Colloquium 2008 - 2011

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Prof. Santosh Ansumali 
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore 
Kinetic Schemes for the Fokker-Plack Equation 
29 October, 2010, Friday 
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Speaker: Prof. Arnab Rai Choudhuri 
IISc, Bangalore 
Can we predict sunspot cycles?
22 October, 2010, Friday
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Prof. Sukanta Panda 
IISER, Bhopal 
Detecting cosmic rays from high to ultra high energies 
1 October, 2010, Friday
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Prof. K. R. Sreenivas 
Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore 
An experimental study of mantle convection 
17 September, 2010, Friday
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Prof. R. Vijaya
IIT Kanpur/IIT Mumbai
Laser action in optical fibers and photonic crystals
10 September, 2010, Friday
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Dr. Krishnacharya 
IIT Kanpur 
Harnessing elastic instabilities in soft matter 
6 September, 2010, Monday
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Prof. Subroto Mukerjee
IISC Bangalore 
Thermoelectricity: Relations and correlations
3 September, 2010, Friday
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Prof. Rajeev Gupta 
I.I.T. Kanpur 
Experimental Investigations on Single Crystals and Thin films ofMultiferroics 
1 September, 2010, Wednesday 
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Dr. S. Dhamodaran 
I.I.T. Kanpur 
Interaction of charged particles with matter: Design and controlof materials 
31 August, 2010, Monday
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Prof. Mahendra K. Verma
I.I.T. Kanpur 
Field Reversals in Convection and Dynamo 
27 August, 2010, Monday
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Prof. S. A. Ramakrishna 
I.I.T. Kanpur 
Focusing and concentrating light at the nanoscale 
20 August, 2010, Friday
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Prof. K. P. Rajeev 
I.I.T. Kanpur 
Nanoparticle Magnetism 
13 August, 2010, Friday
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Prof. Pratik Khastgir 
I.I.T. Kharagpur 
Boundary value problems for the Helmholtz equation 
9 April, 2010, Friday Time: 4 PM
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Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta 
S. N. Bose. National Center for Basic Sciences 
Understanding Physics and Chemistry of Complex Materials: From First-principles Calculations to Materials Modeling 
26 March, 2010, Friday Time: 4 PM
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Prof. Parthasarathi Majumdar
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata 
Holography, gauge gravity connection and black hole entropy 
12 March, 2010, Friday Time: 4 PM
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Prof. Parongama sen 
University of Kolkata 
Dimensionality, Statistical Physics and Complex networks
26 February, 2010, Friday Time: 4 PM, tea @ 3:45 PM
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Prof. Avinash Khare
IOP, Bhubaneshwar
Solution in Search of a Problem 
19 February, 2010, Friday, Time: 4 PM, tea @ 3:45 PM
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Prof. D. P. Roy 
TIFR
Basic Constituents of Matter - Visible and Invisible 
12 February, 2010, Friday, Time: 4 PM, tea @ 3:45 PM
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Prof. Douglas Osheroff (1996 physics Nobel Laureate)
Stanford University
What really happens at absolute zero?
12 February, 2010, Friday, Time: 10 AM
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Prof. Suresh Govindarajan 
I.I.T. Chennai
Understanding black hole entropy in string theory 
22 January, 2010, Friday, Time: 4 PM, tea @ 3:45 PM 
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Prof. Krishnacharya
I.I.T. Kanpur
Investigation of interfacial properties e.g. wetting, adhesion and friction of topographically structured substrates
15 January, 2010, Friday 
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Prof. Siddharth Ramachandran
Boston University 
Non-Zero-Order Light: Beams that can do what a Gaussian cannot 
18 November, 2009, Wednesday 
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Prof. Sudeshna Sinha
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai and IISER Mohali
EXPLOITING CHAOS
6 November, 2009, Friday
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Prof. Tapobrata Sarkar
I.I.T. Kanpur
Branes meet Dimers - New Directions and Perspectives in String Theory
23 October, 2009 at 4 pm (Postponed)
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Prof. Mahendra K. Verma
I.I.T. Kanpur
Bifurcations and Chaos in Rayleigh Benard Convection
9 October, 2009 at 4 pm
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Dr. Subir K. Das
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
Finite Size Effects and Criticality: Some Recent Stories
18 September, 2009 at 4 pm
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Dr. Mary Michael
IIT Kanpur
Aerosols in atmospheres
11 September, 2009 at 4 pm
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Prof. R. K. Kotnala
NPL, N. Delhi
Magnetic Materials R & D and International Traceability of their Measurement at NPL
4 September, 2009 at 4 pm
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Prof. Rajiv Singh
University of California at Davis
Protein misfolding: mad--cows and prions
August 28, 2009 at 4 pm
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Dr. Palash B. Pal
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Measurement of Length
August 21, 2009 at 4 pm
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Dr. Gautam Sinha
R. R. Center for Advanced Technology, Indore
Design of Magnets for Synchrotron Radiation sources
August 7, 2009

