Dr. Aniruddha Chakraborty

 

 

• 07/06/2010 - Dr. Chakraborty has joined IIT Mandi as the first permanent faculty member of the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India (link). Before joining to IIT Mandi, Dr. Chakraborty was in his home at Kolkata for approx. one year and he has published three important research papers from his home on analytical solution of different multi-state problems in quantum mechanics.
  

 

• 08/06/2010 - Dr. Chakraborty has become the chair of Web Developement Team  (WDT) of IIT Mandi. WDT is expected to create and maintain IIT Mandi webpage. Members of WDT are the current B. Tech. students of IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India.

 

• 08/06/2010 - Dr. Chakraborty has become a member of the 'Institute purchase committee' of IIT Mandi, Himachal Prodesh, India.

 

• 08/06/2010 - Dr. Chakraborty has become the first Sports Advisor of IIT Mandi, Himachal Prodesh, India.

 

• 12/06/2010 - Dr. Chakraborty's Ph.D. thesis has been published in the form of a book link.

 

• 14/06/2010 - Dr. Chakraborty has become the first chairperson of Institute colloquium committee of IIT Mandi, Himachal Prodesh, India.

 

• 15/06/2010 - Dr. Chakraborty has become the in-charge of B. Tech. Chemistry Laboratory. Despite of his theoretical chemistry background he was able to make the laboratory functional within two months (with the help from chemistry department of IIT Roorkee, India). In fact it was the first fully functional laboratory at IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India.

 

• 08/07/2010 - Dr. Chakraborty has attended Academic Council meeting at IIT Roorkee, as one of the representatives of IIT Mandi.

 

• 08/08/2010 - Dr. Chakraborty offered one elective course (introduction to molecular spectroscopy) to second year B. Tech. students. This was the first course ever offered by Dr. Chakraborty.
  

 

• 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). He is expected to discuss about effective Hamiltonian method for understanding highly anharmonic vibrations of molecular systems.
  

 

• 19/10/2010 -  First research paper from Dr. Chakraborty's group got accepted in Molecular Physics. That was indeed the first published research work done from IIT Mandi. This paper deals with an analytically solvable model for multi-state problems in quantum Physics.
  

 

• 21/11/2010: Mr. Diwaker has joined our research group as the first Ph.D. student. He has done his M.Tech. in Nanoscience from Punjab University, Punjab, India. Before joining our group he was a faculty member of Physics at the Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India.
  

 

• 25/12/2010: Dr. Chakraborty has attended inter IIT sports meet at IIT Delhi, Delhi, India as the 'Sports Advisor' of IIT Mandi. Attending lot of sport events for two weeks was an amazing experience for Dr. Chakraborty.

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• 24/02/2011 - Dr. Chakraborty received 'Foundation Day Award' for recognition of his research & teaching excellence. This award was given to him for publishing first research work done at IIT Mandi and also for high quality class-room teaching.

 

• 15/03/2011: Mr. Diwaker gave a seminer on current trands of research in Nanoscience at IIT Mandi, India.

 

• 24/04/2011 - Dr. Chakraborty become a member of 'faculty selection committee' in Mathematics of School of Basic Sciences of IIT Mandi, India.

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• 24/02/2012 - Mr. Diwaker received best 'Teaching Assistant Award' at the foundation day of IIT Mandi. Despite of his Physics background he has performed all chemistry experiments by himself and explain all experiments step-by-step to B.Tech. first year students in chemistry Laboratory.
  

 

•  24/03/2012 - Mr. Diwaker attended a workshop on 'Advanced methods in Quantum Chemistry' at University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (26-30 March, 2012). His visit was fully funded by IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India.

 

•  21/05/2012 - Mr. Diwaker gave a seminer on different use of quantum chemistry package MOLPRO in research and teaching at IIT Mandi, India.

 

• 22/07/2012 - Dr. Chakraborty has attended one workshop on web developement and maintenance at IIT Kanpur, India (22 July 2012). The idea of iitsystems webpage was formulated in that workshop.
  

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•  24/02/2013 - Dr. Chakraborty received IIT Mandi 'Foundation Day Award' for recognition of his teaching excellence. This award was given to him for teaching 'Fundamental Chemistry' corse course to B. Tech. first year students and Thermodynamics (elective)  course to the B. Tech. second year stduents.
  



• 01/06/2013 - Mr. Diwaker is selected for the travel grant from Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi,  India, for attending a conference on 'Quantum Reactive Scattering' at the University of Bordeaux, France. This is the first time our group has received any funding from DST, New Delhi, India.
  

