Contributions
Our alumni, all of them, who came back to the department for the nostalgia, evinced a keen interest to do something for the department from which they had evolved. One of the main objectives of the Physics Alumni Meet (PAM 2010), was to establish a structured connect with the department, a platform.
This would enable the interaction with the department and help the alumni to contribute towards its value addition, in whatever way they could. At the inaugural PAM meet on December,18, 2010, the then constituted panel formulated the forming of the Physics Alumni Society (PAS).
At the subsequent early meetings of the executive committee, it was realized that many alumni expressed great interest and enthusiasm to establish an annual endowment lecture. This event would be a great value addition to the department’s academic status. The students of MCC and other city colleges would be benefitted by the exposure to current topics, explained by experts in the respective fields.
Donors:
- Prof. P.M. Mathews
- Prof. M. Lakshmanan
- Dr. S. Ravichandran
- Prof. N. Gautham
- Dr. Aruna Dhathathreyan
- Dr. Peter Jayapandian
- Dr. Amrutha & team
- Dr. N. Manju
- Dr. M.M. Govind
- Ms. Mary Agnes Joseph
- Dr. R. Balakrishnan
- Dr. N. Lakshminarayan
- Dr. R. Manickkavachagam
- Dr. P. Samuel Asirvatham
- Mr. Vijay Kumar Reddy
- Mr. A.P. Parthiban
- Mr. T.S. Krishnaswamy
- Dr. Vaidehi Ganesan
- Mr. Saravanan Kannan
- Mr. V. Badrinarayanan
- Mr. Mukundan Chakrapani
- Mr. Moses Mathuram
- Mr. C.N. Purushothaman
- Mr. R.G. Subramaniyan
- Mr. Kumar S. Rajeev
- Mr. Raguvir Gurumurthy
- Mr. G. Hariharan
- Mr. Satish Tavag
- Brig. V.A. Subramanyam
- Capt. Anand Jayaraman
- Mr. Cherian Thompson
- Mr. P. Sankara Narayanan
- Capt. E. Daniel
- Ms. Evanjilina Selvanathan
- Ms. Hepzi Sekar
- Prof. K.S. Venkatasubban
- Mr. Sam Muthiah Franklin
- Mr. Joseph George
The PASS was introduced to provide deserving students in the Physics department with financial assistance to lessen their family’s economic burden.The PAS Executive Committee decided that financial aid be provided to students who are in the second and third undergraduate course and the second year post graduate course. The HoD and faculty of the department were given the sole responsibility of identifying students, who required financial assistance. The amount was collected through alumni contributions.
Donors:
- Mr. Vijay Reddy
- Mr. A.P. Parthiban
- Capt. E. Daniel
- Capt. Anand Jayaraman
- Mr. Anand Walser
- Mr. Baskar
- Ms. Mhona Russell
- Mr. Raguvir Gurumurthy
- Students of B.Sc. batch 1992-1995, coordinated by Dr. Vigneswara Ilavarasan
- Mr. Arul Chittaranjan Durairaj
- Mr. Cherian Thompson
- Mr. S. Dhanasekharan
- Dr. G. Kumar Sathian
- Dr. S. Narayan
- Dr. N. Gautham
2017-2018: Seven students were provided Rs. 5,000/- each (Total Rs. 35,000/-) – three students of 3rd year B.Sc., three more in the second year, and one student from first year M.Sc.
2018-2019: A total of Rs. 1,14,500/- collected from nine alumni donors, was provided to 14 students (three students of 2nd year B.Sc., six students of 3rd year B.Sc., two students of 1st year M.Sc., and three students of 2nd year M.Sc.) to pay their annual tuition fee for the academic year.
2019-2020: A total of Rs. 1,57,171/- collected from 13 alumni donors, was provided to 13 students (six students of 2nd year B.Sc., three more in the third year, one student from first year M.Sc. and three students from second year M.Sc.) to pay their annual tuition fee for the academic year.
2020-2021: A total of Rs. 1,40,094/- collected from 9 alumni donors, was provided to 13 students (two students of 2nd year B.Sc., six more in the third year, and five students from second year M.Sc.) to pay their annual tuition fee for the academic year.
2021-2022: A total of Rs. 1,48,401/- collected from 9 alumni donors, was provided to 12 students (three students of 2nd year B.Sc., three more in the third year, and six students from second year M.Sc.) to pay their annual tuition fee for the academic year.
2022-2023: A total of Rs. 1,07,782/- collected from 7 alumni donors, was provided to 9 students(four students of 2nd year B.Sc., two more in the third year, and three students from second year M.Sc.) to pay their annual tuition fee for the academic year.
Overwhelming and spontaneous contributions of many Alumni enabled the procurement of a GPU enabled workstation optimized to suit the requirements of the department.
Donors:
- Mr. Anand Walser
- Mr. Arun Achamkulamgara
- Dr. Deepak Samuel
- Mr. Moses Mathuram
- Prof. Narasinga Rao
- Prof. P.M. Mathews
- Mr. Raguvir Gurumurthy
- Dr. R. Balakrishnan
- Prof. L. Sriram Kumar
- Ms. Sujatha
- Students of B.Sc. batch 1990-1993, Coordinated by Mr. Saravanan Kannan
Students of B.Sc. batch 1990-1993 (Coordinator : Mr. Saravanan Kannan) provided a 1.5 ton split air conditioner for the students’ computer lab in the Physics Department.
The students of the 1981-84 batch, B.Sc. (Physics) instituted the Prof. K.M. Karunakaran Prize for Quantum Mechanics. This prize is awarded to the 3rd B.Sc. student who has excelled in Quantum Mechanics. This prize is being awarded every year from 2010. The efforts for instituting this prize had been taken by Dr.S.I.A. Philomin raj, very much before the emergence of the PAM or PAS.
The prize is awarded to the 2nd M.Sc. student who has excelled in Quantum Mechanics. This prize has been instituted, in 2019, solely by a lumpsum contribution from Prof. P.M.Mathews. This prize is being awarded every year from 2020.