Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata

The Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata, is a premier R & D unit of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), dedicated to carry out frontier research and development in the fields of Accelerator Science and Technology, Nuclear Science (Theoretical and Experimental), Material Science, Computer Science and Technology and in other relevant areas.

About VECC

The Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata one of the premier nuclear science and accelerator technology centres of India is a Constituent Institutes (CI) of Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai. In addition to its own programmes of building the latest state of the art accelerators, the centre provides R & D facilities to various branches of nuclear sciences. A wide spectrum of research programmes is carried out at the centre.

• Accelerator Physics
• Experimental and Theoretical Nuclear Physics
• Physics with Rare Ion Beams & Nuclear Astrophysics
• Hadronic Physics
• Quark Gluon Plasma Physics
• Material Science
• Radio Chemistry
• Nuclear Medicine
• Computer Science & Engineering
• Electronics etc. 

VECC is also part of the International Collaboration at ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva.

Academics

Physical Sciences

VECC conducts one-year pre-doctoral orientation course in Physics for HBNI students. Students with M.Sc. Physics who qualify in JEST, NET and GATE are called for a personal interview at VECC for the final selection for the one-year pre-doctoral course in Physical Sciences. On successful completion of the pre-doctoral course, the students work towards their Ph.D. degree under the supervision of one of the faculty members.

Engineering Sciences

VECC presently conducts Ph.D. and M.Sc. (Engg.) programmes only for the DAE employees and M.Tech. projects for those who have successfully completed the one-year course work from the BARC Training Schools and join VECC. Minimum qualification for admission to the M.Sc. (Engg.) programmes is B.E./B.Tech. or equivalent from any recognized university and for Ph.D., it is M.E./M.Tech.  The admission to the Ph.D. programme is by way of interview. The admission to the M.Sc. (Engg.) programme for the candidates recruited through the Training School of BARC is by way of interview and for those who are not recruited through Training School is by way of the written test followed by the interview. These candidates will have to undergo one-year course work. The extent of the course work for the candidates from the Training School is decided by the relevant committee.

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