Schedule of the second Indian Statistical Physics Community Meeting, 13 — 15 February 2015 Date Time Name Title 13 Feb 7:30 Breakfast 13 Feb 8:30 Registration 13 Feb 8:55 Welcome Session — I Chair: Diptiman Sen 13 Feb 9:00 - 9:15 Punyabrata Pradhan Additivity Principle in Conserved Mass Transport Processes: Condensation Transition and Emergence of Power Laws 13 Feb 9:15 —9:30 Goutam Tripathy Disordered interacting ratchets 13 Feb 9:30 –9:45 Abhishek Dhar First Passage and Fluctuation Relations in Stochastic Thermodynamics 13 Feb 9:45 — 10:00 Muktish Acharyya Nonequilibrium patterns and phases in RFIM at T=0 13 Feb 10:00 — 10:15 Subir K. Das Aging in Domain Coarsening: Decay of autocorretion in Ising-like systems 13 Feb 10:15 — 10:30 Rahul Pandit The Dynamics of Droplets in Turbulent Flows: Insights from Direct Numerical Simulations of the Two-dimensional Cahn- Hilliard-Navier-Stokes Equations 13 Feb 10:30 — 11:00 Tea break Session — II Chair: Mukund Thattai 13 Feb 11:00 — 11:15 Subroto Mukerjee Localization and conservation laws 13 Feb 11:15 — 11:30 Sanjay Kumar Rupture of DNA Aptamer: New insghits from simulations 13 Feb 11:30 — 12:30 Students/Postdocs Poster Introduction 13 Feb 12:30 — 14:00 Lunch 13 Feb 14:00 — 15:00 Poster session 13 Feb 15:00 — 15:30 Tea break Session — III Chair: Yashodhan Hatwalne 13 Feb 15:30 — 15:45 Sanjib Sabhapandit Large Deviations for the Tagged Particle in Single File Motion 13 Feb 15:45 — 16:00 Sriram Ramaswamy Granular flocks 13 Feb 16:00 — 16:15 Ranjini Bandyopadhyay Aging dynamics in colloidal suspensions of charged disks 13 Feb 16:15 — 16:30 Shradha Mishra Density and orientation field in an active nematic 13 Feb 16:30 — 16:45 Break !1 Session — IV Chair: V A Raghunathan 13 Feb 16:45— 17:00 Prabal Maiti DNA liquid crystal phase 13 Feb 17:00 — 17:15 Sanjay Puri Granular Gases 13 Feb 17:15 — 17:30 Vijaykumar Pulsatory patterns in Active fluids Krishnamurthy 14 Feb 7:30 — Breakfast Session — V Chair: Arvind Ayyer 14 Feb 9:00 — 9:15 Deepak Dhar Fragmentation of a sheet by propagating, branching and merging cracks 14 Feb 9:15 —9:30 Parongama Sen Exit probability in classical spin models 14 Feb 9:30 –9:45 Jaydeb Chakrabarti Cross-over in dynamical resposne in a driven colloid 14 Feb 9:45 — 10:00 Debasish Chaudhuri Active Brownian particles: A stochastic thermodynamic approach 14 Feb 10:00 — 10:15 Mustansir Barma Intermittency in an open aggregation- fragmentation system 14 Feb 10:15 — 10:30 Mahendra Verma Hysteresis and phase coexistence: a dynamical system perspective 14 Feb 10:30 — 11:00 Tea break Session — VI Chair: Manjunath Krishnapur 14 Feb 11:00 — 11:15 Marc Brachet Particles And Fields In Superfluids: Insights From The Two-Dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii Equation 14 Feb 11:15 — 11:30 Giorgio Krstulovic Kelvin-wave cascade in low-temperature superfluids vortices 14 Feb 11:30 — 11:45 Samriddhi Sankar Ray Gravitational Settling of heavy particles 14 Feb 11:45 — 12:00 Pragya Shukla Classical dynamics with curl forces 14 Feb 12:00 — 12:15 Prasad Perlekar Inverse cascade of two-dimensional turbulence in symmetric binary mixtures 14 Feb 12:15 — 12:30 Sudipto Muhuri " Oscillations in motor microtubule system " 14 Feb 12:30 — 14:00 Lunch Session — VII Chair: Pramod Pullarkat 14 Feb 14:00 — 14:15 Dibyendu Das Timescales of exposure of sites on DNA, under nucleosome kinetics 14 Feb 14:15 — 14:30 Nivedita Deo Correlation Networks: Protein Structure and Function 14 Feb 14:30 — 14:45 Gautam Menon The Wisdom of Crowding 14 Feb 14:45 — 15:00 Ranjith Padinhateeri Statistical mechanics of microtubule protofilaments !2 14 Feb 15:00 — 15:15 Abhishek Chaudhuri Dynamics of a semiflexible polymer, driven by molecular motors 14 Feb 15:15 — 15:30 Anirban Sain Shape transformation during endospore formation in bacteria 14 Feb 15:30 — 16:00 Tea break Session — VIII Chair: Prerna Sharma 14 Feb 16:00 — 16:15 Vishwesha Guttal Stochastic transitions and precursors of financial meltdowns 14 Feb 16:15 — 16:30 Dhrubaditya Mitra Deformable capsules in peristaltic flows 14 Feb 16:30 — 16:45 Mandar M. Inamdar Force generation by growing filaments and collectively migrating motors 14 Feb 16:45— 17:00 Sakuntala Chatterjee Boundary induced phase transition with stochastic entrance and exit 14 Feb 17:00 — 17:15 Sandeep Krishna Diversity in bacteria-virus ecosystems is facilitated by weak defences against viruses 14 Feb 17:15 — 17:30 Varsha Banerjee Nano-Heaters for Therapeutic Applications 14 Feb 17:30 —19:00 Students/Postdocs Poster session 14 Feb 19:00 Conference dinner 15 Feb 7:30 — Breakfast Session — IX Chair: Amit Apte 15 Feb 9:00 - 9:15 Ronojoy Adhikari Nonequilibrium steady states in dissipative structures 15 Feb 9:15 —9:30 Rajesh Ravindran Shock propagation in driven granular systems 15 Feb 9:30 –9:45 Arnab Das Pulse Detection of Quantum Transitions: New Signature of a Quantum Phase Transition in Non-equilibrium Energy Absorption 15 Feb 9:45 — 10:00 K L Sebastian Relaxation under Levy noise - unusual spectrum for the harmonic oscillator 15 Feb 10:00 — 10:15 Kavita Jain Two point correlation function of an exclusion process 15 Feb 10:15 — 10:30 Satya N. Majumdar Universal order and gap statistics for critical branching brownian motion 15 Feb 10:30 — 11:00 Tea break Session — X Chair: Chandan Dasgupta 15 Feb 11:00 — 11:15 Amit Ghosal Heterogeneity and stretched exponential decay of spatio-temporal correlations in confinements 15 Feb 11:15 — 11:30 Arnab Sen A topological spin glass in diluted spin ice 15 Feb 11:30 — 11:45 Pinaki Chaudhuri Cavitation in a model amorphous solid !3 15 Feb 11:45 — 12:00 Srikanth Sastry Yielding, jamming and memory in sheared amorphous solids and fluids 15 Feb 12:00 — 12:15 Bibhu Biswal Evolution of Overlapping Community Networks 15 Feb 12:15 — 12:30 Rama Govindarajan Is a rising bubble the mirror image of a falling drop ? 15 Feb 12:30 — 12:45 Vote of thanks 15 Feb 12:45 Lunch !4.