Seminars 2014

Date & Time Title Speaker
Dec 23, 2014

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Fluid-Insulator transitions in a system of interacting Bose gas in 1D disordered lattices Saptarshi Chaudhuri, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
Dec 18, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Probing few-body physics using ultra-cold quantum gases: Universality of the Three-Body Efimov Parameter Sanjukta Roy, Universita di Firenze, Italy
Dec 17, 2014

04:00 PM

Wednesday
Kinesin-3 Family Motors are Marathon Runners of the Cellular World Virupakshi Soppina, University of Michigan, USA
Dec 16, 2014

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Of pipelines, networks and solutions: analysis methods to understand imaging data from the human brain Nitin Jonathan Paul Williams, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
Dec 10, 2014

04:00 PM

Wednesday
Hybrid quantum optics: from nuclear clock to efficient quantum repeaters Sumanta Das, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
Dec 9, 2014

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Atomically Thin Chemical Switch - Gate Tunable Memristors based on Single Layer MoS2 Vinod K Sangwan, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Dec 2nd, 2014

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Long-term Potentiation Requires Unique Postsynaptic SNARE Fusion Machinery Debanjan Goswami, Stanford School of Medicine, CA
Nov 27, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Spin Glasses: What's the Big Idea? (Is There One?) Daniel Stein, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Newyork
Nov 26, 2014

04:00 PM

Wednesday
Simulation of molecular organisation of organic materials and its effects on charge transport Claudio Zannoni, University of Bologna, Italy
Nov 25, 2014

11:30 AM

Tuesday
A molecular switch from a single mRNA controls skin homeostasis in wound healing and cancer Gopinath M Sundaram, Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore
Nov 20, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Stochastic dynamics and feedback control in small magnetic system Swarnali Bandopadhyay, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad
Nov 13, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Diversity of Imidazolin-2-imine Ligands in Group 2 and 4 Metal Chemistry Tarun K. Panda, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Nov 12, 2014

04:00 PM

Wednesday
The effect of quantum nuclear motion on hydrogen bonding Ross McKenzie, University of Queensland
Nov 11, 2014

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Shear induced rigidity in athermal materials Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University, USA
Nov 10, 2014

04:00 PM

Monday
Smart Polymer Coating: Deigning of Anti-wetting Surfaces & Developing Stable Liquid Crystal Based Chemical Sensor Uttam Manna, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nov 7, 2014

11:30 AM

Friday
The puzzle of de Vries Smectics: Diffuse Cone or: Sugarloaf? Satyendra Kumar, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
Oct 30, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Covalently linked tri and tetra-coordinated boron compounds: Intriguing optical properties and anion sensing P Thilagar, IISC, Bangalore
Oct 28, 2014

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Mechano-memory in sheared cross-linked actin networks Sayantan Majumdar, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago
Oct 27, 2014

11:30 AM

Monday
Shock wave propagation in composites and active materials Vinamra Agrawal, California Institute of Technology
Oct 22nd, 2014

04:00 PM

Wednesday
L-Cysteine, Hydrogen Sulfide, and Insulin Signaling in Diabetes Prasenjit Manna, LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport, LA
Oct 16, 2014

04:00 PM

Thursday
Geometric universality of two-dimensional aggregates Tamoghna Das, OIST Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan
Oct 16, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Nanoscale Biophysics of Protein Amyloids Samrat Mukhopadhyay, IISER, Mohali
Oct 14, 2014

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Novel Hybrid Complexes from Proteins and Polymer Surfactants Kamendra Sharma, University of Bristol, UK
Oct 9, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Intermittency as a precursor to self-sustained oscillations Vineeth Nair, IIT – M, Chennai
Oct 8, 2014

04:00 PM

Wednesday
Quantum criticality and BEC scenario in quasi 1-D Antiferromagnets - signatures in the spin dynamics Sutirta Mukhopadhyay, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Oct 7, 2014

03:30 PM

Thursday
The Landau Lifshitz volumes Rajaram Nityananda, NCRA, Pune
Sep 30, 2014

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Contribution of corticothalamic dysfunction to network hyperexcitability and cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease mice Anupam Hazra, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia
Sep 25, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Strategies to Boost Efficiencies of Quantum Dot Solar Cells Pralay Kanti Santra, Stanford University
Sep 18, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Vertebrate heart development: Lessons learnt from live imaging Vikas Trivedi, California Institute of Technology
Sep 17, 2014

04:00 PM

Wednesday
"On the fly" Control of THz wave polarization using all optically induced transient metamaterials N Kamaraju, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
Sep 16, 2014

