Seminars (2010)

35. Dr. Anushuya Ramakrishnan, (Colorado School of Mines,Co,US) on 19th July 2010 at 3:00 PM.

Title: "Biodegradation of complex phenolic wastewaters using Anaerobic Hybrid UASB reactors"

34. Dr. Ajay D. Thakur, (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India) on 29th June 2010 at 11:00 AM.

Title: "Vortices in sub-micro Engineered Superconductors"

33. Dr. Dipti Chourasia, (Department of Biotechnology, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India) on 18th June at 1:00 PM.
Title: "Pathogenesis of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: what role do Helicobacter pylori and host genetic factors play"

32. Dr. Madhulika Tripathi, (Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India) on 21st June at 12:00 Noon.

Title: "Involvement of mitochondria mediated patway in hepatoprotection conferred by Fumaria parviflora Lam. extract against nimesulide induced hepatotoxicity in vitro"

31.Dr Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, (Indian Institute of Science, Banglore, India) on 3rd June at 3:00 PM.

Title: "Generalized quantum search algorithm"

30. Dr Kinjal Banerjee, (Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune,India) on 2nd June at 5:30 PM.

Title: "Some Steps Towards Building a Quantum Theory of Gravity"

29. Dr. Bobby Ezhuthachan, (Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), Allahabad, India) on 2nd June at 5:00 PM.

Title: "Some aspects of Membrane field theories"

28. Dr. P. C. Ravikumar, (Yale University, USA) on 31st May at 11:30 AM.

Title:"Total Synthesis as a Tool to Prove the Chemical Structure of Natural Products"

27. Dr. V. Balamurugan, (Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Canada) on 28th May 2010 at 11:30 AM.

Title: "Expanding the highly reactive Actinide (Th/U) Chemistry: Organometallic and low-valent Complexes"

26. Dr. Anand Parkash, (IIT Kanpur, India) on 24th May, 2010 at 10:30 AM.

Title: "Prime Submodules and Radical Formula"

25. Dr.Prasenjit Ghosh, (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) on May 10, 2010 at 10:00 AM.

Title: "Atomistic modelling of materials"

24. Professor Kankan Bhattacharyya, (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata, India) on April 14th, 2010 at 3:30 PM.

Title: "Rise of Modern Science in India-Raman & Others"

23.  Dr. P. Parameswaran, (Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University, Japan) on April 14th, 2010 at 9:00 AM.

Title: "Transition Metal Complexes with Naked Carbon Atoms as Ligands"

22.  Dr. Jayasree Elambalassery, on April 13th, 2010 at 4:00 PM.

Title: "Influence of Weak Interactions: A Computational Study on Nucleophilic Exchange Reactions in Dichalcogenides"

21. Dr. Samir Chikkali, (HIMS, Supramolecular Catalysis University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) on March 29, 2010 at 5:00 PM.

Title: " Rational ligands designing, metal assisted self-assembly and catalysis"

20. Dr. Pradyumna Pathak, (Department of Physics, Queen’s University, Canada) on March 29, 2010 at 2:30 PM.

Title: "Chip-based sources of entangled photons from a single quantum dot"

19. Dr. R. K. Srivastava, (Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India) on March 24, 2010 at 2:45 PM.

Title: "Spherical means in annular regions in the Heisenberg group"

18. Dr. R. K. Pandey, (Harishchandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India) on March 24, 2010 at 2:00 PM.

Title: "Maximal density of M-sets"

17. Dr. R. Balaji, (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India) on March 25, 2010 at 9:00 AM.

Title: "Z transformations on positive semidefinite cones"

16. Dr. Apoorva Nagar, (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Frankfurt (M)Germany) on March 19, 2010 at 2:30 PM.

Title: "Effect Of Mutators On Evolution"

15. Dr. D. Jaiswal Nagar, (Physikalisches Institüt, Göethe Universität, Frankfurt (M), Germany) on March 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM.

Title: "Magnetocaloric effect and magnetic cooling near a field-induced quantum-critical point"

14. Dr. Soumen Roy, (University of Chicago) March 15, 2010 at 2:30 PM.

Title: "Networks and Emergence"

13. Professor Amar Nath Garg, (Senior Consultant, School of Sciences Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India) on March 12, 2010 at 5:00 PM.

