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Catchment science in high altitude Himalaya - bridging rivers and scales
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Jakob F Steiner, Universiteit Utrecht
\"3rd Feb, Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/94792667718?pwd=ZmJBRkdzc3EySm9wQSswRExGbFh0Zz09 Meeting ID: 947 9266 7718 Passcode: 998033\"

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM at Online Zoom meeting



Interfacial slip in geological systems
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Dr. Sohom Ray, IIT Roorkee
\"https://zoom.us/j/92200545435?pwd=RG15QW9PVk5wRUNEYzlFWmk2WVdSUT09 Meeting ID: 922 0054 5435 Passcode: 272682\"

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM at Webinar



Low-mass primordial black holes as the dark matter candidate
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Dr. Ranjan Laha
CHEP, IISc., Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



TBA   Tue, Oct 26, 2021


Dr. David Mckeen
TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada

Time and Venue: 10:00 AM at WEBINAR



Atomic mechanisms of charge density waves (CDW) in R2Ir3Si5
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Dr. Sitaram Ramakrishnan
University of Bayreuth, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



Geodesic Mesh MHD – Modeling Magnetic Massive Stars in 3D; Simulations of a Magnetic O Star
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Prof Dinshaw Balsara
Notre Dame University, USA,

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



Scattering Amplitudes of Massive Vector Bosons from Generalized Recursion
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Dr. Arkajyoti Manna
IMSc Chennai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



Planar hall effect, Anomalus Hall effect, Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations, Berry�s phase, Chiral Anomaly(?): KTaO3 based interfaces rock!
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Dr. Suvankar Chakraverty
Institute of Nanoscience and Technology, Mohali, India

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at WEBINAR



Crossing symmetric dispersion relations and UV constraints on EFT's
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Dr. Prashanth Raman
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at WEBINAR



Average search time bounds in cue based searches
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Dr. Vaibhav Wasnik
Indian Institute of Technology, Goa.

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at WEBINAR



Machine learning based Particle Flow algorithm and application of super-resolution techniques
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Sanmay Ganguly
The University of Tokyo

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM at WEBINAR



"Muon g-2 and Δα connection"
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Dr. Massimo Passera
INFN, Padua, Italy

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



Model unspecific search for new physics phenomena at the CMS experiment
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Dr. Saranya Ghosh
RWTH Aachen University)

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



Nanostructure, Optical Function and Evolution of Self-assembled Organismal Structural Colors: From Photonic Crystals to Photonic Glasses
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Dr. Vinod Kumar Saranathan
Division of Science, Yale-NUS College, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at WEBINAR



Introduction to the physics of ultra-cold gases
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Prof. Luis Santos
Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



Introduction to the physics of ultra-cold gases
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Prof. Luis Santos
Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



Introduction to the physics of ultra-cold gases
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Prof. Luis Santos
Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



Fundamental Performance Limits and Algorithms for Secure and Efficient Learning from Classical and Quantum Data
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Dr. Arun Padakandla
University of Tennessee

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM at Google Meet : https://meet.google.com/tkq-vwtp-nxv



Introduction to the physics of ultra-cold gases
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Prof. Luis Santos
Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states of single magnetic molecule in an s−wave superconductor
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Dr Saurabh Pradhan
TU Dortmund

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM at WEBINAR



Fun with cosmic strings : A CMB Millikan experiment and colliders in the sky
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Anson Hook
University of Maryland, USA

Time and Venue: 09:30 AM at WEBINAR



Modeling Synergy in our Immune System using a Physicist’s Toolkit
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Prof. Jayajit Das
Ohio State University & Battelle Center for Mathematical Medicine, Ohio

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM at WEBINAR



Mechanical properties of amorphous solids
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Murari Singh

Time and Venue: 10:00 AM at WEBINAR



Family of long-ranged models: Collective behavior and dynamics
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Prof. Manas Kulkarni
ICTS Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR




Dhruv Bhasin
Zoom link: [ https://zoom.us/j/91857186599?pwd=dXdyVXRKWmpVWU1TOCtlSFg4TFA4QT09 | https://zoom.us/j/91857186599?pwd=dXdyVXRKWmpVWU1TOCtlSFg4TFA4QT09 ] Meeting ID: [ callto:918 5718 6599 | 918 5718 6599 ] Passcode: 839124 Abstract: Given a union-close

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Online



Quantum Gravity in Three Space-Time Dimensions
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Prof. Sunil Mukhi
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



Nonlinear excitations in flowing complex plasma
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Dr. Surabhi Jaiswal
Princeton University

Time and Venue: 10:00 AM at WEBINAR



Moving Molecules and Particles with Heat
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Prof. Frank Cichos
Universität Leipzig, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at WEBINAR



In the Shadow of the Mill: Politics and property in Ahmedabad’s working class neighbourhoods
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Dr Rukmini Barua
Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at WEBINAR https://zoom.us/j/97446034257?pwd=cTJBdTdxcGM0bnZzdTgraGxTU0JuUT09 Meeting ID: 974 4603 4257 Passcode: 967522



Deep learning for microscopy and optical trapping
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Prof. Giovanni Volpe
Gothenburg University, Sweden

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at WEBINAR




Probing multi-scale activity in complex fluids and biological systems with differential dynamic microscopy
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Dr. Roberto Cerbino
Universit�  degli Studi di Milano

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at WEBINAR




Microtubule dynamics in the generation and regulation of forces for mitotic chromosome motion
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Prof. Richard McIntosh, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado, USA
Zoom link https://zoom.us/j/91000724968?pwd=Zk55dFpXa09jNGcvS2UramRNRkxyZz09 Meeting ID 910 0072 4968 Passcode 485544

Time and Venue: 09:00 PM to 10:00 PM at Zoom



Citizenship Regimes in India   Wed, Dec 23, 2020


Prof. Anupama Roy
Centre for Political Studies Jawaharalal Nehru University, New Delhi

Time and Venue: 06:00 PM to 07:30 PM at WEBINAR




Prof. Neera Chandoke
Professor (Retd) in Political Science, University of Delhi

Time and Venue: 06:00 PM to 07:30 PM at WEBINAR



Modeling structure formation in the era of precision cosmology: application to neutrino masses.
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Dr. Arka Banerjee
Stanford University, California

Time and Venue: 10:00 AM at WEBINAR




Professor Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Faculty, Ashoka University, Formerly President Centre for Policy Research, Formerly with Harward University

Time and Venue: 06:00 PM to 07:15 PM at Webinar



Multi-scale physics of plasma turbulence and magnetic reconnection
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Dr Kiritkumar Makwana
IIT Hyderabad

Time and Venue: 04:15 PM at WEBINAR



Data and the Genome: Techniques in genomics of Constitutional Disorders and Cancer Genomics
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Dr. Ashutosh
Agilent Technologies, USA

Time and Venue: 10:00 AM at WEBINAR



Structure, Function and Evolution of Self-assembled Organismal Structural Colors
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Dr. Vinod Kumar Saranathan
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at WEBINAR



No Data Left Behind: Detecting diversity in transcriptional regulations
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Dr Leelavati Narlikar
NCL, Pune

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



The Changing Character of Indian State
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Prof. Rajeshwari Deshpande
Professor, Department of Politics & Public Administration Savitribai Phule Pune University

Time and Venue: 06:00 PM to 07:15 PM at WEBINAR



Low Mass Black Holes from Dark Core Collapse
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Dr. Anupam Ray
TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



First Passage Under Restart   Fri, Sep 25, 2020

First Passage Under Restart
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Dr. Arnab Pal
Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Time and Venue: 04:15 PM at WEBINAR



Changes in the mammalian herbivore assemblage during the late Neogene and Quaternary of South Asia
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Dr. Advait Jukar
Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and Department of Anthropology, Yale University

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Webinar




Biogenic carbonate geochemistry based paleoclimate reconstruction: Biology vs. chemistry
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Dr Sambuddha Misra
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Webinar



Chern-Simons-matter theories in three dimensions and an exclusion principle for bosons
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Dr. Naveen Prabhakar
TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



Dark Energy and Gravitational Wave Observations
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Prof. Paolo Creminelli
ICTP Trieste

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



Imaging of northern offshore forearc Sumatra using high resolution marine geophysical datasets
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Dibakar Ghosal
IIT Kanpur

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Webinar



Particles and Fields in Partial-differential-equation Models for Fluid and Superfluid Turbulence
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Prof. Rahul Pandit
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



Insights into Indian Ocean Geoid Low: A Seismological Perspective
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Dr. Padma Rao Bommoju
National Centre for Earth Science Studies

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Webinar



Story of Mr and Mrs: Pragmatics and Aesthetics of English borrowings in Indian languages
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Dr. Chinmay Dharurkar
Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM at Zoom



Extratropical response to tropical precipitation anomalies: A new metric and its use in constraining projected circulation changes under climate warming
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Dr. Pranab Deb
IIT Kharagpur

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Webinar




Monitoring glacier changes using space-borne radar remote sensing
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Dr. Saurabh Vijay
Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University.

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Webinar



From stochastic thermodynamics to the cost of precision
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Prof. Udo Seifert
Stuttgart University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Over Zoom



Fluctuations in gravitating systems and stochastic effects
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Dr. Seema Satin
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at WEBINAR



Multiscale simulation of biomolecules: Understanding emergence of biological functions from the interaction of molecules
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Sumantra Sarkar
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at WEBINAR



Spin Caloritronics and the Spin Seebeck Effect
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Dr. Sunil Nair
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



Critical Tests of Theory of the Early Universe using the Cosmic Microwave Background
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Prof. Eiichiro Komatsu
Director, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at WEBINAR



Fractional quantum Hall effect: Perspectives from the numerical studies
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Dr. Sreejith G J
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at WEBINAR



TBA   Mon, Apr 27, 2020


Dipankar Home
Bose Institute, Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



TBA   Mon, Apr 13, 2020


Sanjay Kumar Swain
NISER, Bhubaneswar

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



At the tri-junction of fragility and vulnerability The Andaman and Nicobar story
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Pankaj Sekhsaria
CTARA, IIT Bombay

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Hall 24, First floor, Main building



Probing and understanding ultracold molecules with the aim of preparing them for quantum technologies
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Dr. Rahul Sawant
University of Birmingham

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




A role of cellular translation regulation associated with toxic Huntingtin protein
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Dr. Amitabha Majumdar
Wellcome trust-DBT Intermediate fellow and Scientist-D at National Centre For Cell Science (NCCS), Pune

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room no. 34, Second Floor



Biomolecular dynamics in multiple scales
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Dr. Sumantra Sarkar
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Doing Science, Being Religious : An Anthropology of ‘Science and Religion’ in India
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Dr. Renny Thomas
Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 24 (Main Building)




Blackhole perturbation: A Numerical approach
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Prof. Rajesh Nayak
IISER Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The Food Fly - Nutrition specific memories and diet mediated neuronal plasticity in Drosophila
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Dr. Gaurav Das
Ramanujan Fellow, National Center for Cell Sciences(NCCS), Pune

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room no. 34, Second Floor



Why should we be interested in the top ?
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Prof. Debajyoti Choudhury
Delhi University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Plasmodium falciparum Red Cell Invasion: The Story of the PfRH5 Essential Invasion Complex
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Prof. Deepak Gaur
School of Biotechnology Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) New Delhi

Time and Venue: 11:00 PM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room no. 34, Second Floor




Perception and Encoding odour temporal dynamics in the mouse olfactory bulb
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Dr. Debanjan Dasgupta
Neurophysiology of Behaviour Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute, London & Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London, UK

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM at Seminar Room no. 34, Second Floor



Engineering new assays to reveal the biological design of chromosome segregation machinery
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Dr. Ajit Joglekar
Cell & Developmental Biology Adjunct: Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering University of Michigan, USA

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room no. 34, Second Floor



A Brief History of Mahalanobis Distance : from Mahalanobis to Rao
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Prof. Probal Chaudhuri
ISI Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall, 3rd Floor, Main Building



Atomic Astrophysics : From Astronomy to Cancer Research
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Dr. Anil Pradhan
Ohio State University, USA

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Lecuture 03:Topological properties of QCD at finite temperature and its relavance for axions
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Dr. Sayantan Sharma
IMSc Chennai

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Bulk Reconstruction and black holes
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Dr. Nirmalya Kajuri
Chennai Mathematical Institute

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Generalised coherent states in QCD from asymptotic symmetries
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Dr. Athira P V
Chennai Mathematical Institute

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Lecture 02:Topological properties of QCD at finite temperature and its relavance for axions
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Dr. Sayantan Sharma
IMSc Chennai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Probing physics across the energy frontier
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Dr. Abhishek Iyer
Université de Lyon

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Ultrafast phenomena in weak and strong light-matter interaction limits: nonlinear spectroscopy and imaging with quantum light and high harmonic regimes
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Prof. Konstantin Dorfman
State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Lecture 01: Topological properties of QCD at finite temperature and its relavance for axions
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Dr. Sayantan Sharma
IMSc Chennai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Neural Basis of Memory   Wed, Feb 26, 2020

Neural Basis of Memory
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Dr. Niranjan Kambi
Post-doctoral Research Associate at Saalmann Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room no. 34, Second Floor



Adaptive Plasticity in Microbial Physiology
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Dr. Amitesh Anand
Systems Biology Research Group Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, USA.

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room no. 34, Second Floor



Stealth: The entry of fungal killers in plant vascular systems
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Dr. Amey Redkar
Department of Genetics, Campus Rabanales, University of Cardoba, Spain

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room no. 34, Second Floor



The Geometry and Mechanics of Chebyshev Wells
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Dr. Madhusudhan Raman
TIFR Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CURE)
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Dr. Anil Challa
Anil is an Adjunct Professor & instructor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Genetics. His research interests are in understanding the molecular underpinnings of cell behaviours during early embryonic development in vertebrates. He

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Room 32, Main building 2nd Floor, IISER Pune



Election Prediction using Statistics and Data Mining
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Akanksha Kashikar
SPPU, Pune

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM at Madhava Hall, 3rd Floor, Main Building



Computational Gastronomy: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Data-driven Food Innovations
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Ganesh Bagler
IIIT Delhi

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar room 41, 3rd Floor, Main Building



On the Regge limit of the Fishnet correlators
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Dr. Subham Dutta Chowdhury
TIFR Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Bottom-up engineering of new electronic and structural effects with atomic layers
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Prof. Arindam Ghosh
IISC Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Defiant Religion : Wayside Shrines in Pune
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Dr. Borayin Larios
Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 24 (Main Building)



Graph Editing Problems: Through the Parameterized Lens
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Dr. Ashutosh Rai
Charles University, Prague.

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Hole probability, Brown measure, and fluctuations.
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Dr. Kartick Adhikari
Technion-IIT, Israel

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Validation of fluvial models in the Himalayan Foreland Basin
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Prof. Uma Kant Shukla
of Department of Geology, BHU

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room. No. 32, second floor, Main building, IISER Pune




Quantum phases of canted dipolar bosons in optical lattices
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Soumik Bandyopadhyay
Physical Research laboratory, Ahmedabad

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Optical vortices and entanglement duality
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Prof. R. P. Singh
PRL Ahmedabad

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Late accretion and the Origin of Life on Earth
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Ramon Brasser
of Earth Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room. No. 32, second floor, Main building, IISER Pune



Searching for Muon to Electron Conversion in a Muonic Atom - Quest for new physics
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Prof. Yoshitaka Kuno
Osaka University

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Search for new physics in the cosmic microwave background and old stars
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Dr. Rishi Khatri
TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Cell Cycle and Biomaterial Engineering for Injured Brain Regeneration
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Prof. Itsuki Ajioka
Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room no. 34, Second Floor



Fractionalization of Integer Quantum Hall state
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Dr. Biswajit Karmakar
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Empowering Normal Cells Against Cancer.
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Prof. Vivek Rangnekar
Professor and Alfred Cohen Chair in Oncology Research Associate Director, Markey Cancer Center Markey Program Co-Leader, Cancer Biology & Signaling, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington KY, USA

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room no. 34, Second Floor



Searching for low mass/HT resonances at the LHC using unconventional approaches
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Abhijith Gandrakota
Rutgers University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Water in the Climate System   Thu, Jan 23, 2020

Water in the Climate System
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Dr. Vishal Dixit
Postdoctoral research scholar, TU Delft, Netherlands,

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar R No. 32, second floor, Main building



On Negative Mass   Wed, Jan 22, 2020

On Negative Mass
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Prof. Manu Paranjape
Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Discovering Habitable Worlds in Our Galaxy
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Dr Ravi Kopparapu
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland, USA

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Colloids in complex and dynamic environments
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Prof. Surajit Dhara
University of Hyderabad

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Bacterial Turbulence: Collective motion in suspensions of microswimmers
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Prof. Ganesh Subramanian
JNCASR, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Generalized Gaussian Wave Packet Dynamics and Semiclassical Physics
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Dr. Harinder Pal
UNAM, Mexico

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Non-negative summability matrices and nice ideals
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Prof. Pratulananda Das
Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall, 3rd floor, Main building



Hadean Planet   Thu, Jan 16, 2020

Hadean Planet
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Dr. Ramon Brasser
Earth Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room no. 34, Second Floor



Tauberian Theorems and High Energy Asymptotics in CFT
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Dr. Sridip Pal
IAS Princeton

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Quadrature domains in higher dimensions
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Dr Pranav Haridas
Kerala School of Mathematics

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM at Madhava Hall, 3rd floor, Main building



Arabidopsis thaliana FKBP53 is a histone chaperone with functional nucleoplasmin and PPIase domains
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Dr. Dileep Vasudevan
Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room no. 34, Second Floor



The observation of the $tbar{t}H$ production of the Higgs boson at the CMS experiment and future prospects
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Dr. Saranya Ghosh
RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Chromospheric magnetic field of sunspots
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Dr. Jayant Joshi
University of Oslo, Norway

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Role of RNA interactions in phase separation driven cellular compartmentalization and neurodegeneration
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Dr. Shovamayee Maharana
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room no. 34, Second Floor



Reinventing Expertise in the Age of Platforms: The Case of Data Science
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Shreeharsh Kelkar
Shreeharsh Kelkar is an anthropologist of science and technology. He studies the ways in which our new software infrastructures of algorithms, big data, and artificial intelligence are changing workplaces, work practices and expertise.

