Seminars/Meetings Archive

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1 Quasi Normal Mode (QNM) in higher dimensions
Title: Quasi Normal Mode (QNM) in higher dimensions
Speaker: Kabir Chakravarti, IUCAA, Pune
Date: June 20, 2018 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
 
2 Critical elasticity and superconductivity in the iron based systems
Title: Critical elasticity and superconductivity in the iron based systems
Speaker: Indranil Paul,Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Université Paris Diderot, France
Date: June 19, 2018 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
3 Some Novel Features of Spacetime Torsion and its Astrophysical Implications
Title: Some Novel Features of Spacetime Torsion and its Astrophysical Implications
Speaker: Sumanta Chakraborty,Theoretical Physics Department, IACS
Date: June 14, 2018 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
4 Non-holomorphic scalar sequestering
Title: Non-holomorphic scalar sequestering
Speaker: Sabyasachi Chakraborty,Department of Physics,TIFR, Mumbai
Date: June 08, 2018 (Friday)
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
5 Grand Unified Theories & [(Topological defects + Baryon asymmetry of the Universe) + Dark Matter]
Title: Grand Unified Theories & [(Topological defects + Baryon asymmetry of the Universe) + Dark Matter]
Speaker: Joydeep Chakrabortty,Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur
Date: June 06, 2018 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
6 Partially compressed Supersymmetric spectra with sneutrino Dark Matter
Title: Partially compressed Supersymmetric spectra with sneutrino Dark Matter
Speaker: Subhadeep Mondal,University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland
Date: June 01, 2018 (Friday)
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
7 Machine learning and statistical analysis for materials science
Title : Machine learning and statistical analysis for materials science : fingerprint descriptors and chemical insights into catalysts
Speaker : Prof. Umesh Waghmare, Theoretical Sciences Unit, JNCASR
Date and Time : May 31, 2018, 4 pm
Venue : S. N. Bose Hall
8 Reentrant spin glass and metal-insulator transitions in some double perovskites: Search for new ones
Title : Reentrant spin glass and metal-insulator transitions in some double perovskites: Search for new ones
Speaker : Dr. Prabuddha Sanyal, Department of Physics, IIT Roorkee
Date and Time : May 29, 2018, 4 pm
Venue : S. N. Bose Hal
9 Pedogogical Lectures from May 23- June 04, 2018
10 Connecting Neutrinos to Dark Matter
Title: Connecting Neutrinos to Dark Matter
Speaker: Subhaditya Bhattacharya,Department of Physics, IIT-Guwahati
Date: May 22, 2018 (Tuesday)
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
11 Two lectures on Polymer Science on 18th May, 2018 at S.N.Bose Hall of IACS
Talk-1
 
Title: Biomedical Applications of Poly(Lactic acid) based hybrid systems
Speaker: Prof. Nira Mishra, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, IIT, BHU
Date: May 18, 2018
Time: 4.00-4.45 pm
Venue: S.N.Bose Hall
 
 
Talk-2
 
Title: Exploring Polymer in Nanostructured Energy Materials
Speaker: Dr. Soumyadip Choudhury, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Institut für Chemie, Germany
Date: May 18, 2018
Time: 5.00 pm- 5.45 pm
Venue: S.N.Bose Hall 
12 Extended Higgs sectors, vacuum stability and related issues

Speaker: Prof. Nabarun Chakrabarty, NCTS, Taiwan
Title: Extended Higgs sectors, vacuum stability and related issues
Date: April 18, 2018
Time: 3:30 PM

Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
13 Engineering Biomaterials and Antibacterials in the Era of Drug Resistance
Title :Engineering Biomaterials and Antibacterials in the Era of Drug Resistance
Speaker:Dr. Jayanta Haldar
Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India
Date, Venue and Time:18-April-2018 (Wednesday); 3.30 PM; C. V. Raman Hall, IACS
14 Study of many-body quantum dynamics using Rydberg atoms

Speaker: Prof. Rick Mukherjee, Rice University
Title: Study of many-body quantum dynamics using Rydberg atoms
Date: April 12, 2018
Time: 2:00 PM

Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406), 3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
15 A Popular Lecture on the Life and Works of Professor Stephen William Hawking
Title: Hawking's Space-Time - Some Hidden Wonders
Speaker: Professor Soumitra Sengupta
Venue: C. V. Raman Hall
Time and date: April 12, 4 pm
16 Mechanistic investigation of enzymes with potential in therapeutics and biofuel applications

