# Major Events of the University

Department of Mathematics cordially invites you to a lecture
on
"Branched Hamiltonians appearing in some simple dynamical systems"
Speaker: Prof. Bijan Kumar Bagchi, Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar University
Date & Time: 20th March, 2019 (Wednesday) at 03.15 pm
Venue: MLT-II, Department of Mathematics, 3rd Floor, Baker Building, Presidency University, Kolkata.

FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES
The eight lecture in this series will be given by
Dr. Shampa Bhattacharjee
“Electoral Cycles in Crop Residue Burning: Evidence from India ”

March 20, 2019: 3.30 PM

Physics Weekly colloquium
20th March, 2019, Wednesday at 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Subhendra Mohanty, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
Title: Hydrogen spin oscillations in a background of axions and the 21-cm brightness temperature
Abstract: The 21-cm line signal arising from the hyperfine interaction in hydrogen has an important role in cosmology and provides a unique method for probing of the universe prior to the star formation era. The first observation of the 21-cm line from the cosmic dawn by EDGES experiment shows an anomalously large dip which indicates that the spin temperature of Hydrogen is lower than predicted by astrophysics models. I will discuss the idea that the spin flip of Hydrogen by the coherent emission/absorption of axions causes a lowering of their spin temperature and can explain the stronger than expected absorption of 21-cm light reported by the EDGES collaboration. Axion interaction with the two level HI is analogous to the Jaynes-Cummings model of a two level atom in a cavity and we derive the spin flip frequency in this formalism and I will show that the coherent oscillations frequency $\Omega \propto 1/f_a$ in contrast with the incoherent transitions between the HI hyperfine levels where the transition rates $\propto 1/f_a^2$. I will show that the axion process has a discernible effect on the spin temperature and goes in the right direction for explaining the EDGES observation.

FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES
The seventh lecture in this series will be given by
Prof. Jyotsna Jalan
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
“Collective Story Editing to Increase Women's Voice in Their Households and Reduce Domestic Violence: Evidence From India”
March 13, 2019: 3.30 PM
Dipak Banerjee Memorial Lecture Room

Physics Weekly Colloquium on March 13th, 2019 at 2 PM
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Raka Dasgupta (University of Calcutta)
Title: Ultracold Atoms : The Lego Blocks Scientists Play With
Abstract : Near absolute zero of temperature, quantum mechanical effects predominate and atoms start behaving in a weird and fascinating way. Bose-Einstein condensation, Fermionic superfluidity etc. are some of the signatures of this quantum world. The best part is, at this scale, ultracold atoms resemble building blocks that can be joined in various ways to create novel and exotic physical systems. Scientists have tried to simulate traditional condensed matter systems and also to mimic some pieces of beautiful stellar physics using these ultracold atoms.

Life Science Colloquium March 2019
Date: 13th March, Wednesday at 3-00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Soumitra Sau, Amity University, Kolkata
Research area: Genomic Instability
Title: The yeast PCNA unloader Elg1 RFC-like complex plays a role in eliciting the DNA damage checkpoint
Venue: PC Mahalanobis Auditorium

Date: 27th March, Wednesday at 3-00 p.m.
Speaker: Professor Adinpunya Mitra, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Title: TBD
Venue: PC Mahalanobis Auditorium

Department of Mathematics cordially invites you to a lecture
on
"Sending information securely: need for quantum key distribution"
Speaker: Prof. Sibasish Ghosh, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc.), Chennai
Date & Time: 11th March, 2019 (Monday) at 03.45pm
Venue: MLT-II, Department of Mathematics, Baker Building, Presidency University, Kolkata.

FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES
The sixth lecture in this series will be given by
Prof. Prabal Roy Chowdhury,
Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi
“Racing to collusion: Incentive contracts under multiple bank lending”
March 07, 2019: 3.30 PM
Dipak Banerjee Memorial Lecture Room

Physics Colloquium on 6th March, 2019 (Wednesday) at 3:30 pm at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Gautam Gangopadhyay, University of Calcutta
Title: Physics Research of Meghnad Saha
Abstract: Meghnad Saha, best known for the famous Saha ionization equation, spent four decades in research and published eighty nine papers. His interests in science were varied, ranging from astrophysics and nuclear physics to geology and flood control. He also started building the first accelerator of the country and was the Director of two research institutes. In this presentation, we will briefly discuss Saha's research in nuclear physics, astrophysics and upper atmosphere. We will also focus on the relevance of his work today.

Physics Outreach Seminar
Date & Time: 7th March, 2019, Thursday, 3:00 PM
Venue: AJC Bose Auditorium
Main Speaker: Prof. Frederik G. Scholtz, Director at National Institute for theoretical Physics in Cape Town, South Africa
Title: Our Strange Quantum World
followed by interactive session

Physics Weekly Colloquium on 6th March, 2019 (Wednesday) at 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. N. D. Hari Dass (TIFR-TCIS)
Title: Varieties of Quantum Measurements.
Abstract: The rst explicit model for quantum measurements was given by von Neumann, strongly influenced by Dirac, for the type of measurements that have come to be known as Projective Measurements. In these, the outcomes are always eigenvalues and the post-measurement state is the corresponding eigenstate. A number of very interesting measurement schemes have emerged since then, and I shall present these varieties of quantum measurements and critically assess them. That will include i) the Arthurs-Kelly Measurements of canonically conjugate observables, ii) the Protective Measurements iii) the Weak Measurements, and finally iv) the Weak Value Measurements.

Call for Papers
Student Seminar on “Religion and Politics in South Asia”
Date : 28th March,2019.
Papers on Religion and Politics in South Asia are invited from advanced post-graduate students for a one-day student seminar at the Dept. of History, Presidency University, Kolkata.
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The Dept. of Hindi cordially invites you to Premchand Interdisciplinary Lecture Series-26
Speaker : Dr.Mostak Ahmed ,Assistant Professor, Department of Bengali,Presidency University, Kolkata
Topic : ‘ बंगाल का ग्रामीण जीवन : बांग्ला आख्यान साहित्य /‘Village Life of Bengal: Bengali Prose Narratives’
Date & Venue : Wednesday , 27th February 2018 at 3 P.m. at Dr.Rajendra Prasad Sabhagar, Hindi Department, Presidency University, Kolkata.
All are welcome.

FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES
The fifth lecture in this series will be given by
Prof. Suresh Mutuswami,
University of Leicester, United Kingdom
“Measuring Electoral Competition: A Probability Index”

February 27, 2019: 3.30 PM Dipak Banerjee Memorial Lecture Room

Department of Mathematics is organizing "An Outreach Programme in Mathematics for BSc students", aimed at advanced BSc Mathematics (Hons) students (second & third year students are preferred) on 1st March 2019. There will be lectures by some experts from Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata and a quiz competition with cash prizes for the students. Further details and schedule of this programme can be found at: https://mathpresidency.wixsite.com/outreach
For enrollment please contact the secretary at +91 8906130413 or fill in the online form in the above webpage. There will be arrangements for lunch for the participants.

Physics Weekly Colloquium
27th February, 2019 (Wednesday) at 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker:Prof. Subhabrata Majumdar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Title: On Local Dark Matter
Abstract: In our Universe, Dark Matter (DM) is ubiquitous. However, we do not know what DM actually is. Understanding the (particle) nature of DM is one of the top-most questions in all of Physics. Some of our best knowledge of DM comes from observations within the Milky Way. Using these observations, and some reasonable theoretical prejudice, we can make a start by asking the three following questions:
(1) How much DM is there around us in our neighbourhood?
(2)How fast are they moving?
(3)How does our knowledge (or the lack of it) of local DM influence our search for the nature of the elusive DM?
This talk will try to provide answers to these three fundamental questions.

The March Talk of the Month 2019, shall be delivered by Dr Nicola Streeten, British anthropologist-turned-illustrator and author of The Inking Woman (2018) and Billy, Me & You (2011) on“Female-ness in Graphic Novels and Comics” on 1st March 2019, Friday, 4.20pm at TNS, Main building. PFA the poster of the event.
Drawing on her life experience and research as comics scholar and graphic novelist, Dr Streeten will reflect on “femaleness” in comics in this illustrated talk. Starting with consideration of her graphic memoir, “Billy, Me & You” she will venture beyond the visual representation of women, to consider the femaleness of the creative process itself. An often-overlooked element of this is the approach to getting things done and making things happen. By comparing works within a UK context with those emerging from India, Streeten will use this to introduce discussion about the influence and continuing importance of feminist theories and practice.
Biography
Nicola Streeten is British anthropologist-turned-illustrator and author of graphic memoir, Billy, Me & You (2011 Myriad Editions). Streeten’s doctoral research on Feminist Cartoons and Comics in Britain informed The Inking Woman (2018 Myriad Editions) a picture-led history of 250 years of women cartoons in Britain which she co-edited. She co-founded the international forum Laydeez do Comics in 2009 which launched the first women-only prize for graphic novels in progress in the UK in 2018, now run annually.
www.streetenillustration.com
www.laydeezdocomics.com Poster

Department of Economics & PUYES are jointly organizing E-Summit 2019 on 28th February and 1st March 2019. Please see the details of the programme in the attached brochure.
Brochure

Physics Weekly Colloquium
Date & Time: Feb. 20th, 2019 at 2 PM
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Abhik Basu, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics

Title: Correlations and Order in Two Dimensions

Abstract: Phase transitions and order are at the heart of statistical mechanics. Conventionally, phase transitions take place between phases with long range order (LRO) and disorder (or short range order - SRO), like between ice and water, or between phases with different LROs, like structural transitions in crystals, or between crystals and liquid crystals. Two-dimensional (2d) systems with continuous symmetries are exceptional in the sense that they cannot not sustain any LRO in the thermodynamic limit at any finite temperature (T), thus ruling out any conventional LRO to SRO transition. We illustrate this by focusing on the 2d XY model. We finally discuss how a novel quasi long range order (QLRO) to SRO transition at a finite T can still take place in the 2d XY model.

Three lectures by Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Prof. Swapan Chakravorty. His lectures are open to the public and the schedule is as follows:
27th February 2019: Literature is Ideology
Literature is False Consciousness
13th March 2019: Literature is Transgression
Literature is Propaganda
27th March 2019: Literature is Social Media
Literature is Fake News

FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES
The fourth lecture in this series will be given by
Prof. Sattwik Santra,
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
“Frontiers in Healthcare”
February 20, 2019: 3.30 PM
Dipak Banerjee Memorial Lecture Room

The Department of Hindi cordially invites you to a lecture under Premchand Interdisciplinary Lecture Series-25
Speaker : Dr.Manoj Kumar Panda,Assistant Professor,Department of Philosophy,Presidency University, kolkata
Topic : ‘ दिमाग़ और भाषा: दार्शनिक परिप्रेक्ष्य /‘Mind and Language: A Philosophical Perspectives ’ Date & Venue : Wednesday , 13th February 2018 at 3 P.m. at Dr.Rajendra Prasad Sabhagar, Hindi Department, Presidency University,Kolkata.
All are welcome.

ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT, PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY
FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES
The third lecture in this series will be given by
Prof. Subrata Sarkar,
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai
“Corporate Governance: Opportunities and challenges in emerging markets ”
February 13, 2019: 3.30 PM
Dipak Banerjee Memorial Lecture Room

Physics Colloquium
Date & Time: 13th February, 2019 (Wednesday) at 2 PM
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Dr. Sarbari Guha, St. Xavier's College, Kolkata
Title: The Phenomenon of Gravitational Collapse

Physics Colloquium
Date & Time: 14th February, 2019 (Thursday) at 3 PM
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Dr. Projjwal Banerjee, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Title: Origin of Heavy Elements in the Early Galaxy

Abstract: Metal-poor stars of $\lesssim 0.8 ~\mathrm{M}_\odot$ that have [Fe/H]~$\lesssim -2.5$ are thought to have formed within $\sim 1$ Gyr after the Big Bang. Because of their low mass, they have very long lifetimes and are still around today. Surface composition of these stars are a fossil record of interstellar gas in the early Galaxy from which they were formed and are crucial for studying the early Galactic and chemical evolution. Abundance pattern of elements observed in these stars provide a unique probe of studying the nucleosynthesis and understanding the nature of the first and early supernovae. Interestingly, elements heavier than Fe group such as Sr, Ba, and Pb, that are primarily produced by neutron capture processes, are ubiquitous in these stars. Furthermore, their abundance patterns show a large variation that seem to indicate that all types of neutron capture processes, (\textsl{r})apid, (\textsl{i})ntermediate, and (\textsl{s})low, operated in the early Galaxy. The sites for neutron capture process that can operate at such early times however, is still a major puzzle. I will discuss the current status about the sites heavy element synthesis in the early Galaxy including latest results from my work on \textsl{i} and \textsl{s} process in early massive stars.

Department of English February Talk of Month

The talk will be deliered by Prof. Robert A. Yelle on his book The Language of Disenchantment: Protestant Literalism and Colonial Discourse in British India (Oxford University Press, 2013) on 8th February 2019, Friday 4.20pm at Tarak Nath Sen Auditorium.
Robert A. Yelle is Professor of Religious Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. He was educated at Harvard, Berkeley, and Chicago. A former Guggenheim Fellow, Yelle is the author of several books, including most recently Sovereignty and the Sacred: Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion (Chicago, 2019).
Abstract:
The Language of Disenchantment: Protestant Literalism and Colonial Discourse in British India (Oxford University Press, 2013)
The Language of Disenchantment explores the ways in which Protestant ideas concerning language influenced British colonial attitudes toward and proposals to reform Hinduism. Protestant literalism, mediated by the textual economy of the printed book, inspired colonial critiques of Indian mythological, ritual, linguistic, and legal traditions. Central to these developments was the transportation of the Christian opposition of monotheism and polytheism or idolatry into the domain of language. Polemics against verbal idolatry that had been applied previously to Catholic and sectarian practices in Britain -including the elevation of a scriptural canon over heathenish custom, the attack on the personifications of mythological language, and the critique of "vain repetitions" in prayers and magic spells-were applied by colonialists to Indian linguistic practices. In order to remedy these diseases of language, the British attempted to standardize and codify Indian traditions as a step toward both Anglicization and Christianization. The colonial understanding of a perfect language as the fulfillment of the monotheistic ideal echoed earlier Christian myths according to which the Gospel had replaced the obscure discourses of pagan oracles and Jewish ritual. By uncovering the historical roots of the British re-ordering of South Asian discourses, Yelle's work challenges representations of colonialism, and the modernity that it ushered in, as simply rational or secular.
Poster

Physics Weekly Colloquium on Feb 6th, 2019 (Wednesday) at 2 PM
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Dr. Atanu Rajak, Presidency University
Title: Suppressed heating and pre-thermalization in chains of classical kicked rotors
Periodic drives are a common tool to control physical systems, but have a limited applicability because time-dependent drives generically lead to heating. How to prevent the heating is a fundamental question with important practical implications. We address this question by analyzing a chain of coupled kicked rotors, and find two situations in which the heating rate can be arbitrarily small: (i) marginal localization, for drives with large frequencies and small amplitudes, (ii) linear stability, for initial conditions close to a fixed point. In both cases, we find that the dynamics shows universal scaling laws that allow us to distinguish localized, diffusive, and super-diffusive regimes. The marginally localized phase has common traits with recently discovered pre-thermalized phases of many-body quantum-Hamiltonian systems, but does not require quantum coherence.

ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT, PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY
FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES
The second lecture in this series will be given by
Prof. Manipushpak Mitra,
Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
“Prior-free on-line mechanisms for the dynamic queueing problem”
February 6, 2019: 3.30 PM
Dipak Banerjee Memorial Lecture Room

Mr . Atul khanna’s Session on 6th February 2019 at 11:30 a.m. at Sociology Seminar Room. More..

Department of Political Science, Presidency University, Kolkata
in collaboration with
Council for Political Studies, Kolkata
Announces a day-long workshop on
“Social Science Research: Methods and Problems”
on 13th March, 2019 (Wednesday)
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Department of Political Science welcomes you to a lecture series on:
Japanese foreign Policy
Distinguished Speaker : Professor Yoshihide Soeya,
Japan Foundation Visiting Professor
And Faculty at Keio University, Japan
Venue : Seminar Lecture Theatre of Department of Political Science
Date : 5th and 6th February, 2019
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ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT, PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY
FACULTY SEMINAR SERIES
The first lecture in this series will be given by
Prof. Arghya Ghosh,
Business School, University of New South Wales, Australia
January 30, 2019: 3.30 PM
Economics Department: Room 26
(Dipak Banerjee Memorial Lecture Room)
Poster Abstract

January Talk of the Month on 30th January 2019, Wednesday 3.30pm at TNS. The invited speaker is the author Chandrahas Choudhury.
Chandrahas Choudhury is the author of the novels Clouds and Arzee the Dwarf. His forthcoming work of fiction, set in a Chinese restaurant in Mumbai, is called Tales of My China Dragon. He is also the editor of a short introduction to Indian literature for the literature-loving traveller titled India: A Traveller’s Literary Companion. Choudhury also writes about literature, travel and politics for a number of periodicals, including the Wall Street Journal, Mint, Washington Post, Conde Nast Traveller, Foreign Policy, EnRoute and The National. He was a visiting fellow at the International Writing Programme at the University of Iowa in 2010 and at Akademie Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany in 2016. Poster

Dr. Rumpa Pal,
Assistant Professor,
Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences,
University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8571, Japan,
will deliver deliver a talk on the topics:
"X-ray charge density and chemical bonding analysis in molecular solids and metallic systems"

All are cordially invited to attend the seminar.
Date: 29-01-2019 Time: 4:00 p.m Venue: CLT-1
Department of Chemistry,
Presidency University, Kolkata 700073

Physics Weekly Colloquium on Jan 30, 2019 (Wednesday) at 2 PM
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Suprakash Roy, Science and Culture
Title - "Early years of X-ray Research in India: Contributions of J.C. Bose and Others "
Abstract- The history of X-ray research in India is as old as the discovery of X-rays. X-ray was discovered in 1895, and within about six months of the discovery Dr. Mahendralal Sircar procured an X-ray tube at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS). Within another two years, Jagadish Chandra Bose built an improved X-ray apparatus in Presidency College, Kolkata. The first application of X-rays for clinical purpose, although in private capacity, were done independently by Dr. Sircar and Sir J.C. Bose. While main focus of the present talk will be on the ingenuity of J.C. Bose in developing the instrument and X-ray photography, achievements of other scientists like C.V. Raman and others will also be mentioned to showcase the contributions which helped India secure a global position in X-ray research and to establish a good school of physics in X-ray crystallography. The history of early years of X-ray research in India is a stimulating story of the glorious achievements of our scientists at a time when research on modern science was still at its infancy in India.

Physics Weekly Colloquium on Jan 16th, 2019 (Wednesday) at 2: PM
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Dr. Susmita Adhikari, Stanford University
Title - "The boundaries of Dark Matter Halos "
Abstract- "Dark matter halos are endpoints of all cosmic structure formation. They harbor stars, galaxies and all the astrophysical objects that make up the universe. I will talk about the evolution and growth of dark matter halos with particular focus on my research which concerns studying the Splashback radius- the outer boundary of halos, to obtain knowledge about different models of Cosmology like LambdaCDM, modified gravity and the nature of dark matter . I will also talk about the different observational probes weuse to study the structure of dark matter halos and the current status of measurements in the Dark Energy Survey."

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE is organising a Seminar Talk by :
Mme. Virginie Corteval
CONSUL GENERAL OF FRANCE KOLKATA,
Theme of the Seminar Talk :
" Indo-French Relations"
Date : January 16th, 2019 Time : 2.40PM
Venue : Seminar Lecture Theater of Department of Political Science
ALL ARE WELCOME

Public Lecture
Title: Hyperbolic and Spherical Geometry on Surfaces
Speaker: Professor Athanase Papadopoulos, CNRS Research Professor,
IRMA, Université de Strasbourg, France
Date: 11th January, 2019
Timing: 3 PM
Venue: AJC Bose Auditorium, Main Building
Presidency University, Kolkata

S. N. Bose Memorial Lecture on the occasion of the 125th Birth Anniversary of Prof. S. N. Bose
Speaker: Prof. Rahul Pandit, J.C. Bose Fellow, IISc Bangalore
Title: The Grand Challenge of Turbulence
Chair: Prof. Jayanta Bhattacharjee
Date & Time: 9th January, 2019 (Wednesday) at 2:00 PM
Venue: Meghnad Saha Lecture Theatre (PLT 1), Department of Physics, Presidency University
Organized by Presidency University and S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences

Department of Life Sciences Presidency University, Kolkata
Presents
A Public Lecture by
Prof. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
(Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009)
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
On
January 22, 2019 at 10 AM
Venue: Derozio Hall, Presidency University

Physics Colloquium on 2nd January, 2019 (Wednesday) at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Dr Sobhan Kumar Sounda, Department of Physics, Presidency University
Title: E.C.G Sudarshan and his Optical Equivalence Theorem
ABSTRACT
E.C.G Sudarshan’s seminal work of 1963 founded the field of Quantum Theory of Optical Coherence. But several Physicists around the world were puzzled over the question of why the singular contribution has not been recognized or honored with Nobel Prize 2005. To a great surprise, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics in favor of Roy J Glauber “…..for his contribution to the Quantum Theory of Optical Coherence”. This is misleading. In this context a survey of Sudarshan’s work–the diagonal representation, optical equivalence theorem and Glauber’s work on optical coherence will be presented to show Sudarshan’s catalytic role in the advancement of non-classical optics.

Department of Statistics Presidency University, Kolkata
Presents
A One-Day meeting with
Department of Statistics
University of Connecticut-Storrs
On
December 20, 2018 at 2p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room,
Department of Statistics
All are cordially Invited
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Economics Department is organising a special lecture by Prof. Kajal Lahiri, University of Albany, SUNY on “How do households think of inflation? An Analysis of RBI Survey data on expectations, 2016-2018”. The lecture will be held at the Economics Lecture Theatre, on 26 December 2018 at 12.00 Noon.
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Physics Colloquium at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
(1) Date & Time: December 17th, 2018 (Monday) 11 AM
Speaker: Prof. Prajval Shastri, Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Title: Do Black Holes Inch Up the Mass Ladder?

(2) Date & Time: December 21st, 2018 (Friday), 3 PM
Speaker: Dr. Subhayan Mandal, National Institute of Technology, Jaipur
Title: Probing Pseudoscalars with Pulsar Polarisation Datasets

Abstract: Recently a data set containing linear and circular polarisation information of a collection of six hundred pulsars has been released. The operative radio wavelength for the same was 21 cm. Pulsars radio emission process is modelled either with synchrotron / superconducting self-Compton route or with curvature radiation route. These theories fall short of accounting for the circular polarisation observed, as they are predisposed towards producing, solely, linear polarisation. Here we invoke (pseudo)scalars and their interaction with photons mediated by colossal magnetic fields of pulsars, to account for the circular part of polarisation data. This enables us to estimate the pseudoscalar parameters such as its coupling to photons and its mass in conjunction as product. To obtain these values separately, we turn our attention to recent observation on 47 pulsars, whose absolute polarisation position angles have been made available. Except, a third of the latter set, the rest of it overlaps with the expansive former data set on polarisation type and degree. This helps us figure out, both the pseudoscalar parameters individually, that we report here.

One-day lecture series entitled,
‘Condensed Matter Hours’
organized by Physics Department
(Convener: Prof. Arunava Chakrabarti), Presidency University
at AJC Bose Auditorium on the 21st December, 2018, 10:30 am – 2:30 pm.

National Seminar on Negotiating Nature, Culture and the Future
28th February - 1st March, 2019
organised by Department of Geography,
Presidency University, 86/1, College Street, Kolkata - 700 073. West Bengal, India
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Econometrics Lecture Series
Spatial Analysis:
From the Big-bang to Pre-history to the Frontier of Spatial Econometrics
Prof. Anil Bera,
Economics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Anil K. Bera is an eminent econometrician, best known for developing a test of normal distribution in collaboration with Carlos Jarque. Prof. Bera is a post graduate from ISI Kolkata, and completed his doctoral research at Australian National University. He has published extensively and is named in the List of Teachers Rated as Excellent almost every semester he teaches. He received the Economics Graduate Students’ Organization (EGSO) Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching eight times since 1989, the College of Commerce Alumni Association Outstanding Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching in 1991 and Honorable Mention of the Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching in 2005.
Abstract
We will start with a bang, i.e., the big-bang. Then after a short prehistory we will begin at the beginning of spatial analysis, around mid-18th century. The introduction will be at a general level of epidemiology. Then we will slowly move to spatial statistics, spatial econometrics and finally to, spatial urban economics. We will touch on the contrast between time-series and spatial dependence, and the need for moving from linear to non-linear models; from fixed to space varying coefficient models. More specifically, in the context of urban econometrics, we will study the price of housing; we will argue that not only the spatial dependence of house prices, but also the dependence in the variability (risk) of prices need to be considered, leading to non-linear spatial autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic (SARCH) model. The major highlight of the talk will be how to test various spatial models, particularly, in the context of possible misspecifications.
Date and timings:
3 January 2018 (Thursday): 10.30 AM to 12.30 PM & 2.00 PM to 4.00 PM
4 January 2018 (Friday): 10.30 AM to 12.30 PM & 2.00 PM to 4.00 PM
5 January 2018 (Saturday): 10.30 AM to 12.30 PM
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Economics Department, Presidency University

All interested persons are requested to register for the lecture. They should send their names, designation, institutional affiliation, email id and contact number by email (mousumi.econ@presiuniv.ac.in or zakir.econ@presiuniv.ac.in) within December 20, 2018, and pay a registration fee of Rs.1500 by cash to Mr. Suraj Bera, Office of Head, Economics Department by December 26, 2018. More..

Department of Economics, Presidency University presents
A MINICOURSE ON EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS
by
Ananish Chaudhuri
Professor of Experimental Economics, & Head of the Economics Department,
University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand
Lecture 1: Why experiment in economics: The rise of experimental economics and its role in economics (including demonstration of some simple experiments) — Experimental Economics or Behavioural Economics: what is the difference? — Different roles played by experiments — Experiments designed to test theory; Experiments searching for facts; Experiments designed to inform policy — Criticisms of laboratory experiments in economics
Lecture 2: Fairness and Economics: The ultimatum game — Behavior in the ultimatum game: fairness or altruism? — Do norms of fairness differ across cultures? — What does a preference for fairness have to do with economics? Fairness as a constraint on profit-making
Lecture 3: Conflict and cooperation: Defining the problem — Looking for alternative explanations — Conditional cooperation and altruistic punishments — Punishments are sufficient but not necessary to sustain cooperation — Implications for economics and evolutionary theory — Concluding remarks

18 and 28 January 2019 (From 11.00 A.M. on both days),
Venue: Economics Lecture Theatre
All are welcome but prior registration vide email to zakir.econ@presiuniv.ac.in necessary
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Department of Economics, Presidency University
presents a special lecture on
WHY PEOPLE STAY POOR?
by
Maitreesh Ghatak
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, London School of Economics
Distinguished Alumnus, Presidency University (erstwhile, Presidency College)
(A joint work with Clare Balboni, Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, and Anton Heil)

Abstract This paper provides a test between the poverty trap and the economic fundamentals hypothesis using a unique large-scale randomised experiment that gave capital grants to poor individuals in rural Bangladesh. We find evidence that is consistent with there being a poverty trap. We identify a threshold level of initial capital needed for day labourers to take on a new and more remunerative occupational activity (livestock rearing). Individuals close to this threshold are pushed above it by the asset transfer and escape poverty whereas those further away fail to do this and fall back into poverty. We discuss the implications of our results for the design of anti-poverty policies to reach the extreme poor who live in risky environments.
18 December 2018 (11.00 am – 1.00 pm),
Venue: Economics Lecture Theatre
All are welcome.

