Events

Listed below, in reverse chronological order, are past and forthcoming lectures, seminars, colloquia, schools and meetings related to the topics of my interest here at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Forthcoming events

  1. Event: Seminar
    Title: Inflationary models in perturbative large volume scenario
    Speaker: Dibya Chakraborty, Centre for Strings, Gravitation and Cosmology, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
    Date: September 19, 2024
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Physics Seminar Hall, HSB 209

Past events

  1. Event: Seminar
    Title: Dynamics of the very early universe: Towards decoding its signature through primordial black hole abundance, dark matter, and gravitational waves
    Speaker: Md. Riajul Haque, Centre for Strings, Gravitation and Cosmology, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
    Date: April 29, 2024
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Bose Hall, HSB 210
  2. Event: Seminar
    Title: CSL and cosmic inflation
    Speaker: Jérôme Martin, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France
    Date: August 8, 2024
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Physics Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  3. Event: Seminar
    Title: Quantum ergodicity, holography and geometry
    Speaker: Shoy Ouseph, New York University, Abu Dhabi
    Date: August 1, 2024
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Physics Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  4. Event: Seminar
    Title: The distribution of cold neutral gas in the local universe
    Speaker: Nishikanta Khandai, School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar
    Date: April 25, 2024
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Physics Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  5. Event: Seminar
    Title: The present and future of Hubble tension
    Speaker: Supratik Pal, Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
    Date: April 4, 2024
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Physics Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  6. Event: Seminar
    Title: Forming primordial black holes with gravitational wave signatures: Inflationary pathway versus false vacuum decay pathways
    Speaker: Anish Ghoshal, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
    Date: February 29, 2024
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Physics Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  7. Event: Seminar
    Title: Precision cosmology with gravitational-wave observations
    Speaker: B. S. Sathyaprakash, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, USA and School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, UK
    Date: November 23, 2023
    Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon
    Venue: Bose Hall, HSB 210
  8. Event: Chandrasekhar Lecture
    Title: Gravitational-wave astronomy: New discoveries, puzzles and prospects
    Speaker: B. S. Sathyaprakash, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, USA and School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, UK
    Date: November 22, 2023
    Time: 5:30-6:30 PM
    Venue: Physics Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  9. Event: Seminar
    Title: Cosmic web unveiled: A window into the universe with HI intensity mapping
    Speaker: Sourabh Paul, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, UK
    Date: November 15, 2023
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: HSB 203
  10. Event: Seminar
    Title: Quantum diffusion during cosmic inflation
    Speaker: Vincent Vennin, Laboratoire de Physique, de l’Ecole Normale Superieure, Sorbonne Universite and Universite Paris Cite, Paris, France
    Date: November 8, 2023
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
    Venue: Central Lecture Theatre
  11. Event: Seminar
    Title: Black holes and their QNMs in degenerate EGB gravity
    Speaker: G. Suvikranth, Department of Physics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science---Pilani, Goa Campus, Goa
    Date: September 29, 2023
    Time: 2:00-3:00 PM
    Venue: HSB 203
  12. Event: Seminar
    Title: The pairwise and cross-pairwise y-type polarised kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect from the transverse velocity of galaxy clusters
    Speaker: Aritra Gon, Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
    Date: September 27, 2023
    Time: 3:00-4:00 PM
    Venue: HSB 203
  13. Event: Popular talk
    Title: Quests and conquests: Gravitational wave science
    Speaker: Tarun Souradeep, Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru
    Date: September 25, 2023
    Time: 5:30 PM
    Venue: Physics Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  14. Event: Seminar
    Title: Many faces of reheating and their signatures on primordial gravitational waves
    Speaker: Debaprasad Maity, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
    Date: September 21, 2023
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
    Venue: HSB 209
  15. Event: Popular talk
    Title: Mystery of the universe
    Speaker: Masahide Yamaguchi, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, Korea and Theoretical Cosmology Group, Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
    Date: August 22, 2023
    Time: 6:00-7:00 PM
    Venue: HSB 310
  16. Event: Seminar
    Title: New dynamical degrees of freedom from invertible transformations
    Speaker: Masahide Yamaguchi, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, Korea and Theoretical Cosmology Group, Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
    Date: August 17, 2023
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: HSB 210
  17. Event: Seminar
    Title: Primordial black holes from inflation: Dark matter, gravitational waves and imprints from evaporation
    Speaker: Rajeev Kumar Jain, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
    Date: August 10, 2023
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: HSB 210
  18. Event: Seminars
    Title: Quantum mechanics in the sky?
