Physics Colloquiums

2023

Sl. No.	Speaker	Institute	Date	Title
1	Dr. Debraj Das		30 Nov 2023	Thermodynamic trade offs constrain decision-making of non-equilibria in the human brain
2	Dr. Taniya Mandal		03 Nov 2023	Tale of the loss landscape in machine learning and black holes
3	Dr Santanu Pakhira		17 Oct 2023	Exploratory synthesis and novel magnetism of magnetically frustrated systems and magnetic topological materials
4	Dr Dibya Chakraborty		23 Aug 2023	A de Sitter anecdote: Can sub-leading corrections be consistently ignored?
5	Dr. Sayak Dutta (Postdoctoral Fellow)		17 May 2023	TIDAL HEATING: HUNT FOR THE HORIZON
6	Dr. Vinay Malvimat	Postdoctoral Fellow, SINP	05 Apr 2023	Entanglement in QFT
7	Dr Chiranjeeb Singha	SINP	29 Mar 2023	Strong cosmic censorship conjecture for a charged BTZ black hole
8	Dr. Vinay Malvimat	Postdoctoral Fellow, SINP	22 Mar 2023	Entanglement in QFT
9	Dr. Partha Pratim Pal	Associate Editor, Wiley-VCH Chemistry	02 Mar 2023	Editorial Tips for Successful Manuscript Submissions
10	Prof. Ipsita Mandal	Associate Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences: Krakow, Poland	08 Feb 2023	Accessing the Low-Energy Physics of Critical Fermi Surfaces

2022

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

2020

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

Sl. No.	Speaker	Institute	Date	Title
1.	Siddhartha Sen	Hamilton Mathematics Institute, and Trinity College Dublin	19 Nov 2012	Topics in Theoretical Physics III
2.	Siddhartha Sen	Hamilton Mathematics Institute, and Trinity College Dublin	12 Nov 2012	Topics in Theoretical Physics II
3.	Kasturi Basu	–	17 Oct 2012	Importance of Thermal Effects on Electronic Correlations in Elemental Plutonium
4.	Kalyan Rudra	–	10 Oct 2012	Living Rivers and Dying Rivers : Experience of West Bengal
5.	Siddhartha Sen	Hamilton Mathematics Institute, and Trinity College Dublin	03 Oct 2012	Topics in Theoretical Physics I
6.	Tapas K Das	HRI Allahabad	25 Sep 2012	Black Holes in Your Bathtub: Part III
7.	Siddhartha Sen	Hamilton Mathematics Institute, and Trinity College Dublin	22 Sep 2012	Floer Cohomology from a Physics point of view
8.	Tapas K Das	HRI Allahabad	23 Aug 2012	Black Holes in Your Bathtub: Part II
9.	Tapas K Das	HRI Allahabad	14 Aug 2012	Black Holes in Your Bathtub: Part I
10.	Tapas K Das	HRI Allahabad	07 Aug 2012	Astrophysical Black Holes : Cosmic Laboratory for Testing : Part II
11.	Tapas K Das	HRI Allahabad	01 Aug 2012	Astrophysical Black Holes : Cosmic Laboratory for Testing : Part I
12.	Sayantani Bhattacharya	HRI Allahabad	27 Jul 2012	Constraints on Fluid Dynamics from Partition Function
13.	Bobby Ezthuthachan	HRI Allahabad	20 Feb 2012	The Novel Higgs Mechanism and three-dimensional gauge theories
14.	Bobby Ezthuthachan	HRI Allahabad	17 Feb 2012	A Non-Abelian duality for Yang-Mills theories in three dimensions
15.	Siddhartha Sen	Hamilton Mathematics Institute, and Trinity College Dublin	01 Feb 2012	Why are stars massive
16.	Parthasarathi Majumdar	Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata	27 Jan 2012	Thermal Stability of Black Holes
17.	Siddhartha Sen	Hamilton Mathematics Institute, and Trinity College Dublin	07 Jan 2012	Topics in Theoretical Physics IV