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Celebration of the 125th Birth Anniversary of Prof. Meghnad Saha
A Public Lecture by
Prof. Arnab Rai Choudhuri
JC Bose Fellow, Indian Institute of Science
Title: HOW THE SAHA IONIZATION EQUATION WAS DISCOVERED
Nov 27th 2018
All are welcome

Life Science Colloquium
Date: 14 th November, Wednesday at 4-00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Ajit Bikram Datta, Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata
Research area: Structural biology and biophysics, Protein ubiquitination
Title: TBD
Venue: PC Mahalanobis Auditorium

22nd Chandan Kumar Bhattacharyya Memorial Lecture 2018 on 15th November 2018 at 3:30 PM
Invitation

The Department of Hindi , Presidency University cordially invites you to a special lecture on
“साहित्य,संस्कृति और अध्यात्म: अंतःसम्बंध/ Literature, Culture and Spirituality: Interrelation “
The Distinguished Speaker:
Eminent Hindi writer Dr. Krishna Bihari Mishra
( Awarded ‘PadamShree’ by the Hon’ble President of India )
Date-15/11/2018, Thursday, Time: 12.30 PM
Venue: Dr.Rajendra Prasad Sabhagar, Hindi Department,Presidency University
All are welcome

Physics colloquium
Speaker: Prof. Srubabati Goswami (Physical Research Laboratory)
Date: Nov. 14th, 2018, Wednesday. Time: 3.30 PM at Meghnad Saha Lecture Theater (erstwhile PLT-1)
Title : Neutrinos : The Nobel Connection
In this talk I will discuss the Nobel Prizes received in the field of neutrino physics and will trace the history of the neutrino and the emergence of neutrino oscillation as a solution to the solar and atmospheric neutrino problems through this. I will also mention some of the open problems in this field.

Performing Truth of Self and Relationships
What drives us? What do we desire most? What are our secrets? Whom do we love? How do we connect? Through various techniques of acting and improvisation drawn from varied performance practitioners and theorists from Konstantin Stanislavsky to Aileen Passloff, this workshop explores how we can deepen into truth of objectives, relationships and relationships in performance. More..

Physics Colloquium on 31st October 2018, Wednesday at 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Dr. Abhishake Sadhukhan (Presidency University)
Title: Dressing method for solutions on AdS_3 with Neveu Schwarz flux
Abstract: In this talk, I discuss how the "dressing method" can be applied to solutions on AdS_3 \times S^3 background with NS-NS flux to obtain other solutions that have already been studied from a stringy perspective in the literature.

Call for Papers: Nirmal Kanti Majumdar( NKM) Memorial Lecture and Seminar
28th January 2019
Department of Political Science , Presidency University, Kolkata
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Physics Weekly Colloquium on Wednesday 10th October, 2018 at 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Sumathi Rao (HRI)
Title : Topological phases of quantum matter
ABSTRACT: We will give a brief introduction to topology in condensed matter systems and explain the current excitement in the field of topological insulators and topological superconductors, starting from an explanation of the conductance quantisation in the integer quantum Hall effect. We will also give an introduction to emergent relativistic fermions - Dirac, Majorana and Weyl - in condensed matter systems and explain how the idea of topological protection gets extended to metallic systems. Finally, we will briefly mention some of our recent work in this field.

The Economics Department cordially invites you to attend a special lecture series on ‘The evolution of Homo Economicus’ by Dr. Parikshit Ghosh, Faculty, Delhi School of Economics. The lectures will be held from 3.00 P.M. to 5.00 PM from 29 October to 1 November 2018 at the Economics Lecture Theater.
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Physics Weekly Colloquium
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018 at 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Sukanta Chaudhuri
Title: WHAT TAGORE REALLY WROTE: THE TEXT BEHIND THE TEXT
Abstract: The works of Rabindranath Tagore present the most challenging textual scenario of any major writer in the world. He wrote voluminously in Bengali and English. Amazingly, he also revised his writings voluminously, sometimes over decades – perhaps changing a few words, perhaps virtually rewriting a work, even changing it from one genre or one language to another. The detailed study of these textual changes is not a dry bookish exercise: it is a close encounter with the working of his creative genius. The online Tagore variorum Bichitra (url: http://bichitra. jdvu.ac.in) attempts to document and analyse this textual treasure-house. Sukanta Chaudhuri, Chief Co-Ordinator of Bichitra and editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore, will talk about Tagore’s text and its incorporation in the website.

Indian National Science Academy Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal (Animal Sciences) Lecture - 2018
Prof. Partha P Majumder

Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Distinguished Professor and Founder Director National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani
“Riding the Genomics Wave to Reach New Depths of Human Health and History”
Date: 27th September, 2018; Time: 12:00 Noon
Venue: PC Mahalanobis Auditorium,
Presidency University, Kolkata
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Life Science Colloquium
Date: 26th September, Wednesday at 3-00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Smarajit Polley, Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Kolkata
Title: Yin and Yang ofIKK Signaling: Targeting Beyond the Active Site to Tame NF-kappaB
Venue: PC Mahalanobis Auditorium

Department of Political Science, Presidency University
welcomes you to a talk by
DR. JIGME YESHE LAMA
(Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Calcutta University)
on
Tibet as the Postcolonial Factor in India-China Relations
Wednesday, 19th September 2018
Time: 3.30 pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Department of Political Science

Physics Weekly Colloquium
19th September, 2018 (Wednesday) at 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Supratik Pal, ISI Kolkata
Title: Lambda or not too Lambda?
Abstract:Several cosmological observations more or less confirm that our Universe is expanding at an accelerated rate in recent times. The cosmic constituent responsible for this acceleration, generically known as dark energy, contributes to around 70% of the cosmic budget today. Although there are several theoretically motivated candidates for dark energy, its exact nature is still a mystery to us. With recent data we can be more or less happy with a minimal description of our Universe – the so-called Lambda-CDM model, where the term CDM stands for Cold Dark Matter and Lambda is the Cosmological Constant – the simplest possible dark energy candidate. In this colloquium, I will try to give a broad overview of the theoretical and observations aspects of dark energy. Specifically, I will try to answer to the following questions: (i) how do we describe different dark energy models in a common language called parametrization; (ii) how do we extract meaningful information about dark energy from different observations; and (iii) what is our understanding of different dark energy models so far? Towards the end, I will discuss certain disturbing issues involving the minimal Lambda-CDM model based on present observations, and try to search for possible reasons behind it. As I said, I will keep my talk at a broad overview level with no specific conclusion as such.

Physics Weekly Colloquium
12th September, 2018 (Wednesday) at 1:20 PM
Speaker : Dr. Nandan Pakhira, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol
Title : Electronic structure of metallic tetra-boride TmB4 : An LDA+DMFT study
Abstract : Recent experimental observations of magnetization plateau in metallic tetra-boride TmB4 have created a lot of interest in rare earth tetra-borides. Hysteretic longitudinal resistance and anomalous Hall Effect are other remarkable features in the rare-earth tetra-borides which represent experimental realizations of Archimedean Shastry-Sutherland (SSL) lattice. Electronic band structures, calculated under generalised gradient approximation (GGA), show that TmB4 is a narrow band system with considerable correlation in its f-level. In this talk I will address strong correlation effects in this system, studied under single-site dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) [LDA+DMFT scheme] approximation using multi-orbital generalization of iterated perturbation theory (MO-IPT). Interestingly the spectral function shows pseudo-gap like behaviour while the self-energy shows non-Fermi liquid behaviour. This arises due to non-trivial strong correlation effects present in this geometrically frustrated metallic magnets. We also consider the extant, heather-to-neglected, strong atomic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effects present in this system. While there is a significant change in the topology of the Fermi surface in the presence of SOC, the non-Fermi liquid behaviour in self-energy survives. Finally we argue that the system can be modelled by an effective two orbital Falicov-Kimball model together with two free band like states. The talk is aimed to general audience who would like to know about strong correlation effects in real materials and technical details will be avoided in most part of the talk.

Physics Weekly Colloquium
September 5th, 2018 at 2 PM. Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Pradip Mukherjee, Barasat Govt. College
Title of the talk: Galilean gauge theory
Abstract: Galilean gauge theory is concerned with an algorithm to couple non relativistic field theories with curved space time. I will try to explain the method and indicate its important applications.

Physics Weekly Colloquium on August 29th, 2018 at 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Soumitra Sengupta,Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Title: Looking back at Newtonian Paradigm

"Workshop on 'The Everyday as Performance’ from 28th to 30th August,2018
by Amitesh Grover, Faculty, National School Of Drama, New Delhi
Organized by the Department of Performing Arts, Presidency University
Amitesh Grover is faculty in the National School Of Drama and performance-based artist in New Delhi, India. He creates work across art disciplines to produce performances, texts, objects, images, installations, and films.
Where do the limits of everyday life and performance intersect? How can performance make sense of, and intervene in the everyday? This workshop introduces how artists create performances out of their own experiences, using the lived everyday as primary inspiration. Exercises conducted explore ideas of performance as research, immersion, embedded-ness, and engaging public and the city through art. The workshop finally mobilises ideas about how the event’s experience takes shape as an archive.
28th August,2018: Inaugural talk 11 a.m – 1p.m
Venue : A.K Basak Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME !
29th August,2018 : Workshop with Students
30th August,2018 : Workshop with Students"

Life Science Colloquium
Date: 29th August, Wednesday at 3-00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Pralay Mitra, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Title: Computational protein design and its applications
Venue: PC Mahalanobis Auditorium

Semiparametric Regression Analysis
by Dr. Dhiman Bhadra on 3rd & 4th September 2018
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Special Lectures in Macroeconomics
by Prof. Niloy Bose on 6th September 2018 More..

The Department of Hindi cordially invites you to the Premchand Interdisciplinary Lecture Series-21 .
Professor Swapan K Chakraborty
,
Distinguished Professor in the Humanities (Literary & Cultural studies ) Presidency University
will deliver a lecture on
’ Nature, Archeology & Literature : Few instances’
on Wednesday 29th August,2018 at 3 P.m. at Dr.Rajendra Prasad Sabhagar, Hindi Department,Presidency University,Kolkata.
All are Welcome.

SPECIAL LECTURE SERIES, 2018, ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT, PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY
Dr. Sourav Bhattacharya
Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London
will deliver special lectures on
“The simple economics of violent conflict”
13th August – 16th August 2018
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Physics Weekly Colloquium on August 8th, 2018 at 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Dr. Abhishek Majhi, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Title: Black hole entropy from the first principles revisited
Abstract: Perhaps one of the most intriguing features of Einstein's theory of general relativity is the prediction of black holes, which can only grow or remain in equilibrium. However, if we quantize matter, then the theory predicts that a black hole emits thermal radiation and behaves like a thermodynamic system possessing an entropy given by one fourth of its area in Planck units (\ell_P^2=G\hbar/c^3). This fact necessitates the need of a quantum theory of black hole providing the description of microstates that can lead to a derivation of the entropy from the first principles. One such theory, providing the description for microstates of black holes, is Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). In LQG, one quantizes general relativity in the canonical approach. Unfortunately, the derivation of the entropy in the LQG framework is plagued with a fine tuning problem of a free parameter of the theory. I shall discuss about a possible way to tackle this problem.

Harendralal Basak Memorial Lecture 2018 on 13th August, 2018

Department of Hindi Presidency University, Kolkata
invites you to Premchand interdisciplinary lecture series-20.
Hindi writer Ashok Kumar Pandey will deliver a lecture on ' Kashmirnama' on 1st August,2018 at 2 PM.
Venue: Rajendra Prasad Sabhagar, Hindi department, Presidency University.
All are welcome.

Departmental Seminar will be held on 3 August 2018 at 4:00 pm
Subject
BANGALIR SMRITI
Speaker
Anirban Chattopadhyay Rushati Sen Biswajit Roy

Professor Swapan Chakroborti
Venue
AJC BOSE Hall, PU
Organized By
Department of Bengali, Presidency University & Deys Publishing
All are welcome Invitation

Physics Colloquium at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
30th July, 2018 (Monday) 2 PM: Speaker: Dr. Rajibul Islam, University of Waterloo
Title: Simulating the quantum world with trapped ions
Can physics be simulated by a universal computer? Classical physics, maybe; but what about quantum physics? Feynman's suggestion to build a computer out of quantum mechanical elements is now an active area of experimental research. While a large scale quantum computer is perhaps not practical for a long time to come, quantum simulators that can simulate a range of non-trivial quantum problems are already a reality. In this talk, I will describe quantum simulation based on laser-cooled trapped ions. Trapped ions are among the most well-controlled quantum systems and are an ideal platform for simulating a wide range of non-trivial spin Hamiltonians, such as frustrated spin models, with the ability to directly image the spin states of individual ions.

1st August, 2018 (Wednesday) 2 PM: Speaker: Prof. Surajit Sengupta, TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences
Title: Rigidity of solids: a thermodynamic origin story
Abstract:
School textbooks tell us that the main difference between a solid and a liquid is the ability of the former to retain its shape. Any attempt at changing the shape of a solid is resisted by an internal elastic stress unless the deformation crosses a limiting value; at which point the solid fails. This naive viewpoint, although of great practical value, is, however, fundamentally incorrect. For example, one can argue that given enough time, atoms in the solid can always rearrange to eliminate stress no matter how much, or how little, the solid is deformed. Resolution of this paradoxical result lies at the core of our understanding of the behavior of solids under deformation.
Adapting ideas which were introduced recently to study glasses, we find that rigidity arises a result of a hidden first-order phase transition between phases which differ in the way they respond to changes of shape [1]. When deformed by any amount, howsoever small, the rigid solid goes into a meta-stable state analogous to superheated water. Eventually, this meta-stable state always decays by nucleating bubbles of the stable, stress-free, solid by a process very similar to how bubbles of steam appear in a kettle of boiling water. This fresh conceptual viewpoint curiously allows us to study failure of perfect crystalline solids in quantitative detail without invoking specifics of many-body, defect–defect interactions, raising hope of a more unified description of materials in the future.
[1] Nath et al. PNAS 115 E4322-E4329 (2018)

A series of lectures will be delivered on "Performance Measurement Techniques" by Dr. Simanti Bandyopadhyay, Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Public Policy, School of Management and Entrepreneurship, Shiv Nadar University on 30th, 31st July and 1st & 2nd August 2018 from 11 a.m. onwards in the Economics Department of Presidency University. The lectures will cover the following topics:
▪ The Theoretical Construct: Efficiency of a Decision Making Unit
▪ Different Classes of Models to Estimate efficiency empirically: An Overview
▪ Non Parametric Data Envelopment Analysis
▪ Parametric Econometric Models: The Evolution
All are welcome

Department of Life Sciences will host a lecture by Prof. Dr. Sreeparna Banerjee from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey on this Wednesday, 25th July at 4-00 pm. Title: Inflammation and colorectal cancer
Venue: Departmental conference room

Physics Colloquium on three consecutive days: 23rd, 24th and 25th July, 2018
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics
23rd July, 2018 (Monday) at 2 PM
Speaker: Dr. Sambaran Banerjee (University of Bonn)
Title: “Black holes in star clusters and their implications for gravitational-wave generation"

Abstract: Black holes in densely packed ensembles of stars such as globular clusters and massive open clusters has always drawn attention due to their potential in giving rise to a number of high-energy astrophysical phenomena. At present, the interest has rejuvenated since the first direct detection of gravitational waves from a merging pair of black holes by the Advanced LIGO detector. Such “stellar-mass” black holes form due to the collapse of massive stars after their nuclear fuel has exhausted and a fraction of them remain trapped in the stellar cluster by the latter's deep gravitational potential. In this talk, I will introduce the dynamical behaviour of such a trapped and densely packed system of black holes; in particular, how it acts as an “engine” for generating binary black holes capable of merging via in-spiral and associated gravitational-wave radiation, that can be detected by the LIGO-Virgo and the LISA detectors. In this context, I shall discuss the typicalities of the binary black hole sources that can be detected by these detectors.

24th July, 2018 (Tuesday) at 11 AM
Speaker: Dr. Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya (Lawrence Technological University)
Title: "Can flavor phenomenology provide a window into new physics?"
Abstract: The Standard Model of particle physics provides a robust but incomplete picture of the universe of particles. Experiments worldwide are looking for signals of new particles and interactions that will provide a more complete picture of our universe. Flavor phenomenology provides a unique window into high-energy new physics. New interactions can significantly modify rare low-energy phenomena through quantum effects. The study of these modifications can then reveal the nature of these new interactions. In this talk, I will draw your attention to some recent low-energy studies that can potentially lead us to a deeper understanding of nature at very small length scales.

25th July, 2018 (Wednesday) at 2 PM
Speaker: Prof. Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur University)
Title: "Thinking the Crisis: the Humanities and the Public University"

The humanities and the public university today are alike in crisis. The future of both is imperilled, their survival in doubt. But the crisis of higher education as a whole is larger than that of the humanities disciplines. Should we then abandon the humanities in order to preserve scientific and technological education in the larger public interest? I would like to argue that the function of the humanities within the public university is to enable us to think critically, to think in times of danger, or to think the crisis, returning to the root meaning of the Greek word. I will look back at Immanuel Kant’s three essays on The Conflict of the Faculties to interrogate, not only the meaning and function of the humanities, but also the university space within which disciplines are formed, hierarchies instituted, and futures risked. I will focus particularly on the fate of the public university in India today, in the context of higher education policy.

Department of Physics
Lectures on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics on July 20, 2018 (Friday), 11 AM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Surajit Sen, State University of New York, Buffalo.

Physics Colloquium on 27th June at 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre.
Speaker: Dr. Anirban Bhattacharjee, Sul Ross State University
Title: How Massive Are the Biggest Black Holes in the Universe?
Abstract:
Black hole growth plays a key part in galaxy formation and evolution as evidenced by observed correlations between central black hole parameters (e.g., mass) and galaxy-scale parameters (e.g., stellar velocity dispersion). Accurate measurements of the black hole mass are therefore required to better understand and characterize these relationships. Reverberation Mapping is a technique that is used to measure the size scale of broad line emitting gas in these systems. This size scale in conjunction with the Doppler width of the emission-line gives us black hole mass. My talk will focus on Reverberation Mapping as technique in comparison with other methods and it’s importance. I will also talk about biases and drawbacks involved in measuring the black hole mass through this technique and why measuring masses of radio-loud systems will allow us a better understanding one of these biases.

Department of Philosophy Presidency University Kolkata
Invites you to a talk on
Philosophy, Humanities and Political
By
Franson D. Manjali
Professor, Centre for Linguistics, School of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Date- 22nd June, 2018(Friday)
Time- 11.30 AM
Venue- Seminar Room, Department of Philosophy, Netaji Subash Building, Presidency University, Kolkata

The NSS Cell of Presidency University is organizing yoga sessions on the 21st June, 2018 (Thursday) on the occasion of International Yoga Day.

Department of Geology cordially invites you to a Special Lecture
on
“Kinematic analysis of deformed rocks lacking visible fabric elements – integrating AMS and EBSD data”
Speaker: Prof. Manish Mamtani, Dept. of Geology, IIT, Kharagpur
Date and Time: 6th June, 2018 at 11:30 AM
Venue: Department of Geology, Presidency University, Kolkata

Physics colloquium on June 7th at 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Nishikant Khandai (NISER)
Title: Mass and Luminosity Functions
Abstract:

One of the basic questions one wishes to address when studying Structure Formation in the Universe is "Can we predict the distribution of objects in the Universe?". These objects can mean various quantities, e.g. dark matter halos, galaxies, quasars etc. And to each of these objects we can ascribe a property of interest, e.g. mass, circular velocity or velocity dispersion, broad-band luminosity, line-flux, just to name a few. In this talk we will discuss these quantities which are known as mass functions and luminosity functions and look at theoretical advances in predicting these quantities and relating them to observations. This will be done with the aid of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. In the end we will discuss our current effort in understanding the population of low-redshift HI-rich galaxies.

Life Science Colloquium
Date: 18th April, Wednesday at 4-00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Amit Pal, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata
Title: Role of microbial proteases in pathogenesis and tumor regression
Venue: PC Mahlanobis Auditorium

Physics weekly colloquium
Wednesday 18th April, 2018 at 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Special Celebration of the 150th Colloquium.
Speaker: Dr Suchetana Chatterjee, Department of Physics, Presidency University

Physics Weekly Colloquium on April 11th, 2018 at 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Swapan Chakravorty, Presidency University
Title: Literature, History and Knowledge

Life Science Colloquium
Date: 4th April, Wednesday at 4-00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Chandrima Das, Biophysics and Structural Genomics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Title: Reprogramming the Epigenomic Landscape by the Histone “Readers”: Insights on their Role as Breast Cancer Suppressors
Venue: PC Mahlanobis Auditorium

Physics Weekly Colloquium
April 4th 2018 (Wednesday) at 3 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta (IACS)
Title: Electrons in Complex Materials: from Theory to Practice

Three Day National Seminar will be held on 2-4 April 2018 at AJC Bose Hall in collaboration with North East India Company (Silchar, Assam)
Subject
“The Epic of the Moment: Exploring the Narrative Cultures of the Mahābhārata”
Speaker
Dr. Goutam Bhadra, Dr. Pradip Kumar Basu, Dr. Samim Ahmed, Dr. Anirban Bhattacharjee, Dr. Prabal Kumar Sen, Dr. Gangadhar Nayacharyay, Dr. Dhrubajyoti Sarkar, Dr. Arjun Choudhury, Dr. Sumit Chakraborti, Dr. satyabrata Pahari, Dr. Debaditya Mukhopadhyay, Dr. Pinak Sankar Bhattacharyay, Dr. Abhijit Roy, Dr. Pinaki Roy, Dr. Shankha Bandopadhyay, Dr. mafiz Uddin
Time
02/04/2018 at 03:00 pm to 5 pm
03/04/2018 at 10:30 to 05:00 pm
04/04/2018 at 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Venue
AJC Bose Hall, Presidency University, Kolkata
Organized by
Department of Bengali, Presidency University
Registration
10:00 am to 11 :30 am on 03/04/2018

All are well come More

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE is organising a Seminar Talk by :
MR. DAMIEN SYED
CONSUL GENERAL OF FRANCE KOLKATA,
Theme of the Seminar Talk :
FRANCE AND INDIA : A PARTNERSHIP OF HEART
Date : April 9th, 2018
Time : 2.40PM -3.30PM
Venue : Seminar Lecture Theater of Department of Political Science
ALL ARE WELCOME

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE is organising a seminar talk by :
MR. TAGA MASAYUKI
CONSUL GENERAL OF JAPAN, KOLKATA
Theme of the Seminar Talk :
INDO-JAPAN RELATIONS IN A FREE AND OPEN INDO-PACIFIC
DATE : April 10th, 2018
Time : 2.40 PM -3.30 PM
VENUE : Seminar Lecture Theater of Department of Political Science
ALL ARE WELCOME

Departmental Seminar will be held on 28 March 2018 at 2:30 pm
Subject
BHABABHUTIR UTTAR RAMCHARIT : BANGALIR SANSKRITA SAHITYA PARA
Speaker
Date & Time
28 March 2018, 02:30 pm
Venue
Dr. P C Mahalanabis Hall
Organized By
Department of Bengali, Presidency University
All are welcome

Physics Weekly Colloquium
March 28th (Wednesday) at 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Shanta Dutta (Presidency University)
Title: The Stellar Universe and the Mind of Man
Abstract: My talk will try to explore how the human mind has responded to the glorious spectacle of the heavenly bodies – going beyond the initial sense of awe and wonder in an attempt to fathom their deepest secrets. I will focus more specifically on English literature of the nineteenth century to show how the stars feature both as image and symbol, how they stand both for permanence and perishability, and how new discoveries about our stellar universe impact the creative imagination of writers and artists.

Dr. Zakir Husain of IIT Kharagpur will deliver deliver a series of lectures on Endogeneity: Some Practical Issues on 22nd (1.50 - 4 pm) and 23rd March (10.50 - 2.30 pm). Post graduate students with basic knowledge of econometrics and has interest in Instrumentation may join the lectures.

Departmental seminar will be held on occasion of World Poetry Day, 21 March 2018
Subject
Amar Rastra : Amar Kabita
Speaker
Subodh Sarkar
Venue : AJC Bose Hall, PU
Date and Time : 21 March, 2018, 12.30 pm
Organized by : Department of Bengali, Presidency University
All are cordially invited

प्रेसिडेंसी विश्वविद्यालय,कोलकाता हिन्दी विभाग तथा विजया बैंक, क्षेत्रीय कार्यालय, कोलकाता के संयुक्त तत्वावधान में
अलका सरावगी के नए उपन्यास
“एक सच्ची-झूठी गाथा”
पर सच्ची चर्चा
20 मार्च 2018, 11 बजे से 5 बजे तक
आचार्य जगदीश चंद्र बोस सभागार प्रेसिडेंसी विश्वविद्यालय,कोलकाता
हिंदी विभाग आपका हार्दिक स्वागत करता है

Life Science Colloquium
Date: 21st March, Wednesday at 4-00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Rupak Datta, Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Kolkata Title: Pleiotropic Role of Carbonic Anhydrases in Intracellular Growth and Survival of Leishmania Venue: PC Mahlanobis Auditorium

Physics Weekly Colloquium on March 21st, 2018 ( a tribute to Stephen Hawking)
2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Parthasarathi Majumdar (Ramkrishna Mission Vivekananda University)
Title : Quantizing gravity : aesthetics or compulsion?
Abstract : Starting with Einstein's Light Quantum Hypothesis, followed by a very brief review of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), we present arguments to show that that classical Maxwell Electrodynamics is only an approximation to QED. Then we introduce the basic geometrical ideas of special and general relativity (without any mathematical details) and explain how spacetime in general relativity must be dynamical. In analogy with Einstein's critique of Maxwell equations in a world where electric charge is quantized, we focus on the lacunae of general relativity in a universe which began with the so-called Big Bang and which has black holes in it. We discuss one way of quantizing gravity (known as Loop Quantum Gravity) which addresses successfully the issue of black hole entropy and has the potential to resolve the Information Loss Paradox associated with Hawking radiation from black holes.

