Seminars

(1) Professor R. N. Mukherjee, Director, IISER Kolkata
First Special Lecture on 23 August 2016
Title: Molecular Bistability, High-Nuclearity Transition Metal Clusters and 1D-Coordination Polymers

(2) Dr. Bhavtosh Bansal, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Kolkata
CAFM Faculty Lecture on 15 September 2016
Title: (Thermo-)Dynamics of Superheating and Supercooling around a Metal-insulator Transition

(3) Dr. Raja Shunmugam, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Kolkata
CAFM Faculty Lecture on 10 November 2016
Title: A Dual Responsive Polynorbornene Derived Smart Nano-vehicles for the Potential Application in Cancer Therapy

(4) Dr. Aloke Das, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, IISER Pune
CAFM Visitor’s Seminar on 15 December 2016
Title: Probing Non-covalent Interactions at the Molecular Level: Gas Phase Laser Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemistry Calculations

(5) Prof. Ashok K. Ganguli, Director INST Mohali and Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Delhi
CAFM Seminar on 9 February 2017
Title: Design of Nanostructures for Energy and Environmental Applications and Devices based on Nanotechnology

(6) Dr. Goutam Dev Mukherjee, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Kolkata
CAFM Faculty Lecture on 08 March 2017
Title: Novel Phase Transitions at Extreme Pressures

(7) Dr. Basab Chattopadhyay, FNRS- Research Fellow, Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
CAFM Visitor’s Seminar on 13 April 2017
Title: Structure-Property Relationships in Organic Semiconductors

(8) Dr. Dibyendu Das, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Kolkata
CAFM Faculty Seminar on 23 August 2017
Title: Supramolecular Catalysts for Chemical Evolution

(9) Prof. K. S. Narayan, Professor, JNCASR Bangalore
CAFM Seminar on 03 January 2018
Title: Recent Strategies in Organic Electronics

(10) Prof. Mandar M. Deshmukh, Professor, TIFR Mumbai
CAFM Seminar on 26 March 2018
Title: Probing Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Graphene

(11) Prof. Sudipta Maiti, Professor, TIFR Mumbai
CAFM Seminaron 09 April 2018
Title: Lipid Encased Nanoparticles as a New Tool for Probing Membrane Protein Structures

(12) Dr. Kaustabh Kumar Maiti, Senior Scientist, CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum
CAFM Visitor’s Seminar on 17 April 2018
Title: Exploration of Diagnostic and Theranostic SERS-Nanoprobes for Cancer Management

(13) Dr. Jayanta Haldar, JNCASR, Bangalore
CAFM Seminar on 19 April 2018
Title: Engineering Biomaterials and Antibacterials in the Era of Drug Resistance

(14) Dr. Prasenjit Mal, NISER Bhubaneswar
CAFM Visitor’s Seminar on 21 May 2018
Title: Supramolecular Catalysis in C-X (X = -O, -N, -S) Bond Synthesis

(15) Dr. Simanta Pakhira, Florida State University 
CAFM Visitor’s Seminar on 17 June 2018
Title: Advance Technologies for Materials Discovery, Innovation and their Applications

(16) Prof. Tapas K. Kundu, JNCASR Bangalore and Director, CSIR-Central Drug research Institute, Lucknow, India 
CAFM Seminar on 14 September 2018
Title: Targeting of therapeutic molecules in brain: Implications in neurodegenerative disorder, Cancer and Infectious diseases

(17) Professor Yury Gogotsi, Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Distinguished University Professor, Director, A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel University, USA & Associate Editor of ACS Nano
Institute Colloquium (organized by CAFM) on 07 December 2018
Title: Two-Dimensional Carbides and Nitrides (MXenes) Enable New Technologies

(18) Prof. G. P. Das, IIT Kharagpur and formerly IACS Kolkata, India 
CAFM Seminar on 24 January 2019
Title: Design and Functionalization of 2D Materials and their Heterostructures

(19) Prof. Sameer Sapra, IIT Delhi, India 
CAFM Seminar on 06 February 2019
Title: Charge Extraction from Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

(20) Dr. Susanta K. Sarkar, President, CadenzaMed LLC, USA 
CAFM Seminar on 13 February 2019
Title: Seeing is Believing: Molecular Imaging Strategies for Drug Development

(21) Dr. Chittaranjan Patra, IICT Hyderabad, India
CAFM Seminar on 07 March 2019
Title: Nanomedicine for the future treatment of various diseases: Ongoing research in my laboratory and future challenges

(22) Prof. A. Sundaresan, JNCASR Bangalore, India
CAFM Seminar on 25 March 2019
Title: Pyroelectric magnets: A new class of multiferroics

(23) Prof. Chirag Kalelkar, IIT Kharagpur, India
CAFM Popular Lecture on 09 May 2019
Title: Tabletop Experiments in Fluid Dynamics

(24) Prof. Somobrata Acharya, IACS Kolkata, India
CAFM Seminar on 16 May 2019
Title: Exploring for Nanomaterials and Molecules at the Air-Water Interface

(25) Prof. Dilip K. Sarkar, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC), Canada
CAFM Seminar on 18 July 2019
Title: Nanostructured Superhydrophobic Thin Films Surfaces: Fundamentals and Applications

(26) Dr. Sujoy Roy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
CAFM Visitor’s Seminar on 13 August 2019
Title: Shining X-rays on Topological Magnetic Texture: Insight into Static and Fluctuating Properties of Skyrmions

(27) Prof. Tewodros Asefa, Rutgers University, USA
CAFM Visitor’s Seminar on 23 January 2020
Title: Where the Whole is More than the Sum of its Parts: Design and Synthesis of Multifunctional Nanomaterials for Catalysis, Energy and Nanomedicine

(28) Prof. Amitava Patra, IACS Kolkata, India
CAFM Seminar on 17 February 2020
Title: Challenges and Opportunities for Nanomaterials Based Light Harvesting Systems

(29) Prof. Arnab Mukherjee, IISER Pune, India
CAFM Seminar on 26 February 2020
Title: Accurate Prediction of B-form/A-form DNA Conformation from Primary Sequence: A Machine Learning and Free energy Handshake