Seminars 2013

Date & Time Title Speaker
Dec 27, 2013 ,

02:00 PM
Molecular determinants of synaptic transmission on to hippocampal parvalbumin interneurons Jai S Polepalli, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,Stanford University School of Medicine
Dec 21, 2013,

11:30 AM
Simulating at Multiple Scales: Application to Chemistry and Biophysics Jagannath Mondal, Columbia University , New York, USA
Dec 20, 2013,

11:00 AM
Reaching light speed in a centimeter Rajeev Pattathil, TCIS & Central Laser Facility,Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK
Dec 16, 2013,

04:00 PM
Design and Construction of Functional Hybrid Materials Avinash Patil, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol
Dec 11, 2013,

4:00 PM
When Stores Have No Calcium CRAC Open For a Refill Monika Vig, School of Medicine, Washington University St Louis
Dec 10, 2013,

11:30 AM
Molecular and synaptic architecture of vomeronasal sensory circuits Adish Dani, School of Medicine, Washington University St Louis
Dec 09, 2013,

04:00 PM
Chiral magnetism at oxide interfaces and skyrmions Sumilan Banerjee, The Ohio State University
Nov 29, 2013,

4:00 PM
How throwing made us human Madhu Venkadesan, NCBS, Bangalore
Nov 26, 2013,

11:30 AM
Self-assembly of ordered cylindrical nano-structures: A theoretical investigation of experimental results Apratim Chatterjee , IISER, Pune
Nov 21, 2013,

11:30 AM
Scales and Scaling in convective turbulence J.K. Bhattacharjee , HRI, Allahabad
Nov 20, 2013,

04:00 PM
Fluids: From driven colloids to active patterns Arnab Saha,, MPIPKS , Dresden
Nov 13, 2013,

4:00 PM
Slow Dynamics and Narrow Lines in Solution NMR by means of Long Lived States and Coherences Riddhiman Sarkar, Technische Universität München, Department Chemie,Garching
Nov 12, 2013,

11:30 AM
Self-limited "living" 2-D colloidal clusters: Building blocks for cluster crystals Prerna Sharma, Department of Physics, Brandeis University,USA
Nov 11, 2013,

4:00 PM
Using NMR to Study Transiently Populated (Invisible) Minor Conformers of Proteins Pramodh Vallurupalli, Department of Molecular Genetics,University of Toronto
Nov 7, 2013,

11:30 AM
The System of Coastal Currents Around the Indian Subcontinent: What is our current understanding? S.C. Shenoi , INCOIS, Hyderabad
Nov 1, 2013,

11:30 AM
Single-molecule studies on forced unfolding of proteins and protein elasticity ASR Koti , Chemical Sciences, TIFR Colaba
Oct 21, 2013,

4:00 PM
Blood, Sweat and Tears: Simulations of Biological Flows Dhrubaditya Mitra, NORDITA, Stockholm
Oct 21, 2013,

1:30 PM
Some Logarithms I Have Known: The Power of Zero Rajaram Nityananda, IISER, Pune
Oct 17, 2013,

11:30 AM
Ice-templated Crosslinked Colloidal Assemblies Recover Elastically After Large Compressive Strain Guru Kumaraswamy, National Chemical Laboratories, Pune
Oct 15, 2013,

11:30 AM
1D & 2D Nanomaterials & Their Hierarchical 3D Structures for Applications T N. Narayana, Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi
Oct 10, 2013,

11:30 AM
Patterning heterogeneities and transitions in cell behavior Maithreyi Narasimha, Dept of Biological Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai
Oct 8, 2013,

11:30 AM
Applications of the finite element method to quantum mechanics L.R. Ram-Mohan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Oct 03, 2013,

11:30 AM
Stochastic thermodynamics and its implications for active particles D. Chaudhuri, IIT-Hyderabad
Sep 26, 2013,

11:30 AM
Quantum Control of Photons, Atoms and Spins Chinmay Belthangady, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Sep 25, 2013,

04:00 PM
Varieties of Quantum Measurements M.D. Hari Dass, Chennai Mathematical Institute
Sep 17, 2013,

4:30 PM
Durch Manchirevula Bettina Lange
Sep 17, 2013,

11:30 AM
The Phase Coherent State of Oriented Active Fluids Sebastian Fürthauer , TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences
Sep 12, 2013,

