2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 Date & Time Title Speaker Dec 20,202304:00 PMWednesday Ultrafast Dynamics in Intense Femtosecond Laser-Matter Interactions Kamalesh Jana, JASLab, Ottawa Dec 18,202304:00 PMMonday Advanced Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Systems: Revealing Electronic to Structural Dynamics Navendu Mondal, Imperial College London, UK Dec 15,202302:30 PMFriday Mode coupling theory for the weakly driven systems Gunter M Schütz, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany Dec 12,202304:00 PMTuesday Some consequences of phenotypic heterogeneity in living active matter Philip Pearce, UCL, London Dec 11,202311:00 AMMondaySynopsis Seminar First-principles investigation of stereo-electronic factors governing elementary steps of low-temperature hydrocarbon combustion Saurabh Chandra Kandpal, TIFR, Hyderabad Dec 08,202304:00 PMFriday High-Frequency Magnetoresistance in Metallic and Insulating Oxides R Mahendiran, NUS, Singapore Dec 08,202310:30 AMFriday Biological Phase Transitions: Where Chemistry and Physics Meet Biology Samrat Mukhopadhyay, IISER, Mohali Dec 07,202304:30 PMThurdaySynopsis Seminar Integrative modelling of E. coli chromosome and cytoplasm Abdul Wasim, TIFR, Hyderabad Dec 07,202311:30 AMThurday Spin-Boson Model for Nonlinear Optical Conductivity of Graphene and Related Phenomena Sushanta Dattagupta, INSA, New Delhi Dec 04,202304:00 PMMonday Harnessing Protein Polymers for Medicine and Nanotechnology: Single molecules to systems and beyond Aarat P Kalra, IIT, Delhi Nov 24,202310:30 AMFriday Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes as Single Ion Magnets /Single Molecule Magnets Pawan Kumar, TIFR, Hyderabad Nov 11, 202304:00 PMWednesday Probing and tuning the chemical reactions at a single molecular level Veerabhadrarao Kaliginedi, IISc, Bangalore Nov 3, 202304:00 PMFriday Predation risk and prey reproductive traits: ecology and evolutionary consequences Viraj Torsekar, IISc, Bangalore Nov 2, 202304:00 PMThursday Josephson Junction of Nodal Superconductors Ranjani Seshadri, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Nov 2, 202304:00 PMThursday From supergenes to supercolonies: understanding the genomic basis of social polymorphism Aparna Lajmi, University of Haifa, Israel Nov 2, 202311:30 AMThursday Designer quantum matter in van der Waals heterostructures Somesh Chandra Ganguli, Aalto University, Finland Oct 30, 202311:00 AMMondayThesis Seminar Robust molecular exchange-bias effect, magnetisation switching dynamics and topological Hall physics at ferromagnet/molecule interface Suman, TIFR, Hyderabad Oct 20, 202304:00 PMFriday Phase space hydrodynamics method for low dimensional systems: evolution of shock fronts and approach to thermalisation Gautam Mandal, TIFR, Mumbai Oct 18, 202304:00 PMWednesdayThesis Seminar Bendless Regulates Mitochondrial Size Rajit Narayanan C, TIFR, Hyderabad Oct 16, 202311:30 AMMonday Molecular Modelling & its applications in Clinical Genomics for comprehensive variant analysis Surya Balakrishnan, Apollo Genomics Institute, Hyderabad Oct 13, 202311:30 AMFriday Chemistry in Confined Nanospace Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, IISc, Bangalore Oct 12, 202304:00 PMThursday Symmetry-broken phases, topological order and geometry in Quantum Hall States of Graphene Suraj Hegde, TU Dresden, Germany Oct 11, 202304:00 PMWednesday Lipid-Dependent gating of G Protein Coupled inwardly rectifying Potassium (GIRK) Channels Yamuna Kalyani Mathiharan, Stanford Medicine, CA Oct 10, 202304:00 PMTuesday Routes to Detect Band Topology in Quantum Materials Snehasish Nandy, LANL, NM Oct 9, 202304:00 PMMonday Observing the buzz of the universe in long wavelength gravitational waves with galactic clocks Bhal Chandra Joshi, NCRA, Pune Oct 5, 202304:00 PMThursdaySynopsis Seminar 04:00 PM Studying Multi-State