Past Lectures
2021
248. Speaker: Prof. Ananda Dasgupta, IISER Kolkata
Title: Can you add a scalar to a vector ?
Date: 22nd December, 2021
247. Speaker: Prof Asim K Ghosh
Title:Topological phases in one dimension: SSH, Kitaev and spin chains
Date & time: 15th December, 2021
246. Speaker: Prof. Dibyendu Nandi, IISER, Kolkata
Title:Space Weather: The Science of the Sun-Earth System
Date: 1st December, 2021
245. Speaker: Prof. Debadesh Bandyopadhyay, SINP, Kolkata
Title:Unlocking mysteries of Supernovae and Neutron Stars
Date: 24th November, 2021
244. Speaker: Dr. Nikolaos G Fytas, Coventry University, UK
Title: Scaling, Universality, and Supersymmetry in the Random-Field Ising Model
Date: 17th November, 2021
243. Speaker: Prof. Rudolf A. Roemer, Warwick University, UK
Title: Dynamical signatures of localization via quantum quenches
Date: 10th November, 2021
242. Speaker: Dr. Ramkrishna Das, SNBNCBS, Kolkata
Title: Recurrent Novae
Date: 3rd November, 2021
241. Title: Electron in periodic potential: Experimental study by video tracking of an analogous system.
Speaker: Dr. Syed Minhaz Hossain, IIEST, Shibur, Howrah
Date: 27th October, 2021
240. Title: Directions in active matter
Speaker: Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy, IISc, Bangalore
Date: 6th October 2021
239. Speaker: Prof. Chandan Dasgupta, IISc & ICTS, Bangalore
Title: Living Glass: Active Matter at High Densities
Date : 29. 9. 21
238. Speaker: Dr. Bivas Rana, University of Poznan, Poland
Title: All electric field controlled spin-wave devices: An alternative of electronics
Date : 22. 9. 21
237. Speaker: Dr. Partha Mitra, IISER, Kolkata
Title: Spin Hall effect and the Challenge of measuring a voltage that does not exist
Date : 15. 9. 21
236. Speaker: Prof. Maitrayee Saha Sarkar, SINP
Title: Excitement and Challenges in Nuclear Physics
Date : 1. 9. 21
235. Speaker: Dr. Ankur Sensharma, Gour Banga University, West Bengal
Title: PERCOLATION IN DISTORTED LATTICES
Date : 25. 8. 21
234. Speaker: Prof. Mayukh Lahiri, Oklahoma State University
Title: Path Identity in Imaging and Quantum Information Science
Date : 28. 4. 21
233. The 3rd Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Prof. Edward W. (Rocky) Kolb
University of Chicago
Date: 2. 4. 21
Title: THE INNER SPACE OF THE QUANTUM AND THE OUTER SPACE OF THE COSMOS
Chair: Prof. Pijushpani Bhattacharjee, SINP,Kolkata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j-lHTdd5MU
232. National Webinar on Statistical Physics
Speaker: Professor Deepak Dhar, Emeritus Professor, IISER, Pune
Title: Chase escape percolation
Date: 2. 4. 21
Chair: Prof. Subhrangshu Sekhar Manna, SNBNCBS, Kolkata
231. Speaker: Prof. Subhendu Rajbanshi, Presidency University
Title: Symmetry and Nuclear structure
Date : 3. 3. 21
230. Speaker: Prof. Subra Ananthkrishnan, Pune University
Title: Radio Astronomy – a Window to study the Cosmos
Date : 23. 2. 21
229. International Webinar on Statistical Physics
Speaker: Prof. Robert M. Ziff,
University of Michigan, USA
Title: Chase escape percolation
Date: 19. 2. 21
228. Speaker: Prof. Sujit Manna, IIT Delhi
Title: Interfacial and Topological Superconductivity revealed by spin resolved scanning tunneling spectroscopy
Date : 17. 2. 21
227. Speaker: Prof. Kanan Kumar Datta, Presidency University
Title: After the dark: the dawn of the universe and 21 cm signal
Date : 10. 2. 21
226. Speaker: Prof. Arunava Chakrabarti, Presidency University
Title: Disordered Quantum Prisons: Entrapment and escape
Date : 3. 2. 21
225. Speaker: Prof. Rudrajyoti Palit, TIFR
Title: New Frontiers in Nuclear Structure
Date : 27. 1. 21
224. Speaker: Prof. Basudeb Dasgupta, TIFR
Title: The Unravelling of Flavor Coherence
Date : 20. 1. 21
223. Speaker: Prof. Muktish Acharyya, Presidency University
Title: Nonequilibrium Response of Driven Ferromagnet
Date : 13. 1. 21
2020
201. Dr. Joy Mitra
IISER, Tiruvananthapuram
Title - "Luminescence and Surface Plasmons"
Date: 2. 1. 20
202. Dr. Moupiya Maji
University of Geneva
Title - "Understanding cosmic reionization using Lyman Alpha emission"
Date: 15. 1. 20
203. Prof. Amitava Datta
University of Western Australia
Title - "Bell's theorem, it's implication and experimental verification"
Date: 12. 2. 20
204. Dr. Sebabrata Mukherjee
Pennsylvania State University
Title - "Linear and nonlinear topological photonics"
Date: 14. 2. 20
205. Prof. Biswarup Mukhopadhyay
IISER Kolkata
Title - "From Answers to questions in Fundamental Physics: Bias, Babble, Brouhaha"
Date: 19. 2. 20
206. Prof. Parongama Sen
University of Calcutta
Title - "Opinion formation and spin dynamics: connections and applications"
Date: 26. 2. 20
