Biophysics, Non-Linear Dynamics and Statistical Physics (BCNDS)
Our research covers a wide range of topics that transcends disciplinary boundaries and spans across both classical and quantum domains. Our wide-ranging research interests can be broadly classified (but is not necessarily limited to) into the following categories. We encourage you to visit our individual pages to find out more about the science that excites us. If you are interested in making a difference while doing something different, we are sure that you will find some topics that pique your interest and hopefully make you ask questions that you did not think of earlier.
Biophysics: In the context of understanding biophysical systems, our areas of interest include models of origin of life, cellular mechanosensing, embryonic development, wound healing, and stochastic dynamics of gene regulatory networks.
Complex Adaptive Systems: One overarching theme of our research deals with understanding how changes in individual interactions shape emergent, collective phenomena. In this context, we study phenomena such as evolution of cooperation and other social dilemmas, self-organised criticality, flocking, swarming and pattern-formation seen in bacterial colonies. We use regular lattices as well as complex networks to understand the dynamics of these phenomena.
Nonlinear dynamics and mathematical aspects of statistical mechanics: In the mathematical domain, research interests of some of us include bifurcation theory and various aspects of non-linear dynamics including quantum dynamics, integrability and chaos in classical and quantum systems, random matrix theory and percolation theory.
Soft matter physics: We are interested in physics of charged soft matter and particularly charged polymer systems.
Statistical Mechanics: In this domain our interests cover phase transitions, exactly solvable models, surface growth, statistical learning models including Bayesian inference. We are also involved in designing and carrying out table-top experiments to understand non-equilibrium phenomena.
Group Coordinator
Supratim Sengupta
Professor
033 - 6136-0000 x 1286
supratim.sen [at] iiserkol.ac.in
