Program

Venue: Conference Hall, JNCASR.

 

Thursday December 06, 2007

Registration: 8:30 - 8:45 AM

Welcome Address: 8:45 - 9:00 AM

 

Morning Session: 09:00 AM - 12:30 PM          Chair: Mike Klein

09:00 – 10:00           Nicola Spaldin :

                                   Multiferroics

10:00 – 10:30           Tea

10:30 – 11:30           Peter Day :

                                   Molecular magnetism: from the beginnings to where we are now

11:30 – 12:30           A. K. Raychaudhuri:

                                   Revisiting Current induced switching in manganites and its                                    application to create size controlled electronic phase separation by an STM

Lunch: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Afternoon Session: 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM          Chair:Nicola Spaldin

15:30 – 16:30           Mike Klein:

                                   Computer Simulation Studies of Materials I

15:00 – 15:30           Tea

14:00 – 15:00           A. K. Cheetham :

                                   Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Framework Materials and their                                    Applications

 

Friday December 07, 2007

 

Morning Session: 09:00 AM - 12:30 PM          Chair: Peter Day

09:00 – 10:00           Mike Klein:

                                   Computer Simulation Studies of Materials II

10:00 – 10:30           Tea

10:30 – 11:30           Nicola Spaldin :

                                   Magnetoelectrics

11:30 – 12:30           Tapas Kumar Maji

                                   Porous Metal-Organic Coordination Networks (MOCNs):                                     Functionalities Based on Regularity and Flexibility

Lunch: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Afternoon Session: 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM          Chair: M. Yamashita

14:00 – 15:00           Peter Day :

                                   Organic-inorganic layer compounds as molecular functional materials

15:00 – 15:30           Tea

15:30 – 16:30           M. Eswaramoorthy :

                                   Template based synthesis of nanostructured materials

16:30 – 17:45           Poster Session (P-1 to P-16) pdf, doc

 

Saturday December 08, 2007

 

Morning Session: 09:00 AM - 12:30 PM          Chair:Mike Klein

09:00 – 10:00           C. N. R. Rao :

                                   New Chemistry with Nanomaterials

10:00 – 10:30           Tea

10:30 – 11:30           A. K. Cheetham:

                                   Down-Conversion and Up-Conversion Phosphors for                                    Solid State Lighting and other Applications

11:30 – 12:30           U. V. Varadaraju :

                                   Thermoelectric materials

Lunch: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Afternoon Session: 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM          Chair: A. K. Cheetham

14:00 – 15:00           M. Yamashita:

                                   Gigantic Third-Order Optical Nonlinearity and Direct                                    Observation of Soliton Dynamics by STM in Nano-Wire                                    Metal Complexes

15:00 – 15:30           Tea

10:30 – 11:30           G. U. Kulkarni :

                                   Patterning of nanomaterials on substrates: Chemical aspects

 

Banquet Dinner 7:30 PM, JVH Lawns

 

Monday December 10, 2007

 

Morning Session: 09:00 AM - 12:30 PM          Chair: Swapan K. Pati

09:00 – 10:00           Simon Billinge:

                                   Total scattering and atomic pair distribution                                    function (PDF) methods: overview

10:00 – 10:30           Tea

10:30 – 11:30           Michel Verdaguer:

                                   Molecular magnetic materials

11:30 – 12:30           A. K. Sood :

                                   Geometrically spin-frustrated pyrochlore oxides

Lunch: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Afternoon Session: 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM          Chair: Umesh V. Waghmare

14:00 – 15:00           M. Yamashita :

                                   Multi-Functional Quantum Molecular Nano-Magnets:                                    Single-Chain Quantum Magnets with Photo-Induced                                    Switching and Conducting Single-Molecule Magnets

15:00 – 15:30           Tea

15:30 – 16:30           S. Vasudevan :

                                   Delamination of Inorganic Layered Solids

16:30 – 17:45           Poster Session (P-17 to P-33) pdf, doc

 

Tuesday December 11, 2007

 

Morning Session: 09:00 AM - 12:30 PM          Chair: Clare P Grey

09:00 – 10:00           Ram Seshadri:

                                   New Magnetic Materials

10:00 – 10:30           Tea

10:30 – 11:30           A. J. Bhattacharyya :

                                   Soft Matter Electrolytes for Energy Storage

11:30 – 12:30           Shobhana Narasimhan :

                                   Ab Initio Design of Magnetic Surface Alloys

Lunch: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Afternoon Session: 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM          Chair: Shobhana Narasimhan

14:00 – 15:00           Michel Verdaguer:

                                   X-ray absortion spectroscopy & molecular magnetic                                     materials

15:00 – 15:30           Tea

15:30 – 16:30           Simon Billinge :

                                   Total scattering and atomic pair distribution                                    function(PDF) methods: theory and practice

16:30 – 17:45           Poster Session (P-34 to P-50) pdf, doc

 

Wednesday December 12, 2007

 

Morning Session: 09:00 AM - 12:30 PM          Chair: Simon Billinge

09:00 – 10:00           Claire P. Grey :

                                   Investigate Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries

10:00 – 10:30           Tea

10:30 – 11:30           K. S. Narayan :

                                   Opto-electronically active plastics

11:30 – 12:30           Ram Seshadri :

                                   Lone pairs and how they influence the structure

Lunch: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Afternoon Session: 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM          Chair: Ram Seshadri

14:00 – 15:00           S. B. Krupanidhi :

                                   III-V based Quantum Structures for Long Wavelength Detection

15:00 – 15:30           Tea

15:30 – 16:30           A. Sundaresan :

                                   New Ferroic Materials

16:30 – 17:45           Poster Session (P-51 to 66) pdf, doc

 

Thursday December 13, 2007

 

Morning Session: 09:00 AM - 12:30 PM          Chair: G. U. Kulkarni

09:00 – 10:00           Claire P. Grey :

                                   Developing New Structural Probes for Investigating Solid Oxide                                    Fuel Cells, Environmental Chemistry and Catalysis

10:00 – 10:30           Tea

10:30 – 11:30           U. V. Waghmare :

                                   First-principles Exploration of Ferroelectricity at Nano-scale

11:30 – 12:30           Swapan K. Pati :

                                   Quantum magnetism: frustrations in quantum antiferromagnets

 

12:30                                                  Closing Session