[Pre-submission open seminar -Swagata] Ms. Swagata Sil (IISER Kolkata) -- Odd Alternant Hydrocarbon Catalysed C-C and C-N Cross-Coupling Reactions
Time:
11 a.m. - noon
Description:
[DCC Committee Meeting] DCS Meeting Room
Time:
noon - 4 p.m.
Venue:
219, CV Raman
Description:
Samarth training
Time:
1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Venue:
212, APC Ray
Description:
HU4104
Time:
2:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Venue:
Asima Theatre
Description:
[DPS Seminar] Prof. Yuval Gefen (Weizmann institute) -- Can We Measure Entanglement in Particle Interferometers?
Time:
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Venue:
102, APC Ray
Description:
ES3103
Time:
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Venue:
G08, APC Ray
Description:
Extra class
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
G09, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
111, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
112, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue:
N-315B, DPS Meeting Room, AJC Bose
Description:
SDS group meeting
Time:
10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Venue:
110, APC Ray
Description:
CH3103
Time:
10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Venue:
113, AJC Bose
Description:
[Group Meeting] Prof. Sourin Das
Time:
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
219, CV Raman
Description:
Samarth training
Time:
noon - 1 p.m.
Venue:
101, CV Raman
Description:
11th IISM 2024 committee meeting
Time:
2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
101, APC Ray
Description:
CH4104
Time:
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
Asima Theatre
Description:
A condolence meeting (Dr Rather)
Time:
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Venue:
Ramanujan VC
Description:
MA2102-extra class
Time:
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Venue:
Ramanujan VC
Description:
MUN'dane 2024
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
G09, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
111, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Venue:
G08, APC Ray
Description:
[QUIZ 2_CH3104] Dibyendu Das
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
112, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Venue:
219, CV Raman
Description:
Samarth training
Time:
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue:
Asima Theatre
Description:
[DCS Visitor Seminar] Dr. Jayanta Ghosh (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy) -- Controlled Coherent Electronic Excitation in Molecules: Applications in Quantum Information and Molecular Chirality
Time:
noon - 1 p.m.
Venue:
G02, APC Ray
Description:
Extra class for the course CH3103
Time:
1:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
101, CV Raman
Description:
Visit of Dr Didier Raboisson
Time:
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Venue:
219, CV Raman
Description:
Handbook on Basics of Cyber Hygiene
Time:
2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
G08, APC Ray
Description:
CS5102
Time:
2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
101, APC Ray
Description:
CH4117
Time:
2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
Wadia Theatre
Description:
[ICP-MS Application Training] Dr. Gopal Joshi (Thermo Scientific) -- ICP/MS Application training
Time:
2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
Asima Theatre
Description:
[DPS Colloquium] Prof. Banibrata Mukhopadhyay (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) -- White dwarf and type Ia supernova: Chandrasekhar limit and its violation
Time:
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
219, CV Raman
Description:
First meeting with new SAC
Time:
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
Bose Theatre
Description:
MA1101-extra class
Time:
3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Venue:
113, AJC Bose
Description:
Discussion
Time:
3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Venue:
211, APC Ray
Description:
[DMS seminar] Dr. Suratno Basu (IAI, TCG Crest, Kolkata) -- On Ulrich bundles.
Time:
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue:
Asima Theatre
Description:
[DBS Seminar] Dr. Shilpak Chatterjee (Principal Scientist, DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate Fellow, Cancer Biology and Inflammatory Disorder Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India)
Time:
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Venue:
103, APC Ray
Description:
[Showing Class Test 1 answer-scripts] PrasunMandal
[DPS Colloquium] Prof. Mustansir Barma (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, India) -- Clustering and Correlations from Shared Histories and Long Range Interactions
[DES PhD pre-submission Seminar] Mr. Monumoy Ghosh (DES) -- Love-wave Group-Velocity Tomography of India-Himalaya-Tibet: Insights into Radially-Anisotropic S-Wave Velocity Structure
Time:
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
219, CV Raman
Description:
Samarth training
Time:
noon - 1 p.m.
