Maharajas College Ernakulam.

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DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

ALUMNI

There is a very active registered Alumni ‘MAPS’ in the Department. MAPS together with the Department is conducting a number of programmes every year. There is a seven-member executive body for MAPS and every year 3 to 4 Executive meetings are conducted. The General body meeting of MAPS, which is a grand event, is held on the second saturday of December, every year. MAPS together with the Department has been organizing ‘Dr. Sathy Menon Memorial Technical Lecture’ from 2014 onwards. In addition to that, MAPS gives endowments to students. Fanny Pallan Endowments are given to top performing UG students and ‘Sathy Menon Endowments’ are awarded to top scoring PG students.

Illustrious alumni

Sl.No.	Alumni	Course studied /year	Positions holding/held/Recognitions
1	Sri. S. D. Shibulal	MSc Physics (1975-1977)	Co-founder of Infosys in 1981. Head of Worldwide Sales and Customer Delivery in Infosys. Head of Infosys Manufacturing and Distribution and Internet Consulting practice On 22 June 2007, Shibulal took over charge from Kris Gopalakrishnan as the Chief Operating Officer. Member of the Board of Directors of Infosys. On 30 April 2011 he became CEO and Managing director of Infosys. CEO and MD of Infosys from 1 August 2014. Co-founder of Axilor Ventures in 2014.
2	Radha Vinod Raju	MSc Physics	Founding NIA chief Superintendent of police in Poonch District, Jammu and Kashmir. SP in Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Ernakulam. DIG in Jammu and Kashmir.
3	S Somanath	Pre Degree	Director of VSSC (Present) Director of Liquid propulsion Systems Centre, Valiyamala Deputy Director of Propulsion and Space Ordinance Associate Director (Projects) of VSSC Project Director of GSLV Mk-III launch vehicle
4	S Kedarnath Shenoy	MSc (1979-1981)	Director of NPOL (Present), Thrikkakkra Scientist BARC
5	Dr. D S Pai	MSc Physics(1987-1989)	Scientist F, Head of Climate Research and Services, Meteorological Department, Govt. of India
6	Prof. K Babu Joseph	BSc Physics (1956-1959)	Vice Chancellor, CUSAT (1997-2001) Professor at CUSAT (1969-1997) Lecturer at UC College, Aluva (1967-1969)
7	Prof. C. P. Girija Vallabhan	BSc Physics	Founder director of International School of Photonics at CUSAT, 1995 Emeritus Professor at International School of Photonics (Currently) Director of Uiversity Science Instrumentation Centre at CUSAT (1986) Dean of Faculty of Technology, CUSAT (2002-2007) Director of CELOS at CUSAT (2002-2008)
8	Prof. V M Nandakumaran	B.Sc. Physics (1969)	Principal, Amrita School of Arts and Science, Amritapuri Campus. Professor, IISER, Thiruvananthapuram Director, International School of Photonics at CUSAT Lecturer, Dept. of Physics, University of Calicut
9	Dr. M A Ittiyachan		Professor (Rtd), School of Pure and Appied Sciences, M G University V.C. in charge (MG University)
10	Dr. Vasudevan Pillai	BSc and MSc Physics (1978-1983)	Principal (Present), Directorate of Minority Welfare State Resourse Person for Haritha Kerala Mission
11	Dr. M R Santha Devi	B.Sc. Physics (1969)	Scientist F (Retired), NPOL (DRDO lab), Kochi
12	Satheesh V Menon IRS	MSc physics (2009-2011)	Deputy Director of Income Tax, Central Board Direct Tax, New Delhi Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax, Indian Revenue Services

13	Dr. K V Vrinda Devi	BSc and MSc in Physics (1981-1986)	Scientific Officer G, Radio metallurgy division, BARC, Mumbai Quality Control Section, Advanced Fuel Fabrication Centre (1988)
14	Susan Antony	MSc Physics (2000-2002)	Assistant Director, Forensic Science Laboratory, Kerala Police Department.
15	Dr. V Malathy Devi	BSc Physics (1971-74)	Research Professor at the College of William and Mary. Served as a Research Physicist at NOAA/NESDIS Satellite Experimental Laboratory, Suitland,from 1980 to 1983
16	Cdr.Prasanna Edayilliam (Rtd)	BSC Physics, 1992	Retired Commander- Indian Navy (14 years’service) Asst. Manager Operation, B Jets India Pvt Ltd (June-November, 2011)
17	Rajeev Ravi	BSc Physics(1990-1993)	Indian cinematographer, Director Producer
18	Dr. Aldrin Antony	BSc Physics (1990-1993)	Associate Professor of Physics, CUSAT, Cochin 22 (Present) Honorary Director, Centre for Excellence in Advanced Materials, CUSAT. Independent Director(Technical), Renovar Green Energies LLP Senior Project Executive Officer, National Centre for Photovoltaics Research and Education, IIT, Bombay. National Solar Science Fellow, IIT, Bombay. Researcher, Universitat de Barcelona. ICTP-UNESCO fellow, ENEA ICS-UNEDO fellow, ENEA
19	Dr. Sathy K	MSc in Physics (1984-1986)	Post Doctoral Fellow at Institute fur Angewandce Physik, Universiaet Regensburg, Germany Post Doctoral Fellow at CUSAT
20	Prof. P. S. Sobhen	B. Sc. 1974-79	Associate Professor, Maharaja’s College
21	Prof K I Thomas	B.Sc, Msc & PhD	Associate Professor, Maharaja’s College
22	Rajagopal	M Sc1977-79	Controller of Examinations, University of Calicut
23	Prof. Sreekumar	M Sc1977-79	Principal, NSS College, Vadakkanchery
24	Prof. Sabu Thomas	M Sc 1981-83	Associate Professor, Maharaja’s College
25	Prof. Premkumar N R	M Sc 1979-81	Principal, KKTM Govt College, Pullut
26	Prof. Varadarajan	M Sc 1977-79	Associate Professor, S H College, Thevara
27	Prof. Nithyadas	M Sc 1977-79	Associate Professor, Govt Engineering College, Thrissur
28	Dr. Arun Babu K P	B. Sc. Physics & M. Sc. Physics (2001-2006)	National Post-Doctoral Fellow GRAPES-3 Collaboration, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh Post-Doctoral Fellow GRAPES-3 Collaboration, TIFR, Mumbai (2014-2017)
29	Sreedevi Varma	B. Sc. Physics (2011-2014)	Research fellow, King’s College, London, UK Summer Internship, Dr. Banibatra Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (2015) M Sc at NIT Surathkal
30	Unnikrishnan Potty S.	M. Sc. Physics (2013-2015)	Research fellow, Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland JRF at IIST, Thiruvananthapuram (2017) Lecturer in Physics at Bishop Moore College, Mavelikkara (2016-2017)