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar room 33, Main building



(Algebraic) K-theory for dummies
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Shravan Patankar
Graduate student at University of Illinois, Chicago

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at 3rd floor Madhava hall math's



Novel Titanium Niobium Oxide (TNO) thin films for High Energy Storage Solid-State Thin Film Batteries
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Dr. Venkateswarlu Daramalla
ETH Zurich

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Drive-specific adaptation in disordered mechanical networks of bistable springs
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Dr. Hridesh Kedia
MIT, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A mechanistic model of the cellular resource allocation strategy in bacteria
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Dr. Anjan Roy
ICTP, Trieste

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A neural compass that combines flexibility and stability
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Dr. Vivek Jayaraman
Senior Group Leader and Head of Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience, Janelia Research Campus, Virginia, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room no. 34, Second Floor



Seminar 03 - A Non-Supersymmetric 5d Fixed Point?
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Prof. David Tong
Cambridge University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Seminar 02 - Particle-Vortex Duality and 3d Bosonization
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Prof. David Tong
Cambridge University

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Searching for primordial B-modes through the foreground and systematics fog using future CMB space telescopes.
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Dr. Ranajoy Banerji
University of Oslo

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Late-time universe: surprises, tension, and future prospects
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Dr. Anirban Roy
Cornell University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Dispersion Relation in Conformal Field Theory
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Dr Parijat Dey
Upsala University

Time and Venue: 10:00 AM at Seminar Hall 32, 2nd floor, Main Building



Discretizations of Exterior Calculus and Differential Geometry
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Prof. Anil Nirmal Hirani
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: the Next Frontier in Energy Storage
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Dr. Nikhil Koratkar
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA

Time and Venue: 10:30 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Numerical investigations of SO(4) emergent extended symmetry in spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chains
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Dr. Pranay Patil Mahesh
Boston University and CNRS

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Quantum Field Theory: Dualities and What They're Good For
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Prof. David Tong
Cambridge University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Using Hands-on Molecular Models to Teach Key Science Concepts to Diverse Audiences
more

Dr. Kathleen Vandiver
Kathleen Vandiver created the MIT patented DNA and Protein models and the lesson materials for them. She is an advisor at MIT Edgerton Center in addition to being the Director of the Community Outreach Education & Engagement Core at the MIT Center for Env

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at New Lecture Hall, Smt. Indrani Balan Science Activity Centre, at IISER Pune



Tetrahedral elliptic curves and the local-global principle for isogenies
more

Dr. Barinder Banwait
Cambridge University

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Co-designing Computational Thinking (CT) and Scientific Inquiry (SI) integrated high school science and mathematics curricular units
more

Sugat Dabholkar
School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at NKN Room, 2nd floor, Guest House Complex, IISER Pune



Analysing causal effect of London cycle superhighways on traffic congestion
more

Dr. Prajamitra Bhuyan
The Alan Turing Institute Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar room 41,3rd floor. Main building



Some results of mathematical logic on random structures.
more

Dr. Moumanti Podder
NYU-ECNU Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar room 41,3rd floor. Main building



Few-body bound states in quantum magnets
more

Mr. Jugal Talukdar
The University of Oklahoma, US

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Genetic interaction between BRCA1 and FANCM in stalled replication fork repair
more

Dr. Arvind Panday
AACR Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School, Boston

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Topological phonon waveguide on Silicon chips
more

Tirth Shah
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Coupling molecules to soft micro-resonators: What, Why, and How?
more

Dr. Adarsh B Vasista
University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Investigation of a multi-impurity Kondo system coupled to a conventional s-wave superconductor
more

Dr. Anand Kamlapure
Radboud University, Nijmegen

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Integrated Nanophotonic Interfaces to Quantum Systems
more

Dr. Amit Agrawal
National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




"New physics with nu's"   Mon, Dec 16, 2019

"New physics with nu's"
more

Dr. Sushant Raut
IBS Daejeon, South Korea

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Gate-Tunable Flatbands in Graphene Moiré Superlattices
more

Dr. Bheema Lingam Chittari
University of Seoul, Korea

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 32, 2nd Floor, Main Building





Predicting Future Sea-Level Rise and Subsurface Reservoir Heterogeneities: Clues from Ancient and Modern Carbonate Outcrop Analogues
more

Dr. Pankaj Khanna
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, ANPERC, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at ECS Seminar Room no. 32, Second floor, Main Building



Traffic Control: How cells calibrate motor activity during cell wall morphogenesis.
more

Dr. Anindya Ganguly
Center for Membrane and Cell Physiology Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room no. 34, Second Floor



Upper bounds on superfluid stiffness and superconducting Tc: Applications to twisted bilayer graphene, monolayer FeSe on SrTiO3 and cold atoms
more

Dr. Tamaghna Hazra
Ohio State University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Leveraging eQTLs to identify individual-level tissue of interest for a complex trait.
more

Prof. Arunabha Majumdar
University of California, Los Angeles

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Drivers of rainfall extremes and their changes
more

Dr. Jitendra Singh
Rainfall extremes cause extensive loss of lives, infrastructure damage, water shortage, and billions of dollars in economic losses across the world, and such events have been reported to become more frequent and intense under warming conditions. Large unc

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at ECS Seminar Room No. 32



Allowed region and uncertainty relations for angular momentum observable
more

Dr. Arun
HRI, Allahabad

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Local Prerogatives and Foreign Assistance: Technical Training for Workers and Indian Industry between WWII and the Present
more

Dr. Stefan Tetzlaff
Georg-August-Universit�¤t G�¶ttingen

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 24 (Main Building)



Percolation on Hyperbolic groups
more

Prof. Mahan Mj
TIFR Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



READY, STEADY, GO! Using songbirds to understand how the brain initiates natural motor sequences
more

Dr. Raghav Rajan
Ramalingaswami Fellow, DBT, IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Robust Image Feature Description, Matching and Applications
more

Dr. Shiv Ram Dubey
IIIT Sri City, Chittoor

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Madhava Hall, 3rd floor, Main building




K(E10) and Standard Model Fermions
more

Prof. Hermann Nicolai
Director - Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Quantum Gravity: puzzles and perspectives
more

Prof. Hermann Nicolai
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM at Sir C.V. Raman Auditorium, LHC



Directional tuning in Hippocampal Place Cells.
more

Dr. Shonali Dhingra
Department of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Fat Secretion from the Liver : New mechanisms, New targets
more

Prof. Roop Mallik
Department of Biological Sciences Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



TBA   Fri, Nov 01, 2019


Prof Milind Sohoni
IIT Bombay

Time and Venue: 05:15 PM at CV Raman Auditorium



It’s complicated: De-convoluting genotype-phenotype relationships in bacteria during evolutionary adaptation to antibiotics
more

Dr. Nishad Matange
DST-INSPIRE Faculty Fellow, Department of Biology, IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Exploiting symmetries of states and operators to study quantum correlations such as entanglement and discord
more

Prof. Ravi Rau
Louisiana State University

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Quantum physics and the butterfly effect
more

Prof. Arul Laxminarayan
IIT Madras

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Probing the Universe using Radio Waves : from Sir J.C. Bose to modern times
more

Prof. Yashwant Gupta
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (TIFR), Pune

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM at Sir C.V. Raman Auditorium, LHC



Force sensing during cell division helps prevent chromosome mis-segregation
more

Dr. Soumya Mukherjee
Postdoctoral associate, Dept. of Genetics, Cell Biology, & Development, University of Minnesota

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Floquet analysis of the dynamics of current flow in a periodically driven hard-core bosonic system
more

Dr. Jayendra Bandyopadhyay
BITS, Pilani

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Logarithmic mean values of multiplicative functions
more

Dr. Akshaa Vatwani
IIT Gandhinagar

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Biophysics of Tumor Heterogeneity & Cancer Invasion: Integrating Models and Molecules
more

Dr. Shamik Sen
Dept. of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Theory of Bilayer Graphene - Some Twists
more

Prof. G Baskaran
IMSc Chennai

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Room Temperature Superconductors: Ephemeral, Elusive to Stable Ones
more

Prof. G. Baskaran
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

Time and Venue: 04:10 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Dark Neutrino interactions phase out the Hubble tension (.. also make gravitational waves blue)
more

Subhajit Ghosh
TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Understanding the Earth from a thermodynamic systems perspective
more

Prof Axel Kleidon
Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Time and Venue: 05:15 PM at CV Raman Auditorium



Mechanisms enabling consistency in olfactory responses despite variability in the neural pathways
more

Dr. Nitin Gupta
Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, IIT Kanpur

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A biophysical approach to understand genotype-phenotype relationship in bacterial cells
more

Dr. Sanchari Bhattacharyya
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 24, 1st Floor, Main Building



Visualizing topological Fermi-arcs and Weyl node connectivity in the ferromagnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2
more

Dr. Pranab Kumar Nag
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 32, 2nd floor, Main Building



Conversation with Manu S. Pillai
more

Manu S. Pillai
Author of the critically acclaimed The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore (2015), Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji (2018), and The Courtesan, the Mahatma & the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History (2019).

Time and Venue: 07:00 PM at LHC 101



The status of the inflationary paradigm
more

Prof. L. Sriramkumar
IIT, Madras

Time and Venue: 04:10 PM at Seminar room 31 A Wing Main Building



Integration of developmental and environmental signals in plant growth plasticity
more

Dr. Utpal Nath
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 32, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Effects of viscoelasticity in fluids and living systems
more

Dr. Anupam Gupta
Harvard University, USA

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Seminar Hall 33, 2nd floor, Main Building



Centrosome Aurora A ensures a single polarity axis in the one-cell C.elegans embryo
more

Dr. Sachin Kotak
Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology (MCB) Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



TBA   Mon, Sep 23, 2019


Dr. Jean Claude Zenklusen
Director of TCGA from National Cancer Institute, NIH, USA

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM at CV Raman Auditorium




Architecture as Evidence of Cultural Continuities : The Sultanate of Ahmadnagar
more

Dr Pushkar Sohoni
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 05:15 PM at CV Raman Auditorium



Macdonald polynomials and level two Demazure modules for affine sl_{n+1}.
more

Dr.Rekha Biswal
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at 3rd floor Madhava hall math's



Parton paradigm for the quantum Hall effect
more

Ajit C Balram
IMSc Chennai

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Hall 32, 2nd floor, Main Building



Hot spots conjecture for Euclidean domains
more

Dr. Sugata Mondal
T.I.F.R., Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at 3rd floor Madhava hall math's



Spins, Brains and Markets: Transitions between frustration and balance in adaptive systems
more

Prof. Sitabhra Sinha
IMSc, Chennai

Time and Venue: 04:10 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Applications of IVIS in animal imaging
more

Dr. Ronald Koop
Application Specialist, Perkin Elmer

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Supercurrent interference in nanowire-superconductor hybrid systems
more

Dr. Bhaskaran Muralidharan
IIT Bombay

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Complexity for quantum field theory and "renormalization"
more

Dr. Arpan Bhattacharyya
IIT Gandhinagar

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Understanding the Evolution of Social Life in Animals: The Bitter-Sweet Saga
more

Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Time and Venue: 05:15 PM at CV Raman Auditorium



Numerical simulations of binary black holes & Advanced LIGO Science
more

Prof. Prayush Kumar
Cornell University, NY

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Critical groups of graphs   Thu, Sep 05, 2019

Critical groups of graphs
more

Dr. Venkata Raghu Tej Pantangi
University of Florida

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Topological Derivatives and its applications
more

Dr Ravi Prakash
Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM at 3rd floor Madhava hall math's



Black Holes   Fri, Aug 30, 2019

Black Holes
more

Prof. Shiraz Minwalla
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Time and Venue: 05:15 PM at CV Raman Auditorium



Exact WKB analysis of CP1 holomorphic blocks
more

Prof. Dileep Jatkar
HRI Allahabad

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Transient Dynamics of Biomolecular Reactions Captured by Time-resolved cryo-EM
more

Dr. Sandip Kaledhonkar
The Frank Lab Columbia University Medical Center, New York

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Neuronal control of backward walking in Drosophila
more

Dr. Rajyashree Sen
Postdoctoral Research Scientist Richard Axel Lab Zuckerman Institute - Columbia University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The Geometry of a Typical Black Hole Microstate
more

Dr. Sagar F. Lokhande
University of Amsterdam, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The Black Hole Information Problem and Approaches to its Solution
more

Dr. Sagar F. Lokhande
University of Amsterdam, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Gating and drug modulation in ligand-gated ion channels: Insights from X-ray crystallography and Cryo-EM
more

Dr. Sandip Basak
Department of Physiology and Biophysics Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



“Quantum” photons from dipole coupled two-level atomic system
more

Prof. P. Panigrahi
IISER Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM to 05:20 PM at Seminar Room 31 Second floor, Main Building



Quest for Cosmic Origin   Fri, Aug 16, 2019

Quest for Cosmic Origin
more

Prof Tarun Souradeep
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 05:15 PM at CV Raman Auditorium



The flat-earth society: conformal mapping from Claudius Ptolemy to Louis Nirenberg.
more

Dr. Debraj Chakrabarti
Central Michigan University, USA

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



The Heisenberg commutation relation and operator algebras
more

Dr. Soumyashant Nayak
University of Pennsylvania

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Run-and-tumble particles on a 1D lattice
more

Dr. Rahul Dandekar
IMSc, Chennai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building





Selmer group of elliptic curves and explicit presentation of Iwasawa algebras
more

Dr. Jishnu Ray
The University of British Columbia, Canada.

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Non-linear Fluctuation Dissipation Relation via holography
more

Chandan Jana
ICTS, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 32, 2nd floor, Main Building



Probing the physical basis of living systems, working towards a physics of life
more

Dr. Shashi Thutupalli
NCBS, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 03:15 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building





Dr. Kheya Sengupta
Interdisciplinary Centre for Nanoscience, Marseille, France

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Halide perovskites: A new class of semiconductors with emergent functional properties
more

Dr. Aditya Mohite
RICE University, USA

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar room No. 31, A Wing, Second Floor, Main Building



Functional analysis of DYRK1A, and its implications in Down Syndrome and DYRK1A Syndrome
more

Dr. Man Mohan
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Inflammasome activation in Parkinson’s Disease
more

Dr. Nikhil Panicker
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Heterostructures and Heterointerfaces for Nanoelectronics and Photovoltaics
more

Dr. Deep Jariwala
University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM at Seminar Hall 32, 2nd floor, Main Building




A uniqueness result for general Dirichlet series
more

Dr. Anup Dixit
University of Toronto

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM at Madhava Hall





Prof. Alison Smith
Head of Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge university

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at LHC 103, Lecture Hall Complex



Anomalies, Index theorem, and Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics
more

Dr. Arnab Rudra
ICTP Trieste

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Gravitational Lensing, Gravitational Waves and deviations from Geometric limit
more

Dr. Jasjeet Singh Bagla
IISER Mohali

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, Second Floor,Main Building



Molecular identity of the electrical synapse connectome and its plasticity
more

Dr. Abhishek Bhattacharya
Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, USA

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Lysosome in novel nutrient homeostasis: From Degradation to Disorder
more

Dr. Urmi Bandyopadhyay
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Direct Detection of Sub-GeV Dark Matter via Electron Recoils
more

Dr. Mukul Sholapurkar
Stony Brook University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Materials Science with 2D Atomic Layers
more

Prof. Pulickel M. Ajayan
Rice Universty

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Optically detected magnetic resonance spectroscopy using NV centers in diamond
more

Dr. Vidya Praveen Bhallamudi
IIT Madras

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Staying in touch; is it important ?
more

Prof. Raghu Padinjat
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Mesoscopic entanglement with Bose-Einstein condensates
more

Dr. Sebastian Wuester
IISER Bhopal

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A Tale of two congruences   Fri, Jun 14, 2019

A Tale of two congruences
more

Prof Dinesh Thakur
University of Rochester, USA

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Generalised Seiberg-Witten equations and de-generate metrics
more

Dr Varun Thakre
ICTS, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Dirty Chemistry   Mon, Jun 10, 2019

Dirty Chemistry
more

Dr. Chu-Young Kim
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry The University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Metaplectic Representations of Hecke algebras
more

Professor Siddhartha Sahi
Rutgers University

Time and Venue: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor,Main Building



Molecular Drivers of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
more

Dr. Samrat Mukhopadhyay
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The Study of Projective modules over an affine algebra
more

Prof. Ravi Rao
T.I.F.R, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at 3rd floor Madhava Hall Mathematics



Transcriptional regulation by chromatin modifier PRC2: Insights from cryo-EM
more

Dr. Vignesh Kasinath
Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow Prof. Eva Nogales Lab, QB3 Institute University of California, Berkeley

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Prof. Chandrashekhar Pasare
Division of Immunobiology, Center for Inflammation and Tolerance at Cincinnati Children\'s Hospital Medical Center, Ohio

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Understanding disorder-induced phases in dipolar spin ice
more

Dr. Arnab Sen
IACS Kolkata

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Multiplexed regulation of Myosin VI motility by cargo adaptor proteins
more

Dr. Ashim Rai
Protein Acrobatics Lab, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, USA

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




The dynamics of genome architecture at the nuclear periphery through nuclear pore complexes
more

Dr. Swati Tyagi
Salk Institute, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building





Vignettes on protein assembly and design.
more

Dr. Shachi Gosavi
NCBS, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Is Contextuality Sufficient for Quantum Computation? Bound States for Qudit Magic State Distillation
more

Dr. Shiroman Prakash
Dayalbagh Institute, Agra

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Planarians as a model to study conserved gene regulatory mechanisms controlling adult stem cell dynamics
more

Dr. Prasad Abnave
Department of Zoology University of Oxford, UK

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Modulation of neuronal function by intracellular calcium signaling
more

Prof. Gaiti Hasan
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Emerging drivers of chromosomal instability and the response to replication stress in triple negative breast cancers.
more

Prof. Andrew Tutt
Head of the Division of Breast Cancer Research Director, Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, Institute of Cancer Research and Guys\'s Hospital King\'s College, London, UK

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Drink up my little worm, it’s the dopamine that makes you go in circles
more

Dr. Kavita Babu
Department of Biological Sciences Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER), Mohali

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Kite diagram through Symmetries of Feynman Integrals
more

Dr. Subhajit Mazumder
The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Rab – kinesin interactions control recycling endosome dynamics/biogenesis
more

Dr. Subbarao Gangi Setty
Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Food Habits of Black hole: Perception vs. Reality
more

Prof Sandip Chakrabarti
SNBCS, Kolkata

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



ROS regulates cell growth to determine organismal size in Drosophila
more

Dr. Sudip Mandal
IISER Mohali

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Highly dilute uncharged polymers act as chemical RNA chaperones.
more

Dr. Mrityunjoy Kar
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany Center for Systems Biology Dresden, Germany

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Beta function computations: using exact RG and holographically
more

Dr. Prafulla Oak
IMSc Chennai

Time and Venue: 10:30 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Out of Time Ordered Quantum Dissipation
more

Bidisha Chakrabortty
ICTS, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



(not) Designed in California - inclusive, diverse, community led innovation with PV and Digital Technologies
more

Prof. Matt Jones
Swansea University, UK

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Role of microtubules and associated proteins in mitochondrial dynamics and partitioning
more

Dr. Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan
Cytoskeleton and Motors Lab, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



RAD51 paralogs: unraveling the new roles in genome stability and tumor suppression
more

Dr. Ganesh Nagaraju
Dept. of Biochemistry Indian Institute of Science, Bagalore

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



What the World is Made of ?   Fri, Mar 29, 2019

What the World is Made of ? From the Latest Results of the Large Hadron Collider to Physics Outreach for Schools and the General Public
more

Prof. Arnulf Quadt
Georg-August University, Gottingen

Time and Venue: 06:00 PM at Sir C.V. Raman Auditorium, LHC



Tuning Magnetic Anisotropy in Nanostructures for Biomedical and Electromagnetic Applications
more

Prof. Hari Srikanth
University of South Florida

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Relativistic charge solitons caused due to Nonlinear-Landau damping : A candidate to explain coherent radio emission from pulsars
more

Dr Dipanjan Mitra
NCRA-TIFR,

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Relating neutrino observables in a testable A4-symmetry model
more

Prof. Amitava Raychaudhuri
University of Kolkata

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A New Superconducting Mechanism in the Market
more

Prof. Tanmoy Das
IISC, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Eicosanoid biogenesis and eicosanoid-like mediators in Drosophila
more

Prof. Shubha Govind
The City College of New York PhD Programs in Biology & Biochemistry CUNY Graduate Center City University of New York

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The Large-scale Structure of our Universe with Radio galaxies
more

Dr Prabhakar Tiwari
NAOC, Beijing

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The archive as crucible: Pedagogy in the interplay of memory, database and narrative
more

Dr. Venkat Srinivasan
Visiting researcher and archivist at NCBS

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Contrasting effects of greenhouse and solar surface radiative forcing on the climate and hydrologic sensitivity: an analysis using simple climate models
more

Dr. Chirag Dhara
Climate Change Analyst, Firstpost, India

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at R. No.32, Second floor, Main building





Visualizing Hox-dependent regulation of autophagy at the nuclear periphery
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Dr Samir Merabet
IGFL, UMR 5242 CNRS/ENS Lyon, France

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Quantum spin liquids in rare earth pyrochlores : quantum spin ice and beyond
more

Prof. Subhro Bhattacharjee
ICTS Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Paramodular forms coming from elliptic curves
more

Dr. Manami Roy
University of Oklahoma

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM at Madhava Hall




Dr. Asher Minns
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at R. No.32, Second floor, Main building



The Solar Drivers of Space Weather: What are the key issues for Improving Short to Medium Range S Forecasting?
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Dr. Angelos Vourlidas
Johns Hopkins University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Capturing electrons in motion at the nanometer-femtosecond scale
more

