Venue : Ramanujan lecture hall
 

28-Aug-18
Welcome by : Prof. Gopakumar
Speaker introduction by : Prof. Srikanth Sastry
4:00pm - 5:00pm Daan Frenkel O​rder, disorder and entropy
Infosys-ICTS Chandrasekhar Lecture 1
29-Aug-18
Chair: Yashodhan Hatwalne, RRI
9:00 am - 9:45 am Marjolein Dijkrsta ​Predicting and designing the self-assembly of colloidal particles: a computer game
9:45 am - 10:30 am Jose Maria Tavares ​Phase diagrams of self assembly patchy particles
10:30 am – 10:55 am Coffee Break
10:55 am – 11:40 am G. V. Pavan Kumar ​Plasmon-Activated Colloidal Assembly : Chains and Networks
11:40 am – 12:25 pm Prerna Sharma ​Self assembly of cyclic polygon shaped fluid membranes through pinning
12:25 am – 12:45 pm Sujata Tarafdar Hierarchicalself-assembly of desiccation crack patterns in clay induced by a uniform electric field
12:45 pm - 2:15 pm Lunch
Chair: S. Balasubramaninan, JNCASR
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm W. Benjamin Rogers Using entropy to program self-assembly of DNA-coated colloids
3:00 pm – 3:20 pm Debasish Chaudhuri Confinement and crowding sets morphology and position of bacterial chromosome
3:20 pm – 3:40 pm Sayantan Majumdar Memory Retention in disordered bio-polymer networks
3:40 pm – 4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00pm - 5:00pm Daan Frenkel From self-assembly to cellrecognition
Infosys-ICTS Chandrasekhar Lecture 2
  Chair: Chandan Dasgupta, IISc/ICTS
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Poster Session
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm Workshop Dinner
30-Aug-18
Chair: Mukund Thattai, NCBS
9:00 am - 9:45 am Alexei Tkachenko O​nset of natural selection and "reversal of the Second Law" in population of
autocatalytic heteropolymers
9:45 am - 10:30 am James Swan Out-of-Equilibrium Self-Assembly of Mutually Polarizable Nanoparticle
Suspensionsin Toggled External Fields
10:30 am – 10:55 am Coffee Break
10:55 am – 11:40 am Suri Vaikuntanathan Dissipation induced transitionsin soft matter systems
11:40 am – 12:25 pm M. Scott Shell Systematic multiscale models and physics using the relative entropy
12:25 pm – 12:45 pm Sarika Bhattacharya Glass forming ability of a binary mixture: The role of entropy
12:45 pm - 2:15 pm Lunch
Chair: Rahul Pandit, IISc
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm Prabal Maiti Two-phase thermodynamic (2PT) model for efficient entropy calculation in liquid state
3:00 pm – 3:20 pm Apratim Chatterjee Role of special cross-links in the organization of DNA-polymer at micron length scales
3:20 pm – 3:40 pm Anand Srivastava Lipids degeneracy in the (sub-100nm) membrane organization:
Thermodynamics costs behind maintaining complex lipid diversity
3:40 pm – 4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00pm - 5:00pm Daan Frenkel Entropy production and phoretic transport
Infosys-ICTS Chandrasekhar Lecture 3
  Chair: Rahul Pandit, IISc
31-Aug-18
Chair: Abhishek Dhar, ICTS
9:00 am - 9:45 am Guruswamy Kumaraswamy Why are ice templated particle polymer hybrids flexible?
9:45 am - 10:30 am Michael Gruenwald Ligand effects in the self-assembly of nano crystals into super lattices
10:30 am – 10:55 am Coffee Break
10:55 am – 11:40 am R. Rajesh Entropy driven phase transitions in hard core lattice gas models
11:40 am – 12:25 pm Ning Xu Phase behaviors of soft-core particles at high densities
12:25 pm – 12:45 pm Tapati Dutta Growth kinetics of NaCl crystals in a drying drop of gelatin: transition from faceted to dendritic growth
12:45 pm - 2:15 pm Lunch
Chair: Rajesh Ganapathy, JNCASR
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm Shashi Thutupalli Towards controlled assembly in active matter
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Ran Ni “Entropic Effects” in Active Hard Spheres
3:45 pm – 4:05 pm Habib Rahbari Characterizing rare fluctuations in soft particulate flows
4:05 pm - 4:30 pm Closing
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Coffee Break