207. Prof. Chirantan Neogi
Kalyani University
Title - "Optometry"
Date: 4. 3. 20
208. Webinar on Condensed Matter Physics
http://www.presiuniv.ac.in/web/flyer-CMPPU20.pdf
Date: 22.7.20
209. International Webinar on Condensed Matter Physics Organised jointly by the Department of Physics and IQAC, PU, Kolkata
Speakers:
1. Dr. Biplab Sanyal, Uppsala University, Sweden
Nanomagnetism: Fundamentals & Applications
2. Dr. Erol Vatansever, Dokuz-Eylul University, Turkey
Dynamical phase transitions in core-shell nanomagnets
Date: 10.8.20
210. International Webinar in Condensed Matter Physics on 20th August, 2020 Organised jointly by the Department of Physics and IQAC, PU, Kolkata
Speaker: Professor Sir Michael Berry, University of Bristol, UK Geometric phases and the separation of the world
Date: 20.8.20
211. International Webinar in Statistical Physics on 23rd August, 2020 Organised by the Department of Physics & IQAC, Presidency University
Speaker: Prof. P. A. Rikvold, University of Oslo, Norway
Title: Centrality reach and grasp: Attenuation of influence flows in parametrized centrality measures on complex networks
Date: 23.8.20
212. International Webinar on Condensed Matter Physics organised jointly by the Department of Physics & IQAC, Presidency University, Kolkata
Speaker: Professor Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard University, USA
Title: Quantum Hall Physics in Coulomb Coupled Bilayers
Date: 8. 9. 20
213. International Webinar on Remote Sensing, Organised by The Department of Physics & IQAC,
Presidency University
Speaker: Prof. Peter Read, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK
Title: Global and Local Climatology of Mars & its Dust Cycle from Assimilation of Spacecraft Observations
Date: 15. 9. 20
214. International Webinar on Nanomaterials, Department of Physics, Presidency University, Kolkata
Speakers:
1. Prof. J. Greer, California Institute of Technology, USA
2. Dr. D. Mandal, INST, Mohali, India
Date: 25. 9. 20
215. International Webinar on Statistical Physics
Organised by the Department of Physics & IQAC, Presidency University
Speaker: Prof. Michel Pleimling, Virginia Tech, USA
Title: Dynamic Phase Transitions in the Ising Ferromagnet: Bulk & surface phase diagrams
Date: 27. 9. 20
216. International Webinar on Nuclear Physics, Department of Physics, Presidency University
Speaker: Professor D. L. Balabanski, Professor of Physics, IFIN-HH, Romania
Title: Present day research in photonuclear physics
Date: 29. 9. 20
217. Speaker: Prof. Subinit Roy, SINP, Kolkata
Title: FRENA facility at SINP and the future of Nuclear Physics research in the country.
Date: 1. 10. 20
218. Speaker: Dr. Praveen Kumar, IACS, Kolkata
Title: Materials innovation for H_2: Fuel Generation from Water
Date: 14. 10. 20
219. International Webinar on Experimental Statistical Physics
Speaker: Prof. Andreas Berger, Research director, CIC NANOGUNE, Spain
Title: Towards and understanding of dynamic phase transitions
Date: 15. 10. 20
220. Speaker: Prof. B Ananthanarayan, IISc, Bengaluru
Title: Joys of Discovery in Modern Science
Date: 10. 11. 20
221. Speaker: Dr. Subhro Bhattacherjee, ICTS, Bangalore
Title: Emergent electromagnetism in condensed matter physics
Date : 2. 12. 20
222. Speaker: Prof. Kalyan Kumar Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University
Title: Introduction to physical phenomena at lower dimensions
Date : 24. 12. 20
2019
171. Prof. Sobhan Kumar Sounda
Presidency University
Title: E.C.G Sudarshan and his Optical Equivalence Theorem
Date: 2. 1. 19
Prof. Ajit Kembhavi
IUCAA
Title: "From Hubble's Law to Hubble-Lemaitre's Law: A Brief History of Cosmology"
Date: 4. 1. 19
173. Prof. Rahul Pandit
Indian Institute of Science
Title: The Grand Challenge of Turbulence
Satyendranath Bose 125th Birth Anniversary Memorial Lecture (Co-organized with SNBNCBS)
Date: 9. 1. 19
174. Dr. Susmita Adhikari,
Stanford University
Title - "The boundaries of Dark Matter Halos "
Date: 16. 1. 19
175. Prof. Suprakash Roy,
Science and Culture
Title - "Presidency Jagadish Chandra and X-rays "
Date: 30. 1. 19
176. Prof. Atanu Rajak,
Presidency University
Title - "Suppressed heating and pre-thermalization in chains of classical kicked rotors "
Date: 6. 2. 19
177. Prof. Sarbari Guha,
Saint Xaviers College
Title - "THE PHENOMENON OF GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE "
Date: 13. 2. 19
178. Dr. Projjwal Banerjee,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Title - "Origin of Heavy Elements in the Early Galaxy"
Date: 14. 2. 19
179. Prof. Abhik Basu,
SINP
Title - "Correlations and Order in Two Dimensions"
Date: 20. 2. 19
