Venue: Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS, Bengaluru
| DAY 1: 16 February 2018 | |||
| Session I | Chair: Arghya Das | ||
| 16 Feb | 9:30- 9:42 | Arijit Bhattacharyay | Fick's law for coordinate dependent diffusion and modified Boltzmann distribution |
| 9:45 - 9:57 | Arvind Ayyer | Exact solution of a left-permeable open ASEP | |
| 10:00 - 10:12 | Pradeep Kumar Mohanty | Negative mobility in interacting particle systems | |
| 10:15 - 10:27 | Amit Ghosal | Normal mode analysis of Coulomb particles in irregular traps | |
| 10:30 - 10:42 | Subhro Bhattacharjee | Light cone spreading of perturbations and the butterfly effect in a classical spin chain | |
| 10:45 - 10:57 | Manas Kulkarni | Permanent spin currents in cavity-qubit systems | |
| Tea/Coffee Break + Posters | |||
| Session II | Chair: Jaya Kumar | ||
| 16 Feb | 11:30 - 11:42 | Bijay Kumar Agarwalla | Transport, fluctuations and engineered devices for strongly coupled non-equilibrium systems |
| 11:45 - 11:57 | Sanjib Sabhapandit | Exact distributions of cover times for N independent random walkers in one dimension | |
| 12:15 - 12:27 | Ranjini Bandyopadhyay | Electric field induced gelation in a soft colloidal clay suspension | |
| 12:30 - 12:42 | Mangal C Mahato | Resonance oscillation of a damped driven simple pendulum | |
| 12:45 - 12:57 | Anupam Kundu | Extreme statistics in 1d Coulomb gas | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch + Posters | ||
| 14:00 - 15:15 | Posters | ||
| Session III | Chair: Bijoy Daga | ||
| 16 Feb | 15:00 - 15:12 | Abhishek Dhar | Fractional diffusion equation description of anomalouos heat transport |
| 15:15 - 15:27 | Vani Vemparala | Collapse of flexible Polymers: Role of charge | |
| 15:45 - 15:57 | Apratim Chatterji | Self assembly of model colloids to linear polymeric chains using spherically symmetric (isotropic) potentials | |
| 16:00 - 16:12 | Arindam Kundagrami | Basic results on Polymer Complexation | |
| Break | |||
| Session IV | Chair: Dipanjan Mandal | ||
| 16 Feb | 16:30- 16:42 | Rahul Pandit | Tracy-Widom and and Baik-Rains Distributions in the Spatiotemporally Chaotic state of the one-dimensional Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation |
| 16:45- 16:57 | Samriddhi Sankar Ray | Deformation and breakup of small drops in turbulence | |
| 17:00 - 17:12 | Rama Govindarajan | Basic Fluid-solid interaction experiments | |
| 17:15 - 17:27 | Sandeep Krishna | Hysteretic oscillations in a well-mixed population of budding yeast | |
| 17:30 - 17:42 | Subinay Dasgupta | Distribution of waiting time in traffic congestion | |
| DAY 2: 17 February 2018 | |||
| Session V | Chair: Sujit Kumar Nath | ||
| 17 Feb | 9:30 - 9:42 | Poornachandra Sekhar Burada | Entropic transport in presence of short range interaction forces |
| 9:45 - 9:57 | Prabodh Shukla | A case against conventional universality | |
| 10:00 - 10:12 | Prabal Kumar Maiti | Two-phase thermodynamic model for efficient entropy calculation in liquid state | |
| 10:15 - 10:27 | Punyabrata Pradhan | Density fluctuations and universality in conserved stochastic sandpiles | |
| 10:30 - 10:42 | R. Rajesh | Universality Properties of Steady Driven Coagulation with Collisional Fragmentation | |
| 10:45 - 10:50 | Kavita Jain | Publishing with EPL | |
| Tea/Coffee Break + Posters | |||
| Session VI | Chair: Rahul Dandekar | ||
| 17 Feb | 11:45 - 11:57 | Dibyendu Roy | Driven-dissipative quantum dynamics of Heisenberg spin-1/2 chains |
| 12:00 - 12:12 | Sagar Chakraborty | Occasional Uncoupling Induced Synchronization | |
| 12:15 - 12:27 | Uma Divakaran | Non-equilibrium dynamics in localization-delocalization transition | |
| 12:30 - 12:42 | Sumilan Banerjee | Higher-dymensional sachdev-ye-kitaev non-fermiliquids at lifshitz transitions | |
| 12:45 - 12:57 | V. Kumaran | Anomalous velocity correlations, the ring-kinetic equation and generalised Green-Kubo relations for a sheared inelastic fluid. | |
| 13:15 - 14:00 | Lunch + Posters | ||
| 14:00 - 15:15 | Posters | ||
| Session VII | Chair: Saurish Chakrabarty | ||
| 17 Feb | 15:15 - 15:27 | Jaydeb Chakrabarti | Model studies on protien aggregation using Monte Carlo simulations and Mean Field analysis |
| 15:30 - 15:42 | Auditya Sharma | Self-organized criticality and marginality in Ising spin glasses | |
| 15:45 - 15:57 | Pinaki Chaudhuri | ||
| 16:00 - 16:12 | Smarajit Karmakar | Block Analysis for the Calculation of Dynamic and Static Length Scales in Glass-Forming Liquids | |
| 16:15 - 16:40 | Discussion with the organizers on the ISPCM | ||
| Break | |||
| Session VIII | Chair: Biplab Bhattacherjee | ||
| 17 Feb | 16:45 - 16:57 | Debasish Chaudhuri | Morphology and dynamics of bacterial chromosome |
| 17:00 - 17:12 | Kavita Jain | Fixation of a beneficial mutation | |
| 17:15 - 17:27 | Vishwesha Guttal | Mathematical model for the evolution of cooperation in mobile populations | |
| 17:30 - 17:42 | Mithun Kumar Mitra | Epigenetic Landscapes and Chromatin Organisation | |
| DAY 3: 18 February 2018 | |||
| Session IX Chair: Adhip Agarwala | |||
| 18 Feb | 9:45 - 9:57 | Phani Kumar Peddibhotla | Quantum sensing with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond |
| 10:00 - 10:12 | Rajeev Singh | Distinguishing Integrable and Non-Integrable Systems using Quantum Quenches | |
| 10:15 - 10:27 | Sreejith G J | Mean field approximations to n-body projection Hamiltonians in FQHE | |
| 10:30 - 10:42 | Sujit Sarkar | Quantization of Geometric Phase with Integer and Fractional Topological Characterization in a Quantum Ising Chain with Long-Range Interaction | |
| Tea/Coffee Break + Posters | |||
| Session X Chair: Tapas Singha | |||
| 18 Feb | 11:15 - 11:27 | Rahul Marathe | Active bath heat engine |
| 11:30 - 11:42 | Subir K. Das | Ballistic Aggregation in Systems of Fractal Objects | |
| 11:45 - 11:57 | Vijaykumar Krishnamurthy | Active Patterns on Curved Surfaces | |
| 12:00 - 12:12 | G V Pavan Kumar | Plasmofluidic Assembly of Colloidal Matter | |
| 12:15 - 12:27 | Sayantan Majumdar | Dynamic jamming in dense particulate suspensions | |
| 12:30 - 12:42 | Prerna Sharma | Start-polygon like colloidal membranes through point crosslinks | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||