Publications

Books

Patterns in Excitable Media: Genesis, Dynamics and Control
CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2014

Sitabhra Sinha and S. Sridhar

Econophysics: An Introduction
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2010

Sitabhra Sinha, Arnab Chatterjee, Anirban Chakraborti and Bikas K. Chakrabarti

Edited Volumes

Discussion and Debate: Can Economics be a Physical Science?
European Physical Journal Special Topics (EPJST) Vol. 225 , Nos. 17-18 (2016)

Sitabhra Sinha, Anindya S. Chakrabarti and Manipushpak Mitra (Guest Editors)
Editorial: What is economics that physicists are mindful of it?

Journal Papers and Book Chapters

S. Sinha and N. Mitra, "On the Shoulders of... : Uncovering the Critical Role of Knowledge Diffusion through Peer Influence Network underlying Prinsep's Decipherment of Brahmi", Journal of the Asiatic Society 66 (2024) 35-62. (reprint)

A. Pathak, S. N. Menon and S. Sinha, "A hierarchy index for networks in the brain reveals a complex entangled organizational structure", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 121 (2024) e2314291121. (reprint)

C. Kuyyamudi, S. N. Menon and S. Sinha, "Precision of morphogen-driven tissue patterning during development is enhanced through contact-mediated cellular interactions", Physical Review E 107 (2023) 12927. (reprint) (Earlier version in arxiv)

S. Sinha, "Modeling-informed policy, policy evaluated by modeling", in Flattening the Curve: Covid-19 & Grand Challenges for Global Health, Innovation, and Economy (Eds. C. Chatterjee, A. S. Chakraborti and A. B. Deolalikar), World Scientific (2023), pp. 3-40. (Version in arxiv)

A. Pathak, S. Menon and S. Sinha, "Mesoscopic architecture enhances communication across the Macaque connectome revealing structure-function correspondence in the brain", Physical Review E 106 (2022) 054304. (reprint) (Earlier version in arxiv)

T. Jesan and S. Sinha, "Modular organization of gene-tumor association network allows identification of key molecular players in cancer", J. Biosciences 47 (2022) 60. (reprint)

C. Kuyyamudi, S. Menon and S. Sinha, "Contact-mediated signaling enables disorder-driven transitions in cellular assemblies", Physical Review E 106 (2022) L022401. (reprint)

C. Kuyyamudi, S. Menon and S. Sinha, "Flags, landscapes and signaling: contact-mediated inter-cellular interactions enable plasticity in fate determination driven by positional information", Indian J. Phys. 96 (2022) 2657-2666. (reprint)

C. Kuyyamudi, S. Menon and S. Sinha, "Morphogen-regulated contact-mediated signaling between cells can drive the transitions underlying body segmentation in vertebrates", Physical Biology 19 (2022) 016001. (reprint)

C.Kuyyamudi, S. Menon, F. Casares and S. Sinha, "Disorder in cellular packing can alter proliferation dynamics to regulate growth", Physical Review E 104 (2021) L052401. (reprint)

C. Kuyyamudi, S. Menon and S. Sinha, "Contact-mediated cellular communication supplements positional information to regulate spatial patterning during development", Physical Review E 103 (2021) 062409. (reprint)

S. Sinha, "Epidemiological dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic in India: An interim assessment", Statistics and Applications 18 (2020) 333-350. (Paper, open access)

A. Chakraborty, S. Easwaran and S. Sinha, "Uncovering hierarchical structure of international FOREX market by using similarity metric between fluctuation distributions of currencies", Acta Physica Polonica A 138 (2020) 105-115. (Version in arxiv)

A. Pathak, N. Chatterjee and S. Sinha, "Developmental trajectory of Caenorhabditis elegans nervous system governs its structural organization", PLOS Computational Biology 16 (2020) e1007602. (Abstract and Paper, open access). (Earlier version in arxiv)

