2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 Date & Time Title Speaker Dec 23, 201904:00 PMMonday Role of mechanical force in lung development Anoop V Cherian, ECCPS, Germany Dec 20, 201911.30 AMFriday Multiple singularities of the entropy and free energy in a model with strictly short-range interactions in a one dimensional model Deepak Dhar, IISER, Pune Dec 19, 201904:00 PMThursday Turbulent drag reduction and inhibition of atherosclerosis by polymers Atul Varshney, IST, Austria Dec 17, 201911.30 AMTuesday Decoding intracellular mechanisms of innate stress sensing and inflammatory cell death Kesavardana Sannula, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, USA Dec 16, 201911.30 AMMonday High-Harmonic Generation from Spin-Polarized Defects in Solids Gopal Dixit, IIT-Bombay, Mumbai Dec 10, 201904:00 PMTuesday Surface-anchored thin films of functional metal-organic/organic materials Ritesh Haldar, IFG-KIT, Germany Dec 09, 201904:00 PMMonday Chromosomal organization in bacteria: Role of confinement and crowders Debasish Chaudhuri, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar Dec 03, 201911.30 AMTuesdayThesis Seminar Structural and functional characterization of the latest missense mutant (Y67N) of human γS-crystallin associated with dominant infantile cataract Khandekar Jishan Bari, TCIS, Hyderabad Dec 02, 201911.30 AMMondayThesis Seminar NMR studies on Biomolecular Interactions and Methodologies for Speeding up Resonance Assignment in Proteins Janeka Gartia, TCIS, Hyderabad Nov 29, 201910.00 AMFriday Thesis Seminar Solid-state NMR strategies towards speed, resolution and geometry Kshama Sharma, TCIS, Hyderabad Nov 27, 201904:00 PMWednesday Exploring High Dimensional Free Energy Landscapes of Chemical Reactions: New Approaches and Applications Nisanth N. Nair, IIT-Kanpur Nov 25, 201904:00 PMMonday Modulating Protein Self-Assembly with External Influence: Molecular Insights from Computer Simulations Neelanjana Sengupta, IISER-Kolkata Nov 20, 201904:00 PMWednesdaySynopsis Seminar Investigation of Role of Cosolutes on Conformational Landscape of Macromolecules Mrinmoy Mukherjee, TCIS, Hyderabad Nov 13, 201904:00 PMWednesdaySynopsis Seminar Statistics of non-affine displacements: Defect precursors and stability of lattices Pankaj Popli, TCIS, Hyderabad Nov 11, 201904:00 PMMonday Different modes of fluidization in solid-like tissues Amit Das, Northeastern University, MA Nov 08, 201902.00 PMFriday Concept of Density and Materials Modeling at Different Length Scales Swapan K. Ghosh, UM-DAE CEBS, Mumbai Nov 07, 201904:00 PMThursday Molecular Design using Traditional Computations and Machine Learning Deva Priyakumar, IIIT, Hyderabad Nov 05, 201904:00 PMTuesday Multiscale Modeling of the Heart: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Cardiac Arrhythmia Management and Therapy Rupamanjari Majumder, MPIDS, Goettingen, Germany Oct 15, 201904:00 PMTuesday Women’s empowerment through public policy: A mirage, a distant dream or a reality? Jyotsna Jha, CBPS, Bengaluru Oct 14, 201904:00 PMMonday Watching ‘3R’s of life’ at single-molecule level Theetha Pavankumar, University of California-Davis, CA Oct 09, 201904:00 PMWednesday Low energy excitation and time-resolved dynamics in heavy-fermion systems Shovon Pal, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Oct 04, 201904:00 PMFridaySynopsis Seminar Biomolecular NMR studies on G57W mutant of human γS-crystallin and its role in dominant congenital cataract Khandekar Jishan Bari, TCIS, Hyderabad Sep 30, 201904:00 PMMonday Non-equilibrium dynamics of inhomogeneous fluids Sutapa Roy, Max-Plank Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany Sep 27, 201904:00 