Day 1 (5th August)

Venue: Kanada Auditorium

09:00  Snacks

09:30 Opening Remarks: Umesh V. Waghmare

Session I : Chair - Meheboob Alam

09:40 Abhishek Dhar, Entropy growth during free expansion of an ideal gas

10:20 A. V. Anil Kumar, Dynamics of binary colloidal mixtures in an external potential barrier : Role of depletion interaction

11:00 - 11:30  Tea/Coffee Break

Session II : Chair - Apratim Chatterji

11:30 Prabal Maiti, Activity induced phase separation and ordering in various model soft matter systems

12:10 Tejas Dhamecha, Finite-size Scaling in Dynamics of Error Reduction in Neural Network Training

12:50-14:20  Lunch @Conference Dining Hall

Session III : Chair - A. V. Anil Kumar

14:20 Balasubramanian Sundaram, Conformations and configurations: Throwing everything including the kitchen sink at liquid ethylene glycol

15:00 Srikanth Sastry, Avalanches and clusters in sheared glasses

15:40-16:10  Snacks

Session IV : Chair - Abhishek Dhar

16:10 Apratim Chatterji, Inducing organization in intrinsically disordered polymeric systems: lessons from bacterial chromosomes

16:50 Amitabha Nandi, Kinesin-mediated axonal transport of vesicles

19:00  Dinner @Conference Dining Hall

Day 2 (6th August)

Venue: Kanada Auditorium

09:00  Snacks

Session V : Chair - Navneet Singh

09:20 Prabhat Jaiswal, Kinetics of Wetting: Universal Fast Mode and Potential-dependent Regimes

10:00 Sutapa Roy, Droplet Coalescence Dynamics during Phase Separation

10:40 Rajesh Ganapathy, Intermediate Range Order Governs Dynamics in Dense Colloidal Liquids

11:20 - 11:40  Tea/Coffee Break

Session VI : Chair - Prabal Maiti

11:40 Kavita Jain, Slow quench dynamics in classical systems

12:20 Subir K Das, Mpemba effect in magnetic transitions

13:00 Closing Remarks, Followed by Lunch @Conference Dining Hall.