Prof. keshav Dani
Okinawa Inst. Of Science and Technology,Okinawa, Japan

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Proteome homeostasis: analysis and visualization of protein degradation - from single cells to tissues
more

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Michael Knop
Group Leader in the DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance ZMBH, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Solid-Solid Interfacial Engineering to Enable High Energy All-Solid-State Batteries
more

Dr. Abhik Banerjee
University of California, USA

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building





Structure and Function of Epithelial Calcium Channel TRPV6
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Dr. Appu K Singh
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York 10032, USA

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Long-lived particles for dark matter searches at the LHC
more

Dr. Nishita Desai
TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Vector biology and Immunology of Leishmaniasis.
more

Dr. David Sacks
Senior Investigator and Chief of the Intracellular Parasite Biology Research Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Unravelling the mystery of dark matter in the light of experimental results
more

Dr. Suchita Kulkarni
HEPHY, Vienna

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Doughnuts, Soccer Balls and Topological Materials: Schrödinger to Einstein and Dirac
more

Prof. Arun Bansil
Northeastern University, Boston, USA

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Role for intracellular Ca2+ signalling in regulating neuropeptides required for Drosophila development under nutritional stress.
more

Dr. Megha
Wellcome Trust, DBT-India Alliance Early Career Fellow National Centre for Biological Science (NCBS-TIFR), Bangalore

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Transport in ballistic junctions of topological materials.
more

Prof. Krishnendu Sengupta
IACS, Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Dissection of the Fundamental Roles Played by Apicomplexan Aspartyl Proteases in Establishment of Parasitism
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Dr. Budhaditya Mukherjee
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine - University of Geneva, Switzerland

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room no.34, Second Floor, Main Building



On fractional multi-singular Schr"odinger operators: positivity and localization of binding
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Dr. Debangana Mukherjee
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Army Research Office (ARO) Overview and Physics Division Objectives in Asia-Pacific
more

Thomas B. Bahder
U. S. Army Research Office 7-23-17 Roppongi, Minato-ku Tokyo 106-0032 Japan

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room No. 31, A Wing, 2nd floor, Main Building



Programs + Communication Structures = Systems
more

Prof. Simon Gay
University of Glasgow, UK

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Ab-initio Calculations of the Thermoelectric Properties of MXenes
more

Prof. Udo Schwingenschlogl
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Extended moment formation in monolayer TMDCs
more

Dr.Nirpendra Singh
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology((KAUST)

Time and Venue: 12:30 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Right handed neutrinos: a roadmap from the energy to the intensity frontiers
more

Dr. Arindam Das
Osaka University

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building





Saikiran Tharimena
The concept of the lithosphere asthenosphere system is well defined as the rheological boundary between the rigid lithosphere above and the weaker asthenosphere below. However, its nature remains enigmatic as tight constraints on observables that could di

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at R. No.32, Second floor, Main building



DNA replication stress response: cross talk between checkpoint, chromatin regulators and the replisome
more

Dr. Devyani Haldar
The Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad

Time and Venue: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM at Seminar Room no.34, Second Floor, Main Building



Compactness results for elliptic equations with critical growth and hardy weight
more

Dr. Saikat Mazumdar
McGill University

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Dissecting the Neural Correlates of Nocifensive Behaviors
more

Dr. Arnab Barik
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda MD, USA

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room no.34, Second Floor, Main Building



Figures of Sound and Threads of Silence
more

Dr. Sudhir Jain
BARC, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Patterned Flows: from Thin Films to Turbulence
more

Dr. Jason Picardo
ICTS, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Fate and freedom in the developing brain
more

Prof. Denis Jabaudon
Director, Department of Basic Neuroscience at the University of Geneva, Switzerland

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room no.34, Second Floor, Main Building



Circuit optimization for Cliffort+T library: Paving a way to get higher fidelity and higher values of nonclassicality witnesses in IBM's quantum processors
more

Dr. Abhishek Shukla
University of Science and Technology of China

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Extra-zeros of Rankin–Selberg p-adic L-functions
more

Prof. Denis Benois
University of Bordeaux

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at 3rd floor Madhava Hall Mathematics



Finiteness of cohomology of arithmetic families of $(varphi, Gamma)$-modules
more

Dr. Aditya Karnataki
Beijing International Center for mathematical Research

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Universal models for Z^d actions
more

Dr. Nishant Chandgotia
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at 3rd floor Madhava Hall Mathematics



Viewing the beginning of time from the most remote places on Earth
more

Dr. Zeeshan Ahmed
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Time and Venue: 06:30 PM at C.V. Raman Auditorium, LHC



Development of Promoters for Hypergolic Reactions
more

Prof. Michael Gozin
Tel Aviv University

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




“Obesity: Liver dictates meta-inflammation via secretory hepatokine, dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP4)”
more

Dr. Devram Ghorpade
Department of Medicine, Columbia University, NY, USA

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room no.34, Second Floor, Main Building



The Indian Scientific Tradition in World History: Reflections on Integrating History of Science into Science Education
more

Dr. Meera Nanda

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Room 24 (Main Building)



Black holes in AdS/CFT   Fri, Jan 25, 2019

Black holes in AdS/CFT
more

Dr. Seok Kim
Seoul National University

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



SIRT7-dependent deacetylation of fibrillarin controls histone H2A methylation and rRNA synthesis during the cell cycle
more

Dr. Aishwarya Iyer-Bierhoff
Molecular Biology of the Cell II, German Cancer Research Centre, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Application of Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy towards the Design of Active Catalysts for Tomorrow�s Energy Claim
more

Dr. Tharamani C. N.
Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Late forming dark matter and light sterile neutrinos
more

Dr. Subinoy Das
IIA, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Physics Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Numerical Studies of sub-Keplerian Accretion Disk around Black Holes
more

Dr Sudip Garain
University of Notre Dame, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




SCALES AND SCALINGS IN FULLY DEVELOPED TURBULENCE
more

Prof. Jayanta Kumar Bhattacharjee
IACS, Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Using macroscopic quantum systems as detectors
more

Dr. Swati Singh
University of Delaware

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Lipid droplet and peroxisome vesicle budding from ER subdomains.
more

Dr. Amit Joshi
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building





Boundary value problem with measures for semi linear elliptic equations with Hardy potential
more

Dr. Phuoc-Tai Nguyen
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Madhava Hall



The Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetic Topological Insulator Heterostructures
more

Prof Nitin Samarth
Pennsylvania State University

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Kunz's theorem using perfect rings
more

Dr. Shravan Patankar
University of Illinois, Chicago

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Highly efficient control operations for nuclear spins without RF pulses
more

Prof. Dieter Suter
Technical University of Dortmund, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Data Management in CMS   Thu, Jan 10, 2019

Data Management in CMS
more

Prof. Pradeep Jasal
Fermilab USA

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Low Cost Organic Hole Transporting Materials for Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells
more

Dr. Prashant Sonar
Queensland University of Technology (QUT),Brisbane,Australia

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The India based Neutrino Observatory, mini-ICAL and a shallow ICAL
more

Prof. Vivek Datar
TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



One for the push, one for the pull: A cocktail of forces at the immunological synapse
more

Dr. Sudha Kumari
Irvine lab; MIT, Cambridge

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Velocity fields of non-Newtonian liquids from magnetic resonance microscopy
more

Prof. Dieter Suter
Dortmund University, Germany

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Presentations of cluster algebras
more

Dr. Jacob Matherne
IAS, Princeton

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Combinatorics of cluster categorification
more

Dr. Maitreyee Kulkarni
IAS, Princeton

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Hybrid quantum interfaces for future quantum technologies
more

Dr. Sumanta Das
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Role of Sgs1-Top3-Rmi1, Helicase-decatenase complex in maintaining genome integrity and cell divisions.
more

Dr. Hardeep Kaur
Yale university, School of Medicine, USA

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



"Linear Hahn Banach Extension of module homomorphisms in Hilbert and Banach modules"
more

Dr. Sudeshna Basu
George Washington University

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at 3rd floor Madhava Hall Mathematics



WNT/�-Catenin Signaling in Prostate Cancer Progression
more

Dr. Rachana Patel
The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Scotland

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



In cell biochemistry: Targeting synergies in dynamic protein ensembles
more

Dr. Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan
Protein Acrobatics Lab, University of Minnesota , USA

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Coherent control of solid state systems for quantum applications
more

Dr. Amlan Mukherjee
University of Stuttgart, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



How life preserves form and function across generations
more

Dr. Antony Jose
Department of Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics in the University of Maryland (College Park), USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at LHC103



Organic-based Magnets: New Chemistry Physics and Materials for This Millennium
more

Prof. Joel S. Miller
University of Utah, USA

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Hall 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A Solution to the Cosmological Constant Problem
more

Dr. Surjeet Rajendran
Univ. of California, Berkeley

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Vector bundles on hypersurfaces
more

Prof. Ravindra Girivaru
University of Missouri at St Louis

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



What I learned teaching (algebraic) topology
more

Prof. Stefan Friedl
Afflilliation:- University of Regensburg

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at 3rd floor Madhava Hall Mathematics



From representations of Lie algebras to Lie superalgebras
more

Dr. Thorsten Heidersdorf
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at 3rd floor Madhava Hall Mathematics



Dynamical localization in one-dimensional polar lattice gases
more

Dr. Arya Dhar
University of Hannover, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



T cell immune memory in infectious diseases: lessons from single-cell transcriptome analysis.
more

Dr. Veena Patil
Vaccine Discovery Division, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, USA

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Unraveling the spatial organization of chromosomes by single-molecule imaging
more

Dr. Mahipal Ganji
Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



"Immune homeostasis by regulatory T cells and circulating immunoglobulins"
more

Prof. Jagadeesh Bayry
Director of Research, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Sorbonne Université, Centre De Recherche des Cordeliers, Paris, France

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Understanding transcriptional regulation through multi-omic data integration
more

Dr Abhijeet Sonawane
Brigham and Women\'s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Self-propulsion by Marangoni forces
more

Dr. Venkata Sathish Akella
IIT Madras

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Dual roles of Swi6 (Heterochromatin Protein 1) in controlling recombination around centromeres and segregation in meiosis
more

Dr. Mridula Nambiar
Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



MEASURING STORMS IN SPACE-TIME: ASTRONOMY WITH GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION
more

Dr. Rob Ward
Research School of Physics and Engineering

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Unraveling the mystery of the neutron star merger gravitational wave event, GW 170817, at radio frequencies
more

Prof. Poonam Chandra
NCRA, TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



STABILITY OF CFTR ON PLASMA MEMBRANE OF A LUNG EPITHELIAL CELL LINE
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Prof. Ghanshyam Heda
(Professor of Medicine, The Univ Tenn Health Sci Ctr, Memphis) Dept of Sciences & Mathematics Mississippi University for Women Columbus, MS 39701, U.S.A.

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Chance ki Baat hai : How complexity arises in dynamical systems
more

Prof. Ram Ramaswamy
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Time and Venue: 06:15 PM at C.V. Raman Auditorium, LHC



Generalization of Dasgupta's factorization formula of p-adic Rankin L-series
more

Prof. Aprameyo Pal
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Unusual elasticity of polymer-particle composite materials
more

Prof. Guruswamy Kumaraswamy
CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Optically tweezing soft interfaces: real and imagined
more

Dr. Shobo Bhattacharya
Ashoka University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Prof. Sandhya S. Visweswariah
Chair, Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics Co-Chair, Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Universal deformation of dihedral representations.
more

Dr Shaunak Deo
TIFR MUMBAI

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at 3rd floor Madhava Hall Mathematics




The Unprecedented Promise of Perovskite Solar Cells for Cheap, Efficient, Clean Energy
more

Prof. Nitin Padture
Brown University, USA

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Metabolism across scales and its cross-talk with cellular cues
more

Dr. Vinay Bulusu
Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute Glasgow, United Kingdom

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Prospects of modified proteins: a latent tool for crop improvement
more

Dr. Anjil Kumar Srivastava
Durham University, UK

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Systematics, biogeography, and diversification in Asian tropical forests: case studies from centipedes and butterflies
more

Dr.Jahnavi Joshi
Newton International Fellow, Natural History Museum, London

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Space-maker hydrolases and their role in enlargement of bacterial cell wall
more

Dr. Manjula Reddy
CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad

Time and Venue: 12:00 AM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Tunable symmetries and Berry’s phase in few layer graphene
more

Dr. Mandar M. Deshmukh
TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Physics Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Next Generation Sequencing Facilities and Service Offered by Macrogen, Inc
more

Dr. San Kim
Team Head of NGS Overseas Sales, Macrogen Inc., Korea

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 32, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Regulation of mitochondrial size and number under mitochondria stress.
more

Dr. Manish Jaiswal
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Spins on a Kagome Lattice: Topological Magnons
more

Dr. Ranjani Sheshadri
IISc Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd floor, main buidling



Non canonical roles of BER enzymes in RNA processing: novel perspectives in cancer biology through the study of APE1 protein - and RNA �interactomes
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Prof. Gianluca Tell
Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology and DNA repair Director of the B.Sc. in Biotechnologies Dept. of Medicine University of Udine, Italy

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 24, 1st Floor, Main Building



Optimal Control in Stochastic Landau-Lipschitz-Gilbert Equation
more

Dr. Ananta Kumar Majee
IIT Delhi

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Some recent progress on spacetime reconstruction from CFT
more

Dr. Debajyoti Sarkar
Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP), Universität Bern

Time and Venue: 01:30 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Dr. Sushmita Gupta
Matching under preferences is a research area that finds numerous applications in practice as diverse as assigning colleges to students, workers to firms, kidney donors to recipients and users to servers in a distributed internet service, to just name a f

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at 3rd floor Madhava Hall Mathematics



Some interesting optical manifestations in quantum confined excitonic systems
more

Dr. Bidisha Roy
Walter Schottky Insititute, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd floor, main buidling



Periodic orbits, stability and chaos in the classical three rotor problem
more

Prof. Govind S. Krishnaswami
Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM to 05:20 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd floor, main buidling




Dr. Rajiv Raman
Many fundamental optimization problems such as the independent set in graphs, set cover in hypergraphs, etc. are well studied in the general and abstract setting. In many natural applications, these problems arise in a geometric setting. For example, we

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at 3rd floor Madhava Hall Mathematics



Tuning of receptor tyrosine kinase activity by phosphoinositides
more

Dr. Raghu Padinjat
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore.

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Multi-observable transient, particle astrophysics
more

Dr Nachiketa Chakraborty
Max-Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Quantum Simulation via All-Optically Generated Tensor Network States
more

Dr. Ish Dhand
University of Ulm in Germany

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Counter-examples to the Generalized Ramanujan conjecture for Rank 1 orthogonal groups
more

Dr. Ameya Pitale
Oklahoma University

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



A programmable superconducting quantum processor with three pairwise coupled qubits
more

Prof. R Vijayaraghavan
TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Computational learning environments for teaching model-based inquiry in science Classrooms
more

Sugat Dabholkar
School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 24, First floor, Main Academic Building, IISER Pune



Molecular phylogeny of freshwater fishes and reconstruction of biogeographic history of India
more

Dr. Neelesh Dahanukar
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



On Curvature of Hermitian Manifolds
more

Dr. Ananya Chaturvedi
IIT Bombay

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Cryo-EM Structure of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Target of Rapamycin Complex 2
more

Dr. Manikandan Karuppasamy
EMBL, Grenoble

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Dissecting the hippocampal spatial map one building block at a time
more

Dr. Sachin Deshmukh
Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The Political Economy of Land Acquisition in India: How a Village stops Being One
more

Dr. Dhanmanjiri Sathe
Professor, Head of Department, Department of Economics, Savitribai Phule Pune University

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 24 (Main Building)



Novel molecular players in the maintenance of heterochromatin silencing
more

Dr. Ramesh Yelagandula
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA)-Vienna Biocenter, Vienna, Austria

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Prof. Kumarvel Somarundaram
Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The Standard Model - Too Much of a Good Thing
more

Prof. Sreerup Raychaudhuri
TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Parental Epigenetics And Zygotic Cell Biology: A Play On Early Vertebrate Development In Two Acts
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Dr Sreelaja Nair
TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



High Order Numerical Schemes for Magnetohydrodynamics on Geodesic Mesh
more

Dr Sudip K. Garain
University of Notre Dame, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd floor, Main Building



Scalable Misinformation Prevention in Social Networks
more

Dr. Venkatesh Srinivasan
University of Victoria, Canada

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall




Insights from DNA methylome analysis and epigenetic driver of cancer metastasis
more

Dr. Aniruddha Chatterjee
Dept of Pathology, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Studies on the Formation and Clustering of Liposomes in Stationary Phase Interdiffusion Method
more

Dr. Chandra Haas
Department of Chemical Engineering Nanotechnology Lab (#220/222) Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Generalised Seiberg-Witten equations and de-generate metrics
more

Dr. Varun Dilip Thakare
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Sp(l)icing Up Endocrine Resistance in Breast Cancer
more

Prof Sunil Badve, M.B.B.S., M.D., F.R.C.P.
Joshua Edwards Professor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis , USA.