180. Prof. Subhabrata Majumdar ,
TIFR
Title - "On Local Dark Matter"
Date: 27. 2. 19
181. Prof. N. D HariDass ,
TCIS
Title - "Varieties of Quantum Measurements"
Date: 6. 3. 19
182. Prof. Gautam Gangopadhyay ,
Calcutta University
Title - "Physics Research of Meghnad Saha"
Date: 6. 3. 19
183. Prof. Raka Dasgupta
Calcutta University
Title: "Ultracold Atoms : The Lego Blocks Scientists Play With"
Date: 13. 3. 19
184. Prof. Subhendra Mohanty
Physical Research Laboratory
Title - " Hydrogen spin oscillations in a background of axions and the 21-cm brightness temperature"
Date: 20. 3. 19
185. Prof. Suparna Roychowdhury
Saint Xaviers College
Title - " Clusters of galaxies and Active galaxies - an explosive Rendezvous"
Date: 3. 4. 19
186. Prof. Samriddhi Sankar Ray
International Center for Theoretical Sciences
Title - " Interacting and Non-interacting Particles in a Turbulent Flow"
Date: 10. 4. 19
SEMESTER BREAK
Event with the Alumni Association, Presidency University and IQAC, Presidency University
187. Prof. Sunil Mukhi (IISER Kolkata)
188. Prof. Probir Roy (Bose Institute)
Title - "Mysteries of the Universe "
Date: 3. 8. 19
189. Prof. Sumita Sengupta
University of Calcutta
Title - "The commute of cancer to its targeted therapies"
Date: 7. 8. 19
190. Prof. Palash Baran Pal
University of Calcutta
Title - "Unification of Forces"
Date: 14. 8. 19
191. Prof. Indra Dasgupta
IACS
Title - "First Principles Simulation: The glue that binds materials, models and mechanism"
Date: 21. 8. 19
192. Prof. Asit De
SINP
Title - "Demystifying the Quantum World"
Date: 28. 8. 19
193. Prof. Ramkrishna Das
SNBNCBS
Title - "Space Exploration: Why the moon ?"
Date: 4. 9. 19
194. Prof. Raja Paul
IACS
Title - "Search and self-organization in physical systems"
Date: 25. 9. 19
195. Prof. Rabin Banerjee
SNBNCBS
Title - "Satyendra Nath Bose and the development of quantum mechanics"
Date: 16. 10. 19
196. Prof. Abhijit Bhattacharyya
University of Calcutta
Title - "The Thermodynamics of Particle Physics"
Date: 6. 11. 19
197. Prof. Arghya Taraphder
IIT Kharagpur
Title - "Eight decades of correlated electrons"
Date: 13. 11. 19
198. Prof. Sourav Mitra
Surendranath College
Title - "Physics of Cosmological reionization"
Date: 13. 11. 19
199. Prof. Bichitra Kumar Guha
IIEST
Title - "Evolution of ideas from Aristotle to Newton"
Date: 20. 11. 19
200. Prof. Supriyo Kumar Das
Presidency University
Title - "Extreme living in Antarctica"
Date: 4. 12. 19
2018
University of Lethbridge
Title: "Gender and Futuristic Physics"
Date: 3. 1. 18
Saha Institute for Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Title: "Particle Hunter's Guide"
Date: 10. 1. 18
IUCAA, Pune
Title: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Cosmic Web"
Date: 17. 1. 18
University of Burdwan
Title: "Collective Phenomena in Coupled Oscillators"
Date: 24. 1. 18
Saha Institute for Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Title: Econophysics of Income & Wealth Inequalities
Date: 7. 2. 18
141. Prof. Manjari Bagchi
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Title: Exotic Pairs of Stellar Undeads: Binary Radio Pulsars with Compact Companions
Date: 14. 2. 18
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Title: The Wonderful World of Ultracold Atoms
Date: 16. 2. 18
143. Prof. Amitavo Datta
University of Western Australia
Title: Quantum Teleportation
Date: 22. 2. 18
No Colloquium: Frontiers in Statistical Physics Conference
University of Calcutta
Title: Dimensional Analysis and Renormalization
Date: 7. 3. 18
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Title: "A tale of two cities: Gravity and Thermodynamics"
Date: 14. 3. 18
146. Prof. Parthasarathi Majumdar
RKMVERI, Kolkata
Title: "Quantizing gravity : aesthetics or compulsion?"In memorial of Prof. Stephen Hawking
Date: 21. 3. 18
147. Prof. Shanta Dutta
Presidency University, Kolkata
Title: "The Stellar Universe and the Mind of Man"
Date: 28. 3. 18
148. Prof. Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
Title: "Electrons in Complex Materials: from Theory to Practice"
Date: 4. 4. 18
149. Prof. Swapan Chakravorty
Presidency University, Kolkata
Title: "Literature History and Knowledge"
Date: 11. 4. 18
150. Prof. Suchetana Chatterjee
Presidency University, Kolkata
Title: "Diversity and Inclusion in Physics: Past Present and Future"
Date: 18. 4. 18
SEMESTER BREAK
151. Special Colloquium
Prof. Nishikant Khandai
National Institute of Science Education and Research
Title: "Mass and Luminosity Functions"
Date: 7. 6. 18
152. Special Colloquium
Prof. Anirban Bhattacharjee
Sul Ross State University
Title: "How Massive Are the Biggest Black Holes in the Universe?"
