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This page brings together selected public moments from research, teaching, outreach, awards, collaborations, and institutional activities.
Selected Photo Highlights
Admission as Fellow to the Indian National Science Academy, December 30, 2016.
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award ceremony at Vigyan Bhavan, September 26, 2016.
Felicitations by the Chief Minister of Odisha, the Governor of Odisha, and at NISER.
Utkalmani Yuva Prativa Samman 2017 in the field of Education.
Prime Minister dedicating NISER to the Nation, February 7, 2016.
EMMI Workshop on critical fluctuations near the QCD phase boundary, Wuhan, October 2017.
School for RHIC Beam Energy Scan and the QCD Critical Point, Peking University, Beijing, 2017.
The 2010 Physical Review Letters paper that helped lead to the RHIC Beam Energy Scan program.
STAR Collaboration group photograph from 2010 during my period as Deputy Spokesperson.
DAE Young Scientist Award received from Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, 2006.
Celebration of the Science paper on the QCD phase diagram.
PhD thesis defense and mentoring milestones.
Extended Photo Gallery
Academic and Public Recognition
Admission as Fellow to the Indian National Science Academy.
INSA fellowship ceremony moments.
A memorable milestone in scientific recognition.
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award ceremony at Vigyan Bhavan.
National award ceremony moments.
At the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award function.
Felicitations in Odisha and at NISER.
Institutional recognition and celebration at NISER.
Utkalmani Yuva Prativa Samman 2017.
Moments from the award function.
Institutional and Scientific Events
Prime Minister's visit during dedication of NISER to the nation.
Historic day for the institute.
Teaching at the BES and QCD Critical Point school in Beijing.
With participants and colleagues at the Peking University school.
International academic engagement on BES physics.
Golden Jubilee Seminar at Stewart Science College.
Seminar and interaction at Stewart Science College.
Public engagement through invited lectures.
Narayan Mishra Memorial Lecture at Ravenshaw University.
Ravenshaw lecture event.
Interaction during memorial lecture visit.
Research Collaborations and Conferences
At BNL: installation and commissioning work for PMD and STAR activities.
Detector work and experimental life at Brookhaven.
Data taking, repair, and physics discussions at BNL.
Experimental work and collaboration life at STAR.
Hands-on detector and analysis work.
Life around the STAR experimental program.
Teamwork, debugging, and discovery.
Research and collaboration at Brookhaven.
Brookhaven memories from the PMD and STAR years.
Building 510 and physics discussions.
Detector work and winter at BNL.
Memories of intense experimental activity.
CERN memories from the WA98 and ALICE PMD period.
The PMD office at CERN.
Data analysis and detector work at CERN.
Test beam activities and detector development.
Quark Matter, ATHIC, Schools and Outreach
Quark Matter in India, 2008.
Organizing and participating in major heavy-ion meetings.
Scientific exchange with leading colleagues.
Conference moments from Quark Matter in India.
Leadership and scientific discussion at Quark Matter.
With eminent scientists during the conference.
International conference exchanges and collaborations.
Memories from Quark Matter 2008.
Conference and community building in heavy-ion physics.
Asian Triangular Heavy-Ion Conference (ATHIC) 2016.
Scientific program and plenary activities at ATHIC.
Building regional and international scientific connections.
Moments from ATHIC in New Delhi.
Science outreach at NIST and other institutions.
Interacting with students and wider audiences.
DST Inspire outreach and student interaction.
Science communication and student motivation.
As Director of the SERB School on Experimental High Energy Physics at NISER.
Training and mentoring through advanced schools.
Academic leadership in national training programs.
Experimental high-energy physics school at NISER.
SERC School on Theoretical High Energy Physics at BITS Pilani.
Guest lecturing and school activities.
Academic exchanges during the SERC school.
Travel and Personal Glimpses
Travel in China.
Grand Canyon visit.
Grand Canyon landscape.
Memories from the Grand Canyon.
Grand Canyon, part I.
Grand Canyon, part II.
Travel reflections from the US.
Bryce Canyon National Park.
Bryce Canyon, part I.
Landscape and travel moments.
Bryce Canyon vistas.
Bryce Canyon, part II.
Exploring Bryce Canyon National Park.
Travel and reflection in nature.
Bryce Canyon memories.
At YITP, Kyoto, Japan.
YITP long-term workshop and Nishinomiya-Yukawa meeting.
Memories from Kyoto and YITP.
