Upcoming Events @IISER Kolkata

Time:

4 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Description:

[Final Viva of Sarasija Das] Mr. Sarasija Das (IISER-K) -- "SMALL MOLECULE ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS: SYNTHESES, STRATEGIES, and APPLICATIONS" -::~::- Join: http://meet.google.com/gaw-afrr-sss -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Prof. Kinjal Dasbiswas (University of California, Merced) -- Self-organization of biological tissue by active mechanical forces -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/dfs-vguy-czr -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[DPS Colloquium] Prof. Chandan Dasgupta (IISc, Bangalore) -- Physics of Glassy Systems: The Landscape Paradigm -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/dfs-vguy-czr -::~::-

Time:

3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Description:

[PhD Orientation Program of DBS] DBS PGAC Convener (DBS, IISER Kolkata) -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/yui-jbkj-pnd -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[DBS Seminar] Dr. Arnab Gupta (DBS, IISER Kolkata) -- Characterizing the ‘determinants’ and ‘decision points’ of copper transport in mammalian epithelial cells -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/ywn-asem-fgx -::~::-

Time:

9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Venue:

Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre

Description:

NSSS 2022

Time:

3 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Description:

[Pre-submission seminar] Mr. Diptendu Patra (IISER-K) -- "Development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Proficient Various Polymer Architectures: A Theranostic Approach for Effective and Precise Chemotherapy" -::~::- Join: http://meet.google.com/fyu-rppb-bmy -::~::-

Description:

[JRF to SRF of Mr.Purusattam Dey] Mr.Purusattam Dey (IISER-K)

Time:

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

Description:

[Pre-Sub of Mr. Munshi Sahid Hossain] Mr. Munshi Sahid Hossain (IISER-K) -- Photoswitchable Organic Materials for the Light-Mediated Control of Molecular Properties -::~::- Join: http://meet.google.com/xrh-xzfo-rma -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[Pre-sub of Mr. Satyadeep Waiba] Mr. Satyadeep Waiba (IISER-K) -- First Row Transition Metal Catalyzed (De)Hydrogenation Reactions -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/gfa-izjo-omw -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[Viva-Voce of Mr. Akash Jana] Mr. Akash Jana (16RS031) (IISER-K) -- "Development of Manganese Catalysts and their Application for Transfer (De)Hydrogenation Reactions" -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/vht-frun-kyd -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[RTCS - OBC 2021] 58 th Annual Convention of Chemists (ACC), Indian Chemical Society (ICS) (Jointly Organized by Dept. of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur & Dept. of Chemical Sciences, IISER Kolkata)

Time:

10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Description:

[Pre-Submission of Mr. Manas Khatua] Manas Khatua (IISER-K) -- "Transition Metal Complexes of Azo-aromatic and Phosphine Derived Pincer Like Ligands: Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity Studies" -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/qar-gyzb-iwr -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[RTCS - OBC 2021] 58 th Annual Convention of Chemists (ACC), Indian Chemical Society (ICS) (Jointly Organized by Dept. of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur & Dept. of Chemical Sciences, IISER Kolkata)

Time:

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

Description:

[RTCS - OBC 2021] 58 th Annual Convention of Chemists (ACC), Indian Chemical Society (ICS) (Jointly Organized by Dept. of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur & Dept. of Chemical Sciences, IISER Kolkata)

Time:

10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Venue:

G08, A P C Ray

Description:

Student visit from RKM, Belur

Time:

9:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

Description:

[Inaugural Lecture (IAN-2021)] Dr. Bruce Alberts (Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California, USA) -- The Great Complexity of Biology, from Cells to Tissues

Time:

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

Description:

[PhD Viva-voce] Ms. Snigdha Mukhopadhyay ((Mentor: Prof. Annagiri Sumana), DBS, IISER Kolkata) -- NAVIGATION IN THE CONTEXT OF RELOCATION IN A TANDEM-RUNNING ANT DIACAMMA INDICUM -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/gmv-cyfw-zhz -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[DBS Seminar] Dr. Ryan A. Chisholm (Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore) -- Species–area relationships and biodiversity loss in fragmented landscapes -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/wur-cdrc-muh -::~::-

Time:

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

Description:

[DPS Seminar] Dr. Rohit Prativadi Prasankumar (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) -- Using Nonlinear Optics to Shed New Light on Topological Semimetals -::~::- Join: https://meet.google.com/dfs-vguy-czr -::~::-

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 -::~::-