Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Department of Theoretical Physics, TIFR

The theoretical physics colloquia are held on Tuesday at 4:00 PM in the Lecture Room AG 69.

2015
May 5	Sudhir Jain	BARC	Making the sound visible
Feb 23	Abhijit Gadde	IAS, Princeton	Geometry of dualities
Feb 16	Kalman Szabo	Forschungszentrum Juelich	Calculating the neutron-proton mass difference
Feb 10	M. Muthukumar	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Menagerie of Viruses: Organizing Principles of Virus Assembly
Feb 3	R. Loganayagam	IAS, Princeton	Lorentz Anomaly and fluid dynamics
2014
Dec 30	Sayantan Sharma	Brookhaven National Lab.	Many more charm at the freezeout?
Dec 16	Ravin Bhatt	Princeton University	Large disorder and localization
Nov 11	Karthik Inbasekar	TIFR	Duality in supersymmetric Chern-Simons matter theories
Oct 28	Tridib Sadhu	CEA, Saclay, France	Macroscopic fluctuation theory and its application
Oct 13	Arun Paramekanti	University of Toronto	Topological states and quantum phase transitions in spin orbit coupled systems
Sep 23	Anupam Kundu	LPTMS, Paris	Stochastic thermodynamics of a pair of magnetic colloids, estimation of dissipation and feedback control
Sep 9	Shamik Banerjee	IPMU, Univ. of Tokyo	Conformal Anomaly Matching and Exact Results for Entanglement Entropy
Aug 26	Subhro Bhattacharjee	Max Plank Institute Dresden	Quantum Spin Liquids
Aug 19	Manas Kulkarni	Princeton University	Collective far-from-equilibrium behavior in quantum gases: Open and Closed Systems
Aug 5	Shamik Gupta	LPTMS, Paris	Thermodynamics and dynamics of systems with long-range interactions
Jul 15	David Vanderbilt	Rutgers University, USA	Introduction to the theory of topological insulators
Jul 8	Dibyendu Roy	Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA	Strongly interacting photons in one-dimensional free space
May 6	Basudeb Dasgupta	ICTP, Trieste	The Nature of Dark Matter
Apr 29	Arnab Sen	IACS, Kolkata	Some Aspects of Coulomb Spin Liquids
Apr 22	Suvrat Raju	ICTS, TIFR, Bangalore	The Information Paradox and the black hole interior in AdS/CFT
Apr 1	Shravan Hanasoge	TIFR	Imaging the 3-D Interior of the Sun
Mar 4	Deepak Dhar	TIFR	Modelling Proportionate growth
Feb 17	Aneesh V. Manohar	University of California, San Diego	Standard Model Effective Theory and Higgs Physics
Jan 7	Alexandre Refregier	ETH Zurich	Unveiling the Dark Universe
2013
Dec 10	Stefan Sint	Trinity College, Dublin	Towards precision results in lattice Quantum Chromo Dynamics
Dec 5	Atish Dabholkar	Sorbonne University, Paris, France	Quantum Black Holes: An IR window into UV physics
Nov 26	Rajeev Bhalerao	TIFR	Extreme QCD in the LHC Era
Nov 19	Ravin Bhatt	IAS, Princeton	Electrons in Flatland: Recent Developments and New Vistas
Nov 12	Ross McKenzie	University of Queensland, Australia	Frustrated Mott insulators: from quantum spin liquids to superconductors
Oct 29	Amit Datta	Quantum criticality, quenches and the Loschmidt echo	TBA
Oct 22	Rishi Khatri	MPA, Munich	The information hidden in the shape of the cosmic microwave background spectrum
Oct 8	Jean-Paul Blaizot	IPhT-CEA Saclay, France	Thermalization of the quark-gluon plasma and Bose-Einstein condensation in unusual circumstances
Oct 1	Auditya Sharma	International Institute of Physics - UFRN, Natal, Brazil	Vector Spin Glasses
Sep 17	Tanmoy Das	Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos,USA	Engineering topological insulator, Weyl semimetal and spin-orbit order in a layer by layer approach
Sep 9	Gert Aarts	Swansea Univ.	How to climb Mount Everest: the QCD sign problem at finite density
Aug 20	E.C.G. Sudarshan	U. Texas, Austin	TCP Invariance in Quantum Field Theory
Jun 18	Sushanta Dattagupta	Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan	Two Centuries of Diffusion
May 7	Justin David	CHEP, IISc	Transport in strongly coupled field theories
Apr 9	Gautam Mandal	TIFR	Aspects of large N QCD phase diagrams and AdS/CFT
Apr 2	Aseem Paranjape	ETH, Zurich	Counts, Clustering & Collapse: Analytical Methods for Large Scale Structure
Mar 26	Abhishek Dhar	ICTS, TIFR	Puzzles in the theory of heat conduction in low-dimensional systems
Mar 12	Manoj Kaplinghat	University of California, Irvine	Is the dark matter particle a WIMP?
