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11/09/2026, 08:00
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Priya Johari11/09/2026, 10:15
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Srubabati Goswami11/09/2026, 10:25
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Shikha Varma (GIPWG)11/09/2026, 10:40
The journey of women in physics in India reflects both individual achievements and the changing landscape of science and society. The pioneering journey of Bibha Chowdhuri, one of India’s early women physicists, an extraordinary scientist, will provide a glimpse into the experiences of women entering physics in an earlier era. This will be followed by an overview of the changing landscape of...
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Saswati Barman (IEM)11/09/2026, 11:40
Magnetic vortices, with their topologically protected spin textures, excellent stability, and rich dynamical behavior, have emerged as promising building blocks for next-generation spintronic devices. Their controllable polarity, chirality, and gyrotropic motion offer exciting opportunities for developing energy-efficient memories, microwave oscillators, and unconventional computing...
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Mamta Dahiya (DU)11/09/2026, 11:40
Precision measurements provide a powerful indirect probe of physics beyond the Standard Model, since new particles can modify electroweak and Higgs observables through quantum e>ects even when they are not directly observed. The evolving picture of the muon anomalous magnetic moment and the (W)-boson mass illustrates how the interpretation of precision tests changes as experimental and...
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Tanuja Mohanty (JNU)11/09/2026, 12:00
Atomically thin crystalline layers have emerged as a distinctive platform for solid-state quantum emitters, offering a combination of exotic optical and electronic properties. This talk will give an overview on the landscape of color centers in hexagonal boron
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nitride (hBN) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and their nanocomposites. In hBN, the negatively charged boron vacancy... -
Manimala Mitra (IoP)11/09/2026, 12:00
The Standard Model of particle physics provides an extraordinarily successful description of the fundamental particles and their interactions, yet several important observations point towards physics beyond it. The origin of neutrino masses and mixings, the nature of dark matter, the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe, and the connection between particle physics and the early...
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Gargee Sharma11/09/2026, 12:20
Quantum interference of electrons in disordered conductors is a
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sensitive probe of the internal structure of quasiparticles, revealing
universal signatures of symmetry through weak localization (WL) and weak
antilocalization (WAL). While these phenomena are well understood for
conventional Schrödinger and Dirac-Weyl fermions, their fate in the
broader class of multifold chiral fermions... -
Moon Moon Devi (TU)11/09/2026, 12:20
Neutrino oscillations are among the most sensitive tools for exploring physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). Three such well-motivated BSM scenarios are Scalar Non-Standard Interactions (SNSI), dark Non-Standard Interactions (dark NSI), and Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV). SNSI is the interaction of neutrinos with environmental fermions, mediated by a scalar particle [1]. One of the most...
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Susmita Saha (Ashoka University)11/09/2026, 12:40
Spin waves, the collective excitations of electron spins in magnetic materials, have emerged as promising information carriers for next-generation magnonic technologies owing to their nanoscale
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wavelengths and charge-free propagation, which enables energy-efficient information processing [1]. A key challenge in realizing practical magnonic devices is the precise control of spin-wave... -
Maneesha Sushama Pradeep (IISc, Bengaluru)11/09/2026, 12:40
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at high temperatures and baryon densities is expected to exhibit a rich phase structure. A central open question is whether the QCD phase diagram contains a critical point
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at finite baryon density, marking the termination of a first order phase transition line. While lattice QCD has established that the transition from hadronic matter to the quark-gluon plasma is... -
Mayuri S Rao (RRI)11/09/2026, 14:30
Standard cosmology predicts inevitable signals that should be observable as global or all-sky signals. These include the additive distortions to the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) spectrum from photons emitted over the Epoch of Recombination. Another is the monopole signal from the redshifted 21-cm signal from hydrogen over the dark-ages, cosmic dawn, and epoch of reionization when the...
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Garima Mishra (Ashoka University)11/09/2026, 14:30
At high salt concentrations and elevated temperatures, the persistence length of DNA decreases, increasing its conformational flexibility. Under such conditions, sufficiently long DNA molecules can accommodate multiple knots along the same contour. Using coarse-grained simulations, we investigate how two knots interact and reorganize under applied tension. We consider pairs of identical knots,...
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Debosmita Banerjee (UPES)11/09/2026, 14:50
The growing demand for sustainable energy technologies has accelerated the development of electrochemical energy conversion and storage systems capable of supporting a clean energy future. Efficient technologies for energy generation, conversion, and storage—including hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), oxygen evolution reaction (OER), water splitting, zinc-
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ion batteries, metal-air batteries,... -
Arunima Banerjee* (IISER Tirupati)11/09/2026, 14:50
Warped galactic discs are common, yet their detection remains challenging, as the outskirts of galaxies are typically faint. Advances in deep imaging surveys improve the detectability of such features, while machine learning enables efficient analysis of large datasets. Using the Pan-STARRS EGIPS catalogue, we develop a deep learning framework by finetuning the Zoobot convNext-nano model on...
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Snigdha Thakur (IISER Bhopal)11/09/2026, 15:10
Active forces provide a powerful means of controlling the structure and dynamics of soft and biological polymers. In this talk, I will discuss our recent work on how the spatial organization of activity controls polymer conformation, mechanics, transport, and topology. We first consider active polymers with distributed propulsion, where the interplay between activity and polymer connectivity...
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Pravabati Chingangbam (IIA)11/09/2026, 15:10
Random fields arise in many areas of science, from materials and biology to climate and cosmology. While traditional statistics describe their local properties, topology reveals their global structure. We develop a statistical framework for Betti numbers and the Euler characteristic of excursion sets of smooth random fields by expressing them in terms of random topological components. This...
