Dr. Aniruddha Chakraborty

 

 

• 08/06/2010 - Dr. Chakraborty joined IIT Mandi as the first permanent faculty member of the Institute (link).

 

• 11/09/2010 - Dr. Chakraborty was invited to deliver a lecture at the twelfth Theoretical Chemistry Symposium at IIT Kanpur, India (8-12 December, 2010). 

 

• 19/10/2010 -  First research paper from our group got accepted in Mol. Phys.. That was indeed the first research paper acdepted from IIT Mandi.

 

• 21/11/2010: Mr. Diwaker has joined our research group as the first Ph.D. student. 
  

 

• 25/12/2018: Dr. Chakraborty has attended inter IIT sports meet at IIT Delhi, India as the 'Sports Advisor' of IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India.

 

• 24/02/2011 - Dr. Chakraborty received 'Foundation Day Award' for recognition of his research & teaching excellence.

 

• 24/02/2012 - Mr. Diwaker received best 'Teaching Assistant Award' at the foundation day of IIT Mandi.

 

•  24/03/2012 - Mr. Diwaker attended a workshop on 'Advanced methods in Quantum Chemistry' at University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (26-30 March, 2012). 

 

• 22/07/2012 - Dr. Chakraborty has attended one workshop on web developement and maintenance at IIT Kanpur, India (22 July 2012).

 

•  24/02/2013 - Dr. Chakraborty received IIT Mandi 'Foundation Day Award' for recognition of his teaching excellence.
  



• 01/06/2013 - Mr. Diwaker is Selected for the travel grant from Department of Science and Technology, India, for attending a conference on 'Quantum Reactive Scattering' at the University of Bordeaux, France.

 

• 13/07/2013 - Dr. Chakraborty was invited to chair a technical session of 'Current Trends in Theoretical Chemistry' at the Bhaba Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India (26-28 September, 2013).

 

• 01/05/2016 - Mr. Asish Kumar has joined our research group as project associate.

 

• 13/06/2014 - Dr. Chakraborty was invited to deliver a lecture at the fourteenth Theoretical Chemistry Symposium at the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India (14-16 December, 2014).

 

• 19/06/2014 - Mr. Diwaker received the best poster award at the 'Research Fair - Anusandhan'  held at IIT Mandi.

 

• 30/06/2014 - The project titled "Low-cost 3D printer" by C. Nadh, B. N. Vineeth, S. Bhat, N. Narayan, A. Reza & R. Reddy under the mentorship of Dr. R. Kumar & Dr. Chakraborty won the 1st prize in the Design Practicum at IIT Mandi.

 

• 30/06/2014 - The project titled "Intelligent car parking system" by D. Singh, A. Patel, R. Shukla, S. Alam, K. Bohara & R. Raj under the mentorship of Dr. R. Kumar & Dr. Chakraborty won the 2nd prize in the Design Practicum at IIT Mandi.



• 30/11/2014 - The project titled "Construction in Hilly areas" by A. Chowdary, N. K. Gupta, M. Rawat, A. Srivastava & O. Azmi under the mentorship of Dr. Chakraborty won the 3rd prize in the Interactive Socio-Technical Practicum at IIT Mandi. 

 

• 07/12/2014 - Dr. Chakraborty has attended one workshop on 'Teaching and Learning' at IIT Mandi, India (6-7 December, 2014).

 

• 03/06/2015 - Dr. Chakraborty become an Associate Professor of Chemistry at  IIT Mandi.

 

• 27/07/2015 - Ms. Moumita Ganguly & Ms. Paromita Datta have joined our research group as Ph.D. students. 

 

• 29/07/2015 - Dr. Chakraborty is invited to chair a technical session of Physical & Bio-Physical Chemistry Conference - Theory and Experiment at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India (2-4 December, 2015) . 

 

• 27/08/2015 - Mr. Deepak Kumar joined our research group for his M.Sc. (Chemistry) Project.

 

• 02/12/2015 - Mr. Diwaker defended his thesis successfully. His thesis was reviewed by Prof. N. Sathyamurthy of IIT Kanpur, India & Prof. Eli Pollak of Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
  

 

• 03/12/2015 - Ms. Shivani Verma joined our research group for her M.Sc. (Chemistry) Project.