    Speaker: Jérôme Martin, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France
    Dates: July 25 and 27, 2023
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: HSB 210
  19. Event: Seminar
    Title: Indirect imprints of primordial non-Gaussianity on cosmological observables
    Speaker: H. V. Ragavendra, Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru
    Date: July 20, 2023
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: HSB 210
  20. Event: Seminar
    Title: Cosmology with the redshifted HI 21-cm line
    Speaker: Somnath Bharadwaj, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
    Date: July 5, 2023
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: HSB 210
  21. Event: Seminar
    Title: Equations of state in the curved space-time of compact degenerate stars
    Speaker: Susobhan Mandal, Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata
    Date: March 27, 2023
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: HSB 203
  22. Event: Meeting
    Title: Aspects of Cosmology
    Date: December 23, 2022
    Time: 9:00 AM-1:10 PM
    Venue: HSB 210
  23. Event: School
    Title: Mini School on Gravitation and Cosmology
    Dates: November 24-26, 2022
    Time: 9:00 AM-4:30 PM
    Venue: HSB 210
  24. Event: Seminar
    Title: Precision cosmology methodologies in CMB: Deconvolution, inflation and weak lensing
    Speaker: Rajorshi Sushovan Chandra, Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru
    Date: November 17, 2022
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: HSB 210
  25. Event: Seminar
    Title: Novel interferometric approaches to probe large-scale structures in the early universe using redshifted 21 cm
    Speaker: Nithyanandan Thyagarajan, CSIRO, Kensington, Australia
    Date: October 27, 2022
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: HSB 203
  26. Event: Seminar (Hybrid)
    Title: Geometrical and topological properties of CMB fields
    Speaker: Vidhya Ganesan, Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru
    Date: September 15, 2022
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Bose Hall, HSB 210
  27. Event: Seminar (Hybrid)
    Title: Quantum entanglement phenomenon between uniformly accelerated detectors in a thermal bath
    Speaker: Subhajit Barman, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
    Date: August 25, 2022
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Bose Hall, HSB 210
  28. Event: Seminar (Hybrid)
    Title: Probing quantum gravity and non-locality through R^2-like inflation
    Speaker: K. Sravan Kumar, Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
    Date: August 18, 2022
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Bose Hall, HSB 210
  29. Event: Seminar (Hybrid)
    Title: Back to the features: signatures of primordial physics in the cosmic microwave background
    Speaker: Matteo Braglia, Instituto de Fı́sica Teórica, Cabrera, Madrid, Spain
    Date: July 14, 2022
    Time: 11:30 AM-12:30 PM
    Venue: Bose Hall, HSB 210
  30. Event: Seminar
    Title: On the origin of solar wind and solar coronal heating
    Speaker: Vishal Upendran, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune
    Date: April 11, 2022
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Conference Room, HSB 203
  31. Event: Seminar
    Title: Morphological statistics and their applications in cosmology
    Speaker: Pravabati Chingangbam, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru
    Date: April 7, 2022
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Bose Hall, HSB 210
  32. Event: Colloquium
    Title: Unveiling the universe with gravitational-wave observations
    Speaker: B. S. Sathyaprakash, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, USA and School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, UK
    Date: March 9, 2022
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
    Venue: Online
  33. Event: Symposium
    Title: Second Chennai Symposium on Gravitation and Cosmology
    Dates: February 2-5, 2022
    Time: 9:15 AM-8:00 PM
    Venue: Online
  34. Event: Symposium
    Title: First Chennai Symposium on Gravitation and Cosmology
    Dates: January 22-24, 2020
    Time: 9:00 AM-6:00 PM
    Venue: Hall 3, ICSR building
  35. Event: Colloquium
    Title: Quest for cosmic origin
    Speaker: Tarun Souradeep, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
    Date: September 18, 2019
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
    Venue: Central Lecture Theatre
  36. Event: Seminar
    Title: Searching for new physics on Earth and in the sky -- the case for inflaton and dark matter
    Speaker: Arindam Chatterjee, Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
    Date: August 22, 2019
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Conference Room, HSB 203
  37. Event: Seminar
    Title: Spherical collapse of fuzzy dark matter
    Speaker: V. Sreenath, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune
    Date: May 29, 2019
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  38. Event: Seminar
    Title: On dark matter self interactions, viscosity and cosmic expansion
    Speaker: Abhishek Atreya, Bose Institute, Kolkata
    Date: April 25, 2019
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Conference Room, HSB 203
  39. Event: Seminar
    Title: Cosmic inflation: Cold or warm?
