Past Programmes
 
Institute Seminar & Colloquium
Friday, May 18, 2012

Speaker: Professor M.Krishnamurthy, TIFR,Mumbai
Title:   Acceleration of neutral atoms and negative ions with intense lasers
Time:   12 pm
Venue:   Fermion (LH-3)
Friday, May 11, 2012

Speaker: Dr. Vaibhav Prabhudesai, TIFR,Mumbai
Title:   Control of Molecular Dynamics Using Photons and Electrons
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   Fermion (LH-3)
Friday, May 04, 2012

Speaker: Dr. Sujit Sarkar, Poornaprajna Institute of Scientific Research, Bangalore
Title:   Perfectly Entanglement Transport In Quantum Spin Chain System
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   Fermion (LH-3)
Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Speaker: Professor Risto Nieminen, COMP/Applied Physics, Aalto University, Finland
Title:   d0 Ferromagnetic Interface between Non-Magnetic Perovskites
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   Fermion (LH-3)
Friday, April 27, 2012

Speaker: Professor Jayanta Kumar Bhattacharjee, Distinguished Professor , SNBNCBS
Title:   OSCILLATORS : OLD AND NEW
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   Fermion (LH-3)
Friday, April 20, 2012

Speaker: Professor Balasubramanian Sundaram, Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
Title:    Molecular Simulations to Study Condensed Matter
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   Fermion (LH-3)
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Pruschke,Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goettingen, Germany
Title:    The Kondo lattice model in the dynamical mean-field approach - heavy fermions, magnetism and superconductivity
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   Fermion (LH-3)
Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Speaker: Dr. Swastik Mondal,University of Bayreuth, Germany
Title:    Unravelling mysteries of nature through X-ray diffraction techniques
Time:   11.30 am
Venue:   Fermion (LH-3)
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Speaker: Dr. P.K.Mukhopadhyay
Title:    Discovery of a New Opto-Magnetic Mechanical Effect in a Ferro Magnetic Shape Memory Alloy
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   Fermion (LH-3)
Friday, March 23, 2012

Speaker: Bikram Grewal
Title:   Wildlife of India: An Overview
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   Fermion (LH-3)
Monday, March 19, 2012

Speaker: Professor Peter Leach,Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Cyprus, Lefkosia
Title:   The Mechanics of Finance
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   Fermion (LH-3)
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Speaker: Dr. R. Srikanth,PPISR, Bangalore
Title:   The Born Rule, frequency operator and the infinite limit
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   Fermion (LH-3)
Friday, March 9, 2012

Speaker: Sir Michael Berry, Department of Physics, Bristol University
Title:   Making Light of Mathematics
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   Silver Jubilee hall
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Speaker: Dr. Manoranjan Kumar, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Title:   Frustration Induced Exotic Phases in Axial Anisotropic Spin-1/2 Chain
Time:   11.30 am
Venue:   Fermion (LH-3)
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Speaker: Sourish Basu, SRON Netherlands Institute of Space Research
Title:   Estimating the sources and sinks of CO2: How can Earth monitoring satellites help?
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   Fermion
Friday, February 24, 2012

Speaker: Prof. S Dutta Gupta,School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Title:   Critical coupling to anti-lasers
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   Fermion
Friday, February 17, 2012

Speaker: Professor Benoy Chakraverty, C.N.R.S, Grenoble, France
Title:   Is Brain Bose Condensed
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Speaker: Rajesh Gopal, Post Doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
Title:   Magnetic fields in cosmology: Origin and effects
Time:   11 am
Venue:   LH2
Tuesday - Thursday, February 7 - 9, 2012

Speaker: Dr. David Cox, University of Surrey, U.K
Title:   Focussed Ion Beam, Nanofabrication and Nanomanipulation
Time:   10 am
Venue:   LH3
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Speaker: Dr. Tamalika Banerjee, Rosalind Franklin Fellow and Assistant Professor, University of Groningen,The Netherlands
Title:   Probing electron transport at the nanoscale in spintronic devices
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Monday, February 6, 2012

Speaker: Prof. Peter Oppeneer, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Materials Theory, Uppsala University
Title:   Theory of ultrafast laser-induced demagnetization
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Speaker: Anca Tureanu, Helsinki University, Finland
Title:   Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory, Symmetry and Dynamics
Time:   10:30 am
Venue:   LH3
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Speaker: Masud Chaichian, Helsinki University, Finland
Title:   CPT and Lorantz invariance, their relation and violation
Time:   11:45 pm
Venue:   LH3
Friday, February 3, 2012

Speaker: Professor Archan S. Majumdar, SNBNCBS, Kolkata, India
Title:   The Accelerating Universe: Challenges in Theory and Observations
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Friday, January 27, 2012

Speaker: Andrés F. Reyes Lega , Profesor Asociado Departamento de Física Universidad de los Andes Carrera,                Bogotá, Colombia
Title:   Noncommutative Geometry-inspired approach to topological issues in Quantum Mechanics
Time:   3 pm
Venue:   LH3
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Speaker: Dr. Basudev Lahiri, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Gaithersburg MD, USA
Title:   Bio-sensing using split ring resonators
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Speaker: Pinaki Chaudhuri, Theoretical Soft Matter Group, University of Duesseldorf, Germany
Title:   Inhomogeneous shear flow of soft jammed materials
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Monday, January 16, 2012

