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