Author: Mahendra IT

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

Date: 17.11.2023 (Today).  Time and Venue: 16:30–17:30 Ramanujan Hall at TC. Speaker: Dr. Debanjana Mitra, IIT Bombay Title: Stabilization of time-periodic flows Abstract: First, I shall explain the stability and stabilizability of an ODE around a periodic trajectory. A characterization of the stability of ODEs around a periodic trajectory using the Poincare map and Floquet theory will be discussed. Then,… Continue reading Stabilization of time-periodic flows

Date: 15.11.2023 (today).  Time and Venue: 16:30–17:30 Ramanujan Hall at TC. Speaker: Prof. K N Raghavan, IMSc Title: Log-concavity of certain natural polynomials Abstract: The talk should be accessible to a general mathematical audience, even a general scientific audience.   Most of it will be about the independent polynomial associated with a matroid and its log-concavity.   The log-concavity… Continue reading Log-concavity of certain natural polynomials

Date & Time: 9th November 2023 (Thursday), 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Venue:  C V Raman Hall, IISER Tirupati Transit Campus Speaker: Dr Ghanshyam Swarup                 Scientist, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology,                 Hyderabad-500007    Title: “Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration caused by mutations of optineurin” Abstract: My main research interest is to understand the function of the protein optineurin, and… Continue reading Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration caused by mutations of optineurin