 

• 01/02/2016 - Mr. Diwaker joined the Central University of Himachal Pradesh as a faculty member in Physics.

 

• 24/02/2016 - Dr. Chakraborty received 'Foundation Day Award' for recognition of his research excellence. This is the second time Dr. Chakraborty's research efforts were recognized by the Institute.
  

 

• 06/03/2016 - Ms. Moumita Ganguly gave a talk on 'Polymer Looping Problems in Solution' at the 'Reseach Fair - Anusandhan' held at IIT Mandi.

 

• 24/06/2016 - Dr. Chakraborty was invited to present as a mentor (under Mathematical Sciences) in the 'Science Pursuit for Inspired Research' (INSPIRE)  camp at the Laureate Institute of Pharmacy, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh,  India (4-8 July 2016).
  

 

• 25/06/2016 - Our group member Ms. Shivani Verma has joined Prof. M. Durga Prasad's  group @ University of Hyderabad for 8 weeks summer internship.
  

 

• 25/06/2016 - Our group member Mr. Deepak Kumar has joined Prof. S. Mahapatra's group @ University of Hyderabad for 8 weeks summer internship. 

 

• 26/06/2016 - Dr. Chakraborty was invited to deliver a lecture at the 'Recent Advances in Theoretical Chemistry' at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (8-9 July, 2016).

 

• 28/06/2018 - Our group member Mr. Jonas Dehning's summer project - report has been accepted for publication in Chem. Phys. Lett.. 



• 27/07/2016 - Mr. R. Saravanan & Mr. Chinmoy Samanta have joined our research group for I-Ph.D. (Physics) project.



• 27/08/2016 - Ms. Pooja Devi has joined our research group for her M.Sc. (Chemistry) Project.

 

• 11/09/2016 - Dr. Chakraborty was invited to deliver a lecture at the fifteenth Theoretical Chemistry Symposium at University of Hyderabad, India (14-17 December, 2016).

 

• 10/12/2016 - Dr. Chakraborty was invited to present as a mentor (under Chemical Sciences) in the 'Science Pursuit for Inspired Research' (INSPIRE)  camp at the  Laureate Institute of Pharmacy, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh,  India (21-24 December 2016).

 

• 10/12/2018 - Our research work was highlighted in Director's speech at the 4-th convocation of IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India.



• 21/01/2017 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly is selected for ICTP School on Biological Soft Matter, Sao Paulo, Brazil (12-24 March, 2017). 

 

• 06/02/2017 - Dr. Chakraborty was invited to deliver a lecture at the first edition of Discussion Meeting on Spectroscopy, Structure & Dynamics at BITS Pilani, India (16-18 March, 2017). 

 

• 11/02/2017 - Our group member Ms. Paromita Dutta is invited to present a poster at the first edition of Discussion Meeting on Spectroscopy, Structure & Dynamics at BITS Pilani, India (16 - 18 March, 2017).

        

• 24/02/2017 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly received excellence in 'Teaching Assistant'  award at the foundation day of the Institute.

 

• 10/06/2017 - Our group member Ms. Shivani Verma has accepted Ph.D. position at IIT Kanpur with Dr. Nisanth Nair.

 

• 10/07/2017 - Our group member Mr. Deepak Kumar has joined for Master's Program in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at University of Valencia, Spain - as Erasmus European union fellow.
  

 

• 20/07/2018 - Dr. Chakraborty has participated in single session of the workshop on "How to increase more girl students at IITs ? " at IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India.

 

• 07/07/2017 - First RSC-Salters' Chemistry Camp in Himachal Pradesh, India was held in IIT Mandi - coordinated by Dr. A. Chakraborty & Ms. Moumita Ganguly and Moumita is, most likely the youngest coordinator in the history of RSC-Salters' Chemistry Camp.  

 

• 27/07/2017 - Mr. Abhay Sharma, Mr. Sourabh Kumar & Mr. Somesh Chamoli have joined our research group for M.Sc. (Chemistry) project.

 

• 09/08/2017 - Dr. Chakraborty was invited to deliver a short talk at the eighth edition of the very prestigeous Asia-Pacific Conference of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry @ IIT Bombay, India, (15 - 17 December 2017).

 

•  01/11/2017 - Ms. Swati Mudra has joined our research group for her Ph.D..
  

