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Past Talks

Coordinates Speaker Title (linked to abstract)
05 Oct 2011
14:30, A 304
V. Sasidevan To be announced
28 Sep 2011
14:30, A 304
Rahul Dandekar To be announced
21 Sep 2011
14:30, A 304
Kabir Ramola To be announced
14 Sep 2011
14:30, A 304
Prof. Deepak Dhar Are Biological Systems Poised at Criticality?
07 Sep 2011
14:30, A 304
No Talk
31 Aug 2011
14:30, A 304
No Talk (National Holiday)
24 Aug 2011
14:30, A 304
Dr. Kedar Damle Critical Correlations for Short-Range Valence-Bond Wave Functions on the Square Lattice
10 Aug 2011
14:30, A 304
Kusum Dhochak Odd-Parity Topological Superconductors: Theory and Application to CuxBi2Se3
27 Jul 2011
14:30, A 304
Sambuddha Sanyal Topological insulators from the point of view of the Dirac equation II
20 Jul 2011
14:30, A 304
Sambuddha Sanyal Topological insulators from the point of view of the Dirac equation I
06 Jul 2011
14:30, A 304
V. Sasidevan Mixing of Diffusing Particles
29 Jun 2011
14:30, A 304
Mahendra Verma
(IIT, Kanpur)
Joint Theoretical Physics/ Astronomy & Astrophysics Seminar
22 Jun 2011
14:30, A 304
Dr. Vikram Tripathi Anderson Localization makes Adiabatic Quantum Computation Fail
15 Jun 2011
14:30, A 304
Arvind Ayyer
(U.C. Davis)
Aryabhata Visitor Talk
08 Jun 2011
14:30, A 304
Himani Sachdeva Interaction-driven Real-space Condensation
01 Jun 2011
14:30, A 304
Abhay Parvate Derivatives of Regular Expressions
18 May 2011
14:30, A 304
Prof. Deepak Dhar On reduced density matrices for disjoint subsystems
11 May 2011
14:30, A 304
Rahul Dandekar Adiabatic condition and the quantum hitting time of Markov chains
04 May 2011
14:30, A 304
Kabir Ramola Fluid-Solid Transition in a Hard-Core System
27 Apr 2011
14:30, A 304
Sambuddha Sanyal SU(2)-Invariant Continuum Theory for an Unconventional Phase Transition in a Three-Dimensional Classical Dimer Model: Part II
20 Apr 2011
14:30, A 304
Sambuddha Sanyal SU(2)-Invariant Continuum Theory for an Unconventional Phase Transition in a Three-Dimensional Classical Dimer Model
06 Apr 2011
14:30, A 304
Dr. Kedar Damle A semi-classical approach to electron spin resonance in quantum spin systems
30 Mar 2011
11:30, A 304
Kusum Dhochak Witten effect in a crystalline topological insulator
23 Mar 2011
14:30, A 304
Ajit Balram
IISER, Pune
Vibrational Spectrum of Spider Networks
23 Feb 2011
14:30, A 304
Dr. Vikram Tripathi Mott Insulators in the Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling Limit: From Heisenberg to a Quantum Compass and Kitaev Models
09 Feb 2011
14:30, A 304
Himani Sachdeva A phase diagram for jammed matter
02 Feb 2011
14:30, A 304
Abhay Parvate Regular Expressions and Finite Automata
19 Jan 2011
14:30, A 304
V. Sasidevan Dynamics of non-conservative voters
05 Jan 2011
14:30, A 304
Seema E. Satin
Department of Physics
University of Pune
Calculus on Fractal Curves in R^n and Physical Applications
08 Dec 2010
14:30, A 304
Prof. Nitant Kenkre
University of
New Mexico
Pattern Formation in Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Nonlocality in Interactions and the Allee Phenomenon
01 Dec 2010
14:30, A 304
Rahul Dandekar Mechanics of Active Matter
03 Nov 2010
14:30, A 304
Prof. Deepak Dhar A report on "Statistical Properties of directed avalanches"
06 Oct 2010
14:30, A 304
Kabir Ramola Landau-like theory of glassy dynamics
15 Sep 2010
14:30, A 304
Tridib Sadhu Pico-canonical ensembles: A theoretical description of metastable states
18 Aug 2010
14:30, A 304
Dr. Vikram Tripathi Flux Phase of the Half-Filled Band
10 Aug 2010
14:30, A 304
Dr. Kedar Damle Probability distributions of Linear Statistics in Chaotic Cavities and associated phase transitions
05 Jul 2010
14:30, A 304
Rahul Dandekar Polymers in Vacuum
28 Jun 2010
14:30, A 304
Abhay Parvate The quantum refrigerator: The quest for absolute zero
21 Jun 2010
14:30, A 304
Himani Sachdeva Open Boundary ASEP with Attachment and Detachment of Particles in the Bulk
07 Jun 2010
14:30, A 304
Argha Banerjee s=1/2 Heisenberg Antiferromagnet with doped nonmagnetic impurities
31 May 2010
14:30, A 304
Kusum Dhochak Non-Abelian Statistics of Half-Quantum Vortices in p-Wave Superconductors
26 Apr 2010
13:15, A 304
Dr. Rahul Marathe The Szilard One-atom engine
12 Apr 2010
14:30, A 304
Prof. Deepak Dhar The Lee-Yang Edge Singularity for Ising model on two Sierpinski fractal