Schedule

(All Times are in Indian Standard Time (UTC+5:30 hrs)

Day 1

19 May 2021, Wednesday

09:15 hrs –09:45 hrs

Inauguration

[Live Stream from IGCAR]

11:00 hrs –13:15 hrs

Plasmonics

Chair: Prof. Ambarish Ghosh

IISc, Bangalore, India

Co-chair: Dr. Barid B. Lahiri

IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India

Plenary Talk : 11:00-11:45

"Application of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for studying Bio-molecular interaction"

Prof. Chandrabhas Narayana

RGCB, Trivandrum, India

Invited Talk : 11:45-12:15

"Plasmonic Nanoreactors: From Fundamentals to Applications"

Prof. Raul Rodriguez

Tomsk Polytech. Univ., Russia


Invited Talk :12:15-12:45

"Unfolding Power of Polarized Raman Spectroscopy – detection of Femtometer Displacements in classical oxides"

Prof. Vasant Sathe

UGC-CSIR, Indore, India


Invited Talk :12:45-13:15

"Elucidation of Tip enhanced Raman scattering (TERS)"

Prof. Aaron Lewis

Hebrew Univ., Israel

14:30 hrs –16:30 hrs

Magnetism & Superconductivity using Spectroscopy

Chair: Prof. M. Kamruddin

IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India

Co-chair: Dr. Edward Prabu A.

IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India

Plenary Talk : 14:30-15:15

"Revealing Quantum Spin States in CaNi3P4O14, Na2Co2TeO6 and Na2Cu3Ge4O12 by Inelastic Neutron Scattering"

Prof. S. M. Yusuf

BARC, Mumbai, India

Invited Talk : 15:15-15:45

"Studies on Bi2Se3 based 3-D Topological insulators hosting 2-D surface states under high pressure and high magnetic field"

Prof. Awadhesh Mani Tiwari

IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India

Invited Talk : 15:45-16:15

"Effects of Ga doping on the phase transitions of V2O3

Prof. A. Sundaresan

JNCASR, Bangalore, India


Contributory Presentation 16:15-16:30

"Spectroscopy of barrier defects coupled to superconductors in van der Waals tunneling devices"

Dr. T. R. Devidas,

Hebrew Univ. Jerusalem, Israel

17:00 hrs –19:00 hrs

Photodevices

Chair : Prof. Satyaprakash Sahoo

IOPB, Bhubaneswar, India

Co-chair : Dr. Kishore K. Madupu

IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India

Plenary Talk : 17:00-17:45

"Engineering light-matter interaction at van der Waals Interfaces"

Prof. Arindam Ghosh

IISc, Bangalore, India

Invited Talk : 17:45-18:15

"2D Lateral Heterostructures for Optoelectronic Applications"

Dr. P. K. Sahoo

IIT Kharagpur, India

Invited Talk : 18:15-18:45

"Tunable Light-Matter Interactions in Semiconductors for Deep Sub-Wavelength Opto-Electronics"

Prof. Deep Jariwala

Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA


Contributory Presentation 18:45-19:00

"Generalization of the Einstein coefficients and rate equations under the quantum Rabi oscillation"

Mr. Najirul Islam

Univ. of Hyderabad, India

Day 2

20 May 2021, THURsday

11:00 hrs – 13:15 hrs

Vibrational Spectroscopic Studies

Chair : Prof. Chen Kuei-Hsein

IAMS, Taiwan

Co-chair : Prof. T. R. Ravindran

IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India


Plenary Talk : 11:00-11:45

"Insights into Excitonic Insulator Using Raman and Ultrafast time resolved Spectroscopy"

Prof. A. K. Sood

IISc, Bangalore, India

Invited Talk : 11:45-12:15

"Probing the light-matter-ambient interactions in photocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction on low dimensional nanomaterials"

Prof. Li-Chyong Chen

NTU, Taiwan


Invited Talk : 12:15-12:45

"Unique Raman signatures in geometrically frustrated layered kagomé compounds YBaCo4-xFexO7+d: Manifestation of quantum spin liquid phase"

