The Department of Physics, North Lakhimpur University, successfully organized the second edition of the biennial national conference “Symposium on Physics: Advances in Research and Knowledge (SPARK 2025)” on October 31 – November 1, 2025.

The conference brought together participants from reputed academic and research institutions across eastern, northern, western, and north-eastern India, creating a vibrant platform for scientific interaction and collaboration.

SPARK 2025 featured six keynote lectures delivered by eminent physicists — Prof. S. N. Pandey (MNNIT Allahabad), Prof. Pabira Natha (Tezpur University), Dr. Shamik Gupta (TIFR), Dr. Prawal J. Phukan (Dibrugarh University), Dr. Bijita Sharma (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany), and Dr. Sayan Bayan (Rajiv Gandhi University).

On the second day, research papers were presented across four thematic tracks in parallel oral sessions, followed by a common poster session. The tracks were: High Energy Physics, Gravitation & Cosmology; Electronics & Photonics, Computational Physics, Applied & Engineering Physics; Material Science & Nanoscience, Quantum Thermodynamics & Statistical Physics; and Astronomy & Astrophysics, Space & Atmospheric Physics, Plasma Physics, Nuclear Physics & Non-linear Dynamics.

Dr. Dipankar Chetia and Dr. Manoranjan Dutta of the Department of Physics, North Lakhimpur University, acted as the Organizing Secretaries of the event.

The Book of Abstracts is available on the Indico CERN platform:
https://indico.global/event/14211/book-of-abstracts.pdf

The Proceedings of SPARK 2025 will be published as a Special Issue in Springer Nature’s Interactions Journal, accessible at:
https://link.springer.com/collections/ddigecajfg

For more details, visit the conference website:
https://sparkphysics.in

The next edition (SPARK 2027) will be held in 2027.