-Bharati
1971 M.Sc.(in Applied Mathematics) Visva-Bharati
1978 Ph.D (Sci.) Calcutta University
Research Experience
Junior and Senior Research Fellow at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Jadavpur, Kolkata 700 032 from 1972 to 1978.
Post-Doctoral Resarch Fellow – FOM-Institute of Atomic & Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands during 1979-1980, at University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA during1980-1981, at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA during 1981-1982 and at FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam for three months during October-December 1982
Teaching Experience
2 years in Visva-Bharati as Lecturer
9 years in Visva-Bharati as Reader
3 months in Institute of Theoretical Physics, UNESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2000)
5 years in Visva-Bharati as Professor
Research Publications
1. Correlated basis functions for studies on positron atom collisions using Schwinger’s principle -- S Kar and P Mandal , J phys B : At Mol Opt Phys 30 (1997) L627.
2. Monte-Carlo optimisation of correlated helium wavefunction -- S Kar and P Mandal, Pramana - Journal of Physics 50 (1998) 35.
3. On the Study of the critical angle in the elastic positron-hydrogen collisions -- P Mandal, S Kar and U Roy, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 143 (1998) 32.
4. Monte-Carlo optimisation of correlated wavefunctions for normal two-electron systems -- S Kar and P Mandal, Physics Letters A 240 (1998) 301.
5. Multichannel Schwinger’s principle for rearrangement collisions : Positronium formation in positron-hydrogen collisions -- S Kar and P Mandal , Physical Review A 59 (1999) 1913.
6. Positronium formation in hydrogen below 10.2 eV --S Kar and P Mandal, J Phys B:: At Mol Opt Phys 32 (1999) 2297.
7. Display of critical angles through surface plots in elastic positron hydrogen collisions -- P Mandal, S Kar and U Roy, Indian Journal of Physics 73B(1999) 215.
8. Positronium formation for hydrogen using Schwinger’s principle for rearrangement collisions - - S Kar and P Mandal, Indian Journal of Physics 73B(1999) 253.
9. Positronium formation in hydrogen at intermediate energies -- S Kar and P Mandal, J Phys B: At Mol Opt Phys 33 (2000) L165.
10. Positronium formation in hydrogen using multichannel Schwinger’s principle -- S Kar and P Mandal, Physical Review A 62 (2000) 052514.
11. Positronium-Hydrogen Scattering At Medium Energies - Sadhan K Adhikari And Puspajit Mandal 2000 J Phys B 33 (15 October Issue)
12. Convergent Variational Calculation of Positron-Hydrogen-Atom Scattering Lengths – Sadhan K Adhikari And Puspajit Mandal 2001 J Phys B34 L187-194.
13. S-, P- And D-Wave Resonances In Positronium-Sodium And Positronium-Potassium scattering Sadhan K Adhikari And Puspajit Mandal 2001 J Phys B34 1361-67.
14. Review Article: Recent Progress In Particle-Antiparticle Collisions With Atoms - . Puspajit Mandal 2001 in Recent Advances In Atomic & Molecular Physics Edited By R. Srivastava (Phoenix Publishing House: New Delhi) Pp209-218.
15. Positronium formation in helium with electron correlation effect -- -- S Kar and P Mandal, Indian Journal of Physics 76B (2002) 457-460.
16. Normal two-electron systems with exponential correlation -- -- A Ghoshal, S Kar and P Mandal, Indian Journal of Physics 76B (2002)99-102.
17. Correlation Functions of Types and for Normal Two-Electron Systems -- A Ghoshal, S Kar and P Mandal, Physica Scripta 67(1) (2003) 7-23.
18. Physical properties of normal two-electron systems considering correlation ---- A Ghoshal, S Kar and P Mandal, Indian Journal of Physics 78 (2004) 1099.
19. Distorted-wave theory for positron-hydrogen collisions – Arijit Ghoshal and Puspajit Mandal 2005 Phys Rev A 72 032714 (1-20).
20. Correlated dipole-polarized basis in Schwinger’s principle for elastic positron-hydrogen collisions – Arijit Ghoshal and Puspajit Mandal 2005 Phys Rev A 72 042709(1-13).
21. Elastic differential cross section and critical point for positron-hydrogen collisions – Arijit Ghoshal and Puspajit Mandal 2005 Phys Rev A 72 042710(1-9).
22. Rydberg transitions for positron-hydrogen collisions – Arijit Ghoshal and Puspajit Mandal 2007 European Physical Journal D 44 327-335.
23. Exponential correlated basis in Schwinger variaitonal principle for positronium formation in hydrogen – Arijit Ghoshal and Puspajit Mandal 2008 European Physical Journal D, 46 251-258
24. + H (n s) ? Ps (n' s) + p for arbitrary n and n' – Arijit Ghoshal and Puspajit Mandal 2008 J. Phys. B: At Mol Opt Phys 41 175203 (8pp).
Any Other Information
List Of Popular Articles .
Higher Education : UGC Should Enforce Its Authority - Puspajit Mandal, The Statesman 6 September 2001 (Kolkata Edition).
The Scientific Truth : Today's Fantasies, Tomorrow's Realitites - Puspajit Mandal, The Statesman 10 October 2001 (Kolkata Edition)