Prof. Anushree Roy

IIT Kharagpur, India


Invited Talk: 12:45-13:15

"Resonant Raman Scattering in nearly 1D GaN"

Prof. Andres Cantarero

Univ. of Valencia, Spain

14:30 hrs –16:30 hrs

Laser Techniques (Optical and X-ray lithography)

Chair : Prof. Tapas Ganguly

RRCAT, Indore, India

Co-chair : Dr. K. Prabakar

IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India


Plenary Talk : 14:30-15:15

"Photon force measurements using MEMS devices"

Prof. Tedor Gotszalk

Politechnika Wroclawska Poland


Invited Talk : 15:15-15:45

"Fabrication of surface enhanced microcantilevers using direct laser writer"

Dr. K. Prabakar

IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India


Invited Talk : 15:45-16:15

"Materials modification and micro-fabrication by synchrotron X-rays"

Prof. Vishal Dhamgaye

RRCAT, Indore, India

Contributory Presentation 16:15-16:30

"Transparent electrodes for electrophysiology and advanced optical microscopy"

Mr. Sagnik Middya

Univ. of Cambridge, UK

18:30 hrs –20:30 hrs

Phase Transitions including extreme conditions

Chair : Prof. N. V. Chandra Shekar

IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India

Co-chair : Dr. Arindam Das

IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India

Plenary Talk: 18:30-19:15

"Multi-scale Modeling of Nanomaterials: From Nanotubes to Ants"

Prof. Douglas Galvao

UNICAMP, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Invited Talk : 19:15-19:45

"Thermodynamic Behaviour of Graphite Under Extreme Conditions of Nuclear Radiation, Pressure and Temperature"

Prof. R. Mittal

BARC, Mumbai, India

Plenary Talk : 19:45-20:30

"The quest for room-temperature superconductivity"

Prof. Maddury S. Somayazulu

Argonne Natl. Lab., USA

Day 3

21 May 2021, FRIday

11:00 hrs – 13:15 hrs

Photonics and Meta Materials

Chair : Dr. S. N. Potty

C-MET, Thrissur, India

Co-chair : Dr. S. R. Polaki

IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India


Plenary Talk : 11:00-11:45

"Semiconductor Nanowires: Optoelectronics, Energy and Neuroscience Applications"

Prof. Chennupati Jagadish, ANU, Australia


Invited Talk : 11:45-12:15

"Plasmonic nanoparticles on graphene, helices, and motors"

Prof. Ambarish Ghosh

IISc, Bangalore, India

Invited Talk :12:15-12:45

"Optical Studies on Thermal Conductivity and Charge Transfer Process in non-Van der Waals few-layered Bi2O2Se"

Prof. P. K. Giri

IIT Guwahati, India

Invited Talk :12:45-13:15

"Design, modeling, and fabrication of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensor chips for chemical and biological sensing"

Prof. Anuj Dhawan

IIT Delhi, India

18:00 hrs – 20:00 hrs

Semiconductor Single Photon sources and Applications

Chair : Prof. Sandip Dhara

IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India

Co-chair : Dr. Gururaj Kadiri

IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India

Plenary Talk : 18:00-18:45

"Quantum enhancements in photonic information processing"

Prof. Saikat Guha

Univ. of Arizona, USA

Invited Talk : 18:45-19:15

"On the intricate balance of optical versus thermal nonlinearity for approaching Spatiotemporal Control at nanoscale"

Prof. Debabrata Goswami

IIT Kanpur, India

Invited Talk : 19:15-19:45

"Single-shot realization of quantum walks using classical light beams"

Dr. Gururaj Kadiri

IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India


Contributory Presentation : 19:45-20:00

"Doubly-inhomogeneous waveplates for structuring of light beams"

Mr. B. Radhakrishna

IGCAR, Kalpakkam, India

Final Schedule