PMFriday The 'What, Why and How?' of building ‘Sawaliram’ Jayashree Ramadas, Nitin Paul and D Chandrika, TIFR, Hyderabad Sep 26, 201904:00 PMThursday Superconductivity in a disordered vortex lattice Amit Ghosal, IISER-Kolkata Sep 23, 201902.00 PMMonday Serotonin:Regulating neuronal powerplants Vidita A Vaidya, TIFR - Mumbai Sep 23, 201911.30 AMMonday Science research in the spirit of 3-Idiots Ajit M Srivastava, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar Sep 20, 201910.30 AMFriday Understanding students as stakeholders for the institutional change Deepa Chari, HBCSE-TIFR, Mumbai Sep 18, 201904:00 PMWednesday Key Intermediates in NHC-catalysis, Photoredox Carboxylation, Decarboxylation and Ni-catalyzed Reductive Deaminative Arylation at sp3 Carbon Centers Veera Reddy Yathnam, CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad Sep 17, 201904:00 PMTuesdaySynopsis Seminar The γH2A.X Peak in the S phase after UV irradiation corresponds to sites of DNA replication and not DNA damage Dhuppar Shivnarayan Tilkesh, TCIS, Hyderabad Sep 10, 201911.30 AMTuesday Quantum Mechanics without Foundational Problems from Modified Hamiltonian Mechanics C S Unnikrishnan, TIFR, Mumbai Sep 09, 201904:00 PMMonday The Physics of Satellite Navigation System (like GPS) and its Atomic Clocks C S Unnikrishnan, TIFR, Mumbai Sep 05, 201910.30 AMThursday A step towards predicting the immune response Koushik Roy, University of California, LA Aug 29, 201911.30 AMThursday Regulation of Inter-organ signaling: insights from DMon1 Anuradha Ratnaparkhi, ARI, Pune Aug 27, 201904:00 PMTuesday Unexpected weak ferromagnetism at room temperature and Visible/IR range optical absorption in nano-titania Vasundhara Mutta, CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvananthapuram Aug 16, 201904:00 PMFriday Towards quantum-limited charge amplification using quantum point contacts Madhu Thalakulam, IISER - Thiruvananthapuram Aug 13, 201904:00 PMTuesday Molecular Scale Spatiotemporal Organization in Biological membranes: Insights from nonaffine displacements Anand Srivastava, IISc, Bangalore Aug 09, 201904:00 PMFriday Secretive Behaviour of Binary Mixtures: Layers, Drops and Particles Prashant Valluri, The University of Edinburgh, UK Aug 06, 201904:00 PMTuesday Immune homeostasis by regulatory T cells and circulating immunoglobulins Jagadeesh Bayry, INSERM, Paris Aug 02, 2019>11.30 AMFriday Phototaxis as a collective phenomenon Varuni P, IMSc, Chennai Jul 30, 201904:00 PMTuesday Liquid crystal elastomers Kaushik Bhattacharya, Caltech, CA Jul 25, 201904:00 PMThursdaySynopsis Seminar Numerical and Experimental Study of Dynamical and Mechanical Properties of Glass Forming Liquids Bhanu Prasad Bhowmik, TCIS, Hyderabad Jul 23, 201904:00 PMTuesday Science Technology Society education: An overview Aswathy Raveendran, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Jul 22, 201904:00 PMMonday The electromagnetic form factor of the pion at high precision B Ananthanarayan, IISc, Bangalore Jul 22, 201911.30 AMMonday Field-Free SMM Behavior of the Cyclopentadienyl Dysprosium Isonitrosyl Complexes Arun Kumar Bar, IISER - Tirupati Jul 18, 201911.30 AMThursday Photophysics of quantum aggregates in Helium nanodroplets:from correlated decay processes to nanoplasmas Sivarama krishnan, IIT, Madras Jun 28, 201903.00 PMFridaySynopsis Seminar Novel and augmented methods for distance estimation with magic-angle spinning solid-state NMR Mukul G Jain, TCIS, Hyderabad Jun 27, 201904:00 PMThursday Immunogen design for HIV-1 and influenza Raghavan Varadarajan, IISc, Bangalore Jun 6, 201904:00 PMWednesday Redox Biology in Health and Disease: Photoreception in the Biological Clock