Seminars 2023

Date & Time Title Speaker
Dec 20,2023

04:00 PM

Wednesday
Ultrafast Dynamics in Intense Femtosecond Laser-Matter Interactions Kamalesh Jana, JASLab, Ottawa
Dec 18,2023

04:00 PM

Monday
Advanced Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Systems: Revealing Electronic to Structural Dynamics Navendu Mondal, Imperial College London, UK
Dec 15,2023

02:30 PM

Friday
Mode coupling theory for the weakly driven systems Gunter M Schütz, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Dec 12,2023

04:00 PM

Tuesday
Some consequences of phenotypic heterogeneity in living active matter Philip Pearce, UCL, London
Dec 11,2023

11:00 AM

Monday

Synopsis Seminar
First-principles investigation of stereo-electronic factors governing elementary steps of low-temperature hydrocarbon combustion Saurabh Chandra Kandpal, TIFR, Hyderabad
Dec 08,2023

04:00 PM

Friday
High-Frequency Magnetoresistance in Metallic and Insulating Oxides R Mahendiran, NUS, Singapore
Dec 08,2023

10:30 AM

Friday
Biological Phase Transitions: Where Chemistry and Physics Meet Biology Samrat Mukhopadhyay, IISER, Mohali
Dec 07,2023

04:30 PM

Thurday

Synopsis Seminar
Integrative modelling of E. coli chromosome and cytoplasm Abdul Wasim, TIFR, Hyderabad
Dec 07,2023

11:30 AM

Thurday
Spin-Boson Model for Nonlinear Optical Conductivity of Graphene and Related Phenomena Sushanta Dattagupta, INSA, New Delhi
Dec 04,2023

04:00 PM

Monday
Harnessing Protein Polymers for Medicine and Nanotechnology: Single molecules to systems and beyond Aarat P Kalra, IIT, Delhi
Nov 24,2023

10:30 AM

Friday
Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes as Single Ion Magnets /Single Molecule Magnets Pawan Kumar, TIFR, Hyderabad
Nov 11, 2023

04:00 PM

Wednesday
Probing and tuning the chemical reactions at a single molecular level Veerabhadrarao Kaliginedi, IISc, Bangalore
Nov 3, 2023

04:00 PM

Friday
Predation risk and prey reproductive traits: ecology and evolutionary consequences Viraj Torsekar, IISc, Bangalore
Nov 2, 2023

04:00 PM

Thursday
Josephson Junction of Nodal Superconductors Ranjani Seshadri, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Nov 2, 2023

04:00 PM

Thursday
From supergenes to supercolonies: understanding the genomic basis of social polymorphism Aparna Lajmi, University of Haifa, Israel
Nov 2, 2023

11:30 AM

Thursday
Designer quantum matter in van der Waals heterostructures Somesh Chandra Ganguli, Aalto University, Finland
Oct 30, 2023

11:00 AM

Monday

Thesis Seminar
Robust molecular exchange-bias effect, magnetisation switching dynamics and topological Hall physics at ferromagnet/molecule interface Suman, TIFR, Hyderabad
Oct 20, 2023

04:00 PM

Friday
Phase space hydrodynamics method for low dimensional systems: evolution of shock fronts and approach to thermalisation Gautam Mandal, TIFR, Mumbai
Oct 18, 2023

04:00 PM

Wednesday

Thesis Seminar
Bendless Regulates Mitochondrial Size Rajit Narayanan C, TIFR, Hyderabad
Oct 16, 2023

11:30 AM

Monday
Molecular Modelling & its applications in Clinical Genomics for comprehensive variant analysis Surya Balakrishnan, Apollo Genomics Institute, Hyderabad
Oct 13, 2023

11:30 AM

Friday
Chemistry in Confined Nanospace Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, IISc, Bangalore
Oct 12, 2023

04:00 PM

Thursday
Symmetry-broken phases, topological order and geometry in Quantum Hall States of Graphene Suraj Hegde, TU Dresden, Germany
Oct 11, 2023

