Physics Colloquiums

Sl. No.SpeakerInstituteDateTitle
1Dr. Debraj Das 30 Nov 2023Thermodynamic trade offs constrain decision-making of non-equilibria in the human brain
2Dr. Taniya Mandal 03 Nov 2023Tale of the loss landscape in machine learning and black holes
3Dr Santanu Pakhira 17 Oct 2023Exploratory synthesis and novel magnetism of magnetically frustrated systems and magnetic topological materials
4Dr Dibya Chakraborty 23 Aug 2023A de Sitter anecdote: Can sub-leading corrections be consistently ignored?
5Dr. Sayak Dutta (Postdoctoral Fellow) 17 May 2023TIDAL HEATING: HUNT FOR THE HORIZON
6Dr. Vinay MalvimatPostdoctoral Fellow, SINP05 Apr 2023Entanglement in QFT
7Dr Chiranjeeb SinghaSINP29 Mar 2023Strong cosmic censorship conjecture for a charged BTZ black hole
8Dr. Vinay MalvimatPostdoctoral Fellow, SINP22 Mar 2023Entanglement in QFT
9Dr. Partha Pratim PalAssociate Editor, Wiley-VCH Chemistry02 Mar 2023Editorial Tips for Successful Manuscript Submissions
10Prof. Ipsita MandalAssociate Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences: Krakow, Poland08 Feb 2023Accessing the Low-Energy Physics of Critical Fermi Surfaces
Sl. No. Speaker Institute Date Title
1. Jaydeb Chakrabarti S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic sciences, Salt Lake, Kolkata 14 Dec 2022 Molecular dynamics as tool to study condensed phase properties
2. Dr. Ritika Dusad Chief Innovation Officer, Nucleus Software 28 Nov 2022 Magnetic Monopole Noise
3. Prof. Rahul Sharma IISER Behrampur 28 Nov 2022 Visualization of Quantum Materials
4. Suman Das PhD student, SINP 23 Nov 2022 Synthetic Fuzzballs: A Linear Ramp from Black Hole Normal Modes
5. Prof. Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay IACS, Kolkata 09 Nov 2022 Particle dark matter — thermal and non-thermal production mechanisms
6. Dr. Sudipto Singha Roy Post-doctoral Researcher, INO-CNR BEC Center, Università di Trento 04 Nov 2022 Emergent geometry from entanglement structure: application to static and dynamic cases
7. Dr. Tanumoy Mandal IISER TVM 31 Oct 2022 Theories with varying fundamental constants
8. Dr. Vinay Malvimat SINP, Kolkata 31 Aug 2022 Fast Scrambling due to Rotating Shockwaves
9. Prof. Arnab Kundu SINP, Kolkata 13 Jun 2022 Wormholes and Quantum Aspects of Gravity
10. Dr. Rupak Mukherjee Princeton University, USA 09 Jun 2022 How computational physics is shaping nuclear fusion reactors!
11. Tanmay Maji Post-Doctoral fellow, IIT Hyderabad 20 May 2022 Toward precision jet event shapes for DIS in the framework of SCET
12. Dr. Abhishek Majhi ISI, Kolkata 02 May 2022 Resolving the singularity by looking at the dot and demonstrating the undecidability of the continuum hypothesis
13. Prof. Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya IISER, Kolkata 27 Apr 2022 From Answers to Questions in Fundamental Physics
14. Ms. Anwesha Chakraborty PhD Scholar, SNBNCBS, Kolkata 20 Apr 2022 A Brief Introduction to Non-commutative Geometry and Spectral Triple With Real Structure on Fuzzy Sphere
15. Dr. Arnab Rudra Faculty IISER, Bhopal 09 Mar 2022 Symmetries of the Hydrogen atom
Sl. No. Speaker Institute Date Title
1. Pierfrancesco di Cintio University of Florence, Italy 19 Feb 2020 N-body chaos and discreteness effects and the relaxation of self-gravitating systems
2. Shankar Ghosh TIFR Mumbai 14 Feb 2020 A geometrical description of granular physics
3. M Lakshmanan Bharathidasan University, Trichy 6-7 Feb 2020 Basics of Nonlinear Dynamics
4. Harsh Soni IISc Bangalore 6 Feb 2020 Physics of Active Grains and Active Fluids
5. Pratap Raychaudhuri TIFR Mumbai 5 Feb 2020 Melting of the vortex lattice in a Type II superconductor: A story from images
6. Eung Jin Chun Korea Institute for Advanced Study, South Korea 2 Jan 2020 Genesis of Matter
Sl. No. Speaker Institute Date Title
1. Petar Pavlovic RKMVERI, Belur 24 Jul 2019 Cyclic cosmology as an alternative to big-bang paradigm
2. Indrani Banerjee IACS, Kolkata 29 Apr 2019 Signatures of extra-dimensions in astrophysical and cosmological observations
3. Koushik Ray IACS, Kolkata 03 Apr 2019 An Overture for String Theory
4. Arnab Kundu SINP, Kolkata 20 Mar 2019 Many Bodies and Massive Bodies, A World in Hologram
5. Lucas Wetzel Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden 18 Mar 2019 Synchronization in next generation microelectronic systems: flat hierarchies – can the ‘reference clock’ be abolished?