Feb 26	Xavier Viennot	CNRS, France	3^n
Feb 5	Rajibul Islam	Harvard University	Probing many body physics with cold atom quantum simulators
Jan 8	Arvind Ayyer	University of California, Davis	Algebraic and Combinatorial Aspects of Multispecies Exclusion Processes
2012
Dec 18	Esteban Roulet	Bariloche, Argentina	PeV neutrinos from the propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays
Dec 4	Suman Bhattacharyya	Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago	Cosmology with the South Pole Telescope
Nov 27	Anirban Sain	IIT Mumbai	Physics of cell division
Nov 20	Jean-Yves Ollitrault	IPhT Saclay, France	Observing a small fluid and its fluctuations at the LHC
Oct 16	Urjit A. Yajnik	IIT Bombay	Through the looking glass : mere mirage or a road not taken?
Oct 9	Basudeb Dasgupta	Ohio State University	The Hunt for Dark Matter
Sep 25	P. K. Mohanty	SINP, Kolkata	Fixed-Energy Sandpiles Belong Generically to Directed Percolation
Sep 11	Shiraz Minwalla	TIFR	Towards a framework for Hydrodynamics
Aug 28	Subroto Mukerjee	IISc, Bangalore	Exotic phases of bosons in one dimensional optical lattices
Aug 14	Sreerup Raychaudhuri	TIFR	Theoretical Perspectives on a 125 GeV Higgs Boson
Aug 7	Nissim Kanekar	NCRA, Pune	Do the Fundamental Constants change with Time ?
Jul 31	Mukund Rangmani	Durhham University, UK	The black hole membrane paradigm redux
Jul 24	Rishi Sharma	TRIUMF, Canada	Aspects of neutron superfluidity in the neutron star inner crust
July 3	Krishnendu Sengupta	Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata	Dynamcis of bosonic cold atoms in optical lattices
June 26	R. Shankar	Institute of Mathemtical Sciences, Chennai	Timescales in the response of Himalayan Glaciers to Climate Change
June 5	Shailesh Chandrasekharan	Duke University, USA	The Fermion Sign Problem : Some New Solutions
May 22	Aninda Sinha	IISc, Bangalore	The strongly coupled quark gluon plasma and the AdS/CFT correspondence
May 16	Manish Jain	Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA	Quantum Theory of Materials: Methods and Applications
May 15	Srubabati Goswami	PRL, Ahmedabad	TeV scale Left-Right Symmetry and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
May 8	Anjan Ananda Sen	Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi	Late time acceleration and Dark Energy Model building
May 1	Biswarup Mukhopadhyay	HRI, Allahabad	Low Missing Energy and New Physics: to Miss or Not to Miss
Apr 17	Ben Allanach	Cambridge University	Hide and Seek With Supersymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider
Apr 10	Daniel Elander	TIFR	Walking Technicolor & AdS/CFT
Mar 27	Vikram Tripathi	TIFR	Impurity effects in the honeycomb lattice Kitaev model
Mar 6	Carlos J. Bolech	University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA	Cold Atomic Gases and the Quest for Polarized Superfluids
Feb 28	Tuhin S. Roy	University of Washington, USA	New Horizons in Jet Substructure and Boosted Physics @ LHC
Feb 21	Pragya Shukla	IIT Kharagpur	Superluminal neutrino: a quantum weak measurement effect?
Feb 20	Gunnar Bali	Regensburg University	QCD in an external magnetic field
Feb 14	Satya Majumdar	Univ. of Paris	Entanglement Entropy of a Random Pure State
Feb 13	John Chalker	Oxford University	The dynamics of integer quantum Hall edge states far from equilibrium
Jan 24	Jean-Paul Blaizot	IPhT, Saclay, France	Extreme states of matter and ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions
2011
Dec 5	Govardhan Reddy	University of Maryland	Growth of Amyloid Fibrils
Nov 30	Eiichiro Komatsu	University of Texas, Austin	Critical Tests of Theory of the Early Universe using the Cosmic Microwave Background
Nov 29	Surhud More	KICP, Univ. of Chicago	Galaxy-Dark Matter Connection: A cosmological perspective (Joint Theoretical Physics - Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar)
Nov 22	S. Uma Sankar	IIT Bombay and TIFR	Large $\theta_{13}$ in lepton sector, and its consequences
Nov 15	Amit Yadav	IAS, Princeton	(Aryabhata Lecture): Probing the Physics of the Early Universe
Nov 8	Rajdeep Sensarma	Univ. of Maryland	Dynamics with Cold Atoms: Near and Far from Equilibrium
Oct 25	Suhas Gangadharaiah	University of Basel	Majorana Edge States in Interacting One-Dimensional Systems
Sep 20	Sourendu Gupta	TIFR	The phase diagram of strongly interacting matter
Sep 13	Matthew Luzum	Institut de Physique Theorique, Saclay, France	Flow and flow fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Sep 12	Tirthankar Roy Choudhury	HRI, Allahabad	Probing the Universe through Neutral Hydrogen Distribution
Aug 16	Ribhu Kaul	Univ. of Kentucky	Status of Quantum Criticality: Experiments, Models and Theory
Aug 9	Rahul Roy	Oxford University	Topological insulators and adiabatic cycles
Aug 8	Sumanta Tewari	Clemson University	Majorana fermions, non-Abelian statistics, and topological quantum computation using semiconductors
Jul 11	Ue-Li Pen	CITA, Toronto	21cm Cosmology
Jul 5	Girish Agarwal	Oklahoma State University	Super Resolution and Beating Shot Noise Limit by Entangled Photons
Jun 28	Nandini Trivedi	The Ohio State University	Superfluid with unequal populations of up and down fermions
June 14	Arvind Ayyer	Univ. of California, Davis	Two Species Open Exclusion Processes
May 31	Sreerup Raychaudhuri	TIFR	The Wjj Anomaly at CDF: Who Ordered That?
May 9	Kedar Damle	TIFR	Geometrically frustrated antiferromagnets
May 3	Debajyoti Choudhury	Delhi Univ.	Getting to the bottom of things through the top
Apr 26	R. Shankar	IMSc, Chennai	The topology of electronic bands and topological order
Apr 12	Sameer Murthy	TIFR	Exact quantum entropy of black holes
Mar 24	Arun Paramekanti	University of Toronto	Bilayer graphene: Domain walls, superlattices, and implications for transport
Mar 15	Philip Candelas	Oxford University	Periods of Calabi-Yau Manifolds in Physics and Number Theory
Mar 8	Martin Evans	University of Edinburgh	Models of Switching in Biophysical Contexts
Feb 28	V. M. Kenkre	University of New Mexico	Theory of Abrupt Transitions in Biological/Ecological Systems Arising from Interplay of Nonlinearity and Inhomogeneity
Feb 7	Carleton Detar	University of Utah	Quarkonium mass splittings fromlattice QCD
Feb 1	Suman Bhattacharya	Los Alamos National Laboratory	New Techniques to Measure Velocities in Our Universe
Jan 18	Holger Nielsen	Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark	Proposing a principle for finetuning
Jan 11	Anthony Leggett	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Introduction to High Energy Low Temperature Physics
2010
Dec 24 at 4:00 p.m.	Xerxes Tata	University of Hawaii	Supersymmetry, LHC and Dark Matter
Dec 21 at 2:30 p.m.	Steven Gottlieb	Indiana University	Future of lattice calculations with staggered sea quarks
Dec 7 at 2:30 p.m.	John D. Weeks	University of Maryland	Taming Coulomb interactions in models for ions and water
Dec 7 at 4:00 p.m.	Bulbul Chakraborty	Brandeis University	The Jamming Transition in Granular Materials
Nov 16	Tridib Sadhu	TIFR	Pattern formation in growing sandpiles
Nov 11	Vishwesha Guttal	Princeton University	The evolution of animal grouping and collective motion
Oct 27	Krishnendu Sengupta	IACS, Kolkata	Aspects of Dirac physics in Graphene
Oct 5	Deepak Dhar	TIFR	Equation of state of a model glass
Jul 13	Henk van Beijeren	Utrecht University	Grand ensemble result for the Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process with many species
Jun 29	Subhabrata Majumdar	TIFR	Galaxy Clusters as Cosmic Probes
Jun 9	Anirban Basu	IOP, Bhubaneswar	Recursive Structures in String Theory
Jun 1	Vadim Oganesyan	City University, New York	Dissipationless Nernst effect
May 25	Saurabh Rindani	PRL, Ahmedabad	Polarization as a tool for learning new physics
May 18	Parthasarathi Majumdar	SINP, Kolkata	Holography, gravity-gauge theory link and black hole entropy
Apr 27	Sameer Murthy	LPTHE, France	Towards a complete understanding of black hole entropy
Apr 7	Surjeet Sengupta	IACS, Kolkata	A phase ordering viewpoint for fracture
Feb 23	Steen Hannestad	U. of Aarhus, Denmark	Neutrino physics from precision cosmology
Feb 15	Mikko Laine	Bielefeld University, Germany	The pressure of hot QCD
Feb 16	Georg Raffelt	Max Planck institute for Physics, Munich, Germany	Axions: Motivation, Cosmological Role, and Experimental Searches
Feb 10	David Mukamel	Weizmann Institute, Israel	Effective long-range interactions in driven non-equilibrium systems
Feb 2	Satya Majumdar	Univ. of Paris	Convex Hull of N planar Brownian Motions: Exact Results and an Application to Ecology
Jan 28	Gianni Blatter	ETH-Zurich, Switzerland	Wave-packet Formalism of Full Counting Statistics
Jan 19	Julia Yeomans	Oxford University	Hydrodynamic interactions between microswimmers
Jan 15	Gyan Bhanot	Rutgers Univ. and IAS, Princeton	Is there evidence for selection in functional pathways across chromosomes?
Jan 13	Ritesh K. Singh	Wuerzburg University	A bottom-up reconstruction of new physics at Large Hadron Collider
Jan 12	Rajdeep Sen Sarma	Maryland University	From Cold Atoms to Complex Materials: Opportunities and Challenges
2009
Dec 23 (at 2:00 p.m. in AG66)	Ora Entin-Wohlman	Ben Gurion University, Israel	Effect of pair-breaking on superconductivity and on persistent currents well above ${\bf T_c}$
Dec 23 (at 2:45 p.m. in AG66)	Amnon Aharony	Ben Gurion University and Tel Aviv University, Israel	Writing and reading spin information on mobile electronic qubits
Dec 15	Rainer Fries	Texas A&M Univ.	Collisions of Nuclei: New Ideas for Hard Probes
Dec 8 (at 11:30 a.m.)	Nandini Trivedi	Ohio State University	Hubbard Models and Ultracold atom experiments: What can we learn from the dialog?
Dec 8	Nu Xu	LBL, USA	Exploring the QCD Phase Diagram in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions at RHIC
Nov 24	Pradeep Kumar Mohanty	Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata	Building Blocks of Cellular Functions
Nov 17	Ronald Dickman	Univ. Federale de Minas Gerais, Brazil	Effect of Diffusing Disorder on an Absorbing-State Phase Transition
Nov 10	Probir K. Bondopadhyay	Rural World Communications, Houston, USA	From J.C. Bose to S.N. Bose -- Progress of Science Research in India before Homi J. Bhabha
Nov 6	Suvrat Raju	HRI, Allahabad	The Next-to-Simplest Quantum Field Theories
Nov 3	J. Srinivasan	Divecha Centre for Climate Change, IISc, Bangalore	The Science and Politics of Climate Change
Oct 27	Jean-Yves Ollitrault	SPHT, Saclay, France	Hydrodynamics and fluctuations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Oct 20 (at 11:00 a.m.)	Thomas Vojta	Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA	Infinite-randomness quantum critical points induced by dissipation
Oct 20	Balachandran Sathiapalan	Inst. of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	The BTZ black hole and Luttinger Liquids
Sep 29	Sumit Das	University of Kentucky, USA	Spins, Gauge Fields and Lifshitz points
Sep 17	Sudeep Das	Princeton University, USA	CMB Lensing: A New Tool for Cosmology and Astrophysics
Sep 15	Sachindeo Vaidya	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Quantum Signatures of Spacetime "Graininess"
Sep 1	Ronojoy Adhikari	IMSc, Chennai	Markov chain model for the Indus script
Aug 25	Nilmani Mathur	TIFR	Recent results on hadron spectra from lattice QCD
Aug 18	Diptiman Sen	IISc, Bangalore	The Kitaev model
Jul 28	Avinash Dhar	TIFR	Four-fermi theory at a non-Lorentz invariant fixed point
Jul 21	Saumen Datta	TIFR	SU(N) Gauge Theory Thermodynamics from Lattice
Jul 7	Arnab Sen	TIFR	Geometrically frustrated magnets
Jul 2	Mustafa Abdulkader Amin	MIT	Probing gravity/dark energy on cosmological scales
Jun 30	Shailesh Chandrasekharan	Duke University	Quantum Mechanics and the Computational Challenges for the Twenty-first Century
Apr 28	Cesar Gomez	Universidad Autonoma, Madrid, Spain	Gravity, species and information
Apr 21	Gustavo Branco	IST Lisbon, Portugal	The Flavour Puzzle
Apr 9	Siddhartha Lal	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Ordering and Frustration in strongly correlated chain systems
Mar 10	Satya Majumdar	Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France	Extreme Eigenvalues of Random Matrices
Feb 24	Robin Stinchcombe	Oxford University	Universal and non-universal critical dynamics in driven systems
Feb 17	R. Shankar	Matscience, Chennai	Himalayan Glaciers and Climate Change or Ganga Aaye Kahan Se ? Gaumukh Jaaye Kahan Re ?
Feb 10	Aparna Baskaran	Syracuse University	Bacteria as a fluid: Applying the materials physics paradigm to biology
Feb 2	K. Sridhar	TIFR	Spissitudinal Explorations
Jan 20	Raymond Bishop	University of Manchester	Journeys to and in quantum phase space: extended quantum phase-space formulations of quantum many-body theory and quantum information theory
Jan 16	Carl M. Bender	Washington University, St. Louis, USA	Ghostbusting: Reviving quantum theories that were thought to be dead
Jan 13	Shrihari Gopalakrishna	Brookhaven National Lab, USA	New Physics Expectations at the Large Hadron Collider
Jan 9	Sinya Aoki	University of Tsukuba	Nuclear force from lattice QCD
2008
Sep 23	G. Venketeswara Pai	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	Two-fluid Model of Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganites
Sep 16	Mofazzal Azam	BARC	Proposal for an experiment to search for the effects of Randall-Sundrum type corrections to Newton's law of gravitation
Sep 9	Dietrich Bodeker	Bielefeld University	QCD plasma instabilities
Sep 4	Dipak Munshi	University of Cambridge	Constraining Cosmology with Cosmic Microwave Background Surveys
Aug 5	Anil Shaji	University of New Mexico	Quantum metrology from an information theory perspective
Jun 24	Shamik Gupta	TIFR	Dynamics of fluctuations in driven diffusive systems: finite-size effects
May 27	Sudarshan Ananth	IISER Pune	Perturbative relations between gauge theory and gravity
May 13	Manoj Gopalakrishnan	HRI, Allahabad	Olfactory signal transduction: how feedback controls noise
May 6	Sriram Ramaswamy	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Active matter: order, fluctuations, instabilities
Apr 22	Sudipta Maiti	TIFR	Protein misfolding and the generation of toxic nanoclusters
Apr 15	R. Rajesh	The Inst. of Math. Sciences, Chennai	Statistics of Driven Dissipative Systems: Kolmogorov laws >
Mar 12	Raja Paul	University of California, Davis	Mechanical regulation of cell contractility and spontaneous cell patterning
Mar 11	John Cardy	Oxford University	Quantum Quenches in Extended Systems
Mar 6	Anirban Chakraborti	Banaras Hindi University, Varanasi	An Outlook on Econophysics (in room AG80)
Feb 19	Adi R. Bulsara	SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego	Coupling nonlinear oscillators for fun and profit
Feb 15 (Friday) at 11:00 a.m. in A-304	Rohini Godbole	Centre for High Energy Physics, IISc, Bangalore	Determining the CP properties of the Higgs boson
Jan 22	Sanjib Sabhapandit	LPTMS, Orsay, France	Integer partitions and exclusion statistics: Limit shapes and the largest part of Young diagrams
Jan 8	Rana Biswas	Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames	Three dimensional photonic crystals- advances and recent applications (Joint DCMP/DTP Colloquium)
2007
Dec 18	Pinaki Sengupta	Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA	Geometric frustration and quantum magnetism
Dec 11 (at 2:30 p.m.)	Subroto Mukerjee	University of California at Berkeley	Spinor condensates: Phase transitions, vortex lattices and dynamics
Nov 20	Mandar Deshmukh	TIFR	Paper and pencil experiments
Nov 13	Deepak Dhar	TIFR	Exact entropy of dimer coverings for a class of lattices in three or more dimensions
Nov 6	Sunil Mukhi	TIFR	Blackhole breakup and dyon decay
Oct 16	Harald Fritzsch	University of Munich	Flavor Symmetries, Flavor Mixing, Neutrino Masses and Neutrino Mixing
Oct 9	Shiraz Minwalla	TIFR	Large Rotating Black Holes from Fluid Dynamics
Sep 18	Hiranmaya Mishra	PRL, Ahmedabad	Gapless superconductivity -- from quark matter to cold atoms
Sep 11	Probir Roy	TIFR	Majorana phases and renormalization group evolution in neutrino mixing
Aug 27	Subhabrata Majumdar	TIFR	Astrophysical Probes of Dark Energy
Aug 21	Saumen Datta	TIFR	Lattice Study of the Thermal Phase Transition in QCD
Aug 7	Kumar Raman	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	On the construction of microscopic models with exotic phases
Jul 17	Jean-Yves Ollitrault	Saclay, France	RHIC results and the viscosity of hot QCD
May 24	Michael Berry	Bristol University	Physics of nonhermitian degeneracies
May 15	K.J. Thomas	University of Cambridge	Wigner Crystallisation in a Weakly-Confined Quantum Wire
May 1	Sakuntala Chatterjee	TIFR	Nonequilibrium Probes in Driven Diffusive Systems
Apr 10	Abhijit Bandyopadhyay	TIFR	Constraints on flavor-dependent long range forces from neutrino experiments
Mar 27	Deepak Dhar	TIFR	Orientational ordering of long rods on a lattice
Mar 20	Vikram Tripathi	TIFR	Anomalous thermal transport in granular metals
Mar 13	Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan	University of Geneva	Kinetics of morphogen gradient formation: development, cell biology and biophysics
Mar 8	Kirone Mallick	CEA, France	The asymmetric exclusion process: a paradigm for non-equilibrium statistical physics
Mar 7	Niklas Beisert	Albert Einstein Institute, Germany	Integrability in Gauge and String Theory
Feb 27	Debashis Ghoshal	HRI, Allahabad	p-Stringy discretisation of the string worldsheet
Feb 20	K. Sridhar	TIFR	From Strings to LHC: A Summary
Feb 13	M. Parrinello	ETH Zurich	New Electronic Structure Methods
Jan 23	Satya N. Majumdar	University of Paris	Largest Eigenvalue of a Random Matrix
Jan 9	Rajat K. Bhaduri	McMaster University, Canada	Ultra-cold Fermionic atoms with tunable interactions : A density functional perspective
2006
Dec 8	Subir Sarkar	Oxford	What have we learnt about inflation from WMAP?
Dec 5	Subroto Mukerjee	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA	Spinor condensates: Topological defects, the superfluid transition and coarsening dynamics
Nov 7	George Chapline	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA	Information Storage in a Quantum Critical Layer
Oct 31	Vijay Shenoy	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Patterns in Soft Thin Films
Sep 26	Pankaj Joshi	TIFR	Gravitational Collapse
Oct 17	Anandamohan Ghosh	TIFR	Random Trimer Tilings
Sep 5	Punyabrata Pradhan	TIFR	Probability distribution of residence times of grains in sandpile models
Aug 29	Rajiv Singh	University of California, Davis	Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet
Aug 23	Sriram Shastry	University of California, Santa Cruz	Quantum Integrable systems: Where do they all come from?
Aug 1	Ribhu Kaul	Harvard Univ.	Spectroscopy of the Kondo Problem in a Box
Jul 25	Subir Das	Univ. of Maryland	Critical Dynamics in Fluids: Verifying Theory through Simulations
Jul 18	Sudhir Vempati	Ecole Polytechnique -CPHT, France	Massive Neutrinos and Supersymmetry at LHC
Apr 4	Abhijit Bandyopadhyay	TIFR	Determination of the parameters of the solar model using measurements of solar neutrino fluxes
Mar 31	Arvind Rajaraman	Univ. of California, Irvin	The Phenomenology of Superweakly Interacting Dark Matter
Mar 21	Amol Dighe	TIFR	Looking at the supernova shock in neutrinos
Feb 7	Avinash Dhar	TIFR	Bosonization of Non-relativistic Fermions and Applications
Jan 31	Rishikesh Vaidya	TIFR	b --> s + gamma and its distant cousin
Jan 24	Prashanth Jaikumar	Argonne National Lab.	From Quarks to Stars: Nucleosynthesis in the Cosmos
Jan 23	David Kosower	Saclay, Paris	From Twistors to Complete QCD Amplitudes
Jan 10	Juergen Kurths	Potsdam University	Synchronization: A Universal Concept in Nonlinear Sciences
Jan 4	Ashvin Vishwanath	University of California, Berkeley	Thermoelectric transport near pair breaking quantum phase transition out of d-wave superconductivity
2005
Dec 27	Srubabati Goswami	HRI, Allahabad and T. U. Munchen, Germany	Neutrino Oscillations : Aspects and Prospects
Dec 29	Giovanni Landi	University of Trieste	Noncommutative instantons from twisted conformal symmetries
Dec 22	Rohini Godbole	IISc, Bangalore	Supersymmetry and Invisible Higgs
Dec 13	Sumanta Tewari	University of Maryland	Living in dimensions lower than meets the eye: Sliding phases in classical and quantum statistical mechanics
Nov 22	T. Padmanabhan	IUCAA, Pune	Horizons and/of Gravity
Nov 8	Joel L. Lebowitz	Rutgers University	Non-equilibrium Stationary States
Oct 25	Kevin Goldstein	TIFR	Non-SUSY blackhole attractors
Oct 18	Amit Chattopadhyay	University of Warwick	A Biological Model of Flagellar Motion
Sep 13	Nilmani Mathur	Jefferson Lab, USA	Hadronic Physics from Lattice QCD : Status and Outlook
Sep 6	Partha Konar	TIFR	Discrimination of Supersymmetry from Large Extra Dimensions at Colliders
Aug 30	Abhishek Dhar	Raman Research Institute, Bangalore	Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of small systems
Aug 19	Indranil Paul	CEA, France	Magnetic Quantum Criticality in Heavy-Fermions
Aug 16	Kumar Rao	TIFR	Large Extra Dimensional Models with a Minimal Length Scale
Aug 9	Jainendra Jain	Penn State University	Topological fermions in condensed matter physics
Jun 14	Vikram Tripathi	University of Cambridge	Kondo effect in nearly ferromagnetic metals
Jun 7	Anjan Joshipura	PRL, Ahmedabad	Leptonic Mixing: An Overview
May 10	Rajesh Gopakumar	HRI, Allahabad	From Spacetime to Worldsheet
May 3	Atish Dabholkar	TIFR	Going Beyond Bekenstein and Hawking -- Black Hole Entropy in --> -- String Theory
Apr 26	Satya Majumdar	Univ. of Paris, France	Condensation in Real Space
Apr 19	Arun K. Pati	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	What is Quantum Information?
Apr 5	D.P. Roy	TIFR	Solar Neutrino Oscillation
Mar 29	V. Ravindran	HRI, Allahabad	Importance of QCD at TeV Colliders
Mar 22	Mahendra Verma	IIT Kanpur	Patterns and Intermittency Through Energy Transfers
Mar 15	Arnaud Dartois	Ecole Polytechnique	The Height-Arrow Model of Self-organized criticality
Feb 4	Timothy Hallman	BNL	The Search for Quark-Gluon Plasma Formation in Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions
Jan 18	Mahendra Khandkar	TIFR	Orientational ordering of hard rods in 2-D
Jan 11	Mark Bowick	Syracuse University	Order on Curved Surfaces: Scars in Sphereland
Jan 4	Amitava Datta	Jadavpur University	New upper bounds on masses of supersymmetric particles
2004
Dec 17	Lov Grover	Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs.	Simple statements should have simple proofs
Dec 9	Rajarshi Ray	TIFR	Phase transition and QCD
Nov 19	Probir Roy	TIFR	Neutrinos from Extra Dimensions
Nov 2	Arun Paramekanti	University of Toronto	Cooking electrons: Transition to zero resistance in a microwave driven 2D electron gas
Nov 1	Pierre Coullet	Institut Non-Lineaire de Nice and the Institut Universitaire de France	The historical developments of the Science of Motion: Geometry, Determinism and Randomness
Oct 29	Shiraz Minwalla	TIFR	Black Holes in Yang Mills Theories
Oct 8	Prasanta Kumar Tripathy	TIFR	Flux Compactifications in String Theory
Sep 27	Saumen Datta	Univ. of Bielefeld, Germany	Charmonia in a deconfined gluonic plasma
Sep 24	S.M. Roy	TIFR	Phase Space For Qubits
Sep 3	Sumedha	TIFR	Efficiency of a Monte-Carlo algorithm for linear and branched polymers
Aug 13	Manu Mathur	SNBNCBS, Kolkata	Harmonic Oscillator Prepotentials in SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory
Aug 6	Prashanth Jaikumar	McGill University	The many phases of cold dense quark matter
Jul 30	Bulbul Chakraborty	Brandeis University	Critical dynamics in a funnel-shaped landscape: a Landau-type theory of the glass transition
Jul 23	Gunter M. Schutz	Institut fur Festkorperforschung (Theorie II), Forschungszentrum Julich	Recent Progress on driven diffusive systems with two species of particles
Jul 9	P.K. Kabir	University of Virginia	Spinor Harmonics: Application to Problems Old & New
Jul 2	Rajiv Singh	University of California, Davis	Excitation Spectra in Quantum Magnetism: Looking Beyond Quasiparticles
Jun 11	Sujit Sarkar	Weizmann Institute of Science	Elementary excitations of dimerized spin-leg ledder systems
Jun 4	Norihiro Iizuka	TIFR	Strings and Black Holes from the Matrix
Mar 25	Thirumala Raya Halemane	Penn State University	My Experiments in Theoretical Physics
Feb 13	Sreedhar B. Dutta	TIFR	Phase transitions in periodically driven macroscopic systems
Feb 5	Serge Aubry	CEA-Saclay, Laboratoire Leon Brillouin, France	Discrete Breathers : Review and some problems
Jan 30	Kishore Kapale	Texas A & M University	Approach to molecular physics through correlated two-center orbitals
Jan 5	Ashvin Vishwanath	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Landau Forbidden Phase Transitions and Emergent Photons in Quantum Antiferromagnets
2003
Sep 26	Kumar Rao	TIFR	Finite Temperature Induced Fermion Number
Sep 23	Mathew Headrick	TIFR	Progress in Closed String Tachyon Condensation
Sep 19	Krishnendu Sengupta	Yale University, USA	Edge states in unconventional superconductors
Sep 12	D.P. Roy	TIFR	Higgs and SUSY Searches at LHC : An Overview
Sep 5	Vijay A. Singh	IIT, Kanpur	Semiconductor Quantum Dots : Theory and Phenomenology theory
Aug 29	Shiraz Minwalla	Harvard University	A Hagedorn transition in weakly coupled Yang-Mills theory
Aug 22	Kavita Jain	TIFR	Infinite aggregate formation in nonequilibrium, disordered systems
Aug 1	Jainendra Jain	Pennsylvania State University	Re-emergence of fractional statistics in the fractional quantum Hall effect
Jun 27	Ayse Erzan	Istanbul Technical University	Biologically motivated problems in Statistical Mechanics
Jun 20	N.D. Hari Dass	Institute of Mathematical Sciences	The statistical significance of single quantum states
Mar 28	Janos Kertesz	Budapest Institute of Technology	Econophysics: Introduction and some results
Feb 21	Xavier G. Viennot	CNRS, Bordeaux, France	Lorentzian quantum gravity and heaps of pieces
Feb 7	Sourendu Gupta	TIFR	Why the answer is 42
Jan 24	Prasanta Kumar Tripathy	TIFR	Supersymmetric String Compactifications
Jan 10	Justin Raj David	ASICTP, Trieste	Instabilities in String theory
2002
Dec 12	Bhargavi Srinivasan	Laboratoire de Physique Quantique, Universite Paul Sabatier, France	Transition to an insulating phase in the disordered, attractive Hubbard model
Dec 6	Jean-Yves Ollitrault	Saclay, France	Collective flow in heavy ion collisions from Lee-Yang zeroes
Nov 29	Shailesh Chandrasekharan	Duke University	Fermions: Can We Tame them with Loops?
