PCCP Symposium on Physics for Sustainability: Health, Energy, and Environment (SPHERE)

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 …

Abstract submission window for contributed talks (by faculty/postdocs) and posters (by students/postdocs)	15^th July 2025
Notification of acceptance for contributed talks	15^th July 2025
Notification of acceptance for contributed posters	31^st July 2025
Registration opening	4^th August 2025
Registration deadline	30^th September 2025

Speakers	INR 6000 + 18% Tax = INR 7080/-
Poster presenters	INR 4000 + 18% Tax = INR 4720/-
Other attendees	INR 2000 + 18% Tax = INR 2360/- (For those who want to attend and get a registration kit, food, etc. but not accommodation)

Beneficiary name	Society for Atomistic and Continuum Modeling
Name of Bank	State Bank of India
Branch code	01268
Account number	41974598642
IFSC code (INDIA)	SBIN0001268

PCCP Symposium on Physics for Sustainability: Health, Energy, and Environment
SPHERE

Programme Schedule

Important Dates

Society for Atomistic and Continuum Modeling (SACM)

Registration Fee

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

PCCP Symposium on Physics for Sustainability: Health, Energy, and Environment SPHERE

Programme Schedule

Important Dates

Society for Atomistic and Continuum Modeling (SACM)

Registration Fee

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

PCCP Symposium on Physics for Sustainability: Health, Energy, and Environment
SPHERE

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

sphere.conf@iisc.ac.in