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.