प्रेसीडेंसी विश्वविद्यालय हिन्दी विभाग
प्रो.जगदीश्वर चतुर्वेदी ने जवाहरलाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय, नई दिल्ली से हिन्दी में एम.ए,एम.फि‍ल्, पी.एच.डी. की। सन् 1984-85 में जवाहरलाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय छात्रसंघ के अध्‍यक्ष बने और सन् 1989 में हिन्दी वि‍भाग,कलकत्ता विश्वविद्यालय में प्रवक्ता पद पर नि‍युक्त हुए। बाद में प्रोफेसर पद पर रहते हुए यही से 2016 में अवकाश ग्रहण किया |
विशेष व्याख्यान
विषय:राष्ट्रवाद
स्थान:डॉ राजेंद्र प्रसाद सभागार,
हिन्दी विभाग
दिनांक:14 मार्च 2018
समय: 1 बजे दिन

आप सभी आमंत्रित हैं|

Department of History, Presidency University,Kolkata
cordially invites you to a One Day National Conference
On
"Archaeology, Heritage and Religion in South Asia"
Date: Wednesday, 14th March 2018
Time: 10 am
Venue: AJC Bose Auditorium, Presidency Univeristy
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प्रेसीडेंसी विश्वविद्यालय हिन्दी विभाग
प्रो.जगदीश्वर चतुर्वेदी ने जवाहरलाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय, नई दिल्ली से हिन्दी में एम.ए,एम.फि‍ल्, पी.एच.डी. की। सन् 1984-85 में जवाहरलाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय छात्रसंघ के अध्‍यक्ष बने और सन् 1989 में हिन्दी वि‍भाग,कलकत्ता विश्वविद्यालय में प्रवक्ता पद पर नि‍युक्त हुए। बाद में प्रोफेसर पद पर रहते हुए यही से 2016 में अवकाश ग्रहण किया |
विशेष व्याख्यान
विषय:स्त्रीवाद
स्थान:डॉ राजेंद्र प्रसाद सभागार,
हिन्दी विभाग
दिनांक:13 मार्च 2018
समय: 2 बजे दिन

आप सभी आमंत्रित हैं|

This is to cordially invite you all to a seminar to be held at the Department of Chemistry on 13th March 2018. Please check below for the details about time, location, speakers and topics.

1) Lecture by Professor Susan Richardson, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina
Date & Time: 13th March, 2 - 3 p.m.
Location: CLT-1, Derozio Building, Department of Chemistry, PU
Title: What’s in my drinking water? Revealing the chemicals we cannot see.
Date & Time: 13th March, 3 - 4 p.m.
Location: CLT-1, Derozio Building, Department of Chemistry, PU
Title: Development of Potential Strategies from Simple Ideas

Abstract: New strategies with potential applications can be developed from our existing ideas and perceptions simply looking at the things from different angles with an open mind. In this talk, I will share some of such endeavors from our research group, without going into the details.
It is a common and accepted understanding that an ionic molecular probe is unable to sense ions of similar charge characteristics due to the electrostatic repulsion disallowing any hand-shaking between the two interacting partners. However, with the experience from the society and realizing the beneficial role of a “BROKER” in certain fields, we have been successful to overcome this limitation. To the best of our knowledge this is the first example of this sort. Simply through modifying the environment by introducing some selected surfactants as brokers we have been able to detect and estimate Cu2+ by the cationic fluorophore, phenosafranin.
Ratiometric absorbance of two bands of a pH sensitive probe has enabled us to detect and estimate the deadly toxic cyanide ion down to micromolar level of concentration by exploiting the school level basic chemistry knowledge of hydrolysis of cyanide salt that leads to an appreciable change in the solution pH.
In recent times, medicine has been an integral part of mankind for their healthy (!) survival. With intake of drugs, we are also inviting some ancillary effects and the situation becomes worse day by day due to the ever-increasing health hazards caused by pollution, unhealthy lifestyle and so forth. This problem may be tackled from two angles: (i) delivering the drug or pharmaceutics effectively to the site of interest through proper and efficient delivery systems (ii) excreting the excess drugs adsorbed on the cell membranes occasionally through some biocompatible methods, similar to the way we clean our dirty cloths. We have developed chemical systems composing of self-organized assemblies for the delivery of drugs to the target by means of both endogenous and exogenous activation. Excretion of probes from model membrane as well as from live cell membrane has also been demonstrated by our group exploiting the simple concept of competitive binding of probes between the two competing hosts.
An easy and useful strategy has been developed for the specific synthesis of gold nanoparticles of desired dimension, the instrument required for the size determination being a spectrophotometer only.
Thus, it is very much possible to engender imperative strategies simply from the logical extension of simple and familiar ideas.

Physics Weekly Colloquium
March 14th, 2018 (Wednesday) at 3 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Dr. Sumanta Chakraborty (IACS)
Title: A tale of two cities: Gravity and Thermodynamics
Abstract: The blackboard talk will be divided into two parts. In the first part of my talk I will discuss the action principle for classical mechanics as well as field theories and various complications thereof. Finally I will discuss how one may construct an well-posed variational principle in general relativity.
In the second part of my talk, I will discuss the thermodynamics of null surfaces. In particular I will demonstrate how various projections of Einstein's equations lead to thermodynamic identities. I will also try to point out some bizarre consequences that the above approach faces when quantum theory is brought into the picture.

Presidency University Cordially invites you to a lecture by Dr. Barbara Pauly, director of HFSP programs on Monday, March 12th.
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Department of Political Science
Presidency University
Kolkata
cordially invites you to a talk by
Achyut Chetan
(Assistant Professor, Department of English,

Sido Kanhu Murmu University, Dumka)
on
Feminist Visions for a Constitutional Democracy:
Women’s Contribution to the Framing of the Constitution of India
Date: Wednesday, 7th March 2018
Time: 2.40 p.m.
Venue: Political Science Seminar Room
ALL ARE WELCOME
Bio Note Abstract

Physics Weekly Colloquium at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
7th March, 2018 (Wednesday) at 2:00 PM
Speaker: Prof. Debnarayan Jana
Department of Physics
University of Calcutta
Title: Dimensional Analysis and Renormalization
In this pedagogical talk, we would like to discuss the connection of dimensional analysis with renormalization- a well known technique used in field theory and condensed matter system. Scaling arguments along with dimensional analysis form indeed a powerful tool in physics to solve several interesting problems. Introducing some uncommon application of dimensional analysis, method of renormalization will be demonstrated through two undergraduate (postgraduate) problems - one from electrostatics and another from quantum mechanics. In this connection, the simplicity and elegance of dimensional regularization will be highlighted. Finally, another two systems from condensed matter physics- relativistic charged scalar field in a magnetic field and Ising spin systems will be considered for the applications of renormalization methods. As a brief comment, we will point out the implications of anomalous dimension appearing in continuous phase transition. We hope these problems suitably chosen will indicate the connection between theories at different length scales.

The Entrepreneurship Development Workshop jointly organized by the Economics Department and Presidency University Young Entrepreneurs Society will be held on 8 & 9 March, 2018.
All are welcome to this event.
Brochure

Department of Mathematics is organizing "An Outreach Programme in Mathematics for BSc students", aimed for advanced BSc students (second & third year) studying Mathematics on 5th March 2018. There will be lectures by some experts from Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata and a quiz competition with cash prizes for the students. Further details and schedule of this programme can be found at:
https://mathpresidency.wixsite.com/outreach
For enrollment please contact the secretary at +91 8906130413 or fill in the online form in the above webpage. A registration fee of Rs. 50/- per participant will be collected at the event. Arrangements for lunch have been for the participants.

Department of Political Science
Presidency University, Kolkata
invites you to a talk by
Professor Jeta Sankrityayana (Sikkim Central University)
on
Development Failures and Origins of Sociopolitical Movements in the Darjeeling Hills
3.00pm, 26th February 2018 (Monday)
Departmental Seminar room, Political Science Department,
Presidency University.
(ALL ARE WELCOME)

Rhythm Workshop by Pandit Parimal Chakraborty on 26th & 27th February 2018 from 12:00 Noon to 4:00 PM at Black Box Theatre, Perforing Arts.

Presidency University and Indian Statistical Institute are jointly organizing a conference on the Frontiers of Statistical Physics during Feb 26-28 as a part of the 125th birth anniversary celebration of Prof. P. C. Mahalanobis.

The Venue of the Seminar has been shifted to Acharyya Jagadis Chandra Bose Auditorium, Ground Floor, Main Building on 09.03.2018 (Friday). The Registration will start at 10:00 a.m. on 09.03.2018 (Friday) in front of the Auditorium. One day seminar on some recent issues in survey sampling organized by department of statistics ,Presidency University, Kolkata in association with Indian Association for Productivity, Quality and Realibility on 9th march 2018 More

Department of Political Science, presidency university
invites all to a Talk
by
Prof. Takenori Horimoto
Kyoto University
on
Japan-India Relations in the age of the
Indo-Pacific: Beyond Complementarity.
Time: 3.30 pm
Venue: Departmental Seminar Room
Date: 21st February 2018, Wednesday

A departmental seminar will be held on 21/02/2018 at 03:00 pm to celebrate the 21 February 2018 (Matri Bhasa Dibas).
Subject Rabindranath O Tar Chikitsa Bigyan Jagat
Speaker Dr. Sankar Nath
( Ex. Prof. Calcutta Medical College, Kolkata)
Place
Jibanananda Sabha Kaksh (Bengali Departmental Seminar Room)
Invitation Card

Life Science Colloquium
Date: 21st February, Wednesday at 4-00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Sandip Kar, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Title: Controlling Cellular Proliferation By Adjusting microRNA Dynamics
Venue: PC Mahlanobis Auditorium

Department of Hindi,Presidency University, kolkata cordially invites you to Panini lecture series on International Mother Tongue Day . Renowned Linguist Prof.Udaya Narayana Singh will deliver three Public lectures on “Dialects speak: Save me my mother!/ “बोलती बोलियाँ:माँ बचाओ ख़तरों से” on 21st February 2018.
Topics includes :
1. “Mother, why don't you teach me? "
2. "The curse of Dialects".
3. "The nature of danger".
Lectures ( one hour each) will begin from 11 am .
Venue: A K Basak Auditorium, Presidency University ,Kolkata
All are welcome.

SPECIAL LECTURE on A Monetary Business Cycle Model for India by Chetan Ghate, Professor, Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Venue: Economics Seminar Room, Economics Department, Presidency University.
Date: 27th February 2018, 11 a.m. More..

Department of Mathematics is organizing a special series of lectures by three eminent mathematicians on 17th and 19th February 2018. The speakers of this event are Prof. Mahan Mj from TIFR Mumbai, Prof. Debashish Goswami from ISI Kolkata and Prof. Rana Barua from ISI Kolkata. Scheule

Special Lectures on Condensed Matter Physics
15th Feb. 2018 (Thursday) at 2:00 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker:Prof. Rajdeep Sensarma (TIFR)
Title: The Wonderful World of Ultracold Atoms
Ultracold Atoms have emerged in recent years as a novel platform to simulated quantum many body physics, both in thermal equilibrium and out of it. In this talk I will describe how these systems implement interesting many body Hamiltonians and how one can control the parameters of these Hamiltonians in these systems. I will then show a range of interesting physics that has been obtained using this novel platform.

The department of Economics, Presidency University, is organizing a two day workshop on Environment and Resource Economics on 26th and 27th February 2018. All interested students and researchers across different disciplines are requested to send their registration request to Mr. Pravesh Tamang at pravesh.econ@presiuniv.ac.in by 20th February 2018.
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Physics Weekly Colloquium
Wednesday 14th February 2018 at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Manjari Bagchi, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Title: Exotic pairs of stellar undeads: binary radio pulsars with compact companions.
Abstract: Binary radio pulsars with white-dwarf or other neutron stars or black holes as companions serve as excellent laboratories to test various aspects of basic physics. In this talk, I will explain how orbital and stellar properties (classical and general relativistic) of pulsars, can be probed by timing stable pulsars for long enough time. I will emphasize the prospects of putting more stringent constraints on alternative theories of gravity with the help of pulsar - black hole binaries (to be discovered). I will also discuss the prospect of constraining dense matter equation of state by timing neutron star-neutron star binaries. Finally, I will give a brief update on Indian efforts to detect nano-Hz gravitational waves by timing an ensemble of stable pulsars.

National Conference on Archaeology, Heritage and Religion in South Asia
Wednesday, 14 March 2018
Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata
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Oikos - The Presidency University Economics Society along with the Economics Department is organising the second edition of Arthatantra on 16th and 17th February, 2018. The event comprises of Keynote Lectures by Arvind Subramanian (Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India) on 16th February, 2018 and Andreas Bauer (IMF Senior Resident Representative for India, Nepal, and Bhutan) on 17th February, 2018.
In addition to these two lectures there will be a panel discussion on "How the prospective progress on emerging technologies will affect out developing economy" with the eminent panellists including Dr. Avik Sarkar, Head, Data Analytics Cell at NITI Aayog, Govt. of India; Dr. Sougata Ray, Professor of Strategic Management, IIM Calcutta etc. The Event also comprises of 5 student competitions namely, Hypothesize (Paper Presentation), Neo-Quizzical (Quiz), Mr. Keynes and the Classics (Debate), The Good, The Bad and the Giffen (Strategy Game) and Beat the Market (Mock Stock).
Programme

Department of Hindi,Presidency University, kolkata cordially invites you to Panini lecture series . Renowned Grammarian Prof.V.D. Hegde will deliver three Public lectures on “ भारत में भाषा और व्याकरण चिंतन / Thoughts on language & Grammar in India “ on 6th February 2018.
Topics includes :
1- Language & Grammar: interrelation
2- Tradition of Grammar in India
3- Hindi Language & Grammar: Problems in study
Lectures ( one hour each) will begin from 11 am .
Venue: AJC Auditorium, Presidency University ,Kolkata
All are welcome.

Department of Political Science,Presidency University, Kolkata
Conference on
DALIT LITERATURE IN BENGAL
7th February 2018 Schedule Invitation

Physics Weekly Colloquium
7th February 2018, Wednesday, at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Bikash Chakrabarti, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Title: Econophysics of Income & Wealth Inequalities
Abstract:
Inequalities in income and wealth distributions have been a permanent feature of the societies in any civilization, and are characterized by established and universal laws. The century old kinetic theory for the gases had long been identified as a possible tool to explore the origin of such inequalities. Such kinetic exchange formulations for social dynamics will be discussed and the recent developments will be indicated. Extensions of the kinetic theory to collective opinion formations in societies will also be discussed.

The Department of Political Science,Presidency University
Invites you to a lecture on

“Capitalist Melancholy: Loss of reality or the Real of a Loss"
by
Prof. Soumyabrata Choudhury, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU
Time: 11AM
Date: 8the February, 2018
Venue: Political Science Lecture Theatre
Poster

The Department of Political Science,Presidency University
Invites you to a lecture on the topic
by
Centre for Himalayan Studies, North Bengal University
Time: 2.40 pm
Date: 31 January, 2018
Venue: Political Science Lecture Theatre
Brief Bio of Speaker:
Col(Dr.) Guru Saday Batabyal(Retd) has almost four decades of cross functional experience in the Indian Army, United Nations, Ministry of Defence(MoD) & External Affairs, Industry and Academia. Presently, engaged into full time research/academic activities in the field of Defence and Security Studies ,UN Peace Keeping International Relations and Modern History of India and Bangladesh.

Department of Hindi,Presidency University, kolkata cordially invites you to
Panini lecture series.
Padma Shri Prof.Ganesh N. Devy will deliver inaugural three Public lectures
on
“ Metamorphosis of Language in our time “
on 1st February 2018. Lectures ( one hour each) will begin from 11 am .
Venue: AJC ,Presidency University
All are welcome.

'Capital after 150 years': A Roundtable Discussion
Speakers:
Prof. Anjan Chakrabarti (University of Calcutta) 'Theories of Surplus-Value and the Structure of Capital: Three Volumes'
Prof. Samita Sen (Jadavpur University) 'The Future of Work'
Dr. Upal Chakrabarti (Presidency University) 'The commodity-form and difference'
The session will be introduced by Prof. Ranabir Samaddar (CRG) and chaired by Prof. Suhrita Saha (Presidency University)
Venue: A.J. C. Bose Auditorium, Presidency University, Date: 29 January, Time: 4-6 p.m.
Organised by
Calcutta Research Group, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata, Jadavpur University, Department of Economics, Calcutta University and Presidency University All are welcome

Department of Economics presents workshop on Financial Derivatives: Pricing , Hedging and Trading 3-6 February,2018.

Department of Economics presents workshop on Macroeconomic Theory and Policy 29th January -2nd February 2018.

The Department of Sociology invites you to a talk by
Dr. Henrike Donner
Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London
On
"The girls are alright ? Neoliberal ideology, class and gender in urban India"
Date: 25th January 2018
Time: 11:40 am
Venue: Seminar room, Department of Sociology
All are welcome

Physics weekly colloquium
Speaker: Prof. Tanmoy Banerjee (University of Burdwan)
January 24th (Wednesday) at 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Title: Collective phenomena in coupled oscillators
Abstract: Oscillators are omnipresent in nature. We have hundred billions neuronal oscillators in our brain that organize our cognitive system. In physics, Josephson junction and lasers are oscillators that are of quantum mechanical origin. Electronic communication systems make use of electronic oscillators. In ecology, population of species oscillates with time. All those oscillators have different time scales ranging from femto-second to few years. Although, the manifestation of oscillations are different in different fields they all are governed by a common dynamical rule. Interestingly, a bunch of coupled oscillators behave differently from their constituent elements. This is called emergent phenomenon. Synchronization, quenching of oscillation, phase-locking or entrainment are few examples of emergent phenomena. These have been the topics of extensive research in diverse fields such as physics, biology, and engineering. In this talk I will discuss several emergent behaviors shown by coupled oscillators. Special emphasis will be given to a newly discovered collective state, namely the chimera state, which is speculated to have connection with some biological phenomena, such as unihemispheric slow-wave sleep of dolphins and some migratory birds.

Department of Mathematics and Maths Club of Presidency University present "An Outreach Programme in Mathematics", aimed for 10+2 students which will take place during 26-27 January 2018. There will be motivational lectures, demonstration of mathematical models and a quiz competition. Further details of this programme can be found at:
https://mathpresidency.wixsite.com/outreach
For enrollment please contact the secretary / student representative or fill in the online form in the above webpage. A registration fee of Rs. 50/- per participant will be collected at the event. Arrangements for lunch have been made for both the days for the participants.

Department of Philosophy Presents National Seminar on Perspectives on Embodied consciousness at A.K.Basak Auditorium on 24th & 25th January 2018
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Dr. Kamrul Hossain, Associate Professor, University of Lapland will deliver a talk on the theme: "Human Security and International Environmental Law in the Arctic" on 18 January 2018 at 4 p.m. in the Seminar Room of the Department of Political Science. The Department of Political Science cordially invites all to this talk.

Department of political Science,Presidency University invites you to the Wednesday Lecture on
Power and the Ontology of the Subject
by Dr. Anirban Das, CSSS,Kolkata
on 17th January 2018, 3:00 PM at Poltical Science Seminar Room
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Department of Economics, Presidency University organizing a three day workshop on
Financial Derivatives: Pricing, Hedging and Trading
on 3, 5 & 6 February, 2018.
Kindly see the attached programme for the details of the workshop.
Please write to Dr. Gagari Chakrabarti at gagari.econ@presiuniv.ac.in by 19th January 2018 for participation in the workshop.
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Department of Economics, Presidency University organizing a five day workshop on
Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
during 29 January to 2 February 2018.
Kindly see the attached programme for the details of the workshop.
Please register by 19th January 2018 for participation in the workshop.
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Physics weekly colloquium on Jan 17th, 2018
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Aseem Paranjape (IUCAA)
Topic: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Cosmic Web
Abstract:
The Cosmic Web is an intricate network of galaxies, gas and dark matter spread throughout the Universe, showing a filamentary organisation at the largest scales imaginable. In the past two decades or so, large-volume observational surveys have provided unprecedented depth and detail into the properties of the Cosmic Web. Remarkably, the existence and origin of this fascinating structure was already predicted by very simple models of cosmological structure formation nearly 50 years ago. However, the full multi-scale glory of the Cosmic Web, and its role in shaping the formation and evolution of the galaxies and inter-galactic medium that inhabit it, remain challenging to understand even today. In this talk, I will describe our current theoretical and observational understanding of the Cosmic Web and discuss some open questions.

A departmental seminar will be held on 17/01/2018 at 02:30 pm by the department of Bengali.

Speaker
Debidas Acharya
(Journalist & Essayist)

Subject
Time & Date
17/01/2018 at 02: 30 PM
Place
jibananda Savakaksha
(Departmental Seminar Hall)

Kajal Lahiri, Distinguished Professor of Economics, and Health Policy, Management Behavior University at Albany, State University of New York will deliver a lecture on 'Forecast Combination for Binary Targets' at 3pm on 18th January 2018 at Seminar Room of Economics department.

Department of Geology, Presidency University, Kolkata
Request the pleasure of your presence at the
National Seminar on “Life in Deep Time: Recent Researches” on January 16, 2018
Venue: Old Lecture Theatre, Department of Geology
Time: 10:00 A.M.

A departmental seminar will be held on 10/01/2018 at 02:00 pm by the department of Bengali.
Speaker
(Film Artist)
Atanu Ghosh
(Film Director)
Subject
SAMPARKER MANASTATWA O MAYURAKSHI
Time & Date
10/01/2018 at 02: 30 PM
Place
Derozio Hall
Please, find the invitation card in the attachment file.

Physics Weekly Colloquium on Jan 10th at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Naba Kumar Mondal
DAE Raja Ramanna Fellow
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Title:Particle Hunter’s Guide
Abstract: From God particle (Higgs boson) to Ghost particle (neutrinos) physicists have discovered many elementary particles over the last 100 years. They are the building blocks of our universe. But unlike normal matter all around us, we cannot see these particles with our eyes. How do we know these particles exist? What are the tools needed to detect these elusive particles?.Whether you want to be a particle physicist or are just curious about the subatomic world - this session is a must for you!

Seminar -discussion to celebrate Swami Vivekananda's 156th Birth Day
Venue: AJC Bose auditorium
Time: 2 PM, 8th January 2018
Speakers: Mr. Tarun Goswami
Millenium Post
Prof. Somnath Bhattacharya
All are welcome

Due to an unavoidable circumstance, Panini lecture series by Padam Shri Prof Ganesh N Devy on 08/01/2018 is postponed.

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
cordially invites you to
Premchand Lecture Series 16
Speaker : Mr. Arnab Chakraborty, Research Scholar, York University, Canada
Topic : Pubic Health service in Colonial India
Date & Time : 5th January 2018, 3 PM
Venue: Hindi Lecture Theatre, Presidency University
All are welcome

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
cordially invites you to a
Special Lecture on the inaugural occasion of
Speaker : Prof. Anuradha Lohia, Vice Chancellor, Presidency University
Topic : साहित्य से मेरा नाता
Date & Time : 9th January 2018, 2 P. M.
Venue: Hindi Lecture Theatre, Presidency University, Kolkata
All are welcome

National workshop on Statistics and its applications
(Celebrating Bi-Centinary year of Presidency )
January 29 -31,2018
Organized by
Department of Statictics, Presidency University Details

Lecture Series
Out of Joint: Interventions in the Form of Inquiries
By
Sasheej Hegde
Professor of Sociology, University of Hyderabad
Organised by
Department of Sociology, Presidency University, Kolkata
Venue: Seminar Room, Department of Sociology, Presidency University
Time: February 5th, 6th and 8th 2018 (3.30 pm to 5.30 pm)
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Bicentennial lecture series on
Quantum Phase Transitions
Department of Physics, Presidency University, Kolkata
4th January, 2018 (Thursday) 1:50 to 3:30 pm
5th January, 2018 (Friday) 1:50 to 3:30 pm

Speaker: Prof. Bikas Chakrabarti
Sr. Professor, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Former Director, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
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Physics Weekly Colloquium
Wednesday, 3rd January, 2018 at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theater
Speaker: Prof. Arundhati Dasgupta
University of Lethbridge
Title: Gender and Futuristic Physics
Abstract: Physics is the study of matter and its interactions, and by its formulation appears to be gender neutral’. An objective study of natural phenomena’ ; what might physics have to do with gender –a social construct? In this talk we will debate this question, and discuss how the practice, style and culture of physics is influenced by gender. Diversity and gender also affect the interpretations of natural laws and the theories which attempt to explain them. We will discuss how we need to reform physics so that a feminist physics consciousness emerges’ in the future. This might be important for the new discoveries, but also for the security of the only space-ship we have for our maiden cosmic voyage, our earth.

Department of Chemistry, Presidency University, Kolkata
Presents
Two Day Symposium – Seminars & Academic Outreach Programme
Poster Presentation and 22nd National Chemiquiz
On January 4-5,2018
Venue: Derozio Hall, Presidency University
Programme Schedule: INSTRUCTIONS FOR CHEMIQUIZ 2k18

A departmental seminar will be held on 03/01/2018 at 02:30 pm by the department of Bengali.
Speaker
(Writer & Essayist)

Subject
Rabindranather Mon

Time & Date
03/01/2018 at 02: 30 PM
Place
A J C BOSE Hall
Invitation card

Physics Colloquium on December 20th, 2017 at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theater
Time: 11 AM
Speaker: Prof. Dhrubaditya Mitra (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Sweden)
Title: Surprises in Thermodynamics

Time: 2 PM
Title: Studying complex systems : Formation of opinion in a Society : A physicist's approach

Abstract: Studying complex systems became a very rich field of research for last one decade and subjects like sociophysics and econophysics have emerged. In this talk I shall mostly discuss different models for the opinion formation in a society. Some of this models also surprised people with proper predictions on socio-politocal events. At the end I shall present my own work in this field.

Department of Economics, Presidency University is organizing the second conference on
“Issues in Economic Theory and Policy”
(funded by Nirmal Kanti Majumdar Endowment Fund)
on
14th December 2017
Special lectures
Network communication: How best to spread the message?
Professor Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Technology, Time and Trust: Incipient Economics?
Professor A. Damodaran, Professor and IPR Chair on IP Management (MHRD), IIM Bangalore
Thirty one selected papers will be presented by Faculty and Research Scholars from University of Melbourne, ISI Delhi, Delhi School of Economics, JNU, Shiv Nadar University, Jadavpur University, Calcutta University etc.

Department of Physics, Presidency University is organizing an international conference, “Universe after the first 200 million years” sponsored by the SKA India Project (DAE) during 11th – 13th December, 2017 on the occasion of the bicentennial celebration of Presidency University. The goal is to bring together faculty members, research fellows and students working on the above topic at various academic and research institutions in India and abroad and to provide with a platform where the experts can share their knowledge and experience with younger members of this community. Details can be found in the link: https://presi21cm.wixsite.com/conference

Department of Sociology, Presidency University, Kolkata, in collaboration with Apne Aap cordially invites you to a Public lecture and conference
On
Child labour, Sex-trafficking and The Last Girl
By
Professor Catharine Mackinnon
University of Michigan and Harvard University
Venue: A. J. C. BOSE AUDITORIUM
Date: November 24th and 25th, 2017
Time: 10 am - 5 pm
Other Speakers : Soni Sori, Shandra Woworuntu (USA) , Fatima Khatoon, Mumtaj Begum, John Dayal, Dr. Asha Hans, Kumar Rana, Miguel Das Queah, Dr. Samita Sen, Malini Bhattacharya, Dr. Maroona Murmu, Prof. Sakina Shahin, Manisha Banerjee, Dr. Asha Mukherjee, Dr. Nandini Ghosh, Shampa Sengupta, Dr. Satyajit Dasgupta, Rajib Halder, Adv. Salma Ali (Bangladesh), Maleka Begum (Bangladesh), Ruchira Gupta etc.