 

• 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). This symposium is arranged to honour Prof. Swapan K. Ghosh of Bhaba Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India - an eminent theoretical chemist.
  

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• 01/05/2014 - Mr. Asish Kumar has joined our research group as project associate. Before joining our group, he has done  M.Sc. (physics) from Central University of Himachal Pradsh, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India. He will be working on analytically solvable models of bridge-mediated electron transfer problems.
  

 

• 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). There he is expected to talk about his recent research works on reaction-diffusion system.

 

• 19/06/2014 - Mr. Diwaker received the best poster award at the 'Research Fair - Anusandhan'  held at IIT Mandi. He has presented his research work on analytically solvable model of multi-state problems in quantum mechanics.
  

 

• 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). The workshop focussed mostly on "Learning Outcome", which was very interesting.
  

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• 03/06/2015 - Dr. Chakraborty has become an Associate Professor of Chemistry of IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India.

 

• 27/07/2015 - Ms. Moumita Ganguly & Ms. Paromita Dutta have joined our research group as Ph.D. students. Before joining to our group Moumita did her M.Sc. in Bio-medical Sciences  and Parmoita did her M.Sc. in Physics - both from Delhi University. Moumita is the first Ph.D. student in our group with Bio-science background.
  

 

• 29/07/2015 - Dr. Chakraborty has received invitation 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. He is expected to arrive at a new analtically solvable model for multi-state problems in quantum mechanics
  

 

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

 

• 03/12/2015 - Ms. Shivani Verma joined our research group for her M.Sc. (Chemistry) Project. She is expected to work on a simplest possible model of electron correlation.
  

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• 01/02/2016 - Dr. Diwaker has joined the Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India as a guest faculty member of Physics. He is expected to teach Classical Electrodynamics and Classical Mechanics to first year M.Sc. (Physics) students.
  

 

• 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 IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India. In the year 2015 our group has published 10 research papers in reputed international journals, which include method developements as well as application of existing methods.
  

 

• 06/03/2016 - Ms. Moumita Ganguly gave an interesting talk on 'polymer looping problems in solution:  reaction-diffusion approach"  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. There she will be working on finding approximate solution for gaussian potential model.
  

 

• 25/06/2016 - Our group member Mr. Deepak Kumar has joined Prof. S. Mahapatra's group @ University of Hyderabad for 8 weeks summer internship. There he will be doing using reactive trajectory method forunderstanding simple chemical reactions.
  

 

• 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). He was expected to talk about his recent works on multi-state problems in quantum and statistical mechanics.
  

 

• 28/06/2016 - Our group member Mr. Jonas Dehning's summer project report has been accepted for publication in Chem. Phys. Lett.. Jonas has developed a new method (which goes beyond the standard method) for estimating rate of transition from one bucked state to another for a nano-rod under compression. 

 

• 24/06/2016 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly's first Ph.D. problem has been accepted for publication in Physica A. In this work she has derived exact analytical formulae for rate constants of polymer looping problem in solution using reaction-diffusion approach.



• 27/07/2016 - Mr. R. Saravanan & Mr. Chinmoy Samanta have joined our research group for I-Ph.D. (Physics) project. Chinmoy is expected to develope new analytically solvable models for reaction-diffusion systems and Saravanan is expected to develope time domain method for solving existing models of reaction-diffusion systems.
  



• 27/08/2016 - Ms. Pooja Devi has joined our research group for her M.Sc. (Chemistry) Project. She is expected to work on theoretical understanding of Michaelis- Menten catalysis.
  

 

• 11/09/2016 - Dr. Chakraborty has received invitation to deliver a lecture at the fifteenth Theoretical Chemistry Symposium at University of Hyderabad, India (14-17 December, 2016). He is expected to give a lecture on multi-state problems innquantum mechanics.
  

 

• 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).

 

• 10/12/2016 - Our research work was highlighted in Director's speech at the 4-th convocation of IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India. He has appreciated our efforts for doing quality research at IIT Mandi starting form the initial days.
  

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• 21/01/2017 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly is selected for International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) School on Biological Soft Matter, Sao Paulo, Brazil (12-24 March, 2017). There she is expected to present a poster on her recent research work on two state model of polymer looping in solution. Most likely she is the only student with Bioscience background attending this school.
  