Title: "Radioactivity and radiotracers"

12. Dr. Ajay Singh Negi, (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA) on February 18, 2010 at 02:30 PM.

Title: "Aging Studies in Colloidal Suspensions"

11. Dr. Yogesh Singh, (Universitat Goettingen, Germany) on February 17, 2010 at 09:30 AM.

Title: "Search for high temperature superconductivity in BaMn2As2: a new magnetically frustrated, low- dimensional system"

10. Dr. Hemant Kumar Srivastava, (Molecular Modelling Group, Organic Division-I Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) Hyderabad- 500 607, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA) on February 16, 2010 at 04:00 PM.

Title: "DNA minor-grove binders: validation of docking protocols, QSAR and molecular dynamics studies" and  "behaviour of phosphonate and carboxylate systems in amine induced cyclization reaction"

9. Dr. Muslim Malik, (Center for Mathematical Modeling University of Chile Santiago, Chile) on February 15, 2010 at 12:00 Noon.

Title: "A Study of Some Inverse Problems"

8. Dr. Gouriprasanna Roy, (Department of Physiology and Pharmacology Oregon Health and Science University, USA) on February 09, 2010 at 2:00 PM.

Title: "3-iodothyronamine (T1AM) a novel endogenous thyroid hormone: Its carrier protein in Human Serum and physiological effect on Lipoprotein Metabolism"

7. Prof. Manindra Agrawal, (Department of Computer Science, IIT Kanpur, India) on February 8, 2010 at 9:00 AM.

Title: "Two Problems of Number Theory"

6. Dr. Girish Mishra, (Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA) on February 5, 2010 at 1:00 PM.

Title: "Plant lipids for a better future"

5. Dr. Suhas Gangadharaiah, (University of California, Irvine) on January 29th, 2010 at 9:00 AM.

Title: "Role of spin-orbit terms in quantum wire and quantum dots"

4. Dr. Sayan Bhattacharyya, (Department of Material Science and Engineering Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104) on January 11th, 2010 at 12:00 Noon.

Title: "Nanostructured Materials and Probes: Synthesis, Properties and Applications"

3. Professor Sridhar R. Gadre, (Department of Chemistry, University of Pune, India) on January 07th, 2010 at 05:00 PM.

Title: " Theoretical and Computational Chemistry: An Overview"

2. Dr. Nirmalya Kumar Chaki, (Department of Chemistry University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA) on January 06th, 2010 at 12:00 Noon.

Title: "Chemistry of Nanoclusters: Building-Blocks for Advanced Functional Materials"

1. Dr. Hrushikesh Joshi, (Materials Science and Engineering Department Northwestern University, Evanston, USA) on January 05th, 2010 at 2:00PM.

Title: "Advanced Nanostructures for Applications in Therapeutics"

 

Seminars (2009)

63. Dr. Kishore Kumar Naraparaju, (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Liepzig, Germany) on December 21st, 2009 at 12:00 Noon.

Title: " hp/spectral element method for elliptic problems"

62. Dr. Asamanja Chattoraj, (University of Michigan Medical School, USA) on December 21st, 2009 at 10:00 AM.

Title: " Melatonin-A testimony of unity in diversity in the chronobiology of biosynthesis and physiology of reproduction in vertebrates"

61. Dr. Amit Mishra, (Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany) on December 14th, 2009 at 10:00 AM.

Title: " Molecular function of E3 Ubiquitin ligase and Molecular chaperone involved in Neurodegenerative diseases and Neurodevelopemental disorders"

60. Dr. Surajit Ghosh, (Cell Biology and Biophysics Department European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany) on December 09th, 2009 at 11:30 AM.

Title: " Biomimetic Assembly with Minimum Components"

59. Dr. Amit Kumar, (National Laboratory of Intense Magnetic Fields (LNCMI-T), CNRS UPR 3228, Université de Toulouse, France) on December 7th,  2009 at 2:30 PM.

Title: " Electronic properties of two dimensional electronic systems (graphene and graphite) in magnetic quantum limit"

58. Dr. Nandkumar K Khaire, (University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford) on December 7th, 2009 at 10 AM.

Title: " Regulation of retinoblastoma activity by lysine methylation"

57. Dr. Yashwanti Mudgil, (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) on 23rd November 2009 at 12:00 Noon.

Title: " Molecular Characterization of G β/γ Signaling Components in Arabidopsis thaliana"

56. Dr. Ritwick Das, (The Institute of Photonic Science, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain) on 18th November 2009 at 5:00 PM.

