Interdisciplinary Sciences

INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES

IACS has very active research groups in theoretical and experimental physical sciences with emphasis on fundamental topics like high energy physics, condensed matter physics, biophysics and AMO sciences.

MATERIALS SCIENCE


Amitava Patra
Department of Materials Science


Amlan J Pal
Department of Solid State Physics


Arindam Banerjee
Department of Biological Chemistry


Asim Bhaumik
Department of Materials Science


Bhupendra Nath Dev
Department of Materials Science


Debajyoti Das
Energy Research Unit


Dipankar Chakraborty


Durga Basak
Department of Solid State Physics


Gour Prasad Das
Department of Materials Science


Narayan Pradhan
Department of Materials Science


Prashanta Das
Department of Biological Chemistry


Rupa Mukhopadhyay
Department of Biological Chemistry


Shyamal Kumar Saha
Department of Materials Science


Subham Majumdar

Department of Solid State Physics


Subodh Kumar De
Department of Materials Science


Sugata Ray
Department of Materials Science


Somobrata Acharya
Centre for Advanced Materials


Tanusree Kar
Department of Materials Science


Tarun Kumar Mandal
Polymer Science Unit

NANO-SCIENCE


Amitava Patra
Department of Materials Science


Amlan J Pal
Department of Solid State Physics


Arindam Banerjee
Department of Biological Chemistry


Bhupendra Nath Dev
Department of Materials Science


Debajyoti Das
Energy Research Unit


Dipankar Chakraborty


Durga Basak
Department of Solid State Physics


Gour Prasad Das
Department of Materials Science


Indra Dasgupta
Department of Solid State Physics


Kamalaksha Nag


Narayan Pradhan
Department of Materials Science


Nikhil R. Jana
Centre for Advanced Materials


Rupa Mukhopadhyay
Department of Biological Chemistry


Saurav Giri
Department of Solid State Physics


Shyamal Kumar Saha
Department of Materials Science


Subodh Kumar De
Department of Materials Science


Suhrit Ghosh
Polymer Science Unit


Somobrata Acharya
Centre for Advanced Materials


Tarun Kumar Mandal
Polymer Science Unit

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE


Amlan J Pal
Department of Solid State Physics


Ankan Paul
Raman Centre for Atomic,Optical and Molecular Physics


Asim Bhaumik
Department of Materials Science


Debajyoti Das
Energy Research Unit


Durga Basak
Department of Solid State Physics


Gour Prasad Das
Department of Materials Science


Pradyut Ghosh
Department of Inorganic Chemistry


Sugata Ray
Department of Materials Science


Tapan Kanti Paine
Department of Inorganic Chemistry


Tapas Chakraborty
Department of Physical Chemistry

POLYMER SCIENCE AND SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY


Arun Kumar Nandi
Polymer Science Unit


Parthasarathi Dastidar
Department of Organic Chemistry


Pradyut Ghosh
Department of Inorganic Chemistry


Prasanta K Das
Department of Biological Chemistry


Santanu Bhattacharya
Director's Research Unit


Sudip Malik
Polymer Science Unit


Suhrit Ghosh
Polymer Science Unit


Tarun Kumar Mandal
Polymer Science Unit

  Upcoming Seminars/Meetings

  • Zeroth law in non-equilibrium - a hot needle in water
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    Title: Zeroth law in non-equilibrium - a hot needle  in  water
    Speaker: P.K. Mohanty, S.I.N.P., Kolkata
    Date & Time : October 3,2016 (Monday), 02:30 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Switchable Molecular Magnetic Materials
  • Speaker: Dr. Abhishake Mondal
    Title of talk: "Switchable Molecular Magnetic Materials: Journey from 3D network to ultimate miniaturization and future application"
    Venue: S. N. Bose Hall
    Date: 06.10.2016
    Time: 3:30 PM
  • Weak Measurements, Quantum State Collapse and the Born Rule
  • Title: Weak Measurements, Quantum State Collapse and the Born Rule
    Speaker: Apoorva Patel, I.I.Sc., Bangalore
