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Jaidutt Saraswati Sodha Plasma Award 2025

The Jaidutt Saraswati Sodha PSSI Plasma Award for the year 2025 is awarded to Rameswar Singh of University of California, San Diego, USA for his significant research contributions through publications through reputed journals in plasma physics.

Parvej Guzdar Young Scientist Award 2025

The Parvej Guzdar Young Scientist Award for the year 2025 is awarded to Swarnima Singh from University of California, San Diego, USA, in recognition of her outstanding work in the areas of “Strongly coupled dusty plasmas and the fundamental physics ordering, structural formation, and transfer to disorder”. 

Z. H. Sholapurwala Award for RF and Microwave Applications 2025

The Z H Sholapurwala award for outstanding contributions in the field of RF and Microwave Applications for the year 2025 is awarded to Biswajeet Mukherjee of University of Delhi, New Delhi for his work carried out under the area of “Design and Development of Antenna and Microwave Electronics and Circuits”.

BUTI Young Scientist Award 2025

The BUTI Young Scientist award for the year 2025 is awarded to Ayesha Nanda of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur for her paper entitled “Experimental evidence of super-adiabaticity in a plasma confined by a dipole field” presented at PLASMA 2025 during BUTI Award presentations.

Results of General Elections for Year 2026-2028.

Mr. Hitesh Gulati of IPR is continuing his second term as PSSI Treasurer. Express of interest of becoming a councillor is still being accepted, please email to pssi@ipr.res.in. The final form of PSSI Executive Council will be announced on website in 1st Week of April, 2026.

2nd Talk PSSI Lecture Series

TALK TITLE: "THE MYSTERIOUS MAGNETIC PERSONALITY OF OUR SUN"

By

Prof. Arnab Rai Choudhuri

Dept. of Physics

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Date: 01-05-2025

Time: 2:30 PM Onwards

Click here for details

YouTube Link

10th PSSI - Plasma Scholars Colloquium

(PSSI-PSC 2024)

Best Poster Presentation Award

1. R. Roy (Homi Bhabha National Institute)

2. Ankit Kumar (IPR Gandhinagar)

3. Pragya Joshi (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)

Best Oral Presentation Award

1. Lucky Saikia (CPP-IPR Guwahati)

2. Geethika B. R. (IPR Gandhinagar)

3. Binal Patel (Udaipur Solar Observatory, PRL Ahmedabad)

PSSI Lecture Series

Announcing the launching of the Plasma Science Society of India (PSSI) online Lecture Series (initially bi-monthly), with the inaugural lecture of 2024 Kaw Legacy Award Winner, Prof. Gianluca Sarri, The Queen's University Belfast, UK. Please find attached details of this inaugural Lecture.

This is being initiated by the Executive Council of PSSI 2024-25, as part of their outreach program to take plasma science and technology to all parts of the country and popularize its utility for national, societal and industrial applications.

We request your support in popularizing this initiative to all interested UG / PG / doctoral / post-doctoral students, researchers and academicians across the country as well as on an International forum.

For More Details:Click here

Click to read Comic Book on Plasma

"Wondeful World of Plasma"

Click to read Prof. P.I. John's e-book

"Experiments with Plasmas"

Click to read Prof. P.I. John's e-book 

"Plasma Sciences and the Creation of Wealth"

IPR Outreach Division organizes exhibition-cum-training programs on "Plasma, its Applications & Nuclear Fusion" at various locations across the country. Interested institutions may contact IPR Outreach for details <outreach@ipr.res.in>

Click for information on hosting IPR's Plasma Exhibition at your Institution

Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies

Division of Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP)

India is now a member of AAPPS-DPP and members of PSSI wanting to join this group are requested to contact Secretary, PSSI at <pssi@ipr.res.in> for recommendation for membership to AAPPS-DPP

Past PLASMA conferences - Memories