 

• 01/12/2017 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly is selected for poster presentation  at the eighth edition of Asia-Pacific Conference of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry @ IIT Bombay, India, (15 - 17 December 2017).



• 09/12/2017 - Dr. Chakraborty has attended the curriculum workshop at IIT Jammu at Jammu, India (9 - 10 december 2017).

 

• 18/12/2017 - Our group member Mr. R. Saravanan is selected for ICTP 'Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems', Trieste, Italy (19 February - 16 March 2018). 

 

• 06/02/2018 - Dr. Chakraborty is invited to deliver a lecture at the second edition of Discussion Meeting on Spectroscopy, Structure and Dynamics at MNIT Jaipur, India (16 - 18 March, 2018).



• 07/02/2018 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly is invited to deliver a short talk at the second edition of Discussion Meeting on Spectroscopy, Structure and Dynamics at MNIT Jaipur, India (16 - 18 March, 2018).

 

•  03/03/2018 - Ms. Yojana Sharma joined our research group as a project associate. She has done her M.Sc. in Physics from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India.
  

 

• 06/03/2018 - Our group member Ms. Swati Mudra gave a talk on 'electronic relaxation problems in solution' at the 'Research Fair - Anusandhan' held at IIT Mandi, kamand, Himachal Pradesh, India.

 

• 20/03/2018 - Our group member Ms. Swati Mudra is selected for Gordon Research Seminar & Conference on Molecular Interactions & Dynamics at Stonehill College in Easton, MA, USA (7 - 11 July 2018).

 

• 07/04/2018 - Our Group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly is selected for Bangalore School on Statistical Physics IX, at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India (28 June -13 July, 2018).

 

• 10/04/2018 - Our group member Ms. Swati Mudra is selected for National Summer School on Statistical Physics at Satyendra Nath Bose National Center for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India (4 -15 June, 2018).

 

• 23/04/2018 - Ms. Meenu Upadhyay has joined our research group for her M.Sc. (Chemistry) Project.

 

• 27/04/2018 - Visit of 32 (class 11-th) students of Kendriya Vidyalaya Mandi, H.P., India was coordinated by our group member Ms. Swati Mudra.

 

• 11/05/2018 - Our group member Ms. Swati Mudra is selected for summer School on 'Collective Behaviour in Quantum Matter' at the ICTP in Trieste, Italy (27 August - 14 September 2018). Her visit is fully funded by ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
  

 

• 15/05/2018 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly is selected for Gordon Research Seminar & Conference on Polymer Physics at Mount Holyoke College in Hadley, MA, USA (21 - 27 July 2018). 



• 17/05/2018 - Ms. Urvashi Singh has joined our research group for her M. Tech. thesis work. She is the first M.Tech. student of our group.
  

 

• 31/05/2018 - Our group member Mr. Chinmoy Samanta is invited to give a talk at the 7-th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP2018) 4 - 12 July 2018, Kolymbari, Creta, Greece.

 

• 01/06/2018 - Mr. Adesh Singh has joined our research group for his Ph.D. thesis work.
  

 

• 05/06/2018 - Our project entitled "curve crossing problems: semi-analytical method for arbitrary coupling" is approved by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India ( ~ 7.5 Lakh).
  

 

• 07/06/2018 - Our group member Mr. Gaurav Sharma has accepted Ph.D. position at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

 

• 17/07/2018 - Our group member Mr. R. Saravanan got invitation from 'Catalysis Today' (Elsevier Publication) to review a research paper - he is probably one of the youngest reviewer in the history of this journal. 
  

 

• 22/07/2018 - Our group member Ms. Urvashi Singh is selected for the prestigeous Barcelona cognition, brain and technology summer school  at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia at the UPC campus, Spain (3 - 14 september, 2018).

 

• 23/07/2018 - Dr. Chakraborty is invited to deliver a short talk at the Puri Polymer Conference, organized by Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar, India (12 - 14 December, 2018).

 

• 01/09/2018 - Ms. Varnika Yadav has joined our research group as a project associate. She has done her M.Sc. (Chemistry) from IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India.
  

 

• 08/09/2018 - Dr. Chakraborty is selected  for 'Teaching Honour Roll' award for recognition of his teaching excellence.. This is the 4-th time, Dr. Chakraborty's teaching efforts were recognized by the Institute.

 

• 12/09/2018 - Dr. Chakraborty was cited in Prof. J. Cina's (Oregon Center for Optics, Univ. of Oregon, USA) historic document (Lecture notes of Landau & Lifshitz's  - Electrodynamics of Continuous Media - Reading group) in L&L Notes Page 1-100 page 3 as - "the best question ever was Aniruddha’s query about the physical significance of the tracelessness of the energy-momentum tensor for the electromagnetic field, which led to a several months long “wormhole” before resolving itself in a clear explanation".
  

 

• 12/09/2018 - Dr. Chakraborty has become the advisor of "Society for Collaborative Research & Innovation" of IIT Mandi, Kamand Campus, Himachal Pradesh, India.

 

• 14/09/2018 - Mr. Ankit Patel, Ms. Neha Sharma, Mr. Md. Zeesham Alam & Ms. Anjali Negi have joined our research group for M.Sc. (Chemistry) project.

 

• 14/09/2018 - Mr. Rahul Mittal has joined our research group for his M.Sc. (Physics) thesis.

 

• 27/09/2018 - Our group member Mr. Sourav Kumar's  M.Sc. (Chemistry) project work ( Title: Adsorbed Fullerene: Rolling mechanistic pathways on aluminium surface) has been accepted for poster presentation at the Frontiers of Chemical Sciences (IIT Gewahati: 6-8 December, 2018).

 

• 14/12/2018 -  Mr. Mayank Vashistha has joined our research group for his M.Sc. (Physics) thesis.

 

• 01/02/2019 - Ms. Proma Mondal from Bangladesh has joned our research group on 1st February, 2019 - she is the first international Ph.D. student of our group.

 

• 01/02/2019 - Ms. Manisha Sharma has joined our research group as a Junior Research Fellow, on 1st February, 2019. She has done her M.Sc. in Chemistry from Punjab University.

 

• 02/02/2019 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly is selected for an International workshop on "Multi-scale simulation and mathematical modelling of complex biological systems" at Jawharlan Nehru University, New Delhi, India (28-th January to 1-st February, 2019).



• 08/02/2019 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly is selected for International workshop on "computer simulation and theory of macromolecules" at Hunfeld, Germany (22 - 23 March, 2019).



•  26/02/2019 -  Ms. Atmika Bhardwaj has joined our research group for her M.Sc. (Physics) thesis.

 

• 28/02/2019 - Our group member Mr.  Md. Zeshan Alam's talk on "solitons" was awarded on the occasion National Science day celebration progm. at IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India.

 

• 23/03/2019 - Dr. Chakraborty is invited to deliver a talk at the 3^rd North West Meeting on Spectroscopy, Structure and Dyamics at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India (5 - 7 April, 2019).

 

• 25/03/2019 - Our group member Ms. Meenu Upadhyay has accepted Ph.D. position at the University of Basel, Switzerland with Prof. Markus Meuwly.

 

• 06/04/2019 - Our group member Mr. R. Sarvanan's M.Sc. - thesis work has been accepted for publication in Physica A.

 

• 15/04/2019 - Our group member  Mr. Saurabh Kumar  has received an offer for publishing a book based on his M.Sc. - thesis work.

 

• 18/04/2019 - Our Group member Ms. Urvashi Singh is selected for HOT ( High On Technology ) talk organized by Research Forum of IIT Mandi, India.

 

• 04/05/2019 - In Aug. - Dec. 2019 semester Dr. Chakraborty will be teaching English (approx. 14 lectures) to the first year B. Tech. students as a part of their Five Weeks Induction Progm..

 

• 25/03/2019 - Our group member Ms. Pooja Devi has accepted Ph.D. position at IIT Roorkee, India with Dr. Pallavi Debnath.

 

• 10/06/2019 - This semester our group has produced 8 master's thesis ( 4 - M.Sc. Chemistry, 3 M.Sc. Physics, 1 M. Tech. Biotechnology). Most of these results will be published in international journals soon.

 

• 14/06/2018 - Our project entitled "Electron solvation by a layer of polar adsorbates - realistic model" is approved by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India (~ 4.0 Lakh).