    Date: October 14,2016 (Friday)
    Time: 03:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Exploring the extended scalar sector with resonances in vector boson scattering
  • Title: Exploring the extended scalar sector with resonances in vector boson scattering
    Speaker: Avirup Shaw, Department of Theoretical Physics, IACS
    Date: November 9,2016 (Wednesday)
    Time: 03:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • From the universe to relativistic heavy-ion collisions: CMBR fluctuations and flow anisotropies
  • Title: From the universe to relativistic heavy-ion collisions: CMBR fluctuations and flow anisotropies
    Speaker: Ajit Srivastava, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar
    Date: November 22,2016 (Tuesday)
    Time: 03:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • A closer look at the RD and RD* anomalies
  • Title: A closer look at the RD and RD* anomalies
    Speaker: Priti Bhajan Byakti,Department of Theoretical Physics, IACS
    Date & Time: November 30,2016 (Wednesday), 03:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Not a jet all the way: discovery prospects using substructure
  • Title: Not a jet all the way: discovery prospects using substructure
    Speaker: Deepak Kar,University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
    Date: January 05,2017 (Thursday), 3:30 pm
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Holography,second law and Higher Curvature Gravity
  • Title: Holography,second law and Higher Curvature Gravity
    Speaker: Sudipta Sarkar, Dept. of Physics, IIT, Gandhinagar, India.
    Date: December 09,2016 (Friday)
    Time: 3:00 p.m.
    Venue:Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS

     

  • Vacancy-induced low-energy states in undoped graphene
  • Title: Vacancy-induced low-energy states in undoped graphene
    Speaker: Kedar Damle,TIFR, Mumbai
    Date: December 08,2016 (Thursday)
    Time: 03:30 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Nonlinear optical conductivity and photoconductivity of two-band system
  • Title: Nonlinear optical conductivity and photoconductivity of two-band systems beyond the linear response regime
    Speaker: Amit Agarwal, I.I.T., Kanpur
    Date: December 19,2016 (Monday)
    Time: 04:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Magnons in a honeycomb ferromagnet
  • Title: Magnons in a honeycomb ferromagnet
    Speaker: Saikat Banerjee,Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics, Nordita,Sweden
    Date: January 10,2017 (Tuesday)
    Time: 04:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Parafermions in atomic gases and the solid state quantum..
  • Title: Parafermions in atomic gases and the solid state quantum Hall state without superconducting back-scattering
    Speaker: Jay Deep Sau,Joint Quantum Institute and Condensed Matter Theory Center, University of Maryland, USA
    Date: January 3,2017 (Tuesday)
    Time: 04:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Anomalous Semileptonic B Decays and New Flavor Physics
  • Title: Anomalous Semileptonic B Decays and New Flavor Physics
    Speaker: Nilendra Deshpande, Institute of Theoretical Science,University of Oregon,USA
    Date: January 24,2017 (Tuesday)
    Time: 03:30 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Some ususual dark matter scenarios
  • Title: Some ususual dark matter scenarios
    Speaker: Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya, RECAPP, HRI, Allahabad
    Date: January 20,2017 (Tuesday)
    Time: 03:30 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • N=2 heterotic string compactifications on orbifolds of K3×T

  • Title:N=2  heterotic string compactifications on orbifolds of K3×T

    Speaker:Aradhita Chattopadhyaya, CHEP, I.I.Sc.,Bangalore

    Date:January 17,2017 (Tuesday)

    Time:03:00 p.m.

