09:30 AM

Udo Seifert

NESP2010 Lars Onsager Lecture: Stochastic Thermodynamics: Theory and Experiment   [Slides]

11:00 AM

Pierre Gaspard

NESP2010 Ilya Prigogine Lecture: Microreversibility and time asymmetry in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and thermodynamics   [Slides]

12:00 PM

Gunter M. Schütz

NESP2010 Distinguished Colloquium: Statistical mechanics of extreme events   [Slides]

14:00 PM

Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee

NESP2010 J. C. Bose Lecture: Centre or limit cycle? RG as a probe   [Slides]

15:00 PM

Robin B. Stinchcombe

NESP2010 Rudolf Peierls Lecture: Universality, and Non-universal Dynamics in Non-equilibrium Systems

16:30 PM

Spenta R. Wadia

NESP2010 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Lecture: The Maldacena duality conjecture and applications

18:00 PM

H. Eugene Stanley

NESP2010 John Kirkwood Lecture: Puzzling Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Liquid water   [Slides]

09:00 AM

David Lacoste

NESP2010 Frontier Overview: Fluctuation relations for molecular motors   [Slides]

10:30 AM

Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

NESP2010 Frontier Overview: Theoretical studies of coupled parallel exclusion processes   [Slides]

11:30 AM

Debashish Chowdhury

NESP2010 Frontier Overview: Modeling traffic with exclusion processes: from molecules to vehicles

16:30 PM

Bulbul Chakraborty

NESP2010 Distinguished Colloquium: Fluctuations, response, entropy and “temperature” in granular packings   [Slides]

18:00 PM

H. R. Krishnamurthy

NESP2010 S. N. Bose Lecture: Ultra cold atoms in optical lattices as ``emulators´´ of quantum condensed matter systems

09:00 AM

Gianni Blatter

NESP2010 John Bardeen Lecture: Cold atoms: Strongly correlated Bosons

10:00 AM

Contributed talk: P. Das, (TIFR, Mumbai), C.V. Tomy (IIT-B, Mumbai) G. Balakrishnan (University of Warwick), S. Ramakrishnan (TIFR, Mumbai) and A.K. Grover (TIFR, Mumbai)

Observation of the Fishtail Effect and the magnetic relaxation measurements in Single Crystal of the superconductor FeSe0.5Te0.5

11:00 AM

Baruch Rosenstein

NESP2010 Neville Mott Lecture: Theory of nonequilibrium current carrying states in type II superconductors with artificial pinning array at matching magnetic field   [Slides]

12:00 PM

Simon Bending

NESP2010 David Schoenberg Lecture: Vortex Ratchets in highly anisotropic superconductors   [Slides]

14:00 PM

R. Shankar

NESP2010 Frontier Overview:Majorana Modes and Non-Abelian Anyons in Spin Systems   [Slides]

15:00 PM

Leticia F. Cugliandolo

NESP2010 Distinguished Colloquium: Cooling rate dependencies in classical coarsening systems: extension of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism   [Slides]

16:30 PM

Arup K. Raychaudhuri

NESP2010 K. S. Krishnan Lecture: Do precision physical measurements carry any value? Case study of measurements of thermal fluctuations in molecules of life

18:00 PM

Jainendra K. Jain

NESP2010 Enrico Fermi Lecture: Fractional quantum Hall effect: Why should others care?

09:00 AM

David Mukamel

NESP2010 P. Langevin Lecture: Effective long-range interactions in driven non-equilibrium systems   [Slides]

10:00 AM

Contributed talk: Sumedha (Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad), Bulbul Chakraborty (Brandeis University, USA) and M. F. Hagan (Brandeis University, USA)

Role of GTP remnants in micro-tubule dynamics

10:15 AM

Contributed talk: Vivek Verma (IIT Kanpur), William O. Hancock (Pennsylvania State University, USA), Jeffrey M. Catchmark (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Lithographic Approaches to Artificial Spindle Assembly   [Slides]

11:00 AM

Krishanu Ray

NESP2010 Frontier Overview: Traffic signals inside a cell: an update on kinesin-dependent intracellular transport and its regulation

12:00 PM

Stephan Grill

NESP2010 Frontier Overview: Active Forces and Flows in the Establishment of Cellular Polarity

14:00 PM

Sriram Ramaswamy

NESP2010 Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar Lecture: Nonequilibrium soft matter: self-propelled, drifting, and stuck   [Slides]

15:30 PM

Vincent Croquette

NESP2010 P. G. de Gennes Lecture: Brownian motion as a tool to study DNA molecular motors

16:30 PM

Jonathon Howard

NESP2010 Max Delbrück Lecture: Motor proteins as nanomachines: force, friction and fluctuations   [Slides]

18:00 PM

Joachim Krug

NESP2010 Distinguished Colloquium: Record theory and applications: Global warming and market fluctuations   [Slides]

09:00 AM

Reinhard Lipowsky

NESP2010 Hermann von Helmholtz Lecture: Chemomechanical coupling of molecular motors   [Slides]

10:00 AM

Contributed talk: Steffen Liepelt, Max-Planck Institute-KG, Golm, Germany

Kinetic networks of molecular motors

10:15 AM

Contributed talk: Sandhya P. Koushika, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India

Regulated distributions of mitochondria in neurons are dependent on motors and microtubules

11:00 AM

Tom Duke

NESP2010 A.V. Hill Lecture: Mechanosensation by critical oscillators

12:00 PM

Paul Matsudaira

NESP2010 D’Arcy Thompson Lecture: The design and mechanics of biological macromolecular springs

14:00 PM

Anthony J. Leggett

Expanded version of NOBEL Lecture 2003: Superfluid 3-He:the early days as seen by a theorist   [Slides]

15:30 PM

P. B. Sunil Kumar

NESP2010 Frontier Overview: Aster formation and rupture transition in semi-flexible fiber networks with mobile cross-linkers   [Slides]

16:30 PM

Frank Jülicher

NESP2010 E.M. Purcell Lecture: Steering helical swimmers   [Slides]

09:30 AM

Sidney R. Nagel

NESP2010 Jean Perrin Lecture: Jamming and the Emergence of Rigidity

11:30 AM

Eva Andrei

H. Kamerlingh-Onnes Lecture: Electronic properties of graphene

14:00 PM

Thierry Giamarchi

NESP2010 J. H. Van Vleck Lecture: Physics in the one dimensional quantum world: the Luttinger liquid paradigm and beyond   [Slides]

15:00 PM

Baruch Rosenstein

NESP2010 Frontier Overview: Ballistic transport, chiral anomaly and emergence of the electron - hole plasma in graphene   [Slides]

16:30 PM

Mustansir Barma

NESP2010 M.N. Saha Lecture: Entropy-Induced Ordering

18:00 PM

Anthony J. Leggett

NESP2010 Niels Bohr Lecture: Does the everyday world really obey quantum mechanics?   [Slides]

09:00 AM

Reinhard Lipowsky

NESP2010 Plenary Lecture: Multiscale motility of molecular motors   [Slides]

10:00 AM

Gautam I. Menon

NESP2010 Plenary Lecture: Stretching Fluctuations and Loop Formation in Short Double-Stranded DNA molecules

11:30 AM

Vincent Croquette

NESP2010 Plenary Lecture: Single molecule study of the T4 replisome

12:30 PM

Stefan Klumpp

NESP2010 Invited Talk: Transcription of ribosomal RNA - a central task for rapid (bacterial) cell growth   [Slides]

14:00 PM

G. V. Shivashankar

NESP2010 Plenary Lecture: Spatio-temporal plasticity in genome organization within living cells

15:00 PM

Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

NESP2010 Invited Talk: Spatial fluctuations strongly affect dynamics of motor proteins   [Slides]