Date: 27. 6. 18
153. Special Lectures on Statistical Mechanics
Prof. Surajit Sen
State University of New York
Title: "Aspects of Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics"
Date: 20. 7. 18
154. Dr. Sambaran Banerjee
University of Bonn
Title: "Black holes in star clusters and their implications for gravitational-wave generation"
Date: 23. 7. 18
155. Prof. Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya
Lawrence Technological University
Title: "Can flavor phenomenology provide a window into new physics?"
Date: 24. 7. 18
156. Prof. Supriya Chaudhuri
Jadavpur University
Title: "Thinking the Crisis: the Humanities and the Public University"
Date: 25. 7. 18
157. Prof. Rajibul Islam
University of Waterloo and Institute for Quantum Computation
Title: "Simulating the quantum world with trapped ions"
Date: 30. 7. 18
158. Prof. Surajit Sengupta
TIFR Center for Interdisciplinary Sciences
Title: "Rigidity of solids: a thermodynamic origin story"
Date: 1. 8. 18
159. Dr. Abhishek Majhi
UNAM Mexico
Title: Black hole entropy from the first principles revisited
Date: 8. 8. 18
160. Prof. Soumitra Sengupta
IACS
Title: Looking back at Newtonian Paradigm
Date: 29. 8. 18
161. Prof. Pradip Mukherjee
Barasat Government College
Title: Galilean Gauge Theory
Date: 5. 9. 18
162. Prof. Nandan Pakhira
Kazi Nazrul University
Title: Electronic structure of metallic tetra-boride TmB4 : An LDA+DMFT study
Date: 12. 9. 18
163. Prof. Supratik Pal
Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata
Title: Lambda or not too Lambda?
Date: 19. 9. 18
164. Prof. Sukanta Chaudhuri
Jadavpur University
Title: WHAT TAGORE REALLY WROTE: THE TEXT BEHIND THE TEXT
Date: 3. 10. 18
165. Prof. Sumathi Rao
HRI
Title: Topological phases of quantum matter
Date: 10. 10. 18
166. Prof. Abhishake Sadhukhan
Presidency University
Title: Dressing method for solutions on AdS_3 with Neveu Schwarz flux
Date: 31. 10. 18
167. Prof. Srubabati Goswami
Physical Research Laboratory
Title: Neutrinos: The Nobel Connection
Date: 14. 11. 18
168. Prof. Arnab Rai Choudhuri
Indian Institute of Science
Title: How was the Saha Ionization Equation Discoverd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy0grbDo-UY
Meghnad Saha 125th Birth Anniversary Memorial Lecture (Co-organized with ISNA)
Date: 27. 11. 18
169. Prof. Prajval Shastri
Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Title: Do Black Holes Inch Up the Mass Ladder?
Date: 17. 12. 18
170. Prof. Subhayan Mandal
National Institute of Technology, Jaipur
Title: Probing Pseudoscalars with Pulsar Polarisation Datasets
Date: 21. 12. 18
2017
106. Prof. Charles Bailyn
Yale University
Title: "What Does a Black Hole Look Like?"
Date: 7. 1. 17
107. Prof. Parthasarathi Majundar
RKMVU
Title: "Black Holes in the Lab: Hawking Radiation, Superradiance and Inertial Frame Dragging"
Date: 8. 2. 17
108. Dr. Moitri Maity
Joint Institute of Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Title: "Detection of Majorana Modes in Superconductors"
Date: 15. 2. 17
109. Prof. Ratna Koley
Presidency University
Title: "Are the Intergalactic Magnetic Fields Primordial?"
