Conferences & Workshops

The Department of Physical Sciences warmly invites you to the Women in Science Programme to be held on 6–7 March 2026.

The programme features five one-hour-long invited talks, discussions, and an open forum session with our distinguished speakers. The details of the program are attached below. Tea and snacks will be served after each talk, offering an excellent opportunity to interact informally with the speakers and guests.

The highlights :

Prof. Supurna Sinha's talk on the life and legacy of her mother, Dr. Purnima Sinha, one of the first Bengali women to earn a doctorate in physics. She received her PhD in Physics from Calcutta University in 1956 under the mentorship of the legendary Professor Satyendra Nath Bose.

Such a meeting without a discussion on women safety on campus seems incomplete. The meet will also feature a talk by Adv. Seema Joshi following an open forum. Seema Ji will speak on the (Prevention of Sexual Harassment) POSH Act. She is a seasoned lawyer and certified POSH enabler who has worked with academic institutions, including INSA, she will outline institutional responsibilities and practical steps toward a safe, accountable campus, and address students’ questions.

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Posted on: March 25th, 2026

We are organising a meeting on the deci-Hz gravitational wave mission titled “Beyond LIGO-India: Deci-Hz GW Space Mission”, to be held on 16–17 March. The meeting will focus on developments and opportunities in deci-Hz gravitational-wave astronomy.

The programme schedule is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kRorTJiv2tJuJOZxPj6Qh6FwnNAxYv2K/view?usp=sharing

In addition, we have planned an interaction session with Prof. Ajit Kembhavi (IUCAA) on the application of AI/ML to physics and astrophysics. The aim is to promote and accelerate AI/ML-based research activities in DPS.

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Posted on: March 11th, 2026

The Department of Physical Sciences (DPS), IISER Kolkata, is pleased to announce the Conference on Complex Systems and Condensed Matter Physics, to be held on 2–3 March 2026 at IISER Kolkata.

To promote in-depth scientific discussions, the conference will feature short, discussion-oriented talks by invited speakers from different parts of the country. The primary objective of the conference is to bring leading experts in the field to our campus and to foster meaningful scientific interactions and collaborations among faculty members, researchers, and students.

Tentative Speakers:

Abhik Basu (SINP, Kolkata), Apratim Chatterji (IISER Pune), Arnab Das (IACS, Kolkata), Arti Garg (SINP, Kolkata), Dibyendu Das (IIT Bombay), Krishnendu Sengupta (IACS, Kolkata), Rejish Nath (IISER Pune), Sayan Choudhury (HRI, Allahabad), Subir Das (JNCASR, Bangalore), Sumilan Banerjee (IISc Bangalore)

We cordially invite interested faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, PhD/IPhD students, and final-year master’s students to register (No Registration Fee) for the conference on or before 21 February 2026.

Important: Faculty members are kindly requested to motivate their students (Postdoctoral, IPhD, PhD, and final-year Master’s students) to submit posters and actively participate in the conference. Three Best Poster Awards will be presented for outstanding poster presentations.

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Posted on: February 11th, 2026

An International Workshop on “Nanophotonics using Structured Light” is being organized by Bio-Optics and Nano Photonics (bioNap) Laboratory, DPS, IISER Kolkata in collaboration with State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. Supported by the Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), this workshop aims to bring together leading experts to explore the rapidly growing fields of Nanophotonics using structured light. The workshop will cover fundamentals and emerging phenomena associated with spin-orbit interaction of light, interaction of structured light with chiral metasurfaces, plasmonic and hybrid metamaterials, 2-D layered materials, etc.

Date: March 7, 2026

Website: https://sites.google.com/iiserkol.ac.in/sparc/

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Posted on: January 27th, 2026

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The Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Kolkata, will host a one-day scientific event focusing on recent developments in nonlinear dynamics.

This special occasion will also feature a felicitation ceremony for Prof. Soumitra Banerjee in recognition of his outstanding academic career and pioneering contributions to the field of nonlinear science.

📅 Date: 24th October, 2025

📍 Venue: M N Saha Auditorium, IISER Kolkata

🕘 Time: 10AM to 9 PM

The event will include invited talks, discussions, and interactions highlighting current research frontiers and emerging directions in nonlinear dynamics.