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Understanding membrane protein interaction and regulation using solid state NMR spectroscopy Kaustubh R. Mote, TCIS Hyderabad
Sep 11, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Structural Biochemistry: Insights into Biological Reactions Ruchi Anand, IIT Bombay
Sep 9, 2014

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Frequency specific interactions and plasticity sculpts spontaneous correlation in the Human Cortex Dipanjan Roy, Max Planck Institute of Human development and cognition, Berlin
Sep 3rd, 2014

04:00 PM

Wednesday
Oxidative stress induced vascular dysfunction in type-2 diabetes and obesity G. Velmurugan, TCIS, Hyderabad
Aug 28, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
The dynamics of finite-sized particles in finite sized turbulent airflows Samriddhi Sankar Ray, ICTS, BANGLORE
Aug 20, 2014

4:00 PM

Tuesday
Free-electron induced chemistry Y Sajeev, Theoretical Chemistry Section, BARC, Mumbai
Aug 18, 2014

2:00 PM

Monday
Self-assembly of topologically complex architectures and DNA based materials Nandhini Ponnuswamy, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University
Aug 18, 2014

11:30 AM

Monday
Antimicrobial peptides and molecular knots Fabien B. L. Cougnon , MIT Cambridge MA, USA
Aug 13, 2014

4:00 PM

Tuesday
Self-Assembly and Molecular Recognition Properties of Functionalized Molecular Architectures Dr. Prakash Neelakandan, University of Cambridge, UK
Aug 12, 2014

1:30 PM

Tuesday
Probing and fluorescence enhancement with single gold nanorods Saumyakanti Khatua, Leiden Institute of Physics, Netherlands
Aug 7, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Non-Newtonian effects on Droplet- deformation and breakup in confined geometries: a Lattice Boltzmann study Anupam Gupta, University of Rome, Italy
Aug 5, 2014

04:00 PM

Tuesday
Reentrant, Driven and Pinned Colloidal Glasses Rajesh Ganapathy, International Centre for Materials Science, JNCASR, Bangalore
Aug 5, 2014

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Development and Application of Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Solid-State Resonance Methods: From Biomolecules to Materials Vipin Agarwal, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Switzerland
Jul 31st, 2014

12:00 PM

Thursday
Studies of Turbulance structure and Turbulent Mixing using direct numerical simulations Kartik Iyer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jul 17, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Bremsstrahlung spectra generated by keV-electrons incident on thick- and thin targets R. Shanker, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
Jul 16, 2014

11:30 AM

Wednesday
Electrohydrodynamics in an oil in oil emulsion: from turbulence to active motion in an oil droplet Anand Yethiraj, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Jul 15, 2014

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Real space imaging of stable and metastable vortex lattices in a weakly pinned Type II superconductor Pratap Raychaudhuri, TIFR Mumbai
Jul 10, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Synthetic quantum matter under a microscope K. Rajibul Islam, Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, Harvard University
Jul 3rd, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Fast, small – yet still in control: how flying insects balance speed with accuracy Sanjay P. Sane, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
Jun 27, 2014

9:30 AM

Friday
Viscous Undular Hydraulic Jumps of Moderate Reynolds number Flows Ratul Dasgupta, Dept. Chemical Engg., IIT-Bombay
Jun 26, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Direct cell-cell contacts: defining signal amplification and communication in immune system Sudha Kumari, New York University
Jun 10, 2014

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Structure of the dopamine transporter A paradigm to understand neurotransmitter transport and inhibition mechanisms Aravind Penmatsa, Gouaux lab OHSU, Portland, USA
Jun 2nd, 2014

11:00 AM

Monday
Simulating dense suspensions of soft particulate flows Shravan Veerapaneni, University of Michigan
May 29, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Universal scaling in disordered systems and non non-universal exponents K.K. Bardhan, SINP
May 27, 2014

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Phase transitions and memory effects in materials Jayee Sinha, University of Calcutta
May 21st, 2014

04:00 PM

Friday
Primordial Gravitational waves as revealed by BICEP2- an informal and pedagogical account N D Haridass, TIFR-TCIS, CMI & CQIQC @ IISc
May 9, 2014

10:30 AM

Friday
Visuospatial Learning in School Science Jayashree Ramadas, HBCSE, TIFR, Mumbai
May 6, 2014

4:00 PM

Tuesday
Convective and absolute instabilities in eccentric Taylor-Couette-Poiseuille flow Benoît PIER, Laboratoire de mécanique des fluides et d'acoustique, École centrale, France
May 2nd, 2014

