Seminar Series
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Upcoming Event
Date and Time: 25th May, 2024 (Saturday); 3:30 PM (IST)
Schedule:
Talk-1: 3:30 PM - 4:20 PM
Dr. Debayan Chakraborty, Reader
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Title: Brewing COFFEE: a coarse-grained force field for simulations of DNA-protein complexes
Talk-2: 4:20 PM - 5:00 PM
Dr. Sayantan Mondal, Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
Title: Liquid-liquid Phase Separation in Cells: Relevance to Intermediate Filament Formation and Membrane Remodeling
Mini-symposium on Physical Chemistry: Interfacing Experiment and Computation
Date and Time: 13th April, 2024 (Saturday); 3:30 PM (IST)
Schedule:
1. Introductory remarks by Prof. Biman Bagchi, India National Science Chair (DST-SERB) & Honorary Professor at the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
2. Talk-1: Prof. Sobhan Sen, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Title: Extreme Dynamics in DNA: What We Learned from Time-Resolved Experiments and Simulations?
3. Talk-2: Prof. Ayan Datta, Senior Professor, School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
Title: Buckling and Defects in Two Dimensional Atomically Thin Monolayers
Mini-symposium on Physical Chemistry in Materials Science
Date and Time: 9th March, 2024 (Saturday); 3:30 PM (IST)
Schedule:
1. Introductory remarks by Prof. Biman Bagchi, India National Science Chair (DST-SERB) & Honorary Professor at the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
2. Talk-1: Dr. Anshu Pandey, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
Title: Time Resolved Studies of Quantum Dot Emission
3. Talk-2: Prof. Rama Kant, Senior Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi
Title: Art of Battery Making: Transcending Electrochemical Complexity
Mini-symposium on Physical Chemistry in Medicinal Research
Date and Time: 10th February, 2024 (Saturday); 3:30 PM (IST)
Schedule of the event:
Introductory remarks by Prof. Biman Bagchi, India National Science Chair (DST-SERB) & Honorary Professor at the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit (SSCU), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
Talk 1: Dr. Subhasish Sarkar, M.S., Onco-Surgeon, College Of Medicine And Sagore Dutta Hospital, Kolkata
Talk title: Physical parameters of venous blood as determinants of several diseases including cancer
Talk 2: Prof. Manik Pradhan, Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata
Talk title: Breath Analysis in Disease Detection: A Physical Chemist Way
Talk 22: Prof. Ranjit Biswas, SNBNCBS, Kolkata
Talk Title: Alcohol-Water Binary Azeotropes: Is there a unique dynamical signature?
Date and Time: 25th November, 2023 (Saturday); 3:30 PM (IST)
Recorded lecture: YouTube link
Talk 21: Prof. Biman Bagchi, IISc, Bangalore
Talk Title: The Surprising Reach of Linear Response Theory: Stokes Law of Hydrodynamics at Molecular Length Scales
Date and Time: 29th July, 2023 (Saturday); 3:30 PM (IST)
Recorded lecture: YouTube link
Talk 20: Dr. Tarak Karmakar, IIT Delhi
Talk Title: C𝝻MD - A Method for Simulating Concentration-driven Processes under Realistic Thermodynamic Conditions
Date and Time: 27th May, 2023 (Saturday); 3:30 PM (IST)
Recorded lecture: YouTube link
Talk 19: Dr. Arnab Bhattacherjee, School of Computational & Integrative Sciences, JNU
Talk Title: Nuclear Traffic and Transport: Rule of Faster Protein Communication on DNA
Date and Time: 4th March, 2023 (Saturday); 3:30 PM (IST)
Recorded lecture: YouTube link
Talk 18: Dr. Rajesh K. Murarka, Department of Chemistry, IISER Bhopal
Talk Title: How do G protein-coupled receptors get activated and tune their conformations to preferentially interact with their transducers? Insights from molecular dynamics simulations
Date and Time: 26th November, 2022 (Saturday); 3:30 PM (IST)
Recorded lecture: YouTube link
Talk 17: Prof. Govardhan Reddy, Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Talk Title: Salt and pH-Induced Transitions in the Conformational Ensembles of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
Date and Time: 22nd October, 2022 (Saturday); 3:30 PM (IST)
Recorded lecture: YouTube link
Talk 16: Prof. Arnab Mukherjee, Department of Chemistry, IISER Pune
Talk Title: On the entropy of water molecules - one at a time
Date and Time: 17th September, 2022 (Saturday); 3:30 PM (IST)
Recorded lecture: Click Here!
