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Towards Universal Detection Of Bi-Partite Entanglement 2022-03-30 Prof. Sibasish Ghosh completed his Ph.D. in the Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit (PAMU) of ISI-Kolka... 2022-03-30 Read More
Nuclear Spins As Quantum Bits 2019-10-23 T. S. Mahesh did his bachelors and masters in Physics at JCBM College (Kuvempu University) and Mangalore... 2019-10-23 Read More
From Listening To Black-Hole Collisions To Discovering Cosmic Gold Mines 2018-03-14 Chandra Kant Mishra is a theoretical physicist at the Department of Physics, IIT Madras. He received his... 2018-03-14 Read More
Hrithik And The 2019 Physics Nobel Prize 2020-08-19 Jayant Murthy obtained his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University in 1987. He was a National Research Cou... 2020-08-19 Read More
The Central Force Problem In N Dimensions 2020-10-07 Professor V. Balakrishnan earned his B.Sc. (Honours) and M. Sc.degrees in physics from the University of... 2020-10-07 Read More
Generation, Control And Applications Of Photonic Spatial Qubits 2022-03-18 Ady Arie is Professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University and holds the Marko and Lu... 2022-03-18 Read More
Probing The Primordial Universe With Electromagnetic And Gravitational Waves 2024-02-07 L. Sriramkumar is a Professor of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai. He... 2024-02-07 Read More
Deneme 2022-02-09 After a 4-year Postdoc phase at the Institut Curie in Paris, that was funded by an EMBO and a Marie Curi... 2022-02-09 Read More
The Discrete Charm Of Scale Invariance In Nuclear And Atomic Physics 2018-03-21 Ubirajara (Bira) van Kolck is a Directeur de Recherche at Frances Centre National de la Recherche Scient... 2018-03-21 Read More
Why Does A Frustrated Magnet Expand Upon Cooling? Structural Transitions, Magnetization Plateaus, And Negative Thermal Expansion In Magnetic Spinels 2022-04-20 2022-04-20 Read More
The Astonishing Story Of Complex Cells 2024-09-11 Mukund Thattai obtained a B.A. in physics from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in physics from the Massa... 2024-09-11 Read More
Carbon: From Simplicity To Quantum Complexity 2018-02-07 Professor G. Baskaran is a SERB Distinguished Fellow at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.... 2018-02-07 Read More
Towards Unraveling The Puzzling Cuprates 2021-08-25 2021-08-25 Read More
Fascinating Life-Stories Of Cosmic Light-Houses 2018-02-28 Prof. Avinash Deshpande worked at the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, in their Astronomy & Astrophy... 2018-02-28 Read More
Neutrino Astronomy And Fundamental Physics With IceCube 2021-09-22 Prof. Rameez is from Kozhikode, Kerala. He finished his PhD in 2016 from University of Geneva Switzerlan... 2021-09-22 Read More
The Limits Of Cosmology 2018-04-11 Joseph Silk is Homewood Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore ... 2018-04-11 Read More
Quantum Phase Transition In Atomically Thin Layers Of NbSe2 2019-09-25 Aveek Bid did his Ph.D in Physics at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. After his post-doctoral wor... 2019-09-25 Read More
Quantum Phase Transition In Atomically- Thin Layers Of NbSe2 2019-09-25 Aveek Bid did his Ph.D in Physics at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. After his post-doctoral wor... 2019-09-25 Read More
Nonclassical Effects In The Dynamics Of Quantum Systems 2022-09-21 Prof. Lakshmi Bala got her Ph.D from the Madras University in High Energy Physics. She has been a facult... 2022-09-21 Read More
Fractionalized Excitations In Quantum Spin Liquids And Their Detection 2024-02-21 Nandini Trivedi is a Professor of Physics and a Distinguished Professor of the College of Arts and Scien... 2024-02-21 Read More
Quantum Entanglement: From Paradoxes To Reality 2022-11-04 2022-11-04 Read More
Ab Initio Study Of Intermolecular Coulombic Electron Capture In Microhydrated Cation 2024-02-15 Nicolas Sisourat is a Professor in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics, University of Sorbonne, Paris. He... 2024-02-15 Read More
