Program Overview

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Venue: Chaitya Hall, Fortune Inn Valley View
09:30-10:30 Inaugural function

10:30-11:00 Snacks + Tea/Coffee

11:00-11:45 Plenary : Jainendra Jain (PSU, USA)

Composite Fermions: Motivation, Successes, and Application to Fractional
Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene
11:45-12:15 Abhishek Dhar (RRI, Bangalore)
Phononic heat conduction in disordered crystals
12:15-12:45 N. Subramanian (IGCAR, Kalpakkam)
Hydrogen Behaviour at Extreme Conditions

13:00-14:00 Lunch (Fortune Inn Valley View)

14:00-16:00 Invited Seminar: “Graphene: Paradigm for Exciting Nanophysics”
Coordinator: A.K. Sood, IISc, Bangalore
A. K. Sood (IISc, Bangalore)
Probing Bilayer Graphene using Transport and Spectroscopy
G. Baskaran (Mat Sc. Chennai)
Nature of Qantum Hall States in neutral Graphene in strong magnetic fields
Mandar M. Deshmukh (TIFR, Mumbai)
Integer and fractional quantum Hall effect in high-mobility suspended monolayer
graphene devices
Krishnendu Sengupta (IACS, Kolkata)
STM spectroscopy of Dirac electrons in graphene
16:00-16:30 Tea/Coffee Break

16:30-17:00 Toshiji Kanaya (Kyoto University, Japan)

Heterogeneity in Polymer Thin Films
17:00-17:30 Sriram Ramaswamy (IISc, Bangalore)
Active matter: liquid-crystal hydrodynamics with a difference
17:30-18:00 Chandrabhas Narayana (JNCASR, Bangalore)
Raman scattering studies on LaMn0.5Co0.5O3 with two distinct Curie
Temperatures
18:30 Evening Lecture: M. S. Valiathan
Modern Science looks at Ayurveda
19:30 Dinner courtsey ‘M/sCryogenics Ltd.’ (MIT Food Court)
 Monday, December 27, 2010
Venue: Chaitya Hall, Fortune Inn Valley View

09:30 –10:00 D. D. Sarma (IISc, Bangalore)

Sr2FeMoO6: An unusual compound with many faces
10:00-10:00 S. Patnaik (JNU, Delhi)
Spin frustrated magnets: A novel route to multiferroicity
10:30-11:00 Attila R. Imre (Budapest, Hungary)
Absolute Negative Pressure In Condensed Matters
11:00-11:30 Tea/Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Invited Seminar: “New Age Pnictide Superconductor”
Coordinator: A.K. Ganguli (IITd, Delhi)
A.K. Ganguli (IITd, Delhi)
New Oxypnictide Superconductors
A. Bharathi (IGCAR, Kalpakkam)
Role of isoelectronic substitution and external pressure in superconductivity of
BaFe2As2
A. Thamizhavel (TIFR, Mumbai)
Magnetism and Superconductivity in CaFe2-xTxAs2 (T = Co and Ni) Single
Crystals
13:00-14:00 Lunch (MIT Food Court)
14:00-16:30 Poster Presentations along with Tea/Coffee (First floor MIT Food Court)
A02 - A22, B04 - B24, C01 - C39, D01 - D13, E03 - E19, F01 - F44
G02 - G16, H01 - H07, I01 - I22, J01 - J15, K01 - K22, L01 - L23
T01 - T44
16:30 - 18:00 Oral presentations (Parallel Session)
Venue: MIT Library Auditorium Venue: AC Seminar Hall
A19, A22, A50, A58 C05, C18, C42, C83, C135
L29, L42, L58, L80 C177, C200, C216
19:00 Banquet Dinner courtsey ‘Manipal University’ (Fortune Inn Valley View)
 Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Venue: Chaitya Hall, Fortune Inn Valley View

09:30 –10:00 Marie Xavier (University of Toulouse – CNRS, France)

