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Random Interactions Seminars

Department of Theoretical Physics, TIFR

The Random Interactions Seminars are held on working Wednesdays at 2:30 PM in the Theoretical Physics Seminar Room (A304).

2015
Mar 23 Xavier Viennot CNRS, Paris The Birth of a New Domain: Combinatorial Physics
Mar 18 S. Sarada JNCASR, Bengaluru Adaptation dynamics of asexual populations
Feb 9 Satya Majumdar LPTMS, Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay Free Fermions in a one dimensional harmonic trap and Gaussian random matrices
Jan 21 Anders W. Sandvik Boston University Quantum and classical annealing in spin glasses and quantum computing
Jan 19 Joel E. Moore University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Topological phenomena in metals and insulators from Berry gauge fields
2014
Dec 30 Sanjib Sabhapandit Raman Research Institute, Bangalore Large Deviations for the Tagged Particle in Single File Motion
Nov 5 Kabir Ramola University of Paris Orsay, France Correlated Extreme Values in Branching Brownian Motion
Oct 29 Tridib Sadhu CEA, Saclay, France Long-range correlation in driven diffusive systems
Sep 24 Anupam Kundu LPTMS, Paris Spatial extent of N Brownian walkers
Sep 18 Sumilan Banerjee Ohio State University Quantum oscillations in high-temperature superconductors
Sep 17 Sebastian Wuester MPIPKS Dresden Towards quantum simulations of chemical and biological processes using ultra-cold Rydberg atoms
Sep 12 Nandini Trivedi The Ohio State University Topology and Correlations driving new materials, phases and phenomena
Aug 27 Subhro Bhattacharjee MPIPKS, Dresden Interplay of spin-orbit coupling and electron-electron correlations in Iridates
Aug 20 Manas Kulkarni Princeton University, USA Collective far-from-equilibrium behavior in quantum gases: Open and Closed Systems
Aug 6 [at 11:30 a.m.] Senthil Todadri MIT Interacting electronic topological insulators in three dimensions
Aug 6 Shamik Gupta LPTMS, Paris Nonequilibrium dynamics of extended systems
Jul 24 [at 11:30 a.m.] Ipsita Mandal Perimeter Institute RG Analysis of a Non-Fermi Liquid System
Jul 9 [at 11:30 a.m.] K. Rajibul Islam Harvard University Synthetic quantum matter under a microscope
Jul 9 Dibyendu Roy Los Alamos National Laboratory Spin noise spectroscopy of atomic vapors and semiconductors
May 1 Arnab Sen IACS Kolkata Probing low-energy excitations of ordered and critical antiferromagnets via Quantum Monte-Carlo
Apr 30 David Pekker University of Pittsburgh The Hilbert-glass transition: new universality of temperature-tuned many-body dynamical quantum criticality
Apr 16 Debmalya Chakraborty IISER Kolkata Fate of disorder-induced inhomogeneities in strongly correlated d-wave superconductors
Apr 10 Aditi Sen De HRI, Allahabad Monogamy in Quantum Information
Jan 9 L Mahadevan Harvard University On the growth and form of the gut
Jan 8 Roderich Moessner MPIPKS, Dresden Dynamics of a two-dimensional quantum spin liquid: signatures of emergent Majorana fermions and fluxes
2013
Dec 19 Shri Singh Banaras Hindu Univeristy Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals: Ordering kinetics in nematics and properties of ferroic mesogens
Dec 12 Stefan Natu Univ. of Maryland Many Body Physics in atomic dipolar Bose Condensates, near and far from equilibrium
Nov 20 Rejish Nath IISER Pune Quantum Magnetism with Ultra cold Rydberg atoms/ions
Nov 13 Bal'az Het'enyi Bilkent University, Turkey DC Conductivity as a Geometric Phase
Oct 3 Auditya Sharma International Institute of Physics - UFRN, Natal, Brazil An assortment of three stories
Sep 11 Siddharth Parameswaran University of California, Berkeley Fractionalization from Crystallography
Jul 3 Raghu Mahajan Stanford University Non-fermi liquids and the Wiedemann-Franz law
Apr 25 Manoj Gopalkrishnan TIFR Thermodynamics of bits and batteries
Apr 11 Vijay B. Shenoy Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Fermions in synthetic non-Abelian gauge fields
Mar 28 Anjan Kundu SINP, Kolkata Novel Hierarchies & Hidden Dimensions in Integrable Field Models
Mar 28 Fabien Alet CNRS and Universite Toulouse Random thoughts on localization and Monte Carlo
Feb 28 Xavier Viennot Univ of Bordeaux/CNRS, France Quadratic algebras, combinatorial physics and planar automata
Feb 20 Rami Band Bristol University The Nodal Count {0, 1, 2, 3,...} Implies the Graph is a Tree
Jan 7 Arvind Ayyer University of California, Davis An Inhomogeneous Directed Ising Model
Jan 4 Hitesh Changlani Cornell University Emergent spins on a randomly diluted antiferromagnet at the percolation threshold
2012
Dec 14 Jay Sau Harvard University The search for topologically degenerate Majorana modes in semiconductor/superconductor interfaces