Quantum Annealing: Myths And Realities 2020-02-05 Professor Anders Sandvik completed his M.Sc. at Abo Akademi University in Finland in 1989 and his Ph.D. ... 2020-02-05 Read More
Probing For New Physics At The Flavour Frontier 2017-10-25 Guy Wilkinson is a professor at the University of Oxford and fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. He was edu... 2017-10-25 Read More
Nuclear Physics, A Century Old Challenge 2017-03-15 Sunethra is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, IIT Madras. Her main research interests... 2017-03-15 Read More
Is "Der Schmutz Der Schmutizphysik" Or The Dirtiest Physics 2023-01-18 Prof. Hoyos obtained his PhD from Campinas State University in 2005 under the supervision of prof. Eduar... 2023-01-18 Read More
The Way Modern Physics Has Shaped Experimental Condensed Matter Physics And Nanoscience 2018-10-31 MSR Rao did his Masters (Physics) and Ph.D. (experimental solid state physics) from IIT Kharagpur, and a... 2018-10-31 Read More
The Quest Of The Kagome Hubbard Model 2022-11-02 Ronny Thomale is a Full Professor and Institute Chair in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the Ins... 2022-11-02 Read More
The Phase Diagram Of QCD 2017-01-18 Bedangadas Mohanty is an experimental high energy physicist specialising in heavy-ion collision experime... 2017-01-18 Read More
Nearly Perfect Quark-Gluon Droplet At The Smallest Scales 2023-04-19 Prof. Wei Li received his Ph.D. in experimental particle and nuclear physics at MIT in 2009. Following a... 2023-04-19 Read More
Fractons, From Fields To Paper And Trees 2021-08-18 Vijay Shenoy completed his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1998. After a short stint at IIT Kanpur until ... 2021-08-18 Read More
Experiments Driving Theory: The Two-Body Problem In General Relativity 2020-01-22 Bala Iyer is currently Simons Visiting Professor at ICTS-TIFR Bangalore. He completed his BSc, MSc and P... 2020-01-22 Read More
Superconducting Electrical Circuits: A Platform For Fundamental Science And Advanced Quantum Technologies 2023-08-16 Dr. Vijayaraghavan obtained his PhD from Yale University in 2008 and did his postdoctoral work at the Un... 2023-08-16 Read More
Geometry Of Quantum Entanglement 2017-02-15 Karol Życzkowski was born in 1960 in Cracow, Poland. He is a theoretical physicist with diverse interes... 2017-02-15 Read More
Glimpses Of Gut Microbes In Their Physical World 2019-11-05 Raghuveer Parthasarathy received his undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of California a... 2019-11-05 Read More
Markovian Quantum Algorithm For Combinatorial Optimization 2023-08-02 Jaeyoon Cho is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Gyeongsang National University, Ko... 2023-08-02 Read More
Superfluidity In Neutron Stars, And What We Can Learn About It From Ultracold Atoms 2019-03-20 Michael Urban studied at the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany), where he did his PhD in theore... 2019-03-20 Read More
Controlling Quantum Systems 2022-10-26 Barry Sanders is a professor at the University of Calgary and Scientific Director of Quantum City, a par... 2022-10-26 Read More
Puzzles In The Theory Of Heat Conduction In Low-Dimensional Systems 2017-11-01 Prof. Dhar is a theoretical physicist working on the theory and applications of nonequilibrium statistic... 2017-11-01 Read More
Probing The Perfect Liquid With Correlation Functions 2018-09-20 About the speaker: Prof. Pruneau is an experimental high energy physicist performing Relativistic Heavy ... 2018-09-20 Read More
India-Based Neutrino Observatory - Facts And Fiction - Lakshmi Raman Memorial Lecture 2018-10-03 Indumathi did her masters in Physics from Madras Christian College, Chennai. After a short stint working... 2018-10-03 Read More
Brahmagupta Colloquium 2017-09-27 Prof. Gupta received an M.Sc. (Integ.) from IIT Kanpur in 1995 and a Ph.D. from Univ. of Kentucky in 200... 2017-09-27 Read More
Using Quantum Many-Body Physics To Generate €œresourceful” Entanglement 2022-03-17 Prof. Tommaso Roscilde is a Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, in France. He did his Ph... 2022-03-17 Read More
Climate Physics 2021-11-01 2021-11-01 Read More