Date: 22. 2. 17
110. Prof. Sakuntala Chatterjee
S N Bose Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata
Title: " Coupled nonequilibrium systems: ordering and dynamics"
Date: 1. 3. 17
111. Dr. Ranjan Laha
Stanford University
Title: "Status of dark matter indirect detection"
Date: 8. 3. 17
112. Dr. Debanjan Bose
Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul
Title: "Highlights from IceCube Neutrino Observatory"
Date: 8. 3. 17
113. Prof. Barnali Chakrabarti
Presidency University
Title: "Fundamental aspects of Bose Einstein Condensates"
Date: 15. 3. 17
S N Bose Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata
Title: "Quark Confinement and Magnetic Monopoles"
Date: 22. 3. 17
115. Prof. Arti Garg
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Title: "What is Many-Body Localization?"
Date: 29. 3. 17
116. Dr. Supratik Banerjee
Insitut fur Geophysik und Meteorologie, Universität zu Köln, Germany
Title: "Universality of turbulence in fluids and plasmas"
Date: 29. 3. 17
Presidency University
Title: "How to trap solar energy?"
Date: 4. 4. 17
118. Prof. Subhasis Sinha
IISER Kolkata
Title: "Ultracold atoms in an optical lattice: A new quantum matter with exotic phases"
Date: 12. 4. 17
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Title: " Introduction to strong interactions"
Date: 19. 4. 17
120. Prof. Goutam Sheet
IISER Mohali
Title: "Tip-induced Superconductivity"
Date: 26. 4. 17
SEMESTER BREAK
121. Prof. Amitava Raychaudhuri
Calcutta University
Title: "The Enigma of Mass"
Date: 26. 7. 17
122. Prof. G. P. Das
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Title: "Emergence of 2D Materials and Devices"
Date: 2. 8. 17
123. Prof. Anirban Kundu
Calcutta University
Title: "Where Particle Physics meets Cosmology: The case of Missing Antimatter"
Date: 9. 8. 17
Presidency University
Title: "The Science, Technology and Applications of Remote Sensing"
Date: 23. 8. 17
125. Dr. Indrani Banerjee
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Title: "The Clandestine Universe: A Journey to the Enigmatic World of Hidden Dimensions"
Date: 30. 8. 17
126. Prof. Subhrangshu S. Manna
S N Bose Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata
Title: "Models of Self-Organized Criticality'
Date: 6. 9. 17
127. Prof. Jayanta Kumar Bhattacharjee
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Title: "The Circular Hydraulic Jump'
Date: 13. 9. 17
128. Prof. Suratna Das
IIT Kanpur
Title: "Cosmology as a Testing Ground of Quantum Mechanics"
Date: 20. 9. 17
129. Prof. Anjan Barman
S N Bose Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata
Title: "Ultrafast Spin Dynamics in Artificially Structured Ferromagnetic Thin Films for Applications in Spintronics and Magnonics"
Date: 11. 10. 17
130. Prof. Nissim Kanekar
National Centre for Radio Astronomy, Pune
Title: "Do the Fundamental Constants change with time ?"
Date: 18. 10. 17
131. Prof. Satyaki Bhattacharya
Saha Institute for Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Title: "How much can we see with a single quantum of light at the LHC?"
Date: 25. 10. 17
132. Prof. Kandaswamy Subramanian
IUCAA
Title: "Magnetizing the Universe "
Date: 1. 11. 17
133. Prof. Urbasi Sinha
Raman Research Institute
Title: "Fascinating world of photons, superposition and entanglement"
Date: 8. 11. 17
Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Sweden
Title: "Surprises in Thermodynamics"
Date: 20. 12. 17
135. Dr. Soham Biswas
Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
Title: "Studying complex systems : Formation of opinion in a Society : A physicist's approach"
Date: 20. 12. 17
2016
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Title: " Imaging the Femto-world: Physics and Techniques"
76. Prof. Sreerup Raychaudhury
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Title: "Early Days of Particle Physics in India"
Presidency University, Kolkata
Title: "Observing Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization in 21-cm Maps"
Presidency University, Kolkata
Title: "Quips about the Quirky Quasars"
79. Prof. Alak Ray
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Title: "Globular clusters as possible cradles of life and advanced civilization"
University of Calcutta
Title: "Nucleosynthesis: Importance of Nuclear Physics Inputs"
Inter-University Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics
Title: "Why Einstein (Had I been born in 1844!)?: Relativity for Everyone"
Indian Institute of Science
Title: "Entanglement and Quantum Statistical Mechanics"
Presidency University
Title: ''Questioning Quasars at Presidency and Beyond''
Presidency University
Title: ''The Neural Mechanisms of Brain Aging''
85. Prof. Biswarup Mukhopadhyay
Harish Chandra Research Institute
Title: "Particles, Accelerators & Symmetries"
86. Prof. Dipanjan Chakrabarti
IISER-Mohali
Title: "Brownian Motion: Past & Present"
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Title: "Entanglement as resource in quantum information processing"
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Title: "Physical Science at the Table Top: Mysteries of Collective Response"
California Institute of Technology
Title: "The Quiet Thunder of Gravity in the Cosmos"
90. Prof. Sukanta De
Presidency University
Title :"NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHOLOGY: Ancient era to the present day"
SEMESTER BREAK
State University of New York, Buffalo
Title: "Mechanical energy transport through granular systems"
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Introductory Lecture of the Series of Special Lectures on Condensed Matter Physics: Fermionic Systems
93. Dr. Ankush Sengupta
Narendrapur Ramkrishna Mission
Title: "Hunting for Survival: Chemotaxis, Search and Statistical Mechanics"
94. Prof. Soumen Roy
Bose Institute
Title: "Complex Systems: From Image Processing to Phage-Bacteria Interactions"
95. Prof. Arnab Sen
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Title: "Understanding the Simplest Spin Liquids"
LIGO Hanford Observatory
Title: ''Gravitational Wave Detectors in India''
97. Prof. Arnab Das
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Title: "Periodically Driven Closed Quantum Systems"
98. Dr. Ayan Mukhopadhyay
Vienna Institute of Technology
Title: "A new nonperturbative framework and QCD"
Presidency University
Title: "What to do with Your Science Degree?"
