Program Schedule

Programme Schedule

Time	Program Details
08:30–09:00	Registration and refreshments
09:00–09:20	Welcome & Introductions
Topic: Health — Session Chair: Himanshu Joshi, IIT Hyderabad
09:30–09:55	Anouk Rijs — Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ion Mobility–Mass Spectrometry Meets Infrared Spectroscopy: Revealing the Molecular Origin of Protein Aggregation
09:55–10:20	Yves Lansac — University of Tours, France DNA condensation and aggregation induced by condensing agents
10:20–10:45	Anand Srivastava — Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Simulation-assisted “structural” biophysics of intrinsically disordered proteins.
10:45–11:15	Tea Break
11:15–11:40	Maria Lucia Curri — University of Bari, Italy From Design to Function: Silica Nanostructures for Advanced Biomedical Applications
11:40–12:05	Dhiraj Bhatia — IIT Gandhinagar DNA nanodevices to modulate biological systems
12:05–12:25	Ananya Debnath — IIT Jodhpur TBA
12:30–14:00	Lunch
Topic: Energy — Session Chair: E. D. Jemmis, IISc Bangalore
14:00–14:25	Henry Schaefer — University of Georgia, USA Does Jacob’s Ladder Lead to Density Functional Heaven?
14:25–14:50	Musharaf Ali — BARC, Mumbai First Principles Account of Atomic Order (Disorder) in Glass
14:50–15:15	Lars Goerigk — The University of Melbourne, Australia Accurate DFT methods for excited state problems and what we can do with them
15:15–15:45	Tea Break
15:45–16:10	Luis Banares — Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Manipulating photoinduced reaction dynamics with ultrafast strong laser fields
16:10–16:35	Anirban Mondal — IIT Gandhinagar Orbital Engineering at Interfaces: Bridging Organic Electronics and Photocatalysis for Sustainable Energy Solutions
16:40–17:40	Poster Session
17:40	Flash Posters — by invitation of the scientific committee
19:00	Close of Sessions & Dinner

Time	Program Details
Topic: Environment — Session Chair: Benoit Coasne, CNRS, France
09:00–09:25	Sanat K Kumar — Columbia University Mechanism of Quiescent Nanoplastic Formation from Semicrystalline Polymers
09:25–09:50	Balasubramanian Sundaram — JNCASR, Bangalore Modelling Atmospheric Water Harvest by Porous Framework Materials.
09:50–10:15	Manu Jaiswal — IIT Madras Sorption, transport, and dielectric properties of water confined in layered 2D materials
10:15–10:45	Tea Break
Topic: Health — Session Chair: Ganapathy Ayappa, IISc
10:45–11:10	Rahul Pandit — IISc, Bangalore Curl, Scroll, and Break: The Physics of Ventricular Arrhythmias
11:10–11:35	Suman Chakrabarty — S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata Role of Metastable Conformational States in Proteins: From Function to Drug Discovery
11:35–11:55	Pannuru Venkatesu — University of Delhi Sustainable Solvents for Pharmaceutics: Role of Ionic Liquids/Deep Eutectic solvents in Pharmaceutical Formulations
11:55–12:15	Anil Kumar Sahoo — Freie Universität Berlin A Multiscale Theoretical Framework for Accurate Prediction of Protein–Polyelectrolyte Binding Thermodynamics
12:15–12:35	Sangeetha Balasubramanian — IISc, Bangalore Mechanistic insights into RNA recognition by the intrinsically disordered RG/RGG-rich domains of FUS and hnRNP A1
12:35–14:00	Lunch
Topic: Energy — Session Chair: Shibananda Das, IISc
14:00–14:25	Spiridoula Matsika — Temple University, USA Nonadiabatic events in photon and electron driven processes
14:25–14:50	Keith Gordon — University of Otago, New Zealand Crafting long-lived excited states; potential in photocatalysis of hydrogen
14:50–15:15	Tej S. Choksi — Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Radical-Driven Oxidation of Benzyl Alcohol to Oxalic Acid Using Ultrasound Irradiation
15:15–15:45	Tea Break
15:45–16:10	Laetitia Laversenne — CNRS Institut Néel Grenoble High entropy alloys for solid state storage of hydrogen
16:10–16:30	Hemant Kumar — IIT Bhubaneswar Interplay of Solvation and Ion Transport in Fluorinated Diethyl Ether Electrolytes for Sodium-Ion Batteries
16:30	Poster Session
17:30	Flash Posters — by invitation of the scientific committee
19:00	Close of Sessions & Dinner

