Colloquia

Most colloquia at the Raman Research Institute are given by experts in different areas of science. The scope is fairly broad, and often, we host colloquia that introduce new and relevant topics that may not quite belong to the conventional sciences.

Organizing committee

Upcoming and past events

Our Quantum Centuries
Barry C. Sanders (University of Calgary, Canada)

Revisiting diffraction
Rajaram Nityananda (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru)

X-ray Variability of Black Hole Systems: The AstroSat Advantage
Ranjeev Misra (IUCAA, Pune)

The Curious Case of Planet 9
Jihad Touma (American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon)

Phase-Transitions, Relaxation, and Shape Transformations in Soft Materials
Arjun Yodh (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)

Resonances in general relativity
Béatrice Bonga (Radboud University, Netherlands)

Instabilities and flow-induced structures in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
Irmgard Bischofberger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge)

Informatic versus Thermodynamic Entropy Production in Active Systems
Michael Cates (University of Cambridge, UK)

Privacy for the paranoid ones - the ultimate limits of secrecy
Artur Ekert (Founding Director of the CQT, National University of Singapore Professor, The University of Oxford, UK)

Impact of structural ordering in supercooled liquids on vitrification and crystallization
Hajime Tanaka (The University of Tokyo, Japan)