The Department of Geography, Presidency University, Kolkata is organising a Three Weeks Workshop on Geographical Methods from 4th December, 2017 till 22nd December, 2017.
The Three Weeks Workshop on Geographical Methods is three-pronged in nature, with detailed focus on-
i) Geospatial Information Utilisation
ii) Statistical Data Analysis
iii) Field & Laboratory Methods
The tentative outline of the Workshop is as follows:
• First week – Geospatial Techniques
• Second Week – Geospatial Techniques (concluding part) and Statistical Data Analysis
• Third Week – Statistical Data Analysis (concluding part) and Field & Laboratory Methods
A total of thirty seats are on offer at the Workshop.
A number of reputed resource persons from institutions within Kolkata and across India shall be on hand to instruct on the tripartite themes.

The guidelines and dates for the application process are as follows -
• Period for submitting applications: 15th November to 25 November, 2017
• Notification of Final List of selected participants: 27th November, 2017
• Return mail from selected participants confirming participation: 30th November, 2017
• Workshop commencement date and submission of Demand Draft: 4th December, 2017

Only the selected Participants shall be required to submit a Demand Draft of amount Rs. 3,000/- drawn in favour of "Presidency University" and payable at Kolkata. on the day of commencement of the Workshop at the Department of Geography, Presidency University, Kolkata.
Brochure Course Content List of selected participants Schedule of Coursework

Scientific lecture organized by Department of Life Sciences
Date: 16th November, 2017, Thursday at 2-30 p.m.
Speaker: Prof. Anindya Dutta, University of Virginia, USA
Title: Noncoding RNAs in control of differentiation and cancer
Venue: Acharya J C Bose Auditorium

Physics Weekly Colloquium
Speaker: Prof. Urbasi Sinha (Raman Research Institute)
Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Hall
Title: Fascinating world of photons, superposition and entanglement
Abstract: Quantum mechanics is a cornerstone of modern physics. Just as the 19th century was called the Machine Age and the 20th century the Information Age, the 21st century promises to go down in history as the Quantum Age. In this talk, I will discuss key properties of quantum systems called Quantum Superposition and Quantum Entanglement. I will discuss the world of single and entangled photons and also discuss ongoing work towards quantum technology in our Quantum Information and Computing lab at the Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru.

Physics Weekly Colloquium
Speaker: Prof. Kandaswamy Subramanian (IUCAA)
Date: 1st November, 2017, Wednesday
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Hall
Title: Magnetizing the Universe
Abstract: The universe is magnetized on all scales probed so far, from planets and stars to micro Gauss strength large scale fields in galaxies and galaxy clusters. Recent observational evidence suggests that even the intergalactic medium in voids could host a weak femto Gauss magnetic field, coherent on Mega parsec scales. How did the Universe get magnetized? We discuss how the first seed magnetic fields could arise in the early Universe or in astrophysical batteries. These need to be amplified and maintained by cosmic dynamos in collapsed objects, which convert the kinetic energy of motions to magnetic energy. The basic idea behind such dynamos and the challenges they encounter are described. It is relatively easy for magnetic energy to grow, but explaining the spatio-temporal coherence of cosmic magnetic fields remains challenging.

Physics Weekly Colloquium
Speaker: Prof. Satyaki Bhattacharya, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
25th October, 2017 (Wednesday) at 2:00 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Hall
Title: How much can one "see" with a single quantum of light at the Large Hadron Collider?
Abstract:
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Particle Physics Laboratory, CERN, is a proton proton collider. At present it is colliding proton on proton at a center of mass energy of 13 TeV. Two experiments, the CMS and the ATLAS, looking at the collision data, are designed to search for new particles in the multi TeV energy range and new forces whose effects may be observed at a length scale of 10^-18 meters. With the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC, the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics is experimentally established and a new era of particle physics has started. The central question that the LHC is trying to address today, is - what is beyond Standard Model? In the hunt for new physics beyond standard model one of the most exciting possibility is - can LHC produce the particles of dark matter, if dark matter is indeed made up of some fundamental particle? In this talk I will give an overview of the ongoing search for new physics at the LHC. I will discuss in some detail how one looks for dark matter at the LHC, using as example one very clean final state in which there will be only one photon seen in the CMS

Physics Weekly Colloquium
Wednesday October 18th, 2017 @:00 PM. Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Prof. Nissim Kanekar
NCRA, Pune
Title: Do the Fundamental Constants change with time ?

Abstract: Temporal evolution in low-energy fundamental constants such as the fine structure constant and the proton-electron mass ratio is a generic prediction of field theories that attempt to unify the Standard Model of particle physics and general relativity. The exciting possibility of low-energy tests of such unification theories has inspired a number of methods to probe fundamental constant evolution on a range of timescales, from years to billions of years. Astrophysical studies of redshifted spectral lines provide a powerful probe of such putative changes in the low-energy fundamental constants across a large fraction of the age of the Universe. After reviewing the current state of the field, I will focus on two techniques, based on radio spectral lines from the hydroxyl and methanol molecules, and will describe new, high-sensitivity results from these methods. Finally, I will discuss present limitations of such studies and the improvements that are likely to be possible with the advent of new experimental and observational facilities over the next decade.

Department of Economics, Presidency University
Invites all interested to a talk by
Professor Ranajoy Bhattacharyya

On
Date: 16th October, 2017 (11.30 AM onwards)
Venue: Economics Department

Physics Weekly Colloquium on 11th October, 2017, 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Hall
Title : Ultrafast Spin Dynamics in Artificially Structured Ferromagnetic Thin Films for Applications in Spintronics and Magnonics
Speaker: Prof. Anjan Barman
Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Material Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences
Abstract: Spintronics and Magnonics are rapidly emerging fields with huge potential applications in magnetic storage, memory, logic, microwave source and data communication devices, and for them to become viable and sustainable technology it is imperative to study excitation, manipulation and detection of spin dynamics in artificially structured materials. Here, we present three different methods of excitation and detection of spin dynamics in ferromagnetic thin films, multilayers, heterostructures and two-dimensional arrays of nanostructures. Optical, thermal and electrical excitation and detection of spin waves in artificial two-dimensional, pseudo-one-dimensional and quasi-periodic ferromagnetic nanodot, nanostripe and nanoantidot lattices will be presented by time-resolved MOKE microscope1, Brillouin light scattering and ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy. Investigation and control of collective spin-wave spectrum and Gilbert damping behaviour by varying the physical and material parameters of the magnonic crystals and bias magnetic field will be discussed.2-7 New observations such as magnonic-mode splitting2, bandgap formation5,6, tunability of bandgap5, dynamic dephasing2, tunability of inter-element interaction3,4,7 and transition from collective to non-collective dynamics2 will be discussed based upon experimental data and numerical simulations. Further, spin-Hall effect generated spin torque and Rashba spin-orbit torque induced excitation of ferromagnetic resonance, modulation of damping and its optical detection has been employed for the first time in ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic bilayer thin films and spin-Hall angle of heavy metal layers have been estimated8,9. Finally, detection of pure interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction by Brillouin light scattering measurement of thermal spin waves will be presented10. Acknowledgement: The author gratefully acknowledges financial assistance from Department of Science and Technology, Department of Information Technology and S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences.

Economics Department is organizing a three-day workshop on ‘Big data and Nonparametric Econometrics’ during 13, 14 & 16 October 2017. Kindly see the attached programme of the Workshop. More..

Colloquium on Wednesday 20th September at 2 PM at Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Hall, Department of Physics
Speaker: Prof. Suratna Das (IIT Kanpur)
Title : Cosmology as a testing ground of Quantum Mechanics
Abstract : At present modern cosmology is soundly based on precision data obtained by several state-of-the-art observations, like WMAP and PLANCK. Physics spanning over a length scale of almost 61 orders of magnitude, starting from the Planck length to cosmological scales of thousand of mega parsecs, can be probed via cosmological observations. On the other hand, Quantum Mechanics is one of the most successful theory we have today and our modern world carries the signature of its success. Even though the elusive dynamics of quantum mechanics often evokes question about its fundamental nature. In laboratory systems, such problems are known as the Measurement problem of Quantum Mechanics. We will argue in this talk that such fundamental problems of quantum mechanics, seen in a cosmological background, become more serious as the Copenhagen Interpretation breaks down in a cosmological setup. We will then try to see whether any modification to standard quantum dynamics, in order to take into account the measurement problem, can play any significant role in Cosmology and whether we can put such theories to test by looking at cosmological observations like Cosmic Microwave Background.

Seminar at the Department of Mathematics, Presidency University.
Speaker: Prof. M.S. Raghunathan,
Chairman of the National Centre for Mathematics, IIT Mumbai
Formerly Professor of eminence at TIFR in Homi Bhabha Chair.
Title: Fermat's Last Theorem - a mathematical treasure hunt!

Venue: Mathematics Lecture Theatre 1
Date: Thursday 14th September, 2017
Time: 4 PM
Abstract: The historical development in modern Mathematics with this celebrated result will be discussed in this lecture, which took more than 350 years for finding a proof.

All students are informed that an Academic Writing Workshop, focusing on Term Paper writing will be organized at 3.30 pm on Wednesday, 13th September 2017.
Venue: Seminar Room (Political Science Department)

Physics Colloquium on 13th September at 2:00 PM
Venue: PLT-2
Speaker: Prof. Jayanta Bhattacharjee, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Title: THE CIRCULAR HYDRAULIC JUMP
Abstract:
A high speed jet of water impinging on a flat surface flows out radially (as happens in a kitchen sink although boundaries do interfere) and in some cases show a virtually discontinuous jump at some radius. The jump occurs at the radius at which the incoming disturbances (ripples) are blocked by the high speed flow and creates an analogy with astrophysical objects. we will discuss different aspects of this jump and the analogy.

A departmental seminar will be held on 13/09/2017 at 02:30 pm in the department of Bengali.
Speaker
Manoj Mitra
(Retd. Professor (Renowned Dramatist & Actor), Department of Drama, Rabinra Bharati University)
Subject
Natake Ramayan-Mahabharater Punarnirman
Time & Date
13/09/2017 at 02: 30 PM
Place Departmental Seminar Room Invitation Card

Department of Geology cordially invites you to a Special Lecture
on
“Stable Isotope Geochemistry and its application in natural sciences”
Speaker: Prof. S.K Bhattacharya
(Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan) Date and Time: 16th Sept 2017 (Saturday) at 11.00 AM
Venue: Department of Geology, Presidency University, Kolkata

Department of Geology is going to organize a Student Workshop
on
“Ductile Shear Zone Kinematics”
Speaker: Dr. Soumyajit Mukherjee (Associate Professor)
(Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
Date and Time: 15th Sept 2017 (Friday) at 02:00 PM
Venue: Department of Geology, Presidency University, Kolkata
All interested students are cordially invited

Department of Geology cordially invites you to a Special Lecture
on
“Geologic carbon storage: Opportunities and challenges in implementation in India”
Speaker: Dr. Vikram Vishal (Assistant Professor)
(Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
Date and Time: 15th Sept 2017 (Friday) at 11:00 AM
Venue: Department of Geology, Presidency University, Kolkata

A departmental seminar will be held on 06/09/2017 at 02:30 pm in the department of Bengali.
Speaker
(Professor, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University)
Subject
Time & Date
06/09/2017 at 02: 30 PM
Place
Departmental Seminar Room
Invitation Card

Department of Geology cordially invites you to 42nd Professor S. Ray Memorial Lecture
Title: STRUCTURES IN THE DARJILING-SIKKIM HIMALAYA: A REAPPRAISAL
Speaker: Dr. Abdul Matin, Retd. Professor, Department of Geology, Calcutta University
Date and Time: Thursday, 7th September, 2017 at 3:00 pm
Venue: NLT, Department Of Geology, Presidency University, Kolkata

Physics Colloquium on 6th September, Wednesday at 2 PM. Venue PLT-2
Speaker: Prof. Subhrangshu Sekhar Manna (SNBNCBS)
Title: Models of Self-organized Criticality
Abstract: The concept of Self-organized criticality (SOC) will be discussed after mentioning two models exhibiting continuous phase transitions. The idea of Bak et al for introducting SOC will be explained. The sandpile model will be defined, explained and difficulties with this model will be discussed. Few experimental set up and results will be discussed. Finally if time permits recent works in the field of SOC will be included.

A departmental seminar will be held on 30/08/2017 at 03:00 pm in the department of Bengali.
Speaker
Dr. Shamim Ahamed
(Prof. & HOD, Department of Philosophy, Belur Bidyamandir)
Subject
Mahabharater Rajniti O Naitikata
Invitation Card

Speaker: Dr. Indrani Banerjee (IACS)
Wednesday 30th August at 2 PM at PLT-2
Title: The Clandestine Universe: A journey to the enigmatic world of hidden dimensions
Abstract: Why do we live in four dimensions? Why is gravity weaker than the other forces observed in nature? What drives the expansion of the universe? What is dark­matter? Why are the masses of neutrinos so small? Why is the mass of Higgs boson so much small compared to the Planck mass? Is there a connection between these apparently uncorrelated physics at completely different length scales? This talk will survey these mysteries of the universe in the backdrop of extra­dimensional models and brane­worlds. The stability of the brane­world model thus becomes a crucial issue to be addressed. After reviewing some of the popular extra­dimensional models, I will focus on the widely popular warped brane­world model with non­flat branes and discuss how it can be naturally stabilized by the brane vacuum energy. Our proposal brings out the remarkable feature that the braneworld modulus can be stabilized without introducing any ad­hoc external stabilizing field.

Professor Ashok Banerjee, Professor of Finance, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, will deliver a special lecture on GST: Is it so Good and Simple? on 28 August 2017 in Economics Seminar Room from 3.30 to 5 pm.

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) replaces a plethora of indirect taxes. Will GST, thus, reduce the burden on ultimate consumers? GST is a destination based tax. Thus, if a company in Kolkata sells products or renders services to a firm in Gurgaon, the state GST would accrue to Haryana and not to West Bengal. Will producer states lose revenue? The notion of one nation one tax sounds good- but is it simple? These questions will be discussed in the talk.
All are welcome.

Physics Weekly Colloquium
Wednesday 23rd August 2 PM at PLT-2
Speaker: Prof. Barun Raychaudhuri (Presidency University)
Title: The Science, Technology and Applications of Remote Sensing

Abstract: Remote Sensing is a wide interdisciplinary field comprising various disciplines of physical science, earth science and engineering. The physical principle of remote sensing is to detect the interaction of electromagnetic radiation, mainly solar radiation with terrestrial objects and atmospheric constituents from far distance, such as airborne or satellite-based detectors. The procured data are often recorded in the form of images and analyzing the images, various information can be obtained on natural resources, environment and human activity.

This presentation explains the imaging techniques, related physical laws and instrumentation. The principal techniques of image processing are introduced. Several recent trends in modern remote sensing and the scopes for a student of physics are highlighted. Some personal research experiences are shared.

Dr Nayanika Mookherjee, Associate Professor (Reader) in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Durham University, UK, Author of The Spectral Wound. Sexual Violence, Public Memories and the Bangladesh War of 1971, will deliver a lecture on 9th August, Wednesday,2017 at 2.00 pm in the department of Sociology, Seminar room.

In memoriam: Kenneth J. Arrow, 1921-2017
August 24, 2017
Department of Economics
Presidency University, Kolkata

Venue: Economics Seminar Room, Economics Department, Presidency University

Debopam Bhattacharya of Cambridge University will give a talk on Endogeneity in linear and limited dependent variable models on 11th August 2017 from 3 to 5 pm in Economics Seminar Room located at Economics Department, Presidency University.

Physics Colloquium on August 9th at 2 PM at PLT-2
Speaker: Prof. Anirban Kundu (University of Calcutta)
Title: "Where Particle Physics meets Cosmology: The case of the missing antimatter"

Abstract:
The universe very definitely shows an excess of matter over antimatter, which has been confirmed by several independent experiments. The universe started in a symmetric phase, with only photons in it. What caused the asymmetry between matter and antimatter? The talk will try to tell you the story of this quest, and will be at a pedagogic level, shunning any detailed mathematics. The story, however, is open-ended.

Physics Colloquium: Emergence of 2D materials and devices
Speaker: Prof. G. P. Das, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032
Date & Time: 2nd August 2017 (Wednesday) 2:00 PM
Venue: PLT-2

Abstract: Our conventional wisdom that the objects and structures all around us are 3-dimensional was in for a pleasant surprise with the discovery of single (or few) atomic layer thin graphene, realized by simple exfoliation (mechanical or chemical) technique. This ultrathin wonder material of 21st Century boasts of several superlative physical and chemical properties that are now well established in the scientific world. This inspired an avalanche of research in the post-graphene ear, giving rise to a whole new world of 2D materials involving assortment of elements all across the periodic table, as well as their heterojunctions. In this talk I shall give a glimpse of this emerging field and the advent of a new platform to realize quantum engineered materials for innovative devices and novel applications.

SPECIAL LECTURE SERIES
Professor Anjan Mukherji, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University will deliver a series of lectures on

"Fundamental Theorems of Positive and Normative Economics"
during 21st to 25th August 2017.

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY PRESENTS
WHO IS (NOT) A SERVANT, ANYWAY?
DOMESTIC SERVANTS AND SERVICE IN EARLY COLONIAL INDIA
SPEAKER: DR. NITIN SINHA

Thinking of domestic servants requires us to ask two fundamental questions: who were they and what did domestic service mean? The identity of a servant as a contract wage earner as well as one of either a family member, or tied in some fictive/constructed claims of kinship was not exclusive to each other. The paper will address the question of servant relationship along two axes: one, that existed within the households along the continuum of slave-servant, and the other that was part of the eighteenth century colonial Calcutta labouring pool, coolie-servant. The invisibility and ubiquity of domestic servants stretching from households to public places require mapping the relationship at different social and spatial registers. The paper will discuss legal regulations related to work and wage to suggest that the specificity of ‘domestic servant’ was getting constituted through these regulations.

Nitin Sinha is a Senior Research Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies), Berlin. He has worked and written on themes of transport and communication, industrial labour, and agro‐ecology. He is the author of the book Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India, Bihar: 1760s–1880s, which was published in 2012. Subsequently, he has worked and published on the history of fluvial landscape, boatmen and the railway town of Jamalpur in different peer reviewed journals. Since October 2015, Sinha has been the principal investigator of the European Research Council funded 3‐year project on domestic servants in colonial South Asia (https://servantspasts.wordpress.com/) He is also a series editor of the prestigious New Perspectives in South Asian History published by Orient Blackswan. In his attempt to reach out to wider public, Sinha has been regularly contributing opinion pieces on www.thewire.in

VENUE: A K BASAK MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM
(GROUND FLOOR, MAIN BUILDING)
DATE: 26/07/2017 (WEDNESDAY)
TIME: 12:30 PM-1.50 PM
ALL ARE WELCOME

Physics Colloquium
July 26th 2:00 PM at PLT-2
Speaker: Prof. Amitava Raychaudhuri (Calcutta University)
Title: The Enigma of Mass
Abstract: Mass is one of the basic properties of an object which we learn about early. Do we know what is the origin of mass? Obviously the mass of any object is determined by the masses of its constituents. But what of the masses of the most basic entities which are structureless? The accepted answer to this question has been experimentally verified only in this decade. And still there remain several open frontiers. In this talk, aimed at non-experts, we consider several of these issues, bringing to the fore the pivotal role played by symmetries.

SPECIAL LECTURE SERIES, 2017
ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT, PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY
Dr. Sourav Bhattacharya, Reader, Royal Holloway University, London, will deliver a series of special lectures during July - September 2017 in Economics Department of Presidency University. The schedule is attached. All interested faculty and students are welcome.

Physics Colloquium
Title: Turbulent Times
Speaker: Prof. Dhrubaditya Mitra (Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden)
Date & Time 15th June, 2017 (Thursday) 2:00 PM
Venue: PLT 2
Abstract: Turbulence is often called the last unsolved problem of classical physics. But engineers, physicists, and mathematicians differ about that they would describe as the "problem" of turbulence let alone what its solution could be. I shall describe, in brief, the classical results of the theory of turbulence, its limitations and also the modern perspective.

Presidency University invites applications for its first DANCE LAB to be held between 31st July to 5th September 2017.
Guru Imocha Singh will teach the basics of Thang ta and Guru Navtej Johar will explore how the dancer’s body evolves as a result of practicing the classical and contemporary styles of dance.

This program is open to all dancers.
Those interested in participating may send a one-page write-up stating their background/ proficiency in dance and reasons for wishing to attend the workshop. Kindly send your write-up by email to A.P Rajaram (rajaram.dpa@presiuniv.ac.in), Assistant Professor, Department of Performing Arts, Presidency University by 20th July, 2017
Poster

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you to
Two days workshop
on
Manuscriptlogy
Date : 3rd & 4th May 2017, Wednesday & Thursday
Time: 11.30 am to 4.30 pm
Venue: Lecture Theater, Department of Hindi, N.S. Building
All are welcome

Physics Weekly Colloquium
Speaker: Prof. Goutam Sheet, IISER, Mohali
26th April (Wednesday) 2 PM at PLT-2
Title: Tip-induced Superconductivity
Abstract: It has been recently observed that certain novel phases of matter, like superconductivity, emerge at mesoscopic interfaces between elemental metals and topologically nontrivial systems like topological insulators and topological Dirac and Weyl semimetals. In this talk, I will review some of the published results on such mesoscopic superconducting phases with special emphasis on tip-induced superconductivity (TISC). A TISC phase is known to emerge under the point of contact between a sharp tip of a (non-superconducting) normal metal and a material with topologically non-trivial band structures. Since the superconducting volume fraction in a TISC is extremely small, traditional bulk characterization tools like regular transport and magnetization measurements fail to detect such a phase. I will highlight how probing Andreev reflection, a quantum process through which a normal current is converted into a supercurrent at such mesoscopic point contacts, can be useful in detecting TISC and understanding the nature of TISC.

Department of Philosophy Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you to attend National Seminar on 24th - 25th April 2017
Venue: A.K. Basak Auditorium, Ground Floor, Main Building, Presidency University, 86/1, College Street, Kolkata – 700073
THEME – AGENCY AND VALUES: ETHICAL CHALLENGES IN THE 21st CENTURY
More..

Physics Weekly Colloquium
Speaker: Prof. Pushan Majumdar (IACS)
Date: 19th April 2017 (Wednesday) 2 PM at PLT-2
Title: Introduction to strong interactions.
Abstract : In this talk we will take a preliminary look at Quantum Chromodynamics, the candidate theory for strong interactions and discuss its formulation, successes and what remains to be done for it to be recognized as the theory of strong interactions.

PREMCHAND INTERDISCIPLINARY LECTURE SERIES -15
(A platform to share knowledge without boundaries)
Department of Hindi & History, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invite you to
Premchand Interdisciplinary Lecture
On
‘Hindi Language & Literature : Between domestic tongue & global language’
Speaker : Prof. Heinz Werner Wessler
Department of Linguistics & Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Interest/Specialization : Indology, Linguistics
Date : 10th April 2017, Monday
Time: 3.15 pm
Venue: A.K. BASAK Memorial Lecture Theater, Main Building
All are welcome

Physics Weekly Colloquium
Wednesday 12th April, 2 PM. Venue PLT-2
Speaker: Prof. Subhasis Sinha (IISER-Kolkata)
Title: Ultracold atoms in an optical lattice: A new quantum matter with exotic phases
Abstract: I briefly discuss recent developments in the physics of ultracold quantum gases. By loading the ultracold atoms into an optical lattice have opened up new possibilities to study strongly correlated many-body physics and non-equilibrium phenomena. Finally I discuss Superfluid to Mott insulator transition and non-equilibrium dynamics of dissipative Rydberg atoms in an optical lattice.

Dr. Rajarshi Chakrabarti of the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
will deliver a talk entitled
“Tracer diffusion in a sea of polymers with binding zones and a single polymer chain in active bath”
on 06.04.2017 (Thursday) at 2:00 PM at the Chemistry Lecture Theatre (CLT) – 1
as part of the Bicentenary celebration of Presidency. All are cordially welcome.

PREMCHAND INTERDISCIPLINARY LECTURE SERIES -14
(A platform to share knowledge without boundaries)
Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invite you to
Premchand Interdisciplinary Lecture
On
‘Who is the child on stage? : Understanding childhood through theatrical productions’
Speaker : Dr Hia Sen, PhD (Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany)
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Presidency University
Interest/Specialization : Sociology of Childhood, Globalization & Indian Society
Date : 5th April 2017, Wednesday
Time: 3.00 pm
Venue: Lecture Theater, Hindi Department
All are welcome

Physics Weekly Colloquium
5th April, 2017, 2 PM at PLT-2
Speaker: Dr. Rabindranath Gayen, Department of Physics, Presidency University
Title: How to trap solar energy ?
Abstract: One of the major challenges in the 21st century is to meet the ever-growing energy demands of the world in a sustainable and environment friendly manner. Solar energy is the most reliable renewable resource on the planet that can be the ideal alternative to the conventional energy sources. In fact, a very small fraction of the energy that reaches the earth's surface is sufficient to meet the global energy needs. How to capture, convert and store this tremendous natural resource? Solar cells or photovoltaic cells are the devices that convert the sunlight into electricity. Several disadvantages of crystalline Si wafer based devices that rule the present solar cell market, has led a tremendous research efforts in the last few decades to fabricate highly efficient solar cells with a modest cost. Thin film solar cells have been most promising till date in terms of efficiency. In this talk we are going to discuss the working principle of thin film solar cells, the problems with the thin film solar cells and the idea of using nanomaterials to increase the power conversion efficiency. Also there will be a brief overview on the present status of other ideas of trapping solar light like excitonic solar cells, plasmonic solar cells, quantum dot solar cells etc.