 

• 06/02/2017 - Dr. Chakraborty has received an invitation to deliver a lecture at the first edition of Discussion Meeting on Spectroscopy, Structure & Dynamics at BITS Pilani, India (16-18 March, 2017).  He is expected to give a talk on electronic relaxation problem in solution.
  

 

• 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). There she is expected to present her recent results on inverse scattering problems.

        

• 24/02/2017 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly received excellence in 'Teaching Assistant'  award at the foundation day of the Institute. This award was due to her extraordinary efforts in helping few students in the "Mathematics for Chemists" course.
  

 

• 10/06/2017 - Our group member Ms. Shivani Verma has accepted Ph.D. position at IIT Kanpur, India, with Prof. 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. This will be Deepak's second masters degree.
  

 

• 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.. She is expected to develope a new analytically solvable model for reaction diffusion system.
  

 

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



• 09/12/2017 - Dr. Chakraborty was a part of the curriculum workshop at IIT 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). There he is expected to present a poster on the time domain analytical method for reaction-diffusion system.
  

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• 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. She is expected to work on simple analytically solveble model system to understand quantum mechanical tunneling.
  

 

• 06/03/2018 - Our group member Ms. Swati Mudra gave a talk on 'electronic relaxation problems in solution : diffusion-reaction approach' 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 and Dr. Chakraborty.
  

 

• 11/05/2018 - Our group member Ms. Swati Mudra is selected for summer School on 'Collective Behaviour in Quantum Matter' at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (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. She has qualified GATE exam. (AIR 499) before joining IIT Mandi for her M. Tech..
  

 

• 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. He is expected to develope a path integral based method for solving problems in reaction-diffusion system.
  

 

• 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). This is our first externally funded project.
  

 

• 07/06/2018 - Our group member Mr. Gaurav Sharma has accepted Ph.D. position at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He is expected to work on sound wave propagation.
  

 

• 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). There she will present a poster based on her recent work on Alzheimer diseases.
  

 

• 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). There he was expected to talk about his recent works on polymer looping problem.
  

 

• 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. She is expected to work on curve crossing problems in spectroscopy.
  

 

• 08/09/2018 - Dr. Chakraborty is selected  for 'Teaching Honour Roll' award for recognition of his teaching excellence. In this year he taugh 'group theory and spectroscopy' and 'Adv. quantum chemistry' - both the courses for the first time. This is the 4-th time, Dr. Chakraborty's teaching efforts were recognized by the IIT Mandi, H.P., India.

 

• 10/10/2018 -  Our former group member Ms. Richa Pandey has been selected for the prestigeous Prime Minister's Research Fellows (PMRF) scheme. for collaborative research with Applied Materials Inc. (USA). 

 

• 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. He is expected to work on multi-state dirac comb model.
  

 

• 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).

 

• 27/10/2018 - Our former group member Dr. Diwaker has joined Gov't college Indora, Himachal Pradesh, India, as an assistant professor in Physics.
  

• 17/11/2018 - Society for Collaborative Research & Innovation (SCRI) of IIT Mandi under the guidance of Dr. Chakraborty have organised one day Matlab workshop at IIT Mandi, kamand campus, Himachal Pradesh, India link.  

 

• 14/12/2018 -  Mr. Mayank Vashistha has joined our research group for his M.Sc. (Physics) thesis. He is expected to work on an anlaytical method for finding non-adiabtic transtion tine for simple model systems.

 

• 16/12/2018 -  Our former group member Mr. Gaurav Sharma has accepted Ph.D. position at the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai, India under the prestigeous Prime Minister's Research Fellows (PMRF) scheme. He is the first student of our group to get selected under this scheme. 

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• 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. She is expected to work on the effective Hamiltonian method for understanding curve crossing problems.
  

 

• 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 and she has qualified Joint CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (lecturership). She will be working on semi-analytical method for curve crossing problems.
  

 

• 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 Jawharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (28-th January to 1-st February, 2019). There she was expcted to present a poster on analytical calculation of distribution of end-to-end distance of a long chain polymer molecule in solution.
  



• 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). There she was invited to chair one technical seession.
  



•  26/02/2019 -  Ms. Atmika Bhardwaj has joined our research group for her M.Sc. (Physics) thesis. She is expected to work on understanding the possibility of anamalous classical dynamics of a buckled nanorod under compression.

 

• 28/02/2019 - Society for Collaborative Research & Innovation (SCRI) of IIT Mandi under the guidance of Dr. Chakraborty have organised a progm. 'on the occasion of National Science Day'  at IIT Mandi, kamand campus, Himachal Pradesh, India link.  