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Magnetohydrodynamics and one-form Superfluidity
more

Dr. Akash Jain
Durham University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Found in Translation: Revisiting 'translation' in the everyday
more

Dr. Chandrani Chatterjee
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Savitribai Phule Pune University

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 24 (Main Building)



Spatiotemporal control of the number and diversity of centrosome-cilia
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Dr. Swadhin Chandra Jana
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Gulbenkian Institute), Portugal

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Nanoscale Magnetometry Based On Single Spin Center In Diamond
more

Dr. Waseem Akhtar
Laboratory Charles Coulomb, CNRS, Montpellier, France

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A practical approach to strengthening our scientific ecosystem
more

Prof. Deshdeep Sahdev
QuazarTech

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



C� - and topological correspondences in the theory of C� -algebras
more

Dr. Rohit Holkar
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Discovery of a novel form of developmental protein JARID2 and its implications to diseases
more

Dr. Aditi Kanhere
School of Biosciences University of Birmingham, UK

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A Hermeneutical Reinterpretation of Land: A case study from Indian Sundarbans
more

Dr. Kalpita Paul
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 24 (Main Building)



Investigation of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in novel room temperature skyrmion systems
more

Dr. Samridh Jaiswal
University of Mainz, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd floor, main buidling



Dawn of Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy
more

Prof. B. Sathyaprakash
Penn State University

Time and Venue: 06:30 PM at C.V. Raman Auditorium, LHC



Engineering light-matter interaction in dielectric nanophotonics
more

Dr.Shuren Hu
Global Foundaries, NY, USA

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Vibrating Single-molecule Coupled to Plasmonic Nanocavity
more

Dr. Rohit Chikkaraddy
Cavendish Lab, University of Cambridge

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd floor, main buidling



The large sieve with sparse sets of moduli for number and function fields
more

Prof. Stephan Baier
RKM Vivekananda University

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Low energy excitation and ultrafast resurgence of quasiparticles in heavyfermion systems.
more

Dr. Shovon Pal
Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Extremal primes for non-CM elliptic curves
more

Dr. Neha Prabhu
Queen\'s University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Search for light Higgsinos at LHC with a Right-sneutrino LSP
more

Dr. Santosh Kumar Rai
HRI Allahabad

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The nuclear lamina and the regulation of cellular function, development and disease
more

Dr. Quasar Saleem Padiath
Dept. of Human Genetics Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 24, 1st Floor, Main Building



Four Flavours of Combinatorics: (Enumerative, Probabilistic, Extremal, and Geometric)
more

Dr. Kunal Dutta
Associate Researcher in the DataShape group at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall




Uncovering the Plasticity of Nucleosome Core During Chromatin Remodeling Reactions
more

Dr. Kalyan Sinha
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Mechano-Electrical Feedback in the Heart
more

Prof. M. K. Mathew
NCBS, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM at Seminar Room 32, 2nd Floor, Main Building



International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC)
more

Prof. Steve Brown
MRC Harwell UK

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 01:00 PM at Multipurpose Hall, Guest House



Identifying pathways for therapeutic intervention: what we have (or haven't) learned so far.
more

Dr. Sorab Dalal
Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Tata Memorial Centre, Navi Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Seminar Room 32, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Exploring spin-defects in diamond for novel quantum technologies
more

Dr. Siddharth Dhomkar
City College of New York, CUNY

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



All-loop results from the Amplituhedron
more

Mr. Y. S. Akshay
Princeton University, USA

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd floor, Main Buidling



On Riemannian curvature Functionals
more

Dr. Atreyee Bhattacharya
IISER Bhopal

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 41, 3rd Floor, Main Building



A discrete choice modelling of climate change adaptation: Impact on tea economy in India
more

Dr. Nimai Das
Associate Professor, Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM at Seminar Room 24 (Main Building)



Recent Progress in Sumanene Chemistry
more

Prof. Hidehiro Sakurai
Division of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building





The versatile toolbox of cavity opto-mechanics
more

Dr. Siddharth Tallur
IIT-Bombay

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



How are astrocytes generated and how do they protect the brain following injury?
more

Dr. Narendrakumar Ramanan 
Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



HIGHER ARITHMETIC CHOW GROUPS
more

Dr.Souvik Goswami
Texas A&M University, Texas, USA

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall 3rd Floor, Main Building



Spatial Poisson Models with non-uniform density.
more

Dr. Pallavi Manohar
Singapore Management University

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 32, Main Building



First-Principle studies on the Structural Response of Solids to Ultrashort-laser and XUV Pulses
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Dr. Fairoja Cheenicode Kabeer
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, P. O. Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd floor, Main Building



Can current decrease with increasing bias: onset of negative response in non-equilibrium systems
more

Prof. P K Mohanty
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd floor, main buidling



Evolution and conservation of birds in biodiversity hotspots
more

Dr. Sushma Reddy
Loyola University Chicago University of Minnesota

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A theoretical (bio)physicist looks at cancer metastasis
more

Dr. Mohit Kumar Jolly
Rice University, Houston

Time and Venue: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Cell-type specificity of septin cytoskeleton – what we learnt from the Sept7 knockout model
more

Dr. Manoj B. Menon
Institute of Cell Biochemistry, Hannover Medical School, Germany

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



On the Validity of the Effective Potential and the Precision of Higgs Self Couplings
more

Dr. Bithika Jain
ICTP-SAIFR

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




The hybrid topology a bridge between string theory and QFT.
more

Prof. Jose Ignacio Burgos Gil
ICMAT, Madrid, Spain

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 06:00 PM at Seminar Room 41, 3rd Floor, Main Building




Designer nanoprobes to investigate cellular functions
more

Dr. Souvik Modi
University College London, UK

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Effect of Climate change and land use pressures on Amazonian forests - recent results and new efforts
more

David Galbraith and Manuel Gloor
University of Leeds, UK

Time and Venue: 09:30 AM to 10:30 AM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Embedding theorems on Desingularization of Compactified Jacobians.
more

Dr. Seshadri Chintapalli
HRI, Allahabad

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Geometric Quantization: Various Moduli Spaces and the Toda system
more

Prof. Rukmini Dey
ICTS Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Notch downstream target Hes-1 switches roles based on its mode of activation
more

Dr. Jackson James
RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Studying the mechanisms of visual perception in the mouse cortex
more

Dr. Tiago Marques
Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Science from Aditya-L1: an upcoming ISRO mission to study the Sun's corona
more

Dr. Dipankar Banerjee
IIA, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Quantum simulation with ultracold atoms in optical lattices
more

Dr. Bodhaditya Santra
University of Hamburg, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Insect Flight: from Neural Control to Ecological Implications
more

Tanvi Deora
University of Washington, Seattle

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building





RNA Epitranscriptome in Translation Regulation
more

Dr. Namit Ranjan
Max Plank Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Gottingen, Germany

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A control-theory problem viewed through the lens of reductive group action on Stein domains
more

Dr. Gautam Bharali
IISc Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



A non-perturbative paradigm and the Quark-Gluon Plasma
more

Dr. Ayan Mukhopadhaya
IIT Madras

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Sensitivity Enhancement in Solid-State NMR: Cross-Polarization and Dynamic Nuclear Polarization
more

Dr. Sheetal Jain
UC Santa Barbara

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Two Families Theorem in Graph Theory and Combinatorics
more

Dr. Saket Saurabh
IMSc, Chennai

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Mechanobiology of Cell-Substrate Interactions
more

Dr. Namrata Gundiah
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Solving polynomial equations   Fri, Apr 06, 2018

Solving polynomial equations
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Prof. Manoj Kummini
Chennai Mathematical Institute

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Glassy behavior associated with melting of two-dimensional Coulomb clusters
more

Dr. Amit Ghosal
IISER Kolkata

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Multiplexing on their way down: Visual and mechanosensory integration by descending neurons in hawkmoths
more

Dr. Sanjay Sane
NCBS Bangalore

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Prospects of Anderson's theorem for strongly correlated disordered superconductors
more

Dr. Amit Ghoshal
IISER Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Constraining black-hole spins with gravitational wave observations
more

Dr. Vaibhav Tiwari
Cardiff University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Mechanobiology of Cell-Substrate Interactions
more

Namrata Gundiah
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Translational symmetry broken Mott states of ultracold bosons
more

Prof. Krishnendu Sengupta
IACS, Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Inspiration from a tiny mind: Neural and behavioural mechanisms underlying collision detection and avoidance in an insect
more

Prof. Jack Gray
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Determination of time-dependent coefficients of a hyperbolic inverse problem from partial boundary data
more

Prof. Venky Krishnan
TIFR-CAM, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Droplets, rotons and peculiar disorder models in dipolar gases
more

Prof. Luis Santos
Institute of Theoretical Physics,Germany

Time and Venue: 04:15 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Entropy, Disorder and Scaling near the Unjamming Transition
more

Dr. Kabir Ramola
University of Brandeis

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM at Seminar Room 32, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Mixed-Dimensional van der Waals Heterostructures for Electronic and Energy Applications
more

Prof. Mark C. Hersam
Northwestern University

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Deconstruction of the Ras switching cycle through saturation mutagenesis
more

Prof. John Kuriyan
University of California, Berkeley

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM at Sir C. V. Raman Auditorium, Lecture Hall Complex



Evolution of aging and adaptation to variable environments
more

Prof. Ophélie Ronce
Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution -Montpelier (ISEM), France

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Quantum geometry of many-electron states
more

Prof. R. Shankar
IMSc., Chennai

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



When Nature Stammers: Function, regulation and evolution of repeat containing proteins
more

Dr. Sreenivas Chavali
MRC LMB, Cambridge, UK

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Setting the World on Fire: Syphilis and Capsicum in Early Hindvi Vocabularies
more

Prof. Walter Hakala
Associate Professor, SUNY (Buffalo)

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 24 (Main Building)



Construction and Deconstruction, thoughts on early undergraduate education
more

Prof. Utpal Banerjee
Irving and Jean Stone Professor, University of California at Los Angeles

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Metabolic control of mammalian early embryonic development
more

Prof. Utpal Banerjee
Irving and Jean Stone Professor, University of California at Los Angeles

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Quantum phase and its measurable attributes a la the Aharonov-Bohm effect
more

Prof. Sushanta Dattagupta
Bose Institute, Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



HFSP: Funding International Research Collaborations in the Life Sciences
more

Dr. Barbara Pauly
Director of Fellowships, HFSP

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Quark-like Confinement in a Condensed Matter System: An Experimental Observation
more

Dr. Anup Kumar Bera
BARC, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A Tongue Untied   Mon, Mar 12, 2018

A Tongue Untied
more

Gautam Pemmaraju
Film-screening and discussion with film-maker

Time and Venue: 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM at LHC 103



Hijacking physiological pathways for pathological outcomes
more

Dr. Pavithra L Chavali
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



High-sensitivity magnetic resonance of small samples: Polarisation transfer between photons, electrons and nuclear spins
more

Prof. Dieter Suter
Technical University of Dortmund

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Representing the Apocalypse in the European Middle Ages, variety of motives and implications
more

Élise Haddad de La Morinerie

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 24 (Main Building)



The second quantum revolution and its impact on information technology
more

Prof. Dieter Suter
Technical University of Dortmund

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM at Sir C V Raman Auditorium, LHC



Direct observation of Free vs. Localized excitonic state in Controlling the Photoluminescence Dynamics of High Optical Gain CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals
more

Dr. Dinesh Kabra
IIT Bombay

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Building a compact neutral atom accelerator
more

Prof. M. Krishnamurthy
TIFR, Hyderabad

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



SUPERSYMMETRY: ASPIRATIONS AND PROSPECTS
more

Prof. Xerxes Tata
Univ. of Hawaii

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Dynamics of entangled systems: Nonclassical effects and entanglement indicators
more

Prof. S. Lakshmi Bala
IIT Madras

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Histone variants shape functional chromatin domains
more

Prof. Frederic Berger
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Acetylcholine receptor in action: sniff, bind, gate and open
more

Dr. Tapan Kumar Nayak
SUNY at Buffalo, New York, USA

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Results on zeros of combinations of derivatives of completed Riemann zeta function
more

Dr. Sneha Chaubey
Goettingen

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Cell fate to division control in bacteria: tales from two poles
more

Dr. Sunish Kumar Radhakrishnan
IISER Thiruvananthapuram

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The impact of exercise on brain aging: What we have learned from models of Parkinson’s disease
more

Prof. Michael Zigmond
University of Pittsburgh

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building





Dr. Roshan Srivastav
Associate Professor, Centre for Disaster Mitigation and Management, Vellore Institute of Technology

Time and Venue: 05:15 PM to 06:15 PM at ECS Seminar room 32, Second Floor, Main Building



Artin’s conjecture for abelian varieties
more

Dr. Cristian Virdol
Yonsei University

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Looking back and looking ahead in Particle Physics
more

Prof. Daniel Wyler
University of Zurich

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Haldane-Shastry like spin chains with non-periodic boundary condition and related vertex models
more

Prof. Bireswar Basu Mallick
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Intracellular Parasitism – Survival Strategies of a Cell inside a Cell
more

Dr. Nishith Gupta
Humboldt University, Berlin

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Studying neural mechanisms of stress resilience in a novel animal model of PTSD
more

Prof. Gal Richter-Levin
Director, The Integrated Brain and Behavior Research Center (IBBR) University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Oscillations of the Indian monsoon - looking for explanations
more

Svante Henriksson
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM at ECS Seminar room 32, Second Floor, Main Building



Reciprocity in spintronic devices
more

Prof. Ashwin Tulapurkar
Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Physics Seminar Hall 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Temperature-mediated regulation of plant growth and immunity in Arabidopsis
more

Dr. Sreeram Gangappa
John Innes Centre

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Discipline to Interdisciplinary: Reflections from an ongoing Journey
more

Dr. Anurekha Chari-Wagh
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, at Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 24 (Main Building)



Neural mechanisms underlying memory-guided behavior
more

Shantanu Jadhav, PhD
Brandeis University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Quark-like Confinement in a Condensed Matter System: An Experimental Observation
more

Dr. Anup Kumar Bera
BARC, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Cooling a Quantum Processor And a few other applications of star-topology registers
more

Prof. T. S. Mahesh
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Regulation of Human T Helper Cell Differentiation
more

Prof. Riitta Lahesmaa
Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and �bo Akademi University, Finland

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Groups with involutions: their place in geometry and representation theory
more

Prof. Dipendra Prasad
TIFR Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall




"Regular elements in semisimple algebraic groups' Part-1
more

Prof. Dipendra Prasad
TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM at Madhava Hall



Regular elements in semisimple algebraic groups Part 2
more

Prof. Dipendra Prasad
TIFR Mumbai

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Quasilinear parabolic problems - method of unified intrinsic scaling.
more

Dr. Karthik Adimurthi
Seoul National University, South Korea

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall




Dr. Trevor Birkenholtz
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar room 34, Second Floor, Main Building



The Tenfold Way To Amorphous Topological Insulators
more

Prof. Vijay Shenoy
IISc., Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Magnetic Skyrmions: A Topological Spin Textures
more

Dr. Ashis Kumar Nandy
Uppsala University

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Universal models in ergodic theory
more

Dr. Nishant Chandgotia
Tel Aviv University

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM at Madhava Hall



On the Possibility of a Closed String Field Theory with Cubic Action
more

Dr. Roji Pius
Perimeter Institute

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Induced Vacuum Decay by Topological Solitons
more

Prof. Manu Paranjape
Université de Montréal, Canada

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



On the Possibility of a Closed String Field Theory with Cubic Action
more

Roji Pius
Perimeter Institute

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Remodeling of DNA replication forks - Implications in tumorigenesis and chemoresistance
more

Dr. Arnab Ray Chaudhuri
Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Comprehensive phase diagram of two-dimensional space charge doped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x
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Dr. Abhay Shukla
Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Periodically driven low-dimensional quantum systems : Graphene in tight-binding form
more

Prof. Tridev Mishra
BITS, Pilani

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Do the Fundamental Constants change with Time ?
more

Prof. Nissim Kanekar
NCRA-TIFR, Pune

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




The low-redshift 3CRR radio galaxies
more

Prof. Mark Birkinshaw
University of Bristol

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A spin on gravitational radiation from the classical double copy
more

Mr. Siddharth Prabhu
Yale University, US

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The Black Hole Graviton Laser TIME BOMB
more

Prof. Manu Paranjape
Université de Montréal, Canada

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Probing disorder using optical spectroscopy across phase transition in semiconductors
more

Dr. Pankaj R. Sagdeo
Indian Institute of Technology, Indore

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building





Prof. Elena Surovyatkina
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, and Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

Time and Venue: 10:15 AM to 11:15 AM at ECS Seminar room 32, Second Floor, Main Building



Two paths beyond the LHC null results
more

Dr. Rick Sandeepan Gupta
IPPP, Durham

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Explosive death in coupled nonlinear oscillators
more

Prof Manish Dev Shrimali
Central University of Rajasthan

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Search for the SM Higgs Boson produced in association with a pair of top quarks with the ATLAS detector
more

Prof. Vivek Jain
SUNY, Albany, US

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Dr. Guneshwar Thangjam, Max Planck Institute of Solar System Research, Göttingen
Talks: (1) Planetary geology and cosmochemistry: an overview (Wednesday, 10th January, 5 pm) (2) Geochemical evolution of second largest asteroid Vesta: Geologic implications to terrestrial world (Thursday, 11th January, 5 pm) (3) Geology of largest as

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 32, Second Floor, Main building



Cosmic Dawn : Observing Early Universe
more

Dr Vithal Tilvi
Arizona State University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Exploring molecular assemblies and their host substrates with STM
more

Dr. Aparna Deshpande
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Nanoscale Investigation of Multiferroic Domain Switching in Ferromagnetic/Ferroelectric Hetero-structures using Scanning Probe Microscopy
more

Prof. Kartik Ghosh
Missouri State University, Springfield, MO

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Understanding ultrafast magnetization dynamics from atomistic spin dynamics simulations
more

Prof. Biplab Sanyal
Uppsala University, Sweden

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The Rhapsody of Fractional Calculus
more

Prof. Varsha Gejji
Pune University

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall




Prof Atul Jain
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 32, Second Floor, Main building



Search for exotic new physics in CMS
more

Dr. Swagata Mukherjee
Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (RWTH),Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Development of Synthetic Switches in Plants
more

Prof. Ashok Prasad
Colorado State University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Pathophysiology in Rett syndrome: From circuits to cognition and therapeutics
more

Abhishek Banerjee, D.Phil
University of Zürich

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Boosted Higgs bosons: key to new physics searches at the LHC
more

Dr. Devdatta Majumder
University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Dynamics of the Mandovi Estuary
more

Prof. Satish R. Shetye
Former Director, NIO, Goa and Former V.C., Goa University

Time and Venue: 05:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The Hippo Pathway effector Taz is required for the formation of the Micropyle in Zebrafish
more

Dr. Chaitanya Dingare
Institute of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Goethe University, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Blood relatives: The role of OCIA domain proteins in stem cell maintenance
more

Prof. Maneesha Inamdar
JNCASR, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Algorithms and neural circuits in odor-guided behavior
more

Prof. Venkatesh N. Murthy
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Two flies on an island: Speciation in African Drosophila
more

Prof. Jerry Coyne
University of Chicago

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Sir C. V. Raman Auditorium, Lecture Hall Complex



Zeros of partial sums of L-functions
more

Dr. Akshaa Vatwani
University of Waterloo, Canada

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM at Madhava Hall



p120 ctn is a mechanotransducer that modulates E-Cadherin turnover by mechanical tension
more

Dr. K. Venkatesan Iyer
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Some early Ramsey-type theorems in Combinatorial Number Theory and some generalizations.
more

Prof. Sukumar Das Adhikari
HRI, Allahabad

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Topological quantum paramagnet in quantum spin systems
more

Dr. Darshan Joshi
Max Plank Institute for Solid State Research ,Stuttgart, Germany

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Conformally covariant powers of the Laplacian, Q-curvature and related PDE
more

Dr. Saikat Mazumdar
University of British Columbia, Canada

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall




Regulation of mechanosensitive genes and microRNAs to target atherosclerosis
more

Dr. Sandeep Kumar
Emory University, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Oncogenic splicing switch and glucose metabolism in breast cancer
more

Dr. Sanjeev Shukla
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague
The development of highly efficient chemical synthesis methodologies has enabled biological studies of bacterial derived immune modulating glycolipids revealing a modular exchange of carbohydrates and lipids occurring between humans and associated microbe

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, 2nd Floor Main Building





On Epimorphism Theorem   Fri, Dec 08, 2017

On Epimorphism Theorem
more

Dr. Neena Gupta
ISI Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Entanglement under noisy environments: From quantum computation to quantum many-body physics
more

Amit Kumar Pal
Swansea University, UK

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Stable Manifold and Hopf Bifurcation in Fractional Systems
more

Dr. Amey Deshpande
Pune University

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Watching Molecules and Particles in Real-Time
more

Dr. Hima Manasa Kandula
UNIST, Korea

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Cell-death and cell-protection form an intertwined regulatory response in the tissue
more

Prof. B. J. Rao
Dept. of Biological Sciences, TIFR (Mini-symposium on Physicochemical phenomena and how they shape biological processes - Talk 1)

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 03:20 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Role of Self-organization of Min proteins in Bacterial Cell Division
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Dr. Julien Derr
University of Paris, Diederot (Mini-symposium on Physicochemical phenomena and how they shape biological processes - Talk II)

Time and Venue: 03:20 PM to 04:10 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Detection, Distribution and Comparative Genomics of Riboswitches
more

Dr. Supratim Sengupta
Dept. of Physics, IISER Kolkata (Mini-symposium on Physicochemical phenomena and how they shape biological processes - Talk III)

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:20 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Affluence of microbiome may be a luxury: Comes in plenty while a few may be required
more

Dr. Palok Aich
National Institute of Science Education & Research (NISER), Bhuvaneswar

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



microRNA-mediated regulation of plant secondary metabolic pathways
more

Dr. P. V. Shivaprasad
NCBS, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Prof. Manik Talwani, Emeritus Professor, Rice University, USA
About the speaker: Manik Talwani is one of the pioneers of modern geophysics and contributed greatly to our understanding of how oceans and continents evolve. He is known especially for his studies of the Earth’s crust and the dynamics of continental marg

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM at Seminar room 34, second floor, main Building



Modeling Human Disease Using The NSG Mouse
more

Dr. Berryhill
Jackson Laboratory, USA

Time and Venue: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Designing & Optimizing Mouse Breeding Schemes
more

Dr. Berryhill
Jackson Laboratory, USA

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Electric Field Induced Nonlinear Photo-luminescence of Plasmonic Gap Antennas
more

Adrian Agreda
Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Applications of M-theory Uplifted Desingularized Conifold Geometries Relevant to Holographic Thermal QCD at Finite Coupling Abstract :
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Mr. Karunava Sil
IIT Roorkee