Speaker: Dr. Debasis Das, MIT, USA
Title: Mechanistic investigation of enzymes with potential in therapeutics and biofuel applications
Date: April 10, 2018
Time: 11:30 AM
Venue: C V Raman Hall.
17 Advances in the synthesis and protection of zero-valent metal nanoparticles
Speaker:  Prof. A. E. H. Wheatley, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
Title of the talk: Advances in the synthesis and protection of zero-valent metal nanoparticles
Date & Time:  6th April 2018, at 3.00 PM
Venue: C. V. Raman Seminar Hall
18 Charged Higgs boson at the LHC
Title: Charged Higgs boson at the LHC
Speaker: Monoranjan Guchait,TIFR,Mumbai
Date: April 4, 2018 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
19 Bose-Einstein Condensates

Title: Bose-Einstein Condensates

Speaker: Professor Sadhan Kumar Adhikari, Institute of Theoretical Physics (IFT), Sao Paulo State University (UNSEP), Brazil

Date: 03rd April, 2018

Time: 12:00 Noon

Venue: C.V. Raman Hall

 
20 Stochastic and Constrained Dynamics : Computational Study
Title : Stochastic and Constrained Dynamics : Computational Study
Speaker : Professor Soumyendu Raha, Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Date :  27th March, 2018 
Time : 4:00 pm
Venue :  C.V. Raman Hall
21 Probing disordered S-wave superconductors using the microwave and electrical transports
Speaker: Dr. Dibyendu Hazra
Affiliation: QCD Labs, Aalto University, Applied Physics Department, Finland 
Date: 27th March (Tuesday)
Time:  3 pm
Venue: Sadhan Basu Hall, Centenary Building, IACS
Title: Probing disordered S-wave superconductors using the microwave and electrical transports
 
22 Dark neutrino interactions make gravitational waves blue
Title: Dark neutrino interactions make gravitational waves blue
Speaker: Subhajit Ghosh,Department of Theoretical Physics, TIFR, Mumbai
Date: March 12, 2018 (Monday)
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
23 Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Speaker: Dr. Dreemanta Mitra
Title : Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Materials
Venue: S. N. Bose Hall
Time: 12th March, at 4.00 PM
24 Indirect dark matter: challenges and opportunities
Title: Indirect dark matter: challenges and opportunities
Speaker:Pasquale Serpico,LAPTh - Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique, Annecey, France
Date: March 9, 2018 (Friday)
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
25 Unraveling the couplings of a Drell-Yan produced Z' with heavy-flavor tagging
Title: Unraveling the couplings of a Drell-Yan produced Z' with heavy-flavor tagging
Speaker:Tanmoy Modak,National Taiwan University,Taipei,Taiwan
Date: February 20, 2018 (Tuesday)
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
26 Quantum coherence in attachment of incoherent electrons
Title: Quantum coherence in attachment of incoherent electrons
Speaker:Professor Vaibhav Prabhudesai, TIFR
Date: February 19, 2018 (Monday)
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue: A K Raychaudhuri Hall, Centenary building
27 Mitochondrial calpain system in mitochondrial Ca2+ dynamics
Title : Part I: Mitochondrial calpain system in mitochondrial Ca2+ dynamics & Part II: CRAC channels Ca2+ microdomains in NFAT activation and gene expression
Speaker : Dr. Pulak Kar, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.
Date & Time : February 14, 2018 at at 3:30 pm
Venue: Theoretical Physics seminar room (Centenary building)
 
28 EVOLUTION OF QUANTUM THEORY & ENTANGLEMENT
Speaker: Prof. Ajay Ghatak 
Affiliation: Professor Megh Nad Saha Fellow of NASI (The National Academy of Sciences, India)
Title: EVOLUTION OF QUANTUM THEORY & ENTANGLEMENT 
Date & time: Tuesday, February 13, 2018; 12:00 noon
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room # 406
29 EVOLUTION OF QUANTUM THEORY & ENTANGLEMENT
30 Some studies on modifications of low dimensional systems under the application of periodic driving
Title: Some studies on modifications of low dimensional systems under the application of periodic driving
Speaker: Tridev Mishra,BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan
Date: February 8, 2018 (Thursday)
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IAC
31 Emergent Gravity and topological T-duality
Title: Emergent Gravity and topological T-duality
Speaker: Raju Roychowdhury, Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Date: February 7, 2018 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
32 Equilibrium and Dynamic Properties of Water Molecules Confined in Narrow Carbon Nanotubes
Speaker: Prof. Chandan Dasgupta
Affiliation: Department of Physics, IISc, Bangalore
Title: Equilibrium and Dynamic Properties of Water Molecules Confined in Narrow Carbon Nanotubes
Date & Time: Thursday, February 1, 2018; 4:00 pm
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room # 406
 