04:00 PM

Wednesday
Lipid-Dependent gating of G Protein Coupled inwardly rectifying Potassium (GIRK) Channels Yamuna Kalyani Mathiharan, Stanford Medicine, CA
Oct 10, 2023

04:00 PM

Tuesday
Routes to Detect Band Topology in Quantum Materials Snehasish Nandy, LANL, NM
Oct 9, 2023

04:00 PM

Monday
Observing the buzz of the universe in long wavelength gravitational waves with galactic clocks Bhal Chandra Joshi, NCRA, Pune
Oct 5, 2023

04:00 PM

Thursday
Synopsis Seminar
04:00 PM Studying Multi-State Conformational Exchange in Proteins Using 15N CEST NMR Experiments Ved Prakash Tiwari, TIFR, Hyderabad
Oct 5, 2023

11:30 AM

Thursday
Engineering a platform for T cell-inspired extracellular vesicles in targeted immunotherapy for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma Ashwin Jainarayanan, Oxford University, UK
Oct 4, 2023

02:30 PM

Wednesday
Use of AI tools in scientific content creation: How does it work and what are the ethical implications? Raghunathan Ramakrishnan, TIFR Hyderabad
Oct 4, 2023

11:30 AM

Wednesday
Dynamic condensates and giant fluctuations in mass aggregation processes Arghya Das, TIFR, Hyderabad
Oct 3, 2023

04:00 PM

Tuesday
Exploring the Physics of 2D Polymers through Single-Molecule Studies of Kinetoplast DNA Indresh Yadav, IIT – Bhubaneswar
Oct 3, 2023

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Crystallisation Tuning and Interface Engineering for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells (Single and Tandem Junction Devices) Ashish Kulkarni, University of Cologne, Germany
Sep 29, 2023

04:00 PM

Friday
Cell Adhesion and Cell Organelles: Old Dogs learning New Tricks Nagaraj Balasubramanian, IISER-Pune
Sep 29, 2023

11:30 AM

Friday

Thesis Seminar
Investigating Golgi remodelling in epithelial wound healing and development Purnati Khuntia, TIFR, Hyderabad
Sep 29, 2023

09:30 AM

Friday

Thesis Seminar
Development of magic-angle-spinning solid-state NMR methods for the study of protein structure and dynamics Pravin Pralhad Taware, TIFR, Hyderabad
Sep 26, 2023

04:00 PM

Tuesday
Critical Phenomena in the Quantum Hall Effect Prashant Kumar, University of Chicago, IL
Sep 14, 2023

04:00 PM

Thursday
Mpemba effect: An anomalous relaxation phenomena R Rajesh, IMSc, Chennai
Sep 13, 2023

11:30 AM

Wednesday
Sb and Bi Lewis Acids: Access to Reactive Cations and Implications in Catalysis Cell Ajay Venugopal, IISER, Thiruvananthapuram
Sep 12, 2023

04:00 PM

Tuesday

Nonlinearities across scales: from Sun to red blood cells Dhrubaditya Mitra, NORDITA, Stockholm
Sep 1,2023

04:00 PM

Friday
Selectivity in CO2 Reduction Abhishek Dey, IACS, Kolkata
Aug 18, 2023

04:00 PM

Friday
Scaling and memory in the epigenetic regulation of gene expression Bhaswar Ghosh, IIIT, Hyderabad
Aug 16, 2023

04:00 PM

Wednesday
Towards a controlled MASER by electronic radiation damping control at cryogenic and room temperatures Vineeth Francis T J, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Aug 10, 2023

04:00 PM

Thursday
Unleashing the Architectural Marvels: Advancing the Structural Landscape of Supramolecular Polymers Subi J George, JNCASR, Bangalore
Aug 10, 2023

