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The Department of Physical Sceinces organizes regular Departmental Seminars when the semester is in session. The seminars are usually held on Tuesdays from 5pm to 6pm at LH5 / Zoom.
The current Departmental Seminar Organizer is Dr. Ambresh Shivaji.
The current Faculty Candidate Seminar Organizers are Dr. Sandeep Goyal and Dr. Vishal Bhardwaj.
Departmental Seminars - Spring 2022
| Day | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Pinaki Majumdar | HRI Allahabad, India | The Langevin Approach to Nonequilibrium Correlated Systems | Ambresh Shivaji |
| Mar 30 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Sudipta Sarkar | IIT Gandhinagar, India | Towards Relativity: Einstein and His Compass |
Ambresh Shivaji |
| Mar 23 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Ashish Arora | IISER Pune, India | Optical Investigations of Dark and Bright Three-particle States in 2D Semiconductors |
Ambresh Shivaji |
| Mar 04 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Sitaram Ramakrishnan | University of Bayreuth, Germany | Atomic mechanisms of charge density waves (CDW) in R2Ir3Si5 |
Ambresh Shivaji |
| Mar 03 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
Basudeb Sain | Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany | Nanoscale Light Control with Optical Metasurfaces |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Jan 14 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
Subhasish Mandal | Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA | First-principles investigation on quantum materials using beyond-DFT methods with chemical accuracy |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
Departmental Seminars - Monsoon 2021
| Day | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 14 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Nazma Islam | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA | Inflows and Outflows in X-ray binaries |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Dec 10 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
Arun Kumar Awasthi | School of Earth and Space Sciences, USTC, China |
Investigating magnetic field characteristics and plasma processes during solar eruptions |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Dec 3 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Arnab Roy | Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel |
Nernst effect and vortex interference phenomena in an amorphous superconductor |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Dec 1 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Akshay Naik | IISc Bangalore, India | Nonlinearities in Ultrathin Suspended Structures |
Ananth Venkatesan |
| Nov 24 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Sumiran Pujari | IIT Bombay, India | Spin liquid behaviour in the candidate material Sr_3CuSb_2O_9 |
Ambresh Shivaji |
| Nov 10 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Jim Libby | IIT Madras, India | Belle II: flavour physics at the intensity frontier |
Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Sep 15 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Kapildeb Dolui | University of Delaware, USA | First-principle Modelling of Next Generation Spintronics in 2D Quantum Materials |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Sep 08 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
Rajyavardhan Ray | Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany |
Tunable chirality of noncentrosymmetric magnetic Weyl semimetals |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Sep 07 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
Debarchan Das | Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland |
Exploring quantum phase tunability in unconventional superconductors |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
Departmental Seminars - Summer 2021
| Day | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22 2:00pm-3:00pm |
Sudip K. Garain | GITAM Institute of Science, Visakhapatnam, India |
Numerical Experiment for Astrophysical Flows |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| May 15 3:30pm-4:30pm |
Sudheesh K Rajput | Kobe University, Kobe, Japan | Sound field imaging and multi-modal imaging techniques |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| May 15 2:00pm-3:00pm |
Danveer Singh | Bar-Ilan Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Israel |
Light Manipulation in Metallic and Semiconductor Optical Systems |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| May 12 3:30pm-4:30pm |
Dharm Veer Singh | GLA University, Mathura, India | Black hole solutions in modified theories of gravity and its properties |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| May 12 2:00pm-3:00pm |
Sandip Mondal | Purdue University, USA | Probing Electronic Defects in Semiconductors |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| May 08 2:00pm-3:00pm |
Pankaj Kushwaha | ARIES, Nainital, India | Probing Physics of Relativistic Jets and High Energy Emission Mechanisms through Multi-wavelength Data and Modeling |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| May 05 3:30pm-4:30pm |
Lovedeep Sahota | Ramjas College, University of Delhi, India |
Nanotechnology Based Photovoltaic Thermal Solar Distillation Systems |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| May 05 2:00pm-3:00pm |
Suman Chowdhury | Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India |
Computational Exploration of different 2D materials |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| May 01 3:30pm-4:30pm |
Sujit Das | Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS Thales, France |
Emergent phenomena of polar topologies | Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| May 01 2:00pm-3:00pm |
Prasenjit Das | Georg-August University, Germany | Plastic Instabilities and Density of Low-frequency States in Thermal Glasses |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Apr 28 3:30pm-4:30pm |
Narayan Rana | INFN Milan | NNLO mixed QCD-EW corrections to on-shell Z production |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Apr 28 2:00pm-3:00pm |
Monojit Ghosh | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Neutrino Oscillation: Present and Future | Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Apr 24 2:00pm-3:00pm |
Ravi Shanker | Linköping University, UNIST, University of Surrey |
Manipulating light and color with soft and structured matter |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Apr 21 3:30pm-4:30pm |
Satyendra Nath Gupta | Weizmann Institute of Science,
Israel |
Observing strong coupling in plasmonic
