Colloquiua held till July 2008

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Mahendra K. Verma
IIT Kanpur
Physics of Magnetic Field Generation (Dynamo)
28 March, 2008

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Sanjay Puri
School of Physical Sciences, JNU, New Delhi
Inhomogeneous Cooling in Granular Gases
7 March, 2008

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C.V. Vishveshwara
Indian Institute of Astrophysics
BLACK HOLES : Facts, Fallacies and Fantasies
29 February, 2008

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Gunter M. Schuetz
Research Center, Juelich, Germany
Single-File Diffusion Far From Equilibrium
15 February, 2008

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Ashoke Sen
HRI, Allahabad
Black Holes in String Theory
January 8, 2008

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Sunil K. Gupta
T.I.F.R. Mumbai
Astroparticle Physics with the GRAPES - 3 Experiment
November 1, 2007

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J. K. Bhattacharjee
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
Reaction Diffusion Patterns : Classical and Quantum
October 25, 2007

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J. Kirschner
Max-Planck-Institut fur Mikrostrukturphysik, Weinberg
Spin-polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
October 5, 2007

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Yogesh M. Joshi
Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Ageing Dynamics in Soft Matter
September 27, 2007

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Anjan K. Gupta
Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur
STM studies of Electronically Inhomogeneous Surfaces
September 13, 2007

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C. Venkatesan
Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Challenges in Rotary Wing Vehicles
September 6, 2007

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Amit Roy
Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi
Challenges in Accelerator Physics
August 23, 2007

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Zakir Hossain
Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur
Quantum phase transition in YbIr2Si2 and excitonic mass enhancement in Pr - compounds
August 16, 2007

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Debabrata Goswami
Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Ultrafast Pulse Shaping-from Quantum Computing to Medical Imaging
August 9, 2007

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D.D. Sarma
MLS Professor's Unit and Centre for Advanced Materials; Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
Sr2FeMoO6 , A fascinating compound
August 2, 2007

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N. Nayak
S.N.B.N.C.B.S. , Kolkata
Spin Squeezing and Quantum Entanglement
April 20, 2007

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Krishnendu Sengupta
S. I. N. P. , Kolkata
Low dimensional and strongly correlated systems: Some recent trends
April 18, 2007

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S.C. Agarwal
IIT, Kanpur
A Bandwagon called Nanotechnology
April 13, 2007

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K.P. Rajeev
IIT, Kanpur
Magnetism of Antiferromagnetic Nanoparticles 
April 05, 2007

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Rahul Pandit
IISc, Bangalore
The Physical Modelling of Cardiac Arrhythmias 
March 30, 2007

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Venkat Chandrashekhar
Physics Department, Northwestern University, USA
Thermal Transport in Metallic Nanostructures 
March 23, 2007

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A.R. Harish
IIT, Kanpur
RFID: Identification using radio frequencies 
March 02, 2007

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Amit Dutta
IIT, Kanpur
Long-range percolation, contact processes and disorder correlation
February 23, 2007

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Vijay B. Shenoy
IISc, Bangalore
Electrons, Patterns and Correlations
February 09, 2007

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Justin Raj David 
HRI, Allahabad 
Black Hole Entropy in String 
TheoryFebruary 02, 2007

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Amit Ghoshal
UCLA, USA
Toward Strong Interactions in Circular Quantum Dots: Correlation Induced Inhomogeneity
January 17, 2007

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Prabal Maiti
IISc, Bangalore
Nanotubes under Hydrostatic Pressure and Water Transport in Nanotubes
January 5, 2007

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T.K. Ghosh
JEPS, Okayama, Japan
Beautiful World of Cold Atoms
December 28, 2006

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Ashwini K. Sharma
Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Fiber-optic Mid-infrared Laser Sensors for the Detection of Explosives
December 21, 2006

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Abhijit Sen
Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhi Nagar
Clocks, Fireflies and the Landau Damping of Plasma Waves
November 22, 2006

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Prakash Mathews
SINP, Kolkata
Expecting LHC: SM and Beyond
November 15, 2006

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Sanjay Kumar
BHU, Varanasi
Force Induced Transitions in Biopolymers
November 8, 2006

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Abhijit Mookerjee
IIT Kanpur / SNBNCBS, Kolkata
Density Functional Theory for Excited States
November 1, 2006

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Dimitri Batani
Universita di Milano Bicocca, Italy 
Transport of Intense Laser Produced Electron Beams in Matter
October 30, 2006

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V. V. Sreedhar
IIT Kanpur 
Classical Topology and Quantum Entanglement
October 27, 2006

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Gilbert Lonzarich
Cambridge University 
Quantum tuning of Magnetic and Ferroelectric Materials
October 25, 2006

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Arun K. Grover
TIFR Mumbai
Phase Diagram Studies in Vortex Matter: A Perspecive
October 11, 2006

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Jayajit Das
MIT, USA 
Early and Late Signalling Events during T-cell Activation
September 27, 2006

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Sumathi Rao
HRI, Allahabad 
Novel Phenomena in Low Dimensional Systems
September 20, 2006

