List of invited speakers along with the title of their talk S. No Invited Speaker Affiliation Title 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Prof. Franz Josef Ahlers PTB, Braunschweig, Germany Electrical Quantum Metrology: It s fundamental Prof. Arun Bansil North Eastern University, USA A New Generation of Comprehensive Modeling of Highly-Resolved Spectroscopies of Complex Materials: Cuprates, Pnictides and Topological Insulators Prof. G. Baskaran The Institute of Mathematical Theory of High Tc Superconductivity Sciences, Chennai Prof. Ernst Bauer Vienna University of Technology, USA Superconductivity in materials without inversion symmetry: simple vs correlated systems Prof. Venkat Chandrasekhar North Western University, USA Andreev reflection spectroscopy on epitaxial thin films of superconducting Ba (Fe 0.92 Co 0.08 ) 2 As 2 Prof. Ratnamala Chatterjee Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Influence of electronic structure on ferroic properties of solids 7. Prof. Herve Courtois Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Superconducting Silicon and Diamond 8. Prof. Yoran Dagan Tel-Aviv University, Israel Magnetotransport study of LaAlO 3 /SrTiO 3 interfaces: spin orbit
interaction and phase coherent effects 9. 10. Prof. Kedar S. Damle Tata Institute of Fundamental Prof. Mandar Deshmukh Tata Institute of Fundamental Fractional spin textures in the frustrated magnet SCGO Electromechanically perturbing the quantum Hall state using suspended grapheme resonators 11. 12. Prof. Arindam Ghosh Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Quantum effects on noise in Grapheme Prof. Richard L. Greene University of Maryland, USA Correlation between spin fluctuations and pairing in electron-doped cuprates 13. Prof. Anjan Gupta Indian Institute of Technology, Co-existence of mobile and localized charge carriers in colossal magnetoresistive manganites 14. Prof. M. Zahid Hasan Princeton University, USA Experimental Discovery of Topological Order in Insulators and Superconductors in Bulk Solids 15. Prof. Syed Hassan Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Quantum Hall states in non-rotating optical lattices 16. Prof. Axel Hoffmann Argonne National Laboratory, USA Quantifying Spin Hall Effects in Metals 17. Prof. Zakir Hossain Indian Institute of Technology, Magnetism and superconductivity of pure and doped EuFe 2 As 2 18. Prof. J.K. Jain Pennsylvania State University, USA Composite fermion theory of fractional quantum Hall effect in grapheme
19. Prof. Kazushi Kanoda University of Tokyo, Japan Quantum charge/spin fluctuations of correlated electrons in quasi-triangular lattice organics 20. 21. Prof. Aharon Kapitulnik Stanford University, USA Studies of Time- Reversal Symmetry- Breaking in Unconventional Superconductors Prof. Ribhu K. Kaul University of Kentucky, USA Interlay of Quantum Criticality and Geometric Frustration in Columbite 22. Prof. Brijesh Kumar Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Bond-operator formalism for spin-s dimerized quantum antiferromagnets 23. 24. Prof. J. Lesueur LPEM, Paris, France Transport properties of two-dimensional electron gas at the Mott-Insulator/Band- Insulator LaTiO 3 /SrTiO 3 interface Prof. Jeremy Levy University of Pittsburgh, USA Oxide Nanoelectronics on Demand 25. 26. Prof. Pinaki Majumdar Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad Prof. Sudhanshu S. Mandal Indian association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata Disorder, magnetism and transport in the double perovskites New Collective Modes in Fractional Quantum Hall effect: Mode Splitting, High Energy Rotons, and Spin Rotons 27. 28. Prof. Franco Nori University of Michigan, USA Atomic physics and quantum optics using circuits: a brief overview of superconducting qubits Prof. B. Normand Renmin University, Beijing, China Magnons and spinons in the two-chain
29. 30. spin ladder: theory and experiments in BPCB Prof. N.P. Ong Princeton University, USA Quantum oscillations of surface electrons in topological insulators Prof. Medini Padmanabhan Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Composite fermions with a valley degree of freedom 31. 32. Prof. David P. Pappas National Institute of Science & Technology, Boulder, USA Prof. R. Prasad Indian Institute of Technology, Evaluation of Two Level Systems in Superconducting Resonators using Power and Temperature Dependence of Loss and Frequency Born Effective Charges, Spontaneous Polarization and Optical Properties of Bismuth Titanate from First-principles 33. Prof. T.V. Ramakrishnan Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi Phenomenological Ginzburg Landau Like Theory for High Temperature Superconductivity in the Cuprates 34. 35. Prof. A.K. Raychaudhuri S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata Prof. Pratap Raychaudhuri Tata Institute of Fundamental Revisiting insulator-metal transition in correlated oxides: Ferromagnetic insulating state of manganites Phase-fluctuation driven pseudogap state in a disordered s-wave superconductor: NbN 36. Prof. E.V. Sampathkumaran Tata Institute of Fundamental Anomalous magnetoresistance in Tb 5 Si 3 37. Prof. D.D. Sarma Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore K 2Cr 8 O 16 : An unsual example of a
38. charge ordered ferromagnet Prof. Siddharth S. Saxena University of Cambridge, UK Quantum Criticality and Superconductivity in Spin and Charge Systems 39. Prof. Thomas Schurig PTB, Braunschweig and Berlin, Germany State-of-the-art Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices for investigating quantum effects at very low temperatures 40. 41. 42. 43. Prof. Krishnendu Sengupta Indian association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata Superfluid-insulator transition for ultracold bosons in a synthetic magnetic field Prof. A.K. Sood Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Raman Scattering and Ultrafast Pump- Probe Study of Iron Pnictide Superconductors Prof. Srinivas Sridhar Electronic Materials Research Institute, Northeastern University, USA Nanoplatforms for Photonics and Medicine Prof. Hari Srikanth University of South Florida, USA Phase coexistence and magnetic frustration in correlated oxides 44. 45. Prof. V. Subrahmnanyam Indian Institute of Technology, Prof. Vikram Tripathi Tata Insistute of Fundamental Macroscopic Entanglement near quantum phase transitions Kondo effect and RKKY interactions in the Kitaev model 46. Prof. J.M. Triscone University of Geneva, Switzerland Electric Field Tuning of the LaAlO 3 /SrTiO 3 interface Groundstate
47. Prof. Alexander Tzalenchuk National Physical Laboratory, UK Graphene: Setting New Standards 48. Prof. T. Venkatesan National University of Singapore, Singapore Recent Advances in Oxides and Oxide Interfaces 49. Prof. Ashvin Vishwanath University of California, USA Band Topology in Correlated Solids 50. Prof. Katsunori Wakabayashi National Institute of Material Science (NIMS), Japan Electronic and transport properties of nano-graphene systems