Venue:
110, APC Ray
Description:
Extra class for LS4102
Time:
1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Venue:
112, APC Ray
Description:
[CH4116 Class] Suresh
Time:
1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Venue:
G02, APC Ray
Description:
Class test of the course MA3109
Time:
2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
Asima Theatre
Description:
[Pre-submission seminar] Ishani Mukherjee (PI: Prof Pradipta Purkayastha) (IISER-K) -- Utilization of fluorescent nanomaterials as a tool to understand DNA secondary structures and implications toward DNA nanotechnology
Time:
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
211, APC Ray
Description:
[MA5102] Sayan Bagchi (DMS, Iiserkol)
Time:
3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Venue:
108, APC Ray
Description:
MA3108 Extra Class
Time:
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Venue:
Wadia Theatre
Description:
Class test of CH3104
Time:
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Venue:
110, APC Ray
Description:
ES4103 Extra class
Time:
4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Venue:
Asima Theatre
Description:
[DCS Visitor Seminar] Dr. Jatish Kumar (IISER Tirupati) -- Optically Active Molecules and Materials: From Chiral Light Absorption to Chiral Light Emission
[Pre-submission seminar] Nidhi Tiwari (PI: Prof Ashwani Tiwari) (IISER-K) -- "Energetics and Dynamics of CO Oxidation and H2O Dissociation on Pt(III) under 2D Confinement"
Time:
2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
113, AJC Bose
Description:
[DPS Seminar] Dr. Sayan Choudhury (Reader F, HRI Allahabad) -- A Counterdiabatic Route to Entanglement Steering and Dynamical Freezing in the Floquet Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Model
Time:
2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Venue:
102, APC Ray
Description:
CH4104
Time:
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Venue:
G02, APC Ray
Description:
PH4107
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
G09, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
111, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Venue:
Bose Theatre
Description:
LS4107
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
112, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
8 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
101, APC Ray
Description:
CH4117
Time:
10 p.m. - midnight
Venue:
RN Tagore
Description:
MONO DRAMA COMPETITION
Time:
8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Venue:
DMS Computer Lab
Description:
DBS PhD interview
Time:
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Venue:
Saha Theatre
Description:
[DBS PhD interview] HOD -- DBS PhD interview
Time:
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue:
N-315B, DPS Meeting Room, AJC Bose
Description:
SDS group meeting
Time:
noon - 4 p.m.
Venue:
219, CV Raman
Description:
Samarth training
Time:
12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Venue:
G08, APC Ray
Description:
[class test II] Shibananda Biswas (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata)
Time:
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Venue:
Ramanujan VC
Description:
[For showing classtest copies] Satyaki Mazumder
Time:
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Venue:
Bose Theatre
Description:
MA1101 internal exams
Time:
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Venue:
G08, APC Ray
Description:
[ES3101 extra class] Gaurav Shukla
Time:
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Venue:
Ramanujan VC
Description:
Extra class of MA2102
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
G09, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
111, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Venue:
Ramanujan VC
Description:
[For showing classtest copies] Satyaki Mazumder
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
112, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
Asima Theatre
Description:
DCS PhD sitting place
Time:
11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Venue:
Wadia Theatre
Description:
IOP Publishing Academy:
Time:
noon - 2 p.m.
Venue:
219, CV Raman
Description:
Samarth training
Time:
1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Venue:
G08, APC Ray
Description:
[LS4103] Mohit Prasad (DBS) -- LS4103
Time:
2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
101, APC Ray
Description:
CH4104
Time:
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
Saha Theatre
Description:
Farewell Program of Prof. N Banerjee
Time:
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue:
Asima Theatre
Description:
DBS Seminar
Time:
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Venue:
G08, APC Ray
Description:
Extra Class CH5106
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
G09, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
111, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Venue:
Bose Theatre
Description:
Class test on the CH2102 course
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
112, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Venue:
G02, APC Ray
Description:
Artificial Intelligence (CS5102)
Time:
7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Venue:
110, APC Ray
Description:
Class test on the CH2102 course
Time:
8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Venue:
Asima Theatre
Description:
DCS PhD sitting place
Time:
10:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Venue:
113, AJC Bose
Description:
[Independent Study] Rangeet Bhattacharyya (IISER Kolkata) -- Independent Study
Time:
noon - 3 p.m.
Venue:
219, CV Raman
Description:
Samarth training
Time:
1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Venue:
G02, APC Ray
Description:
PH3101
Time:
3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Venue:
N-315C, DBS Meeting Room, AJC Bose
Description:
DSK Lab Meeting
Time:
3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Venue:
211, APC Ray
Description:
[DMS Seminar] Dr. Purvi Gupta (IISc, Bangalore) -- Topological rigidity (and flexibility) of rational and polynomial convexity
Time:
4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Venue:
110, APC Ray
Description:
[Class Test 2 for CH4106] Prasun Mandal
Time:
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Venue:
102, APC Ray
Description:
[Class Test 2 for CH4106] Prasun Mandal
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
G09, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
111, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Venue:
211, APC Ray
Description:
[Extra make up Class] Shirshendu Chowdhury
Time:
7 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Venue:
G02, APC Ray
Description:
IICM Selection Events
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
112, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
9 a.m. - 10 a.m.
Venue:
G02, APC Ray
Description:
[CH3102 class] BM
Time:
noon - 1 p.m.
Venue:
110, APC Ray
Description:
Extra class for LS4102
Time:
4 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Venue:
RN Tagore
Description:
Rampage 5.0
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
G09, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
111, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
112, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
8 p.m. - midnight
Venue:
Saha Theatre
Description:
Movie Screening
Time:
9 p.m. - midnight
Venue:
Wadia Theatre
Description:
Quizzing sessions
Time:
10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Venue:
Computer Lab 1
Description:
CH5104 [Hands-on training]
Time:
10:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Venue:
Ramanujan VC
Description:
Extra Class of LS2103
Time:
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
103, APC Ray
Description:
SKM Lab Meet
Time:
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Venue:
Wadia Theatre
Description:
[PH2101 Class Test 2] Rangeet Bhattacharyya (IISER Kolkata) -- PH2101 Class Test 2
Time:
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue:
Ramanujan VC
Description:
[PH2101 Class Test 2] Rangeet Bhattacharyya (IISER Kolkata) -- PH2101 Class Test 2
Time:
4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Venue:
103, APC Ray
Description:
[Discussion meeting of PM Lab] Prasun Mandal (IISER Kolkata)
Time:
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Venue:
110, APC Ray
Description:
Group Meeting-SBN
Time:
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Venue:
101, APC Ray
Description:
Earth - The Journal Club discussion
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
G09, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
111, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
112, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
8 p.m. - midnight
Venue:
Saha Theatre
Description:
Movie Screening
Time:
9 p.m. - midnight
Venue:
Wadia Theatre
Description:
Quizzing sessions
Time:
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Venue:
G02, APC Ray
Description:
[Class Test II] Shirshendu Chowdhury -- Class Test II
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
G09, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
111, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
112, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
8 p.m. - midnight
Venue:
Saha Theatre
Description:
Movie Screening
Time:
9 p.m. - midnight
Venue:
Wadia Theatre
Description:
Quizzing sessions
Time:
noon - 1:30 p.m.
Venue:
113, AJC Bose
Description:
DPS Faculty Meeting
Time:
noon - 2 p.m.
Venue:
219, CV Raman
Description:
Samarth training
Time:
1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Venue:
212, APC Ray
Description:
HU4104
Time:
2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Venue:
112, APC Ray
Description:
[CH4116 Class] BM
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
G09, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
111, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Venue:
Bose Theatre
Description:
[CH2105-extra class] Pradip Kumar Tarafdar -- CH2105-extra class
[DCS Colloquium] Dr. Arnab Maity (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology) -- Advanced Bioelectronic Device for Environmental, Oncological, Neurological and Chiral Quantum Technological applications
Time:
3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Venue:
Saha Theatre
Description:
Talk on Janagaurav Divas
Time:
3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Venue:
219, CV Raman
Description:
Samarth training
Time:
3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Venue:
Wadia Theatre
Description:
[DCS Visitor Seminar] Dr. Sriloy Dey (The Ohio State University) -- Plastic pollution is a persistent challenge worldwide
Time:
4:45 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Venue:
G08, APC Ray
Description:
[Showing Class Test II answerscripts] Prasun Mandal
Time:
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Venue:
Asima Theatre
Description:
[Gluon - The Physics Journal Club] Rajarshi Bhattacharyya (Attocube systems AG, Munich, Germany, 85540) -- Wave-particle duality as probe into the physics of anyons
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
G09, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
111, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Venue:
G02, APC Ray
Description:
ES2103 Discussion
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
112, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Venue:
Computer Lab 1
Description:
CS3101
Time:
8 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Venue:
RN Tagore
Description:
Monodrama Competition (ABHIBYAKTI)
Time:
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
219, CV Raman
Description:
Samarth training
Time:
noon - 1 p.m.