and the Dynamics of Mitochondrial Cristae Anand T Vaidya, Yale University, CT, USA Jun 24, 201904:00 PMMondaySynopsis Seminar Quantitative characterization of the soluble oligomers and insoluble fibrils of amyloid proteins using novel fluorescence spectroscopy methods Timir Baran Sil, TCIS, Hyderabad June 22, 201910.00 AMSaturday Materials by Design for Safer Rechargeable Batteries Vilas G. Pol, Purdue University, USA Jun 21, 201904:00 PMFridaySynopsis Seminar Viscoelastic and Ion Transport Properties of Solid State Electrolytes for Batteries and Water Electrolysis Cells Sudeshna Patra, TCIS, Hyderabad Jun 19, 201904:00 PMWednesdaySynopsis Seminar Understanding the dynamics of glass-forming liquids with externally imposed disorder Rajsekhar Das, TCIS, Hyderabad Jun 18, 201904:00 PMTuesday Realising the full potential of electron cryomicroscopy Vinothkumar Kutti Ragunath, NCBS, Bangalore Jun 10, 201904:00 PMMonday Role of microtubules and associated proteins in mitochondrial dynamics and partitionings Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan, IISc, Bangalore Jun 03, 201911.00 AMMonday Advanced particle accelerators driven by ultra-intense lasers - Study of relativistic and nonlinear effects in plasmas Sudeep Banerjee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA May 31, 201904:00 PMFridaySynopsis Seminar Role of Static and Dynamic Length Scales in Glass Transition Indrajit Tah, TCIS, Hyderabad May 30, 201904:00 PMThursdaySynopsis Seminar Solid-state NMR strategies towards speed, resolution and geometry Kshama Sharma, TCIS, Hyderabad May 28, 201904:00 PMTuesday Discovery of topological magnet and chiral Fermions: Synthesis to Applications Kaustuv Manna, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden May 08, 201904:00 PMWednesday Changing Shapes and Decorating Cells: Formation of the Inner Ear Raj Ladher, TIFR-NCBS, Bangalore May 07, 201904:00 PMTuesday Particles on Demand: Kinetic Theory and Data Interpolation Santosh Ansumali, JNCASR, Bangalore May 02, 201904:00 PMThursday Stress banding in compressed quasi-two-dimensional aqueous foams Chirag Kalelkar, IIT-Kharagpur Apr 29, 201904:00 PMMonday Parton paradigm for the fractional quantum Hall effect Ajit Coimbatore Balram, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Apr 23, 201904:00 PMTuesday A juggling act by intrinsically disordered regions assisted mRNP assembly between memory and neurodegeneration Baskar Bakthavachalu, NCBS, Bangalore Apr 22, 201904:00 PMMonday Highly dilute uncharged polymers act as chemical RNA chaperones Mrityunjoy Kar, MPI-CBG, Desden Apr 18, 201902.00 PMThursday Fast methods for biomolecular NMR spectroscopy at increasingly faster magic-angle spinning frequencies Kaustubh R. Mote, TCIS-TIFR, Hyderabad Apr 17, 201911.30 AMWednesday Analyzing Cell Behaviour: From Mitotic Cell Shape to Intracellular Delivery Martin P. Stewart, University of Technology, Sydney Apr 16, 201904:00 PMTuesday When Molecular Dynamics met Spin Resonance (and several other experiments) N R Skrynnikov, Purdue University, USA & St. Petersburg State University, Russia Apr 15, 201904:00 PMMonday Genetics of aging and age-related disorders in zebrafish Ajeet Pratap Singh, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, USA Apr 15, 201911.30 AMMonday Towards all-optical, compact sources of ions and neutrons - current research activities at QUB Satyabrata Kar, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Apr 08, 201904.00 PMMonday Assembly of multiprotein complexes for substrate and functional diversity Maddika Subba Reddy, CDFD, Hyderabad Apr 04, 201904:00 PMThursday Tuning Self Organization of Confined Active Particles by Steepness of the Trap