Home page of Palash B. Pal : Conferences & Talks

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Home page of Palash B. Pal : Conferences & Talks Talks given since about mid-1997:

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Talks at academic conferences and workshops

Non-standard GUTs
"Grand unification and baryogenesis", organized by Physics Department, Calcutta University, 23–25 Nov 2011.
Summary of theoretical seminars at the conference
"Dark Matter in LHC Era: Direct and Indirect Searches", held at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, 4–8 Jan 2011.
Particle physics of WIMP-nucleon cross section
Talk at the conference "Dark Matter in LHC Era: Direct and Indirect Searches", held at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, 4–8 Jan 2011.
Man and the universe
Invited talk at the Golden Jubilee celebration conference of the Indian Anthropological Society, organized by the Indian Anthropological Society and the Anthropological Survey of India, held in Calcutta, 23–26 Nov 2010.
Demystifying Majorana neutrinos
Invited talk at the conference "Aspects of neutrinos" organized by the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, held at Goa University Conference Centre, 08–15 April 2009.
Level crossing phenomena in astrophysics
Invited talk at the conference "Particle Physics: achievements and challenges" organized by Calcutta University, 04 Feb 2008.
Lorentz symmetry violating signatures in a medium
Invited talk at the conference "Contemporary issues in nuclear and particle physics", Jadavpur University, Calcutta, 01 Feb 2008.
Issues in neutrino astrophysics and cosmology
Invited talk at the WIN-07 conference (Weak Interaction and Neutrinos) held at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, 15 Jan – 20 Jan 2007.
Mohabishwer jyamiti (Geometry of the universe)
Invited talk at the 3-day conference on "The international year of Physics", Bengal Engineering and Science University, Howrah, 30 Nov - 02 Dec 2005.
Bhasha-shikkhon o projukti (Language teaching and technology)
Invited talk at the 3-day conference on "Aspects of Grammar and Language", Paschim Banga Bangla Akademi, 17-19 Aug 2005.
Geometry of the universe
Invited talk at the 1-day conference on "100 years of relativity", Kalyani University, 21 Apr 2005.
Neutrinos and magnetic fields
Plenary talk at the conference "Theoretical High Energy Physics-1", organized by Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, 16-20 Mar 2005.
Science fiction: how much science and how much fiction?
Plenary talk at the conference on "Science and Literature", organized by the Department of Bengali, Burdwan University, 10-11 Feb 2005.
Neutrino mass and mixing
Plenary talk at the "XVI DAE-BRNS High energy physics symposium", Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, 29 Nov–02 Dec 2004.
Standard model and beyond
Invited talk at the "National conference on neutrinos in nuclear, particle and astrophysics", Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 26-28 Feb 2004.
Neutrinos in high magnetic fields
Invited talk at the conference "Contemporary issues in nuclear and particle physics", Jadavpur University, Calcutta, 16-17 Feb 2004.
Morphological analysis of some recent orthographical reforms
Invited lecture at the one-day conference on Grammatical and lexical studies in Bengali, Department of Linguistics, Calcutta University, 25/3/03.
Magnetic monopoles and quantization of electric charge
Invited lecture at the conference AKR-80 on the occassion of the 80th birthday of Prof. Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, organized jointly by Jadavpur University and the S N Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Calcutta, 22/2/03-24/2/03.
Introduction to the supersymmetric standard model
12 invited lectures at the Vietnam Winter School of Physics, held at the Institute of Physics, Hanoi, Vietnam, 25/12/00-6/1/01.
Twentieth century science and the deconstruction of reality
Invited talk at the National seminar on Literature and Philosophy, Department of English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, 22-24 Mar 2000.
Breakdown of universality of electromagnetic and gravitational interactions in matter
Two invited talks at the conference on Finite temperature field theory, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Calcutta, India, 8-11 Oct 1999.
Neutrino scattering in strong magnetic fields
Invited talk at the COSMO-99 conference, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 29 Sep - 2 Oct 1999.
Cosmology with non-zero cosmological constant
Invited talk at the conference of Young Astrophysicists of Today's India (YATI), S.N. Bose Center for Basic Sciences, Calcutta, India, 24-26 Mar 1999.
Modern determinations of cosmological parameters
Discussion meeting on Recent developments in Neutrino Physics, Physical Reseach Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, 2-4 Feb 1999.
Invited talk.
Particle dark matter
Invited talk at Cosmology: theory confronts observations, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 11-17 Jan 1999.
Matter and gravity
Invited talk at the Topical symposium on Particle Physics, Indian Physics Association, held at Calcutta University, Calcutta, India, 21 Dec 1998.
An overview of Neutrino physics
Invited talk at the SERC school for Nuclear Physics, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Calcutta, India, July 1998.
Fifty years of the pion
Invited talk at the conference on 100 years of the discovery of the electron, 50 years of the pion and 25 years of asymptotic freedom, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, 27 April 1998.
Neutrino astrophysics and cosmology: recent developments.
Invited talk at Perspectives of Theoretical Physics, Indian Association of Cultivation of Science, Calcutta, India, 22-24 April 1998.
Neutrino properties from reactor and accelerator experiments.
Invited Plenary talk at the B and Nu Workshop, Mehta Research Institute, Allahabad, India, 4-8 Jan 1998.
Neutrino astrophysics and cosmology: recent developments.
Invited Plenary talk at the B and Nu Workshop, Mehta Research Institute, Allahabad, India, 4-8 Jan 1998.
Optical activity of a neutrino gas
Invited talk at the Workshop on Astroparticle Physics, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 15 Oct - 15 Dec 1997.