Condensed Matter Physics Workshop 2006

Department of Physics

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

 

February 17 to February 19, 2006

 

Workshop Venue L15

 

Program:

Friday, February 17

 

Inaugural Session (2.30 PM to 4.20 PM)

1.     T. V. Ramakrishnan: “From electronic phase separation to nanoscale inhomogenities via Coulomb interaction” 2.30 PM – 3.10 PM.

2.     Sudhansu Mandal: “Spin Hall Effect in semiconductors”  3.10 PM to 3.45 PM.

3.     Amit Dutta: “Griffith’s phase, infinite randomness, fixed point and long range connections” 3.45 PM to 4.20 PM.

 

Tea Break: 4.20 PM to 4.40 PM

 

Session II (4.40 PM to 6.25 PM)

1. S. Chandrasekhar: “Multilmetal molecular assemblies” 4.40 PM to 5.15 PM

2. S. Patnaik: “Tunneling interband scattering in MgB₂ through selective defect creation” 5.15 PM to 5.50 PM.
3. Rajeev Gupta: “Field and pressure induced phases in ruthenates” 5.50 PM to 6.25 PM.

 

Workshop Dinner at Visitor’s Hostel at 8.00 PM

 

 

Saturday 18, 2006

 

Session III (9.15 AM to 11.00 AM)

1.     K. L. Narasimhan^* “Electrical transport in organic semiconductor thin films” 9.15 AM to 9.50 AM.

2.     G. U. Kulkarni: “Scanning probe microscopy studies on metal nanoscystals” 9.50 AM to 10.25 AM.

3.     S. Kumar: “Applications of spectroscopic ellipsometry to characterize organic thin films” 10.25 AM to 11.00 AM.

 

Tea Break:  11.00 AM to 11.20 AM

 

Session IV (11.20 AM to 1.05 PM)

1.     A. Sharma: “Elastic contact lithography: a new method for self organized patterning of solids” 11.20 AM to 11.55 AM.

2.     M. K. Verma: “Rayleigh – Bernard convection” 11.55 AM to 12.30 PM.

3.     Kapil Krishan: “Pattern formation in foams” 12.30 PM to 1.05 PM.

 

Session V 

     POSTER SESSION 1.10 PM to 4.00 PM (Will begin with Lunch and end with Tea)

 

Session VI (4.00 PM to 6.10 PM)

1.     Sudeep Bhattacharjee: “Intense microwave plasmas for focused ion beams” 4.00 PM to 4.35 PM.

2.     Ashish Garg: “Structure property relations in ferroelectric and multiferroic thin films” 4.35 PM to 5.10 PM.

3.     Brijesh Pandey: “Large enhancement in magnetization due to mechanical deformation of alloys” 5.10 PM to 5.30 PM

4.     Ambrish Kumar: “Models of intercellular molecular motor traffic” 5.30 PM to 5.50 PM.

5.     Pradeep Khatua: “Correlation between giant magnetoresistance and anomalous Hall effect, a realization of the existence of quantum wells in Fe/Cr multilayers” 5.50 PM to 6.10 PM.

 

 

 

Sunday 18, 2006

 

Session VII (9.30 AM to 11.15 AM)

1.  V. A. Singh: “Semiconductor nanostructures: to scale or not to scale” 9.30 AM to 10.05 AM.

2.     Y. N. Mohapatra: “Physics challenges in the emergence of soft matter as electronic materials” 10.05 AM to 10.40 AM.

3.     H. C. Verma: “Mossbauer and positron annihilation studies of nanosize ferrites” 10.40 AM to 11.15 AM.

 

Tea Break: 11.15 AM to 11.35 AM

 

 

Session VIII (11.35 AM to 12.45 PM)

1.     1. S. N. Sandhya: “Anti-bunching and super-bunching effects in 4 level single atom system” 11.35 AM to 12.10 PM

2.     H. Wanare: “Multicoloured atomic coherence” 12.10 PM to 12.45 PM.