 

• 28/02/2019 - Our group member Md. Zeshan Alam's talk on "solitons" was awarded on the occasion National Science Day celebration progm. at IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India. Zeshan's M.Sc. (chemistry) project is directed towards finding new molecular solitons.
  

 

• 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). There he is expected to talk about his most recent works on new analytically solvable models of reaction-diffusion system.
  

 

• 25/03/2019 - Our group member Ms. Meenu Upadhyay has accepted Ph.D. position at the University of Basel, Switzerland with Prof. Markus Meuwly. There she is expected to do research in the broad area of theoretical biophysical chemistry.

 

• 29/03/2019 - Dr. Chakraborty crossed '1000 lectures' milestone. He taught 14 different courses (aimed for  B. Tech., Masters & Ph.D. students) within a span of 9 years of teaching career. He was lucky enough to get approx. 100% attendance in most of his lectures.
  

 

• 06/04/2019 - Our group member Mr. R. Sarvanan's M.Sc. - thesis work has been accepted for publication in Physica A. In this work he has developed a time domain method (first time in literature) for reaction-diffusion system with a sink of finite strength.
  

 

• 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. She is expected to talk about random walk model of Alzheimer's disease.
  

 

• 04/05/2019 - In Aug. - Dec. 2019 semester Dr. Chakraborty will be teaching English (30 lectures) to the first year B. Tech. students as a part of their Five Weeks Induction Progm..

 

• 21/05/2019 - Society for Collaborative Research & Innovation (SCRI) of IIT Mandi under the guidance of Dr. Chakraborty launched one web portal, where any faculty/student can upload a project and any student can be a part of any of the offered projects link. 

 

• 25/05/2019 - Our group member Ms. Pooja Devi has accepted Ph.D. position at IIT Roorkee, India, with Dr. Pallavi Debnath. She is expected to work understanding dynamics of a polymer chain in solution using analytical method.
  

 

• 14/06/2019 - Our project entitled "Electron solvation by a layer of polar adsorbates - realistic model" is approved by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India (4.32 Lakh). This is the second time Dr. Chakraborty's research group has received funding from CSIR, New Delhi, India.

 

• 18/06/2019 - Our group member Ms. Anjali Negi has joined Dr. Neetika Rawat's Lab in Bhaba Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India -  for 8 weeks summer internship.

 

• 24/06/2019 - Our group member Mr. R. Sarvanan's first Ph.D. problem has been accepted for publication in Chem. Phys. Lett.. This is his second research paper. In this work he has developed a time domain method (first time in literature) for two-state model of reaction-diffusion system.
  

 

• 03/07/2019 - Our former group member Mr. Deepak Kumar (M.Sc. in Chemistry)  has accepted Ph.D. position at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.

 

• 04/07/2019 - Our group member Mr. Abhay Sharma (M.Sc. in Chemistry)  has  accepted Ph.D. position at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

 

• 08/07/2019 -  Our group member Ms. Swati Mudra's first Ph.D. problem has been accepted for publication  in Phys. Scr.. In this work she has proposed a new time dependent potential and solved Schrodinger  equation for that potential. This proposed potential is expected to have applications in various problems.

 

• 04/07/2019 - Our group member Mr. Somesh Chamoli (M.Sc. in Chemistry)  is selected for Ph.D. position at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.

 

• 19/07/2019 - Our group member Ms. Urvashi Singh (M.Tech. in Biotechnology)  has accepted Ph.D. position at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. Urvashi was the first M.Tech. student of our research group.

 

• 19/07/2019 - Our group member Mr. Adesh Singh (I-Ph.D. in Physics)  has submitted his master's thesis on new time domain analytical methods for solving multi-state problems in quantum mechanics.
  

 

• 09/08/2019 -  Ms. Anjali Jangid (I-Ph.D. Physics) has joined our research group for her Ph.D. thesis work. She is working on understanding solvation of ions and dipoles.
  

 

• 10/08/2019 -  Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly's second Ph.D. problem has been accepted for publication in Chem. Phy. Lett.. This work relates rate constants of looping a long chain polymer in solution with several microscopic parameters of that polymer.
  

 

• 10/08/2019 -  Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly's third Ph.D. problem has been accepted for publication in Physica A. In this paper she has proposed a new exactly solvable analytical two state model for long chain polymer looping in solution.

 

• 20/09/2019 -  Our group member Mr. Sourabh Kumar has been selected for project associate position under MAPEX fellowship at the University of Bremen, Germany - under the guidance of Prof. Tim Stauch.

