Members

Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta (PI):

Research Interest:

First principles study of complex crystalline solids; modeling of complex materials; electronic structure of strongly correlated systems; first-principle calculation of electronic structure and phase stability of random alloys; study of electronic structure and quantum transmittance through nano-materials, first-principles study of minerals.

Priya Mahadevan (CO-PI):

Research Interest:

Ab-initio electronic structure calculations; extraction of model Hamiltonian parameters from ab-initio approaches; electronic structure of strongly correlated systems; calculation of photoemission, inverse photoemission, x-ray absorption and auger spectra; setting up of effective models for magnetism for real systems

Surajit Sengupta:

Research Interest:

Equilibrium and dynamical aspects of phase transitions, pattern formation, microstructure selection in solids, elastic and viscoelastic behavior of solids and gels, liquid state theory and freezing, driven systems, soft solids, structure and properties of flux line lattices, skyrmion lattices, colloids, rheological properties of soft solids, size dependent properties and structure and dynamics of nano-structured materials.

Jaydeb Chakrabarti:

Research Interest:

Statistical Mechanics with applications to colloidal dispersions and biological macro-molecules, under both equilibrium and non-equilibrium situation; problems related to fast target search in protein-DNA system, kinetics of protein-DNA binding, solvation dynamics in macro-molecular suspensions.

Abhijit Mookerjee:

Research Interest:

Electronic structure and response functions in solids with compositional disorder, short-ranged and partial order, magnetic disorder, spin and cluster glasses. Electronic and magnetic properties of metallic and oxide clusters. Electronic and transmission properties of nano-wires.

Associate Members