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



On the $abc$ conjecture and some of its consequences
more

Prof. Michel Waldschmidt
University of Paris VI

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall




On-chip optical data transfer between electrically-driven plasmonic devices
more

Prof. Alexandre Bouhelier
Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Probing superfluidity of ultracold atom systems via laser stirring
more

Dr. Vijay Singh
University of Hamburg, Germany

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Unveiling another dimension of transcription - G-quadruplex DNA structures are regulatory signposts genome-wide
more

Dr. Shantanu Chowdhury
CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building





An introduction to the representation theory of p-adic groups
more

Dr. Arnab Mitra
Technion, Israel

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Strange Metals and Black Holes
more

Prof. Subir Sachdev
Harvard University, Cambridge

Time and Venue: 06:00 PM at C.V. Raman Auditorium, IISER Pune



The mother of all states of the kagome quantum antiferromagnet
more

Dr. Hitesh J. Changlani
Johns Hopkins University, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room No. 31, Second Floor, A Wing, Main Building



On the brain mechanisms of visual attention, saccadic eye-movements and hearing
more

Dr B Suresh Krishna
German Primate Center, Goettingen, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Topological order in quantum matter
more

Prof. Subir Sachdev
Harvard University

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Betti Numbers of Gaussian Excursions in the Sparse Regime
more

Dr. Gugan Thoppe
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Concentration Bounds for Stochastic Approximation with Applications to Reinforcement Learning
more

Dr. Gugan Thoppe
Technion, Israel

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Contributions of altered axonal lysosome transport to Alzheimer's disease pathology
more

Dr. Swetha Gowrishankar
Yale University, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



On two questions regarding representations distinguished by the Galois involution.
more

Dr. Arnab Mitra
Technion, Israel

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Lepton Non-Universality and recent excitements in Flavour physics
more

Dr. Debjyoti Bardhan
TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Structural Dynamics of Biomolecules Captured By Time-resolved Cryo-Electron Microscopy
more

Dr. Sandip Kaledhonkar
Columbia University, New York, USA

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Curves, spires, and minarets: Temples of Odisha and Maharashtra
more

Dr Pushkar Sohoni
Assistant Professor, Humanities and Social Science, IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 24, First floor, Main Building



Discovery of superconductivity in a low carrier density system: Bismuth
more

Prof. S. Ramakrishnan
TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



CMOS Technology - Past, Present and Future
more

Prof. Souvik Mahapatra
IIT Bombay

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Could FAT combat obesity and associated metabolic disease ?
more

Dr. Sona Rajakumari
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Trivandrum

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Solvable primitive extensions
more

Prof. C. S. Dalawat
HRI, Allahabad

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:31 PM at Madhava Hall



 

 

 


Prof. Anatoly B. Kolomeisky
Abstract One of the most fascinating features of biological systems is the ability to sustain an extraordinary high accuracy of all major cellular processes despite the stochastic nature of underlying chemical processes. It is widely believed that such l

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:30 PM at Seminar Room 33, 2nd Floor Main Building



Towards a search for Dark Matter candidates using atomic Dysprosium
more

Dr. Arijit Sharma
Helmholtz Institut Mainz, Germany

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Howto Define RIGHT Problem and Howto QUICKLY Solve it
more

Prof. Prakash R Apte
Retd. Emeritus Professor, IIT Bombay and COEP Pune

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The prasad conjecture for PGSp(4)
more

Dr. Hengfei Lu
TIFR Mumbai

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Madhava Hall



Carbon-based nanocomposites for energy, environmental and biomedical applications
more

Dr. Rabah Boukherroub
Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN), University of Lille, France

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM at Seminar Room No. 31, Second Floor, A Wing, Main Building



Phase Ordering in Some Complex Spin Systems
more

Prof. Varsha Banerji
IIT, Delhi

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Antarctica in a changing world
more

Dr Thamban Meloth
Group Director (Polar Sciences) ESSO - National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research Ministry of Earth Sciences (Government of India) Vasco-da-Gama, Goa - 403 004

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM at Seminar room 32, Main building



Ecology at large spatial scales: The role of environment in driving species distributions and ecosystem transitions
more

Krishnapriya Tamma
Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc

Time and Venue: 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Pairing in cuprates: Signatures of a non-BCS paradigm
more

Dr. Vivek Mishra
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Room No. 31, Second Floor, A Wing, Main Building



Study of many-body quantum dynamics in ultra-cold systems
more

Dr. Rick Mukherjee
Rice University

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Wildly primitive extensions   Mon, Oct 30, 2017

Wildly primitive extensions
more

Prof. C. S. Dalawat
HRI, Allahabad

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Exploring non-equilibrium quantum dynamics with ultracold atoms in optical lattices
more

Dr. Bodhaditya Santra
University of Hamburg, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



NMR Investigations of Soft Materials
more

B. V. N. Phani Kumar
NMR Laboratory, Inorganic & Physical Chemistry Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Chennai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, 2nd Floor Main Building



The Sun was White, The Moon was Disobedient
more

Sea Minor
Preview: http://punemirror.indiatimes.com/others/sunday-read/a-song-for-kathmandu/articleshow/61166915.cms

Time and Venue: 07:45 PM at Sir C.V. Raman Auditorium, IISER Pune



Imbalanced Fermi-Fermi mixtures
more

Dr. Madhuparna Karmakar
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Atmospheric chemistry research at the climate and air quality interface: Agricultural waste burning in the north west Indo-Gangetic Plain
more

Dr Vinayak Sinha
Atmospheric Chemistry and Emissions Research Group, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, IISER Mohali

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Seminar room 32



Shining light on femtosecond molecular dynamics
more

Dr. Kanaka Raju Pandiri
Kansas State University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



EMC1: A Stabilizing Factor for A Partially Destabilized Non-Enveloped Virus During ER Membrane Penetration
more

Dr. Parikshit Bagchi
University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, USA

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Electron Transfer Dynamics in Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells and Photoconductive Coordination Frameworks
more

Dr. Aravind Kumar Chandiran
Indian Institute of Technology - Madras

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building






Dr SAIKRANTHI
Research Associate, Divecha Centre for Climate Change, CAOS, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Room 32, Second Floor, Main building



The history of matrix positivity preservers
more

Dr.Apoorva Khare
IISc Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



The history of matrix positivity preservers
more

Dr. Apoorva Khare
IISc Bangalore

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Discovery and Engineering of Enzyme Activities In Pursuit of New Antibiotics
more

Swapnil V. Ghodge , PhD
Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Redshift as a evidence of cosmic dance and structure
more

Dr. Shadab Alam
University of Edinburgh, UK

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Two-scale Convergence and Application to Homogenization of a Hyperbolic Equation
more

Dr. Nandakumaran A. K.
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall




Dr. Ashish Sharma
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame’

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Room 32, Second Floor, Main building



Open Quantum Field Theory   Mon, Oct 09, 2017

Open Quantum Field Theory
more

Dr. R. Loganayagam
ICTS, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Vocal control, sensorimotor learning, and the dynamics of birdsong
more

Samuel J Sober
Associate Professor, Emory University, Georgia

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Verification of concurrent programs
more

Dr. Ashutosh Gupta
TIFR Mumbai

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Read-once Arithmetic Branching Programs (ROABPs)
more

Dr. Arpita Korwar
IIT Kanpur

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Quantum Computation: hype and fact
more

Prof. Lov Grover
Ex Bell Labs, USA

Time and Venue: 05:30 PM at New Lecture Hall



Actions of algebraic torus   Wed, Oct 04, 2017

Actions of algebraic torus
more

Dr. Alok Maharana
IISER Mohali

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Physics Seminar room 31



The role of postnatal developmental periods in shaping adult neurocircuitry and behavior
more

Dr. Deepika Suri
Columbia University, NY, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Spectral and transport responses of quark and hadronic matter
more

Dr. Sabyasachi Ghosh
Calcutta University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Revisiting the Coulomb model of friction: A geometrical description of granular physics
more

Prof. Shankar Ghosh
TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



How does the prion protein misfold?
more

Dr. Ishita Sengupta
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Dr. Anupam Bandyopadhyay
Specific recognition of biomolecules in the complex biological milieu inspires principally every aspect of biology and has been a long-standing goal of biological and medicinal chemists. On that front, nonribosomal amino acids and peptidomimetics have rev

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 33, 2nd Floor Main Building



Remote control of gene activity
more

Sridhar Hannenhalli
University of Maryland

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Forebrain development – from early patterning to human disorders
more

Dr. Achira Roy
Seattle Children\'s Research Institute

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Pritam Mukhopadhyay
Abstract Organic -conjugated molecules are fascinating building blocks and have been explored for the past several decades towards a diverse range of molecular materials [1]. One of the most pertinent challenges facing their practical applications- is th

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, 2nd Floor Main Building



Neural coding and plasticity in the mammalian olfactory system
more

Dr. Alan Carleton
University of Geneva

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




The Image Data Resource: a platform for publishing, integrating and mining biological imaging data at scale
more

Prof. Jason Swedlow
University of Dundee, Dundee

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Single photon switches using Rydberg atoms
more

Dr. Weibin Li
University of Nottingham

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Hindustaan mein Urdu Zabaan ka Mustaqbil
more

Professor Saheb Ali
University of Mumbai

Time and Venue: 06:00 PM at LHC 103, IISER Pune



Physical interactions and order in cells
more

Dr. Kinjal Dasbiswas
James Franck Institute, University of Chicago

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Universality of turbulence in fluids and plasmas
more

Dr Supratik Banerjee
University of Cologne, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Quark-Gluon Plasma --- the smallest, hottest, densest, and the most perfect fluid ever produced in the laboratory
more

Prof. Rajeev Bhalerao
IISER, Pune

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Thymic induction of immunological self-tolerance: the role of AIRE and its partners
more

Dr. Kushagra Bansal
Harvard Medical School, Boston

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



p-adic AdS/CFT correspondence
more

Dr. Sarthak Parikh
Princeton University

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



On the prime geodesic theorem for the Picard manifold.
more

Dr. Giacomo Cherubini
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Particle swarm optimisation in gravitational wave data analysis.
more

Dr. Rajesh Nayak
IISER, Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Regenerative Stochastic sequences and processes and applications to Monte Carlo procedures,Title2: Polynomial formula for sums of powers of integers
more

Prof. Krishna B. Athreya
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Iowa State University

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Determination of trilinear Higgs self-coupling in single Higgs processes at the LHC
more

Dr. Ambresh Shivaji
CP3, Belgium

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Enabling time-resolved scattering and diffraction experiments: tackling reaction initiation and improving time-resolution
more

Prof. Arwen Pearson
Universitat Hamburg

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Asymptotic estimates on the geometry of Laplace eigenfunctions
more

Dr. Mayukh Mukherjee,
Technion, Israel.

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



A learning scheme for neural networks in the brain to predict and control body movement
more

Aditya Gilra, Ph.D.
EPFL, Lausanne (Wulfram Gerstner Lab)

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Selmer companion modular forms
more

Dr. Dipramit Majumdar
IIT Madras

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Mucosal barriers to oral viral vaccination in developing countries
more

Prof. Gagandeep Kang
Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Molecular Driving Forces underlying Channel gating
more

Dr. Baron Chanda
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Questioning the Cosmological principle
more

Prof. Tarun Souradeep
IUCAA, Pune

Time and Venue: 04:20 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



DNA-decorated Soft Nanostructures
more

Dr. Reji Varghese
Indian Institute of Science Education & Research-Thiruvananthapuram (IISER-TVM)

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:30 PM at Seminar Room 33, 2nd Floor Main Building



Transport properties of topological materials
more

Dr. Chandra Shekhar
Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Deciphering interplay of transcription factors with epigenetic mechanisms in cell-fate decisions
more

Dr. Neha Tiwari
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Chow group in tensor triangular geometry.
more

Dr. Umesh Dubey
HRI, Allahabad

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Integrative modeling of biomolecular assembly structures and pathways
more

Prof. Andrej Sali
University of California San Francisco

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Dynamics of inhibitory interactions in the basal ganglia
more

Dr. Arvind Kumar
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



ARPES, a vital tool for understanding microscopically the physics of exotic systems
more

Dr. Thirupathaiah Setti
IFW, Dresden, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Attributing a deep network’s prediction to its input features
more

Dr. Mukund Sundararajan
Google

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at LHC 103



Symmetries and Hierarchies of the Standard Model
more

Dr. Diptimoy Ghosh
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Differential characters of Drinfeld modules and de Rham cohomology
more

Dr. Arnab Saha
Australian National University

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at LHC 301



Higher arithmetic Chow groups
more

Dr. Souvik Goswami
Texas A&M University

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at LHC 301



Conformal metrics on R n with arbitrary total Q -curvature
more

Dr. Ali Hyder
The university of Basel, Switzerland

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Inflation in LARGE volume scenarios
more

Dr. Pramod Kumar Shukla
ICTP, Trieste

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Bacteria network for growth and survival
more

Dr. Samay Pande
Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Tapping the potential of hottest hotspot of the World biodiversity:Phytochemical profiling of medicinal Plants from SAHYADRI (WesternGhats)
more

Dr. K V Radhakrishnan
CSIR-NIIST - Trivandrum

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, 2nd Floor Main Building



Diversity in bacteria-virus ecosystems may be facilitated by restriction-modification systems
more

Dr. Sandeep Krishna
NCBS, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Finite Granular/Hertzian chains go to equipartition but wait � there��s more
more

Prof. Surajit Sen
State University of New York,Buffalo, NY

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Inspiration from nature: Far-reaching impact of toxin research
more

Prof. R. Manjunatha Kini
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A full conjecture of José Lara Rodríguez for double zeta values in characteristic p
more

Dr. Ryotaro Harada
Nagoya University, Japan

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM at Madhava Hall



New insights into the epigenetic modulators of cardiac hypertrophy and proliferation
more

Dr. Saher Mehdi
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Dynamics in Social Networks: Consensus vs. cleavage
more

Prof. S. Lakshmivarahan
School of Computer Science University of Oklahoma

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The Chinese Reminder Theorem for Partitions
more

Ojaswi Chaurasia and Seethalakshmi K
NIT Rourkela and IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Financial fluctuations and economic fundamentals: A network approach
more

Prof. Anirban Chakraborti
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Online algorithms with recourse
more

Professor Amit Kumar
IIT Delhi

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Matrix-product States: From lattice models to field theories and cold atomic gases
more

Dr. Carlos Bolech
University of Cincinnati

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room-31




Manifestations of spin-orbit coupling and topology in out-of-equilibrium hybrid superconducting systems
more

Dr. Nayana Shah
University of Cincinnati

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room-31



Beyond Cell-Cell Adhesion – Understanding Non-canonical roles of E-cadherin
more

Dr. Anup Padmanabhan
Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Sensing magnetic and stress fields with nitrogen-vacancy spins in diamond
more

Dr. Phani Kumar
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



On the construction and dynamics of knotted fields
more

Dr Hridesh Kedia
U Chicago and MIT

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Reward sensitivity and how it affects our actions
more

Dr. Arjun Ramakrishnan
University of Pennsylvania, USA

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Structural Studies of Interaction of Ionic Liquids with Model Cellular Membrane
more

Dr. Sajal Kumar Ghosh
Shiv Nadar University, UP

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Actin in axons: contributions to dynamics and mechanics
more

Pramod Pullarkat
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A hierarchical lattice model for the H-bond network in Water
more

Dr Rahul Dandekar
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room-31



Inter-Generational Sex Work Within A Denotified Nomadic Tribe: The Nats of Forbesganj, Bihar
more

Dr Subir Rana
National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS),Bangalore

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Seminar Room 24, Main Building



Environmental Social Science: Introducing an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of the Humanities and Social Sciences
more

Dr Pradipta Halder
School of Applied Educational Science and Teacher Education, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 24, Main Building



Interplay between Static vs Dynamic Disorder and its Influence on Electronic Properties of Hybrid Perovskite Semiconductor CH3NH3PbI3
more

Dr. Dinesh Kabra
IIT Mumbai

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The classical three body problem
more

Govind S. Krishnaswami
Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, A Wing, Main Building



On Mingantu Spectral Radioheliograph: Introduction and Observations
more

Prof. Yihua Yan
National Astronomcial Observatories, Beijing

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Molecular Mechanisms and Systems Control
more

Ullas Kolthur-Seetharam
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



On the generalized Brauer-Siegel Theorem
more

Dr. Anup Dixit
University of Toronto, Canada

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Charge transport in solution processed semiconductors
more

Dr. Satyaprasad. P. Senanayak
University of Cambridge

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Exploring the Roles of Phase variable Restriction-Modification Systems in the human pathogen Helicobacter pylori
more

Prof. D. N. Rao
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Shaping membranes with BAR-domain proteins
more

Dr. Patricia Bassereau
Institut Curie, Paris

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Universal Laws of Thermodynamics
more

Dr. Manabendra Nath Bera
ICFO, The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Organization of the yeast nuclear envelope
more

Prof. Krishnaveni Mishra
University of Hyderabad

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Gromov's work in Riemannian geometry
more

Prof. Harish Seshadri
IISc Bangalore

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM at LHC-101



The large sieve with quadratic moduli on Z and Z[i]
more

Professor Stephan Baier
JNU, Delhi

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar room 41 (next to CCD)



The large sieve with quadratic moduli on Z and Z[i]
more

Professor Stephan Baier
JNU, Delhi

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar room 41 (next to CCD)



Irrational rotations, random affine transformations and the central limit theorem
more

Dr. Nishant Chandgotia
Tel Aviv university

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Next Generation Lithium-ion battery and beyond
more

Prof. Sagar Mitra
Indian Institute of Technology,Powai,Mumbai

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Delineating the magnocellular and parvocellular inputs to face perception using non-invasive neurostimulation 
more

Dr. Bhuvanesh Awasthi
University of Glasgow, UK

Time and Venue: 12:00 AM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



First principles investigation on Quantum Materials
more

Dr. Subhasish Mandal
Yale University

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Optoelectronic properties of low-dimensional nanomaterials and heterostructures
more

Dr. Chandan Biswas
University of Texas, US

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Citizen science: from fate of the Universe to fate of Earth
more

Dr. Anupreeta More
Kavli Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo, Japan

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 24, 1st Floor, Main Building



Colloids as 'BIG' Atoms: Bringing Materials Science Phenomena into Focus
more

Dr. Rajesh Ganapathy
JNCASR, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Parseval's identity and beyond
more

Prof. Mythily Ramaswamy
TIFR CAM

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Growing Black Holes   Thu, Mar 30, 2017

Growing Black Holes
more

Prof. Prajval Shastri
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru

Time and Venue: 05:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Challenging pseudo-bipolar divisions in cancer cells with extra centrosomes
more

Amitabha Mukhopadhyay, PhD
University of Chicago

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The curious relationship between Physics and Mathematics
more

Prof. Deepak Dhar
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 05:15 PM at LHC 101



Rational design of functional materials based on crystallographic concepts and novel synthesis protocols
more

Dr. A. K. Tyagi
BARC, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Interacting URN Processes   Thu, Mar 23, 2017

Interacting URN Processes
more

Dr. Neeraja Sahasrabudhe
IIT Powai

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Genomic, Proteomic and Metabolomic analysis reveals cues for sexual stage switch in malaria
more

Prof. Utpal Tatu
Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Multi-wavelength observations of the low-metallicity interstellar medium in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy
more

Dr. Naslim Neelamkodan
National Taiwan University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 32, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Control of DNA Breakage and Repair During Meiosis
more

Dr. Viji V. Subramanian
New York University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



wNMR: A local probe of magnetism in materials
more

Prof. Avinash Mahajan
IIT Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Good touch and bad touch: Direct immune cell-cell contacts in immune response and metastasis
more

Sudha Kumari, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Long-term stability of behaviourally relevant dynamics in neural circuits
more

Dr. Ashesh Dhawale
Harvard University

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Atomic Layer Deposition of Nanostructure Materials and Their Emerging Applications
more

