TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH

(A Deemed University)

VISITING STUDENTS RESEARCH PROGRAMME 2014 (SNS, STCS & NCRA)

General Information
The research activities in TIFR are organized under three Schools: the School of Natural Sciences (SNS), the School of Mathematics, and the School of Technology and Computer Science (STCS) and at several centers. A summary of the areas of research relevant to VSRP-2011 are given below. Please check the website http://www.tifr.res.in/~vsrp for additional details.

School Of Natural Sciences

NATURAL SCIENCES FACULTY (Mumbai Campus) 1. Department of Theoretical Physics (Code: DTP) String Theory and Mathematical Physics: Gauge theory-gravity dualities Physics of black holes Origin and structure of big-bang universe. High Energy Physics: LHC physics Neutrino physics Statistical mechanics of elementary particles Physics beyond the standard model Phase transitions in the early universe Study of hadrons including exotics. Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics: Strongly correlated systems Theory of hightemperature superconductivity Disordered systems Non-equilibrium statistical physics.

2. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Code: DAA) A. Theoretical Astrophysics: Solar and Stellar Physics High Energy Astrophysics Supernovae and Pulsars Galactic astrophysics General relativity and Cosmology Gravitational lensing. B. Experimental Astronomy Space Astronomy: Hard X-ray and far infrared studies with balloon borne telescopes (TIFR Balloon Facility, Hyderabad). Spectral, temporal, and imaging studies in X-rays of Galactic and extragalactic sources (using data from national and international observatories) Study of accretion onto compact objects (black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs) Development of Xray and infrared detectors and telescopes for space applications like Indian multiwavelength satellite ASTROSAT Gamma ray astronomy. Ground-based Observations: Optical astronomy using Mt. Abu, Hanle, Vainu Bappu and Nainital telescopes Near infrared studies with Mt. Abu telescope Radio observations using Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT, Khodad, near Pune). 3. Department of High Energy Physics (Code: DHEP) Proton-antiproton collisions at 2 TeV centre of mass energy at Tevatron (Fermilab, Chicago) Rare B decays and CP violation at the KEK B-factory (Tsukuba, Japan) Proton-proton collisions at 14 TeV centre of mass energy at the Large Hadron Collider (CERN, Geneva) High energy cosmic ray astrophysics at PeV energies at Ootacamund (Tamil Nadu) High energy gamma ray astronomy at TeV energies at Pachmarhi (Madhya Pradesh) Precision measurements on gravitation at Gauribidanur (Karnataka) Precision measurements on laser cooled atoms to study problems in fundamental physics. Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics (Code: DNAP) A. Nuclear Physics and Condensed matter studies using nuclear techniques: Nuclear structure and spectroscopy of high spin states in exotic nuclei Giant dipole resonance in nuclei Transfer reactions and incomplete fusion Nuclear physics near the Coulomb barrier In-beam hyperfine interaction studies in novel materials Properties of hot and dense nuclear and hadronic systems.

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Atomic, Molecular and Optical Sciences: Ion-atom and ion-molecule collisions Interaction of electrons, ions and neutrals with laser excited molecules Interaction of matter with super-intense laser fields Non-linear optics Physics-Biology interface Nano-optics and Optics of mesoscopic systems Photonic device modelling Physics of clusters Accelerator based atomic physics.

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Department of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science (Code: DCMPMS) Superconductivity and Magnetism of intermetallics and oxides: Spin glasses, valence fluctuation phenomena, heavy fermions, giant magnetoresistance, transport in high magnetic fields and low temperatures, vortex state in superconductors, point contact spectroscopy, Mossbauer spectroscopy, photoelectron spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy Semiconductors and nanostructures: Low dimensional quantum structures, optoelectronic devices, organic semiconductors, ultrafast optoelectronics, optical and terahertz spectroscopy, plasmonics, and nano-electronics Soft condensed matter physics: nano-rheology Nanomaterials and Soft matter: Size effects, device physics, Raman spectroscopy.

6. Department of Chemical Sciences (Code: DCS) Studies of fast and ultrafast chemical processes using lasers, T-Jump, Stopped-flow and ESR Materials chemistry Synthetic Inorganic and Organic Chemistry Supersonic jet spectroscopy Structure, function and dynamics of metalloenzymes Enzyme kinetics and electron transfer reactions Protein folding Structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules by multidimensional NMR Solid State NMR Molecular modelling Protein engineering Metabolism in intact cells by in-vivo NMR Multi-photon fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging Study of protein misfolding and aggregation by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy Single-molecule force spectroscopy Protein mechanics and mechanochemistry Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy Chemical Biology and molecular imaging 7. Department of Biological Sciences (Code: DBS) Developmental neurobiology at cellular and systems level Plasticity of vertebrate brain: development and stress biology Molecular biology of Malarial parasites Structure-function relationships on proteins Membrane biophysics Mechanisms operational in Genome Dynamics Cellular motors: single molecule and genetic studies Cellular adhesion molecules: cell biology & development Sirtuins and gene expression Yeast genomics/genetics Cell biology of mitochondrial remodeling Developmental biology in Zebrafish.

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR RADIO ASTROPHYSICS (NCRA), Pune (Code: NCRA) Formation and evolution of galaxies and large-scale structures Energetic activity in the nuclei of galaxies Intergalactic and interstellar matter and magnetic fields Physics and observations of pulsars Solar activity and the solar wind.

School of Technology & Computer Science (Code: STCS)

A. Computer Science: Approximation algorithms, Complexity theory, Randomness and computing, Design and analysis of algorithms, Quantum information and computation, Geometric graph theory, Computational geometry, Computational algebraic geometry, Robot motion planning, Programming Languages, Models of concurrent and interacting processes, Logic, Embedded systems, Mathematical Biology, Self-assembly, Semantics and verification of programs, Programming paradigms and languages, Software engineering, Model checking, Formal Methods, Hard real-time systems, Mobile computing, Network security, Public-key infrastructures. B. Systems Science: Control, Communications, Markov decision processes and applications, Operations Research with an emphasis on Stochastic Systems, Communication Networks, Network modeling, Pricing / control / resource allocation problems for Internet, Security, Security in wireless networks and all optical networks. Computational Finance, Signal Processing, Stochastic Simulation.

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