6. Kalyan Rudra West Bengal Pollution Control Board 20 Feb 2019 The sorrow of Bengal: Myth or Reality
7. Shankha Sanyal Jadavpur University 06 Feb 2019 Musical vibrations in the brain: A neurocognitive physics exploration through fractal microscope
Sl. No. Speaker Institute Date Title
1. Debasish Banerjee DESY Germany 17 Jul 2018 Quantum simulating aspects of gauge theories
2. Sumit R. Das University of Kentucky 16 Jul 2018 Black holes, holograms and quantum quench
3. Sayan Kar Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 27 Apr 2018 The Einstein-Rosen bridge and its progeny
4. Soumitro Banerjee IISER Kolkata 16 Apr 2018 Chaos: A New Kind of Motion
5. Arnab Sen IACS, Kolkata 12 Mar 2018 Disorder as a probe for spin liquids
6. Dipankar Bhattacharya IUCAA, Pune 08 Mar 2018 Cyclotron Resonance in Astrophysics
7. C M Chandrashekar IMSc Chennai 05 Feb 2018 Mimicking quantum dynamics using quantum walks
8. P K Mohanty SINP, Kolkata 29 Jan 2018 Can current decrease with increasing bias: onset of negative response in non-equilibrium systems
Sl. No. Speaker Institute Date Title
1. Shamik Gupta RKMVERI, Belur 06 Sep 2017 Changes large and small: The physics of stochastic resetting
2. Sayak Ray IISER, Kolkata 21 Jul 2017 Quantum signature of chaos and thermalization in the kicked Dicke model
3. Satyaki Kar IACS, Kolkata 12 Feb 2017 Periodically driven dynamics using two-rate protocols
Sl. No. Speaker Institute Date Title
1. Sumalay Roy Max Planck Institute of Microstructure physics, Halle, Germany 11 Feb 2016 Atomic structures of un-doped and doped (0001) surfaces of the topological insulator Bi 2 Se 3
2. Soumen Basak SISSA,Trieste, Italy. 28 Jan 2016 The Universe – as seen by Planck
3. Stephan Fritzsche Stephan Fritzsche, University of Zena, Germany 07 Jan 2016 Interaction of atoms with twisted light and electrons
4. Stephan Fritzsche Stephan Fritzsche, University of Zena, Germany 06 Jan 2016 Multipole mixing and polarization effects in the x-ray emission from highly-charged ions
Sl. No. Speaker Institute Date Title
1. Deepak Kar University of Witwatersrand, South Africa 18 Dec 2015 Multipole mixing and polarization effects in the x-ray emission from highly-charged ions
2. Debajit Goswami Saarbrucken, Germany 24 Sep 2015 Dynamics of molecular motors and diffusive proteins interacting with polar filaments
3. Subhasis Sinha IISER Kolkata 17 Sep 2015 Ultracold Rydberg atoms in an optical lattice
4. Arundhati Dasgupta University of Lethbridge 03 Sep 2015 Complexity of the Quantum Universe
5. Sachin Jain Cornell University 08 Jul 2015 Unitarity, Crossing Symmetry and Duality of the S-matrix in large N Chern-Simons theories with fundamental matter
6. Shamik Gupta Universite Paris-Sud, France 10 Mar 2015 Physics of Long-Range Interacting Systems
7. Flavio Seno Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia ‘Galileo Galilei’, Università di Padova 26 Feb 2015 A biased introduction to the wonderland of proteins