Time	Program Details
Topic: Health — Session Chair: Abhishek Sirohiwal, IISc
09:00–09:25	Divya Nayar — IIT Delhi Drug design, Biomolecular Self-Assembly and Nanomaterials: In silico approaches for therapeutics
09:25–09:50	Himanshu Joshi — IIT Hyderabad TBA
09:50–10:10	Snehasis Daschakraborty — IIT Patna Do We Really Need the Two-State Model to Explain Dynamical Anomalies in Supercooled Water?
10:10–10:30	Prachi Thareja — IIT Gandhinagar Engineering Materials with Carrageenan and Chitosan: Rheology and Extrusion Printing
10:30–11:00	Tea Break
Topic: Environment — Session Chair: Ananth Govind Rajan, IISc
11:00–11:25	Benoit Coasne — LIPhy, CNRS / University Grenoble Alpes, France Theory and Modeling of Fluid Adsorption and Transport in Nanoporous Materials
11:25–11:50	Ajayan Vinu — The University of Newcastle, Australia TBA
11:50–12:15	Chandra Sekhar Tiwary — IIT Kharagpur Development of Stable, Green and Sustainable Two-Dimensional Materials
12:15–12:35	Yagnaseni Roy — IISc, Bangalore TBA
12:35–14:00	Lunch
Topic: Energy — Session Chair: Musharaf Ali, BARC
14:00–14:25	Ananth Govind Rajan — IISc Bangalore Combining Multi-Scale Simulations and Machine Learning to Discover Materials and Pathways for Clean Energy Applications.
14:25–14:50	Sunita Srivastava — IIT Bombay TBA
14:50–15:15	Shelaka Gupta — IIT Hyderabad Rational Design of Transition Metal Catalysts for the Production of Long Chain Hydrocarbons from Biomass
15:15–15:45	Tea Break
15:45–16:10	Arya Das — BARC, Mumbai Role of Water Finger in Interfacial Mass Transfer – Insight from Molecular Dynamics Simulations
16:10–16:25	Praveenkumar Sappidi — IIT Jodhpur Molecular Insights of Separation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural from Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids Using Protic and Aprotic Solvents
16:25–16:40	Somnath Koley — CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur Colloidal Self-Assembly of Lyophilic Sols in Crafting Intelligent Microswimmers: The Case of Artificial Phototactic Green Algae
16:40–17:00	Vote of thanks and conclude.

Day 1 — 16 October 2025 (Topic: Health / Energy)

08:30–09:00	Registration and refreshments
09:00–09:20	Welcome & Introductions
Topic: Health — Session Chair: Himanshu Joshi
09:30–09:55	Anouk Rijs — Ion Mobility–Mass Spectrometry …

Day 2 — 17 October 2025 (Topic: Environment / Health / Energy)

Topic: Environment — Session Chair: Benoit Coasne
09:00–09:25	Sanat K Kumar — Mechanism of Quiescent Nanoplastic Formation …

Day 3 — 18 October 2025 (Topic: Health / Environment / Energy)

Topic: Health — Session Chair: Abhishek Sirohiwal
09:00–09:25	Divya Nayar — Drug design, Biomolecular Self-Assembly …

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ADDRESSES FOR CORRESPONDENCE

Yashaswini B R or Rekha Varadaraj

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Department of Physics, New Physical Sciences Building, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012

sphere.conf@iisc.ac.in

Programme Schedule

ADDRESSES FOR CORRESPONDENCE

Yashaswini B R or Rekha Varadaraj

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Department of Physics, New Physical Sciences Building, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012 sphere.conf@iisc.ac.in

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Department of Physics, New Physical Sciences Building, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012

sphere.conf@iisc.ac.in