cavities at the limit of single quantum emitter |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Apr 21 2:00pm-3:00pm |
Laxman Raju Thoutam | University of Minnesota, USA | Dynamic control of electronic transport
properties in wideband gap oxide: SrSnO3 |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
Departmental Seminars - Spring 2021
| Day | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30 | Avinash Mahajan | IIT Bombay | Novel states in magnetism: low-dimensional systems and spin liquids |
Yogesh Singh |
| Mar 24 | Priyanka Mohan | TIFR Mumbai | Trigonal warping and topological transitions in twisted double bilayer graphene models |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Mar 23 | Arpita Paul | University of Minnesota USA |
First-principles design of correlated materials
and their application as transparent conductor |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Mar 22 | Arghya Majee | Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany |
Charge regulation and electrostatic interaction of colloids |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Mar 17 | Rajesh Singh | University of Cambridge, UK |
Theories without time-reversal symmetry in soft matter and epidemiology |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Mar 17 | Rajesh Singh | University of Cambridge, UK |
Theories without time-reversal symmetry in soft matter and epidemiology |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Mar 16 | Parijat Dey | Uppsala University, Sweden |
Critical phenomena and Conformal bootstrap |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Mar 16 | Shantanu Mukherjee | IIT Madras | Nature of the superconducting state in Sr2RuO4 | Goutam Sheet |
| Mar 15 | Purba Bhattacharya | University of Calcutta, India |
Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors-
Device Physics and Potential Applications |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Mar 11 | Narendra Nath Patra |
Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, India |
Vertical Structure of Galaxies: A Powerful Probe of Different Galaxy Physics |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Mar 10 | Paramita Dutta | Uppsala University, Sweden | Odd-Frequency Pairing at Weyl/Superconductor Interfaces |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Mar 09 | Pramod Shukla | ICTP, Trieste, Italy | Swiss-Cheese String Cosmology and Beyond |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Mar 09 | Abhishek Dhar | ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru | Blast in the One-dimensional Cold Gas:
From Newton to Euler and Navier-Stokes-Fourier |
Abhishek Chaudhuri |
| Mar 03 | Manpreet Singh | University of Paris, France | Quantum Simulations of the FFLO Phase using Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Mar 02 | Suresh Perumal | SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Tamilnadu |
Thermoelectrics: Materials to Devices | Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Feb 26 | Alok Laddha | Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), Chennai |
(Positive) Geometry of the S-matrix | K. P. Yogendran |
| Feb 24 | Sudeshna Sen | University College Dublin, Ireland |
The Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition: new insights into a classic problem |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Feb 22 | Sanved V. Kolekar | UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai |
Quantum memory and BMS supertranslation symmetries |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Feb 16 | Shouvik Datta | CERN, Switzerland | Conformal field theories and their deformations |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Feb 16 | L. Sriramkumar | IIT Madras | Observational probes of inflation on small scales | Kinjalk Lochan |
| Feb 11 | Murari Singh | University of Texas Austin, USA |
Mechanical Yield in Amorphous Solids: A First-Order Phase Transition |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Feb 09 | Monalisa Patra | Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia |
Exploration of New Physics scenarios in experiments ranging from GeV to PeV range |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Feb 09 | Subhashish Banerjee |
IIT Jodhpur | An Invitation to Non-Markovian Physics | Ramandeep Johal |
| Feb 08 | Prabhakar Tiwari | NAOC, Beijing | Cosmology with radio surveys | Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Feb 02 | Sumilan Banerjee | IISc Bangalore | Many-body quantum chaos and dynamical transitions: Classical to quantum and back again |
Sanjeev Kumar |
| Jan 28 | Debarshee Bagchi | Northwestern University, USA |
Transport processes in systems with long-ranged interactions |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Jan 27 | Diganta Das | University of Delhi | Muon anomalous magnetic moment anomaly and new physics searches |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Jan 21 | Rusa Mandal | Universiy Siegen, Germany |
Rare B-meson decays and physics beyond the standard model |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
| Jan 07 | Nagamalleswara Rao Dasari |
University of Hamburg, Germany |
Ultrafast dynamics of strongly correlated systems |
Sandeep Goyal and Vishal Bhardwaj |
Departmental Seminars - Monsoon 2020
| Day | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22 | Sanjeev Kumar | IISER Mohali | Magnetic Skyrmions in Rashba-Hund's Metals | Ambresh Shivaji |
| Oct 13 | Vijay Shenoy | IISc Bangalore | Fractons: From Field to Plate | Sanjeev Kumar |
| Oct 20 | Aditi Sen De | HRI Allahabad | Quantum Technologies with Many-body Systems | Kavita Dorai and M N Bera |
| Nov 3 | Jasjeet Bagla | IISER Moali | Gravitational lensing: Of catastrophes and wave effects | Ambresh Shivaji |
| Nov 10 | D. Indumathi | IMSc Chennai | How the Sun shines | Ambresh Shivaji |
Departmental Seminars - Even 2020
| Day | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22 | Priya Mahadevan | S. N. Bose NCBS, Kolkata | Electronic Structure of Twisted Bilayers of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides - Are Any Simplifications Possible? | Sudeshna Sinha |
| Feb 19 | Nissim Kanekar | NCRA-TIFR, Pune | Do the Fundamental Constants Change with Time? | Harvinder Kaur Jassal |
| Feb 12 | Sanjay Jain | University of Delhi, Delhi | Bacterial Dynamics: The Origin of Balanced Growth and Cellular Individuality | K. P. Yogendran |
| Feb 05 | Kuntal Mishra | ARIES, Nainital | The Astrophysics of Energetic Cosmic Explosions: Gamma Ray Bursts | Aru Beri |
| Jan 15 | Ashna Bajpai | IISER Pune | Functional Antiferromagnets and their Encapsulation inside Carbon Nanotubes | Yogesh Singh |