Arnab Saha, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune Apr 02, 201911.30 AMTuesday Highlights of Research activities of Materials Science Group - Accelerator based irradiation studies of materials G Amarendra, IGCAR, HBNI, Kalpakkam Mar 28, 201904:00 PMThursday Regulation of mitotic arrest in stem/progenitor cells: Mechanisms for G2 arrest Arjun Guha, inStem, Bengaluru Mar 28, 201911.30 AMThursday Insights into deformation and flow of glasses using colloidal suspensions Vijayakumar Chikkadi, IISER - Pune Mar 26, 201904:00 PMTuesday "Quantum assisted" magnetic resonance across length scales Ashok Ajoy, University of California, Berkeley Mar 25, 201904:00 PMMonday Turbulent Superstructures in Rayleigh-Benard convection Ambrish Pandey, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany Mar 20, 201904:00 PMWednesday Modelling suspensions of swimming Martin A Bees, University of York, UK Feb 21, 201904:00 PMThursdayThesis Defence N-Substituted Pyrrolinium Salts: Synthons for the Syntheses of Electron-Rich Olefins, Backbone Functionalized NHCs, and Carbon Based Radicals Debdeep Mandal, TCIS, Hyderabad Feb 20, 201904:00 PMWednesdayThesis Defence Syntheses and Reactivities of P-P, P-Si, and Si-N Double Bonded Compounds Debabrata Dhara, TCIS, Hyderabad Feb 19, 201904:00 PMTuesday Mott insulators induced by hybridization switching in ABO3 perovskites Anamitra Mukherjee, NISER, Bhubaneswar Feb 13, 201904:00 PMWednesday Obesity: Liver dictates meta-inflammation via secretory hepatokine, dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP4) Devram Ghorpade, Columbia University, NY Feb 12, 201904:00 PMTuesday Higher-order correlators in the Random Average Process Rahul Sunil Dandekar, IMSc, Chennai Feb 08, 201904:00 PMFriday miR-184 modulates neuronal excitability in Drosophila melanogaster Jervis Fernandes, IISER-Thiruvananthapuram Feb 06, 201904:00 PMWednesdaySynopsis Seminar Covalent and Non-Covalent Mesoscopic Interfaces of Atomic Layers and Carbon Nanotubes for Electrochemical and Electronic Applications Shubhadeep Pal, TCIS, Hyderabad Jan 31, 201904:00 PMThursday Spatiotemporal control of the number and diversity of centrosome-cilia Swadhin Chandra Jana, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal Jan 31, 201902.00 PMThursday Ideal Pulses - Perfect Results? Matthias Ernst, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland Jan 29, 201904:00 PMTuesdaySynopsis Seminar Active polar suspensions - stability and turbulence Rayan Chatterjee, TCIS, Hyderabad Jan 24, 201904:00 PMThursday “Catapulting” of topological defects through elasticity bands in active nematics Nitin Kumar, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, IL Jan 23, 201904:00 PMWednesdayPublic Lecture Periodic Table @ 150: Some Stories V Chandrasekhar, TIFR-Hyderabad Jan 16, 201904:00 PMWednesday Subpicosecond Energy Transfer and Ionization in Mn-Doped CdSe Quantum Dots Rohan Singh, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico Jan 11, 201904:00 PMFriday How does human blood get its red color? A tale from RNA perspective Rajesh Dattaram Gunage, Harvard Medical School, MA Jan 10, 201904:00 PMThursday Mechanizing Mathematics T V H Prathamesh, University of Innsbruck, Austria Jan 09, 201904:00 PMWednesday SNARE-mediated Membrane Fusion driven by entropic forces Anirban Polley, Columbia University, NY Jan 08, 201911.30 AMTuesday Targeting sepsis-induced acute lung injury by modulating the Calcineurin-NFATc3 pathway in pulmonary macrophages Manjula Karpurapu, Ohio State University, Columbus Jan 03, 201902.00 PMThursday Predicting the Non-equilibrium Properties of Polymer Films Sivasurender Chandran, University of Freiburg, Germany