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Bulbul Chakraborty bulbul@brandeis.edu Professor of Physics |
Professor Bulbul Chakraborty is a condensed matter theorist who is interested in systems far from equilibrium. Her recent research has been focussed on a) analyzing the origin of glassy dynamics in supercooled liquids with a specific focus on the question of an underlying critical point, (b) exploring the origin of force chains in granular media and their effect on the jamming of granular flows, (c) the nature of the jamming transition and (d) modelling the dynamical instability in microtubules. A sampling of recent publications and short descriptions of her research topics can be found on the group's web site.
Recent Ph.D. Students:
Allison Ferguson (2006) “ Dynamical Heterogeneities and Signatures Of Jamming in Dense Granular Flow ”
Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, CANADA
Hui Yin (2001) “ The Study of a Frustrated Spin Model-Compressible Ising Anti-ferromagnet on a Triangular Lattice ” Present Position: Mentor Graphics, San Jose, CA
(CV and extended list of publications)
Sample of Recent
Publications:
"Jamming as a critical phenomenon: a field theory of zero-temperature grain packings," S. Henkes and B. Chakraborty, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (condmat/ 0504371) [abs][ps]
"Landau Theory of the glass transition," S. N. Majumdar, D. Das, J. Kondev and B. Chakraborty, Phys. Rev. E 70, 060501(R) (2004) . [abs][ps]
"Impulse Distributions in dense granular flows: signatures of large-scale spatial structures," Allison Ferguson, Ben Fisher and Bulbul Chakraborty, Europhys Lett. 66, 277 (2004). [abs,ps]
"Activated Dynamics at a non-disordered critical point," Dibyendu Das, Jane' Kondev and Bulbul Chakraborty, Europhys Lett. 61, 506 (2003).