IUCAA
Title: "A black hole hunter's essential toolkit"
S N Bose Centre for Basic Sciences
Title: " Additivity and Fluctuations in Mass Transport Processes"
102. Dr. Shaon Ghosh
Radbound University
Title: "the dawn of Gravitational Wave astronomy"
103. Dr. Ujjaini Alam
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Title: "Cosmic Acceleration and Drak Energy"
104. Dr. Atri Bhattacharya
STAR Institute, Université de Liège
Title: "Exploring boosted dark matter scenarios using IceCube"
105. Dr. Sujit Bandyopadhyay
KLA Tencor, Singapore
Title : Interferometers: meeting challenges in diverse areas
2015
51. Prof. Dipankar Maitra, Department of Physics/Astronomy,
Wheaton College, Massachusetts, USA.
Title : Escaping the fatal attraction of black holes: Recent advances toward understanding relativistic jets
Date: 7. 1. 15
52. Prof. Pratik Majumdar, Astroparticle and Cosmology Division, Centre for Astroparticle Physics
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata.
Title : Exploring the Universe with High Energy Particles and Photons
Date: 14. 1. 15
53. Prof. Matt Hilton, Astrophysics & Cosmology Research Unit
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Title : Searching for galaxy clusters with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
Date: 21. 1. 15
54. Prof. Dipankar Banerjee, Associate Professor,
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore-560 034.
Title : Magnetic Waves in the Solar Atmosphere and India’s first dedicated space mission "Aditya"
Date: 28. 1. 15
55. Prof. Dipankar Bhattacharya,
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune 411007.
Title : Cosmic Explosions
Date: 4. 2. 15
56. Prof. Indranil Chattopadhyay, Aryabhatta Research Institute for observational sciencES (ARIES)
Manora Peak, Nainital 263002, Uttarakhand, India.
Title : Numerical Simulation of astrophysical plasma with relativistic equation of state
Date: 11. 2. 15
57. Prof. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, A. J. C. Bose Distinguished Professor in Natural Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata - 700 073.
Title : Persistence of useful memory: what do you see and what can you remember? (Part II)
Date: 18. 2. 15
58. Prof. Supriya Chakrabarti, Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology (LoCSST), University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA.
Title : An experimental research program to directly image exoplanet environment
Date: 25. 2. 15
59. Prof. Parthasarathi Majumdar, Department of Physics
Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Belur, India.
Title : The Quantum and the Continuum : Einstein’s Dichotomous Legacies
Date: 4. 3. 15
Theory Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Title: Gauge-String Duality and Strongly Coupled Systems
Date: 18. 3. 15
Astroparticle Physics & Cosmology Division,
Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Title: Dark Matter : Evidence, (possible) candidates and detection
Date: 25. 3. 15
The Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
Title: Black Hole Shadow Imaging
Date: 1. 4. 15
Semester Break
Department of Mathematics
Central Michigan University, USA
Title: Generalized Functions
Date: 12. 8. 15
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune
Title: Analytical Thinking
(Followed by a discussion session by Professor Jayant Narlikar and Professor Mangala Narlikar)
Date: 21. 8. 15
(Department of Astronomy, Boston University)
Title: Multi-Wavelength Spectral Studies Of Blazars With MUZORF
Date: 16. 9. 15
Biological Physics Division, Bose Institute
Title: Art in Science
Date: 30. 9. 15
Chemical Sciences Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Title: Physics in Biology
Date: 7. 10. 15
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata
Title: Mapping Membrane Fluctuations in Live Cells
Date: 14. 10. 15
69. Dr. Henry Throop
Senior Scientist , Planetary Science Institute,
Arizona, USA
Title: NASA's New Horizons Mission to Pluto and Beyond
Date: 14. 10. 15
70. Prof. Parthasarathi Majumdar
Department of Physics, RKMVU
Title: Thinking Outside of the Box : Creativity in Education and Research
Date: 6. 11. 15
Saha Institute of nuclear Physics
Title: "Solving a Few Problems of Big Bang Cosmology"
Date: 18. 11. 15
72. Dr. Shiladitya Raj Chaudhury
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA
Title: "Interactive Lecturing and Active Learning in Physics with Clickers"
Date: 15. 12. 15
IIT Indore
Title: "Search For the Global 21cm Signal from the Dark Ages and the Cosmic Dawn
Date: 17. 12. 15
74. Prof. Jayanta Kumar Bhattacharjee
HRI, Allahabad
Title: "Unusual Dynamics"