Title: "High-power, fibre-laser based, continuous-wave optical parametric sources in the near-and mid-infrared"

55. Prof. Rajesh Gopakumar, (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India) on 17th November 2009 at 12:00 Noon.

Title: " Spacetime and String Theory"

54. Dr. Suvrat Raju, (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India) on 16th and 17th November 2009 at 5:00 PM and 10:00 AM, respectivley.

Title: " Black Holes and the Gauge Gravity Correspondence"

Title: "The Next-to-Simplest Quantum Field Theories"

53. Dr. Manas Kumar Santra, (UMass Medical School, Worcester, MA) on 12th November 2009 at 2:00 PM.

Title: "Understand the role of the tumor suppressor FBX031 in the Regulation of Damage-Induced G1/S checkpoint"

52. Dr. Shanta Laishram, (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India) on 9th November at 10:00 AM.

Title: "Irreducibility of generalised Schur Polynomials"

51. Dr. Sunanda Marella, (University of California, Berkeley, USA) on 5th November, 2009 at 10:00 AM.

Title: " Taste detection and behavior in Drosophila"

50. Prof. H.C. Verma, (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India) on 2nd November, 2009 at 9:00 AM.

Title: "Stars,The Great Pressure Cooker"

49. Prof. H. S. Mani, (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, India) on November 1st, 2009 at 9:30 AM.

Title: " Mirror Symmetry and Time reversal"

48. Prof. J. Gopalakrishnan, (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India) on October 29th, 2009 at 10:00 AM.

Title: " Materials for Advancing Technology: Chemistry’s new Frontier"

47. Dr. Biswapriya Deb, ( Institute for the Advanced Materials and Renewable Energy, University of Louisville, Louisville, USA) on October 28th, 2009 at 2:30 PM.

Title: "Chemical Vapor Deposition of Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Engineering, and Applications"

46. Dr. Manish Kumar, (University of Verginia, USA) on October 22th, 2009 at 9:30 AM.

Title: "Autocrine Production of Activin A is Necessary and Sufficient for Maintenance of Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition In lung cancer"

45. Dr. Rangeet Bhattacharyya, ( Stony Brook, NY) on October 20th, 2009 at 2:30 PM.

Title: "Methodological developments in NMR and their applications in lithium (ion) batteries"

44. Dr. Chetana Sachidanandan, (Cardiovascular research Center,Massachusetts General hospital,MA, USA) on October 14th, 2009 at 9:30 AM.

Title: "Understanding Homeostasis Through Perturbations:A Zebrafish Chemical Biology Approach"

43. Dr. Nisheeth Agrawal, (John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA) on September 24th, 2009 at 11:00 AM.

Title: "New Insights into the Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis:Role of 3’,5’-Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate"

42. Dr. Sreejith Pulloor, (France) on September 14th, 2009 at 4:00 PM.

Title: "Modelling and Simulation of Flow and Transport in Porous Media:Applications in Earth and Environmental Sciences"

41. Dr. Marimuthu Krishnan, (Center for Molecular Biophysics Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge) on September 10th, 2009 at 2:30 PM.

Title: "Interdisciplinary Applications of Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Modeling Large-Scale Chemical and Biological Systems"

40. Dr. Ashwani Kumar Tiwari, (University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA) on September 9th 2009 at 2:30 PM.

Title: "Dynamics of Methane Dissociation on Metal Surfaces"

39. Dr. Shayamal Kumar Kundu, (Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of TokyoChiba, Japan) on September 9th, 2009 at 10:00 AM.

Title: "Rheology and the Structure of Hydrogel based on Oligomeric Electrolyte"

38. Professor C. N. R. Rao, (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India) on September 4th, 2009 at 4:30 PM.