11:30 AM
Dynamics of Spreading of Granular Material Shankar Ghosh, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Sep 11, 2013,

4:00 PM
Slender axisymmetric Stokesian swimmers Srikanth Toppaladoddi, Dept of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University
Sep 03, 2013,

11:30 AM
Unravelling Complex Multiphase Flows by Means of Ultra-High Resolution DNS Prashant Valluri, Institute for Materials and Processes, The University of Edinburgh
Aug 20, 2013,

11:30 AM
Structural understanding of protein kinases inhibitory mechanism under solution conditions Navratna Vajpai, Protein Structure and Biophysics, AstraZeneca R&D, UK
Aug 12, 2013,

11:30 AM
Exact distributions of the number of distinct and common sites visited by N independent random walkers. Anupam Kundu, LPTMS, Universite Paris-Sud, France
Aug 06, 2013,

11:30 AM
High-Field High-Frequency EPR Studies of Hexanuclear Fe(III)6 Cluster With an S = 5 ground State; Single Molecule Magnets (SMMs) Muralidharan Shanmugam, Northwestern University, USA
Jul 18, 2013,

11:30 AM
Nanopore Biophysics: From Gene Sequencing to Gene Silencing Gautam V. Soni, Kavli Institute of NanoScience, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Jul 11, 2013,

10:30 AM
Collective dances: from swimming drops to chimera clocks Shashi Thutupalli, Princeton University
Jul 04, 2013,

11:30 AM
Multiple functions of Beclin1/Autophagy specific gene-6 (Atg6) during Drosophila development Bhupendra V. Shravage, UMass Medical School, Worcester, MA,USA
Jun 14, 2013,

04:00 PM
Tunable and Driven Colloids. Anand Yethiraj Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University, St. John's, NL, Canada.
Jun 11, 2013,

04:00 PM
Protein Glycosylation: From Force Field Development to Applications. Sairam Swaroop Mallajosyula, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
May 21, 2013

4:00 PM

Public Lecture
Cosmological Constant, Its problem(s) and the solution Padmanabhan, IUCAA, Pune.
May 20, 2013

4:00 PM

Public Lecture
Menagerie of Viruses: Organizing Principles of Virus Assembly M. Muthukumar, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003
Apr 11, 2013,

11:30 AM
The cell cortex : A thin film of active matter K Vijay Kumar, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Straße 38, Dresden 01187, Germany.
Apr 10, 2014

11:30 AM
Functional Organics: Materials for OLEDs, Photovoltaics and Bio-imaging Venkatakrishnan Parthasarathy, National Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta, T6G 2M9 Canada
Apr 05, 2013,

04:00 PM
The elastic and elastocapillary Landau-Levich problem Harish Dixit, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia
Mar 28, 2013,

11:30 AM
SERS targets cancer: the future looks BRIGHT? Naveen Gandra, Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, 1 Brookings Dr., St. Louis, MO 63130
Mar 26, 2013,

11:30 AM
T4 Phage UvsW helicase-mediated lesion bypassDNA synthesis via fork regression Senthil Perumal, The Benkovic Laboratory, 402 Wartik Laboratories, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
Mar 19, 2013,

11:30 AM
Tyrosine phosphatase STEP: a potential target forprotection against ischemic brain damage Ishani Deb, Department of Neurology, University of New Mexico MSC116035, Albuquerque, NM - 87131, USA
Mar 14, 2013,

11:30 AM
Crystal Engineering Approach for the Design of SoftOrganic Materials C.Malla Reddy, Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, 741252, West Bengal.
Mar 11, 2013,

11:30 AM
Denaturant dependent folding of Green FluorescentProtein Govardhan Reddy, Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology University of Maryland, College Park, MD - 20742, USA
Mar 1, 2013,

04:00 PM
Structural basis for telomerase RNA recognition and RNPassembly by the holoenzyme La family protein p65 Mahavir Singh, Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Mar 1, 2013,

11:30 AM
Investigating mechanisms of blood progenitor maintenanceand stress response using Drosophila Tina Mukherjee, Department of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, UCLA
Feb 28, 2013,

11:30 AM
The role of a self-sustaining amyloidogenic protein in persistence of memory Amitabha Majumdar, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000E, 50th Street, Kansas City 64110
Feb 22, 2013,

