Random Interactions Seminars
Department of Theoretical Physics, TIFR
The Random Interactions Seminars are held on Thursdays at 2:30 PM in the Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (A304).
| 2007 | |||
| Dec 19 | Pinaki Sengupta | Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA | Field-induced spin supersolid phase in Heisenberg antiferromagnets |
| Dec 12 | Subroto Mukerjee | Univ. of California at Berkeley | Transport in integrable and non-integrable 1D systems |
| Nov 23 | Manamohan Prusty | University of Gottingen, Germany | Chaotic Transmission in a magnetic billiard chain with a rough boundary |
| Nov 22 | Monique Combescure | Institut de Physique Nucleaire and Universite Claude Bernard Lyon, France | The mutually unbiased bases in quantum information theory |
| Oct 11 | Aparna Baskaran | Syracuse University | Applying non-equilibrium statistical mechanics to understand systems of self propelled particles |
| Apr 19 | H. van Beijeren | Univ. of Utrecht, The Netherlands | Green-Kubo formalism for solids |
| Apr 9 | Sudhir Jain | Aston University, UK | Persistence and Financial Markets |
| 2006 | |||
| Oct 5 | Sushanta Dattagupta | Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Kolkata | Quantum Mechanics under High-Frequency Perturbation |
| 2005 | |||
| Jan 5 | Jurgen Kurths | Potsdam Universit | Complex Synchronization in Spatio-temporal Systems |
| Feb 24 | Charles Bennett | IBM, USA | Capacities of Quantum Channels |
| Apr 19 | Arun K. Pati | Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar | Probabilistic Super Dense Coding |
| Apr 21 | Bulbul Chakraborty | Brandeis University | Jamming as a critical phenomenon: a field theory of zero-temperature grain packings |
| May 12 | Sujit Sarkar | TIFR | Fractionally quantized magnetization plateaus of low dimensional spin systems |
| Jun 16 | Vikram Tripathi | Cambridge Univ. | Conductivity in the insulating phase of regular and disordered granular metal arrays |
| Sep 1 | Surajit Sengupta | S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata | Stress Relaxation in a Perfect Nanocrystal by Coherent Ejection of Lattice Layers |
| Nov 10 | Joel L. Lebowitz | Rutgers University | Microscopic models and mesoscopic free energies |
| Dec 15 | Sumanta Tewari | University of Maryland | Proposal to stabilize and detect half-quantum vortices in strontium ruthenate thin films: Non-Abelian braiding statistics of vortex matter in a $p_x+ip_y$ superconductor |
| 2004 | |||
| Jan 16 | Kavita Jain | Univ. Essen, Germany | Punctuated dynamics in biological evolution |
| Mar 11 | Arun Paramekanti | KITP, UCSB | Transition to Zero Resistance in a 2D Electron Gas Irradiated with Microwaves |
| Apr 15 | T. A. Kaplan | Michigan State University | Spin Swap and Double Occupancy in Quantum Computation |
| Jun 10 | Sujit Sarkar | Weizmann Institute of Science | Theory of thermal and quantum conductance of ultra-thin superconducting wires |
| Nov 4 | Lavanya M Ramaniah | BARC | Quantum Simulations of Condensed Phase Systems : From Si to DNA |
| 2003 | |||
| Jan 9 | Satya N. Majumdar | CNRS, France | Phase Transition in Search Trees: Why is the number 26 important? |
| Mar 20 | Peter Brusov | Visiting Professor, HRI; Physical Research Institute, Rostov-on-Don, Russia | Collective Properties of Unconventional Supercoductors |
| May 1 | Arun Paramekanti | ITP, Univ. of California | Generalizing Luttinger's theorem to Z(2) fractionalized phases |
| May 22 | R. V. Hosur | TIFR | Spin Choreography in NMR |
| May 29 | Kiran Kolwankar | Free energy functional for nonequilibrium steady states | |
| Jun 5 | Gautam I. Menon | The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai | ``Seeing'' Vortex Glasses |
| Jun 12 | Madhav V Ranganathan | Stanford University | Kinetic theory of density fluctuations in one-component monatomic fluids at equilibrium: A short time theory for the memory function |
| Jun 19 | Narendra K. Jaggi | Illinois Wesleyan University, Illinois | Role of 'Vision' in Neighborhood Racial Segregation: A variant of the Schelling segregation model |
| Jun 26 | B. Nienhuis | University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Introduction to Stochastic Loewner Evolution |
| Jul 4 | Chin-Kun Hu | Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan | Universality and Scaling in Critical Systems |
| Jul 17 | Mahendra Khandkar | TIFR | Non-equilibrium phase behavior of tethered hard-disks |
| Jul 24 | Mahesh Chandran | TIFR | Peak effect in superconductors: view from the simulation |
| Aug 21 | Deepak Kumar | Jawaharlal Nehru University | Pattern formation in thin layers under heat flow |
| Aug 28 | Sourendu Gupta | TIFR | Survival without a fittest --- dominance games and biodiversity |
| Sep 4 | V. Subrahmanyam | IIT, Kanpur | Quantum Entanglement in Spin/Fermion Systems |
| Sep 25 | Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta | S.N. Bose Centre, Kolkata | Electronic structure of strongly correlated electron systems: from DFT to model Hamiltonians |
| Nov 6 | Suparna Sinha | Raman Research Institute, Bangalore | Semiflexible Polymer Elasticity |
| Nov 20 | Manoranjan P. Singh | Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore | Role of synaptic asymmetry in neural network models of associative memory |
| 2002 | |||
| Mar 15 | Abhishek Dhar | Raman Research Institute, Bangalore | Understanding heat conduction in one-dimensional systems |
| May 30 | Deepak Dhar | TIFR | Pico-canonical ensembles: A theoretical description of metastable states |
| Aug 22 | Yashodhan Hatwalne | Raman Research Institute | The Cone Phase of Liquid Crystals: Triangular Lattice of Double-Tilt Cylinders |
| Aug 29 | Deepak Dhar | TIFR | Drift to no-drift transition in biased random walkers with random traps" reprt on a paper by Vishal Mehra and Peter Grassberger (cond-mat 0107525) |
| Sep 12 | Diptiman Sen | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | Effect of Impurities and Junctions on the Conductance of Quantum Wires |
| Sep 19 | C. Henley | Cornell University, U.S.A. | Semiclassical approach to (finite) quantum spin systems |
| Oct 3 | P.P. Divakaran | CMI & IMSc, Chennai | Topology and Periodicity in Magnetic Field Problems |
| Oct 10 | A. S. Paranjpe | BARC | Morphological transitions in dehydration patterns of aqueous ascorbic acid solutions |
| Oct 31 | Sumedha Singhal | TIFR | Potts Model Partition Function for Lattice Strips |
| Nov 7 | Debabrata Panja | University of Amsterdam | A Hitchhiker's Guide to Fluctuating Fronts |
| Nov 14 | Kavita Jain | TIFR | Granular hydrodynamics |
| Nov 21 | Sreedhar B. Dutta | TIFR | Periodically Driven Stochastic Systems |
| Nov 28 | Arti Garg | TIFR | Hubbard Model in Infinite Dimensions |
| Dec 12 | Laurent Laloux | Science and Finance, Paris, France | Econophysics : what are physicists doing in finance? |
| Dec 31 | Supriya Krishnamurthy | Santa Fe Institute, USA | A Statistical Theory of the Continuous Double Auction |