Seminars 2016

Date & Time Title Speaker
Dec 29, 2016

4.00 PM

Thursday

New Paradigms in protein Post Translational Modifications in yeast

Thanuja Krishnamoorthy, Clariant Chemicals India Ltd, Thane

Dec 28, 2016

4.00 PM

Wednesday

Exploring gene expression regulation at high resolution

Mridusmita Saikia, Cornell University, New York

Dec 27, 2016

4.00 PM

Tuesday

Sessile droplet evaporation - Geometry-control and curvature-driven phase segregation in binary mixtures

Prashant Valluri, University of Edinburgh, UK

Dec 21, 2016

4.00 PM

Wednesday

Collective flow in ultra-relativistic energy heavy ion collisions

Subrata Pal, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Dec 21, 2016

11.30 AM

Wednesday

What is string theory and how does it explain the origin of the universe

Keshav Dasgupta, McGill University, Montréal

Dec 20, 2016

4.00 PM

Tuesday

How intermixing populations evolve into distinct biological species: insights from a theoretical model

Himani Sachdeva, IST, Austria

Dec 15, 2016

1.30 PM

Thursday

The Interplay of Vorticity, Buoyancy, Particle Inertia and Phase Change in Cloud-flows

S Ravichandran, TCIS, Hyderabad

Dec 15, 2016

10.30 AM

Thursday

Effect of stratification and rotation on shear flow stability

Sharath K Jose, TCIS, Hyderabad

Dec 14, 2016

4.00 PM

Wednesday

Ultrafast exciton many body interactions in CsPbBr3 nanocrystals and few layer MoS2

K V Adarsh, IISER, Bhopal

Dec 10, 2016

4.00 PM

Saturday

Glass transition in dense systems of self-propelled particles

Chandan Dasgupta, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Dec 9, 2016

11.30 AM

Friday

Quantum entanglement in spin systems: Generating no local Bell pairs through dynamics

V. Subrahmanyam, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Dec 8, 2016

4.00 PM

Thursday

Role of large scale structures in instabilities and turbulence

Mahendra K. Verma, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Dec 8, 2016

2.00 PM

Thursday

Dissecting the role of Toll-like Receptors Innate Immune Signaling by NMR spectroscopy

Nabanita Das, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Dec 7, 2016

4.00 PM

Wednesday

Recent advances in laser driven ion and neutron sources – current research activities at QUB

Satyabrata Kar, Queen's University-Belfast, UK

Dec 6, 2016

4.00 PM

Tuesday

From visualizing femtosecond electron bunches in hot, dense plasmas to visualizing chemistry with femtosecond electron bunches

Gourab Chatterjee, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Germany

Nov 28, 2016

4.00 PM

Monday

Two Dimensional Materials and Their Heterostructures

Pramoda Kumar Nayak, UNIST, Republic of Korea

Nov 22, 2016

4.00 PM

Tuesday

Self-assembly at nanoscale: polyhedral colloids and block-copolymers

Mihir Khadilkar, University of California, Santa Barbara

Nov 15, 2016

4.00 PM

Tuesday

Excluded Volumes of disordered linkers modulates the phase behavior of multivalent proteins

Tyler Harmon, Washington University, St. Louis, USA

Nov 10, 2016

11:30 AM

Thursday

Some Surprises and Open Questions in Soft Matter

Steve Granick, IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter, South Korea

Oct 26, 2016

4.00 PM

Wednesday

Hydrodynamics Driven by Intense Short-Pulse Lasers

John Pasley, York Plasma Institute, University of York, U.K.

Oct 25, 2016

4.00 PM

Tuesday

Entropic transport of macromolecules

Debasish Mondal, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Oct 14, 2016

11.30 AM

Friday

What’s common in your skin and gut?

