Upcoming Events @IISER Kolkata

Time:

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

Description:

[IPhD Viva-voce] Ms. Lucky Sarkar ((Mentor: Prof. Jayasri Das Sarma), DBS, IISER Kolkata) -- Azadirachta indica A. Juss (Neem) Bark Extract Restricts Pan-Coronavirus Infection and Replication -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/sve-dnoo-ouz -::~::-

Time:

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

Venue:

Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre

Description:

[Pre-submission seminar] Souvik Sil (DPS IISERK) -- Optical trapping of mesoscopic absorbing particles in air using photophoretic forces -::~::- Join: http://meet.google.com/eum-wtzg-ezs -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[DPS Colloquium] Prof. Aninda Sinha (IISc, Bangalore) -- Quantum field theory without Feynman diagrams -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/dfs-vguy-czr -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[DBS Seminar] Prof. Ravi Muddashetty (Professor, Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India) -- ‘Lost in translation’- the role of Protein synthesis in Alzheimer’s disease -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/ybj-agrx-qbf -::~::-

Time:

5 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Description:

[DPS Talk] Dr. Shubhankar Das (Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz) -- Spin-orbit torques induced magnetization manipulation in structures with higher order magnetic anisotropy: Magnetic memory states go exponential -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/kwd-yujw-pvq -::~::-

Time:

6 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Description:

[SPIE webinar] Prof. Philip Jones (Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, United Kingdom) -- "Optical Binding in 1D & 2D" -::~::- Join: http://meet.google.com/gdz-bxhy-kju -::~::-

Time:

11 a.m. - noon

Description:

[DPS Talk] Dr. Panneer Muthuselvam (Banaras Hindu University) -- Exotic Magnetism in Novel Quantum Magnets -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/rfo-movi-niv -::~::-

Time:

11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Description:

[Pre-sub seminar by Piyali Mandal] Piyali Mandal -- Design, Synthesis and Self-Assembly Study of Pyrimidine Derived Amphiphilic Homopolymers and Their Stimuli Responsiveness -::~::- Join: http://meet.google.com/ynd-upgb-sjs -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[PhD Pre-submission Seminar] Ms. Sushmita Jha ((Mentor: Prof. Tapas Kumar Sengupta), DBS, IISER Kolkata) -- Studies on the multi-cellular behaviours in Bacillus thuringiensis KPWP1 -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/ctr-pxqb-eqf -::~::-

Time:

11 a.m. - noon

Description:

[DPS Talk] Dr. Laxman Thouttam (SR University) -- Robust and Reversible Electrolyte Control of Electronic Transport Properties in Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Oxide Systems -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/onr-oeqk-pip -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[DPS Talk] Dr. Kaushik Sen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) -- Fundamental interactions and dynamics in quantum materials -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/onr-oeqk-pip -::~::-

Time:

2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Venue:

209, A P C Ray

Description:

[DMS Seminar] Dr. Arjun Paul, Jadavpur University

Time:

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

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Dr.Samir Choudhuri (Queen Mary University, London) -- Measuring the cosmological 21-cm signal using Radio telescopes -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/dfs-vguy-czr -::~::-

Time:

7 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Description:

[DPS Talk] Dr. Chandan Kumar (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) -- Imaging Hydrodynamic Electrons Flowing Without Landauer-Sharvin Resistance -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/stx-bnwu-jkb -::~::-

Time:

5 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Description:

[DPS Talk] Dr. Samudrala Appalakondaiah (University of Seoul, South Korea) -- Quantum Phenomena of Functional Heterostructures -::~::- Join: http://meet.google.com/vav-orip-zbx -::~::-

Time:

noon - 1 p.m.