Venue:
110, APC Ray
Description:
Extra class for LS4102
Time:
1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Venue:
Wadia Theatre
Description:
Class test for the CH4105
Time:
2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Venue:
113, AJC Bose
Description:
[DPS Seminar] Dr. Zyuzin Alexander (Aalto University, Finland) -- Electron transport and superconductivity in doped SrTiO3
Time:
4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Venue:
110, APC Ray
Description:
Identity, Maths Club seminar
Time:
5:15 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.
Venue:
211, APC Ray
Description:
[MA 4104 class test] Sushil Gorai
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
G09, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
111, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
G08, APC Ray
Description:
CS5102
Time:
7 p.m. - 3:30 a.m.
Venue:
Ramanujan VC
Description:
CH2105 Extra class
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
112, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Venue:
Wadia Theatre
Description:
PH3103 Extra Class
Time:
10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Venue:
101, APC Ray
Description:
Quiz CH4117
Time:
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue:
113, AJC Bose
Description:
[Presentation] Projukta Das
Time:
noon - 1 p.m.
Venue:
110, APC Ray
Description:
[CH4116 Class Test] Suresh
Time:
4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Venue:
103, APC Ray
Description:
[Discussion meeting of PM Lab] Prasun Mandal (IISER Kolkata)
Time:
4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Venue:
110, APC Ray
Description:
Group Meeting-SBN
Time:
5 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Venue:
101, APC Ray
Description:
Study Room
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
G09, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
111, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Venue:
G02, APC Ray
Description:
MA2101
Time:
7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Venue:
G08, APC Ray
Description:
MA2101
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
112, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
5 p.m. - 11 p.m.
Venue:
101, APC Ray
Description:
Study Room
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
G09, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
111, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
112, APC Ray
Description:
Ek Pahal Classes
Time:
9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
103, APC Ray
Description:
End Sem Exam Autumn 2024
Time:
9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Venue:
G08, APC Ray
Description:
DMS PhD Interview
Time:
9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Venue:
111, APC Ray
Description:
DMS PhD Interview
Time:
9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Venue:
108, APC Ray
Description:
DMS PhD Interview
Time:
9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Venue:
112, APC Ray
Description:
DMS PhD Interview
Time:
9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Venue:
101, APC Ray
Description:
DMS PhD Interview
Time:
9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Venue:
102, APC Ray
Description:
End Sem Exam Autumn 2024
Time:
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Venue:
219, CV Raman
Description:
Samarth training
Time:
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Venue:
Asima Theatre
Description:
[Pre-submission seminar] Ishita Ghosh (PI: Prof. C Malla Reddy) (IISER-K) -- Autonomous self-healing and novel electromechanical properties of molecular crystals: Role of crystal symmetry
Time:
noon - 1:30 p.m.
Venue:
113, AJC Bose
Description:
[Group Meeting] Sudip Sinha
Time:
2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Venue:
209, APC Ray
Description:
ES4106
Time:
2 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Venue:
110, APC Ray
Description:
[MA 3104 Class Test] Shibananda Biswas (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata)
Time:
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Venue:
Asima Theatre
Description:
[Pre-submission seminar] Shamim Ahmed (PI: Prof. C Malla Reddy) (IISER-K) -- Crystal Engineering of Organic Soft molecular Materials: Mechanical and Optical Properties