Conformational Exchange in Proteins Using 15N CEST NMR Experiments Ved Prakash Tiwari, TIFR, Hyderabad Oct 5, 202311:30 AMThursday Engineering a platform for T cell-inspired extracellular vesicles in targeted immunotherapy for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma Ashwin Jainarayanan, Oxford University, UK Oct 4, 202302:30 PMWednesday Use of AI tools in scientific content creation: How does it work and what are the ethical implications? Raghunathan Ramakrishnan, TIFR Hyderabad Oct 4, 202311:30 AMWednesday Dynamic condensates and giant fluctuations in mass aggregation processes Arghya Das, TIFR, Hyderabad Oct 3, 202304:00 PMTuesday Exploring the Physics of 2D Polymers through Single-Molecule Studies of Kinetoplast DNA Indresh Yadav, IIT – Bhubaneswar Oct 3, 202311:30 AMTuesday Crystallisation Tuning and Interface Engineering for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells (Single and Tandem Junction Devices) Ashish Kulkarni, University of Cologne, Germany Sep 29, 202304:00 PMFriday Cell Adhesion and Cell Organelles: Old Dogs learning New Tricks Nagaraj Balasubramanian, IISER-Pune Sep 29, 202311:30 AMFridayThesis Seminar Investigating Golgi remodelling in epithelial wound healing and development Purnati Khuntia, TIFR, Hyderabad Sep 29, 202309:30 AMFridayThesis Seminar Development of magic-angle-spinning solid-state NMR methods for the study of protein structure and dynamics Pravin Pralhad Taware, TIFR, Hyderabad Sep 26, 202304:00 PMTuesday Critical Phenomena in the Quantum Hall Effect Prashant Kumar, University of Chicago, IL Sep 14, 202304:00 PMThursday Mpemba effect: An anomalous relaxation phenomena R Rajesh, IMSc, Chennai Sep 13, 202311:30 AMWednesday Sb and Bi Lewis Acids: Access to Reactive Cations and Implications in Catalysis Cell Ajay Venugopal, IISER, Thiruvananthapuram Sep 12, 202304:00 PMTuesday Nonlinearities across scales: from Sun to red blood cells Dhrubaditya Mitra, NORDITA, Stockholm Sep 1,202304:00 PMFriday Selectivity in CO2 Reduction Abhishek Dey, IACS, Kolkata Aug 18, 202304:00 PMFriday Scaling and memory in the epigenetic regulation of gene expression Bhaswar Ghosh, IIIT, Hyderabad Aug 16, 202304:00 PMWednesday Towards a controlled MASER by electronic radiation damping control at cryogenic and room temperatures Vineeth Francis T J, École Normale Supérieure, Paris Aug 10, 202304:00 PMThursday Unleashing the Architectural Marvels: Advancing the Structural Landscape of Supramolecular Polymers Subi J George, JNCASR, Bangalore Aug 10, 202311:30 AMThursday ATP-citrate lyase deficiency highlights critical sources of lipogenic acetyl-CoA and intracellular organelle crosstalk Ramya Sri Kuna, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, CA Aug 9, 202304:00 PMWednesday Emergence of structure in cortical circuits through bottom-up dynamical principles Sarthak Chandra, MIT, MA Aug 3, 202304:00 PMThursday Monopole excitations in the Kagome Dirac spin liquid Sasank Budaraju, LPT, Toulouse Aug 3, 202302:30 PM PMThursdayThesis Seminar Exploring Signalling Pathways through Theory and Experiment Rati Sharma, IISER, Bhopal Aug 3, 202302:30 PMThursdayThesis Seminar Studying dynamics of proteins using solution NMR spectroscopy Subhendu Pandit, TIFR, Hyderabad Aug 2, 202311:30 AMWednesday Development of Bright and Black Dyes for Molecular Imaging Applications Srinivas Banala, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Aug 1, 202304:00 PMTuesday Hydrodynamics and Fluctuations in non-equilibrium statistical physics Rahul S Dandekar, IPhT, CEA, France Jul 28, 202304:00 PMFriday Topological Aspects of non-Hermitian systems Manisha Thakurathi, IIT-D, New Delhi Jul 27, 202304:00 PMThursday Itô-distribution from Gibbs measure and consequences of this distribution for coordinatedependent diffusion in mesoscopic systems Arijit Bhattacharyay, IISER, Pune Jul 25, 202304:00 PMTuesday Energy