Description:

[DPS Talk] Dr. Biplab Pal (Kaliachak College) -- Engineering electron states in fractal geometries -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/bgr-gdza-npv -::~::-

Time:

2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Description:

[DPS Talk] Dr. Rakshyakar Giri (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) -- Quantum sensing using nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond: detrimental effect of charge state dynamics on spin-based sensing -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/sit-awbu-qqr -::~::-

Time:

3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Venue:

Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre

Description:

[PhD Thesis Defence] Kingshuk Mukhuti (IISER Kolkata) -- Optical and Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy of Semiconductors and Upconverting Nanoparticles -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/rjo-sfwd-npe -::~::-

Time:

10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Description:

[A demo on soap making] Prof. Arindam Mukherjee -- Visit for Satish Chandra Memorial School students

Time:

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

Description:

[Pre-submission Seminar] Mr. Nirbhay Kumar Bhadani (Mentor: Prof. Tapas Kumar Sengupta) (DBS, IISER Kolkata) -- A comparative study on cellular networks and differential gene expressions involved in swarming motility and biofilm formation in hyper-swarming and normal-swarming Bacillus cereus ....conditions -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/ctr-pxqb-eqf -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Dr. Anil Kumar Dasanna (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany) -- Multiscale modelling of biological systems: From biopolymers to biological cells -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/pvd-vuto-oam -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Prof. Archisman Raju (NCBS, Bangalore) -- From Microscopics to Phenomenology: Geometric models for cell fate specification -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/dfs-vguy-czr -::~::-

Time:

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

Venue:

Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre

Description:

[Pre-submission Seminar] Avijit Kundu (DPS IISERK) -- Studies and applications of microscopic forces in optically trapped Brownian particles embedded in complex fluids -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/gux-cjbi-czi -::~::-

Time:

noon - 1:30 p.m.

Description:

[DBS Seminar] Dr. Sumit Sen Santara (Scientist, ONK Therapeutics, San Diego, USA) -- Zika virus (ZIKV), endoplasmic reticulum stress and Natural Killer (NK) cells -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/jyo-ubbv-gkn -::~::-

Time:

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

Venue:

212, A P C Ray

Description:

[DMS Seminar: Convex Integration] Ujjwal Koley (DMS) -- DMS Seminar: Convex Integration

Time:

6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Description:

[DBS Invited Talk] Dr. Ofer Reizes (The Laura J. Fogarty Endowed Chair for Uterine Cancer Research, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, USA) -- Rapid Activation of Adaptive Immune Cells in Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy Treatment for Ovarian Cancer -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/nco-xwnk-ptt -::~::-

Time:

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

Venue:

212, A P C Ray

Description:

[DMS Seminar: Convex Integration] Ujjwal Koley (DMS) -- DMS Seminar: Convex Integration

Time:

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

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Dr. Sabyasachi Chakraborty (SISSA, Italy) -- Heavy QCD axion at B-factories -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/dfs-vguy-czr -::~::-

Time:

7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Description:

[DBS Seminar] Dr. J. David Beckham (Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Rocky Mountain Regional VAMC, USA) -- Defining a functional role for alpha-synuclein in the brain-links between innate immunity and Parkinson’s disease -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/kzo-usqy-rsb -::~::-

Time:

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

Venue:

212, A P C Ray

Description:

[DMS Seminar: Convex Integration] Ujjwal Koley (DMS) -- DMS Seminar: Convex Integration

Time:

4 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Venue:

212, A P C Ray

Description:

"Astronomy Olympiad"

Time:

3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Prasenjit Das (Georg-August University, Goettingen, Germany) -- Plastic Instabilities and Density of Low-frequency States in Amorphous Solids -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/sce-grsr-bfp -::~::-

Time:

6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Description:

[DPS and OPTICA Chapter Colloquium] Prof. Robert W. Boyd (University of Ottawa, Canada) -- Tailoring light propagation through controllable phase and group velocities -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/dfs-vguy-czr -::~::-

Time:

9:15 a.m. - 11 a.m.

