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Bulbul Chakraborty

Enid and Nate Ancell Professor of Physics
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1979

Professor Bulbul Chakraborty is a condensed matter theorist who is interested in systems far from equilibrium. Her recent research has been focused 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 website.

CV and list of publications

Recent Ph.D. Students

Mitch Mailman (2011), "Jammed Packings of Soft Grains in 2D: Mechanical  and Statistical Mechanical Properties".  Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland

Ya Liu (2010), "Statics and Dynamics of Polymers in Confined Spaces". Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lehigh University, PA

Silke Henkes (2008) "A statistical mechanics framework for static granular matter". Present Position: Research Fellow, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Josh Kalb (2007) "Single Polymer Systems Under Geometric Confinement". Present Position: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering,  Columbia University 

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

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

Sample of Recent Publications

“Statistical ensemble approach to stress transmission in granular packings," Bulbul Chakraborty, Soft Matter 6, 2884, (2010)

“Signature of a Thermodynamic Phase Transition in Jammed Granular Packings: Growing Correlations in Force Space," Mitch Mailman and Bulbul Chakraborty, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (2010), xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1007.0266

"Phase and frequency entrainment in locally coupled phase oscillators with repulsive interactions,"  Michael Giver, Zahera Jabeen and Bulbul Chakraborty. to appear in Phys. Rev. E (2011). arXiv:1009.6004

Dapeng Bi and Bulbul Chakraborty. "Rheology of Granular Materials: Dynamics in a Stress Landscape." Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 367. (2009): 5073.

Chakraborty, Bulbul and Behringer R. P. "Jamming of Granular Matter." Springer Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science. Ed. Robert A. Meyers. Springer-Verlag, 2009. 4997-5021.

G. Lois, J. Zhang, T. S. Majmudar, S. Henkes, B. Chakraborty, C. S. OHern, and R. P. Behringer. "Stress correlations in granular materials: An entropic formulation." Phys. Rev. E 80. (2009): 060303 (R).

Henkes, Silke and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "A statistical mechanics framework for static granular matter." Phys Rev E 79. (2009): 061301.

Kalb, Joshua and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Single Polymer Confinement in a Slit: Correlation between structure and dynamics." J. Chem. Phys 130. 025103 (2009).

Mailman, Mitch, Schreck, Carl, O'Hern, Corey S. and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Jamming in Systems Composed of Frictionless Ellipse-Shaped Particles." Physical Review Letters 102. 255501 (2009).