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