    Venue:Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS

  • Exact WKB analysis of Omega deformed Seiberg-Witten theory
  • Title: Exact WKB analysis of Omega deformed Seiberg-Witten theory
    Speaker:Dileep Jatkar,HRI, Allahabad
    Date: January 18,2017 (Wednesday)
    Time: 03:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • IceCube Neutrino Observatory : Past, Present & Future
  • Title: IceCube Neutrino Observatory : Past, Present & Future
    Speaker:Debanjan Bose,Sung Kyun Kwan University, South Korea
    Date: February 14 ,2017 (Tuesday)
    Time: 03:30 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Introduction to some ideas of geometry & topology
  • Title: Introduction to some ideas of geometry & topology
    Speaker:Siddhartha Sen,Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland 
    Date: February 6-8,2017 (Monday-Wednesday)
    Time: Everyday from 03:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Hyperbolic Geometry and Chaos in the Complex Plane
  • Title: Hyperbolic Geometry and Chaos in the Complex Plane
    Speaker:Mahan Mj,Department of Mathematics, TIFR, Mumbai 
    Date: February 27,2017 (Friday)
    Time: 12:00 noon
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Two new avenues in dark matter indirect detection
  • Title: Two new avenues in dark matter indirect detection
    Speaker: Ranjan Laha, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophyiscs and Cosmology, 
                    Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,USA
    Date: February 27,2017 (Monday)
    Time: 03:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • The SYK Model and Black Hole Physics: A Preliminary Introduction
  • Title: The SYK Model and Black Hole Physics: A Preliminary Introduction
    Speaker: Arnab Kundu, SINP, Kolkata
    Date: February 9,2017 (Thursday)
    Time: 3:30 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • General Relativity after 100 years: a matter of perspective
  • Title: General Relativity after 100 years: a matter of perspective
    Speaker: Naresh Dadhich, IUCAA, Pune
    Date: February 14,2017 (Tuesday)
    Time: 12:00 noon
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • The SYK Model and Black Hole Physics: A Preliminary Introduction (Lecture-2)
  • Title: The SYK Model and Black Hole Physics: A Preliminary Introduction (Lecture-2)
    Speaker: Arnab Kundu, SINP, Kolkata
    Date: February 17,2017 (Friday)
    Time: 3:30 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • New symmetries of Quantum Gravity S matrix. Hints from the Infra-red.
  • Title: New symmetries of Quantum Gravity S matrix. Hints from the Infra-red.
    Speaker: Alok Laddha, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai 
    Date: March 6-9,2017 (Monday-Thursday)
    Time: 03:00 p.m.- 4:30 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Non-equilibrium dynamics and dynamical phase transitions of the topological Haldane model
  • Title: Non-equilibrium dynamics and dynamical phase transitions of the topological Haldane model
    Speaker: Amit Dutta, Dept. of Physics, I.I.T Kanpur
    Date: March 16,2017 (Thursday)
    Time: 12:00 noon
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Testing the performance of phenomenological waveform models in characterizing NS-BH binaries
  • Title: Testing the performance of phenomenological waveform models in characterizing NS-BH binaries
    Speaker: Kabir Chakravarti,IUCAA,Pune
    Date: March 20,2017 (Monday)
    Time: 4:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Challenging pseudo-bipolar divisions in cancer cells with extra centrosomes
  • Title: Challenging pseudo-bipolar divisions in cancer cells with extra centrosomes
    Speaker: Amitabha Mukhopadhyay from University of Chicago, USA
    Date: March 28, 2017 (Tuesday)
    Time: 3:30 p.m.
    Venue:  C V Raman Hall
  • New signals for vector-like down type quark in U(1) of E6
  • Title: New signals for vector-like down type quark in U(1) of E6
    Speaker: Kashinath Das,HRI, Allahabad
    Date: March 27,2017 (Monday)
    Time: 3:30 p.m.
    Venue:  C V Raman Hall
  • Polymer-based nanomaterials for energy harvesting applications

  • Title: Polymer-based nanomaterials for energy harvesting applications

    Speaker: Dr. Sohini Kar-Narayan,  University of Cambridge

    Date: April 10, 2017

    Time:11:30 a.m.

    Venue:  C V Raman Hall

  • Classical and quantum melting of Wigner
  • Title: Classical and quantum melting of Wigner "solids" in confinements
    Speaker: Amit Ghoshal, IISER, Kolkata
    Date: May 12,2017 (Friday)
    Time: 04:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Soft tracks:Tool and Application
  • Title: Soft tracks:Tool and Application
    Speaker: Sabyasachi Chakraborty,TIFR, Mumbai 
    Date: June 15,2017 (Thursday)
    Time: 03:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Quantum Spin Liquids in Kagome Antiferromagnets
  • Title:Quantum Spin Liquids in Kagome Antiferromagnets
    Speaker:Subhro Bhattacharjee, ICTS,TIFR, Bengaluru 
    Date:June 16,2017 (Friday)
    Time:03:30 p.m.
    Venue:Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Where is SUSY?
  • Title: Where is SUSY?
    Speaker: Amitava Datta, Dept. of Theoretical Physics, IACS, Kolkata
    Date: June 27, 2017 (Tuesday)
    Time: 03:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • SUSY at the LHC: what has been done and what needs to be done
  • Title: SUSY at the LHC: what has been done and what needs to be done
    Speaker: Amitava Datta, Dept. of Theoretical Physics, IACS, Kolkata
    Date: June 28, 2017 (Wednesday)
    Time: 03:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
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