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VISITORS’ PROGRAMMES The centre has a strong visitors and associates programme for senior
as well as for young researchers, including those from colleges/ universities. The centre operates as the national nodal centre of the Theoretical Physics Seminar Circuit (TPSC), which was set up by DST, to promote collaboration and sharing of research ideas and results among different research centres (20) in India.
Prof. Kip Thorne interacting with students during the Silver Jubilee Lecture (2011)
in presence of confining walls and external laser modulation, the properties of deep eutectic melts, understanding transport through narrow channels and tortuous path. The other major endeavor has been in understanding the importance of electronic redistribution while ligand binding to some biological objects like DNA or protein takes place.
Classical and Quantum Behaviour of Black Holes: SNBNCBS has produced vigorous research in theoretical gravitation and quantum field theory from its early days. Much of the early work was in astrophysical black holes, in particular studying the formation and propagation of shock waves in accretion discs around them and other compact objects like neutron stars using hydrodynamic simulations; and also in classical aspects of black holes, such as existence and behaviour of different types of fields near black holes with a positive cosmological constant, or dynamics of horizons, or modelling dark matter with primordial black holes. More recently, black hole research at SNBNCBS has put more emphasis on their quantum properties and associated techniques, which can help in our understanding of quantum gravity. These include a systematic study of quantum
tunneling methods to calculate Hawking radiation from black holes and leading corrections to the area-entropy relation, using a duality to relate black holes to theory of superconductors, and quantum aspects of black holes in noncommutative spacetimes, braneworld models, and other geometries. Numerous highly acclaimed papers have been written over the years by researchers at SNBNCBS on these aspects of black hole physics.
Technical Research Centre: The Technical Research Centre (TRC), funded by Department
of Science & Technology, Ministry of Science
& Technology, Government of India at S.N.
Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences was launched on 1 January 2016. The Centre has so far transferred seven technologies to industries, five prototypes are ready for transfer of technology, generated several IPs through 20 national and one international patents, trained humanpower (about 100) to cater to the future needs of the country and revenue generation through national and international consultancy projects/user charges. Major target areas of on-going TRC at SNBNCBS: health care, environment, food security low-cost instrumentation and input through computation. •
Prof. Michael Berry delivering the 10th CK Majumdar Memorial Lecture (2012)