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

Competitive growth on a rugged front
Mehran Kardar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA)

The Athena Space X-ray Observatory
Didier Barret (Director of Research, French Research Council )

Directed aging: using memory and nature’s greed as a new principle for materials design
Sidney Nagel (The University of Chicago, Chicago)

The rapidly expanding thickening universe: critical points, dethickening, superthickening, and meta material liquids
Itai Cohen (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)

From Analogue to Emergent Gravity: three small lessons
Stefano Liberati (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)

Self-propelled Topological Defects
Julia M Yeomans (The Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, UK)

Quantum circuits, and the future of quantum technology in the cloud
Jay M. Gambetta (IBM Fellow and VP of Quantum Computing, IBM Quantum)

Marginally stable economies?
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (Capital Fund Management and French Academy of Sciences)

Quantum Information
Charles H. Bennett (IBM fellow at IBM Research, New York)