Nov 22	Alok Kumar	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	String Theory in Plane-wave background
Nov 1	Prabal K. Maiti	California Institute of Technology	Multiscale modeling of soft-matter systems
Sep 20	C. Henley	Cornell University, U.S.A.	In pursuit of the long-range order due to quantum fluctuations in highly frustrated antiferromagnets
Sep 27	P.K. Mohanty	TIFR	Activity in Sandpiles Propagates Like a Critical Infection
Sep 13	Joris Raeymaekers	TIFR	Tachyon condensation and string field theory
Sep 6	Sonali Tamhankar	Indiana University, USA	Lattice Study of Heavy Baryon Semileptonic Form Factor
Aug 2	H.R. Krishnamurthy	IISc Bangalore	Effective Medium Theories for Quantum Manybody Dynamics
Jul 26	Biswajoy Brahmachari	SINP, Kolkata	A scenario of supersymmetric grand unification, neutrino mass and leptogenesis
Jul 12	A.M.M. Pruisken	University of Amsterdam	The theta vacuum at large N: instantons, theta renormalization, the quantum Hall effect and all that
Jul 5	N.D. Hari Dass	Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai	An elementary scalar at all scales
Jun 21	Anjan Joshipura	PRL, Ahmedabad	Neutrinos and supersymmetry
May 17	Anish Sarkar	ISI, New Delhi	A Model of Drainage Networks
May 10	Arvind	Guru Nanak Dev Univ.	Invariant squeezing and pair-coherent states
May 8	Arvind	Guru Nanak Dev Univ.	Quantum algorithms and entanglement
Mar 15	Amol Dighe	Max-Planck-Inst. fur Physik, Munich, Germany	Neutrinos: the mundane, the exotic and the catastrophic
Mar 5	B. Sriram Shastry	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	What do dynamical conservation Laws do for us? and why 3-dimensions precludes accidental degeneracies
Mar 1	T.V.Ramakrishnan	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	Understanding the Strange Properties of Colossal Magnetoresistance Manganites: Ideas and a Model
Feb 27	Avinash Khare	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	Linear Superposition for Nonlinear Equations, New Identities for Jacobi Elliptic functions and a Model for Metal-Insulator Transition
Feb 22	N.G. Deshpande	Univ. of Oregon, USA	Pheonomenological implications of Noncommuting gauge theories
Jan 11	Shiraz Minwalla	Harvard University	Noncommutative Geometry in String Theory
Jan 4	Michael Thorpe	Michigan State University	Protein Folding: Rigidity lost
2001
Dec 21	R. Shankar	Yale University	FQHE for Dummies
Dec 14	Urjit Yajnik	IIT Powai	Precision cosmology and challenges to theory
Dec 7	Matt Visser	Washington University, St. Louis	Analog models of and for Einstein gravity
Nov 23	Larry McLerran	BNL, USA	What have we learned from RHIC?
Nov 16	Sreedhar Dutta	TIFR	Flux attachment and Fractional quantum Hall effect
Nov 9	P.K. Mohanty	TIFR	One Dimensional Metals: Recent Developments
Nov 2	Avinash Dhar	TIFR	Loop Equations in Non-commutative Gauge Field Theories
Sep 14	Utpal Chattopadhyay	TIFR	Implications of Muon g - 2 Data on Particle Physics with Supersymmetry
Aug 31	D.P. Roy	TIFR	Looking for the Chrged Higgs Boson at LHC
Aug 24	Tapobrata Sarkar	TIFR	Linear Sigma Model Approach to D-brane Physics
Aug 17	Sourov Roy	TIFR	Anomaly-mediated SUSY breaking and its test in a linear collider
Aug 10	Pushan Majumdar	TIFR	Susceptibility and screening masses in QCD
Aug 3	Arun Paramekanti	TIFR	High temperature superconductors: What can we learn from a variational wavefunction?
Jul 27	R. Rajesh	TIFR	A combinatorial proof of the MacMahon formula for plane partitions
Jun 29	Jainendra Jain	Pennsylvania State University, USA	A peripheral puzzle in the fractional quantum Hall effect
Jun 8	Mustansir Barma	TIFR	Phase ordering induced by fluctuations