Dr. Anil U. Mane
Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Curvature remodelling of cell membranes and its implications in cellular biophysics
more

Dr. Ramakrishnan Natesan
Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The Grothendieck inequality   Sat, Mar 11, 2017

The Grothendieck inequality
more

Professor Gadadhar Misra
IISc, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM at Lecture Hall Complex 101




Dr. N. Arul Murugan
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Why Biomedical Research needs Discovery Research
more

Prof. Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at 101 Lecture Hall Complex



Patterns, Broken Symmetries and Computation: Emergent complexity in collective dynamics of spatially extended dynamical systems
more

Prof. Sitabhra Sinha
IMSc Chennai

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Citizen science: from fate of the Universe to fate of Earth
more

Dr. Anupreeta More
Kavli Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo, Japan

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 24, 1st Floor, Main Building



The biology medicine/public health interphase: Learning from viruses
more

Prof. Sudhir Krishna
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Eisenstein cocycles and p-adic L-functions over imaginary quadartic fields
more

Dr. Wong Tian An
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Detection and Characterisation of Extra-solar Planets
more

Dr Sujan K. Sengupta
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Three dimensional Black Holes and the Heisenberg algebra
more

Dr. Wout Merbis
Vienna University of Technology, Vienna

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) studies of the ribonucleoprotein complexes: the group II intron and ribosomes
more

Dr. Prem Singh Kaushal
Wadsworth Center, NYS-Department of Health, Albany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Microbes meet cancer: Role of Streptococcus gallolyticus in colorectal tumor development
more

Dr.Ritesh Kumar
Texas A & M Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Hox proteins and short peptide motifs in development and evolution
more

Dr. Samir Merabet
CNRS/ENS Lyon

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Shedding light on dark side of the melanin: UV-signature DNA damage without UV
more

Dr. Sanjay Premi
Yale University School of Medicine, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Algebraic Models of Large Scale Genome Rearrangement Events
more

Ms. Sangeeta Bhatia
Western Sydney University

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall





Deciphering the Epigenetic Code of Brain Development and Function
more

Dr. Vijay Tiwari
Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Mainz Germany

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Quantum cosmology from Weyl anomalies
more

Dr. Teresa Bautista Solans
ICTP

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Strongly disordered superconductors
more

Dr. Vikram Tripathi
TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The Super-Zeno effect: a problem from quantum control theory
more

Professor Deepak Dhar
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall




Understanding geographical clines: seasonality and eco-evolutionary dynamics
more

Dr. Subhash Rajpurohit
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Synchronization and survival of connected bacterial populations
more

Dr. Shreyas Gokhale
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Modelling healthcare-associated infections in hospitals - epidemic intelligence in action
more

Dr. Andrzej Jarynowski
Universitatea de Stat din Moldova, Poland

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Understanding principles of genome organization
more

Dr. Ajaz ul H Wani
University of Kashmir, Srinagar

Time and Venue: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



DNA Based Emerging Technologies for Biological and Bioengineering Applications
more

Dhiraj Bhatia
Institute Curie

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Moser-Trudinger and Adams Inequalities
more

Prof. K. Sandeep
TIFR CAM

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



The historical origins of quantum statistics
more

Prof. Partha Ghose
S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Multigene families are central to severe malaria
more

Dr. Suchi Goel
Centre for Infectious Disease and Research, IISc, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Continuous transitions from quantum to classical motions
more

Prof. Partha Ghose
S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Sideways? Problems with “bottom-up” and “top-down” approaches to understanding the origin of life
more

Prof. James Handerson Cleaves
Earth Life Science Institute, Tokyo Tech

Time and Venue: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Emergence of Complexity in the RNA World
more

Dr. Julien Derr
University of Paris, Diederot

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Quantifying artificial cellular life
more

Dr. Sheref Mansy
Centre for Integrative Biology, University of Trento, Italy

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



On the exceptional zeros of p-adic L-functions of Hilbert modular forms
more

Prof. Mladen Dimitrov
L\'Université Lille 1

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Nanobiomaterials for Brain Therapeutics
more

Prof. Prabhas V. Moghe
Rutgers University, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Transport studies in Designer solids
more

Dr. Nirat Ray
School of Physical Sciences, JNU

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Transcription termination primes RNA-mediated epigenetic genome control
more

Dr. Venkata Chalamcharla
National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Holography, Second Law and Higher Curvature Gravity.
more

Dr. Sudipta Sarkar
IIT Gandhinagar

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Gradient bounds of Modica type and a symmetry type result for parabolic reaction diffusion equations
more

Dr. Agnid Banerjee
TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



On Langlands functoriality and the Ramanujan conjecture over function fields
more

Prof. Luis Lomeli
Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall







Dr. T. Govindaraju
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



On globalization methods and a look at twisted symmetric square L-functions
more

Prof. Luis Lomeli
Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions and the quark-gluon plasma
more

Prof. Jean-Paul Blaizot
Saclay Nuclear Research Centre, France

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Magnetic and superconducting properties of Ca1−xNaxFe2As2 and FeSe as determined by µSR and NMR experiments
more

Dr. Rajib Sarkar
Technical University of Dresden, Germany

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



QCD, Infrared physics, LHC and all that
more

Prof. V. Ravindran
IMSc, Chennai

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Revealing molecular order across biological scales with computational microscopy
more

Dr. Shalin Mehta
University of Chicago and Marine Biological Laboratory

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



L-functions via the Langlands-Shahidi method
more

Prof. Luis Lomeli
Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall




Developmental mechanisms of projection neurons in the forebrain
more

Dr. Dhananjay Huilgol
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), New York

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Molecular mechanisms regulating cell fate specification in the developing cerebral cortex
more

Dr. Bhavana Muralidharan
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




A re-look at Ito's Stochastic differential equations
more

Prof. B. Rajeev
ISI Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Probing the Electroweak Phase Transition at the LHC
more

Dr. Aniket Joglekar
Univ. of Massachussets, Amherst

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Dealing with stress: cereal roots enact austerity measures during drought to bank water
more

Dr. Jose Sebastian
Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Regulatory mechanism of human copper transporter ATP7B, the ‘Wilson disease protein’
more

Dr. Arnab Gupta
SN Pradhan Centre for Neurosciences, University of Calcutta

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Prof. Nikos Hadjichristidis
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Physical Sciences and Engineering Division, Saudi Arabia

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Sustained odour responses in Drosophila Kenyon cells and their role in associative learning
more

Mehrab Modi
CSHL / Janelia

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Dr. Bidraha Bagh
Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Extracellular matrix proteolysis: a bystander or a partner in a crime?
more

Prof. Irit Sagi
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 03:15 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Study oppporutnities at the Weizmann Institute of Science
more

Prof. Ziv Reich
The Weizmann Institute of Science

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




A view à la Harish-Chandra on enhanced local Langlands parameters
more

Dr. Anne-Marie Aubert
Institute of Mathematics at Jussieu, Paris, France

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Global Langlands parameters   Fri, Jan 13, 2017

Global Langlands parameters
more

Dr. Sophie Morel
Princeton University, USA

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Quantum optics in different settings: optomechanics and possibly the brain?
more

Dr. Sourabh Kumar
University of Calgary, Canada

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Translating Molecular Therapy in Infectious and Genetic Disease
more

Prof. Kasturi Haldar
University of Notre Dame

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Prof. Prashant V. Kamat
University of Notre Dame, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at LHC 101



Deciphering the Substrate Specificity of Enzymes of Unknown Function
more

Frank M. Raushel
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



p-adic uniformization of some locally symmetric spaces
more

Dr. Aditya Karnataki
TIFR Mumbai

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Circularly Polarized Light from Magnetized Current Filaments
more

Dr Ujjwal Sinha
GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico Lisbon, Portugal

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Bridging the islands of protein families in sequence space using artificial sequences
more

Prof. N. Srinivasan
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Moonwalking flies: Neural basis for directed walking in Drosophila
more

Salil Bidaye
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Exploring the New Frontier of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
more

Dr. Frederick J. Raab
LIGO Laboratory, USA

Time and Venue: 06:00 PM at C V Raman Auditorium, LHC



Rational Points   Mon, Jan 09, 2017

Rational Points
more

Prof. Dinakar Ramakrishnan
California Institute of Technology

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



The Quest for Dark Matter at the LHC - A Supersymmetric perspective from CMS -
more

Prof. Frank Wuerthwein
University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Scientific investigation using engineering principles and tools: examples from cell signaling and culture process development
more

Dr. Madhuresh Sumit
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (IISER Alumni - 2006 batch)

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Graphene Draped Silicon-Films for High Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries
more

Dr. Nikhil Koratkar
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the USA

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Light sheet microscope: A quantitative bioimaging tool 
more

Dr. Anand Pratap Singh
Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Integrative structure determination of the yeast centrosome
more

Shruthi Viswanath, Ph.D
University of California San Francisco, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The cohomology of certain quotients of products of upper half planes and upper half spaces
more

Dr. Amod Agashe
Florida State University

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Integrative Analyses: How to utilise what is false to discover what could be true
more

Dr. Francois Iris
Chairman, Chief Science & Technology Officer at Bio-Modelling Systems, Paris, France

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Nonlinear photonics in confined media
more

Dr. Vivek Venkataraman
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A combinatorial Fourier transform for quiver representation varieties in type A
more

Dr. Jacob Matherne
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall




Linking Epigenetics with Evolution via molecular chaperones
more

Dr. Ritwick Sawarkar
Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




High performance iron based magnetocaloric nanomaterials
more

Dr. Varun Chaudhary
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Beyond the tip of the iceberg: uncovering hidden genetic variants in Drosophila using long molecule sequencing
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Dr Mahul Chakraborty
University of California Irvine

Time and Venue: 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Immune Regulation of Autoimmune Demyelinating Disease
more

Nitin J. Karandikar, MD, PhD
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Prof. Fan Baomin
YMU-HKBU Joint Laboratory of Traditional Natural Medicine, Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming, China

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Hippo Signaling in Breast Cancer Progression
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Dr Madhura Kulkarni
Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, Centre for Translational Medicine, Singapore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



KPZ story   Thu, Dec 22, 2016

KPZ story
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Prof. Satya Majumdar
University of Paris-Sud

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Dr. Shivaprakash Ramakrishna
Department of Materials, Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Inferring drug effects on cancer evolution and heterogeneity: from bulk to single cells
more

Dr. Shaon Chakraborty
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Matter waves exposed to the external world: from decoherence to gravity and back
more

Prof. Ron Folman
Ben Gurion University, Beersheba - Israel

Time and Venue: 04:10 PM at C V Raman Auditorium, LHC



Towards compactifications of CalogeroMoser space
more

Dr. Asilata Bapat
University of Georgia Athens

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



On conformal supergravities in four space-time dimensions
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Prof. Bernard de Wit
ITP, Utrecht, Nikhef

Time and Venue: 06:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Vector bundles and finite covers
more

Dr. Anand Deopurkar
University of Georgia Athens, USA

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall




RNA toxicity in disease   Mon, Dec 19, 2016

RNA toxicity in disease
more

Mani S. Mahadevan, M.D., FRCP
University of Virginia

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Defects by Design   Mon, Dec 19, 2016


Dr. Sneha Bajpe
Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK.

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Dadabhai Naoroji and the Genesis of Swaraj
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Dr. Dinyar Patel
Assistant Professor of South Asian History, University of South Carolina.

Time and Venue: 12:01 PM to 01:00 PM at SSeminar Room 24 (former Board Room), 1st Floor, Main Building



The Fanconi anemia proteins FANCD2 and FANCI modulate the dynamic organization of splicing factors
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Dr. María Moriel-Carretero
Institute of Human Genetics, CNRS, Montpellier, France

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The overline{partial}-problem in pseudoconcave annuli
more

Dr. Debraj Chakrabarti
Central Michigan University

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Introduction to Knots, Knotoids and Detecting the UnKnot
more

Prof. Louis H. Kauffman
University of Illinois at Chicago

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Quantum Computing and Majorana Fermions
more

Prof. Louis H. Kauffman
University of Illinois at Chicago

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at LHC-103



Smart Machines: Driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
more

Bijilash Babu
Epika, Thiruvananthapuram

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Idealizations and Connected sums
more

Dr. H. Ananthnarayan
IIT Bombay

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Story of Height Pairings   Mon, Dec 05, 2016

Story of Height Pairings
more

Dr. Souvik Goswami
ICMAT,Madrid,Spain

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



A Membrane Paradigm : The Next to Leading Order Story and instablity
more

Dr. Subhajit Mazumdar
TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A silent looping journey has boundaries
more

Prof. Rohinton Kamakaka
University of California, Santa Cruz California, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Non-equilibrium statistical physics for small quantum systems
more

Dr. Bijay Kumar Agarwalla
University of Toronto, Canada

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Moduli space of planar polygons: a topological study of mechanical linkages
more

Dr. Priyavrat Deshpande
CMI,Chennai

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Novel Classes of Supramolecules and Macromolecules: Design, Synthesis and Applications
more

Dr. Mintu Porel
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Epigenetic regulation by long non-coding RNAs and histone modifiers through the lens of X-chromosome inactivation
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Srimonta Gayen, PhD
University of Michigan Medical School

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



MAPPING THYROID AXIS EVOLUTION THROUGH METAMORPHOSIS
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Prof. Deborah M Power
Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Simultaneous Bilinear Equations and Metric Foliations of Spheres
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Professor Akhil Ranjan
IIT Powai

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Variation of Anticyclotomic Iwasawa Invariants in Hida families.
more

Dr. Matteo Longo
Department of Mathematics,Universities of Padua

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Structural insights into RNA-processing enzymes
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Prof. Dr. Ralf Ficner
Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Tensor triangular Chow group   Thu, Nov 24, 2016

Tensor triangular Chow group
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Dr. Umesh Dubey
HRI, Allahabad

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 41



Recent Development in Analysis of Regime Switching Market
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Dr. Anindya Goswami
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 03:00 PM at Seminar Room 41



Big Idea-Data and Analytics   Wed, Nov 23, 2016

Big Idea-Data and Analytics
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Dr. Sandeep Rakshit
D Y Patil Institute of Management

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 41



The Iwasawa main conjectures for elliptic curves.
more

Dr. Matteo Longo
Department of Mathematics,Universities of Padua

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Feynman Kac representation of path dependent PDEs
more

Dr. Ludger Overbeck
Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Deadly innovations. ‘Venomics’ for evolution, ecology, and snakebite management
more

Dr. Kartik Sunagar
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Dr. Suchetan Pal
Center for Molecular Imaging and Nanotechnology (CMINT), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Path decompositions of regular graphs and multigraphs.
more

Professor Shailesh Tipnis
Illinois State University

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Where do little elliptic curves go?
more

Professor Jose Ignacio Burgos Gil
ICMAT, Madrid, Spain

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Dissecting cell biology using proteomics
more

Dr. Maddika SubbaReddy
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Oxide hetero-interfaces: Emergent phenomena in “plane” view
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Prof. Arghya Taraphder
IIT Kharagpur

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, A Wing, Main Building



Singularities of Schubert Varieties---a selective survey
more

PRof. K. N. Raghavan
IMSc Chennai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Zeroth law in non-equilibrium - a hot needle in water
more

Dr. Pradeep K. Mohanty
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkatta

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A competition mechanism positions non-membrane-bound organelles in cells
more

Shambaditya Saha
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Class numbers of certain number fields.
more

Prof.(Dr.)Kalyan Chakraborty
HRI Allahabad

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



An invitation to C*-algebras and groupoids
more

Dr. Rohit D. Holkar
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM at Madhava Hall



The effects of habitat loss, barred owls, and climate on the long-term demography of the Northern Spotted Owl
more

Janice Reid
Wildlife Biologist, US Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station

Time and Venue: 05:15 PM to 06:15 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The Fascinating World of Ultra Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices
more

Prof. H R Krishnamurthy
IISC Bangalore

Time and Venue: 06:00 PM at C V Raman Auditorium



Solar Flares and Energetic Particles
more

Dr. Eduard Kontar
University of Glasgow, UK

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Optical and high field magneto-optical investigations on atomically thin sheets of WS2, WSe2, MoSe2 and MoTe2: A new family of semiconductors
more

Dr. Ashish Arora
University of Münster, Germany

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, A Wing, Main Building



Stellar Dynamics and Statistical Mechanics
more

Prof. Seshadri. Sridhar
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, A Wing, Main Building



Kinetic Physics of Turbulent Collisionless Astrophysical Plasmas
more

Dr Tulasi Parashar
University of Delaware

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Artificial atoms interacting with photons and phonons
more

Dr. Baladitya Suri
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Circadian clock facilitates memory formation in Drosophila melanogaster
more

Nitin S Chouhan
Rudolf Virchow Centre, University of Wuerzburg, Germany (IISER Pune Alumni - 2006 batch)

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Electronic Structure of Complex Materials: from First-principles study to Materials Modeling
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Prof. Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta
S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, A Wing, Main Building



Deciphering the mechanics and the genetics of cell flattening in Drosophila
more

Dr. Muriel Grammont
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Fluctuations and Transport Phenomena in Horizon-Fluids for Black Holes
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Dr. Swastik Bhattacharya
IISER, Trivandrum

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Regularization of ideal flow   Mon, Oct 24, 2016

Regularization of ideal flow
more

Dr. Govind Krishnaswami
Chennai Mathematical Institute

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Molecular structure and mechanism of activation for the heat-sensing capsaicin receptor
more

Dr. Kenton Swartz
NINDS (NIH, Bethesda, USA)

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Seesaw and multileptons at the LHC
more

Dr. Peter Thomassen
Rutgers university

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Patterning and morphogenesis during early flower development
more

Dr. Pradeep Das
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



An overview of Artificial Intelligence
more

Professor Hari Sahasrabuddhe
IIT Bombay

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Argumentative biologies: sources and consequences of immunological diversity
more

Dr. Satyajit Rath
National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Diaz-Saa inequality for variable exponent problems
more

Prof. Giacomoni, Jacques
University of Pau, France

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Multiwavelength investigations of solar eruptions and associated physical processes
more

Dr. Pankaj Kumar
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), Daejeon

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, A Wing, Main Building



Spatio-temporal dynamics of signaling pathways altered by “undruggable proteins” in cancer using peptide discovery and protein engineering
more

Dr. Amol Shivange
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Encoding mechano-memories in F-actin networks
more

Dr. Sayantan Majumdar
James Franck Institute, the University of Chicago, USA

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



IMS Bordeaux: Wave-based resonant microsensors for chemical and biological detection, examples of environmental and health related applications
more

Prof. Corinne Dejous
University of Bordeaux, France

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Sharp Functional Inequalities of Hardy Type and Involving Curvature on Riemannian Manifolds
more

Dr. Debdip Ganguly
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Anderson localization and Levy sums in random lasers
more

Dr. Sushil Mujumdar
TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Prof Sujatha Ramadorai
University of British Columbia and Adjunct Faculty, IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at LHC 101



Singing Patterns of Pied Bush chat (Saxicola caprata) across Years and Nesting Cycles
more

Navjeevan Dadwal
Gurukula Kangri University, Haridwar

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



How to get published in Nature titles!
more

Dr. Sachin Ranade
Associate Editor, Nature Communications

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Electrons go to Bollywood!   Fri, Oct 07, 2016

Electrons go to Bollywood!
more

Dr. Keshav M Dani
Okinawa institute of science and technology, Japan

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



New pertubative techniques to solve equations of gravity
more

Dr. Sayantani Bhattacharyya
IIT Kanpur

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Solar Magnetic Fields and Cycles: Understanding the Dynamo Mechanism
more

Dr. Bidya Binayak Karak
High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Studying Charge Carrier Dynamics by Fluctuation Spectroscopy - An Overview
more

Prof. Jens Mueller
Institute of Physics, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




On Boolean functions with nonlinearity greater than bent concatenation bound
more

Professor Subhamoy Maitra
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Bacterial Epigenetics revealed by SMRT sequencing: A bonanza for characterizing Restriction-Modification systems.
more

