About The Event
This neighbourhood meeting, held annually, is intended to bring together researchers carrying out theoretical and experimental studies on diverse aspects of soft matter.
Where
Ramanujan Auditorium, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai
When
23rd and 24th Feb 2024
Event Speakers

Dr. Tapan Chandra Adhyapak
IISER Tirupati

Dr. Debayan Chakraborty
IMSc Chennai

Dr. Mounika Gosika
IMSc Chennai

Dr, Debasish Mondal
IIT Tirupati

Dr. Kabir Ramola
TIFR Hyderabad

Dr. S Ganga Prasath
(IITM)

Dr. Khushboo Suman
IITM

Dr. S. Ganesh
CLRI, Chennai

Dr. Ignacio Pagonabarraga
University of Barcelona

Dr. Projesh Roy
IITM

Hitesh Garg
IMSc

Sonam Zangpo Bhutia
IITM
Event Schedule
Here is our event schedule
Gathering + Coffee

Debayan Chakraborty
Brewing COFFEE: a general purpose force field for biomolecular simulations

Khushboo Suman
Dynamic Arrest of Adhesive Hard Sphere Dispersions Following a Thermal Quench

Projesh Roy
Emergence of self-organized stacks in bidispersed ring polymers
Lunch + Poster

Mounika Gosika
Strategies for tuning the morphology of single-chain nanoparticles

Athi N Naganathan
Phase Separated Condensates from Oligomeric Protein Assemblies
Tea break

S Ganesh
New Supramolecular Gels Utilizing Amino Acids and Short Amyloid Peptides

Hitesh Garg
Bridging induced coil-to-globule transitions in polymers
Poster + High Tea

S Ganga Prasath
Behavioural priors for control of collectives

Debasish Mondal
To restart or not? - Stochastic resetting in drift-diffusion decision making processes
Coffee Break

Kabir Ramola
Universal Stress Correlations in Crystalline and Amorphous Packings

Sonam Zangpo Bhutia
Bound Layers in Thin Polymer Films
Lunch + poster

Tapan Adhyapak
Physics of active particles: how important is fully resolved hydrodynamics

Ignacio Pagonabarraga
Collective control of colloidal microbot suspensions
Conclusion + High Tea
Event Venue
Ramanujan Auditorium,
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai
We invite researchers from
physics, engineering, chemistry and biology who work on experimental, theoretical or simulations aspects of soft matter to participate. We look forward to seeing you at this exciting meeting.