Major Events of the University

A Tribute to Professor Amiya Kumar BagchiDepartment of Economics, Presidency University
dedicates a series of lectures on Development Economics in honour of Professor Amiya Kumar Bagchi
in an International Conference on
REFLECTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
Speakers
Punarjit Roychowdhury, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence
Shiva Sikdar, Keele Business School, Keele University
Tannista Banerjee, Auburn University
Shreya Biswas, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (Hyderabad)
Aparajita Dasgupta, Ashoka University
Somdeep Chatterjee, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Souvik Banerjee, Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai
Krittika Banerjee, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Lectures will be delivered in four parallel sessions
Date & Time: 27th December 2024, 3.40-4.40 PM
Venue: Economics Department, Presidency University
ALL ARE WELCOME

Department of Chemistry, Presidency University is going to organize a workshop
on December 11, 2024 at A. K. Basak Auditorium of Presidency University
to develop a Centre for Industry oriented Advance Material Research
in presence of Prof. Suprakash Sinha Roy,
Chief Researcher and Manager, Centre for Advanced Nanostructure and Advanced Materials, CSIR, South Africa.
Apart from Professor Sinha Roy, various industry people, policymakers and academic persons will be present in the workshop.

Prof. Nabendu Sen Memorial Lecture
Land or Sea? How Geography Shaped the Emergence of Colonialism in Asia and Africa
Tirthankar Roy
Professor of Economic History London School of Economics
10th January 2025 at 3.30 PM
Venue: PC Mahalanobis Auditorium
Abstract
Why did seaborne trade lead to global empires? Before the 18th century, European power was negligible compared to the interior states that ruled inland Asia or Africa. The Europeans in question were merchants and had little income besides returns on business investment. The interior states, at least in South Asia, had large armies and a robust tax system to finance warfare. Why did the balance of power shift so radically? Most answers to this question now available build around the profile of the merchants, their propensity and opportunity to play politics, or the capacity of the indigenous states to resist these moves. The talk will take a different line and suggest that environmental factors mattered, too. A specific combination of secure resource access, low famine risk, modest trade costs, and agglomeration advantages emerged in the seaboard around commercial activity in the 18th century, enabling the consolidation of power along the coast.
All are welcome

International Conference on
“Reflections on Development Economics”
27th December 2024
Organized by Department of Economics, Presidency University
Keynote address
Prof. Debopam Bhattacharya, University of Cambridge
“Discrete Choice with Congestion”
Valedictory lecture
Prof. Sugata Marjit, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
“Finance in Economic Theory: The New Ricardian model”

Colloquium Series, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University
Speaker: Dr. Swagata Dasgupta, FASc, Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.
Title of talk: “Protein Ligand Binding and Protein Modifications: Case studies with ribonucleolytic proteins”.
Date and Time: 04 December 2024; From 4 - 5 pm
Venue: T1-307, 3rd Floor, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University - 2nd Campus, Newtown

The Department of Performing Arts and the Department of Sociology in association with The British Council is organizing the Great Talk series in Presidency University, Kolkata.
The date and time of the talk is 5.12.24 at 2.30 p.m. The venue of the talk is A.K.Basak Auditorium in the University.
The topic of the talk is 'Power of the Performing Arts to Communicate, Connect and Collaborate'.
The speaker of the session is Dr. Sharon Tonner-Saunders.
Dr. Sharon Tonner-Saunders is a Lecturer in Primary Education at the University of Dundee.
She is known globally for her expertise in ICT, music, and intercultural learning, through her
role as an Ambassador for the British Council and Global School Alliance.

Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time & Venue: 27th November, 2024, 11 AM at A. K. Basak Auditorium.
Speaker: Prof. Daisuke Nagai., Yale University, USA.
Title: Cosmology in the Era of Multi-Wavelength Surveys.

DLS Monthly Colloquium (Alumni talk)
Speaker: Mr. Gaurab Ghosh
Ph.D. Scholar
IISER Kolkata
Date:27th Nov 2024
Time: 2.30 PM
Venue: ZLT-1
Title: Tale of the fate transition from Epithelia to Non-professional phagocytes: Study from Drosophila Oogenesis

The Economics Department, Presidency University, Kolkata is delighted to invite you to the Third Bhabatosh Datta Memorial Lecture. We are honoured to host Professor Amitava Krishna Dutt, Professor of Economics and Political Science Emeritus, University of Notre Dame, USA, as the distinguished speaker for this year’s event.
Details of the Talk
Title: A Structuralist Analytical Political Economy Perspective on Economic Development with Special Reference to India
Abstract: The terms structuralist approach, political economy, analytical and economic development are first defined in the sense in which they are used in this lecture. The chosen definitions are explained and justified in terms of different dimensions of analysis. The approach is then compared to a few widely-used approaches, including the classical, neoclassical, Marxian, institutionalist, behavioral feminist and ecological ones. Finally, an outline of a structuralist political economy approach for India is briefly presented and its main implications discussed, focusing on the problem of the inequality of income and wealth. The intention is not to develop and present well-defined and definitive theories and models, but on providing a framework with which students and scholars can develop their own ideas.
Date: Saturday, 7th December 2024
Time: 11:00 AM IST
Venue: Online via Zoom (Link will be shared with the participants after registration)
All interested are requested to register via the registration link by 5th December, 2024 (5 PM).