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R. Vijaya 
IIT Bombay 
Advanced optical functionalities in Photonic crystals 
April 16, 2009

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Swapan K. Ghosh 
BARC, Mumbai 
Concept of Density and Materials Modelling at Different LengthScales 
April 9, 2009

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S. B. Roy 
RRCAT, Indore 
Metamagnetic materials and magnetic-glass
April 2, 2009

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Kedar Damle 
TIFR, Mumbai 
Surprises in magnets without net moments 
March 26, 2009

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Srikanth Sastry 
JNCASR, Bangalore 
Slow dynamics and the glass transition in supercooled liquids 
March 19, 2009

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D. Kanjilal 
Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi 
Development of controlled exotic phase in solid by energetic ion beams 
February 26, 2009

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Giuseppe E. Santoro 
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) & ICTP, Italy 
Quantum annealing: recent studies
February 12, 2009

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Mandar M. Deshmukh 
TIFR, Mumbai 
Electron transport and electromechanical properties of individual semiconductor nanowires 
January 29, 2009

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Madhav Ranganathan 
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 
Theory of Impurity Induced Step Pinning and Recovery in Crystal Growth from Solutions 
January 15, 2009

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V. Ravishankar 
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 
The Quantum way to determine the "shapes" of functions
January 1, 2009

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Dr. Banibrata Mukhopadhyay 
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 
Measuring spin of black holes in the universe:A test of General Relativity 
October 30, 2008

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Dr. Kaushik Bhattacharya 
Deaprtment of Physics, IIT-Kanpur
The Legacy of Nambu, Kobayashi and Maskawa 
October 27, 2008

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Dr. Arindam Ghosh 
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Intrisic magnetism in high-mobility semiconductors: a bottom-up route to spintronics? 
October 23, 2008

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Dr. Praveen Chaddah 
UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Indore
Glass-like metastabilities across magnetic transitions-our results and some new concepts 
October 16, 2008

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Dr. Sutapa Mukherjee 
Department of Physics, IIT-Kanpur
Fixed points and boundary layers in asymmteric simple exclusion processes 
September 25, 2008

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Dr. Roop Mallik 
TIFR-Bombay
Single Molecule Biophysical Techniques beyond Single Molecule 
September 18, 2008

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Dr. Zakir Hossain 
Department of Physics, IIT-Kanpur
Interplay Between Superconductivity and Magnetism in Conventional and Unconventional Superconductors
September 11, 2008

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Professor Pinaki Majumdar 
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
Nanoscale Textures in Correlated Electron Systems
September 04, 2008

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Shiv K. Sethi 
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
Probing Large scale structure of the universe using neutral hydrogen 
August 21, 2008

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Animangsu Ghatak 
Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Kanpur
Bio-inspired patterned adhesives
August 7, 2008