Dec 6 Charles Reichhardt Los Alamos National Labs Jamming and Clogging Transitions for Systems with Quenched Disorder
Nov 22 Guglielmo Paoletti Univ. of Paris Emerging patches and strings in the Abelian Sandpile Model
Nov 8 Peter Grassberger Julich Research Centre, Germany Practical Applications of Mutual Information: Phylogenetic Trees, Independent Component Analysis, and Network Inferences
Nov 7 Peter Grassberger Julich Research Centre, Germany Fractal dimentions of watersheds
Nov 1 Peter Grassberger Julich Research Centre, Germany From standard percolation to rough pinned surfaces: a tricritical point induced by cooperativity
Oct 31 Peter Grassberger Julich Research Centre, Germany Agglomerative percolation & network renormalization
Oct 18 Sakuntala Chatterjee S.N. Bose Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata Chemotaxis when bacteria remember: drift vs diffusion
Oct 4 R. Rajesh Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Shock Propagation in Loosley Packed Granular Systems
Sep 7 B. Sriram Shastry Univ.of California, Santa Cruz Theory of the t-J model
Sep 6 Saurabh Maiti Wisconsin University Superconducting gap structure and symmetry in hole doped BaFe2As2
June 28 Deepak Mathur TIFR The emergence of patterns in liquids
May 17 Manish Jain University of California, Berkeley Defects in Solids
May 10 Madan Rao Raman Research Institute, Bangalore Active gels, cells and information processing
Apr 17 Parongama Sen University of Calcutta Phase transitions in continuous opinion dynamics models
Apr 16 Stephane Ouvry University of Paris Algebraic and arithmetic area for m planar Brownian paths
Feb 22 Manoranjan Kumar Princeton University Frustration Induced Exotic Phases in Axial Anisotropic Spin-1/2 Chain
Feb 9 Benoy Chakraverty C.N.R.S, Grenoble, France Is Brain In A Coherent State?
Jan 20 Rashi Sachdeva IIT Delhi Density wave super solid and Mott insulator-superfluid transition in presence of an artificial gauge field : Mean field and Strong Coupling results
Jan 18 Subir Sachdev Harvard University The onset of antiferromagnetism in metals: from the cuprates to the heavy-fermion compounds
Jan 12 Siddarth Goyal KITP, UCSB, Santa Barbara, USA Rare beneficial mutations can halt Muller's ratchet
Jan 11 Aruna Mohan ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company Field-Theoretic Modeling of Supramolecular Polymer Networks and Gels
Jan 5 Jay Deep Sau Harvard University The return of Majorana : the end of a 75 year-old search? looking for Majorana fermions in condensed matter systems
Jan 4 M. Vanitha Bharathidasan University Solitonic Excitations in an inhomogenous DNA with flexible strands
2011
Dec 28 Smarajit Karmakar Universita di Roma, Italy Direct Estimate of the Static Length-Scale Accompanying the Glass Transition
Dec 23 Abhinav Saket I.M.Sc., Chennai Topological qubits in quantum spin chain
Dec 23 Viveka Nand Singh HRI, Allahabad The impact of antisite disorder on the double perovskites
Dec 15 Punyabrata Pradhan SN Bose Centre Kolkata Thermodynamic structure for nonequilibrium steady-state systems in contact
Dec 1 Govardhan Reddy University of Maryland Folding landscape of Green Fluorescent Protein
Nov 9 Rajdeep Sensarma University of Maryland Electron-Electron Interactions in Bilayer Graphene
Oct 27 Suhas Gangadharaiah University of Basel pin-orbit induced effects in quantum wire and quantum dot
Aug 18 Sumanta Tewari Clemson University Majorana fermions and topological superconducting quantum phase transitions in semiconductors
Aug 3 Rakesh Kumar JNU, New Delhi Quantum phase transitions studies of some low-dimensional exactly solvable dimerized quantum antiferromagnets
Jul 7 Michael Aizenman Princeton University TBA
May 26 Priya Mahadevan S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata Electron doped CrO2 : An unsual example of a charge ordered ferromagnet
Apr 28 Pragya Shukla IIT Kharagpur Universality in complexity: a random matrix view-point
Apr 11 Subhrangshu Sekhar Manna S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata A new route to Explosive Percolation
Feb 25 Juan Venegas Univ. of Edinburgh Analytical solution for a genetic switch
Feb 10 Anders W. Sandvik Boston University Deconfined spinons in a quantum-critical 2D antiferromagnet
Feb 3 Sudipto Muhuri Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar Collective vesicle transport on biofilaments carried by competing molecular motors
Jan 25 Martin Evans Edinburgh University Statics and Dynamics of Exclusion Processes (series of 4 lectures, on Jan. 25, Jan. 27, Feb. 3 and Feb. 4)
Jan 12 Satya Majumdar Univ. of Paris Top Eigenvalue of a Random Matrix: Tracy-Widom distribution
2010
Dec 23 Govind Menon Brown University How solvable is Burgers-KPZ turbulence?
