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).
| 2012 | |||
| 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 |