Materials: Atomic-scale Insights from ab initio modelling Dibyajyoti Ghosh, IIT-D, New Delhi Jul 14, 202304:00 PMFriday Chromatin regulation and transcriptional addiction in cancer Irfan A Asangani, University of Pennsylvania, PA Jul 14, 202311:30 AMFriday Investigating the role of matrix stiffness in mitochondrial morphodynamics and function Piyush Daga, TIFR, Hyderabad Jul 13, 202304:00 PMThursday Mechanisms of voltage- and ligand-dependent activation of pacemaker ion channels Baron Chanda, Washington University in St. Louis, MO Jul 13, 202311:30 AMThursdayThesis Seminar Designing peptide/protein-based inhibitor to stop red blood cell invasion by malaria parasites Anamika Biswas, TIFR, Hyderabad Jul 12, 202304:00 PMWednesday Dynamics Transitions of the KvAP Voltage Sensor During Lipid-Dependent Gating H. Raghuraman, SINP, Kolkata July 12, 202311:30 AMWednesday Solid-state NMR strategies towards speed, resolution and geometry Kshama Sharma, TIFR, Hyderabad Jul 07, 202304:00 PMFridaySynopsis Seminar Novel and established approaches for structural characterisation of crystalline proteins and amyloid polymorphs using solid-state NMR Sahil, TIFR, Hyderabad Jul 07, 202311:30 AMFridaySynopsis Seminar Chemical protein engineering to design inhibitors of disease related protein-protein interactions Abhisek Kar, TIFR, Hyderabad Jul 06, 202304:00 PMThursdaySynopsis Seminar Collective Heterogeneity of Mitochondrial Potential during Contact Inhibition of Proliferation and Its Biophysical Roots Basil T, TIFR, Hyderabad Jul 05, 202304:00 PMWednesdayColloquium Designing retrosynthetic strategies for the preparation of metal, metal sulphide and bimetallic sulphide nanocrystals Jul 04, 202304:00 PMTuesday Biomaterials and Chemical Biology Approaches for Solving Unmet Clinical Needs Praveen Kumar Vemula, InStem, Bangalore Jun 22, 202304:00 PMThursday SQUID-on-tip imaging of topological currents in magic-angle graphene Sameer Grover, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Jun 19, 202304:00 PMMonday Defect Solutions of the Non-reciprocal Cahn-Hilliard Model: Spirals and Targets Navdeep Rana, MPI-DS, Göttingen Jun 16, 202310:00 AMFriday Design of Advanced Metalated Porous-Organic-Polymer (POP) for Heterogeneous Catalysis John Mondal, CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad Jun 15, 202311:30 AMThursday Cold Chemistry Nabanita Deb, IACS, Kolkata Jun 14, 202304:00 PMWednesday Atomic Scattering as a Soft and Universal Probe for Surfaces Geetika Bhardwaj, TIFR Hyderabad Jun 07, 202304:00 PMWednesday Development of Artificial Ion Channels for Targeting Cancer Pinaki Talukdar, IISER, Pune Jun 02, 202310:00 AMFriday Molecular Fossils and Ageing SK Yasir Hosen, TIFR, Hyderabad May 31, 202312:00 PMFriday An axonal transport triggered by inositol phosphorylation Krishanu Ray, TIFR, Mumbai May 30, 202304:00 PMThursday Understanding condensed matter systems using multipolar theory Sayantika Bhowal, ETH Zurich, Switzerland May 23, 202302:30 PMTuesday Design, Synthesis of Novel Organic Molecules towards Early-Stage Detection of Amyloid Fibrils and their Mechanistic Role in Protein Misfolding Disease Aslam Uddin, IISER, Pune May 17, 202304:00 PMWednesday The Hilbert-Kunz density function and its applications Vijaylaxmi Trivedi, TIFR, Mumbai May 17, 202311:00 AMWednesday Organic Radicals to Molecular and Supramolecular Materials Pritam Mukhopadhyay, JNU, New Delhi May 11, 202310:00 AMThursday Characterisation of the structural plasticity and small-molecule mediated modulation of an intrinsically disordered protein Sneha Menon, TIFR, Hyderabad May 10, 202311:30 AMWednesday Cytosolic surveillance mechanisms against bacterial pathogens Anirban Banerjee, IIT-B, Mumbai May 10, 202310:00 AMWednesday Effect of Inter-system Crossing in bimolecular collision reactions and Exciton transfer Using a Mapping Hamiltonian Mrinmoy Mandal, University of Hawai’i Manoa, USA May 09, 202304:00 PMTuesday Observing Electron and Nuclear Motions in Energy Harvesting Materials Using Ultrafast Spectroscopy Somnath Biswas, Princeton University, NJ May 09, 202311:30 AMTuesday Activity driven transport Ion Santra, Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru May 08, 202304:00 PMMonday Hall coefficients beyond single-band Boltzmann equation Abhishek Samanta, Ohio State University May 04, 202304:00 PMThursdayThesis Seminar Learning Optimal Collective Variables for Biophysical Processes via Dimension Reduction Satyabrata Bandyopadhay, TIFR, Hyderabad May 03, 202310:00 AMWednesday Purification and Crystallisation of Mic10 Subcomplex Proteins to Decipher Their Role in Mitochondrial Cristae Architecture Rakesh Mahato, TIFR, Hyderabad May 02, 202311:30 AMTuesday Probabilistic origin of Alzheimer’s Disease: A real time nanoscale molecular perspective Deepak Nair, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru May 01, 202304:00 PMMonday The structure of vapour-deposited glasses: Use of surface dynamics to achieve desired molecular packing Kushal Bagchi, University of Chicago, IL Apr 26, 202302:30 PMTuesday Exploring the Potential of Halide Perovskites for Next- Generation Photovoltaics Sujit Kumar, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Apr 25, 202304:00 PMTuesday The Future of Data Transfer and Computing Shashank Pandey, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, USA Apr 24, 202311:30 AMMonday Understanding the mechanisms that govern distribution of phase separating germ granules and germline progenitor specification in Zebrafish Karuna Sampath, University of Warwick, UK Apr 20, 202304:00 PMTuesday Probing mechanisms of homogeneous catalysts with density functional theory Tejender Singh, TIFR, Hyderabad Apr 13, 202304:00 PMThursday Sensing across scales: Probing the mitochondria and exploring unusual light sensing modules in nature Akash Gulyani, University of Hyderabad Apr 11, 202304:00 PMTuesday Revolutionising the Field of Magnetic Quantum Materials: An Exploration of Growth Strategies for Unleashing Unprecedented Topological Response and Functional Properties for Spintronic Applications Chandan De, The Pennsylvania State University, PA Apr 11, 202302:00 PMTuesday Investigating gut metabolism and physiology as a consequence of nutritional perturbations and systemic metabolic inputs Saptarnab Ganguly, TIFR, Hyderabad Apr 5, 202304:00 PMWednesday Unravelling the interplay between magnetism and structure in nanoscale systems Sudipto Chakrabarti, SINP, Kolkata Apr 5, 202302:00 PMWednesday Mitochondrial size regulation under stress Rajit Narayanan, TIFR Hyderabad Mar 30, 202304:00 PMThursday Grand world of small RNAs: Navigating the balance between translation and small RNA biogenesis Meetali Singh, Institut Pasteur, Paris Mar 28, 202304:00 PMTuesday Unconventional quantum oscillations in the twodimensional electron gas at complex oxide interfaces unravelled in high magnetic fields KM Rubi, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Mar 28, 202312:00 PMTuesday Functional Oxide Based Interfaces for Spintronic Applications Bhargav Rajyaguru, Saurashtra University, Rajkot Mar 27, 202304:00 PMMonday Topological phases of matter in Ultracold Rydberg atoms Rukmani Bai, University of Stuttgart, Germany Mar 27, 202302:30 PMMonday Study of Dynamical and Mechanical Properties of Glassy Materials using Rod-like Inclusions Anoop Mutneja, TIFR, Hyderabad Mar 24, 202304:00 PMFridayThesis Seminar Probing Glycine 1Hα Chemical Shifts in ‘Invisible’ Minor States of Proteins Using the CEST NMR Experiment Ved Prakash Tiwari, TIFR, Hyderabad Mar 21, 202311:00 AMTuesday 3D modelling and static simulation of various Research and engineering applications Ranjeet Singh, TIFR Hyderabad Mar 20, 202304:00 PMMonday Vaccinia Virus as a Model for Phosphotyrosine Signalling Angika