March – April, 2025 Prof. Rahul Mukherji India visit

Prof. Oriol Vendrell visited IIT-Bombay as a Visiting Professor at the Physics Department. He was invited by Prof. Gopal Dixit. The primary purpose of the visit was to exchange scientific ideas with the colleagues of the Physics and Chemistry Departments, to focus on ongoing projects in his group and to explore the possibility of exchanging doctoral students via an international research training group between Heidelberg and IIT-B. The latter point was discussed at length and good progress was made to set the basis for such a collaboration. Besides this, interacted with PhD students in Physics and in Chemistry about their work, sitting at their computers and had long and inspiring conversations. He delivered two scientific talks, one at IIT-B and one at IACS in Kolkata, and gave one lecture on Quantum Dynamics for PhD students at IIT-B. This visit was an extremely positive experience, which he hopes to repeat for a shorter period of time during 2026.