Upcoming Events @IISER Kolkata

Time:

3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Venue:

N-315D, DCS Meeting Room, A J C Bose

Description:

[Pre-Submission Seminar] Ms. Smita Ghosh (PhD Student) -- Energetics and Dynamics of Water Dissociation on Bimetallic Alloy Surfaces

Time:

4 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Venue:

113, A J C Bose

Description:

[Final Viva Voce] Pinku Saha (13RS016) (DPS, IISER Kolkata) -- Transport & Structural Studies at Extreme Condition of Pressure & Temperature

Time:

8 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

CS 2020

Time:

8 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

CS 2020

Time:

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

[DCS Seminar] Prof. Marisa Kozlowski (University of Pennsylvania) -- Oxygen Driven Fragment Coupling by Activation of C-H, N-H, and O-H Bonds

Time:

3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

[DBS student talk] Rubina (DBS IISERK) -- TBA

Time:

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

[DCS Seminar] Professor Lukas Goossen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) -- Inventing Reactions - Catalytic activation of C-C, C-O, C-N, and C-H bonds

Time:

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Venue:

G02, A P C Ray

Description:

[PhD Viva] Jit Sarkar (IISER Kolkata) -- Ultrafast Optical and Low Frequency Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Nano-Systems and Quantum Materials

Time:

11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[Pre-Submission Seminar] Priyasri Kar (12RS063) (DPS, IISER Kolkata) -- Algebraization of the Heun Class of Equations: Solutions and Physical Applications

Time:

2:45 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Venue:

Ramanujan Virtual Classroom

Description:

[DCS Seminar] Professor Matthias Driess (Technische Universität Berlin) -- Striking Features of Low-Valent Silicon Compounds in Stoichiometric and Catalytic Transformations

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

[Special Seminar] Prof. S.D Mahanti (MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY) -- Thermoelectricity, History, Renaissance, and Challenges

Time:

11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Venue:

G02, A P C Ray

Description:

[Pre-Submission Seminar] Chiranjeeb Singha (12IP026) (DPS, IISER Kolkata) -- Studies in thermal aspects of Schwarzschild spacetime

Time:

2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Venue:

Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre

Description:

[DPS Colloquium] Prof. Bipul pal (DPS, IISER Kolkata) -- Everybody can do some nonlinear optics

Time:

4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

[DCS Visitor's Seminar] Dr. Bappaditya Gole (CNRS, Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie, University of Bordeaux, France) -- Light Driven Conformational Control and Functions of Aromatic Oligoamide Foldamer

Time:

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[Pre-Submission Seminar] Ankit Kumar Singh(13IP027) (DPS, IISER Kolkata) -- Spin optical effects in micro and nano scale optical systems

Time:

noon - 1:30 p.m.

Venue:

S N Bose Lecture Theatre

Description:

[DCS Visitor's Seminar] Prof. Mark Hoffmann (Department of Chemistry, University of North Dakota, USA) -- Parallel versions of Hybrid Variational-Perturbation Multireference Theories

Time:

noon - 1 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

[The Optical Society (OSA) Student Ch] Prof. Valery Tuchin (Head of Lab. of Laser Diagnostics of Technical and Living Systems, Institute of Precision Mechanics and Control of the RAS, Russia)

Time:

2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

[DCS Visitor's Seminar] Dr. Radhika Venkatesan (NCBS, Bangalore) -- Chemistry in Ecology

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Venue:

108, A P C Ray

Description:

[DMS Seminar] Dr. Projesh Nath Choudhury (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) -- Distance matrices of trees: invariants, old and new

Time:

4 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Venue:

Auditorium

Description:

[National Science Day 2020] Prof. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (Ashoka University) -- Not Even Wrong: Random Thoughts in the Practice of Science

Time:

4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

DCS Visitor seminar

Time:

noon - 1 p.m.

Venue:

G02, A P C Ray

Description:

[DES Seminar] Dr. Waliur Rahaman (NCPOR, Goa) -- Recent Ocean Acidification trend and its impact based on boron isotope records of corals

Time:

2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[DPS Colloquium] Dr. Ritesh Singh (DPS, IISER Kolkata) -- Spin and polarization at collider experiments

Time:

1 p.m. - 2 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

Open day Meeting

Time:

11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Venue:

113, A J C Bose

Description:

[JRF to SRF Interview] Mr. Siddhartha Patra (DPS, IISER Kolkata)

Time:

4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

[DCS Seminar] Prof. Bill Jones (Cambridge University) -- Mechanochemistry: Aspects of cocrystal solid state chemistry

Time:

4 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Venue:

G09, A P C Ray

Description:

[DMS Seminar] Dr. Rabeya Basu (IISER Pune) -- Linear Algebra and K-Theory

Time:

