INDIAN  INSTITUTE  OF  TECHNOLOGY,  KANPUR

&  S.N. BOSE  NATIONAL  CENTRE  FOR  BASIC  SCIENCES,  KOLKATA

Physics 2005

100  YEARS  AFTER  EINSTEIN’S  REVOLUTION

A  National  Conference  to  celebrate  the  World  Year  of  Physics  2005

Dates:  Nov 3 6, 2005

Venue:   I.I.T., Kanpur

 

 

PROGRAMME

 

 

Date:

November 3, 2005

Venue

17:00 – 18:00

Registration

VH

18:00 – 20:00

Film show on Einstein’s work

L-7

20:00 – 22:00

DINNER*

 

 

VH  Ž  Visitor’s Hostel, IITK

L-1,2,7 Ž  Lecture Hall  # 1,2,7,  Lecture Hall Complex (LHC)

Date:

November 4, 2005

 

Inaugural Session:

1.  Welcome by Head, Department of Physics, IITK

2. Inauguration by Director, IITK

3. Director, SNBNCBS

4. Address by Organising Secretary

L-1

09:00 – 09:45

09:45 – 10:45

Speaker: Spenta R. Wadia (TIFR, Mumbai)

Title:       Black Holes as Beacons of Quantum Gravity

10:45 – 11:30

HIGH TEA

LHC Foyer

Plenary Session

Chair: N. Sathyamurthy (IITK)

L-1

 

11:30 – 12:30

Speaker: T.V. Ramakrishnan (BHU, Varanasi)

Title:       Many Electrons Avoiding Each Other : Strange Goings-on

12:30 – 13:30

Speaker: Sushanta K. Dattagupta (SNBNCBS, Kolkata)

Title:       The Myth about Einstein

13:30 – 14:30

LUNCH

LHC Foyer

Invited Session I

Chair: Vishwas N. Kulkarni (IITK)

L-1

 

14:30 – 15:15

 

Speaker: Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya (HRI, Allahabad)

Title:      Hunting Needles in the Cosmic Haystack : Our Indebtedness to 1905

15.15 – 16:00

Speaker: Sreerup Raychaudhuri  (IITK)

Title:       Particles, Puzzles and Paradoxes

16:00 – 16:30

TEA

LHC Foyer

16:30 – 17:15

 

Speaker: Naba K. Mondal (TIFR, Mumbai)

Title:      From Atoms to Quarks and Beyond

L-1

 

19:30 – 21:30

BANQUET

VH Lawns

 

 

 

 

Date:

November 5, 2005

Venue

Invited Session II

Chair: Debabrata Goswami (IITK)

L-1

 

09:00 – 09:45

Speaker: Rupamanjari Ghosh (JNU, New Delhi)

Title:      Quantum Optics : Why and How ?

09:45 – 10:30

Speaker: S. Anantha Ramakrishna (IITK)

Title:       Novel Electromagnetic Properties of Negative Refractive Index Materials

10:30 – 11:15

Speaker: G. Ravindra Kumar  (TIFR, Mumbai)

Title:       Intense Excitement at High Light Fluxes

11:15 – 11:45

TEA

LHC Foyer

Invited Session III

Chair: V. Ravishankar (IITK)

L-1

 

11:45 – 12:30

Speaker: R. Gopakumar (HRI, Allahabad)

Title:        From Spacetime to Worldsheets

12:30 – 13:15

Speaker: Rajiv V. Gavai  (TIFR, Mumbai)

Title:       New Phases of Strongly-interacting Matter

13:30 – 14:30

LUNCH

LHC Foyer

Invited Session IV

Chair: Pankaj Jain (IITK)

L-1

 

14:30 – 15:15

Speaker: Satish D. Joglekar (IITK)

Title:       Causality-violation in Non-local Quantum Field Theory

15:15 – 16:00

Speaker: Varun Sahni (IUCAA, Pune)

Title:      The Cosmological Constant  ─ Einstein’s Enduring Legacy

16:00 – 17:00

TEA   +   Poster  Sessions

 

17:00 – 19:00

Contributed Oral Presentations : Parallel Sessions

L-1

L-2

19:30 – 21:30

DINNER*

 

 

 

 

 

Date:

November 6, 2005

Venue

Invited Session V

Chair: Manoj K. Harbola (IITK)

L-1

 

09:00 – 09:45

Speaker: Sushanta K. Dattagupta (SNBNCBS, Kolkata)

Title:       Landau Diamagnetism Revisited

09:45 – 10:30

Speaker: Debasish Chowdhury (IITK)

Title:      Brownian Motion ─from Passive Particles to Active Nano-motors

10:30 – 11:15

Speaker: Arul Laxminarayan (IIT, Chennai)

Title:      Entangling Einstein and Chaos

11:15 – 11:45

TEA

LHC Foyer

Invited Session VI

Chair: Ashok K. Mallick  (IITK)

L-1

 

11:45 – 12:30

Speaker: Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee (IACS, Kolkata)

Title:      Statistical Mechanics in Fictitious Time

12:30 – 13:15

Speaker: Diptiman Sen (IISc, Bangalore)

Title:       Numerical Approaches to Electronic Transport in One Dimension 
            and the Problem of Bound States

13:30 – 14:30

LUNCH

LHC Foyer

Invited Session VII

Chair: Ashutosh Sharma (IITK)

L-1

 

14:30 – 15:15

Speaker: Ramesh C. Budhani  (IITK)

Title:       s-d Exchange Interaction and Magnetotransport in a Highly Degenerate

            Wide Bandgap Semiconductor With 3d-Transition Metal Impurities

15:15 – 16:00

Speaker: Abhijit Mookerjee (SNBNCBS, Kolkata)

Title:      Thermal Conductivity in Disordered Systems

16:00 – 16:30

TEA

LHC Foyer

Invited Session VIII

Chair:  Rajendra Prasad (IITK)

L-1

 

16:30 – 17:15

Speaker: G. Baskaran (IMSc, Chennai)

Title:      From Einstein's Solid to Supersolid

17:15 – 17:30

Vote of Thanks

19:30 – 21:30

DINNER*

 

 

*  Outstation participants only, at the respective places of accommodation

 

 

 

Contributed Oral Presentations : Parallel Sessions

 

Date:  November 5, 2005

 

Parallel Session I

Parallel Session II

Venue:

L-1

L-2

Chair: 

Sutapa Sen (Christchurch Coll., Kanpur)

To be announced

 

 

 

17:00 – 17:20

Santosh K. Rai  (HRI, Allahabad)

Praveen Kumar  (IITK, MSP Dept.)

17:20 – 17:40

Kashika Srivastava  (R.T.M. Nagpur U.)

Shantanu K. Maity  (SINP, Kolkata)

17:40 – 18:00

Supratik Pal  (IIT, Kharagpur)

Rabindra N. Bhowmick (SINP, Kolkata)

18:00 – 18:20

Aparna Tewari (Christchurch Coll., Kanpur)

Stephen O’Brien  (Tyndall Nat. U., Cork)

18:20 – 18:40

R.N. Majumdar  (Vivekananda Coll., Kolkata)

Joyee Ghosh (JNU, New Delhi)

18:40 – 19:00

 

Chander M. Singal (IIT, Delhi)

 

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