    Speaker: Mayukh Raj Gangopadhyay, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
    Date: March 5, 2019
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  40. Event: Seminar
    Title: The inflationary universe in F(R) gravity with antisymmetric tensor fields and their suppression during the universe evolution
    Speaker: Tanmoy Paul, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
    Date: February 22, 2019
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Bose Hall, HSB 210
  41. Event: Seminar
    Title: Initial conditions for inflation in an FRW universe
    Speaker: Swagat Saurav Mishra, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune
    Date: November 22, 2018
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  42. Event: Seminar
    Title: The information hidden in the shape of the CMB spectrum
    Speaker: Rishi Khatri, Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
    Date: September 27, 2018
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  43. Event: Public talk
    Title: Dark matter, dark energy, Einstein's cosmological constant, and the accelerating universe
    Speaker: Bharat Ratra, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
    Date: August 13, 2018
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
    Venue: Bose Hall, HSB 210
  44. Event: Seminar
    Title: The 'standard' model of cosmology ... and open questions
    Speaker: Bharat Ratra, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
    Date: August 13, 2018
    Time: 2:30-3:30 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  45. Event: Seminar
    Title: Scales of gravity, and tensor bounds on the hidden universe
    Speaker: Subodh Patil, Neils Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Date: July 3, 2018
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Bose Hall, HSB 210
  46. Event: Seminar
    Title: The locations of gravitational collapse: analytical insights and open issues
    Speaker: Aseem Paranjape, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune
    Date: April 12, 2018
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Bose Hall, HSB 210
  47. Event: Colloquium
    Title: The limits of cosmology
    Speaker: Joseph Silk, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France/Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA/Gresham College, London, UK
    Date: April 11, 2018
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
    Venue: Bose Hall, HSB 210
  48. Event: Seminar
    Title: Cosmological observables and the nature of dark matter
    Speaker: Shiv Kumar Sethi, Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru
    Date: March 22, 2018
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Bose Hall, HSB 210
  49. Event: Meeting
    Title: A day of gravitation and cosmology
    Date: January 26, 2018
    Time: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
    Venue: Bose Hall, HSB 210
  50. Event: Popular talk
    Title: Ancient light: the microwave background radiation and cosmology
    Speaker: Mark Birkinshaw, School of Physics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
    Date: January 22, 2018
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
    Venue: Bose Hall, HSB 210
  51. Event: Seminar
    Title: Probing dark energy with gravitational lensing
    Speaker: Arun Kannawadi, Leiden Observatory, Netherlands
    Date: December 12, 2017
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  52. Event: Seminar
    Title: Observational insights into black hole feedback at high-redshift
    Speaker: Darshan Kakkad, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany
    Date: September 12, 2017
    Time: 3:00-4:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  53. 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, UK
    Date: February 13, 2017
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
    Venue: Central Lecture Theatre
  54. Event: GIAN course
    Title: Origin and evolution of perturbations during inflation and reheating
    Speaker: Jérôme Martin, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France
    Dates: November 25-30, 2016
    Time: 8:45 AM-3:30 PM
    Venue: MSB 360 and Bose Hall, HSB 210
    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.
  55. 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
    Time: 3:00-4:00 PM
    Venue: HSB 310
  56. 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
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
    Venue: Central Lecture Theatre
  57. Event: Meeting
    Title: One-day meeting on black holes and cosmology
    Date: October 6, 2015
    Time: 9:00 AM-5:30 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  58. 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
    Time: 3:30-4:30 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  59. Event: Seminar
    Title: Gravitinos, reheating and the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe
    Speaker: Raghavan Rangarajan, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
    Date: April 23, 2015
    Time: 3:00-4:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  60. 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
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
    Venue: Central Lecture Theatre
  61. Event: Seminar
    Title: Gravity waves from inflation and the Lyth bound
    Speaker: Aditya Aravind, Texas Cosmology Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
    Date: August 11, 2014
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  62. Event: Seminar
    Title: Correlating features in the primordial spectra, or, what was the inflaton?
    Speaker: Subodh Patil, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
    Date: August 6, 2014
    Time: 3:00-4:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  63. Event: Colloquium
    Title: Inflation after Planck
    Speaker: Jérôme Martin, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France
    Date: February 19, 2014
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
    Venue: Physics Lecture Theatre
  64. 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
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  65. Event: Seminar
    Title: Curvature couplings of the inflaton
    Speaker: Subhendra Mohanty, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
    Date: January 16, 2014
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
    Venue: Conference Room, HSB 203
  66. 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
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Conference Room, HSB 203
  67. 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
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  68. 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
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  69. Event: Seminar
    Title: Anisotropic non-Gaussianity with non-commutative spacetime
    Speaker: Akhilesh Nautiyal, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
    Date: April 18, 2013
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  70. Event: Seminar
    Title: Cosmological implications of primordial magnetic fields
    Speaker: Shiv Kumar Sethi, Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru
    Date: March 12, 2013
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  71. 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
    Time: 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  72. 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
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  73. Event: Seminar
    Title: (Loop) quantum gravity and spacetime structure
    Speaker: Rakesh Tibrewala, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram
    Date: November 2, 2012
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  74. Event: Colloquium
    Title: Matters of gravity
    Speaker: T. Padmanabhan, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune
    Date: October 10, 2012
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
    Venue: Physics Lecture Theatre
  75. 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
    Time: 5:00-6:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  76. 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
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209
  77. Event: Extra Mural Lecture
    Title: How well do we know our universe?
    Speaker: Jayant Narlikar, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune
    Date: February 3, 2012
    Time: 7:30-8:30 PM
    Venue: Central Lecture Theatre
  78. Event: Seminar
    Title: The theory of inflationary perturbations
    Speaker: Jérôme Martin, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France
    Date: February 3, 2012
    Time: 4:00-5:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, HSB 209