Tentative Program
2nd January
09:00 - 10:30
Jainendra Jain
The Composite Fermion: Prediction, Verification and Beyond
Harsh Mathur
New Ensembles in Random Matrices
Puru Jena
Novel Physics at the Nano-Interface
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 13:00
Piers Coleman
How do Fermi Liquids Grow Heavy, and die ?
S. D. Mahanti
Non-Stoner Continuum in theDouble Exchange Model
Pinaki Majumdar
Insulator-metal Transition and `CMR' in Amorphous Magnetic Semiconductors
Ravindra Bhatt
Unusual Ferromagnetism in Doped Diluted Magnetic Semicondutors
LUNCH BREAK
14:30 - 16:00
Sriram Ramaswamy Fluctuations and
Hydrodynamics of Ordered Phases of Self-Propelled Particles:
Living
Liquid Crystals
Madan Rao
Drugs, Trafficking and COPs
Surajit Sengupta
Arrested States in Solids
TEA BREAK
16:30 - 17:30
Gautam menon
A new phenomenology for disordered type-II Superconductors
Satya Majumdar
Dynamics in the q-model
3rdJanuary
09:00 - 10:30
Subir Sachdev
Quantum Phase Transitions in d-wave Superconductors
Mohit Randeria
Projected Superconducting Wavefunctions Revisited
Arun Bansil
Beauty and Complexity of Photo-emission from High-Tc Superconductors
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 13:00
Anupam Garg
Spin Dynamics in Magnetic Macromolecules
Chetan Nayak
Hidden Order in Cuprates
Kedar Damle
Griffiths Efects and Quantum Critical Points in Dirty Superconductors
with Spin-orbit Scattering
I. Dasgupta
Trends in LDA Derived Model Hamiltonians for Cuprate High Tc Superconductors
LUNCH BREAK
14:30 - 16:30
Shobo Bhattacharya Scanning Probe Mesoscopy:
Imaging Dynamics in Ferroelectrics, Ferromagnets
and Superconductors
Satyendra Kumar
Using Phase Separation to Fabricate New Generation of Liquid Crystal Microdevices
Amit Chakrabarti
Block Copolymers: From Nano-molecules to Nano-molecules to Nano-structuredMaterials
A. A. Tulapurkar Local
Magnetism of isolated Mo atoms at substitutional in interstitial lattice
sites in Yb
4th January
09:00 - 10:30
T. Saha-Dasgupta
Tight-bindingModeling and Generation of First-principles Wannier-like Orbitals
using the New LMTO Scheme
Premi Chandra
Seeking a Simple 2D Spin Liquid
Shivaji Sondhi
Short Range RVB, Quantum Dimer Models and Ising Gauge Theories
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 13:00
Surajit Sen
Impulse Propogation in Granular Media, Solitary Waves and Fermi-Pasta-Ulam
Problem
Narayanan Menon
Velocity Fluctuations in a Shaken Granular Medium
Srikanth Sastry
Aspects of glass forming liquids
P.Singha Deo
Thermodynamic properties of mesoscopic superconductors
LUNCH BREAK
14:30 - 15:30
Kalobaran Maity
Spectral evolution in strongly correlated systems as a function of correlation
strength or doping
Abhishek Dhar
Bloch walls and macroscopic strings in Bethe solution of the ferromagnetic
Heisenberg chain