SMSM 2019
Conference​
SPEAKERS.
Ranjith Padinhateeri
His research interests include Nucleosome dynamics, Chromatin assembly, DNA mechanics and self-assembly of proteins. He is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
Arijit Bhattacharyay
His research interests include the statistical mechanics of complex systems. He is an Associate Professor at IISER Pune.
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Vijaykumar Krishnamurthy
He is interested in active mechanical processes in developmental biology, and mechanochemical pattern formation. He is at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru.
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Madhav Ranganathan
His research interests include the statistical mechanics of thin films and nonequilibrium phenomena. He is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
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Anupam Kundu
His research interests include fluctuations in many-particle systems and dissipation in small stochastic systems. He is at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru.
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​D. S. RAY
His research interests include nonlinear optics, quantum optics and spectroscopy; nonlinear dynamics, chemical dynamics and stochastic processes. He is a Senior Professor in the department of Physical Chemistry at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciences, Kolkata.
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Debasish Mondal
He uses statistical mechanics to understand the physical properties of polymers and active matter. He is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati.
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Raghunath Chelakkot
His research interests include driven soft matter, active matter, and the physics of sentient systems. He is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
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Deepika Janakiraman
She develops analytical models to probe nonequilibrium statistical mechanics problems. She is a DST INSPIRE Faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
Deepak Dhar
His research interests include statistical physics and stochastic processes. He is a Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
Durba Sengupta
Her research aims at understanding Self Organisation and Self Assembly in complex bio-systems, using the tools of physical chemistry. The current focus of her research is Membrane Biology and understanding the structure, dynamics and functions of proteins, lipids, sugars and sterols within the membrane.
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Shyamal Biswas
His research interests include thermodynamic behaviour of cold and ultra-cold quantum systems in connection with Bose-Einstein condensation, Fermi degeneracy, superfluidity, Casimir effect, finite-size effect, magnetism, quantum mechanics,etc. physics, topological insulators, etc.
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Bijay Kumar Agarwalla
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hIis research interests are: Open Quantum Systems, quantum dynamics, Quantum transport in low-dimensional impurity systems.
Counting statistics, Non-equilibrium fluctuation relations, finite-time quantum thermodynamics, Efficiency of quantum devices.