Speaker: Kasturi Saha, Physics Department, Cornell University
Title:   Frequency Comb Generation in Silicon-Nitride Resonators On-Chip
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH2
Friday, January 13, 2012

Speaker: Dr. Dipak K. Palit, BARC, Mumbai
Title:   Ultrafast Dynamics of the Excited States Using Time-Resolved Absorption Spectroscopy
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Speaker: Fernando Vega-Redondo, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Title:   Social networks and the process of globalization
Time:   3 pm
Venue:   LH3
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Speaker: Dr. Raju Roychowdhury, CQUEST, Seoul, Korea
Title:    Black Holes, Attractors and Special Kahler Geometry
Time:   3 pm
Venue:   LH2
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Speaker: Dr. Sankha Subhra Mukherjee, Post Doctoral Fellow, National University of Singapore
Title:    Spin dynamics in thin metallic films
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Friday, January 06, 2012

Speaker: Dr. Michiel Kolman ,Senior Vice President for academic relation at ELSEVIER
Title:   The future path of science publishing
Time:   11.30 am
Venue:   LH3
Monday, January 02, 2012

Speaker: Dr. Samriddhi Sankar Ray,Observatoire de Nice, France
Title:   Statistical Mechanics and Turbulence
Time:   11.30 am
Venue:   LH3
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Speaker: Prof. Kip S. Thorne, CalTech, USA
Title:   The Warped Side of our Universe
Time:   3:00 pm
Venue:   Science City Mini Auditorium
Monday, December 26, 2011

Speaker: Prof. Kip S. Thorne, CalTech, USA
Title:   New Formalism to Visualize Spacetime Curvature
Time:   10.00 am
Venue:   LH3
Friday, December 23, 2011

Speaker: Dr. Mousumi Upadhyay Kahaly, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia
Title:   Carbon Nanotubes with special type of stable defect line: Truly 1D transport
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH-3
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Speaker: Prof. Anna Pairelli, Parma University
Title:   The neutral-ionic phase transition as a paradigm for correlated electrons in soft lattices
Time:   11.00 A.M
Venue:   LH-3
Monday, December 19, 2011

Speaker: Prof. G. P. Srivastava, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Title:   Manipulating properties of electrons and phonons in low-dimensional systems
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Friday, December 16, 2011

Speaker: Prof. K. Sahu, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA
Title:   Search for Extra-Solar Planets using the Hubble Space Telescope
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Thursday, December 8, 2011

Speaker: Professor Mukunda P. Das, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Title:   Superconductivity: Centenary Year of its Discovery
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH2
Friday, December 05, 2011

Speaker: Prof. G. R. Fleming, UC Barkeley, USA
Title:   Grand Challenges in Energy: Supply, Demand and Consequences
Time:   3:30 pm
Venue:   Science City Mini Auditorium
Friday, November 25, 2011

Speaker: Prof. C. Chakrabarty, IIT-Delhi
Title:   Structure, Entropy and Mobility Relationships in Liquids
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Friday, November 18, 2011

Speaker: Prof. Y. Singh, BHU, Varanasi
Title:   Phase Transitions
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Speaker: Prof. B. M. Deb, IISER, Kolkata
Title:   Form, Colour and Movement: Glimpses Into Western Abstract Art
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Friday, October 21, 2011

Speaker: Prof. T. Saha Dasgupta, SNBNCBS
Title:   Correlation effects in Real Material
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Speaker: Dr. Mukul Kabir, MIT,USA
Title:   Multiscale materials modeling toward sustainable energy applications
Time:   11:30 am
Venue:   LH3
Friday, October 14, 2011

Speaker: Prof. Anunay Samanta, Hyderabad Central University
Title:   Photophysical Response of Molecular Systems in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Friday, September 30, 2011

Speaker: Prof. S. S. Mandal, IACS
Title:   Novel Collective Modes in Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Speaker: Dr. Somnath Bhowmick , MEMS, Rice University, Houston, TX
Title:   Graphene and it's siblings: a theoretical study
Time:   11 am
Venue:   LH2
Monday, September 26, 2011

Speaker: Dr. S. Chakraborty, IACS
Title:   Transmission Electron Microscopy: Philosophy and Techniques
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Friday, September 23, 2011

Speaker: Professor Animesh Chakravorty, IACS
Title:   The Times, life and work of Acharya Prafulla Chandra
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Friday, September 16, 2011

Speaker: Professor Arup K. Raychaudhuri, FNA, SNBNCBS
Title:   Metal, Insulators and Oxides
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH3
Monday, September 5, 2011

Speaker: Dr. Sudipta Sarkar, Maryland University
Title:   The Membrane Paradigm for Gauss Bonnet gravity
Time:   4 pm
Venue:   LH2