11:30 AM
Cytoskeleton in "Prokaryotes": Assembly, Dynamics &Diversity Ramanujam Srinivasan, Cell Division Lab, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, 1 Research Link National University of SingaporeSingapore 117604
Feb 21, 2013,

02:30 PM
Computational Studies: From Clusters to Catalysis G. Gopakumar, Max-Planck Insititut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz-1, Mülheim an der Ruhr, D-45470, Germany.
Feb 21, 2013,

11:30 AM
cAMP dependent protein kinase A (PKA): New insightsfrom an old kinase Malik M. Keshwani, From the Departments of Pharmacology1, Chemistry and Biochemisty2, Howard Hughes Medical Institute3, University of California, San Diego.
Feb 13, 2013,

11:30 AM
Rapid construction and high-throughput screening of novelcombinatorial libraries to identify bioactive molecules Bani Kanta Sarma, Department of Chemistry ,The Scripps Research Institute Florida
Feb 12, 2013,

11:30 AM
Molecular Simulations of Biological Membranes and Membrane-Associated Phenomena Himanshu Khandelia, MEMPHYS, Center for BioMembrane Physics, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Campusvej 55, Odense M 5230, Denmark
Feb 07, 2013,

11:30 AM
Optoelectronic applications of colloidal quantum dots (QDs) Bhola Nath Pal, Chemistry Division, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Feb 06, 2013,

11:30 AM
Long-term Potentiation Requires Unique Postsynaptic SNAREFusion Machinery Debanjan Goswami, Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation & Translational Neurosciences, Stanford School of Medicine, 265 Campus, Drive, Rm G1005 Stanford, CA.
Feb 06, 2013,

04:00 PM
The RAGE Axis: Novel Molecular and Structural Insights andKey Regulations in Diseases: Inflammation to Cancer Vivek Rai,Department of Medicine, New York University, School of Medicine, New York, NY-10016, USA
Feb 05, 2013,

11:30 AM
T cell antigens: Selection, presentation andrecognition Dhruv Sethi, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Feb 01, 2013(Postponed)

11:30 AM
Can we program a cell like an engineer programs a device? Sangram Bagh,Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Jan 30, 2013,

03:00 PM
A Random walk through TSUNAMI: An attempt to establish synergy between science, Art and Poetry Bimalendu Bhattacharya, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake, Kolkata
Jan 30, 2013,

11:30 AM
Non-affine displacements and the origin of elastic heterogeneties in a solid Saswati Ganguly, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
January 29, 2013,

11:30 AM
Persistent Signaling from Internalized Glucagon like Peptide1 Receptor Promotes Glucose Stimulated Insulin Secretion in Pancreatic beta Cells Prasenjit Mitra,Chemical Biology Programme, Institute of Life Science,Hyderabad
Jan 24, 2013,

11:30 AM
From C?H Functionalization to Radical Mediated Opening of Chiral Expoxy Alcohols Rajarshi Samanta, Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
Jan 18, 2013,

11:30 AM
DNA as a Versatile Reagent: Structural Component for Branched Networks and Catalyst for Organic and Bio-organic Reactions Madhavaiah Chandra, Ergam Laboratories Pvt. Ltd Sustainable Chemistry, Hyderabad, AP, India.
Jan 15, 2013,

11:30 AM
Application of Self-Assembly Strategies in ArtificialPhotosynthesis Kingsuk Mahata, Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
Jan 14, 2013,

04:00 PM
Onset of shear flow in confined soft amorphous materials Pinaki Chaudhuri, Institute for Theoretical Physics Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany
Jan 14, 2013,

11:30 AM
Fracture in materials undergoing phase transformations Bharat Penmecha, Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, MC 104-44 Pasadena CA 91125
Jan 10, 2013,

04:00 PM
Impact of the Dynamic Cytoskeleton on Intracellular Sub-Diffusion: A Local Motion Analysis Amitabha Nandi, MCDB Yale University, KBT 1054 New Haven, CT 06520
Jan 10, 2013,

11:30 AM
Structure and dynamics of H/Li/N systems at high pressure Dasari L. V. K. Prasad, Baker Laboratory, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Jan 8, 2013,

11:30 AM
Efficient conversion of biomass-resources to value-added chemicals with solid acid catalysts and ionicliquids S. Saravanamurugan, Centre for Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby 2800, Denmark
Jan 04, 2013,

11:30 AM
Classical and quantum phases of interactingbosons in one dimension Subroto Mukherjee,Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore