Day -1 (12.07.2015)
Time
Event
9 AM– 9.30 AM
Inauguration by Prof. R. N. Mukherjee, Director, IISER-Kolkata
9.30 AM– 10.20 AM
Inaugural Lecture by Prof. G.S. Agarwal, Noble Foundation Chair and Regents Professor, Oklahoma State University, USA
Chair: Prof. R. N. Mukherjee
10.20 AM– 10.45 AM
High Tea
Optical Spectroscopy I (Single molecule spectroscopy) (Chair: Prof. G.S. Agarwal)
10.45 AM– 11.20 AM
Prof. Kankan Bhattacharyya, IACS, Kolkata
Single Molecule Spectroscopy of a Single Live Cell
11.20 AM– 11.55 AM
Dr. Prasun Mandal, IISER Kolkata
Probing nanoscopic environment in room temperature ionic liquids using optical spectroscopy
11.55 AM – 12.25 PM
Contributory oral presentations (15 minutes ´2)
11.55 AM – 12.10 PM
Deepak Kumar Sinha Ambast: Picosecond dynamics of nonlinear optical absorption in a thiophene-derived conjugated polymer
12.10 PM – 12.25 PM
Tanmay Chatterjee: Chemical Modulation of Dual Fluorescence of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) Chromophore Analogues
12.30 PM – 2.00 PM
Lunch + Poster Session I
Poster presenters:
Somenath Jalal, Nandan Kumar Das, Mandira Pal, Shuvojit Paul, Tapan Routh, Vivek Pareek, Sriram S
Quantum Optics I (Chair: Prof. Subhasish Dutta Gupta)
2.00 PM – 2.35 PM
Prof. Bimalendu Deb, IACS, Kolkata
Optically generating a bound state in continuum for ultracold atoms and its applications in continuum-bound spectroscopy
2.35 PM– 3.10 PM
Prof. R. P. Singh, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
3.10 PM -3.55 PM
Contributory oral presentations (15 minutes ´3)
3.10 PM – 3.25 PM
Dr. Abir Bandyopadhyay: Elliptical vortices in quantized radiation fields
3.25 PM – 3.40 PM
Sumit Goswami: Weak measurements and Optical beam shifts
3.40 PM – 3.55 PM
Manjunath Chatti: Superior optical limiting properties of MoS2-NaYF4:Yb3+/Er3+ Nanocomposites
3.55 PM – 4.15 PM
Tea
Biophotonics (Chair: Prof. Kankan Bhattacharyya)
4.15 PM – 4.50 PM
Prof. Asima Pradhan, IIT Kanpur
Optical biopsy using intrinsic Fluorescence spectroscopy of tissue
4.50 PM – 5.25 PM
Dr. Bidisha Sinha, IISER Kolkata
Light matters in Biology
5.25 PM – 5.55 PM
5.25 PM-5.40 PM
Arikta Biswas
5.40 PM-5.55 PM
Tarasankar Das: NIR-emitting chiral gold nanoclusters coated with g-cyclodextrin are pH sensitive: Application as biomarker
Day -2 (13.07.2015)
Classical Wave Optics (Chair: Prof. G.S. Agarwal)
9.00 AM – 9.35 AM
Prof. Subhasish Dutta Gupta, University of Hyderabad
Scope of plasmonics for engineering coherence
9.35 AM– 10.10 AM
Dr. Rajesh Kumble Nayak, IISER Kolkata
Gravitational wave detection using Laser interferometers
Contributory oral presentations
10.10 AM– 10.30 AM
Dr. Ratan K Saha
Photo-acoustic imaging
10.30 AM– 10.45 AM
Shuvojit Paul
Motional resonance in optical tweezers in a hydrodynamically coupled two-particle system
10.45 AM– 11.00 AM
Optical Spectroscopy II (Chair: Prof. Asima Pradhan)
11.00 AM – 11.35 PM
Dr. Pradipta Purkayastha, IISER Kolkata
11.35 AM – 12.10 PM
Dr. Goutam Dev Mukherjee, IISER Kolkata
Phase transitions in multiferroics: Raman spectroscopy study at extreme conditions of pressure
12.10 PM – 12.40 PM
12.10 PM-12.25 PM
Sudipta Kumar Bera: Analysis of Brownian Dynamics by Bayesian Statistics
12.25 PM – 12.40 PM
Shubham Chandel: Probing Plasmonic systems with Polarized light
12.45 PM – 2.15 PM
Lunch + Poster Session II
Subhrokoli Ghosh, Subir Kumar Ray, Subhradeep Misra, Atharva Sahasrabudhe, Ram, Shaik Ahmed, Premjith T, Anamika Nair K
Quantum Optics II (Chair: Prof. Bimalendu Deb)
2.15 PM – 2.50 PM
Prof. Dipankar Home, Bose Institute, Kolkata
Leggett-Garg Inequality, its Wigner form, No-signalling in Time, and Unsharp Measurements
2.50 PM – 3.25 PM
Dr. Sonjoy Majumder, IIT Kharagpur
Generate circular dichroism type of effect to optically manipulate the vorticity of BEC
3.25 PM – 4.00 PM
Dr. Vivek Vyas, IMSC, Chennai
BEC of Photons and KT transition
4.00 PM – 4.15 PM
Non-linear and Ultra-fast Optics (Chair: Prof. R.P. Singh)
Dr. Chiranjib Mitra, IISER Kolkata
Dr. Bipul Pal, IISER Kolkata
Tunable nonlinear optical effects in photochromic materials
5.30 PM – 6.15 PM
Group discussion led by Prof. G.S. Agarwal
“Light: Current trends and future prospects”
Concluding remarks