Wednesday lecture series
Department of Physics, Presidency University organizes weekly lectures by eminent scientists across the globe where they talk about latest and cutting edge research and ideas. As a unique academic event in the country, this sets the stage for interaction with researchers from a diverse background in Physics and even outside of it. The lectures are supposed to be held on each Wednesday generally in the afternoon depending on the availability of the speakers.
2023
263. Speaker: Prof. Utpal Chattopadhyay, IACS, Kolkata
Title: Status of Low Energy Supersymmetry in Particle Physics
Date: 29th March, 2023
262. Speaker: Prof. Pinaki Chaudhuri, Professor, IMSc, Chennai.
Title: Exploring the world of disordered solids.
Date: 22nd March
261. Speaker: Dr. Arindam Kundagrami, IISER, Kolkata
Title:Soft Condensed Matter Physics: A Few Basic Principles.
Date: 15th March, 2023
2022
260.Speaker: Dr. Vijay Chakkadi, IISER, Pune
Title: Nonequilibrium assembly of colloidal particles in active liquids
Date: 13th October 2022
259. ERB-SSR Physics seminar
Speaker: Dr. Sandeep Ghugre, Centre-Director, UGC-DAE-CSR, Kolkata
Title: New Age Experimentation in Nuclear Physics: The Kolkata Chapter
Date: 28th September 2022
258. Speaker: Prof. Barun Raychaudhuri, Professor of Physics, Presidency University
Title: Sir J. C. Bose: Told and Untold
Date: 21st September 2022
257. Title: Entropy-induced organization: Lessons from bacterial chromosomes
Speaker: Prof. Apratim Chatterjee, IISER, Pune
Date: 25th July 2022
256. Speaker: Prof. Sayan Kar, IIT Kharagpur
Title: Physics with springs and pendula
Date: 22nd June, 2022
255. Speaker: Professor Diptiman Sen, IISc, Bangalore
Title: Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 -- Flatland and Topology
Date: 15th June, 2022
254. Speaker: Prof. Amit Dutta, IIT Kanpur
Title: Quantum Phase transitions: equilibrium and non-equilibrium
Date: 1st June, 2022
253. Speaker: Professor G. Baskaran, IMSc. Chennai
Title: Emergence in Quantum Materials
Date: 11th May 2022
252. Speaker: Prof. Pragya Shukla, IIT Kharagpur
Title: Quantum entanglement growth in many body system: Role of system dependent random matrices
Date: 27th April, 2022
251. Speaker: Prof. Prabal K Maiti, IISc, Bangalore
Title of the talk: Multiscale modelling of complex systems
Date: 6th April, 2022
250. Speaker: Prof. A. Buchleitner, University of Freiburg, Germany
Title: Inference of interference
Date: 12th January, 2022
249. Speaker: Prof. Somendra M Bhattacharjee, Ashoka University,
Title: Entropy and Computation,
Date: 5th January, 2022