Date: 18. 12. 15
2014
26. Prof. Rajat K. Bhaduri, Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Canada
Title : Ultra-cold strongly interacting fermionic atoms
Date: 5. 2. 14
27. Prof. Sujan Kumar Sengupta, Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India .
Title : In Search of Another Earth
Date: 19. 2. 14
28. Prof. Bala R. Iyer, IndIGO Consortium, Theoretical Physics Group,
Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, India.
Title : LIGO-India: Locating Einstein's messengers and Inaugurating Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Date: 21. 2. 14
29. Prof. Apratim Chatterji, Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, India .
Title : Ordered by Entropy: The physics of Complex Fluids
Date: 26. 2. 14
30. Prof. Sukanta Bose, The Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune.
Title : Preparing for the first gravitational wave discoveries
Date: 5. 3. 14
31. Mr. Dipanjan Mukherjee, The Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune.
Title : Confining accreted matter at the polar caps of neutron stars
Date: 12. 3. 14
32. Prof. Purusattam Ray, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, India.
Title : Shock propagation in granular systems
Date: 26. 3. 14
33. Prof. Arunava Chakrabarti, Department of Physics, University of Kalyani.
Title : The Forbidden Beauty (The Geometry and Physics of Almost Periodic Order)
Date: 2. 4. 14
34. Prof. Amitava Bose, Retired Director of ISRO Inertial Systems Unit, Trivandrum
Currently, Professor Guest Faculty, BESU.
Title : India’s First Mission to Planet Mars
Date: 9. 4. 14
35. Prof. Parongama Sen, Department of Physics, University of Calcutta.
Title : Universality and Diversity in the realm of Statistical Physics
Date: 16. 4. 14
36. Dr. Sourav Chatterjee, Department of Astronomy, University of Florida.
Title : Our Changing Understanding of Extrasolar Planets
Date: 16. 4. 14
37. Prof. Partha Ghose, Senior Scientist Platinum Jubilee Fellow of the
National Academy of Sciences, India.
Title : Unification of Gravity and Electromagnetism, Mach's Principle and Cosmology
Date: 30. 4. 14
SEMESTER BREAK
38. Prof. Subir Sarkar, Head, Particle Theory Group, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK & Niels Bohr Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark .
Title : The road to quantum gravity
Date: 13. 8. 14
39. Prof. Satyaban Bhunia, Surface Physics & Material Science Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata.
Title : Physics and realization of low dimensional semiconductors for device applications
Date: 20. 8. 14
40. Dr. Shradha Mishra, INSPIRE Faculty, S. N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata - 700 098.
Title : Role of density field in an active nematic
Date: 3. 9. 14
41. Prof. Sudhansu Sekhar Mandal, Department of Theoretical Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata - 700 032.
Title : Nano-Scale Physics in Strongly Disordered Macroscopic Superconductors
Date: 10. 9. 14
42. Prof. Kuntal Ghosh, Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata - 700 108.
Title : The Psychophysics of Vision
Date: 24. 9. 14
43. Prof. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, A. J. C. Bose Distinguished Professor in Natural Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata - 700 073.
Title : Persistence of useful memory: what do you see and what can you remember? (Part I)
Date: 15. 10. 14
Presidency University
Title: Semianalytic modeling of galaxy formation
Date: 15. 10. 14
45. Prof. Krishnendu Sengupta, Theoretical Physics Department
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciences, Kolkata - 700 032.
Title : Introduction to basic Graphene physics
Date: 22. 10. 14
46. Prof. Anuradha Lohia, Vice Chancellor, Presidency University, Kolkata - 700 073.
Title : The Uncertainty of Survival
Date: 29. 10. 14
47. Prof. Pratap Raychaudhuri, Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005.
Title : Disordered Superconductors: A TIFR Story
Date: 30. 10. 14
48. Prof. Palash B. Pal, Senior Professor, Theory Division,
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata - 700 064.