Richard D. Morgan
New England Biolabs, Inc., Ipswich, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Symmetries, Physics and a Jaguar
more

Dr. Sudarshan Ananth
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 05:30 PM at LHC 101



Friction forces at tissue boundaries drive tissue morphogenesis during embryonic development
more

Dr. Michael Smutny
Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Learning from the diversity in CD4 T cell responses
more

Dr. Vineeta Bal
National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Positioning the Plane of Cell Division: the Role of Cortical Centralspindlin
more

Dr. Angika Basant
Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, The University of Chicago

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Emergent states of quantum matter
more

Prof. Ross McKenzie
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at LHC 101



Hecke algebras and the Langlands program
more

Manish Mishra
Hecke algebras and the Langlands program

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Quantum Gravity, Very Early Universe and the Cosmic Microwave Background
more

Dr. Brajesh Gupt
Penn State University, USA

Time and Venue: 05:15 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Pattern Formation in the Kinetics of Phase Transitions
more

Prof. Sanjay Puri
JNU, Delhi

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



GPCR-Cholesterol Interaction: Novel Insights in Health & Disease
more

Prof. Amitabha Chattopadhyay
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Localization in context: exact results for quantum black hole entropy
more

Dr. Valentin Reys
NIKHEF, Amsterdam

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Rational dilation and its connection with geometry of underlying complex domain
more

Dr. Sourav Pal
IIT Bombay

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Longest increasing path within the critical strip
more

Dr. Mathew Joseph
University of Sheffield

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 41



Minicourse on rough path theory Part-3
more

Dr. Atul Shekhar
ISI Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Understanding cellular and molecular cues that drive axolotl limb regeneration
more

Dr Prayag Murawala
Universit�¤t Dresden DFG-Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Minicourse on rough path theory Part-2
more

Dr. Atul Shekhar
ISI Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Minicourse on rough path theory Part-1
more

Dr. Atul Shekhar
ISI Bangalore

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall



The day the fate of the universe hung on the whims of a portly fly…
more

Dr. Arun Thalapillil
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Twin primes and the parity problem
more

Dr. Akshaa Vatwani
University of Waterloo

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 41



Quantum Technology research in New Zealand
more

Prof David Hutchinson
University of Otago, New Zealand

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Genomics Healthcare and Research
more

Dr. Nikhil Phadke
GenePath Dx (Causeway Healthcare Pvt Ltd)

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



On gaps between zeros of Epstein's zeta function
more

Dr. Stephan Baier
Jawaharlal Nehru University

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Wierstrass approximation thm for continuous functions on unit interval by polynomials via weak law for coin tossing and Stirlings formula via local clt for Poisson rv.
more

Prof. Krishna B. Athreya
Iowa State University

Time and Venue: 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM at Madhava Hall



Group actions and non-Kahler complex manifolds.
more

Dr. Mainak Poddar
METU NCC

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Madhava Hall



General Glivenko Cantelli thms
more

Prof. Krishna B. Athreya
Iowa State University

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



The Web-of-Life - An Evolutionary Stimulus in Changing Environments?
more

Prof. Mike Arnold
Department of Genetics, University of Georgia Athens, Georgia, USA

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building





Prof. Jitendra K. Bera
Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Riemannian Geometry and Matrix Means
more

Prof Rajendra Bhatia
Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall, 3rd floor, Main Building



Biological Water in Amyloid Proteins
more

Dr. Samrat Mukhopadhyay
IISER, Mohali

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A Brief History of Fourier Series
more

Prof Rajendra Bhatia
Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi

Time and Venue: 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM at LHC 101



Pathophysiology and Molecular Pathways Regulating Pericyte Phenotype in Type 2 Diabetes. The Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Placental Model
more

Dr Rekha Samuel
Christian Medical College, Vellore

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Using Dynamic Programming to Solve Sequential Decision Models
more

Dr. Jeremy Eckhause
RAND Corporation

Time and Venue: 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM at LHC-103



Challenges and Perspectives beyond Li-ion Intercalation Chemistry
more

Dr. V. Aravindan
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Lattice Supersymmetry and Applications to Gauge/Gravity Duality
more

Dr. Anosh Joseph
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Dual extrinsic cues generate temporal identity in neural stem cell lineages
more

Dr. Syed Hussain Mubarak
University of Oregon, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Electronic phase transitions and vibrational modes in 2D materials
more

Dr. Abhay Shukla
Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Topoisomerase IV activity in bacteria gets a redox switch
more

Dr. Sunish Radhakrishnan
IISER, Thiruvananthapuram

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Quantum Field Theory beyond weak coupling perturbation theory.
more

Dr. Sachin Jain
Cornell University, United States

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



A card trick: Protocol, Graph model and extensions
more

Professor Shailesh Tipnis
Illinois State University

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Gravitation, Entanglement and Correlation: a grand emerging confluence
more

Prof. Sunil Mukhi
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Hybrid Perovskites solar cells: Opportunities and challenges
more

Dr. Aditya D. Mohite
Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, United States

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Condensates, Coherence and Dicke superradiance
more

Dr. Vivek M. Vyas
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building





A dual version of Ore's theorem for boolean intervals
more

Dr. Mamta Balodi
IMSC

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Seminar Room 41



Mirror, Mirror on the Wall …….and some other aspects of Corvid Brain Structure and Cognition
more

Dr. Soumya Iyengar
NBRC Manesar

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Homological projective duality
more

Dr. Umesh Dubey
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:30 AM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Direct Excimer Laser Ablation for Smaller Features Sizes in Advanced Chip Packaging.
more

Dr. Burkhard Fechner
Coherent GmbH, Goettingen, Germany

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Dark matter of the human genome and complex proteome
more

Dr. Sudhakaran Prabhakaran
Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




High-resolution three-dimensional imaging of C. elegans
more

Dr. Sudip Mondal
The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Gammaherpesvirus-mediated deregulation of cell signaling & immune surveillance: Implications in host pathogenesis & cancers
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Dr. Shuvomoy Banerjee
Amity University, Noida Campus New Delhi NCR

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Prof. Kana M. Sureshan
Department of Chemistry, IISER Thiruvananthapuram

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building




Reversible elements of complex hyperbolic isometries
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Dr. Krishnendu Gongopadhyay
IISER Mohali

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Anyon binding and fractional angular momenta of impurity particles in a quantum Hall liquid
more

Dr. Sreejith G J
Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems,Dresden,Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The quest for astrophysical transients
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Dr. Varun Bhalerao
IUCAA, Pune

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Physics Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Multimodal sensing in the natural environment: A comparative perspective
more

Dr. Anand Krishnan
Dept of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Membrane protein structures without crystals, by single particle electron cryomicroscopy
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Dr. Vinothkumar K. R.
MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, UK

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Timing is the key to survival: is Lingulodinium circadian system unique?
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Dr. Sougata Roy
EBI-Hinxton and EMBL Heidelberg

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Applying new design rules to create synthetic heterochromatin-targeted regulators of RNA polymerase II
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Prof. Aseem Ansari
The Genome Center and The Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Collective cellular flows during morphogenesis
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Dr.Amitabha Nandi
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Neuron-produced Activin β supports hematopoiesis in the Drosophila larva
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Dr. Kalpana Makhijani
University of California San Fransisco

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Statistical simulation usin g Adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques
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Dr. Arunangshu Biswas
Precidency University Kolkata

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall





Electrode Materials Synthesis, Engineering and Characterization for Rechargeable Batteries
more

Prof. Vilas Pol
Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Functional Materials - Biomass as A Platform for Molecular Design
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Prof. George John
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The City College of the City University of New York (CUNY), USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Development of Novel Chemical Tools for Biological Applications
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Dr. Sambashiva Banala
Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




On the Gaps Between Non-Zero Fourier Coefficients of Cusp Forms of Higher Weight
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DR. V. G. NARASIMHA KUMAR CHERAKU
IIT Hyderabad

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Dysfunctional endothelium and vascular progenitors: A legacy of impaired glucose metabolism
more

Dr. Madhulika Dixit
Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Influence of low-level stimulus features on high-level stimulus categorization? Behavioral and neural evidence
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Dr. Bhuvanesh Awasthi
University of Glasgow, UK

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Molecular links between nutrition, reproduction, and lifespan
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Dr. Manjunatha Thondamal
University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), Rochester NY

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Structural insights into key events during translation initiation
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Dr. Tanweer Hussain
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Immunogen design for HIV-1 and influenza
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Prof. Raghavan Varadarajan
Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Quantum control and simulation with nuclear spins
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Dr Chandrasekhar Ramanathan
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Periodically Driven "Closed" Quantum Many-body System: From Dynamical Freezing to Periodic Gibbs' ensemble
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Dr Arnab Das
Indian Assoc. for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Prof. Partha Sarathi Mukherjee
Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Monopole Operators in 3d N=2 Chen-Simons matter theories
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Dr Tarun Sharma
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Understanding speciation in Asian tropical forests: a case study each of centipedes and butterflies
more

Dr. Jahnavi Joshi
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Measuring the Invasive Terpenome for Genomic Signatures That Endow Competitive Superiority
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Dr. Gitanjali Yadav
National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, India

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Real special 2-groups   Tue, Apr 19, 2016


Dr. Dilpreet Kaur
Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Cooling Ions with Atoms   Mon, Apr 18, 2016

Cooling Ions with Atoms
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Prof. Sadiqali Rangwala
RRI, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Of Flies and Food: Neural basis of food memories, deprivation states and food emesis in Drosophila
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Dr. Gaurav Das
University of Oxford, UK

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Prof. Hyung-il Lee
Department of Chemistry University of Ulsan Ulsan 680-749, Korea

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Mechanisms of Shiga Toxin Clustering and Entry into Cells
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Dr. Senthil Arumugam
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



DNP followed by high resolution NMR: Two approaches
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Dr. Sankeerth Hebbar
University of Nottingham, UK

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




A global galactic dynamo with a corona constrained by relative helicity
more

Dr Arun Mangalam
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Non-relativistic fields and fluids on curved backgrounds
more

Arpita Mitra
S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Room 32, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Influenza virus capsid disassembly: how a hard nut cracks itself to infect cells by carjacking molecular motors
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Dr. Indranil Banerjee
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Low frequency radio observations of the Sun
more

Dr R Ramesh
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room No. 31, Second Floor, A Wing, Main Building




Decoding the principles of epithelial-hybrid-mesenchymal transitions
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Mohit Kumar Jolly
Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Recent exciting developments of astrophysics: compact objects to astrophysical fluids
more

Prof. Banibrata Mukhopadhyay
IISc, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at LHC 101



Intermittency route to thermoacoustic instability in turbulent combustors
more

Dr. R.I.Sujith
Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Airflow sensing in flying insects
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Dr. Sanjay Sane
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Heterointerface Engineering of Correlated Oxides
more

Dr. Srimanta Middey
Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Role of waves and small-scale transients in the heating of solar atmosphere
more

Dr Girjesh Gupta
IUCAA, Pune

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Prof. Xile Hu
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building





Dr. Mahesh Hariharan
School of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram,

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Quantum Dots: Single Photon Emitters for On-Chip Integrated Nanophotonics
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Prof. Anupam Madhukar
University of Southern California

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Prof. Yitzhak Tor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, USA

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Quantum Dots: What, Why, How, and ??
more

Prof. Anupam Madhukar
University of Southern California

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at LHC 101



Underground Tuning: Natural Variation of Arabidopsis Root Development under Iron Deficiency
more

Dr. Santosh Sathbhai
Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Anisotropic metamaterials provide for novel applications
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Dr. S. Anantha Ramakrishna
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur - 208016, India

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd floor, A wing, Main building



Quantum Phases and Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional Diffusive Metals at Oxide Interfaces
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Prof. Ramesh Budhani
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd floor, A wing, Main building



N=4 conformal supergravity   Wed, Mar 16, 2016


Dr. Bindusar Sahoo
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room No. 31, Second Floor, A Wing, Main Building



The mechanical control of neuronal development and function
more

Dr. Kristian Franze
University of Cambridge, UK

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Turning Science into Technology: A Logical Path of Scientific Research
more

Dr. Rudra Pratap
IISC Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Two examples of simplicity and robustness: Metal adhesive polymers and intragel reactivity
more

Prof. Dr. David Díaz Díaz
Heisenberg Professor Universität Regensburg, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Metamaterials with broadband response
more

Prof. Achanta Venu Gopal
TIFR - Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



An autoregulatory RelB:p50 NFκB pathway exacerbates environmental drug resistance in multiple myeloma
more

Dr. Soumen Basak
National Institute of Immunology, Delhi

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Deciphering molecular mechanisms of non-enveloped virus entry and membrane penetration
more

Dr. Manidipa Banerjee
IIT, Delhi

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Hochschild and cyclic (co)homology of certain algebras
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Dr. Safdar Quddus
NISER, Bhubaneswar

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Where did I come from? -Peroxisomes search for an answer
more

Dr. Amit Joshi
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Understanding anomalous transport in one-dimensional systems through fluctuating hydrodynamics.
more

Dr. Abhishek Dhar
ICTS, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The edges of Galaxy clusters and self-interaction cross-section of dark matter
more

Dr. Surhud More
IPMU Tokyo

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



The Science Case for Future Circular Colliders
more

Prof. Ashutosh Kotwal
Duke University, United States

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM at Seminar Room No. 31, Second Floor, A Wing, Main Building



Text Mining: Opportunities and Challenges
more

Prof. Padmini Srinivasan
Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, Second Floor, Main Building, IISER Pune



Topological sigma models and fluid dynamics
more

Dr. R. Loganayagam
(TIFR-ICTS, Bangalore, IAS Princeton)

Time and Venue: 05:30 PM to 06:30 PM at Seminar Room No. 31, Second Floor, A Wing, Main Building



Understanding the Role of Sporozoite Challenge in the Shaping the Fate of Plasmodia Liver-Stage Specific CD8+ T cell Memory
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Prof. Sarat Kumar Dalai
Institute of Science, Nirma University, Ahmedabad

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Highly selective allylation with functionalized allylboronic acids
more

Prof. Kalman Szabo
Department of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 33



Zeros of random analytic functions
more

Dr. Manjunath Krishnapur
IISc Bangaluru

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Novel Protein Fluorescent Nanoparticles (GlowDots) as pH Sensors
more

Prof. Challa V. Kumar
Fulbright Fellow (IISc) and Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut Storrs CT USA.

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 33



Harnessing Solar Energy Efficiently, Cheaply, and Safely
more

Prof. Nitin P. Padture
Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation Brown University, USA

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Central L-values of automorphic representaitons of GL(2) over number fields
more

Dr. Srilakshmi Krishnamoorthy
Indian Institute of Technology Chennai

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



CRAC channels, Ca2+ microdomains and gene expression
more

Dr. Pulak Kar
University of Oxford, UK

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Role of ELA region in auto-activation of mutant KIT receptor: an in silico insight
more

Dr. Rituraj Purohit
CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Exceptional zeros of p -adic L -functions of modular forms
more

Prof. Denis Benois
University of Bordeaux

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Protein Structure and Function: Looking through the Network of Side-Chain Interactions
more

Professor Saraswathi Vishveshwara
Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Synthetic Biology and Systematic Regulation of RNA-Protein Interactions
more

Dr. Rajarshi Choudhary
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building





Dr. Rohit Holkar
Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Federal University of Santa Caterina, Brazil

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Magnetic order at the border: NMR and NQR as a microscopic tool
more

Dr. Mayukh Majumder
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Cilia and Ciliopathies   Tue, Feb 09, 2016


Dr. Sudipto Roy
Institute of Cell & Molecular Biology, A*STAR Singapore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Dynamics of DNA double-strand break repair in bacteria
more

Dr. Anjana Badrinarayanan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Organisation of the Visual Brain
more

Prof. Semir Zeki
University College London, UK

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM at LHC101



On the problem of simple Lebesgue Spectrum in ergodic theory
more

Professor M. G. Nadkarni
Professor Emeritus at University of Mumbai

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



New developments in Inositol lipid signaling
more

Prof. Chandra Sekar
Faculty of Pharmacy University of Findlay, Ohio - USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Power values of sums of products of consecutive integers
more

Dr. Shanta Laishram
Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Cooperativity of Non-Covalent Interactions
more

Dr. G. Narahari Sastry
Centre for Molecular Modelling, CSIR- Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



An alternative approach to equilibrium of mesoscopic systems with conformation dependent damping
more

Dr. Arijit Bhattacharyay
IISER, Pune

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Ultracold atoms in Cavities - Bloch oscillations, transport and Optomechanics
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Dr. Prasanna Venkatesh
University of Innsbruck, Austria

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



'The 750 GeV diphoton signal: will it light up the particle world?'
more

Prof. Rohini Godbole
IISC Bangalore

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Front-loaded and doubled-down: The signaling network of tuberization
more

Professor David J. Hannapel
Iowa State University Ames, USA

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at LHC 101




Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) of Photons: Challenges and Experiments
more

Mr Amit Bhunia
Ph D Student, Phyiscs Department, IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room No. 31, Second Floor, A Wing, Main Building



(Host: Prof. Shyam Rai)


Prof. Iain Stewart
Director, Sustainable Earth Institute, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Study of magnetic and dielectric properties of 3d transition metal oxides.
more

Dr. Jhuma Sannigrahi
IACS, Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room No. 31, Second Floor, A Wing, Main Building



Science Communication Workshop
more

Dr. Charlotte Sleigh
School of History, University of Kent

Time and Venue: 02:30 PM to 06:00 PM at LHC 101




Brain-wide plasticity in somatomotor systems following spinal cord injury
more

Niranjan Kambi
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Mina Bisell
Distinguished Scientist Life Sciences Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Time and Venue: 05:00 PM to 06:00 PM at Sir C.V. Raman Auditorium, LHC



Violation of Lepton Flavour Universality
more

Prof. Nilendra G Deshpande
Department of Physics, 1274 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1274

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room No. 31, Second Floor, A Wing, Main Building



Sculpting organ shape: morphogenesis of a tubular system in Drosophila
more

Professor Helen Skaer
University of Cambridge, UK

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Sir C.V. Raman Auditorium, LHC




Dr. Thomas Lecuit
CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, France

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at LHC 101




Climate change and impact on emerging infectious diseases: Plague as an example
more

Prof. Nils Christian-Stenseth
Chair and Research Professor, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Oslo, Norway

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at CV Raman Auditorium



Early Universe Cosmology   Tue, Jan 19, 2016

Early Universe Cosmology
more

Dr. Nishant Agarwal
The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Prof. Herbert W. Roesky
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry Georg-August-University, Goettingen, Germany

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at LHC 101



Quantum information processing with superconducting quantum circuits
more

Dr. Archana Kamal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Deaf literacy change lab   Fri, Jan 15, 2016

Deaf literacy change lab
more

Prof. Ulrike Zeshan OBE
Director, International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



High-throughput Synthesis of Oxide Thin Films
more

Dr Wilfrid Prellier
Laboratoire CRISMAT, CNRS and University of Caen, FRANCE

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Mock Moonshine   Fri, Jan 15, 2016


Prof. Kishore Marathe
City University of New York, USA

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



Attacking the problem of strong correlations with the density matrix renormalization group
more

Dr. Hitesh J. Changlani
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Studying Structure and Light Emission in the Scanning Electron Microscope
more

Dr. Carol Trager-Cowan
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM at LHC 101



Moonshine   Tue, Jan 12, 2016

Moonshine
more

Prof. Kishore Marathe
City University of New York, USA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Madhava Hall



Regulation of planar cell polarity by the Dachsous-Fat pathway
more

Dr. Abhijit Ambegaonkar
Rutgers University

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Entanglement and quantum chaos
more

Prof. Arul Lakshminarayan
IIT-Madras, Chennai

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Early intervention in cancer through the tumour suppressive mechanisms that control genome stability
more

Professor Ashok Venkitaraman
Medical Research Council Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, UK

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Sir C.V. Raman Auditorium, LHC



Transport and dynamics of Dirac fermions and Majorana modes across superconducting junctions.
more

Dr. Moitri Maiti
Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room No. 31, Second Floor, A Wing, Main Building




Structure, function and mechanism of ribonucleotide reductase: life's essential enzyme
more

Dr. Faiz Ahmad Mohammed
Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Patterning Rho - GTPase signaling at the epithelial cadherin - junctions : a tale of feedback loops.
more

Dr. Rashmi Priya
The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Darmon cycles and the kohnen-shintani lifting
more

Guhan Venkat
Imperial College, London

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Madhava Hall



Developing therapeutics against Dengue: a multiscale approach
more

Dr. Chandra Verma
Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building





Dr. R. Nagaraj
JC Bose National Fellow, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Twin Primes   Sat, Dec 26, 2015

Twin Primes
more

Professor M.Ram Murty
Queen's University

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Madhava Hall



Syntheses, Isolation and Reactivity of Fascinating Molecules Containing Main Group Elements and Transition Metals
more

Dr. Sudipta Roy
Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, Georg-August-University, Gottingen, Germany

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Room 33



Droplet formation in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate
more

Ms. Chinmayee Mishra
Ph D Student, IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room No. 31, Second Floor, A Wing, Main Building




L-functions of elliptic curves arising from Mahler measure
more

Prof. Matilde Lalin
University of Montreal

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall



CART AND THERMOREGULATION   Thu, Dec 17, 2015

CART AND THERMOREGULATION
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Prof. Herbert Herzog
Neuroscience Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Connecting the Dots: Semiconductor Quantum Dots as Light Harvesters and Carbon Dots as Water Splitting Catalysts
more

Dr. Sayan Bhattacharyya
IISER Kolkata

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building





The MiMIC: expanding gene editing tools
more

Dr. Sonal Nagarkar - Jaiswal
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Time and Venue: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Genetic dissection of neuronal maintenance and demise
more

Dr. Manish Jasiwal
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Circadian timing of a peptide-orchestrated behaviour in Drosophila
more

Prof. Christian Wegener
University of Wuerzburg, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Knot, graphs, geometry and densities
more

Dr. Abhijit Champanerkar
Department of Mathematics,College of Staten Island, CUNY

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at Madhava Hall





Lepidopteran Reverse Genetics: The integration of molecular biology and classical ecology for the In Situ Analysis of tritrophic interactions and their infochemistry
more

Dr. Sagar Pandit
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Cell and tissue mechanics in zebrafish gastrulation
more

Carl - Philipp Heisenberg
Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at LHC 203



Ergodicity violation and ageing: From granular gases to living cells
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Prof. Ralf Metzler

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM at Seminar Room 33, Second Floor, Main Building



Hilbert Series and Black Hole Microstate Counting
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Abhishek Chowdhury
HRI, Allahabad

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Estimates of Hilbert modular cusp forms of integral and half-integral weight
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Dr. Anilatmaja Aryasomayajula
University of Hyderabad

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM at Madhava Hall






A microscopic understanding of the flow of glasses using colloids
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Dr. Vijayakumar Chikkadi
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Resonating valence bond states: A quantum information perspective
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Dr. Ujjwal Sen
HRI, Allahabad

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM at Seminar Room 31, 2nd Floor, A Wing, Main Building




Prof. Anil K. Patnaik
Air Force Research Laboratory, Aerospace Systems Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433 Department of Physics, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435

Time and Venue: 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM at Seminar Room No. 31, Second Floor, A Wing, Main Building



Computational studies of large-scale conformational transitions in proteins
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Dr. Avisek Das
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, USA

Time and Venue: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building







Prof. M.R.S. Rao
Honorary Professor SERB Distinguished Fellow Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (Deemed University) Jakkur, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building




Fatou-Bieberbach domains   Fri, Nov 06, 2015

Fatou-Bieberbach domains
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Dr. Kaushal Verma
IISc, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 03:30 PM at Madhava Hall




Prof. G. D. Heda
Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, USA

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building



Plant-pathogen interaction with respect to plant parasitic nematodes: A sophisticated dialogue
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Dr. Amar Kumar
Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi

Time and Venue: 03:00 PM at Seminar Room 34, 2nd Floor, Main Building







Dr. Dinesh Shetty
Center for Self-assembly and Complexity, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Korea

Time and Venue: 02:15 PM at LHC 201




Medical and Sociological Aspects of Alcohol and Drug Addiction: Implications for Research and Teaching
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Dr Kenneth Mullen
School of Medicine College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences University of Glasgow

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at LHC101



The Planet of the Apps or how we are sculpting our survival (or not)
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Prof. K. VijayRaghavan
Secretary, DBT, Govt. of India and Distinguished Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 12:15 PM to 01:15 PM at C. V. Raman Auditorium, LHC



The History of Time, Time keeping and Indian Standard Time
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Prof. D. P. Sen Gupta
Visiting Professor School of Natural Sciences and Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), IISc, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at 101, LHC, IISER Main Campus



The new excitement in Space Sciences : an Indian perspective
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Prof P Sreekumar, Director, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
Prof. P. Sreekumar obtained his Ph.D. in Physics, from Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, USA, after an M.Sc. in Physics from IIT, Mumbai.

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at 101, LHC, IISER Main Campus



SAFETY FIRST: PLEASE TAKE CARE AS LAB IS YOUR HOME AWAY FROM HOME
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Prof. P.K.Srivastava, CDRI Lucknow
Dy. Director in the Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division of Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India. He is the father of SCIENTOONICS, a new branch of science that deals with science communication through cartoons.

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at 101, LHC, IISER Main Campus



When is a species a species? The tail and other stories of the Arunachal macaque, a recently discovered Indian primate
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Prof. Anindya Sinha
Anindya Sinha, Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore and Senior Scientist of the Nature Conservation Foundation in Mysore.

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at 101, LHC, IISER Main Campus



The changing face of Ebola virus: A tale of two cities
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Prof. Atanu Basu
Prof. Atanu Basu, Deputy Director & Head, Electron Microscopy and Pathology Group, NIV, Pune, Adjunct Professor, School of Basic Sciences, IIT, Mandi India

Time and Venue: 04:30 PM to 05:30 PM at 101, LHC, IISER Main Campus



India's Nuclear Energy Program : prospects and problems"
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R. Rajaraman Emeritus Professor of Physics, J.N.U., New Delhi
R.Rajaraman completed his PhD in theoretical physics in 1963 from Cornell University with Prof. Hans Bethe as his supervisor. He has since worked at Cornell, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Delhi University, and the Indian Institute of Scie

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at LHC 101, Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Campus



Ayurveda and Modern Science   Wed, Apr 09, 2014

Ayurveda and Modern Science
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Prof. M S Valiathan
MS Valiathan received his MBBS from Kerala University and FRCS from the University of Liverpool, UK. He specialized in cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins in USA. He was Director of the Sree Chitra Institute, and was first Vice-Chancellor of the Manipal Uni

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at LHC 101, Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Campus



Latest Developments in Missile Technology in India
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Padma Bhushan Dr. V K S Saraswat
Dr. V K Saraswat is DAE Homi Bhabha Chair, the Ex- Director General of DRDO, Former Scientific Adviser to Raksha Mantri, Secretary, Dept of Defence R&D. He is known as the "Missile Man II" of India.

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at LHC 101, Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Campus



Atomic Radiation From Astronomy to Cancer Research
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Prof. Anil Pradhan, Ohio State University
About the speaker: With a B.Sc. and M.Sc.(Physics) from University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and a Ph.D. (Physics and Astronomy) from University of London, Prof. Anil Pradhan has served as Professor of Biophysics; Professor, Department of Astronomy; an

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at LHC 101, Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Campus



Genetic Counseling and Research to tackle Cancer
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Prof. Rajiv Sarin MD, DNB, FRCR (Clinical Oncology)
Prof. Rajiv Sarin is the Director of Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai. He is In-Charge of the Cancer Genetics Unit & Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Tata Memorial Centre.

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at LHC 101, Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Campus



DRIVERS IN BIODIVERSITY PATTERNS: BEYOND STAMP COLLECTION AND CATALOGUING
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Prof. Mewa Singh Ph.D., FASc, FNA, FNASc, FNAPsy
Ramanna Fellow, and Life-Long Distinguished Professor Department of Psychology, University of Mysore Honorary Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalo

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at LHC 101, Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Campus



'Antibiotics and the cell's protein factory'
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Professor Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Laureate, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Prof. Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born American and British structural biologist, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath, "for studies on the structure and function of the ribosome".

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at Multipurpose Hall, HR4, IISER Campus



Structural analysis of acetylcholine binding proteins to understand ligand binding in nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
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Prof. Titia Sixma
Prof. Titia Sixma is Head, Division of Biochemistry Netherlands Cancer Institute. She will be delivering a lecture in the EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Series 2013

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at Lecture Hall Complex, Hall 201, IISER Pune



High Energy Physics: Understanding How Our Universe Works
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Dr. Tiziano Camporesi
Dr. Tiziano Camporesi is a research physicist in the area of high energy particle physics at CERN, Geneva.

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at 103, Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Pune



Michelangelo, the great genius
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Dr Madhavi Mehendaley
Dr Mehendaley is an Eye Surgeon. She is the Director of Prakash Eye Hospital, Pune. She has done extensive research on Michelangleo\'s paintings. She has also authored a book \"Daivee Pratibhecha kalawant, Michelangelo\" in Marathi.

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at LHC 101, Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Campus



Lipid induced inflammation, disruption of insulin sensitivity and innate immunity are associated events
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Prof. Samir Bhattacharya
Prof Bhattacharya is known for his research in the area of Comparative endocrinology and molecular signalling. Currently, he is at Department of Zoology, Visva-Bharati (Central University) as an INSA Senior Scientist.

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at LHC 101, Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Campus



Opinion Polls in the Context of Indian Parliamentary Democracy
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Professor Rajeeva Karandikar
Prof Karandikar is the Director of Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai. His research interests include several areas of probability theory, option pricing theory, psephology in the context of Indian elections and cryptography among many others.

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at LHC 101, Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Campus



Composite Fermions: The Magical Beauty of Emergence
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Prof. Jainendra K Jain
Prof Jain is the Erwin W. Mueller Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University. He is known for his theoretical work on quantum many body systems, most notably for postulating Composite Fermions.

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at LHC 101, Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Campus



Consistent and Symmetric: The evolution of fundamental theory from gauge fields to strings
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Prof. Sunil Mukhi
Prof. Sunil Mukhi is Coordinator/Head of the Physics Programme, at IISER Pune. His field of research is Theoretical Physics, specifically Quantum Field Theory and String Theory. Earlier he was Professor of Physics at TIFR, Mumbai

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at LHC 101, Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Campus



Life and the Brain   Wed, Apr 10, 2013

Life and the Brain
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Prof. Vijayalakshmi Ravindranathan
Chairperson, Centre For Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at C-201 A, HR4, First Floor, IISER Campus



Science Media Centre at IISER Pune: The hypothesis, the experiment and the results so far
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K.P.Madhu
Before joining IISER Pune, Madhu worked as Programme Manager at the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development, as Joint Director, Consortium for Educational Communication, as Producer, Turning Point, Times Television

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at C-201 A, HR4, First Floor, IISER Campus



A unified model for the evolution of cooperative nesting and altruism in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata
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Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar
INSA SN Bose Research Professor and JC Bose National Fellow, Centre for Ecological Sciences, and Chairman, Centre for Contemporary Studies, IISc, Bangalore; Evolutionary and Organismic Biology Unit Honorary Professor, JNCASR, bangalore http://ces.iisc.ern

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at C-201 A, HR4, First Floor, IISER Campus



Geometrically frustrated magnets
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Prof. Kedar Damle, Assoc. Prof. Dept of Theoretical Physics, TIFR, Mumbai
Prof. Kedar Damle is also Joint Faculty ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore, and Adjunct Faculty at IIT Bombay. He did B.Tech. in Engineering Physics, from I.I.T. Bombay, and Ph.D in Physics, from Yale University. He was awarded the Birla Science Prize (2010)

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at C-201 A, HR4, First Floor, IISER Campus



When Science Meets the Human Eye
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Prof. D. Balasubramaniam, LV Prasad Eye Institute
Professor D Balasubramanian joined LVPEI Prof Brien Holden Eye Research Centre after holding positions such as Director, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, and Professor and Dean, University of Hyderabad.

Time and Venue: 05:30 PM to 07:00 PM at C-201 A, HR4, First Floor, IISER Campus



Need for the advent of Calculus in India
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Prof. Ramasubramaniam, IIT, Bombay
Prof. Ramasubramanian is a traditionally trained Sanskrit scholar and also holds a doctorate in Theoretical Physics. His investigations of the classical Indian texts have shed a lot of light on the development of Indian Mathematics and Astronomy

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at C-201 A, HR4, First Floor, IISER Campus



Why Indians are more susceptible to diabetes than Westerners.
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Prof C S Yajnik, MD FRCP, Consultant Diabetologist and Director, Diabetes Unit, KEM Hospital Pune
He is also Assoc. Prof. at BJ Medical College, Pune, Visiting Fellow at the MRC Developmental Origins Unit at Southampton, UK and a Visiting Professor at Peninsula Medical School, Dept of Molec. Medicine and Genetics at Exeter, UK.

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at C-201 A, HR4, First Floor, IISER Campus



Solving cubic equations   Fri, Jan 11, 2013

Solving cubic equations
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Professor Benedict Gross
George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University. (Professor Gross was also the Dean of Harvard College from 2003 to 2007.) Webpage: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~gross/

Time and Venue: 05:30 PM to 07:00 PM at C-201 A, HR4, First Floor, IISER Campus




Big History: From Big Bang to the Cooperative Species
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Prof. Raghu Murtugudde, Univ. of Maryland
Prof. Raghu Murtugudde completed his BS in Aeronautical Engg, from IIT Bombay, MS in Aerospace Engg. and a PhD in Mechanical Engg. from Columbia Univ. He is currently a Prof. in the Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Univ. of Maryland

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 AM at C-201 A, HR4, First Floor, IISER Campus



Creating a Sustainable Future as the Climate Changes
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Dr. Rashneh N. Pardiwala
Rashneh is an ecologist from Univ. of Edinburgh having specialized in the field of Climate Change. She is the Founder & Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Education (CERE), which is also a pioneer in developing Carbon Management Systems

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 AM at C-201, First Floor, HR4



Innovation in India   Wed, Oct 17, 2012

Innovation in India
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Dr. Murali Sastry
Dr. Murali Sastry was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Chemistry (2003), he created the Nanotechnology Centre at NCL, Pune, set up the Innovation Centre at Tata Chemicals, and is currently Director of the India Innovation Centre for DSM.

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 AM at C-201, First floor, HR4, IISER new Campus



Nanoscience, Energy and Environment
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Prof. Satishchandra B. Ogale
Prof. Ogale is Chief Scientist, Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, and Co-ordinator, Center of Excellence in Solar Energy, NCL, Pune.

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM at C-201, First floor, HR4, IISER new Campus



Science in the headlines: what is the point of science journalism?
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James Dacey
James Dacey has been working as a journalist for Physics World, the magazine of the UK Institute of Physics, since January 2009. The magazine is planning to produce a range of content focussed on "physics in India"

Time and Venue: 05:30 PM to 06:30 AM at Lecture Hall C-201A, HR4, First Floor, IISER Campus



p-adic numbers   Wed, Sep 05, 2012

p-adic numbers
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Prof. Jean-Marc Fontaine
Jean-Marc Fontaine is a French mathematician and is a professor at Paris-Sud 11 University at Orsay.

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 01:00 AM at C-201 A, HR4, First Floor, IISER Campus



Recent Discovery of the Higgs Particle
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Prof. Avinash Khare
IISER Pune

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Lecture Hall, C201-A, First Floor, HR4, IISER Main Campus




Professor John Coates,
Professor John Coates is Sadleirian professor of pure mathematics, Cambridge University

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at C-201A, HR4, First Floor



M-Theories: Mind, Mathematics and Metaphysics
more

Prof. Rajesh Kasturirangan
NIAS, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Lecture Hall (HR-4)



Role of large scale structures in instabilities and turbulence
more

Prof. Mahendra K. Verma
Physics Department, IIT Kanpur

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at New Lecture Hall (HR-4)



Snippets from Greek geometry and Indian combinatorics
more

Prof. R. Sridharan, CMI, India
Mathematics

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at New Lecture Hall (HR-4)




Prof. David Glanzman
Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, UCLA, California, USA

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at New Lecture Hall (HR-4)



Genomics, Molecular Biology and Making New Medicines
more

Prof. Sir Tom Blundell, FRS
Cambridge University, UK

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at New Lecture Hall HR-4



The Solar corona and ADITYA-1 Mission
more

Jagdev Singh
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Lecture Hall (HR-4)



The challenges for XXIst century biology (systems biology, synthetic biology, and the wedding between functional and evolutionary biology)
more

Prof. Michel Morange
Professor of Biology and Director of the Centre Cavailles for history and philosophy of science at "Ecole Normale Superieure", Paris

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at New Lecture Hall HR-4



Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: Past, Present and Future.
more

Prof. Anil Kumar
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at Lecture Hall HR4



Recent Advances in Inorganic-Organic Framework Materials (IYC 2011 Lecture Series)
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Prof. A. K. Cheetham, FRS
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at New Lecture Hall HR-4



Unity In Diversity: Towards a Fulfillment of Einstein's Dream
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Prof. Jogesh C. Pati
Formerly of Maryand University, USA Presently at SLAC, Stanford, USA

Time and Venue: 05:30 PM at New Lecture Hall at HR4



Gravitational Wave Astronomy   Wed, Sep 14, 2011

Gravitational Wave Astronomy
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Prof. Sanjeev Dhurandhar
IUCAA, Pune

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at New Lecture Hall at HR-4




Dr. Anand Deshpande
Founder, Chairman and Managing Director, Persistent Systems, Pune

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM at New Lecture Hall at HR-4



Gravitational Wave Detection with Laser Interferometry
more

Prof. Rana Adhikari
California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at New Lecture Hall at HR-4



Dreaming of Numbers   Wed, Aug 17, 2011

Dreaming of Numbers
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Prof. Sujatha Ramdorai
TIFR, Mumbai and Member, Prime Minister's Scientific Advisory Council (PM-SAC)

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at New Lecture Hall at HR-4



Learning Science through Toys
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Arvind Gupta
Inter University Centre of Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune

Time and Venue: 11:30 AM at New Lecture Hall at HR-4



Making a tail wag the dog: blending little and the Big science
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Prof Anil Gupta
Honey Bee Network, National Innovation Foundation and Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad

Time and Venue: 11:45 AM at HR-4, Lecture hall, 2nd floor



Space-time Structure, Black Holes and Holography
more

Prof. Spenta R. Wadia
Distinguished Professor, TIFR and Director, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of TIFR

Time and Venue: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM at New Lecture Hall at HR-4



BEASTS, BIRDS, BUGS, BIOPOLYMERS, BOLTS AND BATONS
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Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy
Centre for Condensed Matter Theory Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science

Time and Venue: 11:45 AM to 01:00 PM at HR-4



Science and the Scientist in Nature Conservation
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Dr. Charudutt Mishra
Founder Trustee and Senior Scientist, Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore, India, Director of Science and Conservation, Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, USA

Time and Venue: 11:45 AM at New Lecture Hall at HR-4



Magnetizing the universe   Wed, Oct 27, 2010

Magnetizing the universe
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Prof K. Subramanian
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) Pune

Time and Venue: 11:45 AM at New Lecture Hall at HR-4



Progress in Scanning Tunneling microscopy
more

Dr. Steffen Wirth
Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Dresden, Germany

Time and Venue: 11:45 AM at New Lecture Hall at HR-4



Instabilities and Interfacial Flows
more

Prof. Rama Govindarajan
Engineering Mechanics Unit Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore

Time and Venue: 11:45 AM at New Lecture Hall at HR-4



Astroparticle Physics with the GRAPES-3 experiment, an exciting new scientific frontier
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Prof Sunil K Gupta
Dept of High Energy Physics Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai

Time and Venue: 11:45 AM to 01:00 AM at New Lecture Hall at HR-4


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