Venue:

209, A P C Ray

Description:

PH2101 Extra Class

Time:

3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Description:

[PhD Final Viva Voce] Ms. Arunita Banerjee (DBS, IISER Kolkata) -- A Study of Patterns in the Behavioural Repertoire of Indian Free-Ranging Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris), with Emphasis on Natural History and Linguistics -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/cbk-bbiv-fzt -::~::-

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Description:

[DES Webinar] Subhajit Ghosh (University of Orléans, France) -- Constraining creep laws for geomaterials from high-Pressure and high-Temperature experiments -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/bsi-hsbn-zfr -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[DBS Seminar] Ms. Priti Roy (Senior Research Fellow, Mentor: Dr. Neelanjana Sengupta, DBS, IISER Kolkata) -- Response of Protein Conformations to Physico-Chemical Perturbations: Extended Manifestations Probed by the Molecular Resolution of Computer Simulations -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/cyb-huuh-jmg -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[CESSI Colloquium] Prof. Dinshaw Balsara (University of Notre Dame) -- Modelling Plasma Winds from Massive Stars -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/qfz-kxpg-vfy?hs=224 -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[DBS Seminar] Dr. Raghunath Chatterjee (Associate Professor, Human Genetics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India) -- Genetics and Epi-genetics in Human Diseases: Psoriasis as a Case Study -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/dii-dsrd-obw -::~::-

Time:

6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Venue:

D N Wadia Lecture Theatre

Description:

Agomoni

Time:

10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Venue:

101, C V Raman

Description:

50th Meeting of Senate

Time:

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

Description:

[DBS Invited Talk] Prof. Ruma Banerjee (University of Michigan, USA) -- Trafficking B12: What’s itaconite got to do with it? -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/tqz-tnno-vvg -::~::-

Time:

11 a.m. - noon

Description:

[DPS-CESSI Pre-submission Seminar] Athira B. S (IISER Kolkata) -- Towards development of new generation spin-orbit photonic techniques in observational astronomy -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/nmn-uufs-rjt -::~::-

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Description:

[DES Student Webinar] Mr. Nitin Khandelwal (IISER Kolkata) -- Designing armor of water warriors using fruit waste: complimentary use of geochemistry and material science to fight water pollution -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/xvq-gted-cxn -::~::-

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Description:

[DES Student Webinar] Mr. Nitin Khandelwal (IISER Kolkata) -- Designing armor of water warriors using fruit waste: complimentary use of geochemistry and material science to fight water pollution -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/xvq-gted-cxn -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[DBS Seminar] Dr. Anindita Bhadra (DBS, IISER Kolkata) -- A dog's life in the urban jungle -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/scr-qdjq-kab -::~::-

Time:

4 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Venue:

Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre

Description:

[PhD Thesis Defence] Tapas Bar (IISER Kolkata) -- Signatures of Criticality in Abrupt Metal-Insulator Transitions -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/rjo-sfwd-npe -::~::-

Time:

11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Venue:

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

Description:

[Pre-Submission of Nani Gopal Ghosh] Nani Gopal Ghosh (IISER-K) -- Conjugated Donor-Acceptor Small Molecules and Polymers: Synthesis and Their Photoelectrochemical and Photocatalytic Applications -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/yix-ztam-ovi?hs=122&authuser=1 -::~::-

Time:

4 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Description:

[DCS Seminar] Prof. Trygve Helgaker (University of Oslo) -- The exotic chemistry of molecules in ultrastrong magnetic fields.

Time:

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

Description:

[Pre-submission Seminar] Sourodip Sengupta (DBS Student, IISER Kolkata, Mentor: Prof. Jayasri Das Sarma) -- Understanding the role of cellular proteases, intrinsic protease inhibitors, and reactive oxygen species in murine beta-coronavirus-induced neuroinflammation -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/pyy-dbcq-qbu -::~::-

Time:

6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Description:

[DBS Seminar] Dr. Samyuktha Suresh (Department Alumni, Marie-Curie Fellow, Department of Translational Research, Batiment B Hôpital, Institut Curie – Centre de recherche, Paris) -- Protein arginine methyltransferases as potential therapeutic targets for triple-negative breast cancer -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/knt-vzkh-osp -::~::-