Sl. No. Speaker Institute Date Title
1. Sanjay Puri JNU, New Delhi 05 Nov 2014 Pattern Formation in the Kinetics of Phase Transitions
2. Krishnendu Sengupta IACS, Kolkata 05 Nov 2014 Quantum phase transition: case study using Ising model
3. Sumathi Rao HRI, Allahabad 04 Nov 2014 Weyl fermions in condensed matter systems
4. Subir Sarkar University of Oxford, UK 14 Aug 2014 Has BICEP2 proved cosmological inflation ?
5. Amanda Cooper-Sarkar University of Oxford, UK 12 Aug 2014 Higgs Boson Searches : what do they mean ?
6. Rajibul Islam Harvard University 16 Jul 2014 Synthetic quantum matter under a microscope
7. Punyabrata Pradhan S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences 11 Mar 2014 Characterization of many-particle system driven out of equilibrium
Sl. No. Speaker Institute Date Title
1. Ashoke Mallik BESU 24 Oct 2013 Mechanics To and From Geometry
2. Ashoke Mallik BESU 03 Oct 2013 Pendulum – The Paradigm of Oscillations
3. Ashoke Mallik BESU 26 Sep 2013 Mathemagical Blackholes, Chaos and Fractals
4. Krishnendu Sengupta IACS Kolkata 19 Sep 2013 Dirac materials: an introduction
5. Ayan Mukhopadhyaya CPHT Ecole Polytechnique and IPHT, CEA-Saclay, France 27 Aug 2013 Spacetime emergence from holographic RG flow and the fluid gravity correspondence
6. Arnab Rudra DAMTP, University of Cambridge 01 Aug 2013 Degeneration of two loop superstring scattering amplitude
7. Pallab Basu ICTS, Bangalore 18 Jul 2013 Holography, Quench and Chaos
8. Shraddha Mishta IIT Karagpur 13 Jul 2013 Collective dynamics of self-propelled particles with variable speed
9. Pradip Khatua IISER, Kolkata 17 Mar 2013 Single slit electron diffraction by a quantum point contact
10. Indrajit Mitra Calcutta University 06 Mar 2013 Bosonization in 2+1 dimensions
11. Debanjan Bose Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics 04 Mar 2013 Study of Astrophysical Sources Using Ground Based Gamma-ray and Neutrino Telescopes in Very High Energy Regime
12. Manoj Kumar Pal (Former Director) Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics 01 Feb 2013 Energy Issues for India in the Future
13. Rajibul Islam NSF Center for Ultracold Atoms, Harvard University 30 Jan 2013 Simulation of Condensed Matter Systems using cold atoms
14. Indradit Mitra Department of Physics, Calcutta University 22 Jan 2013 –
15. Soumya Bera Neel, Grenoble 09 Jan 2013 Multifractality and Interactions near Quantum Critical Point
Sl. No.SpeakerInstituteDateTitle
1.Siddhartha SenHamilton Mathematics Institute, and Trinity College Dublin19 Nov 2012Topics in Theoretical Physics III
2.Siddhartha SenHamilton Mathematics Institute, and Trinity College Dublin12 Nov 2012Topics in Theoretical Physics II
3.Kasturi Basu–17 Oct 2012Importance of Thermal Effects on Electronic Correlations in Elemental Plutonium
4.Kalyan Rudra–10 Oct 2012Living Rivers and Dying Rivers : Experience of West Bengal
5.Siddhartha SenHamilton Mathematics Institute, and Trinity College Dublin03 Oct 2012Topics in Theoretical Physics I
6.Tapas K DasHRI Allahabad25 Sep 2012Black Holes in Your Bathtub: Part III
7.Siddhartha SenHamilton Mathematics Institute, and Trinity College Dublin22 Sep 2012Floer Cohomology from a Physics point of view
8.Tapas K DasHRI Allahabad23 Aug 2012Black Holes in Your Bathtub: Part II
9.Tapas K DasHRI Allahabad14 Aug 2012Black Holes in Your Bathtub: Part I
10.Tapas K DasHRI Allahabad07 Aug 2012Astrophysical Black Holes : Cosmic Laboratory for Testing : Part II
11.Tapas K DasHRI Allahabad01 Aug 2012Astrophysical Black Holes : Cosmic Laboratory for Testing : Part I
12.Sayantani BhattacharyaHRI Allahabad27 Jul 2012Constraints on Fluid Dynamics from Partition Function
13.Bobby EzthuthachanHRI Allahabad20 Feb 2012The Novel Higgs Mechanism and three-dimensional gauge theories
14.Bobby EzthuthachanHRI Allahabad17 Feb 2012A Non-Abelian duality for Yang-Mills theories in three dimensions
15.Siddhartha SenHamilton Mathematics Institute, and Trinity College Dublin01 Feb 2012Why are stars massive
16.Parthasarathi MajumdarSaha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata27 Jan 2012Thermal Stability of Black Holes
17.Siddhartha SenHamilton Mathematics Institute, and Trinity College Dublin07 Jan 2012Topics in Theoretical Physics IV
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