Mahendra S Sonawane, Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research, Mumbai

Oct 13, 2016

4.00 PM

Thursday

Driven and Living Matter: Recent work in my group

Sriram Ramaswamy, TCIS, Hyderabad

Oct 6, 2016

4.00 PM

Thursday

Post-transcriptional Gene Silencing Mediated by RNA Binding Proteins

Mandar V. Deshmukh, CSIR-CCMB, Hyderabad

Oct 3, 2016

4.00 PM

Monday

Ligands for the Stabilization of Heavier Multiple Bonded Compounds

Vidya Praveen Bhallamudi, The Ohio State University, Columbus

Sep 29, 2016

4.00 PM

Thursday

Reprogramming Biology with an
Engineering Language

Sangram Bagh, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata

Sep 28, 2016

4.00 PM

Wednesday

Investigating Structure-Function Dynamics of Protein Homeostasis Regulators: Applications to Health and Disease

Parul Mishra, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester MA

Sep 27, 2016

4.00 PM

Tuesday

Light sheet fluorescence microscopy for fast, gentle, and high resolution imaging

Abhishek Kumar, NIBIB, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda

Sep 22, 2016

4.00 PM

Thursday

Chain Reconfiguration in Active Noise

Rajarshi Chakrabarti, IIT-B, Mumbai

Sep 20, 2016

4.00 PM

Tuesday

Coordination-Induced Dynamic Supramolecular
Architectures: Molecule-based Materials in-Solution and on-Surface

Sreejit Shankar Pooppanal, Otto Diels Institute for Organic
Chemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany

Sep 2, 2016

11.30 AM

Friday

Additivity and Mass Fluctuation in Nonequilibrium Mass Transport Processes

Punyabrata Pradhan, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic
Sciences, Kolkata

Sep 1, 2016

4.00 PM

Thursday

Moving Electronic Charges Through Molecules

Ravindra Venkatramani, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Aug 29, 2016

4.00 PM

Monday

Estimation of solid-liquid interfacial tension using curved surface of a soft solid

Animangsu Ghatak , IIT Kanpur

Aug 23, 2016

4.00 PM

Tuesday

Understanding elementary chemical processes on surfaces using molecular beam - surface scattering experiments

Pranav R. Shirhatti, Georg-August University of Göttingen
and Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen

Aug 22, 2016

4.00 PM

Monday

A laser strainmeter for the Universe

Rana Adhikari, Dept of Physics, California Institute of Technology

Aug 18, 2016

4.00 PM

Thursday
Localized Operator Partitioning Method for Electronic Energy Transfer

Jayashree Nagesh, University of Toronto, Canada

Aug 16, 2016

4.00 PM

Tuesday
NMR Spectroscopic Insights into Hsp70 Chaperone-Substrate Interactions

Ashok Sekhar, University of Toronto, Canada

Aug 11, 2016

11:30 AM

Thursday
Entanglement in light-matter system

Manas Kulkarni, CUNY, USA

Aug 9, 2016

4.00 PM

Tuesday
Controlling Defect Dynamics in a 2d Active Nematic

Suraj Shankar, Syracuse University, NY

Aug 4, 2016

4.00 PM

Thursday
Spin Dynamics in General Relativity

Satish Kumar Saravanan, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands

Jul, 27, 2016

4.00 PM

Wednesday
Decoding the Neural proteome in health and disease using (N)CATs

Aditi Bhattacharya, CBDR, inStem, Bangalore

Jul, 19 2016

4.00 PM

Tuesday
Line Defect dynamics and solid mechanics

Amit Acharya, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

Jul,15 2016

4:00 PM

Friday

Infosys Lecture
Hyperbolic Geometry and Chaos in the complex plane

Mahan Mj, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Jul,12 2016

4.00 PM

Tuesday
Imaging molecular dynamivs with femtosecond UV and VUV laser sources

Niraghatam Bhargava Ram, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich

Jul, 7 2016

11:30 AM

Thursday
Broadband omnidirectional metamaterials

Venu Gopal Achanta,Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,Mumbai

Jun, 23 2016

4:00 PM

Thursday
Attractive interactions in collapse and aggregation of similarly-charged polymers

Vani Vemparala, IMSc, Chennai

Jun, 23 2016

11:30 AM

Wednesday
Encoding mechano-memories in F-actin networks

Sayantan Majumdar, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, USA

Jun, 22 2016

4:00 PM

Wednesday
Biomechanics and Bio-Inspired Solutions for Aerial Locomotion in Complex Environments

Sridhar Ravi, RMIT University, Melbourne

Jun, 21 2016

4:00 PM

Tuesday
Universal scaling properties in dissipative granular systems undergoing clustering

Dibyendu Das, IIT-Bombay, Mumbai

Jun, 21 2016

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Macromolecular structure and dynamics in crowded environments

Anand Yethiraj, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Jun, 20 2016

4.00 PM

Monday
Nematic-columnar phase transition in oriented hard rectangles

R. Rajesh, IMSc, Chennai

Jun, 20 2016

11:30 AM

Monday
An emerging threat to adult brains in rural India

Yogesh Kalkonde, Society for Education, Action and Research in Community Health (SEARCH), Gadchiroli