Quest For Cosmic Origin 2019-09-18 Tarun Souradeep graduated as an engineer from IIT Kanpur. After short stint in automobile design he deci... 2019-09-18 Read More
The Emerging World Of 2D Materials And Their Heterostructures 2018-04-04 Prof. G.P. Das is a condensed matter physicist and a materials scientist working as a senior professor i... 2018-04-04 Read More
Reaching Light-Speed In A Centimeter! 2017-08-09 Rajeev obtained PhD in Laser-Plasma Physics from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 2003 and was ... 2017-08-09 Read More
Structure And Dynamics Of Galaxies 2020-02-26 Seshadri Sridhar is a theoretical astrophysicist who uses nonlinear dynamics, fluid dynamics, kinetic th... 2020-02-26 Read More
Functional Renormalization Group - A New Approach To Frustrated Quantum Magnetism 2019-02-27 Johannes Reuther did his undergraduate studies at the KIT, Germany where he received his masters degree ... 2019-02-27 Read More
Bottom-Up Engineering Of New Electronic And Structural Effects With Atomic Layers 2020-09-02 Arindam Ghosh is a Professor of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. His rese... 2020-09-02 Read More
Mechanisms Governing Shape Changes In Biological Membranes 2017-09-13 Prof. P. B. Sunil Kumar obtained his M. Sc. (1987) from the University of Calicut in India and earned hi... 2017-09-13 Read More
Nearly Perfect Quark-Gluon Droplet At The Smallest Scales 2023-04-19 Prof. Wei Li received his Ph.D. in experimental particle and nuclear physics at MIT in 2009. Following a... 2023-04-19 Read More
Geometrically Frustrated Magnetism 2019-02-20 Prof. E. V. Sampathkumaran received his undergraduate degree from University of Madras and Ph.D. degree ... 2019-02-20 Read More
Novel Phenomena In Confined Soft Matter 2019-04-03 Dr. Dillip K. Satapathy obtained his M. Sc. from the Utkal University, Bhubaneswar in India and earned h... 2019-04-03 Read More
Floating Frogs And Levitating Lattoos 2019-04-24 Surendra Singh got a MSc degree in nuclear physics from Bananas Hindu University and a PhD degree in qua... 2019-04-24 Read More
Presence Of Quantum Diffusion In Two Dimensions? 2018-11-12 Prof. Raghu was born in Hyderabad then moved to the US as a child. He is a theoretical condensed matter ... 2018-11-12 Read More
Study Of Soft And Biological Matter Systems Using Optical Tweezers 2021-10-20 Basudev Roy did his integrated MSc from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He did his PhD from In... 2021-10-20 Read More
Topology In Biology 2023-09-20 Julia Yeomans is Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. She obtained her MA and DPhil in Phys... 2023-09-20 Read More
Mechanical Responses Of Living Cells 2019-10-30 Pramod A Pullarkat did his Masters in Physics from IITMadras and PhD in Physics from the Raman Research ... 2019-10-30 Read More
What Are We? Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going? 2019-11-13 John Ellis currently holds the Clerk Maxwell Professorship of Theoretical Physics at Kings College in Lo... 2019-11-13 Read More
Superconductivity At Extremely Low Carrier Density: Bismuth 2017-02-08 Professor Srinivasan Ramakrishnan did his MSc. Physics in I.I.T. Madras in the year 1977-1979. He joined... 2017-02-08 Read More
Small, Fast...Yet Still In Control: How Insect Flight Deals With The Challenge Of Miniaturization 2017-03-01 Sanjay Sane is an Associate Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of ... 2017-03-01 Read More
Down-To-Earth String Theory 2018-03-07 Rajesh Gopakumar is Senior Professor and Director of ICTS-TIFR. He is a theoretical physicist who did hi... 2018-03-07 Read More
Landscapes In Physics And Biology 2020-03-06 2020-03-06 Read More
A Glimpse Into The World Of ICD And ETMD 2024-02-14 Prof. Lorenz S Cederbaum studied physics at the University of Munich and obtained his Ph.D. under Georg ... 2024-02-14 Read More
The Quest For Starfire On Earth: Where Are We Today? 2017-10-04 Prof. Abhijit Sen obtained his B.Sc. from St. Xaviers College, Ahmedabad and his MS and Ph.D. from the U... 2017-10-04 Read More
