| EDUCATION | ||
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2005 - present |
Pursuing PhD in Physics |
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| Department of Physics | ||
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Bangalore, India |
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| 2002 - 2005 |
Masters (MS) in Physics |
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| Department of Physics | ||
| Bangalore, India | ||
| CGPA: 6.4 (on a scale of 8) | ||
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Project title: Order and Fluctuation in Active Particle Systems |
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| 1999 - 2002 |
Bachelors in Science (BSc) with Honours in Physics |
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| University of Calcutta, | ||
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Kolkata, India. |
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Grade: First Class (62%)
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE |
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| April-July 2005 |
Worked under the supervision of Prof. Narayanan Menon (Dept. of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) on experiments on anisotropic granular systems and image analysis. |
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| January 2004-July 2005 |
MS Project : Experiments on non-equilibrium systems. Investigation of giant number fluctuations and the occurrence of striped phases in driven mono-layers of rod-like particles. |
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| October-November 2003 | Interfacing a Keithley Digital Multimeter to collect data at high speeds (2000 Hz) | |
| (Supervisor: Prof. A. K. Sood, IISc) | ||
| May-July 2003 |
Design and construction of low-temperature Hall apparatus |
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| (Supervisor: Prof. V. Venkataraman, IISc) | ||
| Setting up optical tweezers | ||
| (Supervisor: Prof. Vasant Natarajan, IISc) | ||
| June 2002 |
Worked under the supervision of Prof. Gautam Menon (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai) on simple computational methods (Monte Carlo) and applied them to investigate the robustness in transcription networks. |
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| Computing | Comfortable with all WINDOWS operating systems | |
| Comfortable with ImageJ (image analysis software) | ||
| Experience in using MATLAB | ||
| Knowledge in using LINUX operating systems | ||
| Knowledge in C and
FORTRAN programming
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CONFERENCES and SCHOOLS ATTENDED |
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January 5-9, 2004 |
International Symposium on Molecules, Machines and Networks at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore |
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January 4-15, 2004 |
NCBS Japan workshop on Single Molecule Biophysics at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore |
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| February 16-28, 2004 |
SERC School on Statistical Physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai |
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| March 21-25, 2005 | 2005 APS March Meeting at Los Angeles, CA, USA |
Contributed Talk |
| May 18-20, 2005 | Frontiers in Soft Condensed Matter Workshop at ExxonMobil Research and Engineering company, Annandale, NJ, USA |
Poster
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| June 9, 2005 |
3rd Annual New York/New England Granular Materials Workshop at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT |
Poster |
| December 5-9, 2005 |
DAE-SSPS 2005 at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
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Poster
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| July 23-28, 2006 |
Gordon Research Conference on Granular and Granular-fluid Flow at Queen's College, Oxford, UK.
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Poster
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| July 9-13, 2007 |
XXIII IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics at Genova, Italy
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Contributed Talk
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| ACADEMIC AWARDS | ||
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PERSONAL PROFILE |
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| Date of Birth: |
April 11, 1981 |
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| Nationality: | Indian | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Permanent address: | 28/4 Gariahat Road | |
| Kolkata 700029 | ||
| West Bengal, India
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REFERENCES |
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Research Supervisor |
Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy (sriram at physics.iisc.ernet.in) | |
| Prof. Narayanan Menon (menon at physics.umass.edu) | ||