33 Interaction of hydrogen molecules with high-surface-area porous materials
Speaker: Prof. Michael Hirscher, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart
Title:  Interaction of hydrogen molecules with high-surface-area porous materials
Date & time: Thursday, February 1, 2018; 3:00 pm
Venue: C V Raman Hall
 
34 Building upon Supramolecular Synthons: Some Aspects of Crystal Engineering
Speaker: Dr. Arijit Mukherjee
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Title:  Building upon Supramolecular Synthons: Some Aspects of Crystal Engineering
Venue:  S. N. Bose Hall
Date & time: 29th January, 3.30 pm
35 Majorana-Vison zero-energy resonance in Kitaev's spin liquid
Title: Majorana-Vison zero-energy resonance in Kitaev's spin liquid
Speaker:Masafumi Udagawa, Department of Physics,Gakushuin University, Japan
Date: January 25, 2018 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
36 Dancing on DNA : How Proteins Scan Their Target Sites on DNA?
Title: Dancing on DNA : How Proteins Scan Their Target Sites on DNA?
Speaker: Dr. Arnab Bhattacharjee, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Date: January 24, 2018 (Wednesday)
Time: 03:30 PM
Venue: C V Raman Hall, IACS
 
37 Prying into Prions: Deadly Conformational Switch of the Prion Protein
Title: Prying into Prions: Deadly Conformational Switch of the Prion Protein
Speaker: Samrat Mukhopadhyay, Centre for Protein Science, Design and Engineering, Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali, Punjab, India. 
Date: January 24, 2018 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:00 noon
Venue: C V Raman Hall, IACS
38 Thin-film Heterostructure of Quantum Materials and Novel Phenomena
Title: Thin-film Heterostructure of Quantum Materials and Novel Phenomena
Speaker: Debakanta Samal, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India 
Date: January 23, 2018 (Tuesday)
Time: 03:00 PM
Venue: C V Raman Hall, IACS
39 Positional information readout in Ca2+ signaling
Title: Positional information readout in Ca2+ signaling
Speaker: Dr. Vaibhav H. Wasnik
         Affiliation: University of Geneva, Switzerland
Date: January 19, 2018 (Friday)
Time: 3:30 pm
Venue: S N Bose Hall
40 Coupling 1D Atom Arrays to an Optical Nanofiber: Platform for Waveguide QED experiments
Title: "Coupling 1D Atom Arrays to an Optical Nanofiber: Platform for Waveguide QED experiments".
Speaker: Dr. Aveek Chandra, LKB, University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris.
Date & Time: Friday,  19 Jan,  12:00 Noon
Venue: C V Raman Hall, IACS 
 
41 Searches for the Higgs pair production at the HL-LHC and beyond
Title: Searches for the Higgs pair production at the HL-LHC and beyond
Speaker: Shankha Banerjee,Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham University
Date: January 16, 2018 (Tuesday)
Time: 3:45 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
42 Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Science
Title -  Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Science
Speaker -  Prof. C. V. Murthy, ISI Kolkata
Date and Time - January 15, 2018 (Monday), 3:30 pm
Venue - S. N. Bose Hall
43 Topological Materials
Title: Topological Materials
Speaker: Professor Feo Kusmartsev, Professor of Condensed Matter Theory (IOP and APS Fellow), Department of Physics, Loughborough University, UK
Venue: CV Raman Hall, IACS
Dates: 15th and 18th January
Time: 3.30 – 6.00 pm (30 min break)
44 Transport of Copper in Cells: Chemistry of a Copper ATPase
Title: Transport of Copper in Cells: Chemistry of a Copper ATPase
Speaker: Professor Anthony Wedd, Melbourne University
Date: January 15, 2018 (Monday)
Time: 12.00 noon
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
45 Interface Driven Novel Electronic and Spin States Revealed by Spin-polarized
Title: Interface Driven Novel Electronic and Spin States Revealed by Spin-polarized Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
Speaker: Sujit Manna, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Date: January 10, 2018 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
46 molecular modeling of water air and ice air interfaces
Speaker: Dr. Yuki Nagata, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Title : molecular modeling of water air and ice air interfaces
Date: January 08, 2017
Venue & Time: S. N. Bose Hall at 3.00 PM
 
