Author: Mahendra IT

Date & Time: 13th February 2024 (Tuesday), 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Venue:  C V Raman Hall, IISER Tirupati Transit Campus Title: “How cells protect their DNA from damage: role of epigenetic mechanisms in maintenance of genomic integrity”. Speaker:  Dr. Devyani  Haldar,                  Staff Scientist-VI,                  Head, Laboratory of Chromatin Biology &… Continue reading How cells protect their DNA from damage: role of epigenetic mechanisms in maintenance of genomic integrity

Date & Time : Friday, 15th December 2023, at 5:30 pm Venue: CVRH Speaker: Dr. Ambresh Shivaji, Department of Physics, IISER Mohali Title: Characterization of Higgs boson at particle colliders Abstract: Higgs boson is the only fundamental scalar particle in the particle spectrum of the standard model. Since its discovery at the LHC in 2012, a great… Continue reading Characterization of Higgs boson at particle colliders

Date: December 12, 2023 (Tuesday) Time: 4.00 – 5.00 PM (IST) Venue: C. V. Raman Hall, Transit Campus, IISER Tirupati Title: Plastic pollution – Challenges, Environmental Impact and Solutions Speaker:Prof. Suresh Valiyaveettil, Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore   Seminar flyer – Prof. Suresh Valiyaveettil Abstract_Prof. Suresh Valiyaveettil Prof. Suresh Valiyaveettil_short biography  

Day/ Date/Time/ Venue: Wednesday, 13th December 2023, from 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM in AB2-CR102. Title of the Talk: Models for High Frequency Time Series. Speaker: Prof. Nalini Ravishanker, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut. Abstract: We describe modeling high-frequency time series such as intra-day transaction level asset prices which are irregularly spaced in time within a trading day. The size… Continue reading Models for High Frequency Time Series.

Date & Time : Tuesday, 12th December, 11 am  Venue: CVRH Speaker:  Prof. John McGrady, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK Title: Computational cluster chemistry: from growth to catalysis Abstract: IISER_Tirupati_abstract   About the speaker: John E. McGrady is a professor of Computational Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford. His research interests involve the application of a variety of… Continue reading Computational cluster chemistry: from growth to catalysis

Time: December 6, 2023, 04:00 PM Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi Title of the talk: “Plants under tension – finding, transporting, and loosing water” Speaker: Prof. Felix Fritschi,C. Alice Donaldson Professor in Bioenergy Crop Physiology and Genetics, Director-Missouri Soybean Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA Venue: CVRH, Transit Campus https://www.iisertirupati.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Prof-Fritschi-talk.pdf

Date: 24.11.2023 (coming Friday).  Time and Venue: 16:30–17:30 Ramanujan Hall at TC. Speaker: Dr. Soumen Sarkar, IIT Madras Title: On cohomology of quasitoric manifolds over a vertex cut of a finite product of simplices Abstract: In this talk, I’ll classify the characteristic matrices associated to quasitoric manifolds over a vertex cut of a finite product of simplices satisfying a `sign condition’. I’ll… Continue reading On cohomology of quasitoric manifolds over a vertex cut of a finite product of simplices

Date: Monday, November 20, 2023 Time & Venue : 2:00 – 3:00 p.m, CVRH Name: Prof. Prasenjit Ghosh, Dept. of Physics, IISER Pune Title: Quantum Delocalization effects on Temperature Dependent Double Proton Transfer in Molecular Crystals of Terephthalic Acid Abstract: Double proton transfers (DPTs) are important for several physical processes, both in molecules and in the… Continue reading Quantum Delocalization effects on Temperature Dependent Double Proton Transfer in Molecular Crystals of Terephthalic Acid

Date & Time: 23rd November 2023 (Thursday), 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Venue:  C V Raman Hall, IISER Tirupati Transit Campus Speaker: Prof Maitrayee DasGupta ,Department of Biochemistry, Calcutta University Title: “Symbiosis Receptor Kinase (SYMRK) guides the intracellular symbiosis between plants and diazotrophs” Abstract: Nitrogen fixation is an inherent trait exclusive to a select number of prokaryotes who enter… Continue reading Symbiosis Receptor Kinase (SYMRK) guides the intracellular symbiosis between plants and diazotrophs