The Department of Performing Arts, Presidency University Kolkata is organizing a day-long theatre workshop
on 25.11.2024 with a theme of embodied expressions.
The resource person of the workshop is
Sri Goutam Halder from Naye Natua.

100 years of Bose Statistics
Outreach Symposium in Bangla on the many aspects of Bose Statistics
School of Astrophysics
20th Nov, 2024, A. K. Basak. Auditorium.
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Department of Sociology
presents
The Aesthetic of New Urban Development
by
Rajarshi Dasgupta
(Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Urbanization has of late come to be the sole template for national development, in a manner that was not there during industrialization in the formal sectors. While the new changes showcase infrastructures and transport corridors it might be argued that the most perceptible changes have taken place with regard to the urban aesthetics. My presentation will explore this aesthetic turn of the city from the perspective of the neoliberal logic of political economy, the tactics of populist mobilization, and the metamorphosis of what one experiences as the urban in the process. The idea is to use concrete illustrations from a south Kolkata neighbourhood to illustrate the arguments and pose a number of questions as future research agenda.
Rajarshi Dasgupta teaches political philosophy, Marxism and Biopolitics at the Centre for Political Studies in JNU. Dasgupta did his BA from Presidency, Masters and MPhil from JNU, and D.Phil. from Oxford. His research interests and publications address the intellectual history of Indian Left, questions of culture and politics, and the intersections of urbanization, migration and refugee histories of South Asia. He has several book chapters and articles in well-known national and international journals. He writes in both English and Bangla. His latest publication is ‘Byatikramer Rashtra, Chhadmabesh O Nagna Rajneeti’ in Kolkata Ekush, 2024.
Date: 22 November Time: 3.30 pm Venue: Sociology Seminar Hall
All are welcome.

DLS Monthly Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Robert John Chandran,
Associate Professor,
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata
Date: 20th November 2024
Time: 2.30 PM
Venue: PLT1
Title: The determinants of grassland-woodland mosaics in the Terai-Duar Savanna and Grassland ecosystems of the Indian subcontinent

International Conference on Reflections on "Development of Economics"
going to be held on 27th December 2024

Interactive session with
Prof. Niloy Bose,
Director of Graduate Studies, Virginia Tech University
on occasion of signing MoU between Presidency University and Department of Economics, Virginia Tech University
going to be held on 26th November 2024

Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time & Venue: 13th November, 2024, 2:45 PM at Astrophysics Classroom I.
Speaker: Dr. Trisha Bhowmik, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.
Title: The Ophiuchus Disc Survey Employing ALMA (ODISEA): A study of Planet-Forming Disks

Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time & Venue: 30th October, 2024, 2:30 PM at Astrophysics Classroom I.
Speaker: Prof. Amitabha Lahiri, S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata.
Title: Solar Neutrino Problem and Neutrino Oscillation

Colloquium Series, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University
Speaker: Dr. Soham Chanda, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Colorado, USA.
Title of talk: “Cellular Mechanisms of Synapse Development”.
Date and Time: 30 October 2024; From 4 - 5 pm
Venue: T1-1002, 10th Floor, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University - 2nd Campus, Newtown

Colloquium Series, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University
Speaker: Dr. Sumit Kumar Hira, Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India.
Title of talk: “Overcoming Immune Resistance in Cancer: Dendritic Cell Therapy to Counter Tumor Evasion”.
Date and Time: 23 October 2024; From 4 - 5 pm
Venue: T1-1002, 10th Floor, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University - 2nd Campus, Newtown

“Geological Institute Conference 2024 (GIC 2024)”
National Conference on “Recent Advancements in Earth Sciences”
Conference date: 12th November 2024.
Venue: Department of Geology, Presidency University
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Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time & Venue: 25th September, 2024, 2:30 PM at Astrophysics Classroom I.
Speaker: Dr. Tathagata Saha, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics, Potsdam, Germany.
Title: Morphology of Accreting Gas in Active Galactic Nuclei: Heavy Obscuration and Extreme Variability.