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Posted on: October 23rd, 2025

IISER Kolkata is going to organise the third School and Workshop on Statistical Methods and Deep Machine Learning in High Energy Physics and Astrophysics. It is going to have a pre-school (online) from May 12 - May 30, 2025 and the main school (offline) from June 30 - July 12, 2025. We invite applications from registered students (PhD/MS level) doing research in any of the Indian Universities/Laboratories/Institutes in the field of High Energy Physics or Astrophysics. The activities will bring together experts from different research communities. Experts from many major groups like LHC, B-Physics, neutrino physics, QGP, LIGO, and dark matter physics would come together on a common platform to exchange ideas, start joint projects, and develop a cooperative training program for young professionals working in this broad research domain.

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Posted on: April 20th, 2025

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The Department of Physical Sciences will be hosting a two-day national conference on the 25th and 26th of October, 2024. Participation in the conference is by invitation only. Please find the details in the attached document.

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Posted on: October 24th, 2024

A 4-day international conference on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

A hundred years of the development of quantum mechanics is approaching. As we know, speedy developments happened from 1924 to 1927. Even though we are approaching a century of its existence, many problems relating to the foundations of quantum mechanics remain unsolved.

The Department of Physical Sciences of IISER Kolkata is organizing an international conference focused on the foundational problems of quantum mechanics. The timing is meant to commemorate Prof Satyendra Nath Bose’s momentous contribution in 1924.

Venue: Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Kolkata

Dates: 18-21 December 2024

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Posted on: September 2nd, 2024

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A two-day workshop on “Correlated Quantum Matter” is to be held in IISER Kolkata between 18-19 April 2024. The workshop would bring together leading practitioners of quantum condensed matter physics from the country and abroad to discuss the latest developments in the field.

Correlated quantum many-body systems have played an important role in our understanding of fundamental phenomena in nature from symmetry breaking to topological phases of matter. Emergent properties in these systems have led to diverse phenomena from superconductivity to spin liquids to the quantum hall effect. Correlated quantum matter is also intrinsically tied to the development of modern quantum technologies like quantum computing, quantum sensing, etc. In this context, this workshop will not only lead to a discussion on this timely topic, but it would also be a great opportunity for students and postdocs of IISER Kolkata to be exposed to the frontline research topics in this field.

Among other speakers, Prof. Mohit Randeria and Prof. Nandini Trivedi of Ohio State University, USA, will participate in the workshop and each of them will deliver a DPS colloquium (on 18 and 19 April 2024), which will also be a part of this workshop. We hope that our PhD students, postdocs, and colleagues, particularly those working in the broad area of condensed matter physics, will benefit from the informal academic discussions throughout this workshop.

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Posted on: March 1st, 2024

Along with S. N. Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, IISER Kolkata will organize STATPHYS KOLKATA XII from 18-22 December 2023.

STATPHYS-Kolkata is an international conference series focusing on the broad area of Statistical Physics organized collaboratively by various educational institutions in Kolkata, India. The conference brings together researchers working in various branches of Statistical Physics from all over the world, providing a platform to exchange and share ideas.

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Posted on: July 1st, 2023

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IISER-Kolkata and the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, are jointly organising a symposium during August 11-12, 2023, to commemorate the birth centenary of Prof. Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, a renowned figure in the field of general relativity and cosmology. The venue of the meeting is IACS, Kolkata.

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Posted on: June 5th, 2023

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32nd Meeting of Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation (IAGRG32) hosted by IISER Kolkata Department of Physical Sciences at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata from 19th to 21st December, 2022.

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Posted on: December 18th, 2022

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The Asia Pacific Conference and Workshop on Quantum Information Science to be held during 19-23 December 2018 at DPS, IISER Kolkata.

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Posted on: December 3rd, 2018

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The National Workshop on Studies at Extreme Conditions of Pressure and Temperature will be held at IISER Kolkata during Mar 29-30, 2018.

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Posted on: March 20th, 2018

Workshop on Top Quark Physics at Present and Future Collider during 27-30 January, 2018 at the Department of Physical Sciences IISER Kolkata.

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Posted on: January 20th, 2018

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A two-day workshop is being organized at DPS on “Frontiers areas in Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics” during February 23 - 24, 2018. Organizers: Subhasis Sinha, Bhavtosh Bansal, Supratim Sengupta and Siddhartha Lal

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Posted on: January 18th, 2018