Nov 12 Vishwesha Guttal Princeton University Early warning signals of discontinuous ecological transitions
Nov 12 Sukhendu Dev University of Barcelona The Next Revolution in Biology after Genomics can be Delivered if only Biology is Integrated with Physical, Engineering and Computational Sciences
Oct 29 Anupam Garg Northwestern University, USA Collective relaxation of magnetization in magnetic molecular solids
Oct 28 Priya Sharma Royal Holloway University, U.K. $^3$He in Aerogel: a Dirty Superfluid
Jul 8 Diptiman Sen Instiutte of Science, Bangalore Quenching across a quantum critical point: non-trivial power laws in different topological sectors
Jul 1 Nandini Trivedi Ohio State University Superfluid Insulator Transition
Jun 3 Soumya Prasad Mukherjee IACS, Kolkata Unconventional Superconductivity in Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor (NCS)
Mar 18 Tripti Tripathi IIT Bombay Dynamical Phases and Noise in Transcription Process
Feb 11 Anatoly B. Kolomeisky Rice University How proteins find and recognize targets on DNA
Jan 21 Jurgen F. Stilck Institute de Fisica, Universidade Federal Fluminense Brazil Grand-canonical and canonical solution of self-avoiding walks with up to 3 monomers per site on the Bethe lattice
Jan 14 Sudhansu S. Mandal IACS, Jadavpur, Kolkata Collective excitations of composite fermions across multiple effective Landau levels
2009
Dec 19 A. Libchaber Rockefeller Univ. The Origin of Life: from geophysics to biology
Nov 19 Adriana Dickman Pontificia Univ. Catolica de Minas Gerais, Brazil A simple model for the transmission of malaria
Sep 11 Srikanth Sastry Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore Slow relaxation and correlation length scales in glass forming liquids
Sep 10 Srikanth Sastry Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore Nonequilibrium aspects and the energy landscape of glassy behavior
Aug 25 Mohit Adhikari University of Bristol Studies with Delay Differential Equations
Jul 22 Sreedhar Dutta Korea Institute for Advanced Study The role of initial conditions in Ageing state
Apr 9 Siddhartha Lal University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mixed edges and inhomogeneous quantum Hall systems
Mar 13 Matteo Marsili ICTP, Trieste, Italy How relevant are features for network structure?
Mar 12 Jaideep Mulherkar UC Davis, California, USA Implementing quantum gates using the XXZ ferromagnetic Heisenberg chain
Mar 12 Stephane Ouvry Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France Hausdorff dimensions for random walks and their winding sectors
Jan 22 Raymond F. Bishop The University of Manchester, U.K. Quantum phase transitions in spin-lattice systems with and without frustration (or: Competition Between Magnetic Order and Dimerization in Low-Dimensional Antiferromagnets)
2008
Oct 16 Prashant Gade Univ. of Pune Persistence in Spatially Extended Dynamical Systems
Sep 25 G. Venketeswara Pai Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Some Transport Anomalies in Two Dimensional Electron Systems
Aug 7 G. Baskaran IMSc, Chennai Kitaev Model: a spin system on a 2D lattice with a rich and tangible quantum physics [at 2:30 p.m.]
Aug 7 Anil Shaji University of New Mexico On the role of entanglement in quantum information processing [at 4:00 p.m.]
May 9 Rama Govindarajan JNCASR, Bangalore A gravity-free circular hydraulic jump
May 8 Sriram Ramaswamy Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore A self-propelled noisy elastic dimer
Apr 17 Bulbul Chakraborty Brandeis University A statistical ensemble for granular packings
Mar 6 Anirban Chakraborti Banaras Hindu University Multi-agent modelling of Complex Systems
Feb 28 Satya Majumdar LPTMS, Orsay, France Extreme Value Statistics, Integer Partitions and Bose Gas
Feb 21 Joseph Indekeu Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Fractal modeling of bacterial biofilms
Jan 3 Joshua S. Weitz Georgia Institute of Technology, USA On Theory and the Dynamics of Bacteria and Viruses

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