2dMAT 2026
Conference on 2D Materials
📅 16–17 March 2026 | 📍 Kolkata, India
Conference on 2D Materials
📅 16–17 March 2026 | 📍 Kolkata, India
Welcome to the 2dMAT 2026 conference, a gathering of researchers focusing on the latest advances in 2D materials.
This two-day event in Kolkata, India, will feature invited talks and poster sessions.
Invited speakers for 2dMAT 2026:
| Day 1: 16th March, 2026 | |||
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Registration |
| Time | Name of the speaker | Title of the talk |
|---|---|---|
| Session 1 : Chairperson: Saquib Shamim, S. N. Bose Centre | ||
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Chandan Kumar, IISc Bangalore |
Probing Phonon Modes in Reconstructed twisted Homo and Hetero Bilayer System |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Nitesh Kumar, S. N. Bose Centre |
On the magnetism and magnetotransport properties of ferromagnetic kagome compound MgMn6Sn6 |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Tea Break | |
| Session 2 : Chairperson: Samik Dattagupta, SINP | ||
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Soumya Bera, IIT Bombay |
Band-center metal-insulator transition in disordered bipartite lattices |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Prasana Sahoo, IIT Kharagpur |
2D Heterostructures for Reconfigurable Optoelectronic Devices |
| 12:30 – 15:45 | Lunch + Poster Session (At Basundhara dinning Hall) | |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Tea Break | |
| Session 3 : Chairperson: Biswajit Karmakar, SINP | ||
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta, S. N. Bose Centre |
Unconventional Superconductivity @ 2D Limit: A Tale of Two Stories |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Saquib Shamim, S. N. Bose Centre |
Non-Gaussian conductance fluctuations across the BKT transition in FeSe thin films |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Rajeev Kini, IISER TVM |
Emergence of interlayer hybrid Moire Trions in the MoWSe_2/MoSe_2 heterostructure |
| Day 2: 17th March, 2026 |
| Time | Name of the speaker | Title of the talk |
|---|---|---|
| Session 1 : Chairperson: Nitesh Kumar, S. N. Bose Centre | ||
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Registration | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Vidya Kochat, IIT Kharagpur |
Skyrmions in twisted bilayer graphene |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Manoranjan Kumar, S. N. Bose Centre |
Quantum Ground States of Coupled Spin Dimers on a Shastry–Sutherland Lattice |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Tea Break | |
| Session 2 : Chairperson: Achintya Singha, Bose Institute | ||
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Sajal Dhara, IIT Kharagpur |
Anisotropic Exciton–Polaritons in Two-Dimensional Materials: A Route to Non-Hermitian Topology |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | T. Setti, S. N. Bose Centre |
Electronic Band Structure of Topological Transition Metal Dichalcogenides |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch (At Basundhara dinning Hall) | |
| Session 3 : Chairperson: Anjan Barman, S. N. Bose Centre | ||
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Subhadeep Dutta, IACS |
Turning Sound into Charge: Ultrasound-Enabled Piezotransduction |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Vipin Kumar Singh, CGCRI |
In Pursuit of an Elemental Quasicrystal |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Mintu Mondal, IACS |
From 2D to 3D Quantum Spin Hall Insulators via Intrinsic Layer Stacking |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Tea Break | |
| Session 4 : Chairperson: Achintya Singha, Bose Institute | ||
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Barun Ghosh, S. N. Bose Centre |
Quantum Geometry and Dynamical Axion in antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBiâ‚‚Teâ‚„ |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Swarup Deb, SINP |
Excitonic Signature of 2D Sliding/Interfacial/Moiré Ferroelectrics |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Atindra Nath Pal, S. N. Bose Centre |
Contact engineering and slow defect dynamics in 2D Semiconductor |
| # | Name and Affiliation | Title of the Poster |
|---|---|---|
| P1 | Anil Kumar Singh (SNB) | Realization of crystal symmetry guided altermagnetism in a van der Waals heterostructure |
| P2 | Ankita Das (SNB) | Investigation of the Spin-Glass behavior and memory effect in van der Waals NbFeTe2 single crystals |
| P3 | Anupam Barik (SNB) | Tuning Non-Coplanar Magnetic States in Centrosymmetric Mn3Sn via Magnetic and Non-Magnetic Doping |
| P4 | Anurag Paul (SNB) | Force Fields for Transition Metal Dichalcogenides |
| P5 | Apurba Datta (SNB) | Observation of angular planar Hall singularity in a type-II Weyl semimetal |
| P6 | Ayan Mondal (IISER Kol) | Pressure induced flatbands in large angle twisted bilayer graphene |
| P7 | Deep Singha Roy (IACS) | Room temperature topological phase transition and coexisting phases of Bi 4 I 4 |
| P8 | Dibyajyoti Saikia (SNB) | Topological Properties of HfSiGeAs4 Janus Monolayer |
| P9 | Dibyashree Chakraborti (SNB) | layer stacking phase transition in semi-metallic MoTe2 investigated using Low Frequency Noise |
| P10 | Madhurita Das (SNB) | Analysis of the electronic structure of twisted bilayer Boron Nitride |
| P11 | Moumita Indra (SINP) | Collective excitation spectra of dipolar bosonic fractional quantum Hall states |
| P12 | Nisha Shahi (IEM) | Spin reorientation and sign reversal of Berry curvature induced intrinsic anomalous Hall Effect in the manganese pnictide MnSb |
| P13 | Nivas Mummadi (IISER Kol) | |
| P14 | Prajna Chanda (IITKGP) | Signatures of Thermal-driven Fermi surface Topology Evolution in Resistance Fluctuations Spectroscopy of Td-WTe2 |
| P15 | Prosanta Sarkar (SNB) | Electronic Structure of the Mixed Compounds |
| P16 | Rajdeep Biswas (SNB) | Tuning Magnetic Ground States of RMn6Sn6 (R = Lu, Mg) Kagome Metals by Dimensionality Reduction: Route to Ferromagnetism and Large Anomalous Hall Effect |
| P17 | Soham Das (IACS) | Broken Inversion Symmetry Mediated Charge Order Fluctuations in Quasi 1D System (NbSe 4 ) 3 I |
| P18 | Suma Das (SNB) | Heterointerface Engineering in 2D Mesoporous g-C3N4@MnFe2O4 Photocatalysts for Superior Hydrogen (H2 ) Evolution |
| P19 | Suman Chakraborthy (IIT KGP) | VdW heterostructuring of CVD grown two-dimensional monolayer lateral heterostructure enabled phonon and exciton renormalization |
| P20 | Suparna Sahoo (SINP) | Observation of Universal Sum Rule of Conductance in Compressible Quantum Hall Fluids |
If you are interested in participating and presenting your work in a poster, please send us an email with the abstract of your poster at 2dmat2026@gmail.com by 10th March 2026.
Registration Fees: Rs. 1000
You will receive a confirmation email once your registration is accepted.
Organisers: Priya Mahadevan and Saquib Shamim
Organising Committee Members: Dibyashree Chakraborti and Anil Kumar Singh
Email: 2dmat2026@gmail.com
The conference will be held at SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS), Salt Lake, Kolkata.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport: Prepaid taxis are available at the terminal. Shortest distance to the Centre is about 13 km by car. You can find the shortest route map here. Alternatively, you can reach via Rajarhat and New Town area.