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About the Lecture Research in Atomic and Nuclear Physics has yielded fascinating experimental tools and techniques which are employed across various branches of science and technology. In this talk , we will discuss a few techniques and instruments and see how they could be employed to probe interesting intermolecular interactions.
Introduction
Dr. G. Aravind
Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Techniques in Atomic Physics to probe intermolecular interactions
Q & A
Dr. G. Aravind did B.E(Hons.) Electrical Eng, and MSc.(Hons.) Physics from BITS, Pilani in 2001. He then joined TIFR, Mumbai for his doctoral thesis work on experimental photoelectron spectroscopic studies on negative ions. He was awarded the Geeta Udgaonkar award for Best Thesis in Physics. He then had a postdoctoral stint at the Aarhus University, Denmark where he studied photostability of biomolecules. He also had a brief stint at the University of Basel, Switzerland where he worked on developing ion traps for studying molecular reactions. He joined the Department of Physics, IIT Madras in 2010 and currently a Professor in the same department. He is a recipient of INSA Young Scientist Medal.