PREMCHAND INTERDISCIPLINARY LECTURE SERIES -13
(A platform to share knowledge without boundaries)
Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invite you to
Premchand Interdisciplinary Lecture
On
Hijab, the Search for Freedom, and the Meaning of Rebellion: The Case of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis '
Speaker : Dr Shuhita Bhattacharjee, PhD (University of Iowa)
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Presidency University
Interest : - Victorian literature , postcolonial studies, gender studies,
Date : 29th March 2017, Wednesday
Time: 3.00 pm
Venue: Lecture Theater, Hindi Department
All are welcome

Physics Weekly Colloquium 29th March, 2017, Wednesday
Speaker: Prof. Arti Garg (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)
Time: 2 PM @ PLT-2
Title: What is many body localization ?
Abstract: It is well known that in a non-interacting disordered system, any small amount of disorder is sufficient to localize all the single particle states in one and two dimensions, while in three dimensions there occurs a single particle mobility edge leading to a metal-Anderson Insulator transition as a function of the disorder strength. The question of immense interest, that has remained unanswered for decades, is what happens to Anderson localization when both disorder and interactions are present in a system. Recently Basko e. al. based on perturbative treatment of interactions have established that Anderson localization can survive interactions and disordered many body eigenstates can be localized resulting in a many body localized (MBL) phase, provided that interactions are sufficiently weak. The MBL phase and the MBL transition are unique for several reasons and challenge the basic foundations of quantum statistical physics. In the MBL phase the system explores only an exponentially small fraction of the configuration space and local observables do not thermalize leading to violation of eigenstate thermalisation hypothesis (ETH). In this talk I will describe unique properties of MBL phase, recent development in the field and in the end I will touch upon our recent work which demonstrates MBL to delocalisation transition in a quasi-periodic system.
References: 1) P. W. Anderson, Phys. Rev. {\bf 109}, 1492 (1958). 2) D. M. Basko, I. L. Aleiner, and B. L. Altshuler, Ann. Phys. (Amsterdam), {\bf 321}, 1126 (2006). 3) R. Nandkishore and D. A. Huse, Ann. Rev. Cond. Matt. Phys. {\bf 6}, 15 (2015). 4) S. Nag and A. Garg, arXiv:1701.00236

Presidency University, Department of Statistics presents
LECTURE ON
Alzheimer’s Disease : An Overview of the Disease and Its Treatment
by Dr Sourish Saha
BS, Presidency University, MS, IIT Kanpur, PhD, University of Florida
Venue : A. J. C. BOSE AUDITORIUM
Date : 23.03.2017 (Thursday)   Time : 3:30 p.m.
All interested persons are cordially invited to attend the lecture.

Physics Weekly Colloquium
March 22nd at PLT-2 at 2.30 PM
Speaker: Prof. Amitabha Lahiri
SNBNCBS
Title: Quark confinement and magnetic monopoles
Abstract: Quarks, the constituents of nucleons and many other particles, and gluons, the particles which mediate strong interactions, all carry a quantum number called color charge. However, the color charge has never been observed in isolation, and is always found confined' into colorless states. No analytic description of color confinement exists, and finding one remains an unsolved problem. A model of quark confinement, suggested by Nambu, treats quarks as magnetic monopoles, which are the endpoints of Dirac strings. After an overview of all this, I will discuss a more physical version of Nambu's model, in which the strings are physical objects, and the magnetic charge is fully confined.

The Department of Geography, Presidency University, cordially and warmly invites you to a series of lectures to be held from 5th - 7th April, 2017 at the A.J.C. Bose Auditorium.
The topics are related to but not limited within Geography, and speakers from IIT Kharagpur, IIM Calcutta, IDS Kolkata, IIEST Shibpur, CSRD JNU, IISER Kolkata and IIT&TM, Panaji and other such multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary institutes across India shall deliver their talks on a diverse themes. Click here for details

Physics Weekly Colloquium
Speaker: Dr Barnali Chakrabarti
Presidency University
Wednesday 15th March 2 PM at PLT-2
Title: Fundamental aspects of Bose Einstein Condensates
Abstract: In this presentation, She will start from text-book BEC and discuss how the experimental BEC differs from text-book problem from the angle of many-body physics. She will present qualitative pictures and essential features of the quantum many-body calculation developed by our group. From various application of this method in experimental BEC, She will demonstrate the efficacy of our technique. The importance of BEC in the present day research and its future in connection with quantum information will be presented.

Dr. Pratik Sen, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur will deliver a talk entitled
“Microsecond Protein Dynamics Probed at the Single Molecular Level”
on
March 14, 2017 (Tuesday) at 2 PM at Chemistry Lecture Theatre (CLT) -1 of the Department of Chemistry
as a part of the celebration of the Bicentenary celebration of Presidency.
All are requested to attend the seminar.

PREMCHAND INTERDISCIPLINARY LECTURE SERIES -12
(A platform to share knowledge without boundaries)
Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invite you to
Premchand Interdisciplinary Lecture
On
New Poetry and ' Manjhi ka pul' : Via Jnanpith Awarded Poet Kedarnath Singh
Speaker : Dr. Ved Raman Pandey, ( Phd - Calcutta University)
Assistant Professor, Department of Hindi, Presidency University
Interest : - Hindi Criticism,Poetry and fiction
Date : 8th March 2017, Wednesday
Time: 3.00 pm
Venue: Lecture Theater, Hindi Department
All are welcome

Two talks for the Physics Weekly Colloquium.
Speaker: Dr. Ranjan Laha (Stanford University)
Title: Status of dark matter indirect detection
Date and Time: Wednesday 8th March , 2 PM at PLT-2
Abstract: Indirect detection is one of the most promising ways to search for dark matter in astrophysics. It involves searching for an excess of Standard Model particles on top of standard astrophysical backgrounds. Gamma-rays, X-rays, neutrinos, anti-protons, and positrons are typically used in indirect detection. In this talk, I will give a brief overview of the various techniques used in indirect detection of dark matter. I will discuss the latest status on various astrophysical anomalies and their interpretation in terms of a dark matter signal.

Speaker: Dr. Debanjan Bose (Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul)
Title: Highlights from IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Date and Time: Wednesday 8th March , 3.30 PM at PLT-2

Abstract: IceCube is a cubic-kilometer neutrino observatory buried deep in the ice sheet at the geographic South Pole. A total of 5160 Digital Optical Modules (DOMs) are deployed on 86 strings forming a three dimensional detector array. Over the past decade, South Pole has emerged as a leading site for neutrino astronomy, particle astrophysics and neutrino physics. IceCube's discovery of a diffuse flux of astrophysical neutrinos started a new era of neutrino astronomy. In this talk I will describe IceCube neutrino detector and will discuss some of IceCube’s results. Also, I will give an overview of plans to upgrade IceCube in the future.

PREMCHAND INTERDISCIPLINARY LECTURE SERIES -11
(A platform to share knowledge without boundaries)
Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invite you to
Premchand Interdisciplinary Lecture
On
India and Pakistan: State - Society relations
Speaker : Dr. Satyabrat Sinha , ( Phd - SIS,JNU, Delhi)
Assistant Professor, , Department of of Political Sciences, Presidency University
Specialization : - Strategic concerns of the South Asian Region
Date : 2nd March 2017, Thursday
Time: 3.00 pm
Venue: Lecture Theater, Hindi Department
All are welcome

Department of Political Science Presidency University
cordially invites you to a lecture on
Lessons of Fukushima
by
Professor Masaaki Ohashi
Chair, Japan CSO Coalition for Disaster Risk Reduction and
Professor, University of Sacred Heart, Tokyo
Wednesday 1 March, 2017
3:30 -5.00 pm
Political Science Lecture Theatre
Bio
Professor Ohashi has been Professor of Social Development since 1993 and describs himself as an activist. He has been a regular visitor to South Asia since 1974 and implements the work of Shapla Neer (a Japanese NGO) in Bangladesh and Nepal. Prof. Ohashi also serves JANIC, the largest NGO network in Japan focusing ODA advocacy and the Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima.

Physics Weekly Colloquium
March 1st, 2 PM at PLT-2
Speaker: Prof. Sakuntala Chatterjee (SNBNCBS)
Title: Coupled nonequilibrium systems: ordering and dynamics
Abstract: Particle clustering is important in many natural physical and biological phenomena. it is important to understand processes that cause clustering in different physical contexts. Often, large-scale clustering is driven by interactions with an external medium which itself has correlations in space and time. An important physical effect in such systems is the back influence of the particles on the medium. This interaction can aid clustering, or destroy it. If a cluster does form, it may be compact and robust, or a dynamic object that undergoes constant reorganization. In this talk I will discuss how different types of ordered phases can be obtained as the interaction between the particles and environment is varied. Within a simple lattice gas model we derive an interesting phase diagram and unmask novel nonequilibrium phases.

PREMCHAND INTERDISCIPLINARY LECTURE SERIES -10
(A platform to share knowledge without boundaries)
Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invite you to
Premchand Interdisciplinary Lecture
On
Mahabharata: History or Fiction?
Speaker : Dr. Somshankar (Ph.D-Calcutta University)
Assistant Professor, , Department of History, Presidency University
Specialization : History of Bengal & historical literature
Date : 22nd February 2017
Time: 3.00 pm
Venue: Lecture Theater, Hindi Department
All are welcome

Dr. Anindya Sundar Chakrabarti, Assistant Professor, Economics Area, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, will deliver a Series of five lectures on
“Dynamic Models of Macroeconomics” from 27-31 March 2017. The schedule is as follows:
Monday: 3.30 to 5 pm
Tuesday: 3.30 to 5 pm
Wednesday: 3.30 to 5 pm
Thursday: 2 to 5 pm
Friday: 10 am to 12.30 pm
Dr. Chakrabarti is a graduate of 2007 from Presidency College, proceeding to post-graduate in the MSQE programme from ISI Kolkata and PhD from Boston University.
The venue of this lecture series is Economics Seminar Hall.

Sarmila Banerjee, Professor of Economics (retd.), University of Calcutta, will deliver a Series of eight lectures on Environmental Regulation Policies and Environmental Valuation Techniques
during March 2017. The tentative schedule is as follows:
8th March (Wednesday): 11 am to 1pm
15th March (Wednesday): 11 am to 1 pm
17 th March (Friday): 3 pm to 5 pm
24th March (Friday): 3 pm to 5 pm
Prof. Banerjee specializes in Environmental Economics, Quantitative Development Economics, and Econometrics. She did her Ph.D. from University of Florida, Gainesville, USA in 1989, and Post-Doc from University of California, Santa Barbara, USA in 2001-02.
Lectures will be held in Economics Seminar Room.
All are welcome.

Physics Weekly Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Ratna Koley (Presidency University)
Date and Time: 22nd February, 2017, 2 PM at PLT-2
Title : Are the intergalactic magnetic fields (IGMF) primordial?
Abstract: Magnetic fields have been widely observed in the universe. From planets and stars, all the way to galaxy clusters magnetic fields of considerable strength and size have been repeatedly observed. Recent observational evidence also suggests that even the intergalactic medium in voids could host a weak magnetic field. Despite of their widespread presence, however, the origin of cosmic magnetic fields is still a mystery. In this talk we would like to address the question whether such fields are of cosmological origin? The idea of primordial magnetogenesis is attractive because it makes the large scale magnetic fields easier to explain. Nevertheless, this idea is not problem free, with a number of issues remaining open and matter of debate. We will elaborate on the aspects of primordial magnetogenesis and discuss the advantages and shortcomings of this proposal.

Physics Weekly Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Moitri Maiti (Joint Institute of Nuclear Research Dubna, Russia)
Wednesday Feb 15th, 2 PM at PLT-2
Title: Detection of Majorana modes in superconductors
Abstract:
Majorana fermions have been the subject of active interests in the recent years. Various theoretical measures have been proposed to probe the Majorana bound state in condensed matter systems particularly using superconducting platforms. The use of Josephson junctions as probes to detect these modes are considered to be fairly robust. In this talk, I will discuss dynamics in a resitively and capactively shunted Josephson junctions (RCSJs) hosting sub-gap Majorana bound state and show that analysis of the current-voltage characteristics reveals robust phase-sensitive signatures for existence of Majorana modes in such junctions.

Dr. Susmita Dasgupta, Lead Environmental Economist in Development and Research Group in the World Bank will deliver two lectures on 14th February 2017 from 2 to 5 pm, with a short break, in Economics Lecture Theatre, Presidency University. The topics she will address are as follows:

1. Urban Flooding of Greater Dhaka in a Changing Climate: Building local Resilience to Disaster Risk and
2. Minimizing Ecological Damage from Road Improvement in Tropical Forests

Dr. Dasgupta’s research focus is on environmental management in developing countries. She has done extensive analysis on health hazards of pollution, poverty/environment nexus, setting priorities in pollution control, deforestation, biodiversity loss, impacts of climate change on coastal zones and climate extremes, adaptation to climate change, cost effective regulations, monitoring and enforcement of regulations. She has conducted research activities in Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Cuba, India, Iran, Lao PDR, Madagascar, Mexico, Tunisia, Vietnam and Yemen, and has published numerous articles on issues related to development and environment.
Before joining the Bank in 1992, she taught at the American University and the State University of New York at Albany. She is a graduate at Presidency College and did her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany.

Physics Weekly Colloquium
Speaker: Prof. Parthasarathi Majumdar (RKMVU)
Wednesday Feb 8th, 2 PM at PLT-2
Title: Black Holes in the lab : Hawking radiation, superradiance and inertial frame dragging'.
Abstract : I shall begin with a quick survey of special and general relativity, and then start with black holes. I shall focus on three interesting physical processes involving matter fields and particles in such spacetimes, namely, Hawking radiation, energy extraction from a rotating black hole (superradiance), and the dragging of inertial frames in rotating black holes. These phenomena are all well predicted from general relativity, but are difficult to observe in practice for physical black hole spacetimes. Next I switch to certain properties of acoustic perturbations in fluid dynamics, whereby, one may have laboratory' analogues of black holes using certain specific kinds of quantum fluids. This amazing appearance of an acoustic' curved spacetime within perfectly non-relativistic standard fluid dynamics leads to prospects of controlled experiments involving such analogue black holes whereby the three phenomena mentioned above may actually be observed. This is intradisciplinary physics bringing together ideas from fluid mechanics, general relativity, superfluidity and the physics of cold atoms.

PREMCHAND INTERDISCIPLINARY LECTURE SERIES -9
(A platform to share knowledge without boundaries)
Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invite you to
Premchand Interdisciplinary Lecture
On
"Forgetting" Grandma: A tale of fading memories
Speaker : Dr. Piyali Mukherjee ( Post Doctorate Moffit Cancer Centre & R M L,NIH, USA)
Assistant Professor, , Department of Life Sciences, Presidency University
Specialization : Age-related Neurodegeneration and Mitochondrial Bioenergetics
Date : 8th February 2017
Time: 3.00 pm
Venue: Lecture Theater, Hindi Department
All are welcome

PREMCHAND INTERDISCIPLINARY LECTURE SERIES -8
(A platform to share knowledge without boundaries)
Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invite you to
Premchand Interdisciplinary Lecture
On
" Games with Karma: Indian Board Games as a Commentary on Life "
Speaker : Dr. Souvik Mukherjee (PhD, Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Presidency University
Specialization : Digital Humanities, Game studies, video game and storytelling.
Date : 2nd February 2017
Time: 3.00 pm
Venue: Lecture Theater, Hindi Department
All are Welcome

Department of Political Science, Presidency University
Cordially invites you to the Nirmal Kanti Majumdar Endowment Lecture Programme.
Distinguished Speaker, Prof. Neera Chandhoke, Department of Political Science, Delhi University will deliver the lecture on:
Rethinking Secularism Date : February 2nd, 2017
Venue : AJC Bose Auditorium, Presidency University ,
Time : 11:00 a.m.– 4:00 p.m.
The NKM Endowment Lecture will be held as per the programme given overleaf.
Programme Schedule:
11:00 a.m. Inauguration by Prof. Swapan K. Chakravorty
Chair : Prof. Sobhanlal Dattagupta
11.30 a.m. Lecture by Prof. Neera Chandhoke on Rethinking Secularism Questions and Answers
1.00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Panel Discussion on Religion in Indian Life
Coordinator: Prof. Sanjukta Bhattacharya, Discussants : Prof. Neera Chandhoke, Prof. Manabi Majumdar, Prof. Sanjeeb Mukherjee
3:30 p.m. Vote of Thanks
Tea

A talk will be delivered by Dr. Joe Devine, Head, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK.
Date: 20th January 2017.
Time: 1:45 pm.
Venue: Seminar Room, Sociology Department.
Topic: “Social, Political and Anthropological aspects of development”.
All are invited.

Speaker: Professor M S Raghunathan, Head of the National Centre for Mathematics,
Distinguished Visiting Professor and NASI Platinum Jubilee Chair, Department of Mathematics, IIT Bombay
Title: A Short Course on Arithmetic Groups
Venue: Mathematics Lecture Theatre, Main building 1st floor, Presidency University
Schedule: 16 -19 January, 2017, Time 2.30 pm -4.00 pm &
20th January, 2017, Time 11.00 am - 12.30 pm
Abstract: 1. Basic definitions of algebraic groups and arithmetic groups, Minkowski
reduction and Mahler criterion.

2. The Godement criterion and consequences:the Diriclet unit theorem and
existence of compact manifolds of constant curvature;the
Borel-Harish-Chandra theorem

3. Some structural properties of linear groups. Rigidity and arithmeticity.

4. Locally symmetric spaces and their topology

5. The congruence subgroup problem

Each of these will be the subject matter of one lecture. Some familiarity
with basic algebraic number theory will be helpful. However basic facts
from algebraic number theory will be recalled whenever needed. Some
theorems will be proved but for most others only statements will be given
along with say some comments. The aim is to give a flavour of the subject
by highlighting some striking results.

A lecture at physics department
Speaker: Dr. Sujit Bandyopadhyay (KLA Tencor, Singapore)
December 29th, 2 PM at PLT-2
Title : Interferometers: meeting challenges in diverse areas
Abstract: interferometers are non-invasive optical devices used extensively both in research and industry. Both broadband (White light) and narrowband (laser) sources are used depending on the applications. A snapshot of important aspects of some applications will be presented. Scanning White Light Interferometer (SWLI) imager are ideal or microscopic imaging and surface topography applications such as surface profiling, Thin Film characterisation, 3D topography (Optical Coherence Topography). Common Path Interferometers (Sagnac) using imaging mirrors provide vibration free compact spectrometers for space applications. SWLI can easily be modified into PUPS (Pupil Plane SWLI) for multi-angle-multi-wavelength Ellipsometry. VISAR (Velocity Interferometer System for Any reflector) is an important plasma diagnostics for recording interference fringes from a moving illuminated object under wide angle light scattering. LIGO (laser Interferometer for Gravitational Observatory), a combination of Michelson interferometer and Fabry-Perot Interferometer for detection of gravitational wave, requires minimisation of noises such as shot noise, which is controlled (reduced) by injecting ‘squeezed’ (in phase uncertainty) light using non-linear optics (second harmonic generation followed by frequency down conversion in optical parametric generation) in the passive port (detection port) of the Michelson Interferometer. Another interesting feature is the generation of ‘squeezed’ state by radiation pressure back action. This can be a very useful study at University level with a lot of scope for learning., Sincere thanks. Here is another lecture program at Physics Department to be held on the 29th December, 2016. The abstract is given below. Kindly upload this to the departmental events.

Physics weekly Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Atri Bhattacharya, Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Université de Liège
PLT-2 28th December 2 PM
Title: Exploring boosted dark matter scenarios using IceCube
Abstract:
IceCube is the largest present neutrino detector at about 1 km^3 in instrumented volume. Built at the south pole, and deep into the Antarctic ice-bed, it is designed to detect ultra-high energy neutrinos incident at the earth with energies of 1 TeV and above. Since being built in 2010, IC has had remarkable success, detecting more than a 5 sigma evidence of a neutrino flux over and above known sources of neutrinos, such as those from cosmic ray interactions with atmospheric nuclei. In this talk, I will briefly describe the IceCube detector, its goals and results, and the standard interpretations of said results. I will then discuss how this neutrino detector can be used to detect an altogether different kind of particle, namely fast moving or "boosted" dark matter, showing in the process, that present observations at IC are really also compatible with this alternative scenario, for reasonable values of parameters in the theory.

Prevention of Mass Violence and Promotion of Tolerance: Lessons from History
International Multidisciplinary Conference
Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata, India
27-28 February 2017
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Lectures on
Binary Black Hole Physics
Gravitational Wave Data Analysis
Gravitational Wave Instrumentation
On December 12-16th , 2016
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Religiosity/Secularity in the Fiction of Bangladesh War of Independence (1971): Lecture by M H Khan, NY Univ, Fri 9 Dec, 12:30 pm, HLT (2)
Poster

Presidency University, Kolkata
Celebration of Constitution Day
26.11.2016
Time: 1:20 PM
Lecture Theatre, Department of Political Science
Presidency University
Arun Kumar Maiti, Dean of Students
Speakers
Prof. Yarraguntla Suresh Babu

All are invited

Three day workshop on
Big Data Analytics
will be held at
Cochrane Place, Kurseong on 12-14th December 2016

Physics Weekly Colloquium
Nov 16th, 2 PM at PLT-2
Speaker: Dr. Ujjaini Alam (ISI)
Title: Cosmic Acceleration and Dark Energy
Abstract: Dark energy is one of the most tantalizing mysteries in current cosmological research. A host of observations confirm that about two-thirds of the energy content of the universe comprises of this negative-pressure `dark energy'' component that causes the expansion of the universe to accelerate. In this talk, we will explore two distinct facets of dark energy research-- the theoretical and the observational. Many different theoretical models have been suggested for dark energy. We shall examine these theoretical models, and the constraints on them in light of current observations. A second approach to the dark energy problem is to study the various observations available to us with different statistical tools, and optimize these methods for obtaining maximum information on the dark energy parameters. Using these two complementary approaches in conjunction, we expect to shed light on the nature of dark energy.

Lecture Schedule for Georgia State University delegation
organized by Department of Political Science Presidency University
on November 11-22, 2016
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Dr. Sumit Agarwal
Professor of Finance, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
will deliver a talk on
“Thy Neighbor’s Misfortune: Peer Effect on Consumption”
4th November 2016 from 4 pm
Department of Economics, Presidency University
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Physics Weekly Colloquium
SNBose National Centre for Basic Sciences
26th Oct 2016 at 2 PM at PLT-2

Title: Additivity and Fluctuations in Mass Transport Processes

Abstract: Understanding fluctuations is fundamental to the formulation of statistical mechanics, where additivity plays a crucial role. For example, consider equilibrium thermodynamics which is based on the principle of additivity: Macroscopic state of a system can be determined by extremizing a thermodynamic potential (such as entropy or free energy). In equilibrium, additivity leads to the concept of intensive thermodynamic variable (temperature, pressure or chemical potential), which helps in understanding fluctuations in the system. However, in nonequilibrium, there is no unified principle to characterize fluctuations. In this talk, I aim to provide a statistical mechanics framework to characterize steady-state mass fluctuations in a broad class of nonequilibrium mass transport processes.

The Department of Economics Presidency University is pleased to announce a Capacity Building Workshop on
BIG DATA, ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
from 20 to 26 October 2016.
Registration is open till 5th October 2016. Download Brochure   Guest House Accommodation Detail

The Department of Bengali, Presidency University is going to organize
a three-day workshop on ‘Manuscriptology’
on and from 20th to 22nd October, 2016 at 01:00 pm.
with the collaboration Bangiya Sahitya Parisad, Kolkata.
Venue: Seminar-room, the department of Philosophy, (N S Building, Ground Floor) PU
& Seminar Hall, Bangiya Sahitya Parisad, Kolkata (22/10/2016).
Registration is open till 20th October 2016

PREMCHAND WEEKLY LECTURE SERIES -7
(A platform to share knowledge without boundaries)
Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
cordially invite you to
Premchand Weekly Lecture
on
" Jewish Contributions to Hindi Literature and their Portrayal in it "
Speaker : Navras Jaat Aafreedi
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Presidency University
Date : 21st October,2016
Time:, 3.15 pm
Venue: Lecture Theater, Hindi Department
All are welcome

Department of Economics, Presidency University presents a special lecture on
Policy, Politics and Credit Supply
by
Nagpurnanand R. Prabhala
Professor of Finance at University of Maryland
Chief Mentor and Head of Research, CAFRAL, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai

Venue: Economics Lecture Theatre, Economics Department
17th October 2016 from 11 am - 12.30 pm
All are welcome

Abstract: In emerging markets, policy and politics are central in shaping credit supply and its effect on firm growth. We show how using evidence from India. Reforms in creditor rights shape the type of credit in an economy and in particular, enhance the supply of arm’s length credit relative to relationship banking. Policies attempting to direct credit towards small firms can have the counterintuitive effect of inhibiting small firm growth. Directed lending policies can shape the flow of credit in directions sought by the state but state ownership of lenders introduces a political channel that can additionally modulate these flows with unclear effects on output.

Department of Political Science cordially invites you to a seminar lecture to be delivered by :
Prof. Biju Paul Abraham, Dean of Indian Institute of Management, (IIM) Calcutta
Theme of the Lecture : 'Political Economy of Trade Liberalisation: India and the Doha Round of the WTO'
Venue : Seminar Lecture Theatre, Department of Political Science
Date : October 5th , 2016 . Time : 3.30 pm

Physics Weekly Colloquium
Vienna Institute of Technology
Time: September 21st, 2 PM at PLT-2
Title: A new nonperturbative framework and QCD
Abstract: An outstanding challenge for theoretical physics today is to construct an effective framework for quantum systems including nonperturbative effects. We need to understand how to include both weakly coupled partons and strongly coupled IR degrees of freedom together into a complete and consistent framework. This is relevant for QCD as lack of suitable factorization of hadronic amplitudes when momentum transfer is above the saturation scale, formation of QGP in heavy-ion collisions, collective flow in collisions of small systems and many other such experimentally accessible phenomena require us to construct such a framework for understanding them. We will propose a new framework for QCD in this direction and discuss concrete progress made towards its construction. We will argue that the best context to first employ this framework will be to heavy-ion collision experiments. Finally, we will discuss a toy model where the full proposed framework can be explicitly constructed.

Presidency University
Time: September 21st, 4 PM at PLT-2
Title: What do you do with your Science Degree?

The Department of History cordially invites you to:
Notes on a Poetic History of South Asia
Lecture
by
Dr Nosheen Ali
Wednesday, 21 September, 2016,12:30 pm
History Lecture Theatre (Room 2), Main Building, Presidency University, Kolkata Click Here for details

PREMCHAND WEEKLY LECTURE SERIES -6
(A platform to share knowledge without boundaries)
Department of Hindi, Presidency University,Kolkata
cordially invite you to
Premchand Weekly Lecture
on
" Criticism in the New Century: Ismat Chughtai's "Lihaaf" and its Discontents"
Speaker : Dr. Anupma Mohan
Asst.Professor, Department of English, Presidency University
Date : 16th September,2016
Time:, 3.15 pm
Venue: Lecture Theater, Hindi Department
All are welcome

Physics Weekly Colloquium
Wednesday 14th September, 2016
2PM at PLT-2
Speaker: Prof. Arnab Das
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Title: Periodically Driven Closed Quantum Systems: Some Recent Elementary Development
Abstract: When a quantum system is driven periodically in time by varying a parameter (interaction/externally applied field) in time, quantum interference can result in surprising counterintuitive phenomena even in very simple systems. In many-body context, periodic drive can give rise to non-trivial periodic states which can be understood by extending the fundamental framework of equilibrium statistical mechanics. In this talk we will give an introduction to some of these interesting recent developments.