Japan visit during QCD workshop activities.
Kyoto and workshop memories.
Scientific travel and cultural moments.
YITP visit and conference experience.
Japan memories from the YITP visit.
News and Media Mentions
- CERN Courier article discussing our new probe of radial flow.
- CERN Courier article discussing our work - STAR hunts QCD critical point/a>.
- BNL news on our work - More Signs of Phase-change Turbulence in Nuclear Matter.
- LBNL news on our work - QCD critical Point Search.
- BNL news on our work - Tantalizing Signs of Phase-change Turbulence in RHIC Collisions.
- BNL news on our work - Clear Sign that QGP Production Turns Off at Low Energy.
- CERN Courier article on our work Plasma polarised by spin-orbit effect.
- CERN Courier article on our work on - ALICE zooms in on evolution of the quark–gluon plasma.
- CERN Courier article discussing the results I presented at Quark Matter 2002 in Nantes, France.
- Physics World article on our work on the QCD phase diagram published in Science.
- Physics World top 10 breakthroughs of 2011, where our work was placed sixth.
- Science review by Prof. Berndt Müller: “The Limits of Ordinary Matter”.
- Article in Anandabazar on our work.
- Science Daily discussion on our phase diagram work.
- Science Node feature: “When Matter Melts”.
- Discover Magazine on anti-alpha discovery.
- Physics World on the heaviest antimatter discovered.
- Nature India on Indian scientists in antimatter discovery.
- Article in Samaj on the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.
- RHIC News on Quark Matter 2008 highlights.
- CERN Courier article on our resonance-production work at the LHC.
- Article on Utkalmani Yuva Prativa Samman 2017.
- Professor Bedangadas Mohanty conferred with Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics | Kalinga TV .
- Odisha scientists receive distinguished 2025 Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics .
- Eight Odisha scientists from Bhubaneswar, Berhampur institutes earn breakthrough prize at CERN .
- CM Majhi Congratulates Odisha Scientists On Winning Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics 2025 .
- Odisha Scientists Win CERN Breakthrough Prize .
- Prof Bedangadas Mohanty wins the Infosys Prize in Physics for 2021 .
- NISER professor gets Infosys Prize 2021 for Physical Sciences.
- Prof Bedangadas Mohanty elected American Physical Society Fellow.
- NISER Bhubaneswar Professor Bedangadas Mohanty Chosen For American Physical Society Fellowship.
- NISER Professor gets international recognition.
- New ALICE management takes over from January 2023 .
- Five Odia Scientists Among Top 75 In India .
- Classes of medical physics course begin at NISER Bhubaneswar .
- Odisha Bigyan Academy Awards Announced; 16 Scientists To Be Honoured In Various Categories .
- Kalinga Literary Festival .
- The Power of Communities with Bedangadas Mohanty .
- NISER Bhubaneswar inagurates Medical Cyclotron and Nuclear Medicine Hospital Project .
- Population Based Cancer Registry .
- Medical Physics Course .
- Cancer Hospital .
- Cancer Hospital .
Videos
- INFOSYS Prize: The forces that hold us.
- TEDX Talk: Recreating microsecond old universe conditions in the lab.
- The RHIC Beam Energy Scan at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB.
- Plenary Talk at Quark Matter 2011, Annecy, France: first results from the Beam Energy Scan program at RHIC.
- Video on NISER, whose preparation I coordinated and which was shown to the Prime Minister of India during the dedication of the campus.
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize ceremony at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.
- Doordarshan Odia video on NISER, whose preparation I coordinated.
- Doordarshan Odia interview related to the SSB award, Part I.
- Doordarshan Odia interview related to the SSB award, Part II.
- Discussion in Doordarshan Odia on the role of science in nation building, Part I.
- Discussion in Doordarshan Odia on the role of science in nation building, Part II.
- India – Heavy Ion Physics at International Centre for Theoretical Sciences.
- Electron Ion Collider - Indian Participation at International Centre for Theoretical Sciences.
- Indian Physics Association Colloquium at IISER Bhopal.
- Infosys Prize Lecture.
- QGP (Experimental) Lecture at the IV ALICE-India School on Quark-Gluon Plasma.
- Search for Lightly Ionizing Particles - ASET Colloquium
- Experimental overview for RHIC BES
- PRL ka Amrut Vyakhyaan
- Where Science Meets Literature: Prof. Bedangadas Mohanty