Mangaluru: Prof Prakash P Karat Endowment Lecture 2024 held at St Aloysius

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Mangaluru, 27 Mar 2024: Prof Prakash P Karat Endowment Lecture 2024 was held at St Aloysius (Deemed to be University), on March 23 at Sanidhya Hall.

 

Prof Arumugam Thamizhavel, professor, department of condensed matter physics and materials science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research delivered the lecture on the topic ‘Crystal Growth and Anisotropic Studies of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems and Topological Semimetals’.

 

 

Dr Praveen Martis SJ, vice chancellor, St Aloysius (Deemed to be University), presided over the function. Dr A P Radhakrishna, formerly head of the department, St Philomena College, Puttur and Prof Prakash P Karat, professor Emeritus, department of postgraduate studies in Physics, St Aloysius (Deemed to be University), Mangaluru were the guests of honour. The students, research scholars and professors of physics attended the lecture.

 

To commemorate the tenth lecture, a book containing representative chapters of the previous lectures ‘Decadal Odyssey in Physics: A Chronicle of the PPK Endowment Lecture Series’ was released by the vice chancellor during the occasion. Dr Chandra Shekhara Shetty T, research co-ordinator was the editor of the book.

 

The endowment lecture is organised by the students and admirers of Prof Prakash P Karat in association with the department of Physics, St Aloysius (Deemed to be University), Mangaluru.