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Anuradha Misra12/09/2026, 09:15
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Vandana Nanal12/09/2026, 10:00
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Sumathi Rao12/09/2026, 10:45
I will discuss the under-representation of women in physics in India, over the years, particularly in senior positions. Drawing on my own experience, I will reflect on how the recognition of the problem and efforts to address it have changed over the last few decades. Although policies have evolved to support women in physice, they are still not sufficient to overcome structural discrimination...
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Ipsita Saha (IIT M)12/09/2026, 11:45
The origin of mass in extended Higgs sectors may involve mechanisms beyond the conventional electroweak symmetry breaking paradigm. While the Standard Model (SM) attributes particle masses entirely to the electroweak vacuum expectation value (VEV), many well-motivated
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extensions introduce additional sources of mass to nonstandard scalars through soft symmetry-breaking terms or contribute to... -
Sudeshna Sen (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad)12/09/2026, 11:45
We investigate the interplay between non-trivial band topology and strong electronic correlations in a two-leg ladder model with a p-wave-like hybridization between the legs. In the non-interacting limit, the model realizes a symmetry-protected topological phase and exhibits three insulating regions, denoted A, B, and C, characterized by free-fermion winding numbers 0, −1, and −2,...
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Ipsita Mandal (SNIOE)12/09/2026, 12:05
Exceptional points (EPs), at which two or more eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce, are ubiquitous and unique features of non-Hermitian (NH) systems. Second-order EPs (EP2s) are by far the most studied due to their abundance, requiring only the tuning of two real parameters, which is less than the three parameters needed to generically find ordinary Hermitian eigenvalue degeneracies....
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Swagata Mukherjee (IIT Kanpur)12/09/2026, 12:05
Machine learning (ML) has become an essential tool in high-energy physics (HEP). It has changed the way how data is processed across every stage of a collider experiment. Today, ML techniques power real-time trigger decisions, detector simulation, object reconstruction, and final statistical inference. This talk provides an overview of ML applications in HEP. I will focus mainly on collider...
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Disha Bhatia (APU)12/09/2026, 12:25
In this talk, I talk about various thermal and non-thermal production mechanisms for dark matter. I highlight how the field has moved from the traditional WIMP searches to beyond WIMP searches. At the end I will focus on a particular non-thermal scenario where dark matter can be produced exponentially and discuss various limits and calculation challenges for this process.
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Archana Mishra12/09/2026, 12:25
Magnetic impurities in s-wave superconductors lead to spin-polarized Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) in-gap states. Chains of magnetic impurities offer one of the most viable routes for the realization of Majorana bound states, which hold promise for topological quantum computing. However, this ambitious goal looks distant, since no quantum coherent degrees of freedom have yet been identified in these...
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Sharvari Nadkarni Ghosh (IIT K)12/09/2026, 14:15
On very large scales in the Universe is the observed matter is distributed into galaxies, clusters of galaxies and superclusters with large void spaces in between. This spider-web like pattern of matter is very loosely referred to as large scale structure. This
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structure is believed to have grown from tiny seed density perturbations laid down during the inflationary era in the history of the... -
Ranjini Bandyopadhyay (RRI)12/09/2026, 14:15
I shall discuss our recent work on the self-assembly of colloidal microgel particles at a quasi-two-dimensional air-water interface of a drying droplet. Using bright-field microscopy, we demonstrate that increasing particle elasticity drives interfacial organization from repulsion-stabilized crystallization to attraction-dominated gelation, via diverse metastable structures including clusters,...
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Monalisa Halder (DSE, WB)12/09/2026, 14:35
The demand for low-cost, environment-friendly materials is the main driving force for studying the utilization of bio-wastes as the precursor for synthesizing functional carbon in energy-related
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applications. This talk outlines our group’s systematic approach in converting rice husk and tea waste into activated carbon through controlled carbonization and chemical activation, then integrating... -
Sarmistha Banik (BITS Pilani, Hyderabad)12/09/2026, 14:35
Neutron stars(NS) offer a unique cosmic laboratory to probe the nature of dark
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matter (DM), one of the biggest open questions in physics. We study NS carrying a
small admixture of dark matter, modelling both ordinary (hadronic) matter and dark
matter using nuclear physics-based equations of state(EoS), and comparing two
possibilities: Fermionic versus Bosonic DM. Using Bayesian inference,... -
Reshma Raveendran (SNU)12/09/2026, 14:55
Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) are attracting significant attention for applications in flexible electronics, wearable devices, sensors, and low-cost printed circuits. Achieving high electrical performance in these devices depends strongly on the morphology and molecular ordering of the organic semiconductor layer. In this work, we investigate the influence of solution-processing...
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Shilpa Kastha (SINP)12/09/2026, 14:55
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Anushri Gupta12/09/2026, 17:00
Scientific publishing plays an important role beyond the communication of research findings. It supports research visibility, professional recognition, community building, and career opportunities within the scientific ecosystem. In this editorial talk, I will share perspectives from Wiley’s material science and physics publishing portfolio, highlighting journals relevant to researchers...
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Madhureeta Das Gupta, Deeksha Gupta12/09/2026, 17:15
Scientific publishing advances diversity and inclusion by providing equitable opportunities for researchers to disseminate their work, participate in scholarly discussions, and gain recognition within the global scientific community. ACS is one of the world's largest scientific societies and a leading publisher supporting research across chemistry, materials science, and the physical...
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