Presentations, Colloquia & Events

Talks, Colloquia & Academic Events

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Delivered presentations, thesis defenses, seminars, and participation in academic lectures and conferences. Delivered and attended events are listed separately.

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Delivered Talk2024•Indore, India

AdS/CFT Introduction & Properties of Anti-de Sitter Black Holes: Quasi Normal Mode Calculation in Various Black Hole Models

MSc Thesis Defense & Presentation — Indian Institute of Technology Indore

Speaker: Santanu Pradhan (IIT Indore)

Master's thesis presentation detailing AdS/CFT duality, anti-de Sitter black-hole thermodynamics, and alternative numerical methods for Kerr black-hole quasinormal modes.

Delivered Talk2024•Indore, India

Quasinormal Modes of Different Black-Hole Models

Departmental Seminar — Indian Institute of Technology Indore

Speaker: Santanu Pradhan (IIT Indore)

Departmental seminar presentation on black-hole perturbation theory, boundary conditions, and numerical methods for calculating quasinormal mode frequencies.

Delivered Talk2023•Indore, India

AdS/CFT and Properties of Anti-de Sitter Black Holes

Departmental Seminar — Indian Institute of Technology Indore

Speaker: Santanu Pradhan (IIT Indore)

Technical presentation on the holographic principle, Anti-de Sitter geometry, and thermodynamic properties of AdS black-hole spacetimes.

Delivered Talk2023•Indore, India

Unruh Radiation

Departmental Seminar — Indian Institute of Technology Indore

Speaker: Santanu Pradhan (IIT Indore)

Seminar on quantum field theory in curved spacetime, Bogoliubov transformations, and thermal particle perception by accelerating observers in Minkowski space.

Attended EventMarch 2, 2024•Lecture / Event

Type Ia Supernovae in the Near Infrared: A Unique Constraint on Dark Energy

Public Lecture (Attended) — Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory

Speaker: Prof. Robert Kirshner (Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory)

Attended public lecture delivered by Prof. Robert Kirshner on cosmological constraints on dark energy using near-infrared observations of Type Ia supernovae.

Attended EventJanuary 2, 2023•Seminar

Can Spirals Help the Milky Way 'Breathe'? A Quest with Simulations and the Gaia Mission

Research Seminar (Attended) — Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

Speaker: Dr. Soumavo Ghosh (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)

Attended research seminar on galactic dynamics, spiral arms, N-body simulations, and kinematic data from the Gaia mission.

Attended EventJanuary 13, 2023•Seminar

A Mechanism for Black Hole Microstate Level Spacing

High Energy Physics Seminar (Attended) — Center for High Energy Physics (CHEP), IISc Bengaluru

Speaker: Dr. Chetan Krishnan (CHEP, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru)

Attended high-energy physics seminar discussing black-hole microstate spectra, quantum gravity, and energy level statistics.

Attended EventDecember 28, 2022•Academic Conference

Young Physicists' Meet

Academic Physics Conference (Attended) — Physics Community Meet

Participated in the Young Physicists' Meet featuring research discussions across theoretical, condensed matter, and computational physics.

Attended EventDecember 29, 2022•Seminar

Descriptive Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Indian Chronology

Special Seminar (Attended) — IIEST Shibpur

Speaker: Prof. Amitabha Ghosh (IIEST Shibpur)

Attended lecture on mathematical and historical methods in descriptive archaeoastronomy.

Attended EventAugust 4, 2022•Online Conference

Penrose Diagrams for Different Black-Hole Geometries in Flat, Minkowski, and AdS Backgrounds

Online Conference Talk (Attended) — IISER Kolkata

Speaker: Dr. Sabir Ali (IISER Kolkata)

Attended online talk on conformal compactification and Penrose conformal diagrams for black-hole spacetimes across flat, Minkowski, and Anti-de Sitter backgrounds.