Title: " Graphene: The New Nanocarbon"

37. Dr. Indranil Chakraborty, (University of Puerto Rico, San Juan PR-00931, USA) on August 26, 2009 at 2:30 PM.

Title: "Polynuclear Iron-Oxo Pyrazolate Clusters: Possible Metalloprotein Models and MRI Contrast Agents"

36. Dr. Sanjib Kumar Patra, (University of Bristol BS8 1TS, UK) on August 25, 2009 at 2:30 PM.

Title: "Photolytic Ring-opening polymerization of P-bridged [1]ferrocenophanes: Synthesis of well-defined polyferrocenylphosphines (PFPs) block copolymers and its self-assembly"

35. Dr. Pankaj Kumar Singh, (Salk Institute of Biological studies, La Jolla, USA) on August 21, 2009 at 9:00 AM.

Title: "Signal Transduction by MUC1 and Metabolism in Cancer"

34. Prof. Palash B Pal, (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata) on August 20, 2009 at 4:30 PM.

Title: "Measurement of Length"

33. Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Singh, ( University of Lyon-ENS, Lyon, France) on August 19, 2009 at 2:30 PM.

Title: "Versatile Transition Metal Complexes and Their Various Applications"

32. Dr. Himanshu Kumar, (Immunology Frontier Research Center Osaka University, Japan) on August 17, 2009 at 9:00 AM.

Title: " Recognition of viruses in Innate Immunity"

31. Dr. Samarjit Bhattacharyya, (Stanford University, USA) on August 13, 2009 at 10:00 AM.

Title: "The role of post-synaptic density proteins in AMPA receptor trafficking"

30. Dr. Arunansu Sil, (Saclay, France) on August 12, 2009 at 10:00 AM.

Title: "Inflationary Cosmology and Particle Physics"

29. Dr. Rumi De, (Brown University Providence, USA) on August 12, 2009 at 9:30 AM.

Title: "Dynamics of cellular response to mechanical stress"

28. Dr. S. Rath, (The university of Electro-Communication, Tokyo, Japan) on August 12, 2009 at 9:00 AM.

Title: " Nanostructure materials: Self-Limited Growth, Electronic Structure and Optical Properties"

27. Dr. Ravi Shankar Singh, (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India) on August 11, 2009 at 5:00 PM.

Title: "Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Oxides using Photoemission Spectroscopy"

26. Dr. Chirag Deepak Kalelkar, (National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India) on August 11, 2009 at 4:30 PM.

Title: "From Re=10^{-6} to Re=10^6 with non-Newtonian and Newtonian liquids"

25. Dr. Prashant K. Sharma, (University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands) on August 7, 2009 at 4:30 PM.

Title: "Biomaterial associated infections: A cross road between colloid chemistry and biology"

24. Dr. Malay Bandyopadhyay, (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India) on 30th July, 2009 at 11:00 AM.

Title: "Brownian Motion : A journey from classical to quantal"

23. Dr. Prasenjit Mal, (University of Cambridge, UK) on 24th July, 2009 at 11:00 AM.

Title: " Subcomponent Self-assembly Approach: An Iron Cage in Water"

22. Dr. Himansu Mohapatra, (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska, USA) on 24th July, 2009 at 10:00 AM.

Title: " The Use of Brillouin and Raman Spectroscopy to Study Intermolecular Interaction and Crystallization Process in Pharmaceutical Drug Polymorphs"

21. Dr. Vimlesh Kumar, (Trinity College, Dublin) on 20th July, 2009 at 9:30 AM.

Title: "Understanding Synaptic Regulation Using Genetics and Optophysiology.

20. Dr. Anuhar Chaturvedi, (Philipps University, Germany) on 17th July, 2009 at 9:30 AM.

Title: "Fuctional Gemomics using RNA interference for target identification in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia.

19. Dr. Dinu Das, (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) on 29th June, 2009 at 10:00 AM.

Title: "Inclusion Compounds and Polymorphism of a Hexa-host & Exceptionally Large Positive and Negative Thermal Expansion of an Organic Crystal"

18. Dr. Manoranjan Mishra, (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) on 26th June, 2009 at 9:30 AM.

Title: "A hydra dynamical instability between two miscible fluids ina a porous media"

17. Dr. K Sreenadh, (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India) on 26th June, 2009 at 9:00 AM.

Title: "Positive Solution of Quasilinear Elliptic equations"

16. Mr. Akhlaq Husain, (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India) on 26th June, 2009 at 8:30 AM.

Title: "H-P Spectral Element Methods for Three Dimensional Elliptic on Non-Smooth Domains"

15. Dr. Abhijit Banik, (Tata Institute of Fundamental research, Mumbai, India) on 25th June, 2009 at 4:30 PM.

Title: "Queuing System with or without vacation and Markovian arrival/service process"

14. Dr. Ananth Venkatesan, (University Park, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK) on 25th May, 2009 at 12:00 Noon.