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Dr. Madhunbanti Mukherjee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Date & time: 25th september, 2024 at 3.45pm(IST)
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri lecture hall (PLT-2), Department of Physics, PU
Title:A Strategic Approach to Leveraging Machine Learning and AI in Materials Design

International Seminar
on
Geography for Development:
Economy, Society and Environmental Interactions
In collaboration with
Institute of Indian Geographers
27th to 29th January 2025
Organised by
Department of Geography
Celebrating 75th Years (Since 1949-50)
Presidency University
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Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics Date, Time & Venue: 18th September, 2024, 12:30 PM at Astrophysics Classroom I.
Speaker: Dr. Dhrubojyoti Sengupta, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.
Title: X-ray Vision on Local Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei

Colloquium Series, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University
Speaker: Dr. Soumitra Sau, Associate Professor & Ramalingaswami Fellow, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Kolkata, India.
Title of talk: “The Elg1 Replication Factor C-like complex (Elg1-RLC) safeguards cells from replication stress in a noncanonical pathway independent of the Mec1-Rad53 axis”.
Date and Time: 18 September 2024; From 4 - 5 pm
Venue: T1-1002, 10th Floor, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University - 2nd Campus, Newtown

Fifth Satadru Sen Memorial Lecture which will be organized by the Department of History on 4th October, 2024.
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Artificial Intelligence being a ubiquitous entity, is casting impact in all spheres of life including health. AI has revolutionized medical diagnosis, surgical treatments, drug development and design in ways more than one.

National Academy of Science India, in its drive to reach out to the young minds, particularly the school and undergraduate college students, is organizing a one day workshop on Artificial Intelligence in HealthCare on the 24 th of September at the premises of the Presidency University, Kolkata. The objective of the workshop is to introduce the students to the basic concepts of Artificial Intelligence, its ethical implications as well as its role in health care research and development.

Speakers: Prof Anupam Basu, Dr. Arpan Pal, Prof. Pralay Mitra.
Date & Time: 24th September, 2024 10 am to 4:30 pm
Venue: P C Mahalanobis Auditorium

SCINEMA – Science Through Film Competition
Jointly organised by PRAGATI and CCC, the Public Outreach and the Career Counselling Cell of Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University – 2nd Campus.
Date and Time: 11th September, 2024 at 4:00- 5:00 PM (IST)

Geology Department is organizing the 48th S. Ray Memorial Lecture
at Geology Department (OLT).
Prof. Joydip Mukhopadhyay
of IISER Berhampur will deliver the Lecture on
6th September 2024

Career Workshop on Genetic Counselling
Event details
• Title of talk: Practicing Clinical Genetics as a Scientist: is a degree enough?
• Speaker: Dr. Dipanjana Datta, Molecular Geneticist, Genetic Counselor,
State Co-coordinator (West Bengal) for Organization of Rare Disease, India
• Date and Time: 11th September 2024, 3.00-4.00 PM
• Venue: Room No. 1002, 10th Floor, Tower 1, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University- 2nd Campus (Newtown) Kolkata.
• Registration link

Colloquium Series, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University

Speaker: Dr. Arnab Gupta, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, India
Title of talk: “Copper Transporter-1: A ‘true’ channel or an ‘imposter’ receptor?”.
Date and Time: 28 August 2024; From 4 - 5 pm
Venue: T1-1002, 10th Floor, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University - 2nd Campus, Newtown

A Special Online Lecture on "Mathematics for Data Science: Foundations and Applications"
Friday, August 16 · 2:30 – 3:30pm
Time zone: Asia/Kolkata
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PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Dr. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay, RKM Residential College, Narendrapur
Date & Time: 21st August (Wednesday), 2024 at 4:15pm(IST)
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Hall (PLT-2), Department of Physics, PU
Title: SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN

Colloquium Series, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University
Speaker: Dr. Saurav Guha, Director, Molecular Diagnostics, New York Genome Center, New York, USA
Title of talk: “Genetic Blueprint: Understanding the Role of Genetics in Health and Disease”.
Date and Time: 21 August 2024; From 4 - 5 pm
Venue: T1-1002, 10th Floor, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University - 2nd Campus, Newtown

Colloquium Series, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University
Speaker: Prof. Ellora Sen, National Brain Research Centre, Manesar, Haryana, India
Title of talk: “Aberrant Metabolism and epigenetics in the prognosis of brain tumors”.
Date and Time: 20 August 2024; From 4 - 5 pm
Venue: T1-1002, 10th Floor, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University - 2nd Campus, Newtown

Department of Political Science
Presidency University, Kolkata
THE EVERYDAY SITES OF THE POLITICAL
PROF. RAJARSHI DASGUPTA
Centre of Political Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
20 August, 2024| 3.30 pm| Seminar Room, Department of Political Science

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA
invites you to a book discussion
CONJECTURES AND EVIDENCES METHODS OF INQUIRY IN THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES WITH ELEMENTARY STATISTICS
by
RAKHAHARI CHATTERJI, PARTHA BASU, JYOTIPRASAD CHATTERJEE, SUPRIO BASU
21 August 2024| 3.30 pm
Seminar room Department of Political Science

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA
Intimate Antagonisms and Unlikely Friendships between State and Society
Dr. Meghna Mehtta
University College London
28August | 3.30 PM Seminar Room, Department of Political Science

An Invited Lecture Organized by Department of Geology will be delivered by
Prof. Sudipta Sengupta
of Jadavpur University on 23rd August 2024
at P.C. Mahalanabis Auditorium.

Career Workshop on Bioentrepreneurship
• Event details
Title of talk: A Happy Secret to Entrepreneurial Journey from Academia
Speaker: Dr. Sanchita Mukherjee,
Co-founder director and COO of Rigel Bioenviron Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Kolkata,
Recipient of BIRAC Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG).
o IDEATHON – Start-up pitch competition for participants
• Date and Time: 9th August 2024, 2.00-4.00 PM
• Venue: Room No. 306, 3rd Floor, Tower 1, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University- 2nd Campus (Newtown) Kolkata.
• Registration link:
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Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time & Venue: 7th August, 2024, 2:30 PM at Astrophysics Classroom I.
Speaker: Dr. Arghajit Jana, FONDECYT Fellow, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.
Title: Changing-Look AGN: Challenging Our Understanding of Active Galactic Nuclei

Colloquium Series, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University
Speaker: Prof. Ranjan Sen, DST - JC Bose Fellow, FNA, FASc, FNAsc; Head, Laboratory of Transcription, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad
Title of talk: “Bacteriophage proteins and their derivatives as the potential therapeutic molecules”.
Date and Time: 16 August 2024; From 4 - 5 pm
Venue: T1-1002, 10th Floor, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University - 2nd Campus, Newtown

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Prof. Arunava Chakrabarti, Department of Physics, Presidency University
Date & time: 7th August (Wednesday) 2024 at 3.45pm(IST)
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Hall (PLT-2), Department of Physics, PU
Title:‘Holes’ or no ‘Holes’ , that is the question: Topological Phase Transition for the beginners
Abstract: The idea of “Topology” - a branch in Mathematics where people talk about properties of spaces that do not change under a continuous deformation, has penetrated the world of Physics, Condensed Matter Physics in particular in the last two decades or so. We have learned about a strange kind of ‘phase transition’ that is markedly different from our known ones. We shall try to learn a few basic things, staying completely within our undergraduate and early post graduate curricula, regarding this exciting area of science.

Workshop on Analytical Techniques in Biology on 28th & 29th August 2024
Workshop Registration Procedure
Workshop Dates: 28th & 29th August 2024
Eligibility: Students enrolled in B.Sc, M.Sc, B.Tech, or Integrated Masters programs
Registration Start Date: 01/08/2024
Last Date for Registration: 17/08/2024
Seats Available: Approximately 30 students
Registration Fee: ₹1000 (Bank charges are extra)
Registration Procedure
1. Visit the Registration Website:
Go to the workshop registration page:
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Choose the category: Analytical Techniques
2. Fill Out the Registration Form:
Enter all required details accurately in the respective fields.
3. Pay the Registration Fee:
Pay the registration fee of ₹1000. Please note that bank charges are extra.
Follow the instructions on the registration page for making the payment.
4. Submit the Registration Form:
Click on the “Submit” button to complete your registration.
Contact: santanu.dls@presiuniv.ac.in
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Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time & Venue: 31st July, 2024, 2:30 PM at Astrophysics Classroom I.
Speaker: Prof. Dipankar Maitra, Wheaton College, Massachusetts, USA.
Title: Doing Exciting Science with (Relatively) Small Telescopes: Probing the Extreme Environment near the Black Hole X-ray Binary V404 Cygni

Department of Mathematics, Presidency University is organizing an international workshop titled "Quasiconformal mappings and Holomorphic Dynamics" funded by the National Centre for Mathematics (NCM) during 29th July - 3rd August 2024.
The speakers are as follows.
(i) Prof. Sudeb Mitra from City University of New York, New York.
(ii) Dr. Kingshook Biswas from Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata.
(iii) Dr. Sabyasachi Mukherjee from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai.
(iv) Dr. Sushil Gorai from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata.
(v) Prof. Krishnendu Gongopadhyay from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali.
Venue of the event: MLT -1, Department of Mathematics, Presidency University.
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PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Prof. Sitabhra Sinha, IMSc, Chennai
Date & time: 31st July, 2024 at 3.45pm(IST)
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Hall (PLT-2), Department of Physics, PU
Title:Classes and Communities: Network analysis reveals that brains look a lot like human society

School of Astrophysics presents
Conference on Blazars and Restless AGN (COBRA)-2024: A High Energy View
A national conference sponsored by IUCAA and the BRNS (July 22nd-26th 2024) at the PCM Auditorium

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The Department of Geography,
Presidency University, Kolkata
Cordially invites you to a lecture on
The Routes to Food Security: Strategies and Challenges to Survival (Bangladesh and India)
Dr. Taneesha Mohan
Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Date: 25th July, 2024
Time: 3.30 P.MVenue: A. K. Basak Hall, Main Building, Presidency University
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PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Dr. Arnab Maity, RBNI, Technion, Israel
Title: Revolutionizing Electronics, Diagnostics and Monitoring: Atomically Thin Devices for Biopsy, Chirality, and Water Quality
Date & time: 24th July, 2024 at 3.45pm(IST)
Venue: Amar Kumar Raychaudhuri lecture hall (PLT-2), Department of Physics, PU

The Department of Economics, Presidency University is organizing a talk by
Subha Mani, Professor of Economics, Fordham University
on 24th July, 2024 at 3.30 PM in the Economics Lecture Theater.
She will talk on
"A Glass Half Full -Experimental Evidence from a Multifaceted Program for Adolescents in India".
The abstract of the talk is as follows:
Drawing on rigorous experimental evidence from a multifaceted large-scale randomized control trial that targets improvements in gender attitudes, education and health among adolescents in ~160 clusters in India, we find that the intervention was successful in improving adolescents’ cognitive and non-cognitive skills in the medium run. Interestingly we find that the intervention was successful in improving unequal gender attitudes related to the allocation of resources between ‘siblings’, however, led to no improvements in views regarding hetero-normative roles concerning ‘husband and wife’ in a family. We complement these with a series of incentivized measures of gender norms which show that while the interventions make both boys and girls a little competitive, a large proportion of both sexes prefer to stick to their gendered roles. This explains why interventions that are successful in improving education and skills may not be enough to improve women’s participation in the workforce.

Colloquium Series, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University
Speaker: Dr. Subhra Prakash Hui, Assistant Professor & Head (Acting), S.N. Pradhan Centre for Neurosciences, University of Calcutta
Title of talk: “Zebrafish paves the way for future regenerative medicine and biomedical research”.
Date and Time: 26 July 2024; From 4 - 5 pm
Venue: T1-1002, 10th Floor, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University - 2nd Campus, Newtown

Special Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time & Venue: 10th July, 2024, 2:30 PM at Astrophysics Classroom I.
Speaker: Dr. Manami Roy, CCAPP Fellow, Ohio State University, USA.
Title: Unveiling the Complex Temperature Structure of the Galactic Halo.

The Department of Economics, Presidency University is organizing a lecture series on
"Philosophy and Politics of Economic Planning and Development" in July 2024.
Achin Chakraborty, Professor and Former Director, IDSK will talk on
11th July (at 2.30 PM), 12th July (at 12 noon) and 15th July (at 12 noon).
Anjan Chakrabarti, Professor of Economics, University of Calcutta will talk on
18th July (at 10.20 AM).
All interested are invited to join.

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Dr. Prosenjit Maity, RKM Residential Autonomous College, Narendrapur
Title: Squeezing in the Quantum Rabi Model with Parametric Nonlinearity
Date & Time: 10th July (Wednesday), 2024 at 3.45pm(IST)
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Hall (PLT-2)

A talk to be delivered by
Dr. Indranil Sengupta, Professor, Environmental Finance & Risk Management in the Institute of Environment, and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Florida International University
on 5th July (Friday), 2024 at 4:00 pm.
The venue of the lecture is MLT1.
The title of the talk is:
“Mathematical Finance: Market Modeling and Data-Science-Driven Applications”.
The abstract of the talk is given below:
Abstract: In this presentation I will introduce some major stochastic models used in mathematical finance. I will show a data-science-based improvement of such stochastic models. Application in portfolio management will be provided. Finally, a concrete application in the oil-market will be presented.

SPECIAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Dr. Kirtimaan Mohan, Michigan State university, USA
Title: Refining constraints on a simplified t- channel dark matter model
Date & Time: 3rd July, Wednesday, 2024 at 12.00 Noon
Venue: Conference room (Ground floor), Department of Physics, PU

Department of History Presidency University, Kolkata,
DATE: 15th July 2024
TIME: 11 AM
VENUE: A. K. Basak Auditorium
SUFI POETRY AND THEOSOPHY: THE SINDHI CONTRIBUTION TO THE MAKING OF A UNIVERSAL SPIRITUALITY
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Special Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time & Venue: 27th June, 2024, 2:00 PM at Astrophysics Classroom I.
Speaker: Surajit Sen, Professor of Physics, SUNY Buffalo & Honorary Consultant, Swanirvar, Andharmanik, N 24 Pgns, West Bengal.
Title: Can we empower the 3 billion youth of the developing world?

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Dr. Subhro Bhattacharjee, ICTS, Bangalore
Title: Quantum Spin Liquids
Date & Time: 19th June (Wednesday), 2024 at 3.45pm(IST)
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri lecture hall (PLT-2)

Special Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time & Venue: 12th June, 2024, 2:30 PM at Astrophysics Classroom I.
Speaker: Prof. Arka Banerjee, IISER, Pune.
Title: Extracting maximal information from cosmological surveys: The role of summary statistics

Chromatography Pathshala (Series I)
Department of Life Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata 700073
18th to 21st June 2024
Workshop and hands-on training programme on separation techniques by
HPLC,GCMS & HS-SPME
to enhance your skill, to elevate your expertise and for exploration on applicability in this field. Registration

Department of Life Sciences, Presidency University organizes
An interactive session on funding opportunities for research and networking in Germany
Dr. Katja Lasch, Director, DAAD Regional Office, New Delhi and Director, DWIH, New Delhi
Venue: P. C. Mahalanobis Auditorium, Presidency University
Date: 10/05/2024 (Friday)
Time: 12.30 pm – 2.15 pm

Special Multi-Disciplinary Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time & Venue: 3rd May, 2024, 3 PM at P. C. Mahalanobis auditorium.
Speaker: Prof. Subhasish Banerjee, Ashoka University.
Title: Ethics of Data-Driven Models and AI/ML

Prof. Shyamal Sengupta Centenary Symposium
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Vadyam - The instrument series
The Department of Performing Arts is organising a music workshop cum demonstration named "Vadyam" - the instrument series on 24.04.2024 at 15.00 hours in Black Box Theatre. The resource person is "Mandola Joy" the multi instrumentalist.
About Mandola Joy:
Mandola Joy (Puranjay Guha) is one of the exponents in Indian classical music instrument playing. Mandola Joy plays Mandolin and Mandola and he is the creator of 'Shreetar'. “Shreetaar” is an electric fretless improvised Mandola having “chikari” strings and the fingerboard covered with brass plate. He has played different instruments like Rabab, Dotara,Esraj, Ravahatta Tabla, Dholak, Moorsing and many more. Joy plays Carnatic classical music, Indian folk music, Bollywood music and world music. He is a disciple of Pt. V.G.Jog, Pt. Buddhadev Dasgupta and Pt. Partha Chatterjee. Apart from own performances, Madola Joy is engaged in deep research on rare folk instruments from different regions of India. He regularly performs in India and abroad and pursued different international projects and workshops.

Nrityam - The dance series
The Department of Performing Arts is organising a dance workshop cum demonstration named "Nrityam" - the dance workshop series on 25.04.2024 and 26.04.2024 at 14.00 hours in Dance Studio. The resource person is Dr. Madhura Damle.
About: Dr. Madhura Damle
Dr. Madhura Damle, Assistant Professor (Political Science), Presidency University, Kolkata is also a trained Kuchipudi artiste. A disciple of Vanashree Rao and subsequently Dr. Madhuri Majumdar, she has been performing Kuchipudi for the last seventeen years. She has been appointed as an examiner at the Department of Dance, Rabindra Bharti University, Kolkata. She has acted in several Sanskrit and Hindi theatre productions and has also directed a multilingual Dastangoi performance. She has also worked as a voice artist.

Department of Economics, Presidency University
is organizing a series of talks on
“Career in Analytics”.
The first talk will be delivered by
Ms. Debaleena Shome, Director, Global Analytics Delivery, FICO
online on 13th April, 2024 at 4 PM IST.
Mr. Rahul Ranjan Sharma, Associate VP - Consulting, Tiger Analytics
will talk online on
20th April, 2024 at 6.30 PM.
All interested are requested to join using the
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প্রেসিডেন্সি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের বাংলা বিভাগ কবি জীবনানন্দ দাশের ১২৫তম জন্মবার্ষিকী উপলক্ষে "জীবনানন্দ ও উত্তরকাল" শীর্ষক বক্তৃতামালার আয়োজন করে চলেছে। সেই বক্তৃতামালার দ্বিতীয় বক্তৃতা আগামী ৯ এপ্রিল (মঙ্গলবার) ২০২৪।
বক্তৃতার শিরোনাম
ক্ষয়, ক্ষতি, ক্ষত : জীবনানন্দ ও আধুনিকতার ইশ্‌তেহার
বক্তা
শ্রী আব্দুল কাফি
বিশিষ্ট অনুবাদক
এবং
সহকারী অধ্যাপক
বাংলা বিভাগ
যাদবপুর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, কলকাতা
তারিখ - সময় - স্থান
৯ এপ্রিল, ২০২৪।। বিকেল : ৩.৩০
প্রশান্তচন্দ্র মহলানবিশ সভাগৃহ
প্রেসিডেন্সি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
কলেজস্ট্রিট প্রাঙ্গণ, কলকাতা: ৭৩

Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time & Venue: 3rd April, 2024, 2.30PM at Astrophysics Classroom.
Speaker: Dr. Bidisha Bandyopadhyay, Universidad de Concepción, Chile.
Title: Peeping close to the horizons of supermassive black holes in the heart of AGN

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Dr. Saurabh Neogi, Gokhel Memorial College, Kolkata
Date & time: 3rd April. 2024 at 3.45pm(IST)
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Hall (PLT-2)

Department of Sociology Presidency University welcomes you
to a talk by Professor Anindita Chakrabarti on
MANY LIVES OF GOLD IN INDIA: COMMODITY,COMMUNITIES AND ECONOMIC CIRCUITS
Venue: Seminar Room, Department of Sociology.
Date & Time: 1st April 2024, 2 PM.
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প্রেসিডেন্সি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের বাংলা বিভাগ কবি জীবনানন্দ দাশের ১২৫তম জন্মবার্ষিকী উপলক্ষে "জীবনানন্দ ও উত্তরকাল" শীর্ষক বক্তৃতামালার আয়োজন করতে চলেছে। সেই বক্তৃতামালার প্রথম বক্তৃতা শুরু হবে আগামী ২০ মার্চ (বুধবার) ২০২৪।
বক্তৃতার শিরোনাম
জীবনানন্দ ১২৫
আগুনের মহান পরিধি গান করে উঠছে
বক্তা
শ্রী অভীক মজুমদার
বিশিষ্ট কবি, প্রাবন্ধিক এবং সহকারী অধ্যাপক তুলনামূলক সাহিত্য বিভাগ যাদবপুর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, কলকাতা
তারিখ - সময় - স্থান
২০ মার্চ, ২০২৪।। বিকেল : ৩.৩০
জীবনানন্দ সভাকক্ষ, বাংলা বিভাগ
প্রেসিডেন্সি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
কলেজস্ট্রিট প্রাঙ্গণ, কলকাতা: ৭৩

Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time & Venue: 20th March, 2024, 2.30PM at Astrophysics Classroom.
Speaker: Dr. Arka Chatterjee, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
Title: Painters of X-ray Light Curves and Spectra from Black Holes: Origin of X-Ray Soft Lag.

Prof. Partha Ray, Director, National Institute of Bank Management, Pune
will deliver an online lecture on
‘Instruments of monetary policy in India’
on 16th March, 2024 from 12 noon onwards. All are welcome.

Department of Economics along with OIKOS, Economics Society is celebrating Working Womens' Day on 11th March at 3.30 pm in Room No. 21 of the Department Brochure

Special Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time & Venue: 11th March, 2024, 11.00AM at P C Mahalanobis Auditorium
Speaker: Prof. Bharat Ratra, Kansas State University
Title: Spatial Curvature, Dark Energy Dynamics, Neither, or Both.

The Department of Economics, Presidency University and the Presidency University Young Entrepreneurs’ Society are jointly organizing Entrepreneurship Summit 2024 on 13th March 2024.
Venue: P C Mahalanobis Auditorium, Presidency University
All interested are requested to register via https://forms.gle/KdEWBcVPx2LgJL2XA by 9th March, 2024 (5 PM)

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SPECIAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Prof. Mithun Kumar Mitra, Professor of Physics, IIT Bombay
Date & time: 7th March, 2024 at 3.45pm(IST)
Venue: Amal Raychaudhuri Lecture Hall (PLT-2)
Title: The Physics of Life: A theoretical perspective

Special Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time & Venue: 5th March, 2024, 3.30PM at Astrophysics Classroom.
Speaker: Prof. Sudip Bhattacharya, TIFR, India
Title: Continuous Gravitational Waves from Spinning Neutron Stars.

Invited Lectures by Prof. Stephen Tooth and Dr. Manudeo Singh
from the Aberystwyth University, UK
7th march 2024 from 2:00 PM onwards at A.K.Basak Auditorium.
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Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time & Venue: 28th February, 2024, 2.30PM at Astrophysics Classroom.
Speaker: Prof. Sourav Bhattacharya, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Title: Loops in Primordial Cosmic Inflation.

SPECIAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Dr. Amitabha Nandi, IIT Bombay
Date & time: 29th February, 2024 at 3.45pm(IST)
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Hall (PLT-2)
Title : Mechanisms of active and passive transport in living matter

We are excited to extend an invitation to you for our upcoming webinar Infertility as a Catalyst of Social Exclusion: An Exploration of the Genesis of Identity and Isolation among Muslim Women in India, scheduled to take place on 23rd of February 2024 at 3:30 pm by Prof. Azra Abidi, Head of Department (Sociology) of Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi. The webinar will be conducted virtually, and we believe it will offer valuable insights into the identity of and isolation faced by the Muslim women of India.
The key details about the webinar are as follows-
Webinar name- Infertility as a Catalyst of Social Exclusion
Date- 23rd of February 2024 (Friday)
Time- 3:30 pm onwards
Meeting link
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'Ciliopathy niye Adda', a meeting to discuss Cilia, centrosome and their
dysfunction leading to human diseases, with the clinicians and the researchers.
Date: 26-27 March, 2024
Venue: Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University, and NIBMG, Kalyani
Organizers:
Drs Shubhra Majumder and Somsubhra Nath, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University; Dr Sudipto Roy, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, Singapore; Drs Sagar Sengupta and Kartiki Desai, NIBMG, Kalyani
Grant support: Small Meeting Grant to Presidency University, Company of Biologists, UK.

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Prof. Supriya Das, Professor, Bose Institute, Kolkata
Date & Time: 28th February, 2024 at 3.45pm(IST)
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri lecture hall (PLT-2)
Title: Astrophysics in Laboratory: The Compressed Baryonic Matter Experiment

Presidency University is delighted to host the public lecture of
Dr Swati Mohan ,
Mars 2020 Guidance & Control operations Lead, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
on March 1st 2024
at Derozio Hall from 3pm onwards.
This interactive session will be moderated by
Dr Debiprasad Duari, Former Director, M.P. Birla Institute of Fundamental Research.
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Poster

Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 2 pm
A K Basak Auditorium
The opportunities and challenges of UK-Indian relations since Brexit: from high-tech to free trade agreements
Talk by Prof. Adam Fagan
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Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time & Venue: 21st February, 2024, 3.30PM at Astrophysics Classroom.
Speaker: Dr. Pratik Tarafdar, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.
Title: Tuning into 'cosmic hum': The First Hints of a Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background

ICSSR FUNDED DISSEMINATION WORKSHOP
ON
PRADAHAN MANTRI KISAN SAMMAN NIDHI: AN EVALUATION OF SELECTED RURAL HOUSEHOLDS IN ASSAM, BIHAR, JHARKHAND AND WEST BENGAL
Department of Economics, Presidency University
2.15 PM on 21 February 2024 More

Department of Statistics presents
Role of ROC curve on disease prediction
15th February 2024
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Monthly Colloquium, Institute of Health Sciences
Speaker: Dr. Debasree Dutta,
Scientist EII, Regenerative Biology Division, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology
(RGCB), Thycaud PO, Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
Title of talk:
“Hematopoiesis to leukemogenesis: through the lens of histone epigenetics“
Date and Time:
15th February, 2024 at 4:00 PM (IST)
Venue:
Room No. 1002, 10th Floor, Tower 1,
Institute of Health Sciences,
Presidency University- 2nd Campus
(Newtown) Kolkata.

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Dr. Amit Kumar Chatterjee, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur
Date & time: 21st February, 2024 at 3.45pm(IST)
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri lecture hall (PLT-2), Department of Physics, PU
Title: (Quantum) Mpemba effect: when hotter cools faster

Life of a Little Magazine: Stories of the Bengalis in Burma
Speaker:Mrinmoy Pramanick
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 2 pm
A K Basak Auditorium

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16 th February 2024
2 PM, A. K. Basak Auditorium, Presidency University, Kolkata
Dr. Amar Sohal
Early-Career Research Fellow in Politics, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
TITLE: The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India's Partition.

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Distortion of History and Competitive Victimhood
A Seminar under the auspices of the Department of History, Presidency University, Kolkata with presentations by Natalie Sineaeva-Pankowska and Professor Rafal Pankowski
Thursday, 15 February 2024, 2 pm
A K Basak Auditorium

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Monthly Colloquium, Institute of Health Sciences
Speaker: Dr. Soumya De
Associate Professor
Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, IIT Kharagpur
Title of talk:
“Intrinsically disordered proteins: Functionality of chaos “
Date and Time:
7 th February, 2024 at 4:00 PM (IST)
Venue:
Room No. 1002, 10 th Floor, Tower 1,
Institute of Health Sciences,
Presidency University- 2 nd Campus
(Newtown) Kolkata.

Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time & Venue: 7th February, 2024, 3.30PM at Astrophysics Classroom.
Speaker: Dr. Nazma Islam, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA.
Title: Exploring the Hot and the Energetic Universe

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, Former Director, TIFR, Mumbai
Title: Beyond Spherical Horses: Reasonable and Unreasonable Approximations about the physical world
Date & Time: 7th February, 2024 at 3.45pm(IST)
Venue: Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Lecture Hall (PLT-2)

Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time, and Venue: 17th January, 2024, 3.30PM at Astrophysics Classroom.
Speaker: Prof. Chandrachur Chakraborty, Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, MAHE, Karnataka.
Title: Can we see a singularity, the most extreme object in the universe?

The Department of Mathematics, Presidency University, Kolkata organizes a seminar and a series of lectures by Professor Sudeb Mitra, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, NY, USA.
The schedule and the venue are as follows:
January 15th 2024: seminar on Holomorphic motions and related topics at 4:00 pm.
January 16th 2024: first and second lectures on Schwarz-Pick systems at 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm.
January 17th 2024: third lecture on Schwarz-Pick systems at 4:00 pm.
January 18th 2024: fourth lecture on Schwarz-Pick systems at 4:00 pm.
Venue: UG I lecture theatre, Mathematics Department, third floor of Baker building, Presidency University College Street Campus.

Department of Physics, Presidency University, organised
A two-days Thematic Workshop entitled
“Cutting-edge Research in Nuclear Physics: Symmetry, Structure and Applications”
at the Department of Physics, Presidency University under the Scientific Social Responsibility (SSR) Scheme of SERB, India
during 17 – 18th January 2024.

Sudhansu Dasgupta Memorial Debate 2024

Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time, and Venue: Jan 10, 2024, 3:30 pm at the Astrophysics Classroom.
Speaker: Dr. Santanu Mondal, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru.
Title: Observational Aspects of Accreting Black Holes.

Colloquium at the School of Astrophysics
Date, Time, and Venue: Jan 03, 2024, 3:30 pm at the Astrophysics Classroom.
Speaker: Prof. Debarati Chatterjee, IUCAA, Pune.
Title: Gravitational Wave Astronomy: A New Window to the Invisible Universe.

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