ILA Best Thesis and Best Poster Awards at NLS-19:

Best Thesis awards: Everey year, M/s Laser Spectra Services, Bangalore sponsors the BEST THESIS award at National Laser Symposium. Based on the deliberations in the meeting of panel of judges held on Dec 3, 2010 the following two theses were selected for ILA best thesis award:

1. Phase Behavior of Thermoresponsive Poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) Microgels: A Light Scattering and Confocal laser scanning Microscopic Study
   J. Brijitta, Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry
2. Experimental Study of Coherence and Polarization Properties of Optical Fields
   Bhaskar Kanseri Quantum Optics and Photon Physics Division, National Physical Laboratory,New Delhi

Best Poster awards: From 2006 onwards M/s Laser Science, Mumbai sponsors these awards. Based on the deliberations in the meeting of panel of judges held on Dec 3, 2010 the following six posters were selected for ILA best poster award:

1. 75W of continuous-wave green beam generation by intracavity frequency doubling of diode side pumped Nd:YAG laser
   authored by A. J. Singh, S. K. Sharma, P. K. Mukhopadhyaya, and S. M. Oak belonging to Solid State Laser Division, RRCAT, Indore,
2. Passivation of GaAs0.86P0.14/A10.6Ga0.4As near Surface quantum well
   authored by Suparna Pal 1, S. D. Singh1, S. Porwal1, S. W. D'Souza2, S. R. Barman2, and S. M. Oak1 belonging to 1 Semiconductor Laser Section, Solid State Laser Division, RRCAT, Indore, 2 UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore
3. Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in a tripod atomic system
   authored by Niharika Singh1, Q. V. Lawande2, R. D'Souza3, and B. N. Jagtap1,3 belonging to 1Homi Bhabha National Institute, 2Theoritical Physics Division, 3Atomic and Molecular Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
4. Laser Assisted Decontamination of Nuclear Fuel Elements
   authored by J. Padma Nilaya1, A. Kumar2, Chadrakant Sharma2, and D. J. Biswas1 belonging to 1Laser and Plasma Technology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai and 2AFFF, BARC, Tarapur
5. Construction of a simple confocal microscope
   authored by Bijeesh M. M., Arun Karthik S., Arvind Krishnan, Nishith Rastogi, Githa K. Varier and P. Nandakumar belonging to BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Campus, Zuarinagar, Goa
6. Laser induced single step fabrication of micro/nano complex photonic structures
   authored by Jolly Xavier, and Joby Joseph belonging to Photonics Group, Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi