Bulbul Chakraborty

Title

Enid and Nate Ancell Professor of Physics

Biological Physics
Physics

Expertise

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

Profile

My recent research has 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) constructing a statistical framework for dissipative systems

Degrees

SUNY at Stony Brook, Ph.D.

SUNY at Stony Brook, M.S.

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, B.S.

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Contact

Email:	bulbul@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2843
Office:	Abelson-Bass-Yalem, 345/346

Awards and Honors

Fellow, American Physical Society (2009)

NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (2008)

NSF-NIRT (Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team) (2004 - 2008)

NSF (2002 - 2005)

Courses Taught

PHYS	104a	Condensed Matter Physics
PHYS	113a	First-Year Tutorial I
PHYS	113b	First -Year Tutorial II
PHYS	163a	Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics
PHYS	204a	Condensed Matter II
PHYS	304a	Condensed Matter Seminar I
USEM	7b	The Concept of Time

Scholarship

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

Henkes, Silke and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "A statistical mechanics framework for static granular matter." arXiv:cond-mat/08105715 (currently under review in Phys. Rev. E) (2009)

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." arXiv:cond-mat/0812.1234 (currently under review in Phys. Rev. Lett) (2009)

Tewari, Shubha, Tithi, Bidita, Ferguson, Allison and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Growing length scale in gravity-driven dense granular flow." Phys. Rev. E 79. (2009): 011303.

Yang, Yasheng and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Dynamics in the Metabasin Space of a Lennard-Jones Glass Former: Connectivity and." arXiv:cond-mat/0810.2484 (currently under review in Phys. Rev. E) (2009)

Behringer, R. P, Dapeng Bi, Chakraborty, Bulbul, Henkes, S and Hartley, R. R. "Why Do Granular Materials Stiffen with Shear Rate? A Test of Novel Stress-Based Statistics." Physical Review Letters 101. (2008): 268301.

Liu Ya and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Shape of Semiflexible Polymers in Confined Spaces." Physical Biology 5. (2008): 026004.

Antal, T, Krapivsky, P, Redner, S, Mailman, M and Chakraborty, B. "Dynamics of an idealized model of microtubule growth and catastrophe." Physical Review E 76. (2007): 041907.

Chakraborty, Bulbul and Ferguson, Allison. "Spatially heterogenous dynamics in dense, driven granular flows." Europhysics Letters 78. (2007): 28003.

Henkes, Silke, O'Hern, Corey S. and Chakraborty, Bulbul. "Entropy and Temperature of a Static Granular Assembly: An Ab Initio Approach." Physical Review Letters 99. (2007): 038002.

Ferguson, A., Chakraborty, B.. "Stress and large-scale spatial structures in dense, driven granular flows." Physical Review E 73. 1 (2006).

Marshall, A. H., Chakraborty, B., Nagel, S.. "Numerical studies of the compressible Ising spin glass." Europhysics Letters 74. 4 (2006).

Das, D., Farrell, G., Kondev, J., Chakraborty, B.. "Critical dynamics of dimers: Implications for the glass transition." Journal of Physical Chemistry B 109. 45 (2005).

Henkes, S., Chakraborty, B.. "Jamming as a critical phenomenon: A field theory of zero-temperature grain packings." Physical Review Letters 95. 19 (2005).

Ferguson, A., Fisher, B., Chakraborty, B.. "Impulse distributions in dense granular flows: Signatures of large-scale spatial structures." Europhysics Letters 66. 2 (2004).

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