Programme of Workshop on Soft Matter : Self Assembly and Dynamics
January 9 – 10, 2014, TCIS, Hyderabad, India
Day 1 : Thursday, January 9 2014
| Time | Lecturer | Lecture Topic |
| 09:00 - 9:30 | Pick up Conference material and welcome session | |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | C. Austen Angell | Structural transitions in metallic and semiconducting glassformers: some phenomenological relationships with connections to phase change switching materials |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Upadrasta Ramamurty | Fracture in amorphous alloys |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Peter H. Poole | Heterogeneous nucleation in the low-barrier regime |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Sarika Bhattacharyya | Interplay between crystallization and glass transition |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Surajit Sengupta | The crystal road to glass: Non-affine droplet fluctuations in crystalline solids |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Jeppe Dyre | What distinguishes a complex system from a simple? |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Chandan Dasgupta | Beta relaxation in glass-forming liquids from dynamics in a (meta)basin |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Shankar Das | Localization, disorder and boson peak in an amorphous solid |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Debasish Chaudhuri | Stochastic pump of interacting particles |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Shankar Ghosh | Super-spreading of charged granular matter |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Sanat Kumar | Glass Transitions in Polymer/Nanoparticle Composites |
Day 2 : Friday, January 10 2014
| Time | Lecturer | Lecture Topic |
| 09:00 - 9:30 | Smarajit Karmakar | Static Length Scale in Glass Transition |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Francesco Sciortino | Simple models of competitive interactions in soft-matter:re-entrant liquids and gels on heating |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Pinaki Chaudhuri | Rheology of soft jammed particles: role of attractive interactions |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Cristiane Alba-Simionesco | Self-organisation and miscibility limit in molecular hydrogen bonded liquids |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Charusita Chakravarty | Triplet Correlations in Tetrahedral Liquids |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | P Viswanath | Specific ion effects at interfaces |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Himanshu Khandelia | Packing Parameter Matching of Cholesterol with Oxidized Phospholipid Species in Lipid Bilayers |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Gilles Tarjus | Fluids and solids at curved interfaces |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Slobodan Zumer | Knotted nematic fields: recent developments |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | P B Sunil Kumar | Nematogens on membranes : Aggregation and morphological changes. |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | M Krishnan | Low-energy structural relaxations and the onset of anharmonic diffusive dynamics in proteins |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | KPN Murthy | Kinetic Walks and Compact Polymer Conformations |