Title : Discovering particles
Date: 5. 11. 14
49. Prof. Arnab Rai Choudhuri, Department of Physics,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012.
Title : The Mysterious Magnetic Personality of Our Sun
Date: 19. 11. 14
50. Dr. Deepak Kar, ATLAS Research Associate, University of Glasgow, UK.
Title : LHC: the ingredients of a discovery
Date: 21. 11. 14
2013
1. Prof. Arup. K. Raychaudhuri, Unit for Nanoscience and Theme Unit of Excellence
S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake, Kolkata - 700 098.
Title : Joy of small things
Date : 16. 1. 2013
2. Prof. Amitava Raychaudhuri, Sir Tarak Nath Palit Professor of Physics
Department of Physics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata - 700 009.
Title : Neutrinos in our backyard: The India-based Neutrino Observatory
Date : 30. 1. 2013
3. Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, FNASc., FNAE, Professor, Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata - 700 108.
Title : Computational Methods in Biology
Date : 13. 2. 2013
4. Prof. Soumitra SenGupta, Senior Professor, Department of Theoretical Physics
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata - 700 032.
Title : Mysteries of Black Holes
Date : 27. 2. 2013
5. Prof. Subhrangshu Sekhar Manna, Senior Professor & Head, Soft Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake, Kolkata - 700 098.
Title : Networks : Structure, function and processes
Date : 6. 3. 2013
6. Prof. Subinay Dasgupta, Department of Physics
University of Calcutta, Kolkata - 700 009.
Title : Quantum Ising model under periodic field
Date : 13. 3. 2013
7. Prof. S. Ananthkrishnan, Adjunct Professor & Raja Ramanna Fellow,
Department of Electronic Science, University of Pune, Pune - 411 007.
Prof. Shyamal Sengupta Memorial Lecture
Title : Upcoming new astronomical facilities in India
Date : 14. 3. 2013
8. Prof. Surajit Sengupta, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,
Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad - 500075.
Title : Deformation : from Hooke to quantum metallurgy
Date : 15. 3. 2013
9. Prof. Indrani Bose, Professor, Department of Physics
Bose Institute, Kolkata - 700 009.
Title : T ipping point transitions in complex dynamical systems
Date : 20. 3. 2013
10. Dr. Debashree Ghosh, Scientist, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune - 411 008.
Title : Electronic Structure theory - Basics of how to use renormalization to reduce computational complexity
Date : 5. 4. 2013
11. Dr. Suman Chakrabarty, Scientist, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune - 411 008.
Title : Computational modeling as an emerging tool in chemistry, physics and biology: An interdisciplinary approach
Date : 5. 4. 2013
12. Prof. Sandip K Chakrabarti, Senior Professor & Head, Department of Astrophysics and Cosmology, S.N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata - 700098.
Title : Chemical evolution of the Universe and the Origin of Life
Date : 10. 4. 2013
13. Mr. Sibasish Laha, The Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune University Campus, Pune 411 007.
Title : The mysteries of Active Galactic Nuclei: Probing the central regions of one of the most extreme astrophysical conditions using X-ray data
Date : 24. 4. 2013
14. Prof. Sayan Kar, Physics & Meteorology Department, Center for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur - 721 302.
Title : The Planck scale
Date : 30. 4. 2013
15. Prof. Somnath Bharadwaj, Physics & Meteorology Department, Center for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur - 721 302.
Title : Seeing the Universe through redshifted 21-cm radiation
SEMESTER BREAK
16. Prof. Subir Sarkar, Head, Particle Theory Group, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, UK.
Title : Connecting inner space & outer space
Date : 24. 7. 2013
17. Prof. Surajit Sen, Department of Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo, New York.
Title : Strong Nonlinearity - Solitary waves, breathers and quasi-equilibrium and why we care ...
Date : 31. 7. 2013
18. Prof. Saibal Mitra, Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Materials Science, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65897.
Title : Science, Pathological Science and Psuedoscience
Date : 7. 8. 2013
19. Prof. Bikash Sinha, Homi Bhabha Professor, DAE & Former Director, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics & Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata - 700064.
Presidency Alumni Association Endowment Lecture, in association with the Department of Physics at Presidency University, Kolkata.
Title : Time, Space and the Singular Universe
Date : 14. 8. 2013
20. Prof. Ansuman Lahiri, Department of Biophysics, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata - 700 009.
Title : The Complex World of Biological Macromolecules
Date : 4. 9. 2013
21. Prof. Anita Mehta, Senior Professor, Department of Theoretical Sciences
S. N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata - 700 098.
Title : Perceiving, learning and forgetting: a physicist's take
Date : 18. 9. 2013
22. Prof. Sanjit Mitra, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune.
Title : Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Date : 9. 10. 2013
23. Dr. Arnab Saha, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
Date : 28. 11. 2013
24. Mr. Konstantinos A. Kolokythas, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Birmingham, UK.
Title : Radio properties of galaxy groups in the Local Universe
Date : 4. 12. 2013
25. Dr. Tamoghna Das, Collective Interactions Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology Graduate University, Japan.
Title : Equilibrium and non-equilibrium aggregation in two dimensional systems with competing interactions
Date : 11. 12. 2013