Showcasing RRI - Talks

9:30 : Launch event
Tarun Souradeep, Rajaram Nityananda, Srivari Chandrasekhar, S. Somanath (Morning Session)

11:20 : Space Science activities at RRI
Dr S Seetha (Former Program Director, ISRO Space Science Program & Emeritus Scientist at RRI)

13:00 : Evolution of the Soft Condensed Matter laboratories
Prof. N V Madhusudhana (Former Faculty, Soft Condensed Matter, RRI)

13:40 : Theory, Light and Matter at RRI – A personal perspective
Prof. Joseph Samuel (ICTS & Former Faculty, Theoretical Physics, RRI)

14:20 : Gravitational Physics at RRI: 1975 - 2022 Themes and Highlights
Prof. Bala Iyer (ICTS & Former Faculty, Theoretical Physics, RRI)

15:00 : Evolution of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Prof. Avinash Deshpande (Former Faculty, Astronomy and Astrophysics, RRI)

10:00 : Random Walks in Physics : A Perspective
Supurna Sinha (Raman Research Institute)

10:50 : Origin of two distinct stress relaxation regimes in shear jammed dense suspensions
Sayantan Majumdar (Raman Research Institute)

11:40 : Mechanics and shape stability of axons
Pramod Pullarkat (Raman Research Institute)

14:00 : The Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics (UNO) Lab: A journey
Reji Philip (Raman Research Institute)

14:50 : Quantum Technologies with ultra-cold Rydberg atoms
Sanjukta Roy (Raman Research Institute)

16:00 : Outflows from galaxies
Biman B Nath (Raman Research Institute)

10:00 : Multi-messenger Astronomy Progress and Problems
Nayantara Gupta (Raman Research Institute)

10:50 : Peering into early Universe
Saurabh Singh (Raman Research Institute)

14:00 : Photonic quantum science and technologies
Urbasi Sinha (Raman Research Institute)

14:50 : Understanding spacetime from Causality and Discreteness
Sumati Surya (Raman Research Institute)

16:00 : Composite topological phases of non-Hermitian one-dimensional lattice models
Dibyendu Roy (Raman Research Institute)

10:00 : Highs and lows of accreting neutron stars
Biswajit Paul (Raman Research Institute)

10:50 : Quantum Gravity: A view from General Relativity
Madhavan Varadarajan (Raman Research Institute)

11:40 : Quantum experiments in satellite technology (QuEST) — current developments
Kaumudibikash Goswami (Raman Research Institute)

14:00 : Nonequilibrium systems and stochastic processes
Sanjib Sabhapandit (Raman Research Institute)

16:00 : A Journey Into the Study of Interactions
Sadiq Rangwala (Raman Research Institute)

10:00 : Fluidizing jammed microgel suspensions
Ranjini Bandyopadhyay (Raman Research Institute)

10:50 : Taking the atoms for a “spin” using light
Saptarishi Chaudhuri (Raman Research Institute)

11:20 : Molecular self-assembly and emergent properties of liquid crystals
Arun Roy (Raman Research Institute)

15:50 : An overview of the Square Kilometre Array radio interferometer telescope activities at RRI.
Prabu T (Raman Research Institute)

16:30 : My Quantum Work @ RRI
Barry Sanders (University of Calgary)