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A. Pramesh Rao
NCRA (TIFR), Pune
Science with GMRT
September 18, 2006

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M. K. Harbola
IIT Kanpur 
Density Functional Theory of Ground and Excited states
September 13, 2006

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Tapobrata Sarkar
IIT Kanpur 
Excitements in String Theory
August 30, 2006

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H. Wanare
IIT Kanpur 
Multicolored Atomic Coherence
August 23, 2006

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V. Venkataraman
IISc. Bangalore
Physics of Strained Silicon-Germanium Semiconductor Heterostructures
August 9, 2006

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Debashish Chowdhury
IIT, Kanpur
Packers and Movers of Genetic Materials: Physics of DNA, RNA- Manipulating Nano-machines.
August 2, 2006

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Ashutosh Sharma
IIT, Kanpur
Self -Organized Patterning of Soft Solids: Elastic Contact Lithography
April 19, 2006

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Deshdeep Sahdev
IIT, Kanpur 
Gas Chromatographs, STMs and all that..
March 22, 2006

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Guruprasad Kar
ISI, Kolkata
Quantum Impossibilties Turn into Some Useful Tasks
March 07, 2006

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Akhlesh Lakhtakia
Penn. State University, USA 
Negative Refraction in Outer Space
March 03, 2006

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Srinivas Krishnagopal
R R Center for Advanced Technology, Indore
Terahertz and X-ray Lasers
February 22, 2006

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B. N. Dwivedi
IT BHU, Varanasi 
Physics Laboratory in the Sky
January 25, 2006

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Mahendra. K. Verma
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 
Universal Scaling Laws for Driven Non-Equilibrium Systems
January 18, 2006

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Harshawardhan Wanare ,Debabrata Goswami
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 
The Nobel Prize in Physics - 2005
December 28, 2005

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Sudipta Maiti
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 
Inter Molecular Associations in Biology: A Matter of Life and of Death
November 23, 2005

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Chandan Dasgupta
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 
Statistical Mechanics of Vortex Matter in Superconductors
November 16, 2005

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Parthasarathy Majumdar
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata 
The Mysterious Warmth of Black Holes
November 9, 2005

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Kazuaki Sakoda
National Institute for Materails Science, Tsukuba, Japan 
Quantum Localization of Photons and Non-Markovian Emission in Photonic Crystals
October 26, 2005

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Sriram Ramaswamy
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 
The Mechanics and Statistics of Active Matter
October 20, 2005

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Subhendu Ghosh
University of Hyderabad 
Electrical Signalling in the Brain and the Phenomenon of Learning
October 05, 2005

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Gautam Sengupta
IIT Kanpur 
Brane World Black Holes
October 03, 2005

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R. Simon
Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Some Problems Arising in Quantum Information Theory
September 28, 2005

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Urjit. A. Yajnik
IIT Mumbai
The New Standard Model of Cosmology and Prospects for a Unified Theory of Elementary Particles 
September 19, 2005

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Pushan Ayyub
TIFR, Mumbai 
There is plenty of SCIENCE at the bottom
September 07, 2005

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Ranjini Bandyopadhyay
RRI, Bangalore 
Slow Dynamics and Aging in Soft Glassy Materials
August 31, 2005

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V.N. Kulkarni
IIT Kanpur 
Nano-Science and Engineering by Ion beams
August 24, 2005

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V. Subrahmanyam
I I T Kanpur 
How Entangled are Quantum States?
August 17, 2005

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S. Duttagupta
S N Bose National Centre for Basic Science, Kolkata 
Memory in Magnetic Nano-particles
August 11, 2005

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Rama Govindarajan
JNCASR, Bangalore
The First Steps Towards Turbulence in Shear Flows
August 03, 2005

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Saurya Das
Univ. Lethbridge, Alberta
Is Entanglement Entropy Proportional to Horizon Area?
July 29, 2005

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Amita Das
Institute of Plasma Reasearch 
Role of Turbulence in Fast Ignition Laser Fusion 
July 28, 2005

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Suresh Govindarajan
IIT Madras
D-branes Solitons in String Theory
April 15, 2005

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Siddharth. S. Saxena
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Superconductivity near a Quantum Critical Point and beyond
April 08, 2005

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G. Baskaran
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Madras
Diamond route to High Temperature Superconductivity
April 06, 2005

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Tarun Souradeep
IUCAA, Pune
Cosmological Principle & the Cosmic Microwave Background 
April 04, 2005

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Madan Rao
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore and NCBS, Bangalore
Dynamics of Solid State Transformations
March 30, 2005

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Pinaki Majumdar
HRI Allahabad
The "DMFT revolution" in Many Body Physics
March 18, 2005

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Atish Dabholkar
TIFR Mumbai
Going beyond Bekenstein and Hawking — Black Hole Entropy In String Theory 
March 17, 2005

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Geetanjali Sarkar 
IITK
A Late Stage of Stellar Evolution : the Hot Post-AGB Phase 
March 04, 2005