 

• 05/11/2019 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly's  recent research work on understanding kinetics of polymer looping using a simple model is covered by national media link.

 

• 06/11/2019 - Our group member Ms. Manisha Sharma has presented a poster on curve crossing problems at CRIKC symposium at the IISER Mohali, Punjab, India ( 2-3 November, 2019).

 

• 08/11/2019 - Our group member Ms. Swati Mudra gave her first open seminer on models of electronic relaxation in solution, at IIT Mandi, India. 

 

• 05/12/2019 -  Our group member Mr. Sourabh Kumar has accepted Ph.D. position at the University of Bremen, Germany - under the guidance of Prof. Tim Stauch.
  

 

• 05/12/2019 -  Our group member Mr. Somesh Chamoli has been selected for Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India, under Prof. Shashank Deep.

 

• 05/12/2019 -  Our group member Ms. Urvashi Singh has been selected for Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India, Dr. Shalini Gupta).

 

• 09/12/2019 -  Dr. Chakraborty has been appointed as Co-Chair of JEE Cell - IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India. 



• 10/12/2019 -  Our group member Ms. Swati Mudra's most recent research work entitled "Diffusion-reaction approach to electronic relaxation in solution. An alternative simple derivation for two state model with a Dirac delta function coupling" has been accepted for publication in Physica A. We hope that her derivation will be popular among non-experts as well.

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• 08/01/2020 - Our group member Ms. Atmika Bhardwaj (M.Sc. in Physics)  has accepted Ph.D. position at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Germany. She will be working on the problem of polymer crystallization which is an intrinsic non-equilibrium phenomenon not yet well understood.

 

• 24/01/2020 - Our group member Ms. Anjali Negi (M.Sc. Chemistry student) has attended Gaussian workshop at Hyderabad, India (20-24 January 2020). 

 

• 30/01/2020 - Our group member Ms. Swati Mudra has been selected for poster presentation at the International Conference on Drug Discovery at  Birla Institute of Technology & Science - Hyderabad, India (29 Feb.-02 March 2020).

 

• 01/04/2020 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly gave her first open seminer on diffusion-reaction systems in biology at IIT Mandi, India.

 

• 26/02/2020 - Our group member Ms. Proma Mondal has been selected for the "Active Matter at the Frontier" conference at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA (April 6-9) 2020.

 

• 10/03/2020 - Our group member Mr. Chinmoy Samanta's sole author paper got accepted in Chem. Phys. Lett.. In this paper he has developed a new analytical method for diffusion-reaction systems with different potential forms.

 

• 30/03/2020 - Our group member Mr. Mayank Vashistha (M.Sc. in Physics)  is selected for Ph.D. at the Australian National University, Australia.

 

•  01/04/2020 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly's  most recent paper got accepted in Chem. Phys. Lett.. In this paper she has dveloped a very simple method for estimating rate constants for reversible looping process of a long chain polymer molecule in solution.

 

• 12/04/2020 - Our former group member Ms. Hemani Chhabra's summer internship work has been accepted for publication in Physica A. In this paper she has developed a new analytically solvable model for diffusion-reaction system. During this reasearch work Hemani was a B.Sc. (chem) student of St. Stephens College, New Delhi, India. This paper is co-authored by Ms. Swati Mudra.

 

• 16/04/2020 - Our former group member Mr. Somesh Chamoli's M.Sc. (chemistry) thesis work has been accepted for publication in Computational & Theoretical Chemistry. In this paper he has looked at the possibility of new molecular rattle. This paper is the first computational chemistry paper from our group.

 

• 24/04/2020 - Our group member Ms. Swati Mudra's most recent paper has been accepted for publication in Chem. Phys. Lett.. In this paper she has developed a very simple method for estimating rate constants for electronic relaxation process in solution.

 

• 09/06/2020 -  Dr. Chakraborty has received an invitation to work as a guest editor for the special issue on 'computational modelling of diseases' of the Journal of Theoretical & Computational Chemistry (World Scientific). 

 

• 03/07/2020 -  Dr. Chakraborty is collaborating with Prof. Jeffrey A. Cina of University of Oregon, USA for a GIAN course to be offered at IIT Mandi, India during summer of 2022.

 

• 17/07/2020 -  Our former group member Mr. Abhay Sharma (M.Sc. Chemistry) has been selected for Ph.D. at the University of Queensland, Australia, under Prof. Paul Burn and Prof. Alan E. Mark. Professor Mark is one of the developer of GROMAC and GROMOS software.

