SPS Day 2025
School of Physical Sciences, NISER
17–18 October 2025
THE ANNUAL EXPOSITION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AT SPS
VENUE: PATHANI SAMANTA AUDITORIUM, NISER
THE ANNUAL EXPOSITION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AT SPS
VENUE: PATHANI SAMANTA AUDITORIUM, NISER
Senior Professor, Chairperson CMRP
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Professor, SPS
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Associate Professor, SPS
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Associate Professor, SPS
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Associate Professor, SPS
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Associate Professor, SPS
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Associate Professor, Chairperson SPS
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Associate Professor, SPS
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Associate Professor, SPS
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Reader - F, SPS
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Reader - F, SPS
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Scientific Officer - F, SPS
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SERB-Ramanujan Fellow, SPS
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DST-INSPIRE Faculty, SPS
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Day 1: 17/10/2025
Opening Remarks for SPS Day: Chairperson SPS
Subhankar Bedanta — Flexible spintronics
Ajay K. Nayak — Topological magnetism for next-generation spintronics
Pratap K Sahoo — Fano interference and electron-phonon coupling in oxides
Amarresh Kumar Jaiswal — Polarization and magnetic field in relativistic heavy ion collisions
Luke R. Chamandy — Theoretical astrophysics involving galaxy magnetic fields and interacting stars
Colin Benjamin — Research in theoretical nanoscience, quantum information and game theory
Nabendu Mondal — Electronic structure computation of materials
Swayang Priya Mahanta — Influence of graphene and antimonene underlayers on magnetization dynamics in FeCo thin films
Jayaseelan D. — Engineering topological magnetic textures through aperiodic multilayer design
Indrajit Mondal — Doping of organic semiconductors for operationally stable devices
Sukanya Mitra — Approach towards equilibrium through momentum dependent relaxation
Nishant Gupta — Holography and asymptotic symmetries
Aldrin B.E. — Hysteresis, avalanches and time delays in frustrated higher spin random field model
Sankha Satapathi — Dynamics of active cargo carrying particles
2-minute research pitch by students (Chair: Ashok Mohapatra)
V. Ravi Chandra — Spin wave interactions in the all-in-all-out phase of the pyrochlore antiferromagnet
Manoj Kumar — Dynamical scaling and competing relaxation mechanisms in a one-dimensional long-range Ising system
Prasanjit Samal — Making density functional approximations accurate and versatile
Day 2: 18/10/2025
Bedangadas Mohanty — Coherent elastic neutrino nucleus scattering (CENNS)
Prolay Kumar Mal — Deciphering the Higgs boson at the LHC
Kartik Senapati — Self-biased nano-SQUIDs?
Sachin Kala — What is the best way of classifying Conformal Field Theories?
Srijita Sinha — Untangling dust and CIB emission in Planck 353 GHz observation with scattering coefficients
Bappaditya Mondal — Fluctuations that matter: A landmark step toward making the QCD phase diagram a textbook reality
Sachiraj Mishra — Probing the dichotomy between Yu–Shiba–Rusinov and Majorana bound states via conductance, quantum noise and ΔT noise
Santosh Babu Gunda — Photocurrent causing 'photons' of photoelectric effect versus heralded 'photons' by spontaneous parametric down conversion
Surya Narayan Sahoo — Experimental test of consistency of the Born rule
| # | Participant Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rishi Paresh Joshi | Int.-M.Sc. |
| 2 | Sneha N | Int.-M.Sc. |
| 3 | Aman Gupta | Int.-M.Sc. |
| 4 | Abhishek Singh | Int.-M.Sc. |
| 5 | Amit Haldar | Ph.D. |
| 6 | Md. Tousif Alam | Ph.D. |
| 7 | Nandini Mondal | Ph.D. |
| 8 | Bhuvneswari Sharma | Ph.D. |
| 9 | Sudipta Das | Int.-Ph.D. |
| 10 | Sawan | Ph.D. |
| 11 | Dinesh K. Panda | Ph.D. |