11:30 AM

Thursday
ATP-citrate lyase deficiency highlights critical sources of lipogenic acetyl-CoA and intracellular organelle crosstalk Ramya Sri Kuna, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, CA
Aug 9, 2023

04:00 PM

Wednesday
Emergence of structure in cortical circuits through bottom-up dynamical principles Sarthak Chandra, MIT, MA
Aug 3, 2023

04:00 PM

Thursday
Monopole excitations in the Kagome Dirac spin liquid Sasank Budaraju, LPT, Toulouse
Aug 3, 2023

02:30 PM PM

Thursday

Thesis Seminar
Exploring Signalling Pathways through Theory and Experiment Rati Sharma, IISER, Bhopal
Aug 3, 2023

02:30 PM

Thursday

Thesis Seminar
Studying dynamics of proteins using solution NMR spectroscopy Subhendu Pandit, TIFR, Hyderabad
Aug 2, 2023

11:30 AM

Wednesday
Development of Bright and Black Dyes for Molecular Imaging Applications Srinivas Banala, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Aug 1, 2023

04:00 PM

Tuesday
Hydrodynamics and Fluctuations in non-equilibrium statistical physics Rahul S Dandekar, IPhT, CEA, France
Jul 28, 2023

04:00 PM

Friday
Topological Aspects of non-Hermitian systems Manisha Thakurathi, IIT-D, New Delhi
Jul 27, 2023

04:00 PM

Thursday
Itô-distribution from Gibbs measure and consequences of this distribution for coordinatedependent diffusion in mesoscopic systems Arijit Bhattacharyay, IISER, Pune
Jul 25, 2023

04:00 PM

Tuesday
Energy Materials: Atomic-scale Insights from ab initio modelling Dibyajyoti Ghosh, IIT-D, New Delhi
Jul 14, 2023

04:00 PM

Friday
Chromatin regulation and transcriptional addiction in cancer Irfan A Asangani, University of Pennsylvania, PA
Jul 14, 2023

11:30 AM

Friday
Investigating the role of matrix stiffness in mitochondrial morphodynamics and function Piyush Daga, TIFR, Hyderabad
Jul 13, 2023

04:00 PM

Thursday
Mechanisms of voltage- and ligand-dependent activation of pacemaker ion channels Baron Chanda, Washington University in St. Louis, MO
Jul 13, 2023

11:30 AM

Thursday

Thesis Seminar
Designing peptide/protein-based inhibitor to stop red blood cell invasion by malaria parasites Anamika Biswas, TIFR, Hyderabad
Jul 12, 2023

04:00 PM

Wednesday
Dynamics Transitions of the KvAP Voltage Sensor During Lipid-Dependent Gating H. Raghuraman, SINP, Kolkata
July 12, 2023

11:30 AM

Wednesday
Solid-state NMR strategies towards speed, resolution and geometry Kshama Sharma, TIFR, Hyderabad
Jul 07, 2023

04:00 PM

Friday

Synopsis Seminar
Novel and established approaches for structural characterisation of crystalline proteins and amyloid polymorphs using solid-state NMR Sahil, TIFR, Hyderabad
Jul 07, 2023

11:30 AM

Friday

Synopsis Seminar
Chemical protein engineering to design inhibitors of disease related protein-protein interactions Abhisek Kar, TIFR, Hyderabad
Jul 06, 2023

04:00 PM

Thursday

Synopsis Seminar
Collective Heterogeneity of Mitochondrial Potential during Contact Inhibition of Proliferation and Its Biophysical Roots Basil T, TIFR, Hyderabad
Jul 05, 2023

04:00 PM

Wednesday

Colloquium
Designing retrosynthetic strategies for the preparation of metal, metal sulphide and bimetallic sulphide nanocrystals
Jul 04, 2023

04:00 PM

Tuesday
Biomaterials and Chemical Biology Approaches for Solving Unmet Clinical Needs Praveen Kumar Vemula, InStem, Bangalore
Jun 22, 2023