 

• 28/07/2020 - Our group member Ms. Anjali Negi (M.Sc. Chemistry) has been selected for Ph.D. at IIT Kanpur, India, with Prof. Amalendu Chandra.

 

• 01/08/2020 - Our former group member Mr. Somesh Chamoli (M.Sc. Chemistry) has been selected for Ph.D. at IIT Bombay, India, with  Dr. Achintya Kumar Dutta.

 

• 03/08/2020 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly gave her second open seminer on 'the analytical solutions to Smoluchowski-like equation for Bicoid morphogen gradient in Fruit fly patterning', at IIT Mandi, India.

 

• 04/08/2020 - Our group member Mr. Saravanan Rajendran gave his first open seminer on 'The theory of electron transfer: microscopic descriptions, methods and open problems', at IIT Mandi, India.

 

• 12/08/2020 - Our group member Mr. Saravanan Rajendran gave his second open seminer on ' Theory of reversible reaction-diffusion systems using a simple two-state model', at IIT Mandi, India.

 

• 14/08/2020 - Our group member Mr. R. Saravanan's most recent paper has been accepted for publication in Chem. Phys.. In this paper he has derived exact time-domain results related to reversible reaction-diffusion systems.

 

• 18/08/2020 - Our group member Ms. Swati Mudra gave his second open seminer on our new approach to understand the effect of solvent on Protein-Ligand binding energies, at IIT Mandi, India.

 

• 22/08/2020 - Our group member Mr. Somesh Chamoli has recieved an invitation to publish a book (Lambert Academic Publisher, Germany) based on his M.Sc. (Chemistry) thesis work.

 

• Mr. Piyush Rana & Mr. Vaibhav Sachdeva has joined our research group for their Masters thesis (chemistry).
  



• 21/09/2020 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly's  most recent paper got accepted in Phys. Scr.. In this paper she has found analytical solution for a very realistic model of reversible looping kinetics of a long polymer molecule in solution.

 

• 23/09/2020 - Our group member Mr. Saravanan Rajendran's  most recent paper got accepted in Physica A. In this paper he analyzed diffusion dynamics in the presence of two competing sinks, related to Oster-Nishijima's model.

 

• 16/10/2020 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly's  most recent paper got accepted in Phys. Scr.. In this paper she has found an exact analytical solution for an interesting model of opening of a weak link of a closed looped polymer immersed in solution.

 

• 11/11/2020 - Our group member Mr. Saravanan Rajendran gave his Ph.D. synopsis seminar. Title of his synopsis seminar is "Analytical solutions of qunatum & statistical multi-state models in the time domain".
  

 

• 12/11/2020 - Our group member Ms. Swati Mudra has been selected for poster presentation at the 33rd M. Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics (3-4 December, 2020: on-line). She will be presenting her most recent work on exact time domain solution of multi-state models of electronic relaxation in solution.

 

• 14/11/2020 - Mr. Chirag Arora, final year M.Sc. (chemistry) student of IIT Kharagpur, has joined our research group for a project. He is the first one, who will be doing the project remotely. His plan is to do Monte Carlo simulation of diffusion-reaction system.  

 

• 30/11/2020 -  Our former group member Mr. Somesh Chamoli has been selected for the prestigeous Prime Minister's Research Fellows (PMRF) scheme at IIT Bombay, India. He is the second student of our group to get selected under this scheme.

 

• 01/12/2020 - This semester Dr. Chakraborty has taught two courses, with (44+46 =) total 90 students. In both, mid-semester and end-semester examination 90 different question papers were made for ensuring fair conduct of online examinations. This is the first time ever, open book exams were conducted by Dr. Chakraborty.
  



• 02/12/2020 - Our group member Mr. Saravanan Rajendran has submitted his Ph.D. thesis. Title of his Ph.D. thesis is "Analytical solutions of qunatum & statistical multi-state models in the time domain". This is the 2nd Ph.D. thesis from my research group.

 

• 08/12/2020 -  Our former group member Ms. Anjali Negi has been selected for the prestigeous Prime Minister's Research Fellows (PMRF) scheme at IIT Kanpur, India. She is the third student of our group to get selected under this scheme.

 

• 23/12/2020 - Our group member Ms. Proma Mondal's  first research paper has got accepted in Physica A. In this paper she introduced a new method for solving diffucion-reaction problem, with a rectangular sink of arbitrary width and height.