15:30 PM

P. Ranjith

NESP2010 Invited Talk: Dynamics of nucleosome assembly and disassembly

16:30 PM

P. Matsudaira

NESP2010 Distinguished Colloquium: The Mechanics of the Fastest Cellular Movement - The Contraction of the Vorticella convallaria Spasmoneme

18:00 PM

G. Baskaran

NESP2010 S. Pancharatnam Lecture: Phases and Phases on the road to Quantum Computation

09:00 AM

Rahul Pandit

NESP2010 Satish Dhawan Lecture: Turbulence: A Grand Challenge   [Slides]

10:00 AM

Tom Duke

NESP2010 Plenary Lecture: Force generation in the lamellipodium of crawling cells

11:30 AM

Joachim Krug

NESP2010 Ronald Fisher Lecture: Evolution of sexual and asexual populations on rugged fitness landscapes   [Slides]

12:30 PM

Kavita Jain

NESP2010 Invited Talk: Quasispecies dynamics on correlated fitness landscapes   [Slides]

14:00 PM

Pierre Gaspard

NESP2010 Plenary Lecture: Out-of-equilibrium directionality and information processing in biophysical nanosystems   [Slides]

15:00 PM

Roop Mallik

NESP2010 Invited Talk: Tug-of-war between dissimilar teams of microtubule motors regulates transport and fission of endosomes

15:30 PM

Anirban Sain

NESP2010 Invited Talk: A biological mechanism that utilizes intrinsic curvature of filaments   [Slides]

16:30 PM

Ajay K. Sood

NESP2010 C. V. Raman Lecture: Order and chaos in flow of Soft Matter   [Slides]

09:00 AM

Chandan Dasgupta

NESP2010 Annesur Rahman Lecture: Growing length scales and their role in the growth of time scales in glass-forming liquids   [Slides]

10:00 AM

Srikanth Sastry

NESP2010 Plenary Lecture: Slow Relaxation and jamming in simple glass formers

11:30 AM

Yogesh M. Joshi

NESP2010 Invited Talk: Time-temperature superposition in soft glassy materials   [Slides]

12:00 PM

Prabal K. Maiti

NESP2010 Invited Talk: Structure and dynamics of water under nano-confinement   [Slides]

12:30 PM

Raja Paul

NESP2010 Invited Talk: In-silico reconstitution of spindle assembly: speed and error of search and capture   [Slides]

14:00 PM

Sanjay Puri

NESP2010 Plenary Lecture: Pattern Formation in Granular Materials   [Slides]

15:00 PM

Surajit Sengupta

NESP2010 Plenary Lecture: Micro-structure selection in solid-solid transformations: a space-time transition of particle trajectories?   [Slides]

16:30 PM

Piers Coleman

NESP2010 Lev Landau Lecture: Qu-transitions: phase transitions in the quantum era   [Slides]

18:00 PM

Gabriel Aeppli

NESP2010 Louis Neel Lecture: Quantum magnetism and non-Fermi liquids

09:00 AM

Deepak Dhar

NESP2010 P, C. Mahalanobis Lecture: Growing sand piles: a model of proportionate growth   [Slides]

10:00 AM

David Mukamel

NESP2010 Plenary Lecture: Slow dynamics in systems with long-range interactions   [Slides]

11:30 AM

Abhishek Dhar

NESP2010 Invited Talk: Heat conduction and phonon localization in disordered harmonic crystals   [Slides]

12:30 PM

Sanjib Sabhapandit

NESP2010 Invited Talk: Integer partitions and exclusion statistics   [Slides]

14:00 PM

Gunter M. Schütz

NESP2010 Plenary Lecture: Condensation in temporally correlated zero-range dynamics   [Slides]

15:00 PM

Pradeep K. Mohanty

NESP2010 Invited talk: Spatial Correlations in Exclusion Models corresponding to Zero Range Process

16:00 PM

Satya N. Majumdar

NESP2010 Distinguished Colloquium: Understanding search trees via statistical physics   [Slides]