Events

Listed below, in reverse chronological order, are recent and forthcoming events related to the topics of our interest here at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) and at the other institutions in Chennai. We have also listed below our past and expected visitors.

Expected visitors

  1. Aseem Paranjape, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, April 11-13, 2018
  2. Joseph Silk, Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France/Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A./Gresham College, London, U.K., April 7-14, 2018
  3. Shiv Kumar Sethi, Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, March 21-23, 2018

Past visitors

  1. Arun Kannawadi, Leiden Observatory, Netherlands, December 11-12, 2017
  2. Darshan Kakkad, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany, September 11-13, 2017
  3. Roberto Trotta, Astrophysics Group, Imperial College, London, U.K., February 12-14, 2017
  4. Jérôme Martin, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France, November 24-December 4, 2016
  5. Suman Majumdar, Astrophysics Group, Imperial College, London, U.K., November 15-16, 2016
  6. V. Sreenath, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A., July 18-20, 2016
  7. Tarun Souradeep, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, October 5-7, 2015
  8. Shiv Kumar Sethi, Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, October 5-7, 2015
  9. Kandaswamy Subramanian, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, October 5-7, 2015
  10. Abhay Ashtekar, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, Pennsylvania State University, State College, U.S.A., October 4-8, 2015
  11. T. R. Seshadri, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, September 16-19, 2015
  12. Raghavan Rangarajan, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, April 23-24, 2015
  13. François Bouchet, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France, April 7-11, 2015
  14. Jérôme Martin, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France, February 27-March 5, 2015
  15. Aditya Aravind, Texas Cosmology Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, U.S.A., August 10-12, 2014
  16. Subodh Patil, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, August 5-6, 2014
  17. Jérôme Martin, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France, February 18-24, 2014
  18. Suratna Das, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, January 29-31, 2014
  19. Subhendra Mohanty, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, January 15-17, 2014
  20. Somnath Bharadwaj, Department of Physics and Meteorology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, December 12, 2013
  21. Kanhaiya Lal Pandey, Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, August 19-21, 2013
  22. Kumar Atmjeet, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, June 16-July 7, 2013
  23. Soumen Basak, Service d'Astrophysique, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, France, July 15-16, 2013
  24. Sanved Kolekar, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, May 16-31, 2013
  25. Akhilesh Nautiyal, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, April 18, 2013
  26. Shiv Kumar Sethi, Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, March 11-16, 2013
  27. Naresh Dadhich, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune and Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, January 30-February 2, 2013
  28. Rakesh Tibrewala, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, October 30-November 7, 2012
  29. T. Padmanabhan, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, October 8-11, 2012
  30. Pravabati Chingangbam, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, September 10-14, 2012
  31. T. R. Seshadri, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, May 16-19, 2012
  32. Rakesh Tibrewala, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, April 21-27, 2012
  33. Jayant Narlikar, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, February 3, 2012
  34. Jérôme Martin, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France, January 31-February 6, 2012

Forthcoming events

  1. Event: Meeting
    Title: A day of gravitation and cosmology
    Date: January 26, 2018
    Venue: To be confirmed
    Time: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM

Past events

  1. Event: Seminar
    Title: Probing dark energy with gravitational lensing
    Speaker: Arun Kannawadi, Leiden Observatory, Netherlands
    Date: December 12, 2017
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
  2. Event: Seminar
    Title: Observational insights into black hole feedback at high-redshift
    Speaker: Darshan Kakkad, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany
    Date: September 12, 2017
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 3:00-4:00 PM
  3. Event: Colloquium
    Title: Measuring the expansion history of the universe with supernovae type Ia: successes and pitfalls
    Speaker: Roberto Trotta, Astrophysics Group, Imperial College, London, U.K.
    Date: February 13, 2017
    Venue: Central Lecture Theatre, IIT-M
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
  4. Event: GIAN course
    Title: Origin and evolution of perturbations during inflation and reheating
    Speaker: Jérôme Martin, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France
    Date: November 25-30, 2016
    Venue: IIT-M
    Time: 8:45 AM-3:30 PM
    The course had consisted of 11 lectures, which are available as videos at the following links: Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4, Lecture 5, Lecture 6, Lecture 7, Lecture 8, Lecture 9, Lecture 10, Lecture 11.
  5. Event: Seminar
    Title: Observing the mysterious epoch of reionization using the 21 cm line
    Speaker: Suman Majumdar, Astrophysics Group, Imperial College, London, U.K.
    Date: November 16, 2016
    Venue: HSB 310, Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 3:00-4:00 PM
  6. Event: Colloquium
    Title: Gravitation and the cosmos: 100 years after Einstein's discovery of general relativity
    Speaker: Abhay Ashtekar, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, Pennsylvania State University, State College, U.S.A.
    Date: October 7, 2015
    Venue: Central Lecture Theatre, IIT-M
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
  7. Event: Meeting
    Title: One-day meeting on black holes and cosmology
    Date: October 6, 2015
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 9:00 AM-5:30 PM
  8. Event: Workshop
    Title: Mini-workshop on gravitational physics
    Date: October 5 and 7, 2015
    Venue: Alladi Ramakrishnan Hall, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    Time: 11:30 AM-6:00 PM (on October 5, 2015) and 09:30 AM-12:15 PM (on October 7, 2015)
  9. Event: Introductory talk
    Title: Understanding the universe through cosmic microwave background radiation
    Speaker: T. R. Seshadri, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi
    Date: September 18, 2015
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 3:30-4:30 PM
  10. Event: Seminar
    Title: Gravitinos, reheating and the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe
    Speaker: Raghavan Rangarajan, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
    Date: April 23, 2015
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 3:00-4:00 PM
  11. Event: Colloquium
    Title: Latest cosmological results from the Planck space mission
    Speaker: François Bouchet, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France
    Date: April 8, 2015
    Venue: Central Lecture Theatre, IIT-M
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
  12. Event: Workshop
    Title: Astronomy, cosmology and fundamental physics with gravitational waves
    Dates: March 2-4, 2015
    Venue: Seminar Hall, Chennai Mathematical Institute
    Time: 9:30 AM-5:00 PM
  13. Event: Seminar
    Title: Gravity waves from inflation and the Lyth bound
    Speaker: Aditya Aravind, Texas Cosmology Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, U.S.A.
    Date: August 11, 2014
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
  14. Event: Seminar
    Title: Correlating features in the primordial spectra, or, what was the inflaton?
    Speaker: Subodh Patil, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
    Date: August 6, 2014
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 3:00-4:00 PM
  15. Event: Colloquium
    Title: Inflation after Planck
    Speaker: Jérôme Martin, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France
    Date: February 19, 2014
    Venue: Physics Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
  16. Event: Seminar
    Title: CSL as a plausible mechanism for quantum to classical transition of primordial perturbations
    Speaker: Suratna Das, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
    Date: January 30, 2014
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
  17. Event: Seminar
    Title: Curvature couplings of the inflaton
    Speaker: Subhendra Mohanty, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
    Date: January 16, 2014
    Venue: Conference Room (HSB 203), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
  18. Event: Seminar
    Title: Probing the universe with redshifted HI 21-cm radiation
    Speaker: Somnath Bharadwaj, Department of Physics and Meteorology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
    Date: December 12, 2013
    Venue: Conference Room (HSB 203), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
  19. Event: Seminar
    Title: Primordial magnetic fields and early structure formation in the universe
    Speaker: Kanhaiya Lal Pandey, Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru
    Date: August 20, 2013
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
  20. Event: Seminar
    Title: A needlet ILC analysis of WMAP 9-year data
    Speaker: Soumen Basak, Service d'Astrophysique, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, France
    Date: July 16, 2013
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
  21. Event: Seminar
    Title: Anisotropic non-Gaussianity with non-commutative spacetime
    Speaker: Akhilesh Nautiyal, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
    Date: April 18, 2013
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
  22. Event: Seminar
    Title: Cosmological implications of primordial magnetic fields
    Speaker: Shiv Kumar Sethi, Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru
    Date: March 12, 2013
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
  23. Event: Pedagogical lecture
    Title: Einstein is Newton in space curved
    Speaker: Naresh Dadhich, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune and Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
    Date: February 1, 2013
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM
  24. Event: Seminar
    Title: The gravitational equation in higher dimensions
    Speaker: Naresh Dadhich, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune and Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
    Date: January 31, 2013
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
  25. Event: Seminar
    Title: (Loop) quantum gravity and spacetime structure
    Speaker: Rakesh Tibrewala, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram
    Date: November 2, 2012
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
  26. Event: Colloquium
    Title: Matters of gravity
    Speaker: T. Padmanabhan, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune
    Date: October 10, 2012
    Venue: Physics Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
  27. Event: Seminar
    Title: Geometrical and topological properties of excursion sets of the CMB
    Speaker: Pravabati Chingangbam, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
    Date: September 12, 2012
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
  28. Event: Seminar
    Title: Probing primordial magnetic fields with cosmic microwave background radiation
    Speaker: T. R. Seshadri, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi
    Date: May 17, 2012
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
  29. Event: Meeting
    Title: Discussion meeting on cosmology
    Date: February 14, 2012
    Venue: Chandrasekhar Hall, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    Time: 10:00 AM-5:00 PM
  30. Event: Extra Mural Lecture
    Title: How well do we know our universe?
    Speaker: Jayant Narlikar, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune
    Venue: Central Lecture Theatre, IIT-M
    Date: February 3, 2012
    Time: 7:30-8:30 PM
  31. Event: Seminar
    Title: The theory of inflationary perturbations
    Speaker: Jérôme Martin, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France
    Date: February 3, 2012
    Venue: Seminar Hall (HSB 209), Department of Physics, IIT-M
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM