National Institute of Technology

Lectures/invited talks

16 OCT

2026

11:30 AM

Invited talk: Depth from Defocus (DFD) Technique for Particle Sizing and Number Concentration
Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Cameron Tropea, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Venue: Raman Hall, Department of Physics
Details: Webpage

15 OCT

2026

3:30 PM

Invited talk: "Cosmic Ray - A gateway to high energy phenomena of the universe"
Speaker: Dr. Ronald Scaria, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Venue: Raman Hall, Department of Physics
Details: Webpage

12 OCT

2026

10:00 AM

Invited talk: "Hydrogels: Next-Generation Smart Materials for Multifunctional Applications"
Speaker: Dr. Vijay Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, NIT Srinagar
Venue: Raman Hall
Details: Flyer | Abstract

GIAN course on: Soft matter in physics, biology and materials sciences: programmability, actuation and reconfigurability
Institute: National Institute of Technology, Calicut
Course Coordinator: Dr. Subramanyan Namboodiri Varanakkottu
Foreign Faculty: Prof. Damien Baigl

23 JUL

2026

2:30 PM

Special Lecture: Transport and Fluctuations in processes driven by nonequilibrium reservoirs
Speaker: Dr. Arghya Das, IMSc, Chennai
Details: Poster Notice | Photos

22 JUL

2026

2:30 PM

Special Lecture: The Casimir Effect
Speaker: Prof. K.V. Shajesh, Southern Illinois University–Carbondale, USA
Venue: Raman Hall
Details: Poster Notice | Photos

10 JUN

2026

11:00 AM

Special Lecture: "Classical Mechanics in Vector space formulation and an application"
Speaker: Prof. E. Harikumar, University of Hyderabad
Venue: Raman Hall
Details: Notice Details | Photos