Emerging trends in Quantum Matter, Statistical and Biological Physics Day 1 (23/11/2020) Welcome Address 9:15 am to 9:30 am S. M.Yusuf, Director, IOP, Bhubaneswar Day 1 (23/11/2020): Session I (Chairperson: Krishnendu Sengupta) 9:30 am to 10:15 am G. Baskaran (IMSc, IIT Madras, Perimeter Institute) (Title: ICTP, Arun M Jayannavar and induction into RVB Theory) 10:15 am to 11:00 am Srikanth Sastry (JNCASR, Bangalore) (Title: Memory Formation in Glasses) 11:00 am to 11:15 am Break 11:15 am to 12:00 pm Sumathi Rao (HRI, Allahabad) (Title: Exotic quasiparticles in condensed matter systems) 12:00 pm to 12:30 pm Colin Benjamin (NISER, Bhubaneswar) (Title: Cooperation or Betrayal? An Analytical Investigation of the drivers of Cooperative Behavior) Day 1 (23/11/2020): Session II (Chairperson: Surajit Sengupta) 2:15 pm to 2:45 pm Sourabh Lahiri (BITS-Meshra) (Title: Stochastic thermodynamics and its applications in the study of microscopic active heat engines) 2:45 pm to 3:15 pm Abhishek Chaudhuri (IISER, Mohali) (Title: Probing the role of myosin contractility in cellular migration) 3:15 pm to 3:45 pm Arnab Saha (University of Calcutta) (Title: Tuning the self-organization of confined active particles by the steepness of the trap ) 3:45 pm to 4:00 pm Break 4:00 pm to 4:45 pm Madan Rao (NCBS, Bangalore) (Title: Thermodynamics of Cellular Sensing) 4:45 pm to 5:30 pm Gautam I Menon ( Ashoka University and IMSc Chennai) (Title: Models for COVID-19 spread ) 5:30 pm to 6: 00 pm Recounting fond memories of Prof Arun M Jayannavar 1 Day 2 (24/11/2020): Session I (Chairperson: Madan Rao) 9:30 am to 10:15 am Abhishek Dhar (ICTS, Bangalore) (Title:Non-Hermitian description of the Quasi-Zeno dynamics of a quantum particle ) 10:15 am to 10:45 am Rahul Suresh Marathe (IIT, Delhi) (Title: Defining Effective temperature in under damped Active Brownian heat engines) 10:45 am to 11:00 am Break 11:00 am to 11:45 am Surajit Sengupta (TIFR, Hyderabad) (Title: A droplet nucleation theory for yielding of crystalline solids) 11:45 am to 12:15 pm Malay Kumar Bandyopadhyay (IIT, Bhubaneswar) (Title: Effect of noise and dissipation on quantum transport in a nano-wire) 12:15 pm to 12:45 pm Mamata Sahoo (University of Kerala) (Title: DNA Replication: Accuracy and Speed of Elongation ) Day 2 (24/11/2020): Session II (Chairperson: Sumathi Rao) 2:00 pm to 2:45 pm Krishnendu Sengupta (IACS, Kolkata) (Title: Aspects of ballistic transport in 3D topological materials) 2:45 pm to 3:15 pm Paramita Dutta (Uppsala University, Sweden) (Title: Is chirality blockade removable in magnetic Weyl semimetals? ) 3:15 pm to 3:45 pm SK Firoz Islam (Aalto University, Finland) (Title: Optical analog of Klein tunneling and weak localization through non-Hermitian Photonic lattice ) 3:45 pm to 4:00 pm Break 4:00 pm to 4.30 pm Prosenjit Singha Deo (SNBNCBS, Kolkata) (Title: Quantifying literature and philosophy) 4:30 pm to 5.00 pm Priyo Shankar Pal (University of Maryland, Baltimore) (Title: Stochastic thermodynamics of relativistic Brownian motion ) 5.00 pm to 5:30 pm Shubhashis Rana (University of Houston, Texas) (Title: Precision and dissipation of a stochastic Turing pattern) 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm Rendezvous with Prof Arun M Jayannavar to cherish his elegant scientific career and achievements. 2.