11 a.m. - noon

Venue:

108, A P C Ray

Description:

[DMS Seminar] Dr. Suvrajit Bhattacharjee (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata) -- Quantum Groups

Time:

2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Venue:

110, A P C Ray

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Dr. Biplab Pal (Tel Aviv University) -- Engineering flat bands in tight-binding lattice models

Time:

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Venue:

G02, A P C Ray

Description:

[DMS Seminar] Dr. Ganesh Bagler (IIIT Delhi) -- Computational Gastronomy: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Data- driven Food Innovations

Time:

2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[DPS Talks] Prof. Dhananjay Nandi (DPS, IISER Kolkata) -- Development and application of state-of-the-art experiment for the low energy electron molecule collisions

Time:

3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Dr. Sridip Pal (Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton University, New Jersey) -- Tauberian theorems and High Energy asymptotics in Conformal Field theory

Time:

5 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

[Alumni invited Talk] Dr. Swapnil Barmase (IESE Business School)

Time:

10:30 a.m. - noon

Venue:

G02, A P C Ray

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Dr. Soubhik Kumar (University of Maryland) -- Confining Cosmological Phase Transitions

Time:

2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

Science Communication Magazine

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

[DBS talk] Dr Prabuddha Kundu (Premas Life Sciences) -- Therapeutic Development; a holistic view with global, local and personal perspectives

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Prof. Tejinder P. Singh (TIFR Mumbai) -- Schrodinger's cat, and Einstein's space-time, in the twenty-first century

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

[DBS talk] Tanmoy Roychowdhury (Department of Internal medicine, Cardiology University of Michigan, Ann arbor, MI, USA) -- Peeking into the biography of genomic mutation in omics era

Time:

8 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

SPARC

Time:

noon - 1 p.m.

Venue:

G02, A P C Ray

Description:

[DBS talk] Shekhar Saha (University of Virginia School of Medicine Charlottesville, Virginia, USA) -- A tumor suppressive long noncoding RNA DRAIC interacts with IKK and inhibits NF-κB

Time:

2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Venue:

113, A J C Bose

Description:

[JRF to SRF Interview] Soumik Aon & Abu Bakkar (DPS, IISER Kolkata)

Time:

4 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[Special Seminar] Prof. Richard MacKenzie -- Symmetry and Solitons: from kinks to monopoles

Time:

9 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

EMBO - India 2020 cryo-EM conference

Description:

EMBO - India 2020 cryo-EM conference

Time:

9 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

EMBO - India 2020 cryo-EM conference

Time:

8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

LEAP 2020

Time:

9 a.m. - 9 p.m.

Venue:

Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre

Description:

EMBO-India 2020 cryo-EM conference

Time:

11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Venue:

113, A J C Bose

Description:

[JRF to SRF Interview] Bishnupada Ghosh (DPS, IISER Kolkata)

Time:

noon - 1 p.m.

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[Invited talk] Dr. Achira Roy (Center for Integrative Brain Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, USA) -- Modelling human PI3K-related brain disorders – time, cause and therapy

Time:

8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

LEAP 2020

Time:

9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Venue:

Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre

Description:

EMBO-India 2020 cryo-EM conference

Time:

2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Venue:

108, A P C Ray

Description:

[DMS Seminar] Dr. Kartick Adhikari (Technion, Israel) -- Hole probability, Brown measure, and fluctuations

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[CAFM Visitor's Seminar] Professor Tewodros Asefa

Time:

4 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[DCS Visitor Seminar] Dr. Pritam Jana (University of Gottingen) -- Self-assembly of DNA Coated Colloids: Theory and Computer Simulations

Time:

8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

LEAP 2020

Time:

10:30 a.m. - noon

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Dr. Swagata Mukherjee (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) -- Search for physics beyond standard model in LHC

Time:

noon - 1 p.m.

Venue:

113, A J C Bose

Description:

[CESSI Seminar] Dr. Prantika Bhowmik (Durham University, Durham, UK) -- Formation and Evolution of Magnetic Flux Ropes During Solar Minimum

Time:

12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Prof. Richard Mackenzie (University of Montreal) -- Qubits as edge state detectors: illustration using the SSH model

Time:

2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Venue:

G02, A P C Ray

Description:

[Ethics in Leadership] Dr. Mrinal Kanti Mushib -- "Ethics and Professionalism in teaching and research".

Time:

2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Venue:

113, A J C Bose

Description:

[Pre-Submission Seminar] Soumen Kumar Patra (DPS, IISER Kolkata) -- Statistics of Lyapunov exponents of dynamical systems on networks

Time:

3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Prof. Cosimo Bambi (Fudan University, Shanghai) -- Astrophysical Black Holes: A Review

Time:

8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

LEAP 2020

Time:

8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

LEAP 2020

Time:

2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Dr. Adarsh Ganesan (US National Institute of Standards and Technology) -- Phononic Frequency Combs – A New Addition to Photonics, MEMS, Quantum Information Science

Time:

8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

LEAP 2020

Time:

2 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Venue:

Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre

Description:

[EMBO - India 2020 cryo-EM conference] Prof. Joachim Frank (Columbia University, NY, USA) -- Inauguration of EMBO cryo-EM Practical Course/conference (19-30 Jan, IISER Kolkata) by Prof. Sourav Pal and Open to all Key Note Lecture by Prof. Joachim Frank, (Nobel Laureate, Chemistry, 2017)

Time:

8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

LEAP 2020

Time:

8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

LEAP 2020

Time:

8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

LEAP 2020

Time:

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Venue:

Ramanujan Virtual Classroom

Description:

[DCS Colloquium] Prof. Christopher C. Cummins (MIT, USA) -- Phosphorus-Element Bond-Forming Reactions

Time:

4 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Venue:

Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre

Description:

[Ex-student talk] Sanchari Datta (Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) -- Spatial organization of lipid metabolism in health and disease

Time:

8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

LEAP 2020

Time:

2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Venue:

G02, A P C Ray

Description:

[Pre-Submission Seminar] Mr. Subhrokoli Ghosh (DPS, IISER Kolkata) -- A study of microbubble-based diverse phenomena in Optical Tweezers

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Dr Rituparno Goswami (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban) -- Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Venue:

G09, A P C Ray

Description:

[DMS Seminar] Subhankar Dey (SUNY Buffalo, NY) -- Cable knots are not thin

Time:

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Venue:

Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre

Description:

[Institute Colloquium] Prof. Eric Wieschaus (Dept. of Molecular Biology, Princeton University) -- Inputs, Outputs and Cell Signaling during Early Development

Time:

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Venue:

Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre

Description:

[Eric Wieschaus student interaction] Eric Wieschaus (Princeton Univ)

Time:

8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

LEAP 2020

Time:

4 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Venue:

Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre

Description:

[Institute colloqium] Prof. Trudi Schupbach (Princeton University) -- The EGF Receptor Pathway Regulates Axis Establishment in Drosophila and Serves as Model for Disease in Humans

Time:

5:15 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.

Venue:

Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre

Description:

[Trudi Schupbach student interaction] Trudi Schupbach (Princeton Univ) -- TBA

Time:

8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

LEAP 2020

Time:

11 a.m. - noon

Venue:

Ramanujan Virtual Classroom

Description:

[DCS Visitor Seminar] Prof. Blanca M. Vaca (Paul Sabatier University, France) -- Cooperative catalysis with Pd and Pt pincer complexes

Time:

5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Venue:

Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre

Description:

[Institute Colloquium] Professor Christopher Colin Cummins

Time:

8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

LEAP 2020

Time:

8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

LEAP 2020

Time:

4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

[DCS Visitor's Seminar] Dr. Swarnendu Bhattacharyya (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

Time:

11 a.m. - noon

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Dr. Amal Sarkar (University of Los Andes Bogota D.C, Colombia) -- Quark-Gluon Plasma, QCD Phase Diagram, and the Hunt for the Critical Point Using Higher Moments of Net-Particle Multiplicity at RHIC

Time:

2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Dr. Pamir Nag (J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry) -- Electron spectroscopy – application in real life

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

[Institute Colloquium] Prof. Vinod K. Singh (IIT Kanpur) -- Can IISERs create Global impact on Indian Higher Education System?

Time:

2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

[Thesis viva voce by Snehasish Ghosh] Thesis Examiner: Prof. Tushar Kanti Chakraborty (IISc Bangalore) -- Designed peptide-based sealants for faster blood clotting

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

[Special Seminar] Prof. Tushar Kanti Chakraborty (IISC Bangalore) -- Sugar amino acid containing antimicrobial peptides

Time:

4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

[DCS Seminar] Prof. Daniel B. Werz (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany) -- Fluorescent Dyes by Rational Design and Serendipitous Discoveries

Time:

8 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Venue:

Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre

Description:

Frontiers of Inorganic Chemistry

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

[CCES Seminar] Dr. Shaon Ray Chaudhuri (Tripura University) -- Microbial Technology for Pollution Abatement, Food Security with Environmental Sustenance

Time:

8 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

Salters Chemistry Camp

Time:

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Venue:

G09, A P C Ray

Description:

[Final Viva Voce] Mrinmay Biswas (DMS) -- Three Problems in Nonlinear Analysis

Time:

8 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Venue:

Asima Chatterjee Lecture Theatre

Description:

Salters Chemistry Camp