3:00 PM

Friday
Structural basis for conformational coupling across the plasma membrane in activation of EGFR Rahul Das, University of California, Berkeley, USA
May 1st, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Programming non-equilibrium chemical non equilibrium dynamics with DNA strand displacement Niranjan Srinivas, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Apr 24, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
How massive black holes and supernovae regulate galaxy formation Prateek Sharma, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Apr 19, 2014
Saturday

04:00 PM
Tempest in the Sun Katepalli Raju Sreenivasan , New York University
Apr 18, 2014

2.00 PM

Friday
Exploring the limiting nature of the signaling subunit of the common gamma chain family of cytokine receptors Rajat Varma, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
Apr 17, 2014

04:00 PM

Thursday
Electron dynamics in ionization from intense laser pulses: from the Angstrom to the nanometer scales Ram Gopal, TCIS, Hyderabad
Apr 10, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Nano-Catalysis: Fibrous morphology makes the difference in catalytic activity and stability Vivek Polshettiwar, TIFR, Mumbai
Apr 8, 2014

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Temporal evolution of mesoscopic structure during hydration of cement S. Mazumder, Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai
Apr 4, 2014

04:00 PM

Friday
Exotic cracks Joel Marthelot, TCIS, Hyderabad
Apr 3rd, 2014

11:30 AM

Thursday
Convection in the Sun Shravan Hanasoge, TIFR, Mumbai
Mar 27, 2014

11:30 AM
Large Scale Ordered Assembly of Atomic Sheets T N Narayanan, CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CSIR-CECRI),Karaikudi, India
Mar 26, 2014

04:00 PM
Nano-spintronics & Novel memory technologies Karthik V. Raman, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Mar 25, 2014

11:30 AM
Probing ultrafast coherent dynamics by incoherent fluorescence detection: Towards a spatiotemporal approach Arijit Kumar De, Dept of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley
Mar 20, 2014

11:30 AM
Understanding the Deep Earth: Lessons from Geophysical Modeling Attreyee Ghosh, Centre for Earth Sciences, IISc, Bangalore
Mar 19, 2014

04:00 PM
Making best out of NMR polarization: Towards high-throughput structure determination of membrane proteins using solid-state NMR Tata Gopina, University of Minnesota
Mar 18, 2014

11:30 AM
Life of a single dynein in vivo Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden
Mar 12, 2014

11:30 AM
Single cell measurements of DNA damage responses, from yeast to mice, with High Content and High Resolution Imaging Aprotim Mazumder, Department of Biological Engineering, MIT
Mar 11, 2014

11:30 AM
New collaborations of formins in actin assembly and organization Richa Jaiswal, Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham
Feb 27, 2014

11:30 AM
Phagocytosis dynamics depends on target shape Debjani Paul, IIT Bombay
Feb 25, 2014

11:30 AM
Navigating through the barriers of chromatin and cell cycle: A complicated tale of transcription machinery Raghuvar Dronamraju, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of North Carolina
Feb 20, 2014

11:30 AM
Theoretical & Computational Studies of Atherosclerosis Anand Mohan, IIT Hyderabad
Feb 14, 2014

9:30 AM
Benefits of cooperation and communication in bacteria Sandeep Krishna, NCBS, Bangalore
Feb 13, 2014

11:00 AM
Identification and Characterization of Bacterial Nanotubes Gyanendra P. Dubey, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Feb 07, 2014

04:00 PM
Revealing neural mechanisms of information processing using a simple brain Nitin Gupta, National Institutes of Heal, USA
Feb 4, 2014

11:30 AM
Structure-Mechanical Behavior in Functional Organic Solids: A Crystal Engineering Approach C. Malla Reddy, IISER Kolkata
Feb 3, 2014

04:00 PM
Accelerating Simulations of Membranes and Membrane Associated Phenomena Himanshu Khandelia, IISER Kolkata
Jan 30, 2014

11:30 AM
Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles: Can DNA Lead the Way? Radha Boya, Northwestern University, USA
Jan 23, 2014

11:30 AM
Device-independent and secured quantum memory using quantum walks CM Chandrasekhar, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Jan 21, 2014

11:30 AM
Self-assembly of Functional Molecules: Supramolecular gels, Vesicular Chemosensors and pH-responsive Materials Supratim Banerjee, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Jan 07, 2014

11:30 AM
Ferroelectric materials for cooling and energy applications Sohini Kar-Narayan, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge
Jan 06, 2014

11:30 AM
Novel Phase Behaviour and Unexpected Absence of "Metal-to-Insulator" Transition in Low-Density Two-Dimensional Electron Systems Vijay Narayan, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge