Last month I had the pleasure of visiting the Department of Physics at IIT Bombay. The huge campus is a (relatively) quiet green bubble insulated from the traffic and noise of the city outside. My host was new faculty member Subhaskar Mandal, whom I first met last year towards the end of his postdoc at Nanyang Technological University.
I gave a talk on "Conical intersections and angular momentum" (slides available here). This is a long-running story which I started working on at the very beginning of my PhD studies, taking another look at it in the context of borophene lattices a few years ago. Interesting questions related to the origin and applications of the "microscopic" orbital angular remain unanswered and worth revisiting with the current surging interest in quantum geometric effects.
I really enjoyed the other presentations on plasmonic nanocavities, bound states in the continuum, and axion topological photonic crystals, as well as interactions with the students and local faculty members. The full workshop programme is available here.
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