04:00 PM

Thursday
SQUID-on-tip imaging of topological currents in magic-angle graphene Sameer Grover, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Jun 19, 2023

04:00 PM

Monday
Defect Solutions of the Non-reciprocal Cahn-Hilliard Model: Spirals and Targets Navdeep Rana, MPI-DS, Göttingen
Jun 16, 2023

10:00 AM

Friday
Design of Advanced Metalated Porous-Organic-Polymer (POP) for Heterogeneous Catalysis John Mondal, CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad
Jun 15, 2023

11:30 AM

Thursday
Cold Chemistry Nabanita Deb, IACS, Kolkata
Jun 14, 2023

04:00 PM

Wednesday
Atomic Scattering as a Soft and Universal Probe for Surfaces Geetika Bhardwaj, TIFR Hyderabad
Jun 07, 2023

04:00 PM

Wednesday
Development of Artificial Ion Channels for Targeting Cancer Pinaki Talukdar, IISER, Pune
Jun 02, 2023

10:00 AM

Friday
Molecular Fossils and Ageing SK Yasir Hosen, TIFR, Hyderabad
May 31, 2023

12:00 PM

Friday
An axonal transport triggered by inositol phosphorylation Krishanu Ray, TIFR, Mumbai
May 30, 2023

04:00 PM

Thursday
Understanding condensed matter systems using multipolar theory Sayantika Bhowal, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
May 23, 2023

02:30 PM

Tuesday
Design, Synthesis of Novel Organic Molecules towards Early-Stage Detection of Amyloid Fibrils and their Mechanistic Role in Protein Misfolding Disease Aslam Uddin, IISER, Pune
May 17, 2023

04:00 PM

Wednesday
The Hilbert-Kunz density function and its applications Vijaylaxmi Trivedi, TIFR, Mumbai
May 17, 2023

11:00 AM

Wednesday
Organic Radicals to Molecular and Supramolecular Materials Pritam Mukhopadhyay, JNU, New Delhi
May 11, 2023

10:00 AM

Thursday
Characterisation of the structural plasticity and small-molecule mediated modulation of an intrinsically disordered protein Sneha Menon, TIFR, Hyderabad
May 10, 2023

11:30 AM

Wednesday
Cytosolic surveillance mechanisms against bacterial pathogens Anirban Banerjee, IIT-B, Mumbai
May 10, 2023

10:00 AM

Wednesday
Effect of Inter-system Crossing in bimolecular collision reactions and Exciton transfer Using a Mapping Hamiltonian Mrinmoy Mandal, University of Hawai’i Manoa, USA
May 09, 2023

04:00 PM

Tuesday
Observing Electron and Nuclear Motions in Energy Harvesting Materials Using Ultrafast Spectroscopy Somnath Biswas, Princeton University, NJ
May 09, 2023

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Activity driven transport Ion Santra, Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru
May 08, 2023

04:00 PM

Monday
Hall coefficients beyond single-band Boltzmann equation Abhishek Samanta, Ohio State University
May 04, 2023

04:00 PM

Thursday

Thesis Seminar
Learning Optimal Collective Variables for Biophysical Processes via Dimension Reduction Satyabrata Bandyopadhay, TIFR, Hyderabad
May 03, 2023

10:00 AM

Wednesday
Purification and Crystallisation of Mic10 Subcomplex Proteins to Decipher Their Role in Mitochondrial Cristae Architecture Rakesh Mahato, TIFR, Hyderabad
May 02, 2023

11:30 AM

Tuesday
Probabilistic origin of Alzheimer’s Disease: A real time nanoscale molecular perspective Deepak Nair, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
May 01, 2023

04:00 PM

Monday
The structure of vapour-deposited glasses: Use of surface dynamics to achieve desired molecular packing Kushal Bagchi, University of Chicago, IL
Apr 26, 2023

02:30 PM

Tuesday
Exploring the Potential of Halide Perovskites for Next- Generation Photovoltaics Sujit Kumar, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Apr 25, 2023