Optical and Electrical Spin Injection in Semiconductor Nanostructures
10:00 - 10:30 S. Mitra (BARC, Mumbai)
Stochastic dynamics of molecules in confinement: neutron scattering and MD
simulation studies
10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00 Invited Seminar : “Materials for Renewable Energy”
Coordinator: G.P. Das (IASc, Kolakata)
G.P. Das (IASc, Kolakata)
Materials for Hydrogen Storage: From Complex Hydrides to Functionalized
Nanostructures
S. Sundar Kumar Iyer (IITk, Kanpur)
Criteria for choice of material for building organic solar cells
Satyendra Kumar (Lanco Industries)
Materials Requirement for Photovoltaic Industry
Dinesh Kabra (Cavendish Lab., Cambridge)
Excitonic Materials for Hybrid Solar Cells and Energy Efficient Lighting 
13:00 - 1400 Lunch (MIT Food Court)
14:00 - 16:30 Poster Presentations along with Tea/Coffee (First floor MIT Food Court)
A25 - A35, B26 - B38, C42 - C98, D15 - D24, E20 - E43, F45 - F99
G19 - G39, H09 - H21, I24 - I55, J16 - J33, K23 - K52, L24 - L43
16:30 - 18:00 Oral presentations (Parallel Session)
Venue: MIT Library Auditorium Venue: AC Seminar Hall
B42, B54, B59, D25 I42, I45, I64, I119
D28, D48, H24, H27 K14, K18, K63, K77
 Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Venue: Chaitya Hall, Fortune Inn Valley View

09:30 - 10:00 Pratap Raychaudhuri (TIFR, Mumbai)

Phase - fluctuations in disordered superconductors
10:00 - 10:30 Saurav Giri (IACS, Kolkata)
Exchange bias effect in alloys and compounds
10:30 - 11:00 Ashok Verma (BARC, Mumbai)
First - principles investigations of Defects in Minerals

11:00 - 11:30 Tea/Coffee break

11:30 - 12:15 Presentations by Young Achievers
Ajay Singh (BARC, Mumbai)
Low temperature charge transport in organic thin films and superconductor /
ferromagnet multilayer
A.Chandra Bose (NIT, Trichi)
Metal-Oxide Nanomaterials For Device Applications
V. Sudarsan (BARC, Mumbai)
Lanthanide doped SbPO4 nanomaterials: Investigations by vibrational and
photoluminescence spectroscopy
12:15 - 13:00 Presentations by PhD Thesis Awardees

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch (MIT Food Court)

14:00 - 16:30 Poster Presentations along with Tea/Coffee (First floor MIT Food Court)
A36 - A45, B40 - B53, C100 - C155, D25 - D34, E44 - E65, F102 - F142
G40 - G58, H23 - H34, I59 - I91, J34 - J44, K53 - K77, L44 - L65
YAA05 - YAA12
16:30 - 18:00 Oral presentations (Parallel Session)
Venue: MIT Library Auditorium Venue: AC Seminar Hall
E47, E48, E85, G16 F13, F70, F90, F125
G19, G23, J46, J52 F161, F180, F190, F202
 Thursday, December 30, 2010
Venue: MIT Library Auditorium

09:30 - 10:00 A.C. Sharma (MSU Baroda, Vadodara)

Electronic conduction through atomic chains, quantum well and quantum wire
10:00 - 10:30 S. Acharya (IACS, Kolkata)
Synergistic Tunability of Fluorescence Using Coupled Quantum Dots
10:30 - 11:00 S. Arumugham (Bharathidasan Univ. Trichi)
Critical behavior at ferromagnetic to paramagnetic transition of nearly half
doped manganites 

11:00 - 11:30 Tea/Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00 Poster Presentations along with Tea/Coffee (First floor MIT Food Court)
A46 - A64, B54 - B68, C158 - C228, D35 - D48, E66 - E85, F143 - F202,
G60 - G103, H44 - H53, I92 - I121, J46 - J56, K79 - K102, L66 - L92
MSC04, MSC06, MSC11
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch (MIT Food Court)
14:00 - 14:30 Presentations by M. Sc. Project Awardees
Sandeepkumar Satrasala and S. V. S. Nageswara Rao (Pondicherry
University, Puducherry)
Aging and Gamma Irradiation effects of Porous silicon
Venu Anand ((IISc, Bangalore)
Studies on Atmospheric Glow discharge for Surface Modification Applications
R. Karunamoorthi, P. Indra Devi and K. Ramachandran (Madurai
Kamaraj University, Madurai)
Dielectric Studies on PbTe, SnTe and PbTe/SnTe Nanostructures
14:30 –15:30 Award Presentations followed by Concluding Session