Tentative Schedule
15 th October, 2011 |
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| 15.00 -- 15.15 | OPENING REMARKS (Alik Palevski and Sushanta Dattagupta) |
| Nonlinear/Non-equilibrium Phenomena (Chair: Alik Palevski) | |
| 15.15 - 15.50 | Doron COHEN -- Non-equilibrium steady state of driven sparse systems |
| 15.50 - 16.25 | Sanjib SABHAPANDIT -- Record statistics of continuous time random walk |
| Coffee Break | |
| 16.45 - 17.20 | Shimshon BARAD -- An optical analogue of the Laval nozzle |
| 17.20 - 17.55 | Rama Govindarajan --A film flowing on an inclined surface, and the shallow water equations |
| 17.55 - 18.30 | Sanjay PURI --Surface-directed spinodal decomposition |
| 18.30 -- 19.00 | Three short talks (to be announced) |
| 19.30 onwards -- Dinner | |
16 th October, 2011 |
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| Random Matrix Models (Chair: Doron Cohen) | |
| 08.30 - 09.05 | Yoseph IMRY -- Slow relaxation and aging in electron glasses: a distance matrix description |
| 09.05 - 09.40 | Kedar DAMLE -- Phase transitions in the distribution of Andreev conductance of superconductor-metal interface with many transverse channels |
| 09.40 - 10.00 | Two Short Talks |
| Coffee Break | |
| Complex Fluids/Biological Physics (Chair: Sanjay Puri) | |
| 10.20 - 10.55 | Ajay SOOD --Self propelled polar intruder : Non-equilibrium fluctuation relation and large deviation function |
| 10.55 - 11.30 | Rumi DE --Dynamics of cell orientation in gels |
| 11.30 - 12.05 | Rajesh GANAPATHY --Grain boundary dynamics in colloidal crystals |
| 12.05 - 12.40 | Mustansir BARMA -- Phase transitions in a multi species model with aggregation, fragmentation and boundary injection |
| 13.00 -- 14.30 LUNCH | |
| Materials Physics (Chair - Ajay Sood) | |
| 14.30 - 15.05 | Dipankar DAS SARMA --Title: The curious case of NiS |
| 15.05 - 15.40 | Tanusri SAHA-DASGUPTA --Double-perovskites: compounds with promises crystals |
| 15.40 - 16.15 | Umesh WAGHMARE --Nano-structured materials for themoelectric applications |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| Superconductivity and Magnetism I (Chair - Assa Auerbach) | |
| 16.35 - 17.10 | Efrat SHIMSHONI --Superconductor-insulator magneto-oscillations in superconducting strips |
| 17.10 - 17.45 | Pratap RAY CHAUDHURY --Phase diagram of a strongly disordered s-wave superconductor NbN, close to the metal-insulator transition |
| 17.45 - 18.20 | Yigal MEIR --Magneto transport through disordered superconductors |
| 18.20 - 18.55 | Vikram TRIPATHI --The Kondo effect and RKKY interactions in the honeycomb Kitaev model |
| 19.30 onwards -- DINNER | |
17 th October, 2011 |
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| Transport in Mesoscopic Systems (Chair: Yoseph Imry) | |
| 09.00 -- 09.35 | Amnon AHARONY -- Retrieving quantum qubit information despite decoherence |
| 09.35 -- 10.10 | Mandar DESMUKH -- Coupling between single-electron tunneling and electromechanics in semiconducting nanowires |
| Coffee Break | |
| 10.30 -- 11.05 | Ora ENTIN-WOHLMAN --Spin-polarized electric currents in quantum transport |
| 11.05 -- 11.40 | Arindam GHOSH --Probing new quantum effects in graphene with noise |
| 11.40 -- 12.15 | Aveek BID --Observation of neutral modes in the fractional quantum Hall regime |
| 12.15 -- 12.45 | 3 short talks (to be announced) |
| 13.00 -- 14..30 -- LUNCH | |
| 14.30 -- 16.30 -- BOAT TRIP | |
| Superconductivity and Magnetism II (Chair: Kedar Damle) | |
| 16.45 -- 17.20 | Amit KANIGEL --Shallow pockets and very strong coupling superconductivity in Fe Sex Te1-x |
| 17.20 -- 17.55 | Kalobaran MAITI --Dichotomy of spin density wave state and superconductivity in pnictides |
| 17.55 -- 18.30 | Yoram DAGAN --Superconductivity and magnetic effects at the interface between LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 |
| 18.30 -- 19.05 | Satyajit BANERJEE --Imaging the competition and interplay between order parameters and energy scales in superconductors |
| 19.30 onwards -- Dinner | |
18 th October, 2011 |
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| Superconductivity and Magnetism III (Chair: Amnon Aharony) | |
| 08.30 -- 09.05 |
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| 09.05 -- 09.40 | V. RAVI CHANDRA -- A memory saving algorithm for eigenvalue computations of quantum systems |
| Coffee Break | |
| 10.00 -- 10.35 | Lior KLEIN --Magnetization reversal in nano-structure of SrRuO3 |
| 10.35 -- 11.10 | N. CHANDRABHAS --Raman study of magnetic ordering in multiferroics |
| 11.10 -- 11.45 | Ophir AUSLAENDER --Magnetic force microscopy of superconductor-vortex manipulation and local properties |
| 11.45 -- 12.20 | Daniel PODOLSKY --Visibility of the Higgs mode in condensed matter |
| CONCLUDING REMARKS (by Joe Imry) | |
| 13.00 -- 14.00 -- LUNCH | |
| EXCURSION TO COCHIN CITY BEGINS AT 14.00 | |