Time:

10:30 a.m. - noon

Description:

[Cell and Molecular Biology Seminar] Mr. Jibin Sadasivan (PhD Student) (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia) -- A viral protein impairs stress granule formation by modulating RNA export -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/nwq-ndra-bpp?hs=224 -::~::-

Time:

4 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Srijita Sinha (IISER Kolkata) -- Perturbations In A Dark Energy Model -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/rjo-sfwd-npe -::~::-

Time:

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

Venue:

Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Srijita Sinha (IISER Kolkata) -- Perturbations In A Dark Energy Model -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/rjo-sfwd-npe -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[DBS invited talk] Ms. Fareeha Saadi (Mentor: Prof. Jayasri Das Sarma, Department of Biological Sciences, IISER Kolkata,) -- CD40 Ligand provides protective immunity against Mouse Hepatitis Virus-induced neuroinflammatory Demyelination -::~::- Join: http://meet.google.com/ysy-bzpd-ajd -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[PhD Viva Voce] Srijita Sinha (DPS, IISER Kolkata) -- Perturbations in Some Dark Energy Models -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/ayz-pcot-jgy -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[DBS invited talk] Ms. Debanjana Chakravarty (Senior Research Fellow, Mentor: Prof. Jayasri Das Sarma, Dept. of Biological Sciences, IISER Kolkata) -- Nexus between CD4+ T cells and microglia/macrophages in murine-CoV induced neuroinflammatory demyelinations -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/unp-mmon-ffr -::~::-

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Description:

[Pre-Submission Open Seminar] Kuheli Biswas (DPS IISERK) -- Event Timing Statistics of Stochastic Gene Expression -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/zgb-eqvk-ior -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[DBS invited talk] Dr. Saikat Chakraborty (Team Lead: Learning AI and Automation, Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Kolkata, India) -- Deciphering the diversity and population history of South Asian humans from whole genomes -::~::- Join: http://meet.google.com/oce-moci-acf -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[Special Institute Colloquium] Prof. Nirmalya Ghosh, Prof. C. Malla Reddy (IISER Kolkata) -- Autonomous Self-repair in Piezoelectric Molecular Crystals

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Description:

[DES Webinar] Bibhasvata Dasgupta (IISER Kolkata) -- Isoscape of surface runoff in high mountain catchments: An alternate model for meteoric water characterization and its implications. -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/rpr-juma-ftv -::~::-

Time:

4 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Description:

[DBS invited talk] Dr. Sumantra Chattarji (Senior Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences Tata Institute for Fundamental Research Bangalore, India) -- Fear and Fragile X Syndrome -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/jvx-medb-anu -::~::-

Time:

2 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Venue:

113, A J C Bose

Description:

[Group Meeting] Prof. Nirmalya Ghosh

Time:

11 a.m. - noon

Venue:

113, A J C Bose

Description:

[Meeting] Prof. Narayan Banerjee -- Meeting

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Description:

[Pre-Submission Open Seminar] Partho Sakha De -- “Dynamics of stick-slip at the cell leading edge and the role of extracellular matrix” -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/fvd-hhox-qko -::~::-

Time:

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Description:

[DCS Seminar] Paul Chirik (Princeton University)

Time:

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Description:

[DBS invited talk] Dr. Konark Mukherjee (Assistant Professor, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, USA) -- How is phenotype expressivity generated? Lessons from a monogenic condition -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/rgz-tmmp-udw -::~::-

Time:

noon - 2 p.m.

Venue:

G02, A P C Ray

Description:

Introduction cum interaction meeting

Time:

3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Dr Amit Dutta Banik (Central China Normal University) -- Footprints of multi-particle dark matter -::~::- Join: http://meet.google.com/mpj-ipxy-iwg -::~::-

Time:

4 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Description:

[DCS Seminar] Paolo Falcaro (Graz University of Technology)