meets of alumni

YEAR	ALUMNI GENERAL BODY ANNUAL MEETINGS AND ACTIVITIES
2013-14	General Body meeting of Physics Alumni was conducted on 4th January 2014. Prof. P.S.Sobhen delivered a lecture on ' New Technologies and Prospects' on the day. The Fanny Pallan Endowment Awards were given to top scoring UnderGraduate students.
2014-15	Physics Alumni MAPS annual general body meet was held on 13 December 2014 . The first Dr. Sathy Menon Memorial Technical Lecture 'Applications of Linear Accelerators' was given by Dr. Ravi A Y Kumar, Scientist, Institute of Plasma Research, Gujarath. Fanny Pallan Endowments were given to best UG Students and Sathy Menon Memorial Endowments were distributed to outstanding PG students.
2015-16	Physics Alumni MAPS annual general body meet was held on 12 December 2015 . The second Dr. Sathy Menon Memorial Technical Lecture 'nanophotonics: Materials and Applications' was given by Dr. Reji Philip, Scientist, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore. Fanny Pallan Endowments were distributed to outstanding UG students and Sathy Menon Memorial Endowments were distributed to outstanding PG students. . An orientation programme 'Make it Happen' for second and third year B Sc Students was conducted by Dr M R. SanthaDevi, Retired Scientist, DRDO who is the Vice President of Physics Alumni.
2016-17	Physics Alumni Association MAPS conducted an Alumni reunion on 10th December 2016. The third Dr Sathi Menon Memorial Technical Lecture 'Electromagnetic theory and its applications' was done by Prof V P N Nampoori, organised by Alumni association of the department. Fany Pallan Endowments were presented to UG students and Sathy Menon memorial endowments were presented to PG students. The function also falicitated those students who qualified NET/ JRF exams.
2017-18	Physics Alumni Association MAPS conducted an Alumni reunion on 9th December 2017. The Fourth Dr. Sathy Menon Memorial Technical Lecture ' Introduction to Space Technology' by Shaneeth M, Dy.Head, Energy Sytems Division, VSSC, ISRO,TVM was conducted. Career development talk by Prof P S Sobhen, was organised by Alumni Physics . Fany Pallan Endowments were presented to UG students and Sathy Menon memorial endowments were presented to PG students. The function also felicitated those students who qualified NET/ JRF exams.
2018-19	Physics Alumni Association MAPS conducted an Alumni reunion on 8th December 2018. The Fifth Dr. Sathy Menon Memorial Technical Lecture on ' Airborne Surveylance' by Dr. Rajalakshmi Menon, Outstanding Scientist, LRDE, Bangalore was conducted on 7th December at 2 pm. Fany Pallan Endowments were presented to UG top students and Sathy Menon memorial endowments were presented to PG top students. The function also felicitated Dr. E M Mohammed on receiving position of Emeretus Scientist from KSCSTE. MAPS conducted NET coaching classes to PG students of the Department. MAPS also organized a motivation class conducted by Dr. Siju Thomas, Behavioural Therapist and Student Counsellor, for final year B Sc Students on 31 August 2018 at 2 PM,
2019-20	Physics Alumni Association MAPS conducted an Alumni reunion on 14 th December 2019. The Fifth Dr. Sathy Menon Memorial Technical Lecture on ' Physics on Forensic Science' by Smt. Susan Antony, Assistant Director, Forensic Science Laboratory, Kerala Police Dept. was conducted on 14 th December at 10 am. Fany Pallan Endowments were presented to UG top students and Sathy Menon memorial endowments were presented to PG top students. MAPS in association with the Department of Physics conducted the First Hawking Memorial Lecture. The first lecture was done by MAPS president , P S SOBHEN, Retired Associate Professor Dept of Phyics, Maharajas College, on 'Introduction to black holes'.
2020-21	Physics Alumni Association MAPS conducted an Alumni reunion (online) on 12 th December 2020. The Sixth Dr. Sathy Menon Memorial Technical Lecture on 'The Call of Ocean; by Smt. Santhi Krishnan, Research Scholar, National Institute of Oceanography, was conducted on 12 th December at 5.30 pm. Fany Pallan Endowments were presented to top scoring UG students and Sathy Menon memorial endowments were presented to best scoring PG students. MAPS in association with the Department of Physics conducted online Lectures on ' On some beautiful Problems in Physics' by Dr N Shaji, Adjunct Faculty, CUSAT and 'On Hunting for Neutrinos by Manosh T M, Research Scholar, CUSAT.

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