Program Schedule


Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata

23 January

09:15 - 09:40 Registration
09:40 Introductory Session
10:00 SP (1) Electronic structure of many electron systems
11:30 SD (1) Tight-binding approximation (TBA)
14:00 DD (1) Electronic & magnetic structures of transition metal oxides
15:30 DD (2) Properties in terms of Hubbard U, charge-transfer and hopping integral

24 January

09:30 SD (2) Basics of photo emission processes
11:00 DD (3) Introduction to various electron spectroscopy
12:15 DD (4) Extraction of microscopic parameters from spectroscopic data
15:30 SP (2) Electronic correlation - Fermi and Coulomb hole

25 January

09:30 SD (3) Aharonov-Bohm effect and the TBA - current in a mesoscopic ring
11:00 SD (4) Quantum mechanics of two-level systems - tunneling, coherence, decoherence
14:00 SP (3) Overview of wave function-based methods

29 January

09:30 SD (5) Dirac theory of graphene
11:00 SD (6) TBA in graphene
15:30 SD (7) Quantized cyclotron motion, Landau diamagnetism, deHaas-Shubnikov oscillation

30 January

11:00 SD (8) Integer quantum Hall effect
14:30 SP (4) Density-based methods
16:00 SP (5) Kohn-Sham density functional theory I

31 January

09:30 SP (6) Kohn-Sham density functional theory II
11:00 SD (9) Transport phenomena
16:15 SD (10) Landauer formalism
17:15 HIGH TEA
SP: Prof. Sourav Pal * SD: Prof. Sushanta Dattagupta * DD: Prof. D. D. Sarma * (N): Lecture number