Frontiers of Physics and Plasma Science

Preface to the conference proceedingsWe are very pleased to introduce the proceeding of FPPS-2016; the international conference "Frontiers of Physics and Plasma Science" that took place on 7 and 8 November, 2016 in the campus of Ujjain Engineering College, Ujjain (India). The goal of the meeting was to provide a broad prospective to the plasma science emphasizing physics with a new plasma technologies. The scientific program of the conference focused on the advancement of the all branches of physics in achieving all applications of the plasma science. The conference spans a wide range of topics, reporting experiments, techniques and ideas that advance the plasma science worldwide.There were 20 invited lectures and 04 oral presentations covering the different area of the conference. The keynote lecture was delivered by Dr. Rajdeep Singh Rawat (NTU, Singapore) on "Density plasma focus: novel high energy density plasma device". Prof. Y.C. Saxena (IPR, Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad), Prof. R. P. Sharma (IIT, New Delhi), Prof. Fernando Haas (Brazil), Prof. Davoud Dorranian (Tehran, Iran), Dr. Raju Khanal (Tribhuwan University, Nepal), Prof. Avinash Khare (IIT, New Delhi), Dr. Navin Dwivedi (Israel), Prof. V.K. Tripathi (IIT New Delhi), Dr. J. Ghosh (IPR, Gandhinagar, Gujarat), Dr. Devendra Sharma (IPR, Gandhinagar, Gujarat), Prof. R.K. Thareja (IIT Kanpur), Dr. Vipul Arora (RRCAT, Indore), Prof. M. P. Bora (Gauhati University, Guwahati) and many more have delivered their lecture in the field of plasma science and its applications. The program was chaired in a professional and efficient way by the session chairmen who were selected for their international standing in the subject.The 165 abstracts that were presented in two days (during parallel poster session) formed a heart of the conference and provided ample opportunity for the discussion. The 170 participants, 110 of whom were students had many fruitful discussions and exchange that contributed to the success of the conference. A panel of experts (Prof. R.P. Sharma, Prof. T. S. Gill, Prof. N.S. Saini, Prof. K. P. Maheshwari, Dr. A.P. Misra, and Dr. V. Ganeshan) was there to judge the presented posters and 6 best posters were awarded prize. Participants from six countries (India, Nepal, Iran, Singapore, Brazil and Israel) made the conference truly international in scope. Of the total number of presented abstracts, 60 of these are included in this proceedings volume. These papers maintained the high promise suggested by the written abstracts.Finally, we would like to extend our special thanks to Dr. Umesh Pendharkar, Principal, Ujjain Engineering College, Ujjain for his constant motivation provided during the preparation of the conference. We appreciate the project fellow Shweta Jain (MPCST, Bhopal), Archana Patidar (UGC, New Delhi), Tripti Rimza (SERB-DST, New Delhi) and Karishma Jena (MPCST, Bhopal) for their hard work and enthusiasm for making this conference a grand success. We also gratefully acknowledge the contribution of Prof. B. D. Shrivastava, Vikram University, Ujjain in assembling the conference proceeding. We would like to thanks all of the participants attending the conference and also to the committees for their valuable contribution. It is our pleasure to acknowledge the Directorate Technical Education (Bhopal), SERB-DST (New Delhi) and MPCST (Bhopal) for their financial support. (paper)