Invited talks
"Exploring Novel thermoelectric materials from first principles investigation" at 12th International Conference on Ceramic Materials and Components for Energy and Environmental Applications (CMCEE 2018), being organized jointly by Institution of engineers Singapore and National university of Singapore at Suntec Singapore during 22-27th July 2018.
"Promising thermoelectric materials" at India–UK workshop on thermoelectric materials for waste heat harvesting, at JNCASR , Bangalore , India, during 8-10th January 2018.
"Predicted superconductivity of Ni2VAl and enhanced superconductivity in SnAs and SnSb under pressure" at NCES conference at IISER Bhopal, India on 26th December 2017.
"Promising thermoelectric materials" at Current Trends in Computational Natural Sciences , at IIIT Hyderabad on March 5 2017.
"First principles study on Zr2TiAl and Mn-based Magnetic compounds under compression" at International Conference on Magnetic Materials and Applications (ICMAGMA) , Hyderabad , during 1st-3rd February, 2017.
"ZnGeSb2 : A promising thermoelectric material with tunable ultra high conductivity" at the national conference of electron spectroscopy (NCES) at Toshali Sands . Puri, Odisha during 22nd -24th December 2016.
"Natural Minerals for thermoelectric applications" at Indo-US workshop on "Thermoelectrics", being organized jointly by CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, India and Michigan State University, USA during 15-17th December 2014.
"Fermisuface topology change in Cu3Au-type superconducting intermetallics under pressure" at International Symposium on Science of Clusters, Nanoparticles, and Nanoscale- Materials (SOCNAM) organised by Central University of Rajastan and Virginia Commonwealth University at Jaipur (Rajastan), India during 4-7th, March, 2013.
"Fermisuface topology change under pressure: A Density Functional Study" at National Conference organised by Advanced Material Research Group of Computational Nanoscience and Technology Lab (NCMAT-2012), ABV-IIITM, Gwalior (M.P.) India, during 27-29th February 2012.
Contributed talks
"Exploring Natural Thermoelectric Materials For Green Energy Applications" at 59th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium (DAE-SSPS 2014), VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, during 16-20th December, 2014.
"Fermi surface and Superconducting properties of Intermetallics compounds: An Ab-initio study" at 58th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium (DAE-SSPS 2013), Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, during 17th-21st December, 2013.
"Fermi surface topology for AX3(A=La, Y; X= Sn, Pb, In, Tl) and A3X (A=La; X=In, Tl, Sn) superconducting intermetallic: Effect of compression" at the seventh International conference of the Asian consortium on Computational Material science (ACCMS-7) which is held during July 23-28 at Suranree University of Technology, Thailand.
"Fermi surface topology change in superconducting intermetallic under pressure" at Electronic structure Approaches to Atoms, Molecules, Clusters and Solids, ACRHEM, University of Hyderabad.
Academic Visits to Other Institutes
Visited Department of Physics, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, during November 2003, August 2006 and July 2007 for a combined project on 'f' electrons and double perovskites.
Visited Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials, University of Strassbourg, (CNRS) France, during December 2003, for working on the optical properties of CrO2.
Visited Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, during June 2004 for collaborative project on double Perovskite.
Conference Attended
Attended "Ab-INITIO Many Body Theory for Correlated electron Systems" workshop during August 2003 at Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.
Attended "The physics of 'f' electrons" held during November 2003 at University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Attended "Workshop on Correlation Effect in Electronic Structure Calculations" during June 2002 at Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.
Attended "Spring College on Numerical Methods in Electronic Structure Calculations" during May 2001 at Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.
Current Colloborators
Prof. M.Alouani (CNRS, Strassbourg, France)
Prof. Lambert Alff (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
Prof. Leif Gerward (Denmark Technical University, Denmark)
Prof. J. Staun Olsen (Neils Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Prof. S. Heathman (Institute for TransUranium Elements, Germany)
Prof. N. E. Christensen (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
Dr. Ravhi S. Kumar (University of Las Vegas, U.S.A)
Prof. T. Le Bihan (ESRF, France)
Dr. G. S. Vaitheeswaran (ACRHEM, UoH, Hyderabad)