Jun, 16 2016

4:00 PM

Thursday
Cooperativity of Non-Covalent Interactions

G.Narahari Sastry, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad

Jun, 15 2016

4:00 PM

Wednesday
Feedback and Dynamics in Biomolecular Circuit Design

Shaunak Sen, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Jun, 8 2016

4:00 PM

Wednesday
Effect of Topological Defects in Quantum Mesoscopic Systems and in Quantum Solids

Debabrata Sinha, TCIS, Hyderabad

May 18 2016

4:00 PM

Wednesday
Surface-Confined Self-Assembly

Mario Ruben, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

May 12 2016

4:00 PM

Thursday
Nanoscale Hybrids with Engineered Interfaces: Synthesis Strategy, Microscopic Investigation & their Potential Applications

Paromita Kundu, Peter-Gruenberg Institute, Germany

May 5, 2016

4:00 PM

Wednesday
Analyzing proteins and cells using plasmonic nanostructures

Shourya Dutta Gupta, University of Texas at Austin, Texas

May 4, 2016

4:00 PM

Wednesday
Biological networks : disease and complexity

P K Mohanty, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata

May 3, 2016

4:00 PM

Tuesday
Dynamics of Camphoric Acid Boat at the Air-Water Interface

V Sathish Akella, OIST Graduate University, Okinawa

May 3 2016

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Zeroth law in non-equilibrium – a hot needle in water

P K Mohanty, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata

Apr 29, 2016

11:30 AM

Friday
Thermodynamics vs. Dynamics: Perspectives from phase transitions and fluid turbulence

Mahendra K. Verma, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Apr 28, 2016

4:00 PM

Thursday
New Form of Matter: De-confined state of Quarks and Gluons

Bedangadas Mohanty, NISER, Bhubaneswar

Apr 28, 2016

11:30 AM

Thursday
Two problems in physical biology

Gautam I. Menon, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

Apr 27, 2016

11:30 AM

Wednesday
Frequency domain Optical Parametric Amplification

Francois Legare, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada

Apr 26, 2016

4:00 PM

Tuesday
Heterogeneous Pattern Formation of Colloids at the oil water interface using DNA linkers

Darshana Joshi, University of Cambridge, UK

Apr 25, 2016

4.00 PM

Monday
Artificial quantum materials with correlated electrons

Srimanta Middey, University of Arkansas, AR, USA

Apr 21, 2016

4:00 PM

Thursday
New method to compute force chains in granular media

Shiladitya Sengupta, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Apr 20, 2016

12:00 PM

Wednesday
Effects of wall-geometry on the stability of channel flow, and of variable properties on film flow

Mamta Raju Jotkar, TCIS, Hyderabad

Apr 19, 2016

4:00 PM

Tuesday
Mechanobiology of Collective Cell Migration

Tamal Das, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany

Apr 7, 2016

4:00 PM

Thursday
The Electronic transport in high mobility graphene role of electronic interactions

Mandar M. Deshmukh, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Apr 5, 2016

4:00 PM

Tuesday
Fishing for new deterrents to counter smoking addiction

Ajay S Mathuru, Yale NUS College, Singapore

Mar,31, 2016

4:00 PM

Thursday
The New Wave in Physics, Astronomy and Technology

C S Unnikrishnan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Mar,23 2016

4:00 PM

Wednesday
Magnetic Nanoswimmers

Ambarish Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Mar,22 2016

4:00 PM

Tuesday
Toward the first pure gas-phase spectroscopy of C60+ in true interstellar conditions

Sunil Kumar S, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Germany

Mar,18 2016

11:30 AM

Friday
Short Time Spans in Ultrafast Science

Jan Michael Rost, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

Mar,17 2016

04:00 PM

Thursday
Unraveling the Chemistry of Organostibonic Acids

Viswanathan Baskar, University of Hyderabad

Mar,12, 2016

3:00 PM

Saturday
New generation PNA analogues for effective cell permeation

Krishna N Ganesh, IISER, Pune

Mar,10, 2016

4:00 PM

Thursday
Colloids as Model Systems to Study Structural, Dissipation and Transport Phenomena