• 25/12/2020 -  Our group member Mr. Saravanan Rajendran has accepted post-doctoral position under the legendary professor R. D. Levine in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

 

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• 10/01/2021 - Our group member Mr. Chinmoy Samanta's research work on the calculation of transition time of multi-state quantum systems has been accpeted for a poster presentation at the American Physical Socitey's online meeting (March 15 - 19, 2021).

 

• 15/01/2021 - Dr. Chakraborty has successfully made Time Table for all institute core courses for February-June 2021 semester of IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India.
  

 

• 01/02/2021 - Mr. Vishal Sharma has joned our research group for his Ph.D.. He will be looking at understanding the existing molecular devices as well as predicting possible new molecular devices.

 

• 08/02/2021 - Our former group member Mr. Mayank Vashistha's M.Sc. (Physics) - thesis work has been accepted for publication in Chem. Phys. Lett.. In this work he has developed an analytical method to estimate the transition time from one state to another using a model system. Our group member Mr. Chinmoy Samanta is the corresponding author of the paper.

 

• 11/02/2021 - Our group member Mr. Rahul Mittal (M.Sc. in Physics)  has accepted Ph.D. position under Prof. Arnab Bhattacharjee at the School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

 

• 14/02/2021 - In this semester Dr. Chakraborty along with Dr. Sumit Sinha Roy will be mentoring a group of five B. Tech. students as a part of Design Practicum course. 

 

• 15/02/2021 - Ms. Nidhi Chamoli (I-Ph.D. Physics) has joned our research group for her Ph.D.. She is expected to develope an efficient Hamiltonian method for understanding chemical reactions in gaseous phase.
  

 

• 05/03/2021 - Mr. Vasu Nagpal (M.Sc. Chemsitry, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi) has joined our research group for his Ph.D..
  

 

• 12/03/2021 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly gave her Ph.D. synopsis seminar.  Title of her synopsis seminar is "Theoretical investigations of looping of a long chain polymer molecule in dilute solutions".
  

 

• 29/03/2021 - Our former group member Ms. Lipika Arora secured All India Rank - 4 in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE' 21) examination in Physics, conducted by IITs.
  

 

• 02/04/2021 -  Our group member Mr. Chirag Arora has accepted Ph.D. position in chemistry at the Princeton University, USA.

 

• 09/04/2021 - Our group member Ms. Proma Mondal's  second research paper has got accepted in Chem. Phys.. In this paper she has found exact analytical solution in Laplace domain for diffusion of a particle under the harmonic potential in presence of a rectangular sink of arbitrary width and height.

 

• 23/04/2021 - Our research group started weekly group meetings (every Friday from 3.30 to 5.30) from today. It took us 11 long years to start it! Earlier we used to have one-to-one meeting regularly.



• 28/04/2021 - Our group member Ms. Proma Mondal gave her first open seminer on our new analytically solvable model to understanding the problem of electronic relaxation of molecule in polar solvent, at IIT Mandi, India.

 

• 09/04/2021 - Our group member Mr. Chinmoy Samanta's most recent research paper has got accepted in Euro. Phys. J. Plus. In this paper he has analyzed the Reaction-diffusion dynamics in an attractive stepwise-linear potential energy curve under the gaussian sink action. This is our first paper in Euro. Phys. J. Plus.



• 05/05/2021 - Our group member Ms. Anjali Jangid gave her first open seminer on based on her new & more realistic model for two dimensional electron solvation at IIT Mandi, India.

 

• 08/05/2021 -  Our former group member Ms. Richa Pandey has been selected for Marie Curie Individual Fellowship for her postdoctoral research.

 

• 21/05/2021 - Our group member Mr. Saravanan Rajendran  has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis.  His thesis was reviewed by Prof. Biman Bagchi of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India and Prof. Peter Hanggi of Institut fur Physik, Universita ̈t Augsburg, Germany - both are world's leader in theoretical research. Since December, 2020, Saravanan is working as a postdoc with legendary  Professor Raphiel D. Levine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

 

• 31/05/2021 - Our group member Ms. Proma Mondal gave her  second open seminer at IIT Mandi, India, on - 'Two state problems in quantum mechanics: New Analytically solvable models.
  

 

• 01/06/2021 - Our group member Mr. Chinmoy Samanta's most recent research paper has got accepted in Phys. Lett. A.  In this paper he has used Gallelian transformation for finding exact results for the Schrodinger equation with moving localized potentials. This is our first paper in Phys. Lett. A.



