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Day1: 15-12-2010

8:30-9:00

9:00-10:00

Registration

Inaugural Function

10:00-10:15

Tea


10:15-10:45

10:45-11:15

11:15-11:45

Statistical Mechanics:

(I-33) S Dattagupta: Retrieving Quantum Information Despite Decoherence

(I-12) J Horbach: Micro- and macro-rheology in glass-forming soft-sphere mixture

(I-1) A Chatterji: Electrophoresis of Highly Charged colloids

11:45-12:00

Tea


12:00-12:30

12:30-13:00

Materials simulation

(I-36) S Narasimhan: Using Density Functional Theory to Design Materials

(I-42) T Saha-Dasgupta: Electronic Structure of Complex Materials:

from First-principles study to Materials Modeling

13:00-14:00

Lunch


14:00-14:30

14:30-15:00

15:00-15:30

15:30-15:50

Lower Dimensional systems: Clusters

(I-6) C Majumdar: Growth Pattern of Atomic Clusters on Metal and Metal Oxide Substrates: How it differs from the gas phase model

(I-23) P Jena: A New Class of Magic Clusters and Their Potential as Building Blocks of Novel Materials

(I-4) B N Dev: Quantum Size Effect in Electronic and Magnetic Behaviour in Epitaxial Nanostructures

(O-14) V R R Medicherla: Surface Structure of PdAg(100) Alloys: A Synchrotron Radiation Study

15:50-16:05

Tea


16:05-16:35

16:35-17:05


17:05-17:35

17:35-17:55

17:55-18:15


Strongly correlated systems and smart materials

(I-18) M P Das: Vortex
 Physics
of 
Novel
 Superconductors
 with
 Two
 Order
 Parameters

(I-21) N C Mishra: MODIFICATION OF STRUCTURE AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY OF YBa2Cu3O7 BY INELASTIC INTERACTION OF 200 MeV Ag ION INDUCED SECONDARY ELECTRONS

(I-47) Z Hussain: Magnetism and superconductivity of AFe2As2 compounds

(O-6) K Senapati:Phase periodic conductance oscillations at subgap voltages in SNINS junctions

(O-4) D Samal: Influence of ferromagnetic layer on pair-breaking, vortex dynamics and critical field in superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructure



Day2: 16-12-2010


9:00-9:30

9:30-10:30

10:00-10:30

Strongly correlated systems and smart materials

(I-45) W Kleemann : Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Materials

(I-35) S D Mahanti: Exact ground state phase diagram in 2D frustrated classical Heisenberg and XY Models with biquadratic excahange: the story of uudd state in multiferroic manganites

(I-34) S Dhar: Ferromagnetism in lightly Gd doped GaN: The role of defects

10:30-10:45

Tea


10:45-11:15

11:15-11:45

11:45-12:15

12:15-12:45

12:45-13:05

Strongly correlated systems and smart materials

(I-25) P Majumdar: Disorder, magnetism and transport in the double perovskites

(I-2) A K Raychoudhuri: The never ending surprises of perovskite oxides : The hot issues of a cold area

(I-31) S L Chaplot: Role of Dynamics of Atoms in some novel Material Properties

(I-24) P Mahadevan: Electron doped CrO2 : An unsual example of a charge ordered ferromagnet

(O-7)M Kar: MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY IN NANOCRYSTALLINE CHROMIUM SUBSTITUTED COBALT FERRITES

13:05-14:05

Lunch


14:05-14:35

14:35-15:05

15:05-15:35

15:35-16:05

16:05-15:25


Physics of graphene

(I-46) Y Woo Son: Physics of graphene and its nanostructures

(I-3) A Shukla: Theory of Electro-Optical Properties of Graphene Nanoribbons

(I-8) G P Das : First principles design of hydrogenated graphene and BN sheet and their possible functionalization

(I-38) S Satpathy: Modelling Electronic Structure of Graphene: Vacancy States, Magnetism, and Jahn-Teller Interactions

(O-1) A Kumar: Quantum Hall Effect and role of disorder in graphene:A high magnetic field study

16:25-16:40

Tea


16:40-17:10

17:10-17:40

17:40-18:10

18:10-18:40

Statistical mechanics

(I-27) P B Sunilkumar: Dynamics of a polyelectrolyte under simple shear.

(I-14) K G Ayappa: Investigations on the Melting and Bending Modulus of Polymer Grafted Bilayers using Dissipative Particle Dynamics

(I-15) K L Sebastian: The Dynamics of Loop Formation in Semi-fleible Polymers

(I-9) G I Menon: Transport and Patterning in Motor-MIcrotubule Mixtures.


Day3: 17-12-2010


9:00-9:30

9:30-10:00

10:00-10:20

10:20-10:40


Strongly correlated systems and smart materials

(I-29) R Prasad: Born Effective Charges, Spontaneous Polarization and Optical Properties of Bismuth Titanate from First-principles

(I-43) U V Waghmare:First-principles free energies and Ginzburg-Landau theory of domains and ferroelectric phase transitions in BaTiO3

(O-10) R Nath: Synthesis, structure, and properties of tetragonal Sr2Mn3As2O2 and Sr2Mn2CuAs2O2 containing alternating CuO2-type and FeAs-type layers

(O-3) D Behera: Fluctuation Induced Magneto-conductivity Studies in YBa2Cu3O7 + BaTiO3 Composite High Tc Superconductors

10:40-10:55

Tea


10:55-11:25

11:25-11:55

11:55-12:25

12:25-12:55

12:55-13:15


Electronic structure of excited states

(I-20) M K Harbola: Construction of energy functionals for excited-states calculations

(I-40) T Niehaus: An approximate TDDFT method and its application to the luminescence spectra of Silicon nanocrystals

(I-17) L Kronik: Theoretical spectroscopy with optimally tuned range-separated hybrid functionals

(I-28) R Baer: Molecular Conical Intersections and Density Functional Theory

(O-8) P Ghosh: Computational Approaches to Charge Transfer Excitations in a

ZnTPP-C70 complex

13:15-14:15

Lunch


14:15-14:45

14:45-15:15

15:15-15:45

15:45-16:15

16:15-16:35


Quantum dots and wires

(I-7) E Räsänen: Density-functional studies on semiconductor quantum dots and rings

(I-44) V A Singh: Electronic proerties of quantum dots

(I-11) I Dasgupta: Electronic Structure of Functional Nanomaterials

(I-5) B R Mehta: Complexities of metal nanoparticle – hydrogen interaction: basic issues and novel applications

(O-9) P Sarkar: Band gap modulation of GaAs Nanowires by surface modulation

16:35-16:50

Tea

16:50–19:00


POSTER

19:30

Conference Dinner


Day4: 18-12-2010


9:00-9:20

9:20-9:40

9:40-10:00


Quantum dots and wires

(O-11) S K Bandopadhayay: Effect of Annealing Temperature on Magnetism in Co-doped ZnO Nanomaterials

(O-2) A Singha:Electron Dimer Molecules in Optically Tunable Semiconductor Quantum Dot

(O-13)S Rath: Refractive index modulation of Ge oxide films with thermal annealing and MeV ions

10:00-10:15

Tea


10:15-10:45

10:45-11:15

11:15-11:45

11:45-12:15

12:15-12:35


Electron transport: nano to meso

(I-13) J B Neaton:Charge and Energy Transport in Molecular Junctions with Self-Energy Corrections

(I-41) T P Pareek: Spin transport and associated spin torque

(I-10) G V Pai: Tunable Spin Filtering using Quantum Wire Network

(I-19) M Desmukh:Nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) devices to study mesoscopic physics

(O-12) S Pandey: Investigation of the role of spin-orbit coupling on spin-based transport properties of Iron Pnictide materials

12:35-14:00

Lunch


14:00 -14:30

14:30 -15:00

15:00 -15:30


Statistical mechanics

(I-37) S Puri: Cooling and Brownian motion in Viscoelastic Granular Gases

(I-30) R Rajesh: Disorder-Order-Disorder transition in a system of long rods on the Bethe lattice

(I-32) S K Das: Kinetics of Phase Separation

16:00-16:15

Tea

18:00-19:30


Cultural program


Day5: 19-12-2010


9:00-9:30

9:30-9:50


Statistical mechanics

(I-39) S Sengupta: Network forming nano-particles

(O-5) D K Satpathy: Complex fluids in nano-confinement

9:50-10:15

Tea


10:15-10:45

10:45-11:15

11:15-11:45

11:45-12:30


Chemistry with electronic structure

(I-16) K D Sen: Electronic structure calculations of spherically confined N-electron atoms

(I-22) P Chattaraj: All-metal Aromaticity and Conceptual DFT

(I-26) P Padmanabhan: The Role Of Hydrogen Bonding In Hydration And Swelling Of Layered Double Hydroxides: A Molecular Dynamics Study

Concluding remarks


Lunch