Manas Khan, University of California - Los Angeles

Mar,9, 2016

11:30 AM

Wednesday
Non-Boltzmann Ensembles and Monte Carlo Simulation

K. P. N. Murthy, Manipal University, Manipal, KA

Mar,7, 2016

4.00 PM

Monday
Black hole Physics at large D

Shiraz Minwalla, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Mumbai

Mar,1, 2016

4:00 PM

Tuesday
Challenges to understanding Cosmic Magnetism

Kandaswamy Subramanian, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune

Feb 25, 2016

04:00 PM

Thursday
Inorganic photocatalysts: The correlation of atomic-scale structure and functionality

Maya Bar-Sadan, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Feb 25, 2016

11:30 AM

Thursday
Particle Droplets and Fields in Turbulence

Rahul Pandit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Feb 24, 2016

3:30 PM

Wednesday

Public
Lectures
Micro-organism swimming: individual and collective behaviour (Venue: Seminar Hall, School of Life Sciences; University of Hyderabad)

Timothy J Pedley, University of Cambridge, UK

Feb 22, 2016

4.00 PM

Monday
Spherical Squirmers: models for swimming micro-organisms

Timothy J Pedley, University of Cambridge, UK

Feb 19, 2016

11:30 PM

Friday
Analytical solutions for von Kármán streets of hollow vortices in compressible flows

Vikas Shivani Krishnamurthy, Imperial College London, UK

Feb 18, 2016

4:00 PM

Thursday
Diffusion with stochastic resetting

Satya N Majumdar, LPTMS, Université de Paris-Sud, France

Feb 17, 2016

4:00 PM

Wednesday
Random Convex Hulls and Extreme Value Statistics: Applications to Ecology and Animal Epidemics

Satya N Majumdar, LPTMS, Université de Paris-Sud, France

Feb 16, 2016

4:00 PM

Tuesday
Synchronizing by uncoupling

Sagar Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Feb 11, 2016

4:00 PM

Thursday
Engineering quantum transport in low dimensional electron systems

Chandni U, IQIM, Caltech, CA

Jan 29, 2016

4:00 PM

Friday
Dealing with disorder

Abhijit Mookerjee, S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata

Jan 28, 2016

4:00 PM

Thursday
Solids and fluids at interfaces: Novel simulation techniques

Jürgen Horbach, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

Jan 25, 2016

4:00 PM

Wednesday
Exploring the mechanisms underlying maintenance of Drosophila neural stem cells using novel genetic approaches

Sonal Nagarkar Jaiswal, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Jan 21, 2016

4:00 PM

Wednesday
Quantum Correlations, Chaos and Information

Vaibhav Madhok, University of British Columbia, Canada

Jan 20, 2016

4:00 PM

Wednesday
Thermodynamics of aggregation of amyloid proteins

Kanchan Garai, TCIS, Hyderabad

Jan 19, 2015

4:00 PM

Tuesday
Electron transport and photogalvanic effect in nanowires

Sajal Dhara, Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, NY

Jan 14, 2016

4:00 PM

Thursday
Soft Interfacial Materials

Prathima C. Nalam, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign,USA

Jan 13, 2016

4:00 PM

Wednesday
Driving computer simulation using simple models and enhanced sampling techniques

Jagannath Mondal, TCIS, Hyderabad

Jan 13, 2016

11:30 AM

Wednesday
The turbulent 'mixing' layer as a problem in vortex gas statistical mechanics

Saikishan Suryanarayanan, JNCASR, Bengaluru

Jan 12, 2016

4:00 PM

Tuesday
Genetic dissection of neuronal maintenance and demise

Manish Jaiswal, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Jan 7, 2016

4:00 PM

Thursday
Symmetry Constrained Bounds on Spin Dynamics

Malcolm H Levitt, University of Southampton, UK

Jan 7, 2016

11:30 AM

Thursday
Flexoelectricity in Lipid Bilayer Membranes, Cholesterol Preferences, and the Selectivity of Ion pumps

Himanshu Khandelia, MEMPHYS, University of Southern Denmark

Jan 6, 2016

11:30 AM

Wednesday
Cluster glass transition of ultra-soft potential fluids

Kunimasa Miyazaki, Nagoya University, Japan

Jan 5, 2016

4:00 PM

Tuesday
Optical magnetism

Uttam Manna, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago

Jan 4, 2016

4.00 PM

Monday
Regulatory Mechanisms in Cyclic Nucleotide Signalling as Revealed by NMR

Giuseppe Melacini, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada