SymPhy 2025

Schedule

8 March, 2025

Lecture Hall Complex, IIT Bombay

8:40AM - 9:20AM Registration

9:20AM - 9:30AM Welcome and Inauguration
By : Prof. S Dhar, HOD, Physics

Session 1 Session chair : Prof. Dibyendu Das

9:30AM - 10:00AM Prof. Snighdha Thakur
IISER, Bhopal

Chemically active colloids and polymer: self-propulsion and aggregation

10:00AM - 10:10AM Dr. Arun Dadwal
Evaporation-driven self-nematic ordering in colloidal nanotubes

10:10AM - 10:20AM Aarsh Chotalia
Blink it to Sync it: brainwave synchronization by common photic stimulus

10:20AM - 10:30AM Sakshi Jain
Experimental realization of stochastic resetting using a programmable self-propelled robot

10:30AM - 11:00AM TEA BREAK

Session 2 Session chair : Prof. Anshuman Kumar

11:00AM - 11:15AM Prof. Uditendu Mukhopadhyay
Gate-defined quantum dot arrays: A platform for quantum computation and simulation

11:15AM - 11:25AM Monika Motiram Jawale
Low-Dimensional magnetism in Cu(Ampy)ClBr: A spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain

11:25AM - 11:35AM Bhupesh Bhardwaj
Design and development of high-performance, self powered UV-Vis-NIR organic photodetector for imaging and biomedical sensing applications

11:35AM - 11:45AM Umakanta Patra
Field effect transistor based on CVD grown large area covered bilayer MoS2 films

11:45AM - 11:55AM Dr. Saikat Nandi
Exploring quantum spin liquid state in a 3D spin-1/2 system: Y3Cu2Sb3O14

11:55AM - 12:05PM Dr. Sabyasachi Paul
Room temperature spin-valve like behaviour in CoRuFeGa Heusler alloy

12:15PM - 2:30PM LUNCH BREAK

Session 3 Panel Discussion and Poster Session
Moderator : Prof. Sunita Srivastava

2:30PM - 4:00PM Panel Discussion
Panelists : Dr. Ashish Ranjan, Dr. Debjyoti Bardhan, Prof. Anuradha Narasimhan, Dr. K.K. Yadaav, Prof. Partha Chowdhury, Prof. Dinesh Kabra

Career opportunities after PhD in and out of academia

4:00PM - 4:30PM TEA BREAK

4:30PM - 6:00PM POSTER SESSION

END OF DAY ONE PROGRAM

9 March, 2024

Lecture Hall Complex, IIT Bombay

Session 4 Session chair : Prof. Himadri Shekhar Dhar

9:35AM - 10:00AM Prof. Usha Devi
Bangalore University

An overview of permutation symmetric multiqubit states and geometric visualisation

10:00AM - 10:10AM Sudipta Das
Quantum cloning and telecloning in discrete variable systems

10:10AM - 10:20AM Sooryansh Asthana
New trends in quantum metrology

10:20AM - 10:30AM Ishita Modak
Ergodicity breaking in disordered quantum systems

10:30AM - 11:00AM TEA BREAK

Session 5 Session chair : Prof. Varun Bhalerao

11:00AM - 11:30AM Prof. Shilpi Jain
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

High Energy Physics: Smashing particles and unraveling mysteries

11:30AM - 11:40AM Tanu Gahlaut
Event-by-event mean transverse momentum fluctuations in charged and identified particles in pp collisions at 13.6 TeV with ALICE at LHC

11:40AM - 11:55AM Prof. Manibrata Sen
Neutrinos: the elusive messengers of the cosmos

11:55AM - 12:05PM Nitesh Jaswal
Analog charged black holes and percolation theory

12:05PM - 12:15PM Utkarsh Pathak
Making sense of high energy polarization from GRBs

12:15PM - 12:30PM Prof. Rahul Kashyap
First principles numerical simulations to observations of compact binary mergers

12:30PM - 2:30PM LUNCH BREAK

Session 6 Session chair : Prof. Sayantika Bhowal

2:30PM - 2:45PM Prof. Subhaskar Mandal
Exciton Polaritons: A brief overview and recent developments

2:45PM - 2:55PM Dr. Prachi Venkat
Chiral-sensitive frequency-mixing in valley-excited two-dimensional semiconductors

2:55PM - 3:05PM Dipmala Mohinta
Photocatalytic degradation of methyl orange

3:05PM - 3:15PM Sounak Samanta
Brief introduction to spin qubits hosted in gate defined quantum dots

3:15PM - 3:25PM Julfikar Ali Sarkar
Nanomaterials fabrication and their applications as a sensor

3:25PM - 3:40PM Sankalp Kumar
Entanglement in SU(N) spin chains: Connections to classical loop models

3:40PM - 3:55PM Prof. Prashant Kumar
Quantum gapless matter in two-dimensions

4:00PM - 4:30PM TEA BREAK

4:30PM - 5:00PM POSTER/TALKS AWARDS

END OF DAY TWO PROGRAM