04:00 PM

Tuesday
The Future of Data Transfer and Computing Shashank Pandey, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, USA
Apr 24, 2023

11:30 AM

Monday
Understanding the mechanisms that govern distribution of phase separating germ granules and germline progenitor specification in Zebrafish Karuna Sampath, University of Warwick, UK
Apr 20, 2023

04:00 PM

Tuesday
Probing mechanisms of homogeneous catalysts with density functional theory Tejender Singh, TIFR, Hyderabad
Apr 13, 2023

04:00 PM

Thursday
Sensing across scales: Probing the mitochondria and exploring unusual light sensing modules in nature Akash Gulyani, University of Hyderabad
Apr 11, 2023

04:00 PM

Tuesday
Revolutionising the Field of Magnetic Quantum Materials: An Exploration of Growth Strategies for Unleashing Unprecedented Topological Response and Functional Properties for Spintronic Applications Chandan De, The Pennsylvania State University, PA
Apr 11, 2023

02:00 PM

Tuesday
Investigating gut metabolism and physiology as a consequence of nutritional perturbations and systemic metabolic inputs Saptarnab Ganguly, TIFR, Hyderabad
Apr 5, 2023

04:00 PM

Wednesday
Unravelling the interplay between magnetism and structure in nanoscale systems Sudipto Chakrabarti, SINP, Kolkata
Apr 5, 2023

02:00 PM

Wednesday
Mitochondrial size regulation under stress Rajit Narayanan, TIFR Hyderabad
Mar 30, 2023

04:00 PM

Thursday
Grand world of small RNAs: Navigating the balance between translation and small RNA biogenesis Meetali Singh, Institut Pasteur, Paris
Mar 28, 2023

04:00 PM

Tuesday
Unconventional quantum oscillations in the twodimensional electron gas at complex oxide interfaces unravelled in high magnetic fields KM Rubi, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Mar 28, 2023

12:00 PM

Tuesday
Functional Oxide Based Interfaces for Spintronic Applications Bhargav Rajyaguru, Saurashtra University, Rajkot
Mar 27, 2023

04:00 PM

Monday
Topological phases of matter in Ultracold Rydberg atoms Rukmani Bai, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Mar 27, 2023

02:30 PM

Monday
Study of Dynamical and Mechanical Properties of Glassy Materials using Rod-like Inclusions Anoop Mutneja, TIFR, Hyderabad
Mar 24, 2023

04:00 PM

Friday

Thesis Seminar
Probing Glycine 1Hα Chemical Shifts in ‘Invisible’ Minor States of Proteins Using the CEST NMR Experiment Ved Prakash Tiwari, TIFR, Hyderabad
Mar 21, 2023

11:00 AM

Tuesday
3D modelling and static simulation of various Research and engineering applications Ranjeet Singh, TIFR Hyderabad
Mar 20, 2023

04:00 PM

Monday
Vaccinia Virus as a Model for Phosphotyrosine Signalling Angika Basant, The Francis Crick Institute, London
Mar 08, 2023

04:00 PM

Wednesday
Investigating the role of tissue mechanics in the regulation of epithelial defence against cancer Phani Shilpa Pothapragada, TIFR, Hyderabad
Mar 08, 2023

04:00 PM

Wednesday
Investigating the role of tissue mechanics in the regulation of epithelial defence against cancer Phani Shilpa Pothapragada, TIFR, Hyderabad
Feb 28, 2023

04:00 PM

Monday
Two promising single photon sources for quantum network applications: a few advances Tanmoy Chakraborty, A*STAR, Singapore
Feb 28, 2023

11:30 AM

Monday
Gut-specific peptide therapeutics Markus Muttenthaler, University of Queensland, Brisbane
Feb 20, 2023

04:00 PM

Monday
Strong Correlations and non-Fermi liquids in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene Rajdeep Sensarma, TIFR, Mumbai
Feb 16, 2023