Frustrated Magnets And Spin Liquids 2017-04-05 John Chalker was awarded a BA in Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge and a DPhil from t... 2017-04-05 Read More
Hrithik And The 2019 Physics Nobel Prize 2020-08-19 Jayant Murthy obtained his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University in 1987. He was a National Research Cou... 2020-08-19 Read More
Measuring The Expansion History Of The Universe With Supernovae Type Ia: Successes And Pitfalls 2017-02-13 Roberto Trotta is a theoretical cosmologist at Imperial College London, where he studies dark matter, da... 2017-02-13 Read More
Quantum Information Processing With Many-Body Systems 2020-09-23 Prof. Aditi Sen De is currently a Professor H at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), Allahabad.... 2020-09-23 Read More
Quantum Physics And The Butterfly Effect 2019-10-09 Arul graduated as a Mechanical Engineer in 1988 from IIT Madras, attending classes mostly in the MSB dur... 2019-10-09 Read More
Spacetime Singularities In Gravitational Collapse And Cosmology 2020-11-04 Dawood graduated with a Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and a dual Masters in Physi... 2020-11-04 Read More
Fascinating World Of Photons, Superposition And Entanglement 2018-01-24 Urbasi Sinha is an associate professor at the Light and Matter Physics group at the Raman Research Insti... 2018-01-24 Read More
Superconducting Quantum Circuits: Science Meets Technology 2017-11-23 Prof. Rudolf Gross is an experimental condensed matter physicist. His research interests include QIP, hi... 2017-11-23 Read More
Desiccation Cracks In Colloidal Films: Role Of External Fields 2024-04-16 Dr. Dillip Kumar Satapathy obtained his Master in Science from Utkal University, Master in Technology de... 2024-04-16 Read More
Interdisciplinary Insights Arising From The Exploration Of Mathematical And Computational Approaches In The Biomedical Sciences 2024-03-13 Professor Siv Sivaloganathan completed his Masters, PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford University... 2024-03-13 Read More
Unveiling The Universe With Gravitational-Wave Observations 2022-03-09 For over three decades Sathyaprakash’s research has focused on the sources of gravitational waves and ... 2022-03-09 Read More
Brahmagupta Physics Colloquium By Prof. Takaaki Kajita 2020-12-09 Takaaki Kajita is the Special University Professor at the University of Tokyo, and also the Director of ... 2020-12-09 Read More
Robust, Bright Photon Sources For Quantum Communication And Quantum Sensing Applications 2023-09-13 Prof. Goutam K Samanta received his B. Tech and M.Tech in Optics and Optoelectronics from the University... 2023-09-13 Read More
A New Way To Image And Map Surface Conductivity In Condensed Matter Systems 2022-08-03 Prof. Satyajit completed his Ph.D. from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India, in ... 2022-08-03 Read More
Disorder As A Probe For Spin Liquids 2018-01-17 Arnab Sen obtained his B.Sc. (Hons) in physics from St. Stephens College, Delhi in 2003 and Ph.D. from t... 2018-01-17 Read More
Hot Brownian Colloids And Structured Light 2023-02-08 G.V. Pavan Kumar is a professor of physics at IISER-Pune. He obtained his Ph.D. from JNCASR, Bangalore. ... 2023-02-08 Read More
Uncovering The 'Hidden' Structural Order In Dense Liquids And Glasses 2024-04-03 Rajesh Ganapathy obtained his M.Sc. in Physics from IITM in 1999. He worked for a year in the Laundry Cl... 2024-04-03 Read More
Are All Macroscopic Phenomena Derivable From Microscopic Laws? 2019-01-23 Mahendra Verma received his B. Tech. degree from IIT Madras, and Ph.D. degree from University of Marylan... 2019-01-23 Read More
Looking For Non-Abelian Braiding In Quantum Hall Systems 2024-01-24 Prof. Kirill Shtengel received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1999. After postdoctoral stints at UC Irvine, Micr... 2024-01-24 Read More
Quantum Gravity In Three Space-Time Dimensions 2021-08-11 Prof. Sunil Mukhi obtained a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Stony Brook University in 1981. His field... 2021-08-11 Read More
Study of scattering from rough surfaces using computational methods - Optics and Photonics 2017-10-06 Sumeet Kumar 2026-10-06 Read More