• 04/06/2021 - Our group member Ms. Anjali Jangid gave her second open seminer at IIT Mandi, India, on  the 'Understanding the dynamics of solvation of an instantaneously created dipole in polar solvent'.
  

 

• 10/06/2021 - Our group member Mr. Chinmoy Samanta gave his first open seminer at IIT Mandi, India, on  the ' Transition time in a two-state system involving similar and non-similar potential energy curves coupled by δ-potential in quantum mechanics'. 

 

• 14/06/2021 - Our former group member Mr. Rahul Mittal secured All India Rank - 170, as Junior Research Fellow, in the National Eligibility Test conducted by Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India, in June 2020. 

 

• 15/06/2021 - Mr. Shad Mohamed A. K. has joined our research group for his Masters thesis (physics). Before joining to IIT Mandi, he has done B.Sc. (physics) for Calicut University, Kerala.
  

 

• 18/06/2021 - Dr. Chakraborty started writing his first non-academic book "Journey with IIT Mandi - A personal perspective".

 

• 15/06/2021 - Mr. Biswarup Biswas has joined our research group for his Masters thesis (physics).  Before joining to IIT Mandi, he has done B.Sc. (physics) for North Bengal University, West Bengal.

 

• 30/06/2021 - Our former group member Ms. Neha Mehta (M.Sc. Chemistry) has been selected for Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry, both in IIT Kanpur and in IIT Delhi, India.



• 06/07/2021 - Our group member Mr. Chinmoy Samanta gave his second open seminer at IIT Mandi, India, on  the 'The fate of a quantum object in a static and moving δ-potential with a time-dependent strength'. His talk was well appreciated by all the attendees.

 

• 02/08/2021 - Our former group member Dr. Florian Scafer (DAAD-RISE summer intern in 2012) has joined Georgia Tech. School of Computational Science and Engineering, USA, as an Assistant Professor. Before joining there, Florian has done Ph.D. in Mathematics from California Institute of Technology, USA. 

 

• 03/08/2021 - Ms. Gunjan has joined our research group for her Masters thesis (physics). Before joining to IIT Mandi, she has done B.Sc. (physics) from Rajasthan University, Rajasthan, India.

 

• 04/08/2021 - Our group member Ms. Proma Mondal's most recent research paper has got accepted in Mol. Phys..  In this paper she has  developed one very original analytical method for solving two state problem for rectangular coupling.

 

• 05/08/2021 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Ganguly has submitted her Ph.D. thesis. Title of her Ph.D. thesis is "Theoretical investigations of looping of a long chain polymer molecule in dilute solution". This is the 3rd Ph.D. thesis from my research group.

 

• 25/08/2021 - Our group member Ms. Swati Mudra gave  her Ph.D. synopsis seminar.  Title of her synopsis seminar is "New Analytically Solvable Model for Multi-state Problems in Quantum and Statistical Mechanics". She is expected to submit her thesis within one month.

 

• 10/09/2021 - Our group member Mr. Chinmoy Samanta gave his Ph.D. synopsis seminar.  Title of his synopsis seminar is "Generalized multi-state problems in quantum and statistical physics: Analytical and semi-analytical method development". He is expected to submit his thesis within one month.
  

 

• 15/09/2021 - Our group member Mr. Vishal Sharma's research work on understanding the dynamics of vibrational excitations of nano-mechanical systems has been accpeted for a poster presentation at the 7-th Nano Today Conference, at Guangzhou, China (November 15 - 18, 2021).

 

• 20/09/2021 - Dr. Chakraborty has received an invitation to deliver a lecture at the 17-th Theoretical Chemistry Symposium at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, India (11-14 December, 2021).



• 26/09/2021 - Our group member Ms. Swati Mudra's most recent research paper has got accepted in Phys. Lett. A.  In this paper she has  developed one very interesting analytical method for solving single state and two state problem for time dependent Dirac delta poterntial or coupling. This problem was known to be an analytically intractable problem for long time.
  

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• 04/10/2021 -  Our former group member Mr. Saravanan Rajendran's Ph.D. thesis has been accepted for publication as a book by Springer Nature, USA. This book starts with an inspiring foreword by legendary professor Raphiel D. Levine  of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

 

• 04/10/2021 - Our group member Ms. Moumita Gangauly's Ph.D. thesis work is widely appreciated by real experts across the globe. She is expected to complete her thesis defense within this month.

 

• 07/10/2021 - Mr. Sachin Rautela and Mr. Sanyam Chhetri have joined our research group for M.Sc. (Chemistry) Project.