Title: "Dissipation in Gold Nano-mechnical Resonators at Millikelvin Temperatures "

13. Dr. Sreenivas Katukojvala, (Institute of Life Sciences, Hyderabad) on 22nd May, 2009 at 9:30 AM.

Title: "Development of Novel Synthetic Methodologies and Their Application in the Total Synthesis of Biologically Active Natural Products"

12. Dr. J. Sankar, (Kyoto University, Japan) on 22nd May, 2009 at 9:00 AM.

Title: "Switching of Aromaticity Towards New Electronic Materials"

11. Dr. Manmohan Kapur, (Jubiliant Chemsys Ltd., Noida) on 21st May, 2009 at 4:30 PM.

Title: "Stereoselective Assembly of Diols and Triols: Towards the Synthesis of Anti-fungal Macrolide Queenslandon"

10. Dr. Nirmal Kumar, (GVK Biosciences Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad) on 21st May, 2009 at 4:00 PM.

Title: "Synthetic Studies on Eleutherobin & CP-225, 917"

9. Dr. Bijaya Kumar Sahoo, (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) on 15th April, 2009 at 10:00 AM.

Title: "Discrete Symmetries in Atomic Systems and Their Implications for Particle Physics"

8. Dr. Dattatraya H. Dethe, (Albany Molecular Research Inc. Singapore) on 6th April, 2009 at 11:00 AM.

Title: "Total Syntheses of Bioactive Natural Products and SAR Studies"

7. Dr. Jaideep Mulherkar, (University of California, Davis, USA) on 26th March, 2009 at 12:00 Noon.

Title: "Implementing Quantum Gates Using the Heisenberg Ferromagnetic XXZ Spin Shain"

6. Dr. Rajeev Kapri, (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India) on 19th March, 2009 at 12:00 Noon.

Title: "Unzipping an Adsorbed Polymer and DNA by Force"

5. Prof. U. B. Tewari, (IIT Kanpur) on 28th February, 2009 at 12:00 Noon.

Title: " Fourier Algebra"

4. Dr. Alok Kumar, (The Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India) on 12th February 2009 at 12 Noon.

Title: "Savvidy Vacuum in SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory"

3. Dr. Pramod Kumar, (Tulane University, Louisiana, USA) on 23rd January, 2009 at 12:00 Noon.

Title: "Magnetic and Magnetocaloric Properties of Certain Rare Earth Transition Metal Intermetallics"

2. Dr. Chandra S Yelleswarapu, (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA) on 7th January, 2009 at 3:00 PM.

Title: "Optical Fourier Techniques for Microscopy and Cancer Diagnosis"

1.Mr. Divyanshu Vats, (Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PA-USA) on 3rd Jan, 2009 at 10:00AM.

Title: "Recursive Filtering and Smoothing for Gaussian Reciprocal Processes"

Seminars (2008)
 

6. Dr. Alakesh Bisai, (University of California, Berkeley, USA) on 4th December, 2008 at 3:00 PM.

Title: "Enantioselective C-C Bond Forming Reactions and the Total Synthesis of Architecturally Interesting Lycopodium Alkaloids"

5. Dr. Sarat K. Dalai, (Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Maryland, USA) on 19th November, 2008 at 3:00 PM.

Title: "Anergy: A Mechanism for Regulating Memory CD4+ T Cell Response"

4. Dr. Aasheesh Srivastava, (University of California Santa Barbara, CA-93106, USA) on 17th November, 2008 at 3:00 PM.

Title: "Improving Mechanical Properties of Polymer Blends:Inspiration from Ragworm Mandibles"

3. Dr. Pankaj Jain (IIT Kanpur) on 3rd December, 2008 at 11:00 AM

Title: "The dark side of the universe"

2. Dr. Alok Taori (NARL, Gadanki A.P) on 9th September, 2008 at 11:00 AM.

Title: "Earth's Atmosphere: The Solar-Terrestrial Environmental Aspects"

1. Prof. Manindra Agrawal (IIT Kanpur) on 29th August, 2008 at 9.30 AM.
Title: "Fermat's Last Theorem: From Integers to Elliptic Curves"