First Göttingen-India Physics Workshop on
Frontiers in Condensed Matter and Complex Systems
University of Goettingen, Goettingen
November 4-6, 2009
PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS
Depts. of Condensed Matter Physics and Chemical Sciences (TIFR) Mumbai
Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research (IISER), Pune and Kolkata
Department of Physics, University of Pune, Pune
Faculty of Physics, University of Goettingen, Goettingen
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization (MPI-DS), Goettingen
VENUE
FACULTY OF PHYSICS, UNIVERSITY OF GOETTINGEN
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2009, HS 4
14:00 – 16:00
PLENARY SESSION-I
14:00 – 14:50
Research Highlights of the Natural Science Faculty of Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research (TIFR), Mumbai
Srinivas Ramakrishnan, TIFR, Mumbai
14:50 – 15:40
Research Highlights of Condensed Matter Physics in the Physics Faculty of University of
Goettingen
Rainer Ulbrich, IV. Physics Institute, Goettingen
15:40 – 16:00
Coffee Break
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2009, HS 3
16:00 – 18:00
SOFT MATTER-I
16:00 – 16:30
Dissipative Quantum Mechanics and the Heat Capacity Enigma
Sushanta Dattagupta, IIESR Kolkata
16:30 – 17:00
Glass Transition in Driven Granular Fluids
Annette Zippelius, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goettingen
17:00 – 17:30
Surface Reconstruction of Thin Films in the Presence of External Stress
Shankar Ghosh, TIFR Mumbai
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2009, HS 4
16:00 – 18:00
Correlated Electrons/NANO
16:00 – 16:30
Formation of functional oxides: synthetic approach to advanced materials
Deepa Khushalani, Chemical Sciences, TIFR Mumbai
16:30 – 17:00
Interfaces in stongly correlated oxides
Christian Jooß, Institute of Materials Physics, Goettingen
17:00 – 17:30
Tunneling studies in a strongly disordered s-wave superconductor: NbN
Pratap Raychoudhury, TIFR Mumbai
17:30 – 18:00
CMR in Manganates: relevance of correlated polarons
Vasile Mosneaga, I. Physics Institute, Goettingen
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2009, SR 7 (C1.101)
14:00 – 15:30
THEORY
14:00 – 14:30
Full counting statistics in interacting electron systems
P. Durganandini, Department of Physics, UoP
14:30 – 15:00
Spectral properties of correlated electron systems in dynamical mean-field theory
Thomas Pruschke, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goettingen
15:00 – 15:30
Orbital order in low-dimensional spin 1/2 systems
Deepa Kasinathan, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee Break
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2009, SR 7 (C1.101)
16:00 – 18:00
Correlated Electrons/Superconductivity
16:00 – 16:30
Magnetism and superconductivity in CaFe2-xTxAs2 (T = Co and Ni) single crystals
Arumugam Thamzihavel, TIFR Mumbai
16:30 – 17:00
BaMn2As2: a bridge between FeAs- and CuO-type materials
Yogesh Singh, I. Physics Institute, Goettingen
17:00 – 17:30
Strongly Correlated Superconductivity in Rh17 S15
Srinivas Ramakrishnan, TIFR Mumbai
17:30 – 18:00
Precursor effect in magnetic and superconducting transitions
Kalobaran Maiti, TIFR Mumbai
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2009, HS 4
16:00 – 18:00
SOFT MATTER II
16:00 – 16:30
Some local structures of 1D Ginzburg-Landau models
Arijit Bhattacharyay, IISER Pune
16:30 – 17:00
Very noisy Fisher waves
Oskar Hallatschek, MPI DS, Goettingen
17:00 – 17:30
Fluids in complex environments
Stefan Herminghaus, Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics and MPI-DS,
Goettingen
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2009, HS 3
14:00 – 16:00
PLENARY SESSION II
14:00 – 14:50
CAPACITY BUILDING -- A KOLKATA IISER EXPERIENCE
Sushanta Dattagupta, IISER Kolkata
14:50 – 15:40
Multi-particle statistics in turbulence measured from particle tracking experiments
Eberhard Bodenschatz, Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics and MPI-DS, Goettingen
15:40 – 16:00
Coffee Break
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2009, HS 3
16:00 – 18:00
SOFT MATTER III
16:00 – 16:30
Dynamics of Ultrasoft Colloids (star polymers) under Shear
Apratim Chatterji, IISER Pune
16:30 – 17:00
Nanopatterns from Ion-Beam Erosion: Theory of Precision Carving with an Ax
Reiner Kree, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goettingen
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2009, HS 4
16:00 – 18:00
Correlated Electrons/Heavy Fermions
16:00 – 16:30
Study of magnetic ordering and Kondo interaction in some Ce and Yb based compounds
Sudesh Dhar, TIFR Mumbai
16:30 – 17:00
Quantum phase transitions in strongly correlated electron systems
Philipp Gegenwart, I. Physics Institute, Goettingen
17:00 – 17:30
Quasiquartet crystal-electric-field ground state with possible quadrupolar ordering in
YbRu2Ge2 system
Jeevan Hirale, I. Physics Institute, Goettingen
17:30-17:45
Closing Remarks
Srinivas Ramakrishnan, TIFR Mumbai
Hans Hofsäss, Dean, Faculty of Physics, Goettingen
ORGANIZED BY
Faculty of Physics and India Office
University of Goettingen
Goettingen, Germany
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