04:00 PM

Thursday
Unraveling the interplay between magnetism and structure in nanoscale systems Sudipto Chakrabarti, SINP, Kolkata
Feb 14, 2023

04:00 PM

Tuesday
An in vivo Approach to Investigate Sensorineural Morphogenesis Agnik Dasgupta, Kavli NSI, Rockefeller University, NY
Feb 13, 2023

04:00 PM

Monday
Robust molecular exchange-bias effect, tailoring of magnetization switching dynamics and topological Hall physics at ferromagnetic/molecular interface Suman Mundlia, TIFR, Hyderabad
Feb 08, 2023

04:00 PM

Wednesday
Investigating Golgi remodelling in epithelial wound healing Purnati Khuntia, TIFR, Hyderabad
Feb 07, 2023

04:00 PM

Tuesday
Topological transport in Weyl semimetal Banasree Sadhukhan, KTH, Sweden
Feb 06, 2023

04:00 PM

Monday
Chiral molecules in strong laser fields Debobrata Rajak, CELIA, Université de Bordeaux-CNRS-CEA, France
Jan 27, 2023

04:00 PM

Friday
Learning from Outliers – Biomarkers for Immune Checkpoint Therapy Gyan Bhanot, Rutgers University, NJ
Jan 27, 2023

10:30 AM

Friday
Fitting the potential energy surfaces using two layer networks and going up to deep learning architecture Shweta Jindal, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Jan 27, 2023

09:30 AM

Friday
Arylation at Carbonic Carbon of Carbodicarbene: Access to the Air-Stable Carbon Centre-Based Tetracationic Diradicaloids Rina Sikari, TIFR, Hyderabad
Jan 24, 2023

04:00 PM

Tuesday
Minimalistic Structured Peptide-Based Bioinspired Materials and Nanotechnology Santu Bera, IECB, France
Jan 19, 2023

04:00 PM

Thursday
Palladium Catalysed C-C bond Cleavage of Strained Carbocyclic Systems: A Useful Strategy in Organic Synthesis Ponneri C Ravikumar, NISER, Bhubaneswar
Jan 18, 2023

03:30 PM

Wednesday
Influencing Spin States of Mono and Dinuclear Fe(III) Complexes by Chemical Design Bijoy Dey, TIFR, Hyderabad
Jan 17, 2023

1:30 AM

Tuesday
Regulation of cysteine biosynthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis  Vinay K Nandicoori, CCMB, Hyderabad
Jan 16, 2023

04:00 PM

Monday
 Investigating biomolecular recognition through an interdisciplinary lens: Lessons from proteins of the immune system Mahita J, LJI, California
Jan 16, 2023

10:00 AM

Monday
 Photoluminescent Amidinate Ligated Boron Compounds Ramkumar Kannan, TIFR, Hyderabad
Jan 12, 2023

03:00 PM

Thursday

(Thesis Seminar)
Towards Advanced Rechargeable Metal-Air Battery Systems Using Electrode and Electrolyte Engineering and Biomolecules based Electrodics Pallavi Thakur, TCIS, Hyderabad
Jan 10, 2023

04:00 PM

Tuesday
 Transition Metal Catalysed / Electrochemical Functionalisation of Organic Molecules: Sustainable Organic Synthesis Raja Kumar Rit, University of Nottingham, UK
Jan 09, 2023

11:30 AM

Monday
 Supramolecular self-assembly forenzyme sensing, protein oligomerization, and light harvesting  Tumpa Gorai Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 
Jan 04, 2023

02:30 PM

Wednesday
 Exploring functions of polyphosphate (PolyP) in haemolymph clotting and innate immunity Harsha Sharma, TIFR, Hyderabad
Jan 03, 2023

11:30 AM

Tuesday
 Student Understanding of Approximations in Physics   Anwesh Mazumdar, HBCSE-TIFR, Mumbai