Prof. Biman Bagchi, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Lecture Series on Time Dependent (Non-Equilibrium) Statistical Mechanics
Lecture 1: 4th June, 2022 (Saturday); 3:30 PM (IST)
Lecture 2: 16th July, 2022 (Saturday); 3:30 PM (IST)
Lecture 3: 6th August, 2022 (Saturday); 3:30 PM (IST)
Lecture 4: 27th August, 2022 (Saturday); 3:30 PM (IST)
Registration link (for Lecture 4): Click Here!
Recorded lecture(s): YouTube
Talk 15: Dr. Subhasish Chaki, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign USA.
Talk Title: Understanding the Activity-Driven Dynamics of Single Colloid and Single Polymer Chain
Date and Time: 4:30 PM, Feb 19, 2022
Venue: Online platform
Talk 14: Dr. Arijit Roy, TCS Research (Life Sciences Division), Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Hyderabad.
Talk Title: Towards Automated Drug Discovery using Artificial Intelligence
Date and Time: 3:30 PM, Feb 19, 2022
Venue: Online platform
Talk 13: Dr. Jagannath Mondal, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad (TIFR-H), India.
Talk Title: Computer simulation of Bio-molecular Recognition in Real Time
Date and Time: 3:45 PM, Jan 8, 2022
Venue: Online platform
Talk 12: Dr. Debdas Dhabal,The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Talk Title: Elucidating the Mechanism of Synthesis of Zeolites using Molecular Simulations
Date and Time: 3:00 PM, Jan 8, 2022
Venue: Online platform
Talk 11: Dr. Atanu Acharya, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Talk Title: Role of Local Environment in Chemistry and Biochemistry: From Electron Transfer to Viral Binding
Date and Time: 6:30 PM, Dec 4, 2021
Venue: Online platform
Recording of the lecture: Click Here
Talk 10: Dr. Atreyee Banerjee, MPI for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
Talk Title: Automated Identification of Collective Variables for Polymorphic systems from Molecular Dynamics Data
Date and Time: 6:00 PM, Dec 4, 2021
Venue: Online platform
Talk 09: Dr. Biman Jana, IACS Kolkata
Talk Title: Ice binding proteins: molecular mechanism of modulations of ice formation in biological systems
Date and Time: 3:30 PM, Nov 13, 2021
Recording of the lecture: Click Here
Talk 08: Dr. Rajib Biswas, IIT Tirupati
Talk Title: Theoretical Modelling of Solute-Correlated Hydration Shell Spectroscopy
Date and Time: 3:30 PM, Oct 9, 2021
Venue: Online platform
Talk 07: Prof. Parbati Biswas, University of Delhi, Delhi
Talk Title: Conformation and Rheology of Ring Polymers in Dilute Solutions
Date and Time: 3:30 PM, Sep 4, 2021
Venue: Online platform
Talk 06: Dr. Suman Chakrabarty, SNBNCBS, Kolkata
Talk Title: How do proteins talk to each other? A molecular thermodynamic view
Date and Time: 3:30 PM, Aug 7, 2021
Venue: Online platform
Talk 05: Prof. Ranjit Biswas, SNBNCBS, Kolkata
Talk Title: Deep Eutectic Solvents: New Excitements in Old Applications
Date and Time: 3:30 PM, July 3, 2021
Venue: Online platform
Talk 04: Dr. Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya, NCL Pune
Talk Title: The elusive connection between structure and dynamics in the supercooled liquids
Date and Time: 3:30 PM, June 5, 2021
Venue: Online platform
Talk 03: Prof. Nisanth N. Nair, IIT Kanpur
Talk Title: Recent Developments of the “Temperature Accelerated Sliced Sampling” (TASS) Method for Efficient Exploration and Computation of High-Dimensional Free Energy Landscapes
Date and Time: 3:30 PM, May 8, 2021
Venue: Online platform
Talk 02: Prof. Srabani Taraphder, IIT Kharagpur
Talk Title: Computer Simulation Studies on the Unbinding of an Inhibitor from the Active Site of the Enzyme Human Carbonic Anhydrase II
Date and Time: 3:30 PM, April 10, 2021
Venue: Online platform
Talk 01: Prof. Amalendu Chandra, IIT Kanpur
Talk Title: The Process of Water Evaporation
Date and Time: 3:30 PM, March 13, 2021
Venue: Online platform