Basant, The Francis Crick Institute, London Mar 08, 202304:00 PMWednesday Investigating the role of tissue mechanics in the regulation of epithelial defence against cancer Phani Shilpa Pothapragada, TIFR, Hyderabad Mar 08, 202304:00 PMWednesday Investigating the role of tissue mechanics in the regulation of epithelial defence against cancer Phani Shilpa Pothapragada, TIFR, Hyderabad Feb 28, 202304:00 PMMonday Two promising single photon sources for quantum network applications: a few advances Tanmoy Chakraborty, A*STAR, Singapore Feb 28, 202311:30 AMMonday Gut-specific peptide therapeutics Markus Muttenthaler, University of Queensland, Brisbane Feb 20, 202304:00 PMMonday Strong Correlations and non-Fermi liquids in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene Rajdeep Sensarma, TIFR, Mumbai Feb 16, 202304:00 PMThursday Unraveling the interplay between magnetism and structure in nanoscale systems Sudipto Chakrabarti, SINP, Kolkata Feb 14, 202304:00 PMTuesday An in vivo Approach to Investigate Sensorineural Morphogenesis Agnik Dasgupta, Kavli NSI, Rockefeller University, NY Feb 13, 202304:00 PMMonday Robust molecular exchange-bias effect, tailoring of magnetization switching dynamics and topological Hall physics at ferromagnetic/molecular interface Suman Mundlia, TIFR, Hyderabad Feb 08, 202304:00 PMWednesday Investigating Golgi remodelling in epithelial wound healing Purnati Khuntia, TIFR, Hyderabad Feb 07, 202304:00 PMTuesday Topological transport in Weyl semimetal Banasree Sadhukhan, KTH, Sweden Feb 06, 202304:00 PMMonday Chiral molecules in strong laser fields Debobrata Rajak, CELIA, Université de Bordeaux-CNRS-CEA, France Jan 27, 202304:00 PMFriday Learning from Outliers – Biomarkers for Immune Checkpoint Therapy Gyan Bhanot, Rutgers University, NJ Jan 27, 202310:30 AMFriday Fitting the potential energy surfaces using two layer networks and going up to deep learning architecture Shweta Jindal, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Jan 27, 202309:30 AMFriday Arylation at Carbonic Carbon of Carbodicarbene: Access to the Air-Stable Carbon Centre-Based Tetracationic Diradicaloids Rina Sikari, TIFR, Hyderabad Jan 24, 202304:00 PMTuesday Minimalistic Structured Peptide-Based Bioinspired Materials and Nanotechnology Santu Bera, IECB, France Jan 19, 202304:00 PMThursday Palladium Catalysed C-C bond Cleavage of Strained Carbocyclic Systems: A Useful Strategy in Organic Synthesis Ponneri C Ravikumar, NISER, Bhubaneswar Jan 18, 202303:30 PMWednesday Influencing Spin States of Mono and Dinuclear Fe(III) Complexes by Chemical Design Bijoy Dey, TIFR, Hyderabad Jan 17, 20231:30 AMTuesday Regulation of cysteine biosynthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Vinay K Nandicoori, CCMB, Hyderabad Jan 16, 202304:00 PMMonday Investigating biomolecular recognition through an interdisciplinary lens: Lessons from proteins of the immune system Mahita J, LJI, California Jan 16, 202310:00 AMMonday Photoluminescent Amidinate Ligated Boron Compounds Ramkumar Kannan, TIFR, Hyderabad Jan 12, 202303:00 PMThursday(Thesis Seminar) Towards Advanced Rechargeable Metal-Air Battery Systems Using Electrode and Electrolyte Engineering and Biomolecules based Electrodics Pallavi Thakur, TCIS, Hyderabad Jan 10, 202304:00 PMTuesday Transition Metal Catalysed / Electrochemical Functionalisation of Organic Molecules: Sustainable Organic Synthesis Raja Kumar Rit, University of Nottingham, UK Jan 09, 202311:30 AMMonday Supramolecular self-assembly forenzyme sensing, protein oligomerization, and light harvesting Tumpa Gorai Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Jan 04, 202302:30 PMWednesday Exploring functions of polyphosphate (PolyP) in haemolymph clotting and innate immunity Harsha Sharma, TIFR, Hyderabad Jan 03, 202311:30 AMTuesday Student Understanding of Approximations in Physics Anwesh Mazumdar, HBCSE-TIFR, Mumbai