47 Three dimensional view of SYK models with arbitrary q
Title: Three dimensional view of SYK models with arbitrary q  
Speaker:Animik Ghosh, University of Kentucky, USA
Date: January 4, 2018 (Thursday)
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
48 Can measurements of 2HDM parameters provide hints for high scale SUSY?
Title: Can measurements of 2HDM parameters provide hints for high scale SUSY?
Speaker: Ipsita Saha,Theoretical Physics Dept., National Institute for Nuclear Physics(INFN), Rome, Italy
Date: January 3, 2018 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
49 Heavy-Lifting of Gauge Theories By Cosmic Inflation
Title: Heavy-Lifting of Gauge Theories By Cosmic Inflation
Speaker: Soubhik Kumar, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, USA
Date: January 2, 2018 (Tuesday)
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
50 Fast trimers in one-dimensional extended Fermi-Hubbard model
Title: Fast trimers in one-dimensional extended Fermi-Hubbard model  
Speaker:Arya Dhar, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Date: December 29, 2017 (Friday)
Time: 04:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
51 Ferrocene-based diradicals of imino nitroxide, nitronyl nitroxide and verdazyl, and their cations
Title: Ferrocene-based diradicals of imino nitroxide, nitronyl nitroxide and verdazyl, and their cations are possible SMM: A quantum chemical study
Speaker: Professor Shambhu Nath Datta, Emeritus Professor, IIT Bombay
Date:   December 28, 2017
Time:   03:00 pm
Venue:  C. V. Raman Hall
52 Black Holes from OPE coefficients
Title: Black Holes from OPE coefficients
Speaker:Sridip Pal, Dept. of Physics,University of California,San Diego,USA
Date: December 22, 2017 (Friday)
Time: 03:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
53 Exploring Sensitive Detection of Important Analytes with Meticulous Designing
Title: Exploring Sensitive Detection of Important Analytes with Meticulous Designing ‘Aggregation Induced Emission’ Compounds
Speaker: Dr. Inamur Rahaman Laskar, Department of Chemistry, Pilani Campus, BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan 333031, India.
Date: 22 December, 2017 (Friday)
Time: 3:00 PM
Venue:  S. N. Bose Hall
54 Z' Models for B Anomalies at the LHC
Title: Z' Models for B Anomalies at the LHC
Speaker:Bhaskar Dutta, Department of Physics and Astronomy,Texas A&M University, USA
Date: December 21, 2017 (Thursday)
Time: 03:30 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
55 Muon spin relaxation studies of Sr2Ru04 under uniaxial pressure
Title: Muon spin relaxation studies of Sr2Ru04   under uniaxial pressure  
Speaker:Shreenanda Ghosh, Technical University Dresden, Germany
Date: December 20, 2017 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
56 Nanoparticle Synthesis by Gas Phase Aerosol Routes: High Stability Perovskite Solar PV Devices
Title: Nanoparticle Synthesis by Gas Phase Aerosol Routes: High Stability Perovskite Solar PV Devices
Speaker: Prof. Pratim Biswas, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Lucy & Stanley Lopata Professor, Chairman of the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering School of Engineering & Applied Science Washington University, St. Louis https://engineering.wustl.edu/Profiles/Pages/Pratim-Biswas.aspx
Date: December 19, 2017 (Tuesday)
Time: 12:00 noon
57 IEEE C. V. Raman Milestone Lecture presented by IEEE Kolkata Section
IEEE C. V. Raman Milestone Lecture
presented by
IEEE Kolkata Section
 
Venue: Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar Hall, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur
Date & Time: Monday, December 18, 2017 at Time: 3:00PM
Speaker: Prof. Raj Mittra, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Title: Meta-atoms -the building blocks of Future Materials for Electromagnetic Devices
58 Pedagogical Lectures org by Theoretical Physics Department

 

 

 

 

 

Title:      

 

 

Introduction to Topology, Fundamental Group, Homology, Cohomology, Differential Form, Morse Theory

Speaker :

 

Siddhartha Sen, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Day

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

Date

December 18, 2017
January 8 & 15, 2018

December 20, 2017
January 10, 17 & 24, 2018

December-15 & 22, 2017
January 12 & 19, 2018

Time

3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Venue

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

Prerequisite

The Course will be mostly self contained, basic knowledge of Masters level Mathematical Physics will be useful.  

