Physical Sciences

PHYSICAL 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.

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

Gravitation & Cosmology


Soumitra Sengupta
Department of Theoretical Physics

Lattice Gauge Theory


Pushan Majumdar

Department of Theoretical Physics

Particle Physics


Dilip Kumar Ghosh

Department of Theoretical Physics


Soumitra Sengupta
Department of Theoretical Physics


Sourav Ray

Department of Theoretical Physics


Utpal Chattopadhyay

Department of Theoretical Physics

String Theory


Koushik Ray

Department of Theoretical Physics


Krishnendu Sengupta
Department of Theoretical Physics

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS & STATISTICAL MECHANICS


Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics


Arnab Das

Department of Theoretical Physics


Arnab Sen
Department of Theoretical Physics


Gour P. Das

Department of Materials Science


Indra Dasgupta
Department of Solid State Physics


Krishnendu Sengupta
Department of Theoretical Physics


Raja Paul
Department of Solid State Physics

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics


Amlan Jyoti Pal
Department of Solid State Physics


Ashwini Ghosh
Department of Solid State Physics


Bhupendra Nath Dev
Department of Materials Science


Debajyoti Das
Energy Research Unit


Durga Basak

Department of Solid State Physics


Shyamal Kumar Saha
Department of Materials Science


Sourav Giri
Department of Solid State Physics


Subham Majumdar
Department of Solid State Physics


Subodh Kumar De

Department of Materials Science


Sugata Ray
Department of Materials Science


Tanusree Kar
Department of Materials Science

Statistical Mechanics


Arnab Das

Department of Theoretical Physics


Arnab Sen
Department of Theoretical Physics


Deb Shankar Ray

 


Krishnendu Sengupta
Department of Theoretical Physics


Raja Paul
Department of Solid State Physics

Soft-Matter & Bio-Physics


Deepak Kumar Sinha
Department of Biological Chemistry


Raja Paul
Department of Solid State Physics


Rupa Mukhopadhyay
Biological Chemistry

ATOMIC MOLECULAR & OPTICAL PHYSICS


Abhijit Kumar Das
Department of Spectroscopy


Ankan Paul
Department of Spectroscopy


Bimalendu Deb
Department of Materials Science


Debashis Mukherjee

 


Krishnendu Sengupta
Department of Theoretical Physics

  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)  postponed 
    Time: 03:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Tumor virus Kaposi’s Sarcoma Herpesvirus vs Host cell RNA Granules: Who regulates whom?
  • Title: Tumor virus Kaposi’s Sarcoma Herpesvirus vs Host cell RNA Granules: Who regulates whom?
    Speaker: Dr. Nishi Raj Sharma, UDSC, New Delhi-21
    Date: June 30, 2017
    Time :3:30 PM
    Venue: S. N. Bose Hall

     

  • Cosmology as a testing ground of Quantum Mechanicses: Who regulates whom?
  • Title: Cosmology as a testing ground of Quantum Mechanicses: Who regulates whom?
    Speaker: Suratna Das, IIT Kanpur
    Date: July 3, 2017 (Monday)
    Time :03:30 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Frenetic aspects of nonlinear response: theory and experiment
  • Title: Frenetic aspects of nonlinear response: theory and experiment
    Speaker: Urna Basu, SISSA, Italy
    Date: July 17, 2017 (Monday)
    Time :04:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (R/No.-C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Slow Collisions of ions with H2: State Selective ChargeTransfer Cross Sections
  • Title: Slow Collisions of ions with H2: State Selective ChargeTransfer Cross Sections
    Speaker: Bidhan C. Saha, Department of Physics, Florida A & M University, USA
    Date: August 11, 2017 (Friday)
    Time : 11:00 a.m.
    Venue: C.V. Raman Hall,2nd Floor, Main Building, IACS
  • Harnessing fluctuations with cold atoms
  • Title: Harnessing fluctuations with cold atoms – a three-dimensional Brownian motor, realized with symmetric optical lattices
    Speaker: Professor Anders Kastberg of University of Nice, France
    Date: August 03, 2017 
    Time : 11:30 a.m.
    Venue: C. V. Raman Hall
  • Quantum catastrophes

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    Title: Quantum catastrophes

    Speaker: Duncan O’Dell, McMaster University, Canada

    Date: August 9, 2017 (Wednesday)

    Time: 4:00 p.m.

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

     

     

  • The darkness within: Unification, and revival of the right
  • Title: The darkness within: Unification, and revival of the right
    Speaker:Triparno Bandyopadhyay, Department of Physics, Calcutta University
    Date: August 23, 2017 (Wednesday)
    Time: 3:00 p.m.
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS

     

  • Lattice Effects on Nematic Quantum Criticality in Metals
  • Title: Lattice Effects on Nematic Quantum Criticality in Metals
    Speaker:Indranil Paul, Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Université Paris Diderot & CNRS, France
    Date: September 5, 2017 (Tuesday)
    Time: 12:00 noon
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Classical and Quantum Aspects of Gravity in Relation to The Emergent Paradigm
  • Title: Classical and Quantum Aspects of Gravity in Relation to The Emergent Paradigm
    Speaker: Sumanta Chakraborty, Theoretical Physics Department, IACS
    Date: August 25, 2017 (Friday)
    Time: 11:45 AM
    Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
  • Second law of black-hole thermodynamics in Lovelock theories of gravity

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    Nilay Kundu, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto, Japan

    October 13, 2017 (Friday)

    3:00 p.m.


    Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS

     

  • Lepton flavour violating Higgs boson decay $h \rightarrow \mu \tau$ at the $e^+ e^-$ colliders

  • Lepton flavour violating Higgs boson decay 
    $h \rightarrow \mu \tau$ at the $e^+ e^-$ colliders

     

    Indrani Chakraborty, HRI, Allahabad

    October 16, 2017 (Monday)

    3:00 p.m.


    Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS

     

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