Outreach Programme in Mathematics
Department of Mathematics, Presidency University is organising an outreach programme for 10+2 students on 12th September, 2016. The interested students are requested to send an email to < math.presidency@gmail.com > for registration with their name, class and the name of their school. There are limited seats, so early registration is encouraged. The email registration will be closed on 9th September, 2016 and the selected candidates will be intimated by an email on 10th September, 2016. There will be a registration fee of Rs. 50/- (rupees fifty only) payable at the event.
The details of the programme are as follows:
Venue: Mathematics Lecture Theatre, Main building (1st floor)
Registration: 10:00 am -- 10:30 am
Lecture 1: 10:30 am -- 11:45 am
Lecture 2: 11:45 am – 1:00 pm
Lunch: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Lecture 3: 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Lecture 4: 3:15 pm – 4:30 pm
Tea Break: 4:30 pm -- 4:45 pm
Discussion : 4:45 pm – 5:30 pm

The names of the speakers with the names of the topics are as follows:

Real valued functions: Kuntal Banerjee & Tapan Saha
Geometry and Structures: Shubhabrata Das
Elementary Number theory: Sabyasachi Dutta

PREMCHAND WEEKLY LECTURE SERIES -5
(A platform to share knowledge without boundaries)
Department of Hindi, Presidency University,Kolkata
cordially invite you to
Premchand Weekly Lecture
on
Cartoon in the Hindi Literary Sphere, 1900-1940
Speaker : Dr.Prabhat Kumar
Asst.Professor, Department of History, Presidency University
Date : 9th September,2016
Time:, 3.15 pm
Venue: Lecture Theater, Hindi Department
All are welcome

प्रेसिडेंसी विश्वविद्यालय, हिंदी विभाग द्वारा आयोजित
प्रथम द्विशतवार्षिकी व्याख्यान माला

वक्ता : अलका सरावगी
व्याख्यान -1
झुके मकानों का शहर : कलकत्ता और कथा का भूगोल
तारीख और समय 21 सितंबर 2016, तीन बजे
स्थान : लेक्चर थियेटर, हिंदी विभाग, पी.यू
व्याख्यान-2
कथा और हूतूतू
तारीख और समय : 2 नवंबर 2016, तीन बजे
स्थान : लेक्चर थियेटर, हिंदी विभाग, पी.यू
व्याख्यान -3
प्रवासी मन और कथा का डायसपोरा
तारीख और समय : 16 नवंबर 2016, तीन बजे
स्थान : लेक्चर थियेटर, हिंदी विभाग, पी.यू
सादर आमंत्रण

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Present its first Bicentennial Lecture Series
Speaker : Alka Saraogi
Sahitya Academy Winner Eminent Hindi Writer

Department of Mathematics, Presidency University invites you all to a series of lectures on
Weierstrass approximation through Bernstein polynomials: When Probability dates Analysis
by
Dr. Parthanil Roy, Indian Statistical Institute
Venue: Mathematics Lecture Theatre.
Date & Time
Friday 9th September, 2016 4 PM
Friday 16th September, 2016 4:30 PM
Abstract: In this series of lectures, a purely probabilistic proof of Weierstrass approximation theorem will be presented. Basic probability theory needed for the proof will be developed in a self-contained manner. The statement and motivation of the approximation theorem will also be discussed from the viewpoint of real analysis. These lectures will explain, among other things, how inter-dependent the two subjects (probability theory and real analysis) are. Special care will be taken so that this series is accessible to the students.

Chemistry Lecture on September 6, 2016 at 2:30 PM at Chemistry Lecture Theatre 1 on
Fabrication of SERS-Based Sensor and and Single-Molecule Level Interaction between Polyelectrolyte and Protein
by
Dr. Ranjit De, Advanced Photonics Research Institute (APRI) and Department of Chemistry, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju 500-712, Republic of Korea.

Department of Political Science , Presidency University cordially invites you to
Public lecture on
“US ELECTORAL PROCESS AND ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN”
The Distingushed Speakers :
MR. WAYNE HARPER
Hon'ble Senator Utah-State Senate (Republican Party)
MS. ARUNA MILLER
Hon'ble Maryland State Legislature Delegate (Democratic Party)
Date : September 6th 2016, Tuesday, Time : 10.30AM
Venue : POLITICAL SCIENCE SEMINAR LECTURE THEATRE

Presidency University welcomes you to a public lecture in Mathematics
by
Fields Medalist Professor Cédric Villani
Director, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris
Venue: Physics Lecture Theatre 02
Date: 31st August, 2016, 10: 30 am

Physics Weekly Colloquium
Wednesday August 31st 2016
2PM at PLT-2
Title: Gravitational-Wave Detectors in India
Speaker Dr. Fred Raab, Head, LIGO Hanford Observatory

Abstract: The first observing run of LIGO’s second-generation detectors gave birth to the new field of gravitational wave astronomy. This run achieved the first direct detection of gravitational waves, the first observation of black hole binaries, the first look at black-hole dynamics and tests of General Relativity in extreme spacetime conditions. Achieving these discoveries required detectors at the frontier of measurement science. Fully exploiting the promise of this new field will require building out the international network of terrestrial gravitational-wave detectors, continually upgrading the detectors in the network’s existing facilities and developing new facilities to expand further the reach of these detectors. This represents significant opportunities for detector development in India. All are welcome.

Physics weekly colloquium
Speaker: Prof. Arnab Sen (IACS)
Date: August 24th, 2 PM, PLT2/PLT1
Title: Understanding the "simplest" spin liquids

Abstract: Spin liquids are intriguing magnetic states of matter that are neither ordered (like ferromagnets or antiferromagnets) nor disordered (like paramagnets), and require new concepts for their description. A complete understanding of such states is still lacking and many fundamental questions remain.
In this talk, I will describe a simple class of spin liquids and show why such states are non-trivial and how their properties can be understood most simply in terms of emergent gauge fields that are not present at the microscopic level.

Physics weekly colloquium
Speaker: Prof. Soumen Roy (Bose Institute)
Date: August 17th,2016
Time: 2 PM at PLT2
Title - Complex systems: From image processing to phage-bacteria interactions
Abstract - There are many systems and phenomena in nature and everyday life, which we encounter frequently and yet understand poorly. In this talk, I will present a tiny subset of such phenomena and explore whether an interdisciplinary set of techniques from mathematics, statistics, computation and statistical physics of networks can shed fresh insight. Diverse examples such as detecting vulnerabilities in infrastructure networks, the design of image processing devices, non-invasive diagnostics, synthetic biology inspired protein design etc. would be furnished. All of these would be firmly grounded upon experimental data. Finally, I would demonstrate how an iterative cycle of experiment-driven modeling and model-driven experimentation can uncover new and exciting findings in biology.

The Department of History takes pleasure in inviting you to Roy Bar Sadeh's lecture titled "Producing a New Network of Belonging in the Indian Subcontinent: al-Manar's Milieu and Bombay's Arab Mercantile Community (1898-1935)."
The talk will take place on Wednesday, 17th August, beginning at 12:30 pm, at the History Lecture Theatre (Room 2).
Mr. Roy Bar Sadeh is a PhD candidate in History at Columbia University, New York. He works on transnational intellectual interactions between Muslim scholars in the Mashriq, South Asia and Central Asia from the mid-19 century to the 1940s.

Department of Economics, Presidency University,
presents a special lecture series on
Persistence of Poverty and Anti-Poverty Policies
by
Maitreesh Ghatak
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, London School of Economics
Schedule

 Date Time 16 August 2016 3 pm to 5.30 pm 17 August 2016 3 pm to 5.30 pm 18 August 2016 11 am to 1 pm

Venue: Economics Lecture Theatre
All are welcome.

Department of Economics, Presidency University, is happy to announce two special interactive lectures on
The Curriculum in Open-access Resources in Economics (CORE)
project and teaching economics in an active way
&
Inequality with CORE Project
by Dr. Parama Chaudhury of University College of London
on 10 and 11 August 2016 at Economics Computer Laboratory, Presidency University. Timing is as follows:

 Date Title of the lecture Time 10 August 2016 The Curriculum in Open-access Resources in Economics (CORE) project and teaching economics in an active way 2 pm to 4 pm 11 August 2016 Inequality with CORE Project 1.30 pm to 2.30 pm

All interested people are welcome.

Special Lectures on Topics in Condensed Matter Physics
by Prof. Krishnendu Sengupta,
Professor, Department of Theoretical Physics
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
August 3rd : 3.30 PM- 5.30 PM
August 10th: 3.30 PM-5.30 PM
August 17th: 3.30 PM-5.30 PM
August 24th: 3.30 PM-5.30 PM
August 31st: 3.30 PM-5.30 PM
Room: Physics Seminar Room

The Paschimbanga Itihas Samsad and the Department of History, Presidency University, take great pleasure in inviting you to the XXIII Professor Susovan Chandra Sarkar Memorial Lecture.

This year, Professor Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University, will be speaking on the subject of 'Sahitye Itihas, Itihase Raj-niti: Nawabi Theke Swadeshi Bangla (History in Literature, Politics in History: From Nawabi to Swadeshi Bengal)'.

The lecture will begin at 4:00 pm on Tuesday, 16 August 2016, at the Political Science Lecture Theatre, Presidency University, Kolkata.

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY PRESENTS
Benjamin Lacam’s New Harbor: Geography, Law and Empire
Speaker: Dr. Debjani Bhattacharyya
Dr. Debjani Bhattacharyya, is Assistant Professor in Department of History, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. She has done her Masters from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and PhD from Emory University, USA. Her research interests and publications are in the field of urban environmental history, legal history, history of economic thought and postcolonial studies.
ABSTRACT:
After a series of requests in 1770, Benjamin Lacam received a land grant to build his New Harbor close to Channel Creek east of Sagar Islands in the Bay of Bengal. Lacam claimed that he had discovered a "natural harbour" in this tidal delta, where the depth of water and the landmass remained constant affording a safe passage from the Bay to the docks of Calcutta. Yet, two months before his Harbor was to begin functioning in 1776 the Calcutta Revenue Committee withdrew the grant from Lacam halting construction. The reasons for canceling the grant were twofold: The first stemmed out of the presence of water in the land that was granted to him, as water within a land grant “went beyond the spirit of the document,” as one Company official claimed. Second, the depth of the Harbor failed to yield a constant measurement as Lacam initially claimed, posing a problem of geographical evidence within dispute arbitration. What followed was a legal case lasting a quarter century that begun in the Mayor’s Court in Calcutta in 1776 and ended in London 1803. The legal debate that ensued proceeded primarily along three lines, a: distinguishing land and water as separate jurisdictional entities within law, b: the accuracy of instruments to measure depth of water and finally c: human integrity in the person of Lacam. Some of the members of the jury and surveyors who were called upon to judge and testify understood the seasonal variability and variety of land-water admixture that made up the tidal landscape. However, they all agreed that this mobility was a "problem" that needed to be fixed through accurate instruments of measure and new legal imaginaries in the name of safeguarding company’s interests in the emerging property and land market. This failed infrastructural venture brings to light the imbrications of property, environment and law for Lacam speculated not just financially, but also with geography and law.
VENUE: HISTORY LECTURE THEATRE
DATE: 12/08/2016 (FRIDAY)
TIME: 1:00 PM
ALL ARE WELCOME

Physics weekly colloquium
Hunting for Survival: Chemotaxis, Search and Statistical Mechanics
August 10th 2 PM at PLT-1

Physics Department Wednesday Colloquium
Date: July 27th, 2016, 2 PM
Speaker:
Prof. Surajit Sen
Department of Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-1500
Email: sen@buffalo.edu
Title: Mechanical energy transport through granular systems
Abstract
The talk shall focus on the rich physics associated with mechanical energy transport through artificially constructed granular systems such as the Newton’s cradle, and decorated 2D and 3D granular structures with closed or random packing. Mechanical energy travels as a solitary wave in 1D granular systems. Such a system turns out to be non-integrable, thereby leading the solitary waves to break down and form again during collisions, thus giving rise to large energy fluctuations (rogue fluctuations as in rogue waves) and very slow relaxation in the non-dissipative limit, a topic of interest in non-equilibrium statistical physics. We will touch upon impact decimation in decorated 1D, 2D and 3D granular systems, which is becoming a mature topic now and turns out to be of interest to the blast mitigation community. We will close with some comments on crater formation during impact onto a 3D bed.

This research has been partially supported by the US Army Research Office

Department of Economics, Presidency University, cordially invites you to a special lecture on
A study of the negotiated-settlement practice in regulation: Some evidence from Florida
by
Dr. Shourjo Chakravorty,
Istanbul Technical University,
on
20 July 2016 at Economics Lecture Theatre, Presidency University.

A public lecture By
Professor Tapodhir Bhattachayay, Assam University, Silchar
On ‘ Language Hegemony & Bengali Language’
Organized by Department of Bengali, Presidency University
Venue : N S Building (Seminar Room, Ground Floor)
Date & Time: 18 July, 2016 at 03:00 pm
Invitation Card

Department of Economics, Presidency University cordially invites you to a special lecture on
Ethnic Conflict and Civic Engagement
Souvik Dutta
Assistant Professor in Economics, Economics and Social Sciences Area
and
Young Faculty Research Chair
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Date: 2 June 2016 at 12 noon     Venue: Economics Lecture Theatre

Abstract

Despite similar levels of ethnic diversity, some places manage to remain peaceful while others experience ethnic conflict. Using a game theoretic framework, I argue that this variation is related to the structure of ethnic engagement in the society. Ethnic engagement refers to a business relationship between two individuals which can be inter (with an individual of opposite ethnicity) or intra (with an individual of same ethnicity). I show, the more segregated an economy is i.e., the higher is the degree of intra-relative to inter-ethnic engagements, the more conflict prone the economy is. The chances of conflict are lowered if there are “inter” ethnic ties in form of social engagement, i.e. if individuals derive utility from social interactions. Absolute poverty can also play a role in precipitating conflict. I also provide an empirical analysis in the context of Hindu-Muslim violence in India. The analysis shows that higher is the inbreeding homophily at a place the greater is the probability of occurrence of a conflict there, which validates the main result of the paper.

Department of Bengali Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you all to a Talk
on
BANGALIR KABYANATYA CHARCHA : TATWA O PRAYOG
Speaker
(Renowned Critic in Literature & Drama)
Date : Wednesday, 4May, 2016
Time : 1:30pm
Venue: Departmental Lecture Theatre

The Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata: Annual Kuruvila Zachariah Memorial Lecture
The Department of History takes great pleasure in inviting you to its
Annual Kuruvila Zachariah Memorial Lecture.
Date and Time
Wednesday, 27 April 2016, from 11:50 am to 1:50 pm
Venue
The Department's Lecture Theatre no. 2.
This year's speaker is Professor Janaki Nair
Topic / Title of the Lecture
"Your History, My Pasts": The Possibility of a "Historical Temper" in Contemporary India

Abstract: This paper will begin with the dilemma of the professional historian in contemporary India. It has on the one hand led to a new kind of accountability of the professional historian to a very sceptical public, well beyond the confines of colleges and departments and journals. It has also led to a relative "irrelevance" of professional history at a time of burgeoning of popular and public histories which show no particular commitment to positivist evidentiary protocols. Can we think of a historical method appropriate to our times? To what extent should such a method be attentive to the sense of the past rather than the meanings of the past which appear to set academic histories apart from the copious productions of the popular/sectarian/interested historians? Finally, what are the possible ways in which the professional historian's recast methods recover their claims to a credible account of the past? The paper will attempt to answer some of these questions through reference to the afterlives of Tipu Sultan in Kannada lavanies.

The Speaker
Professor Janaki Nair teaches History at the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU. Her research interests, which have largely focussed on the region of Mysore/Karnataka, range from labour and working class history to legal history, and from histories of the city to histories and theories of feminism in India. Her published works include Mysore Modern: Rethinking the Region under Princely Rule (Orient Blackswan, 2012) and The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore's Twentieth Cenutry (OUP, 2005, 2006).
All are welcome

Prof. Rana Adhikari from California Institute of Technology (LIGO Team) will be giving the colloquium on Wednesday 20th April at 3.30 PM at AJC Bose Auditorium.
Speaker: Prof. Rana Adhikari (California Institute of Technology)
Time: 3.30 PM @ AJC Bose Auditorium.
Date: April 20th, Wednesday
Title: The Quiet Thunder of Gravity in the Cosmos
In 1916, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves—vibrations of spacetime produced by the most cataclysmic events in the universe that travel at the speed of light. Yet for several decades, it was believed that these waves either did not exist or were too weak to detect. Over the past 45 years, scientists have been developing ever-more-sensitive detectors capable of measuring these spacetime distortions from as far away as hundreds of millions of light years. On September 14th, the universe spoke to us for the first time through the spacetime vibrations of a pair of massive black holes from a billion years ago.

In this talk, Adhikari will describe how our understanding of the quantum physics of the very, very small has allowed us to explore gravitational physics of the very, very large. The window onto the dark side of the universe is now open.
In Physics Tea we will have a discussion session with the speaker.

Department of Bengali Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you all to a Talk
on
ESAMAYER BANGLA KABITAY CHITRA KALPO
Speaker
SRI PRABAL KUMAR BASU & BIBHAS ROY CHAWDHURI
Renowned Poet & Critic
Date : Monday, 18th April, 2016
Time : 1:30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Bengali Department, Presidency University

Physics Tea
Date: 13.4.2016
Time: 2 PM @ PLT-2
Speakers: Ms. Sukanya Mallik and Mr. Unmesh Ghorai
Title: Let's get molded into plasma

Abstract: Starting from the distant nebula to our very close candle flame, Plasma is all around us. Plasma Physics is a very old division and it has a wide range of application in space and astrophysics, controlled Fusion Reaction (Tokamak), accelerator physics etc. It also has a variety of commercial and industrial applications. So, it's very important to understand some basic plasma phenomena and its physical mechanism to understand those applications and explore new areas of applications. But, because of the presence of a large number of charged particles and non-linear interactions between them, Plasma is indeed a very complex system to deal with. The properties of plasma are diagonised by using a probe, e.g Langmuir probe. We have studied some interesting properties of plasma by analysing the plasma parameters under the influence of applied electric and magnetic field. The talk will cover these and finally we will discuss briefly on plasma confinement using magnetic field and its use in Tokamak. It will be a short journey to the Fourth State of Matter, the Plasma world.

Colloquium
Date: 13.4.2016
Time: 3.30 PM @ AJC Bose Auditorium
Speaker: Arghya Taraphder
Affiliation: Dept. of Physics and Centre for Theoretical Studies, IIT Kharagpur
Title: Physical science at the table top: mysteries of the collective response

The popular notion of 'esoteric', extant in only the cosmic or subatomic scale, is debunked with examples of everyday phenomena that are as mysterious. Some of these can be observed in table-top experiments and back-of-the-envelop calculations. In almost all these cases, the mystery is in the fact that the individual particles or atoms do not respond to a probe, a collective organization of the system 'sees' and 'responds' where there should seemingly be no response at all. These are 'emergent' properties of the 'many', not amenable to the reductionist approach prevalent in the last century. In much of these, quantum organization plays a central role.
All are welcome.

Event: Students' Seminar at the Department of Mathematics, Presidency University
Speaker: Ajay Saha (PG 2)
Date & Time: 7th April 2016, Thursday at 3.30 pm
Venue: Room # 8, Main building, Presidency University
Title: Variational Principle in Classical Mechanics
Abstract: We will start with the deduction of Euler-Lagrange equation from Hamilton's principle of least action and we will show the equivalence of Lagrange's equation and Hamilton's equation. Then we will discuss Liouville's theorem, Poincare's Recurrence theorem and it's applications.

Physics Tea @ 2 PM at PLT-2
Speaker Mr. Shibsankar Dutta
Title: α- Vanadyl Phosphate Based Hybrid Supercapacitor: A new candidate for the Energy Storage
Abstract: Two dimensional nano materials are the promising choose as a electrode material for supercapacitor application due to their large specific surface area, extra electrochemical active sites, high mechanical flexibility. Free standing hybrid films of functionalized MWCNT (–COOH group) and α-Vanadyl phosphates (VOPO4.2H2O) are prepared by vacuum filtering. The surface morphology and microstructure of the samples are studied by transmission electron microscope, field emission scanning electron microscope, Raman spectroscopy and XRD. Electrochemical properties of hybrid films have been investigated systematically in 1M Na2SO4 aqueous electrolyte. The hybrid material exhibits a high specific capacitance 236 F/g with high energy density of 65.6 Wh/Kg and a power density of 1476 W/Kg.
Speaker: Ms. Suchanda Mondal
Title: Highly efficient photocatalytic activity of CuO quantum dot decorated rGO Nanocomposites

Abstract: CuO Quantum dots (QDs) of size 4.5 nm decorated on rGO sheet to form nanocomposites with different weight percentages synthesized via simple soft chemical route. Tuning of CuO QDs absorption towards visible region from UV region in presence of rGO was also observed. The luminescence of rGO was found to be quenched in rGO-CuO nanocomposites owing to charge transfer from LUMO of rGO layer to the conduction band of CuO. Systematic and concise studies of photocatalytic performance towards degradation of methylene blue dye by CuO QDs along with rGO-CuO nanocomposites were presented in this work. Nanocomposite with equal weight percentage of rGO and CuO degrades almost 99 % of methylene blue under irradiation of visible light for 50 minutes shows maximum degradation efficiency.

Colloquium at 3.30 PM at AJC Bose auditorium
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Title: Entanglement as resource in quantum information processing

Abstract:
In the earlier part of the development of quantum mechanics, entanglement in QM was used to show some apparently unacceptable counterintuitive features of the interpretation of QM. But starting from the last part of 20th Century, physicists started showing some nice applications of entangled state in some information processing phenomena like super dense coding, secret key generation, quantum computation and quantum communication. We shall discuss some of the basics of quantum information to understand how entanglement is indeed a resource for information processing.
All are invited.

Physics Tea
Date: 30th March 2016 Time: 2 PM @ PLT-2
Speaker: Prof. Dipanjan Chakrabarty (IISER-Mohali)

Colloquium
Date: 30th March 2016 Time: 3.30 PM at AJC Bose Auditorium
Title: Particles, Accelerators and Symmetries
Abstract: Unveiling the fundamental laws of physics at the smallest attainable distance scales requires a herculean effort on both the experimental and theoretical fronts. An outline of such efforts will be given in this colloquium. After a review of the circumstances leading to the discovery of the Higgs boson, a glimpse of some yet unanswered questions will be given.
All are welcome

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you all to a Talk
on
Italian Renaissance and Painting
Speaker : Prof. Indrani Das
Professor, Department of English & other European Languages
Visva Bharati
Date : Tuesday, 29 March, 2016
Time : 11 am
Venue : Lecture Theatre, Hindi Department, Presidency University

Celebrating 200 Years of Presidency
Department of Sociology organises a 2-day conference on
"Transgender Embodiments and Experiences: Problems and Possibilities"
Date:28-29 March , 2016 from 11:00 am onwards at A.J.C. Bose Auditorium
Poster

Popular Mathematics Lecture organized by the Department of Mathematics, Presidency University.
Speaker: Professor Arnaud Chéritat, CNRS, FRANCE.
Date & Time: 22nd March 2016, Tuesday at 4 pm.
Venue: Mathematics Lecture Theatre, Presidency University.
Title of the Lecture: Sphere Eversion
Abstract: Smale proved in 1959 that one can turn the sphere inside out in the Euclidean 3-space, by going through immersions. However, he did not give an explicit description of how to realize it. Since then, many people gave different ways to do it. I will briefly present the history of explicit sphere eversions, then describe a new way to do it.

An international seminar series organized by the Department of Mathematics, Presidency University.
Speaker: Professor Arnaud Chéritat, CNRS, FRANCE.
Dates & Time: 21-22 March 2016 & 24-25 March 2016 at 11.30 am.
Venue: Mathematics Lecture Theatre, Presidency University.
Title of the seminar series: Parabolic Implosions in Complex Dynamics.
Abstract: I will explain the local dynamics of parabolic fixed points and their perturbation in one dimensional complex dynamics. The first part of this series will include the Leau flower theorem, the Fatou coordinates, horn maps (conjugacy invariants) and their covering properties. The second part will deal with vector field comparison, implosion, geometric limits, renormalization, near-parabolic renormalization.

Bicentennial celebration
Department of Hindi, Presidency University
On
Modern Indian Women Writings
Venue: A.J.C Bose Auditorium
Date & Time: 21st March 2016, 10:30 am and onwards
Details Poster

Students' Seminar in the Department of Mathematics, Presidency University
Speaker: Arijit Ganguly, TIFR Mumbai
Date & Time: 17th March 2016, Thursday at 3.30 pm
Venue: Room # 8, Main building, Presidency University
Title: A Survey of Diophantine Approximation
Abstract: Diophantine Approximation is regarded as the analysis of 'how the set of rational numbers is included inside the set of real numbers'. That is, we try to understand how "well" a generic real number can be approximated by rational numbers. The starting point of this discussion will be a classical result, namely the "Dirichlet's Theorem". We will then talk about the "Very Well Approximable Numbers" and "Badly Approximable Numbers" followed by the celebrated result of K. F. Roth on the strength of which he was awarded the Fields medal. We shall also see the higher dimensional natural analogs. We also review these classical results from the point of view of homogeneous dynamics. We shall see how the diophantine properties of a number or vector corresponds to the properties of certain orbits in some homogeneous dynamical systems. Finally, if time permits, we shall discuss a landmark work by Kleinbock D. Y and Margulis G. A on "Metric Diophantine Approximation on Manifolds".

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you all to a Talk
on
Bharatmuni’s Natyashastra : Classical Concept & Relevance
Speaker : Prof. Mau Dasgupta
Date : Monday, 14 March, 2016
Time : 12 pm
Venue : Lecture Theatre, Hindi Department, Presidency University

Department of Political Science, Presidency University and Council for Political Studies, Kolkata
Announce
Call for papers
For One day Annual Conference on 18 March, 2016
On
Democracy and Tolerance

Presidency University cordially invites its students to an informal meeting
with
Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty,
Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago,
on Monday, 14 March 2016, beginning at 4:00 pm
in the canteen (Nine to Nine).
This event is part of a series of conversations--Café Presidencian--with eminent scholars the Honourable Vice Chancellor has inaugurated as part of the university's lead up to its bicentennial commemoration.

One day workshop on "Philosophy of Mind"
by
Prof. Manidipa Sen
Venue: A.J.C Bose Auditorium
Time: 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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The Department of History has the pleasure of inviting you to
a talk by
Mou Banerjee of Harvard University
on
'The World and Words of Munshi Meherullah, and Muslim-Christian Polemics in Bengal, 1885-1907'.
Date and Time: 11 March 2016 (Friday), 11.40 am
Venue: History Department, Main Building, 2nd Floor, Room No. 2
Abstract:
Muslim atrap communities in the eastern part of the Bengal Presidency (present day Bangladesh), were the target demographic of Christian conversion efforts in the last decades of the nineteenth century. This gave rise to Bengali Muslim apologetic movements, whose main actors and their audiences were representative of networks of medium and low thought. Debates (bahas) between Muslim preachers and Christian missionaries, as well as religious meetings (waz mahfils), characterized these apologetics. Disseminated through street-market chapbooks in Musalmani-Bengali or dobashi Bengali, such polemics translated the cultural valences of Christianity and Islam both as personal faith and as communitarian identifying markers. In this paper, I analyze a selection of such pamphlets authored by an itinerant tailor called Munshi Meherullah, who spearheaded the atrap Bengali reaction against missionary efforts.

Presidency University cordially invites you to a lecture by
Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service
Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago,
on the subject of "Climate Change and the Humanities".
The talk will be held on 10 March 2016, starting at 4:00 pm, in the AJC Bose Auditorium.

Presidency University Department of English
Young Researchers’ Conference
On
Critiquing caste in /as Dalit Literature
Date: 8th & 9th March, 2016
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The Library is going to organize a program on
"e-Resources@Presidency: Developing better research environment"
on 8th March, 2016 at AJC Bose Auditorium from 1.30 PM -5.30PM.
All are cordially requested to remain present on the program

Event: Students' Seminar in the Department of Mathematics, Presidency University
Speaker: Sayan Gupta (UG second year, Math Major)
Date: Thursday 3rd March, 2016
Time: 3.30 pm - 5 pm
Venue: Room number 8, main building
Title: Regular Polyhedra and the Groups of symmetries
Abstract: The aim of this talk is to prove Euler's formula and classify all regular polyhedrons. Moreover the Groups of symmetries of a regular polyhedron and its dual are discussed.

Brain Awareness Programme 2016

Speaker: Prof Paul Spence, Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, Faculty of Life Arts & Humanities at Kings College, London
Day and Date: Thursday, 25 February 2016
Time & Venue: 11 a.m. - 12 noon at A.J.C. Bose Auditorium
Lecture Topic: The Digital Humanities and new architectures of participation in humanities scholarship
Lecture Abstract: The manner in which we create and disseminate knowledge is being fundamentally transformed by mobile, networked, digital culture and technology. The scope of the humanities, as crucial as ever in providing critical perspectives on human culture in its many forms, is expanding to accommodate new tools and methods, and the 'digital humanities' have emerged as a space to code, disseminate and theorise about new forms of humanities scholarship. Whether applied to music, film, drama, history, literature or language, the digital humanities have forged new architectures of participation which have frequently assumed an ethos of open collaboration, challenging traditional concepts of authorship and publication, and enabling new skills and roles. My presentation will explore the new questions and opportunities which digitally mediated knowledge production provokes, while addressing the cultural and linguistic deficiencies contained in narrowly defined discourses of disruption

The Department of History, Presidency University, has the pleasure of inviting you to a
talk by
Dr Julian Strube of Heidelberg University
on
'Socialism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century France'.
Date and Time: 24.2.2016 (Wednesday), 1 pm
Venue: History Department, Main Building, 2nd Floor, Room No. 3
Abstract:
Socialism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century France
From a Marxist perspective, the history of socialism is marked by a materialist, secular struggle against religious superstition. Due to the dominance of Marxist narratives in the historiography of socialism, it is often overlooked that the early socialist currents in France articulated decidedly religious identities and fundamentally based their social theories on new concepts of “religion.” These socialist schools, especially the Saint-Simonians, Fourierists and Icarian Communists emerged since the 1820s and were active under the July Monarchy between 1830 and 1848. Due to the failure of the Second Republic and the succeeding rise of Proudhonism and Blanquism, their religious doctrines were largely eclipsed. Consequently, scholarship has barely payed any attention to the continuing role of early socialist ideas for the formation of new religious movements since the 1850s, especially Spiritualism and Occultism. The paper will firstly discuss the role of “religion” in early French socialism and then argue for the lasting influence that socialist concepts exerted on the European history of religions.

Students' Seminar in the Department of Mathematics, Presidency University
Speaker: Anubrato Bhattacharyya (UG second year, Math Major)
Date: Thursday 18th February, 2016
Time: 3.30 pm - 5 pm
Venue: Room number 8, main building
Title: Some classical inequalities
Abstract: The aim of this talk is to present proofs of four classical inequalities [AM-GM, Cauchy-Schwarz, Holder and Minkowski] using the theory of convex functions.

Welcome Tust/DBT India Alliance and Presidency University (PU), Kolkata
are jointly organising
a one day symposium at PU (AJC Bose Auditorium) on 23rd February, 2016.

The students and faculty of the Department of History cordially invite you to two lectures and a discussion, to follow, with
Professor Ishita Banerjee-Dube and Professor Saurabh Dube
on the subject of
"Questions of Caste and Identity: Religion, Gender, Power".
The event will be held in the Bankim Sabhagriha on Wednesday, 10 February 2016, beginning at 1 pm.

Students Seminar in the Mathematics Department, Presidency University
Speaker: Aayushmaan Chakrabarti (UG second year, Math Major)
Date: Thursday 4th February, 2016
Time: 3.30 pm - 5 pm
Venue: Room number 8, main building
Title: Schroeder-Bernstein Theorem
Abstract: This theorem states that if there are injective maps f: A -> B and g: B -> A between two given sets A and B then there exists a bijection h: A -> B, between these two sets A & B. Various proofs of this theorem will be discussed in this talk.

Economics Department is going to organize
a Two Day Capacity Building Workshop
on
LEARNING SPSS
on 1st and 2nd February 2016.
Registration for the workshop will be closed by 27th January 2016.

Functional Materials:Recent Trends
One-day symposium organized by
Department of Physics, Presidency University.

Date: 29th January, 2016 (Friday).
Venue: A.J.C. Bose Auditorium
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Presidency University The 199th Founders' Day
Venue : Derozio Hall, Presidency University
20th January 2016, 1:00 P.M.
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Presidency University Special Convocation 2016
Venue : Derozio Hall, Presidency University
20th January 2016, 10:30 A.M.
Poster

Department of Economics organized a Capacity Building Workshop
on
Econometrics and Finance
Date : 14-19 January, 2016
Venue : A.J.C. Bose Auditorium and Economics Department, Presidency University
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Department of Economics organized a two day workshop
on
Learning SPSS
Date : 11 & 13 January, 2016
Venue : Economics Department,Baker Building, Presidency University
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Department of Mathematics, Presidency University is organising
an event titled Teachers' Enrichment Workshop
during 4th January - 9th January, 2016.
This programme is funded by the National Centre for Mathematics and aimed mainly at college teachers.
We do have a list of registered participants, however interested people are also welcome to attend the lectures. The names of the speakers with the names of the topics are as follows:
Rings & Fields: Dr. Mrinal Kanti Das (ISI, Kolkata)
Complex Analysis: Dr. Subrata Shyam Roy (IISER, Kalyani)
Geometry of Curves: Dr. Samik Basu (RKMVU, Belur) & Dr. Somnath Basu (RKMVU, Belur)
The venue of this programme has been shifted from AJC Bose Auditorium/MLT to room number 8 in the main building.
For further details please visit: here

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata & Sahitya Academy, New Delhi
Cordially invites you all to a seminar
on
Sino-Indian Cultural Relation through Translation
Speaker : Prof. Jiang Jingkui
Professor & Head, Hindi Department, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University & Director, Centre for South Asian Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China
Date : Monday, 4th January, 2016
Time : 4.30 pm
Venue : A.J.C. Bose Auditorium, Presidency University

Presidency University presents a three day Workshop on Entrepreneurship Development organized by Department of Economics and Presidency University Young Entrepreneur Society (PUYES). The workshop will start with an orientation programme Being – becoming: 10 Steps to Entrepreneurship on 6th January 2016. On 7th the Keynote Address will be given by Mr. Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, CEO, Bandhan Bank. That will be followed by Technical Sessions and a round table, Meet the Entrepreneurs. Director, KPMG, will launch an e-market site for the students of Presidency University. As an extension of this programme a Panel Discussion on Entrepreneurship - the preferred professional choice will take place in Bengal Global Business Summit 2016 on 9th January 2016.
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The Department of Philosophy is organising A one-day State Level Seminar
on
“Epistemology: Kantian and Nyāya Perspectives”, Commemorating World Philosophy Day,
Date & Time: Friday the 20th November, 2015
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium

Department of Physics Presidency University, Kolkata cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Dr. Koushik Dutta
(Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal)
on
'Solving' A Few Problems of Big Bang Cosmology
Date: Wednesday, 18th November 2015
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of History cordially invites you to a talk
"GLOBAL CAPITAL AND FOOD"
SPEAKER: DR. UTSA RAY
Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
She is author of CULINARY CULTURES OF COLONIAL INDIA: A COSMOPOLITAN PLATTER AND THE MIDDLE CLASS (CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2015)
ABSTRACT:
As Eric Hobsbawm once wrote, before 1848 or when he suggests the “Age of Capital” begins, parts of the world had either marginal or superficial contacts. Hobsbawm had argued that the tightening net of the international economy drew even the very remote geographical areas into direct contact with the rest of the world. Among other things this paper addresses the shifts in the political economy of capitalism since the 1870s to the present and related transformations, if any, in the world of culture, and the relationship of the global and the local in the making of the different cultural forms and artifacts. Although this paper is about post 1870 development of capitalism, I will also delve into the history of the new world, rather on the cultural exchanges between the old world and the new world, meaning between the Americas and the rest of the world. This is because colonial as well as global capital needs to be analysed through the lens of cultural consumption. I will specifically address consumption as it relates to food. Food as a commodity is crucial in understanding the development of capitalist modernity. How capitalism shapes and defines the contours of a commodity can be understood in concrete terms through food.
VENUE: BANKIM SABHAGRIHA
TIME: 1.45PM
DATE: 16 NOVEMBER, 2015 (Monday)
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Economics, Presidency University is organizing a one-day conference on
"Issues in Economic Theory and Policy"
on 2 November 2015.
The objective is to encourage young researchers, who are undertaking M. Phil / Doctoral research or have completed such research, to present their output before a broader audience and receive a critical feedback on their work by renowned economists.
Invitation Card Front page Invitation Card Back page Programme chart Click here for details

Department of Physics Presidency University Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Prof. Soumen Basak
(Chemical Sciences Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)
on
Physics in Biology
Date: Wednesday, 7th October 2015
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

The students and faculty of the History Department, Presidency University, take great pleasure in inviting you to a lecture by
Professor Kapil Raj
on
"Managing Intercultural Encounter in the Early Decades of Calcutta's History, 1690-1750".

The lecture will take place in theBankim Sabhagriha on Wed, 7 October 2015, from 4:30 pm.

Department of Physics Presidency University Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Prof. Gautam Basu
(Biological Physics Division, Bose Institute)
on
Art in Science
Date: Wednesday, 30th September 2015
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: Physics Lecture Theatre I
ALL ARE WELCOME

The History Department in collaboration with Kashish Forward and Gaylaxy Magazine would like to invite you to a screening of LGBTQ films, followed by a discussion on 29 Sept 2015, 3:00 pm to 6:30 pm, in the AJC Bose auditorium.

Department of Physics Presidency University Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Prof. Soumen Basak
(Chemical Sciences Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)
on
Physics in Biology
Date: Wednesday, 23rd September 2015
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

The Department of Mathematics invites you all to a lecture by
Dr. Sourav Ghosh, Universite Paris-Sud
on
Classification of Surfaces
Venue: Mathematics Lecture Theatre (Main Building)
Department of Mathematics
Date and Time: 4 PM, 22/09/2015 (Tuesday)

Department of Physics Presidency University Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Dr. Manasvita Joshi
(Department of Astronomy, Boston University)
on
Multi-Wavelength Spectral Studies Of Blazars With MUZORF
Date: Wednesday, 16th September 2015
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Economics, Presidency University, Kolkata is organizing a Capacity Building Workshop on Econometrics and Finance from 8th to 14th of October, 2015.

The purpose of the Workshop is to promote the level of understanding of applications of econometric theory and techniques on financial data analysis, as well as enhancing the research capability of participants. The concept note along with tentative Programme is attached.

Due to limited facility in the department, only fifteen Faculty Members and/or Researchers will be able accommodated . Participants are requested to bring their own laptops. Interested persons are requested to kindly email their intention to participate to the undersigned in the mail id mousumi.econ@presiuniv.ac.in They should also intimate whether they are currently using any of these methods, or propose to do so in the future.

A registration fee of Rs. 2000 will be charged from the applicant.

Last date of sending request: 15th September, 2015
Last date of registration: 24th September, 2015
All are welcome

Eminent mathematician John F. Nash passed away recently. He had received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994 for his seminal contribution to the economic application of game theory.
The Economics Department, Presidency University, is organising a seminar on
"The Legacy of Nash"
on 14th August, 2015.
Prof Abhirup Sarkar
of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
and
Dr. Parikshit Ghosh
of Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi
will be speaking on the works of Nash and its applications in economics.

Department of Physics, Presidency University, Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Dr. Debraj Chakrabarti
(Department of Mathematics, Central Michigan University, USA)
on
Generalized Functions
Date: Wednesday, 12th August 2015
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you all to a talk
on
by
Andrew Ollett
Post-doctorate Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, USA
Date : Wednesday, 29th July 2015
Time : 2 pm
Venue : AJC Bose Auditorium, Presidency University
ALL ARE WELCOME

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY & SOCIOLOGY PRESENTS
Why Study History (of Science)?
by Dr. Projit Bihari Mukharji

SPEAKER: Dr. Projit Bihari Mukharji is Martin Meyerson Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, History & Sociology of Science/ South Asia Centre, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He has studied at Presidency College, Kolkata, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He is a writer of Nationalizing the Body: The Market, Print and Daktari Medicine (London: Anthem Press, 2009) and has written extensively on a variety of fields such as history of medicine, science, sports and the revolt of 1857.

ABSTRACT: Why study History or, History of Science for that matter? Is it not time we left the past and looked ahead to the future? In an age where we are possibly less than a generation away from actually setting up colonies on Mars what can History teach us and why should we care? Using examples from the latest research in genomics, I will argue that History in general and History of Science in particular is in fact more relevant now than ever before. Simultaneously, I will also make a second, but related, argument in favour of blurring the lines between History and History of Science by drawing upon the examples of gender and caste. .
VENUE: AJC BOSE AUDITORIUM
DATE: 29/06/2015 (MONDAY)
TIME: 3:00 PM
ALL ARE WELCOME

The Department of History, Presidency University, cordially invites you to a Lecture organized by the Institut de Chandernagore
THINKING HISTORY GLOBALLY
by
DIEGO OLSTEIN
Associate Professor in the Department of History and Associate Director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh, USA
Date: 26 May 2015
Time: 2.00 p.m.
Venue: BankimSabhagriha, Presidency University
ALL ARE WELCOME

The Department of Bengali cordially invites you to a Seminar
NATYA-BIBHAY MANCHA-BIBHAS with
BIBHAS CHAKRABORTY
on
The Political Theatre in Bengal : After Independence
A Documentary Film
Behind The Curtain : A Journey with Bibhas Chakraborty
Directed by
Shantanu Saha
Will be shown
Date: 7th April 2015, Monday
Time: 1.00 p.m.
Venue : A.J.C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME
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Department of Physics Presidency University Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Dr. Tapas Kumar Das
on
Date: Wednesday, 1st April 2015
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you all to UGC Sponsored National seminar
on
Contemporary Tribal Literature
Date : Monday, 30 March, 2015
Time : 10 am - 5 pm
Venue : A.J.C. Bose Auditorium, Presidency University Poster

The Department of Political Science , Presidency University, Kolkata
cordially invites you to
A Tri-University Seminar organized by
The Department of Political Science, Calcutta University
The Department of Political Science, Presidency University and
The Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University
on
Democracy and Federalism in India: Some Latest Trends
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Sumantra Bose (LSE)
Date: 27th March, 2015
Time: 10.30 am onwards
Venue: A.J.C. Bose Auditorium, Presidency University, Kolkata (Ground Floor, Main Building).

Department of Economics Presidency University is organizing a 3-day Workshop on
'Discrete choice models and ARCH/GARCH models in Risk Modelling'
from 19th to 21st March 2015 for PG first year and second year students with basic knowledge of Time Series Econometrics.
Everyday workshop will be from 10 am to 5 pm with one and half hour lunch break.
Professor Subrata Sarkar of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai will be the resource person.
Prof. Sarkar is a Graduate of Presidency College (1980 batch). He was awarded his PhD by University of South California. Prof. Sarkar has been Visiting Faculty in South California and Sydney Universities, and a consultant of RAND Corporation. His specializes in Corporate Governance, Applied Corporate Finance Productivity and efficiency studies, and Risk Modelling.

Department of History, Presidency University invites you to a seminar on
Ancient Monuments, Modern Perspectives
Speakers: Tapati Guha-Thakurta
Sraman Mukherjee

Followed by the launch of the 1st issue of
Presidency Historical Review,
Date:20.03.2015
Time:2:00 pm
Venue: AJC Bose Auditorium

Department of Physics Presidency University Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Dr. Arnab Kundu
(Theory Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata)
on
Gauge-String Duality and Strongly Coupled Systems
Date: Wednesday, 18th March 2015
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you all to a Workshop
On
Understanding Mahatma Gandhi
Speaker : Dr. Savita Singh
Former Director, Gandhi Smriti Evam Darshan Samiti, New Delhi
Date : Thuesday, 17th
March, 2015
Venue : Gandhi Center for North-Eastern Languages, Presidency University
Time : 3.30 pm
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Physics, Presidency University, Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Prof. Parthasarathi Majumdar
(Department of Physics,Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Belur)
on
The Quantum and the Continuum : Einstein’s Dichotomous Legacies
Date: Wednesday, 4th March 2015
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY INVITES YOU
TO A TALK ON
Civility and its Translations in Hindi Advice Manuals
by
Ms. Monika Freier.
VENUE: AJC BOSE AUDITORIUM
DATE: 03/03/2015 (TUESDAY)
TIME: 12:00 to 02:00 PM
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The Department of Political Science , Presidency University, Kolkata
invites you all for a talk by
SHARMISTHA SAHA
( Postdoctoral Fellow, Free University, Berlin)
on
What is Theatre? Political Journey of thiyetar(?) in Colonial India
Date: 2nd March2015, Monday
Time: 3.30 p.m.
Venue: Political Science Lecture Theatre
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Physics, Presidency University , Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Prof. Supriya Chakrabarti
(Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology (LoCSST),University of Massachusetts, Lowell)
on
An experimental research program to directly image exoplanet environment
Date: Wednesday, 25th February 2015
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

On the eve of 125th birth anniversary of the Great Indian Linguist Prof. Suniti Kumar Chatterjee the Department of Hindi, Presidency University cordially invites you to the
National seminar on ‘Dialect and identity crisis’.

Seminar’s theme- ‘India through Dialects’
Collaboration with : Central Institute of Indian Languages, MHRD,(GOI) Mysore, India
Date : 23/02/2015 (Monday) – 24/02/2015 (Tuesday)
Venue : AJC Bose Auditorium, Presidency University, Kolkata

The Department of Biological Sciences, Presidency University cordially invites all to the National symposium on "Environmental Impact on Biodiversity and Plant Development"
Date: 19/02/2015 (Thursday) – 20/02/2015 (Friday)
Venue: AJC Bose Auditorium

Department of Physics Presidency University Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Prof. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
(A. J. C. Bose Distinguished Professor in Natural Sciences,Presidency University)
on
Persistence of useful memory:what do you see and what can you remember?(Part - II)
Date: Wednesday, 18th February 2015
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

The Department of Political Science,Presidency University, Kolkata
invites you all for a talk by
PRATYAY NATH
(Research Scholar, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU)
Title:'Apparently These Delicate Men of Hot Countries Were Averse to Campaigning in a Cold Country': How Climate Shaped Mughal Warfare & Empire Building
Date: 16th February 2015
Time: 3.30 p.m.
Venue: Political Science Lecture Theatre
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Bengali,Presidency University,Kolkata
cordially invites you all on
THE LANGUAGE OF CONTEMPORARY BENGALI POETRY
Speaker: Shri Pinaki Thakur & Shri Binayak Bandopadhyay

Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
Date: 13th February 2015
Time: 12:00 Hrs.

Department of Physics,Presidency University,Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
(Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES),Manora Peak, Nainital, Uttarakhand)
on
Numerical Simulation of astrophysical plasma with relativistic equation of state
Date: Wednesday, 11th February 2015
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY PRESENTS
Railway Imperialism: A 'Global' History of Jamalpur,
1860s-1900s
by
Dr. Nitin Sinha(University of York, United Kingdom)
Date: 11/02/2015 (WEDNESDAY)
Time: 11:00 AM
Venue: A.J.C Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

National Seminar
On
Probability and Statistics: Theory & Applications
February 06-07,2015
Organised
By
Department of Statistics
Presidency University,Kolkata

Department of Sociology, Presidency University
Kolkata cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Prof. Betsy Hartmann(Professor, Development Studies, Hampshire College, Arnherst)
on
The Current Landscape of International Population Politics
Date: 2nd February' 2015
Time: 12 to 2pm
Venue: A.J.C Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Biological Sciences, Presidency University
Cordially invites you to a National Symposium on:
“Molecules to Systems”
Date: 29th -31st January, 2015
Venue: Derozio Hall, Presidency University

The Economics Department, Presidency University is organizing a lecture by
Prof. Esther Duflo, Co-founder & Director, J-PAL and Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, MIT on
The role of women in the Panchayati Raj.
The lecture will be held on 22 January 2015 at 1:00 PM at the AJC Bose Auditorium, Main Building, Presidency University.
You are invited to attend the lecture.

The History Department, Presidency University, would like to invite you to the
Kuruvila Zachariah Memorial Lecture,
which is to be delivered this year by
Professor Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History, Tufts University, USA.
The lecture will be held on 22 January 2015 from 4 pm in the AJC Bose Auditorium.
We would be grateful if you would also bring this lecture to the attention of your students.

Department of Physics, Presidency University
Kolkata cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Dr. Matt Hilton(Astrophysics & Cosmology Research Unit,University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
on
Searching for galaxy clusters with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
Date: Wednesday, 21st January 2015
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: PLT -1.
(please note the change in venue)
ALL ARE WELCOME

Presidency University
Welcomes all past and present students to the
198th Founders' Day Meeting & Prize Distribution Ceremony
on Tuesday 20th January 2015 from 11:30 a.m. at the Derozio Hall,Presidency University

As part of the UK-India Research Initiative (a grant which Presidency was awarded in 2013-14 for collaborative research with the University of St. Andrews, Scotland), we are organising a conference to showcase our various projects under the theme 'Narratives of Migration'. The departments of History and English from the both the universities are involved in this inter-disciplinary venture.
The workshop will be held in the A.J.C Bose auditorium from 10:30 a.m on 19th January and will feature the following talks by speakers from the University of St.Andrews and Presidency University:

"Moving People, Moving Pictures: Cinematic Migrations in India.”
Dr Dennis Hanlon (Film Studies, University of St. Andrews)

“‘All trains stop there’: Moving and Not Moving on Trains During the 1947 India/Pakistan Partition”
Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri (School of English, University of St. Andrews)

"Exchange Stories: A Creative Response"
Professor Susan Sellers (School of English, University of St. Andrews)

"Of memories and belonging: revisiting Chandernagore, c. 1948”
Dr Akhila Yechury (School of History, University of St. Andrews)

'The Scottish Cemetery in Calcutta: Digitising Memories, Exploring Connections'
Dr Souvik Mukherjee (Dept. of English, Presidency University)

Topic: Francophone Exchanges in India and Scotland, Title tba
Milinda Banerjee (Dept. of History, Presidency University)

All are welcome so please feel free to bring anyone who might be interested.

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
cordially invites you all to A Seminar
on
Translation of 'Geetanjali' in Tribal Language Kokborak
Speaker : Chandrakant Murasingh
Eminent Kokborak Poet
Special Event : Presentation of Rabindra Sangeet in Kokborak Language
Date: Wednesday, 14th January 2015
Time: 3 pm
Venue: A. J. C Bose Auditorium, Presidency University, Kolkata
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Physics,Presidency University,Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Prof. Pratik Majumdar
(Centre for Astroparticle Physics,
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata)
on
Exploring the Universe with High Energy Particles and Photons
Date: Wednesday, 14th January 2015
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

Presidency University welcomes you to a public lecture on
A Human Approach To World Peace
by
His Holiness, The Dalai Lama
Venue: Derozio Hall
Date: 13th January ,2015,9:30 A.M.

Presidency University welcomes you to a public lecture on
Recasting Science
by
Prof. Abha Sur,MIT , Boston
Venue: Derozio Hall
Date: 13th January ,2015,3:30 P.M.

Presidency University welcomes you to a public lecture on
Brain wiring and brain disorders
by
Prof. Mriganka Sur,MIT , Boston
Venue: Derozio Hall
Date: 13th January ,2015,2:30 P.M.

We welcome all to a talk by Lord Charles Bruce, titled:
'A Scottish Sojourn in India'
on Friday, 9th January, 2015, 2 p.m, at Bankim Sabhagriha
This talk is being hosted by the Department of History and the UKIERI project team at Presidency (who are working on creating a digital database of the Scottish cemetery in Calcutta). Lord Charles Bruce is the Chairman of the Kolkata Scottish Heritage Trust and also the patron of the Scottish Centre for Tagore Studies in Napier University, Edinburgh

Department of Physics, Presidency University, Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Dr. Dipankar Maitra
(Department of Physics/Astronomy,Wheaton College, Massachusetts, USA)
on
Escaping the fatal attraction of black holes: Recent advances toward understanding relativistic jets
Date: Wednesday, 7th January 2015
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

Professor Ishita Banerjee Dube, Professor of History at the Centre for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, will engage in an inter-active session with students and faculty on her book
A History of Modern India
on 7 January 2015.
Professor Gautam Bhadra will preside over the session.
Venue: Bankim Sabhagriha
Time: 3.30 pm.
ALL ARE WELCOME.

Presidency University welcomes you to a public lecture on
Cancer Stem Cells: Hierarchy Vs. Plasticity
by
Prof. Inder Verma, Salk Institute Of Biological Sciences, California
Venue: Derozio Hall
Date: 5th January ,2015

Presidency University welcomes you to a public lecture on
Astronomy on the Cusp: A Subject Driven by Progress in Technology
by
Prof. S. R. Kulkarni,, California Institute of Technology
Venue: Derozio Hall
Date: 5th January ,2015,11:30 A.M.

Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you to
National Seminar
on
Contemporary Indian Poetry
Organized by
Hindi Department, Presidency University
on 24th December 2014
All are welcome.

Celebrating 25 years of its foundation
Department of Sociology
organises a seminar on
Sociological Perspectives: Old and New
22-23rd December 2014 (10:30 am – 05:30 pm)
AJC Bose Auditorium
Presidency University Kolkata

Presidency Physics Reunion 2014

On the 22nd and the 23rd of December, 2014, the Department of Physics, Presidency University, is organizing a reunion in which all former students from way back 1960s to yesteryear’s fresh graduates are cordially invited.

The Department of Political Science
cordially invites all to a seminar on
"China’s Indian Ocean Strategy and India’s Response"
by Dr. Rajat Ganguly
Associate Professor of Security Studies & International Relations
Murdoch University (Australia)

Date: 19th December, 2014 (Friday)
Time: 12pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Department of Political Science

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you all to a seminar
on
Problems of Social Media
Professor, Department of Hindi, Calcutta University
Date : Thursday, 22nd December 2014
Time : 2 pm
Venue : Seminar Hall, Hindi Department, Presidency University
ALL ARE WELCOME

Presidency University welcomes you to a public lecture on
Teaching the Humanities
by
Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
Venue: Derozio Hall
Date: 19th December ,2014, 3:00 P.M.

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you all to a seminar
on
Challenges of Electronic Media
Professor, Department of Hindi, Calcutta University
Date : Thursday, 19th December 2014
Time : 1 pm
Venue : Seminar Hall, Hindi Department, Presidency University
ALL ARE WELCOME

Celebrating 25 years of its foundation
Department of Sociology

Presidency University
organises a talk on

Approaches to the study of the sciences' past

By
Prof. Simon Schaffer
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge

December 19, 2014, 05:00 pm
A. J. C. Bose Auditorium

Presidency University (Main Building, Ground Floor)

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you all to a seminar
on
Modern Sanskrit Literature : Tradition & Innovation
Speaker : Prof. Rita Chatterjee
Professor, Department of Sanskrit, Jadavpur University
Date : Thursday, 18th December 2014
Time : 1 pm
Venue : Bankim Sabhagriha, Presidency University
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Political Science, Presidency University
organises
Seminar Workshop by SCIENCE PO.Paris
Venue: Dipak Banerjee Memorial Lecture Room
of
Economics Department
Date: 17th December 2014
Time: 3 P.M. to 4 P.M.

Presidency University Literary Society presents 'Incarnadine', an inter-university literary fest
Dates: 16th to 18th December

Sumit Sarkar, Tanika Sarkar and DipeshChakrabarty
in conversation with
Prof.Mridu Rai
(an initiative by the Department of History, Presidency University.)
Sumit Sarkar, Tanika Sarkar and DipeshChakrabarty will be in conversation with Prof.Mridu Rai from 1:30 pm on the 15th of December, 2014, at the AJC Bose auditorium, Presidency University. The conversation will also be followed by a short introduction of his recent work "Modern Times: India," by Sumit Sarkar himself. Thereafter, the floor shall be open for an interactive session.

All those who wish to attend the event must register themselves online as the entry would be limited. If one finds the registration procedure closed, online, he/she must come down early on the day. In case we have unoccupied seats unregistered attendants would be slotted in on a first come first serve basis.

For those who miss out, we will try and come up with a video of the entire conversation at a later date.

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you all to a Seminar
on
Journalism : Linguistic Challenges
Speakers :

Samir Goswami, Principal, Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan of Journalism
Ashoke Sengupta, Special Correspondent, Anandabazar Patrika
Dr. Abhigyat, News Editor, Sanmarg

Date : Tuesday, 9th December 2014
Time : 2 p.m.
Venue : A.J.C. Bose Auditorium, Presidency University
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Geography, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you all to attend a Seminar Series
on
11th & 12th December 2014
and
and 22nd & 23rd December 2014
Venues: A.J.C Bose Auditorium and Bankim Sabhagriha.
ALL ARE WELCOME

Presidency University welcomes you to
'Literary Activism'
a symposium organised by the University of East Anglia in India
on 4th December 2014
Venue and Time: Presidency University, A.J.C Bose Auditorium Time: 11 am - 5 p.m. and Presidency Cafe 86 - 6:30 to 8 pm

ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you all to a Lecture by
Mohan Naimishray
Associate Professor, Indira Gandhi Open University & Eminent Hindi Writer
on
Dalit Vimarsh : Dalit Sahitya : Dalit Andolan
Date : Friday, 21st November 2014
Time : 1 p.m.
Venue : Seminar Room, Hindi Department
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Physics Presidency University Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Dr. Deepak Kar
(ATLAS Research Associate, University of Glasgow, UK)
on
LHC: the ingredients of a discovery
Date: Friday, 21st November 2014
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Physics Presidency University Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Prof. Arnab Rai Choudhuri
(Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

on

The Mysterious Magnetic Personality of Our Sun
Date: Wednesday, 19th November 2014
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you all to a Lecture by
Dr. Mou Das Gupta
Associate Professor & Head of the Department ,Department of Sanskrit , Calcutta University
on
Translation & Tran creation : Hazari Prasad Dwivedi’s novel‘Anam Das Ka Potha’
Date : Wednesday, 14th November 2014
Time : 12 p.m.
Venue : A.J.C. Bose Auditorium, Presidency University

The Department of Political Science, Presidency University, Kolkata
cordially invites ALL to the
First Nirmal Kanti Majumdar Lecture Series on 17 November, 2014 at 1.30 p.m.
at the AJC Bose Auditorium of the University.

Speakers:
Prof. Rajeev Bhargava (Professor, CSDS)
Prof. Shubhashis Gangopadhyay (Director, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University)

Department of Geology, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you all to a talk by
on multidisciplinary areas of environmental science and technology :
Ozone Depletion: a success story
Venue : AJC Bose Auditorium
Date & Time : 20th November 2014, 11:15am
ALL ARE WELCOME

‘Global Shakespeares’ Conference

The ‘Global Shakespeares’ conference at Presidency University, marking the Bard's 450th year of birth, invites papers and panels that examine any aspect of Shakespeare's plays and poems within this larger context of the global. Papers and panels might look at sixteenth-and-seventeenth century contexts, as well as any subsequent adaptations, appropriations, or productions.

Professor Jyotsna Singh, Michigan State University, will deliver the keynote address. Professor Shormistha Panja, Delhi University, Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri, Professor Emeritus Jadavpur University and Professor Swapan Chakravorty, Jadavpur University, will be plenary speakers.

Conference Dates: December 16-17, 2014

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you all to a Lecture by
Prof. Ipshita Chand
Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
on
Rabindranath and Nirala : A Comparative Study
Date : Wednesday, 12th November 2014
Time : 3-4 p.m.
Venue : Seminar Room, Hindi Department
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Physics , Presidency University ,Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Prof. Palash B. Pal
(Theory Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata)
on

Discovering particles
Date: Wednesday, 5th November 2014
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

Monday, 3rd November 2014, at 12.00 p.m.
H.E. Mr. Miloslav Stasek, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to India and delegates from Czech Universities will visit Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Anuradha Lohia.

Friday, 7 November 2014,
Time: 4-6 pm
A roundtable conference on Experiences of Conflict, Gender and Transnational Justice: South Asia and Beyond, is to be held at the AJC Bose Auditorium.

The Digital Humanities research initiative at Presidency University is happy to present the launch of
the 'Dutch in Chinsurah' website
a digital database of the Dutch cemetery in Chinsurah

and

The Dutch East India Company in India by Bauke van der Pol

Friday, November 7, 2014
Bankim Sabhagriha
11:30 a.m - 1:30 p.m
The website will be launched formally by the Hon'ble Vice-Chancellor of Presidency University, Prof Anuradha Lohia.
The Honorary Consul of the Netherlands, Mr Namit Shah will also be present.

ALL ARE WELCOME.

Department of Physics,Presidency University, Kolkata,
cordially invites you to a lecture by
Vice Chancellor,Presidency University, Kolkata 700 073

on Wednesday, ​October 29, 2014 at A. J. C. Bose Auditorium,Time: 3.30-4.30 pm​

Title: "The Uncertainty of Survival"

ALL ARE WELCOME

The Department of History, Presidency University launches the Presidency Historical Review, a students’ peer-reviewed academic journal. It addresses research interests in historical studies with an inter-disciplinary and inter-regional approach, while catering especially to the research interests of undergraduate, graduate and research scholars. Although the journal primarily focuses on South Asian studies, it also welcomes academic writings from other areas of research. It aims to be a forum of scholarly discussion, and encourages the work of new scholars. All abstracts and articles are independently and confidentially refereed by a students’ board, and a distinguished, multi-disciplinary Board of Editors.

Call for Papers
In publishing its first issue, the Presidency Historical Review is sending out a call for papers for the journal.

All interested should send an abstract to presidencyhistoricalreview@gmail.com by 30th November, which should include the title, the theme, and original arguments, if any. The article should be in English, and must not exceed 3000 words (which is the maximum word limit). The journal shall also include a section on book reviews (for which the maximum word limit is 1000). Contributions to both are welcome. In terms of originality, the articles might be based either on fresh primary research, or new perspectives on work already done. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically in MS Word format and should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style (16thEdition). All copies, including captions, tables and references, must be typed double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font, while footnotes should be in 10-point. All visuals (with captions) must appear at the end of the article. Manuscripts will be sent out anonymously for editorial evaluation. Obtaining permission for any quoted or reprinted material is the responsibility of the author. Submission of an article implies commitment to publish in the journal. Authors submitting manuscripts to the journal should not simultaneously submit them to another journal, nor should manuscripts have been published elsewhere in substantially similar form or with substantially similar content.

Department of History
PRESENTS AN INTERACTIVE SESSION ON
The Jewish Community in Kolkata
Speaker 1: Miss J. Silliman
(A Fullbright Scholar, a historian of Jewish Community in Kolkata, presently the Curator of Archives Cataloguing Jewish History)
Speaker 2: Mrs. A. M. Cohen
(Head of the Jewish Community Affairs and the Secretary of Jewish Girls’ School)
VENUE: BANKIM SABHAGRIHA
DATE: 03/11/2014 (MONDAY)
TIME: 2:30 PM

ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Physics Presidency University, Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by

Prof. Krishnendu Sengupta
(Theoretical Physics Department,Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciences, Kolkata)
on
Introduction to basic Graphene physics
Date: Wednesday, 22nd October 2014
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium.
ALL ARE WELCOME

A public lecture by
Julie Mehta
(on Tuesday, 28 October 2014 at 3:00pm in the AJC Bose auditorium).
Title of talk: Citizenship, Belonging, and Subversion: The Invention of Tradition in Culinary Fictions of Asian-North America.

Health Awareness Talk and Free Check-up (on Thursday, October 16th 2014 at the AJC Bose auditorium)
Speaker: Dr. Gautam Mukhopadhyay (Consultant Onco-Surgeon, Ruby General Hospital)
Theme of his talk: Life Style Related Cancer Diseases & their Prevention.
TIME: 2:45-3:30pm

Free Health Check-up
TIME: 3:30-5:30pm

The ART OF LIVING presents YOUTH EMPOWERMENT & SKILLS WORKSHOP, YES!+
VENUE: Presidency university, AJC Bose Hall
DATE: 15th oct 2014
TIME: 1.00 to 2.00 PM
We invite you to an interactive introductory seminar on the YES!+ workshop, designed for students and young professionals. It unlocks the secret to increased energy levels, stress management, a balance between focus and relaxed States of mind, enthusiasm, a positive outlook, relationships,... And lots more ! Please click for more details

Department of Physics Presidency University, Kolkata
cordially invites you to a lecture by
Prof. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
A. J. C. Bose Distinguished Professor in Natural Sciences , Presidency University

Persistence of useful memory: what do you see and what can you remember?
(Part - I)

Wednesday October 15, 2014
AJC Bose Auditorium, 2-3 pm
(For abstract of talk: see https://sites.google.com/site/physpu/)
ALL ARE WELCOME

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY PRESENTS
Writing About Caste in Bengal: Some Possibilities and Perspectives
ABSTRACT: The paper explores the myth of ‘Bengali exceptionalism’ that caste discrimination does, or did, not characterize Bengal unlike the rest of the Indian subcontinent. Born in a crucial historical moment, this myth has had varying degrees of empirically verifiable factual truth behind it. Its significance lay in the politics of its truth claims, not in its empirical sustainability. The paper begins with a few instances of blatant caste discrimination among all sections of the Bengali society. Examples are followed by an overview of the historiography of caste in Bengal since the nineteen forties. The meatier section of the presentation revisits a recent debate between a philosopher and a social scientist on the extent to which ‘subjective’ experience and ‘objective’ social science methods respectively could be engaged in successfully capturing the phenomenon of discrimination by caste. Finally, it considers how and to what extent such conversations have been and will be helpful in meeting the challenge of writing about caste in Bengal.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Anirban Bandyopadhyay is a Junior Research Officer at the Educational Multimedia Research Centre, Kolkata. His doctoral research at Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, focused on the self-fashioning of Mahisya caste in Bengal in the late 19th and early 20th century. He has published in EPW and South Asian History and Culture and in an edited Volume on Ambedkar’s politics and ideas published in 2014. His interest in the cultures of making and consuming ‘history’ as an idea in the public sphere, and in the practices of identity formation and affirmation in public spaces leads him to publish in newspapers, magazines and the social media.
VENUE: BANKIM SABHAGRIHA
DATE: 21/10/2014 (TUESDAY)
TIME: 2:30 PM
ALL ARE WELCOME

The Department of Political Science , Presidency University, Kolkata
Invites you all for a talk by
DR. SUDESHNA PURKAYASTH (Reader, Department of History, Assam University)
on

" A Peasant Uprising in 19th Century Assam: Patharughat Movement and Its Consequences"
Date : Wednesday, 20th October 2014
Time: 3.30 p.m
Venue: Political Science Lecture Theatre
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Hindi,Presidency University,Kolkata
cordially invites all to a lecture by
Arun Kamal , Eminent Hindi Poet and Professor, English Department, Patna University
on

"The Relevance of Literature in 21st Century"
Date : Wednesday, 24th September 2014
Time: 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C Bose Auditorium, Presidency University, Kolkata
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Physics ,Presidency University,Kolkata cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Dr. Kuntal Ghosh, (Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)
on

"The Psychophysics of Vision"
Date : Wednesday, 24th September 2014
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C Bose Auditorium, Presidency University, Kolkata
ALL ARE WELCOME

The Department of Biological Sciences invites you to a talk
Speaker: Prof Shobhona Sharma, Chairperson ,Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Topic: “Targeting ribosomal protein to impair cell division and mitochondria for the growth of Plasmodium."
Venue: A. J. C Bose Auditorium, Presidency University, Kolkata
Date and Time: 19th September 2014 at 11.30 am,
ALL ARE WELCOME

The Department of Geology invites you to 38th Prof. S. Ray Memorial Lecture
Venue: OLT, Geology Department.
Date and Time: 19th September 2014 at 3-30 pm,
Speaker: Dr. Basab Chattopadhyay, Director, Central Petrological Laboratories, Geological Survey of India, Kolkata,

Topic: “METEORITES : THE POOR MAN'S SPACE PROBE".

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
cordially invites you all to
A Seminar on
"The Problems of Translation of Classical Poetry : Kalidas’s Meghdoot"
Speaker : Shri Mrintyunjay Kumar Singh, IPS
Eminent Writer & Additional Director General (Railway)

Special Event : Dance Performance Based on Kalidas’s Meghdoot
by
Debamitra Sengupta
Date: Wednesday, 17th September 2014
Time: 11 am
Venue: A. J. C Bose Auditorium, Presidency University, Kolkata
ALL ARE WELCOME

The Department of Statistics invites you to a seminar on
"Big Data & Analytics – Scope & Impact"

Venue: A.J.C. Bose Auditorium,Main Building, Presidency University.
Date and Time: TUESDAY, 16TH SEPTEMBER, 2014 , 3 P.M. TO 5 P.M.
The speakers are Ms. Soma Banerjee and Mr. Mainak Sen, both directors of Data Brio Academy, collaborated with Wiley.

The Department of Political Science,Presidency University,Kolkata
cordially invites you all for a talk by
Dr. Anupama Mohan
Department of English, Presidency University
on
Anger, Civility and Ethical Self-Fashioning in Modern India
Date: Monday, 15th September 2014
Time: 3. 30 p.m.
Venue: Political Science Lecture Theatre
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Physics Presidency University Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Prof. Sudhansu Sekhar Mandal (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata)
on
Nano-Scale Physics in Strongly Disordered Macroscopic Superconductors
Date: Wednesday, 10th September 2014
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Hindi, Presidency University, Kolkata
cordially invites you all to
The First Lecture of 'Premchand Vyakhanmala'
By
Dr. Moloy Rakshit (Bengali Department, Presidency University)
on
"The Modern Bengali Theatre Movement and Sambhu Mitra"
Date: Wednesday, 3rd September 2014
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: Bankim Sabhagriha, Presidency University
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Physics , Presidency University, Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Dr. Shradha Mishra (S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata)
on
Role of density field in an active nematic
Date: Wednesday, 3rd September 2014
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: PLT - 1, Baker Laboratory Building
ALL ARE WELCOME

On 29 August 2014 (Friday) Professor Henry Schwarz of Georgetown University (Washington, DC) will deliver a lecture on Postcolonialism at the e-classroom in the Science Library building at 3 p.m.

The Gandhi Centre for North-Eastern Languages, Hindi Department, Presidency University is going to organize a programme
to felicitate noted Hindi Poet and Jyanpith Award Winner (2013) Kedarnath Singh
on 28th August 2014 at 3pm at A.J.C Bose Auditorium, Presidency University.
He is also an Emeritus Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Abhi Bilkul Abhi, Zameen Pak Rahi Hai, Yahan Se Dekho, Akaal Mein Saaras, Baagh, Tolstoy aur Cycle are among his prominent works. He has also been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Kumaran Aashan and the Vyas Samman. Shri Kedarnath Singh will deliver a lecture on ‘Kavita Se Sarokar’ on this occasion.
Honourable Vice-Chancellor will chair the programme.
All are cordially welcome.

Department of Geography
cordially invites you to attend the online special lecture
on
Scope and dimensions of tourism researches in developing countries like India: A geographer's perspective
By
Professor Colin Michael Hall
Caneterbury University, Newzeland

at Department of Geography (Room No 5),Presidency University
26 August(Tuesday) 2014, 10:30 a.m.

The Hindi Department, Presidency University is going to organize a seminar
on
‘The Nath Sampraday & Hindi Literature’
on 25th August, 2014 at 3 pm at A.J.C. Bose Auditorium.
Ms. Christine Marrewa Karwoski , Fulbright Hays scholarship fellow in India is invited as Speaker.
She is doing research on Nath Sampraday in the department of Middle East South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University, New York, USA.
All are cordially invited.

The Hindi Department, Presidency University is going to organise a seminar on 22nd August, 2014 on ‘The Bazaar and the Bari: Calcutta, Marwaris and the world of Hindi letters’ at 3pm at A.J.C. Bose Auditorium.
Dr. Rahul Parson the Resident Director of the Hindi Program of American institute of Indian studies (AIIS) Jaipur is invited as Speaker.
Dr. Rahul Parson has done his Ph.D on Hindi novels written by Kolkata based Marwari on Kolkata from University of California , Berkeley (USA) under Prof. Vasudha Dalmia.
The eminent Hindi novelist and Sahitya Academy Winner Alka Sarawagi is also invited as special guest on this ocassion. Her famous novels are Kalikatha Via Bypass, Shesh Kadambri, Koi Bat Nahi and EK Break Ke Bad.
All are cordially invited.

The Susobhanchandra Sarkar Memorial Lecture, jointly organized by Paschimbanga Itihas Samsad and the History Department of Presidency University will be delivered
by Prof. Ramakrishna Bhattacharya in the AJC Bose Auditorium at 3 pm, today, 19 August 2014.
The title of the talk is
ITIHAS : DARSHAN : DARSHANER ITIHAS
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Physics , Presidency University , Kolkata
cordially invites you all to a lecture by
Prof. Satyaban Bhunia
(Surface Physics & Material Science Division,Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata)
on
Physics and realization of low dimensional semiconductors for device applications
Date: Wednesday, 20th August 2014
Time: 2 - 3 p.m.
Venue: A. J. C. Bose Auditorium, PU
ALL ARE WELCOME

The Department of English invites you to a talk by
Dr. Saikat Majumdar of Stanford University

"Modernism and the Banality of Narrative"

Venue: A.J.C. Bose Auditorium,Main Building, Presidency University.
Date and Time: Thursday , 21 August 2014 , 3:30 p.m.

National Seminar On
Making of the Indian Continent
Organised by
Department of Geology
(UGC - Centre for Advanced Studies in Precambrian Crustal Evolution and Metallogeny)

Presidency University
7th and 8th November,2014

Online Registration

Title: Topical Conference on Gravity and Cosmology - Eastern Region (TCGC-ER)
Venue: TCGC-ER will be held on Saturday, August 9th, 2014 at the A. J. C. Bose Auditorium, Presidency University.

Registration: We may have a registration fee of Rs. 200 for faculty members and Rs. 100 for students, post-docs, and project scientists. In order for us to have an estimate of the number of attendees, please let us know if you plan to come, even if you won't be presenting.

Abstract submission deadline Wednesday, July 30, 2014.

Exact address and map can be found here.
The AJC Bose auditorium is on the ground floor of the main building.

The Topical Conference on Gravity and Cosmology - Eastern Region (TCGC-ER) is planned to be a biannual meeting in universities and institutes in and around Kolkata. The purpose of this conference series is to have regular scientific discussions on different aspects of Gravity and Cosmology with minimal administrative hassles. We plan to bring together experienced as well as young scientists of the Eastern Region of India who are interested in working actively on cosmology and gravitation.

One Day Seminar on
"Trends in Surface Science and Related Areas" on 24th July

Organized by Department of Chemistry

Department of Economics, Presidency University
cordially invites you to attend the
Seventh Dipak Banerjee Memorial Lecture
'Economic Empowerment of Poor Farmers in West Bengal:
Challenges and Policy Options '
by
Professor Dilip Mookherjee.
Boston University
Derozio Hall, Presidency University
Tuesday 22nd July 2014 ,3:30 p.m.

Department of Sociology, Presidency University
presents
A lecture series by
Prof. Sudipta Kaviraj
Professor, Indian Politics and Intellectual History, Columbia University
on
'Postcolonial thinking and critique of modern social science'
July 18, Lecture 1: What is wrong with modern social science? A critical reading of Said's Orientalism
July 21: Lecture 2: What can modern social science give us? A critical reading of Hegel and Marx
July 22: Lecture 3: What are the tasks of modern social science? Critical reflections on postcolonial theory
July 23: Lecture 4: Do we have a critical tradition? Observations on the Bengali intellectual tradition
The concept note of the lectures, and readings will be available on the webpage of the department of Sociology, Presidency University shortly. The time and venue of the lectures will also be confirmed on the same page.
All are welcome.

The Department of Political Science will organize an International Seminar on "Peace Science, Conflict Management and Peace Economics: theme South Asia" on July 04, 2014 from 1 p.m. at the AJC Bose Auditorium of the University. Speakers from Binghamton University New York, University of Western Sydney, Asian Development Bank, ORF, CU and JU will address the seminar.

Harendralal Basak Memorial Lectures, 2014: 'Saving Women's Honour: the death of a young wife in colonial India'
Professor Geraldine Forbes, University of Oswego, U.S.A
Dept. of English,
10th and 18th March 2014, A.J.C Bose Auditorium
More...

The Dutch in Bengal' workshop, 2014,
Depts. of English, History and Bengali in collaboration with the Embassy of the Netherlands and the Dept. of Tourism, Govt. of West Bengal
25th February, 2014 A.J.C Bose Auditorium
More...

'How far can we believe in our world of everyday experience',
Dept. of Philosophy,
18th February, 2014, Bankim Sabhagriha,
More...

University Sports

9th & 10th December 2013

Professor A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Visits Presidency

The former President of India and eminent scientist, Professor A.P.J Abdul Kalam, will be visiting Presidency University on 18th March, 2013. Professor Kalam will be at Presidency to interact with our students and also to inaugurate the renovation of the historic Baker Laboratories building, which is celebrating its centenary this year.

195th Founders’ Day Celebration:
The University celebrated its 195th Founders’ Day on 20th January 2012 with customary enthusiasm. Poet Sankha Ghosh, an alumnus of Presidency College presided over the function and former Principal of Presidency College, Professor Amal Mukhopadhyay was the Chief Guest. Hon'ble Vice Chancellor, Professor Malabika Sarkar addressed a warm welcome to the guests in the Derozio Hall. The University Choir put up songs in keeping with the occasion. Professor Manu Auddy and Professor Nandalal Chakrabarti read out sections of Prasangiki followed by the Annual Prize Distribution ceremony where students were awarded certificates, medals and prizes for academic excellence and for co-curricular activities. The programme was conducted by Dr. Debashish Sen and Dr. Anik Chatterjee. The cultural programme organized by the University Choir was followed by the reunion organized by the Alumni association on the University lawns. On the 19th of January 2012, as a part of the Founders’ Day Celebration, a Past versus Present cricket match was played.

Republic Day Celebration:
On the 26th of January, 2012 the University observed Republic Day. The National flag was hoisted by the Hon'ble Vice-Chancellor and a programme was presented by the University Choir.

Awarding of the Prafulla Chandra Ray Plaque:
A plaque in honour of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray was awarded to the University by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), United Kingdom on the 31st of January, 2012. The Chief Executive of the RSC, Robert Parker unveiled the plaque.

FAEA Workshop :
A national workshop under the aegis of Foundation for Academic Excellence and Access (FAEA) was organized from 6 to 15th October 2012 at AJC Bose Auditorium of the University. 34 FAEA Scholars from different parts of the country participated in this workshop.

‘Digital Humanities in India’ Conference:
International conference on Digital Humanities in India held on 24 and 25 September, 2012. The speakers included Dr Mark Bernstein, Director, Eastgate Systems and Professor Barry Atkins, University of Wales, Newport.

Orientation of the 1st Semester of Post Graduate Courses:
In September 2012 the first semester Postgraduate students of the University were welcomed by the Vice-Chancellor. The Dean of Students, Deboshruti Roychowdhury, the Heads of the Departments and other faculty members were present at the orientation.

Dedication of IEEE Milestone Plaque for J.C. Bose:
On 15th September, 2012 the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) awarded the Milestones Plaque in the memory of Sir J.C. Bose. This award was given to the University, by the President Elect of the IEEE, Prof. Peter Staecker, at an event in September 2012, where the contribution and current relevance of Professor Bose’s work was discussed in a series of talks.

Independence Day Celebration:
On the 15th of August, 2012 the University celebrated the 65th year of the nation’s Independence. The Vice Chancellor hoisted the national flag and teachers, students and members of the nonteaching staff were present on the occasion. The University Choir put up a performance in keeping with the spirit of the occasion.

Orientation of the first semester of Undergraduate Courses:
On 9th July 2012 the First Semester of undergraduate classes of Presidency University for the academic session of 2012-2013 was formally inaugurated in the Derozio Hall. The Hon'ble Vice Chancellor; Professor Malabika Sarkar addressed the students Heads of all the Departments were present at the inauguration. The University Choir sang on this occasion. The Dean of Students, Deboshruti Roychowdhury coordinated the event and was present at the orientation. Students were taken to their departments by the respective Heads and introduced to the rest of the faculty.

Meeting with the V.C. of Oxford University:
On March 24th, 2012, the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, Professor Andrew Hamilton met Vice Chancellor Professor Malabika Sarkar and talked to students of Presidency University about studying in Oxford.

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