 
59 Low-dimensional frustrated quantum magnets in triangular and honeycomb lattices
Speaker: Dr. Rudra Sekhar Manna
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, IIT Tirupati 
Date & time: Monday, December 18, 2017, 2:00 pm
Venue: C-404, Centenary building, Theoretical Physics Seminar Hall
Title: Low-dimensional frustrated quantum magnets in triangular and honeycomb lattices 
60 Reactivity Enhancement of a Diphosphene by Reversible
Speaker: Dr. Anukul Jana from TIFR Hyderabad, Department of Inorganic Chemistry on 1
Title: Reactivity Enhancement of a Diphosphene by Reversible
N-Heterocyclic Carbene Coordination: Influence of N-Substituents
Date: 18th December, 2017.
Venue: S. N. Bose Hall
Time: 3.30 pm
61 Entanglement reconstruction of asymptotically AdS metric from conformal field theory
Title: Entanglement reconstruction of asymptotically AdS metric from conformal field theory  
Speaker:Debajyoti Sarkar, Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP), Universität Bern, Switzerland
Date: December 15, 2017 (Friday)
Time: 12:00 noon
Venue:  Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
62 Small Molecule Tools to Investigate Chemical and Biological Processes
Speaker: Dr Sudeshna Roy
Affiliation:The University of Mississippi, Department of BioMolecular Sciences
Title:  Small Molecule Tools to Investigate Chemical and Biological Processes
Venue:  C. V. Raman Hall
Date & time: 14th December, 3.00 pm
63 Bouncing cosmology from warped extra dimensional scenario
Title: Bouncing cosmology from warped extra dimensional scenario  
Speaker:Tanmoy Paul, Theoretical Physics Department, IACS
Date: December 12, 2017 (Tuesday)
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
64 Disorder driven non-Fermi liquid states in a Mott insulator.
Speaker: Dr. Anamitra Mukherjee, Asst Prof from NISER, Bhubaneswar
Title: Disorder driven non-Fermi liquid states in a Mott insulator.
Venue: C V Raman Hall
Date & Time:  12th December;  4:00 PM
65 Search for exotic new physics in CMS
Title: Search for exotic new physics in CMS   
Speaker:Swagata Mukherjee, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Date: November 29, 2017 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
66 Boundary Terms in Gravity
Title: Boundary Terms in Gravity
Speaker:Krishnamohan Parattu,IIT, Madras.
Date: November 28, 2017 (Tuesday)
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
67 Quantum oscillations without a Fermi surface
Title: Quantum oscillations without a Fermi surface
Speaker:Hridis K Pal,Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud,Orsay Cedex, France & School of Physics,Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA 
Date: November 22, 2017 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
68 CMOS Technology - Past, Present and Future
Title: CMOS Technology - Past, Present and Future
Speaker:Souvik Mahapatra, IIT Bombay, Mumbai
Date: November 7, 2017 (Tuesday)
Time: 12:00 noon
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
69 Higher order QCD corrections to heavy quark form factors
Title: Higher order QCD corrections to heavy quark form factors
Speaker:Narayan Rana, DESY, Zeuthen, Germany
Date: November 1, 2017 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
70 Quantum transport in superconductor hybrid junction
Title: Quantum transport in superconductor hybrid junction
Speaker:Paramita Dutta, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar
Date: October 30, 2017 (Monday)
Time: 12:00 noon
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
71 Exact Lattice Supersymmtery
Title: Exact Lattice Supersymmtery
Speaker:Anosh Joseph, ICTS, Bengaluru
Date: October 30, 2017 (Monday)
Time: 03:30 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
72 Universal Laws of Thermodynamics
Title: Universal Laws of Thermodynamics
Speaker: Manabendra Nath Bera, ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
Date: October 27, 2017 (Friday)
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (C406),3rd Floor, Centenary Building, IACS
73 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

 
74 Second law of black-hole thermodynamics in Lovelock theories of gravity

 

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

 
75 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
76 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
77 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

 
78 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
79 Quantum catastrophes

 

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

 

 
80 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
81 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
82 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
83 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

 
84 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
85 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
86 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
87 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
88 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
89 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
90 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
91 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
92 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
93 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
94 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
95 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
96 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
97 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
98 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
99 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
100 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
101 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
102 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
103 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
104 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
105 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
106 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
107 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
108 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
109 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
110 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

 
111 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
112 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
113 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
114 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
115 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
116 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
117 Zeroth law in non-equilibrium - a hot needle in water
 
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

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