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9	Venue: Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Pune Campus
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11	Day 1: May 19, 2025
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13	8:00 - 9:00	Registration, Lecture Hall Complex (LHC)
14	9:00 - 9:30	Inauguration, C. V. Raman Auditorium, LHC
15	9:30 - 10:00	Tea Break
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17		Parallel Session I (LHC 101)		Parallel Session II (LHC 201)		Parallel Session III (LHC 103)
18		Methods 1 : Spectroscopy & Excited States (Chair: Shouvik Datta)		Catalysis 1 (Chair: Ranjit Thapa)		Magnetism 1 -SOC (Chair: Sunil Nair)
19	10:00 - 10:25	Lucia Reining	Fingerprints of excitonic effects in valence electron spectroscopies	Sharan Shetty	Computational Insights in Heterogenous Catalysis: An Industrial Perspective	Subhradip Ghosh	Rashba and Zeeman effects in non-magnetic MXene
20	10:25 - 10:50	Claudia Draxl	Theoretical Spectroscopy Including Electron-Phonon and Exciton-Phonon Coupling	P Ravindran	Graphene Based Photocaltalysts for Green Hydrogen Production	Souvik Paul	Magnetic skyrmions on the noncollinear ground state
21	10:50 - 11:15	Manish Jain	Ab-initio multiparticle excitations in materials	Krishnakanta Mondal	Modelling of Transition Metal Based Catalyst for Hydrogenation of CO2 towards Fuel	Tanusri Saha Dasgupta	Interplay of SOC and Coulomb Interaction – Route to Unconventional
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23	11:15 - 11:45	Tea Break
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25		Parallel Session I (LHC 101)		Parallel Session II (LHC 201)		Parallel Session III (LHC 103)
26		Methods 2: Spectroscopy & Excited States (Chair: Nirmalya Ballav)		Catalysis 2 (Chair: Sharan Shetty)		Magnetism 2 - SOC (Chair: Ashish Arora)
27	11:45 - 12:10	Hannes Jonsson	Variational Calculations of Excited Electronic States by Converging on Saddle Points on the Electronic Energy Surface	Bidisa Das	DFT studies of Fe oxyhydroxide Nanostructures in Water: Structure and OER Activity	Debjani Karmakar	Complex Chiral Magnetism in Quasi-2D Fe4GeTe2
28	12:10 - 12:35	Saswata Bhattacharya	Role of Dimensionality on Excitonic Properties of BiSeI from Many-body Perturbative Approaches	Ranjit Thapa	Electronic descriptors for metal center catalysts to define C2 product selectivity during CO2ER	Sukanya Ghosh	Intriguing Tale of van-der-Waals Magnets: Interplay of Unusual Structural Reconstruction, Exchange Mechanism and Electron Correlation
29	12:35 - 13:00	Saswata Roy	Divergences within TDDFT	Utpal Sarkar	Structure and reactivity of fullerenes and their derivatives	Cyrille Barreteau	Modelling spin-orbitronics effects at inorganic interfaces and through chiral molecules
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31	13:00 - 14:40	Lunch at The Dining Hall Complex (First Floor)
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33		Parallel Session I (LHC 101)		Parallel Session II (LHC 201)		Parallel Session III (LHC 103)
34		Methods 3: Codes (Chair: Swapan K Pati)		Thermal Properties 1 (Chair: Shobhana Narasimhan)		Magnetism 3 - Altermagnets (Chair: Arijit Bhattacharyay)
35	14:40 - 15:05	Ryoji Sahara	Electronic structure in light-element-doped TiO2 by all-electron GW calculation using TOMBO code	Hena Das	Thermal expansion in cross-coupled order parameter oxides	Birabar Ranjit Kumar Nanda	Electronic Structure of Altermagnetic Materials: A Chemical Bonding Perspective
36	15:05 - 15:30	Phani Motamarri	Fast and accurate finite-element based methods for DFT calculations within the projector-augmented wave formalism in the exascale era	Narayan Prasad Adhikari	Exploration of some efficient high temperature thermoelectric materials: a focus on half Heuslers	Nirmal Ganguli	Altermagnetism from nonsymmorphic symmetry
37	15:30 - 15:55	Malaya K Nayak	Development and implementation of new features in fully-relativistic DIRAC program package	Bulumoni Kalita	Improved Thermoelectric Properties of Doped and Strained XCaB (X-Li, Na, K) Alloys	Awadhesh Narayan	Interplay of altermagnetism and pressure
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39	16:00 - 17:15	Poster session + High Tea
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41	17:30 - 19:00	Birthday celebration of Prof. Dilip G Kanhere (C. V. Raman Auditorium, LHC)
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43	19:30 - 21:00	Dinner at The Dining Hall Complex (First Floor)