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 Þ Visitor’s Hostel, IITK L-1,2,7 Þ 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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