R. Janaki, S. N. Menon, R. Singh and S. Sinha, "Lateral inhibition provides a unifying framework for spatiotemporal pattern formation in media comprising relaxation oscillators", Physical Review E 99 (2019) 052216. (Reprint) (Earlier version in arxiv)

C. Kuyyamudi, A. S. Chakrabarti and S. Sinha, "Emergence of frustration signals systemic risk", Physical Review E 99 (2019) 052307. (Reprint) (Earlier version in arxiv)

A. Sharma, S. N. Menon, V. Sasidevan and S. Sinha, "Epidemic prevalence information on social networks can mediate emergent collective outcomes in voluntary vaccine schemes", PLOS Computational Biology 15 (2019) e1006977. (Abstract and Paper, open access). (Earlier version in arxiv)

S. N. Menon, V. Sasidevan and S. Sinha, "Is life (or at least socio-economic aspects of it) just spin and games?", in Network Theory and Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance (Eds. A. Chakraborti, L. Pichl and T. Kaizoji), Spinger (2019), pp. 265-281. (Reprint) (Version in arxiv)

T. Mitra, S. N. Menon and S. Sinha, "Emergent memory in cell signaling: Persistent adaptive dynamics in cascades can arise from the diversity of relaxation time-scales", Scientific Reports 8 (2018) 13230. (Abstract and Paper, open access). (Earlier version in arxiv)

V. Sasidevan, A. Kushal and S. Sinha, "When big data fails: Adaptive agents using coarse-grained information have competitive advantage", Physical Review E 98 (2018) 020301(R). [selected by editors of Physical Review E to be an Editor's Suggestion] (Reprint) (Earlier version in arxiv)

A. Chakraborty, S. Easwaran and S. Sinha, "Deviations from universality in the fluctuation behavior of a heterogeneous complex system reveal intrinsic properties of components: The case of the international currency market", Physica A 509 (2018) 599-610. (Reprint) (version in arxiv)

S. N. Menon, V. Sasidevan and S. Sinha, "Emergence of cooperation as a non-equilibrium transition in noisy spatial games", Front. Phys. 6 (2018) 34. (Abstract and Paper, open access).

M. I. Ashraf and S. Sinha, "The handedness of language: Directional symmetry breaking of sign usage in words", PLOS ONE 13 (2018) e0190735. (Abstract and Paper, open access) (version in arxiv)

This paper has been the subject of news stories in The Telegraph (Jan 29,2018):

Hidden pattern of sound in languages found

, in The Hindu (Feb 1,2018):

Indus script was written from right to left, says computation

and in The Wire (Feb 26, 2018):

Scientists Elicit Universal Pattern of Sound Use in Languages

R. K. Singh and S. Sinha, "Optimal interdependence enhances the dynamical robustness of complex systems", Physical Review E 96 (2017) 020301(R). (Reprint) (Earlier version in arxiv)

V. Sreenivasan, S. N. Menon and S. Sinha, "Emergence of coupling-induced oscillations and broken symmetries in heterogeneously driven nonlinear reaction networks", Scientific Reports 7 (2017) 1594. (Abstract and Paper, open access) (Earlier version in arxiv)

P. Seenivasan, S. N. Menon, S. Sridhar and S. Sinha, "When the clock strikes: Modeling the relation between circadian rhythms and cardiac arrhythmias", J. Phys. Conference series 759 (2016) 012021. (Reprint) (revised version in arxiv)

A. S. Chakrabarti and S. Sinha, "Hits emerge through self-organized coordination in collective response of free agents", Physical Review E 94 (2016) 042302. (Reprint) (version in arxiv)

V. Sasidevan and S. Sinha, "Co-action provides rational basis for the evolutionary success of Pavlovian strategies", Scientific Reports 6 (2016) 30831. (Abstract and Paper, open access) (Earlier version in arxiv)

R. Singh, S. N. Menon and S. Sinha, "Complex patterns arise through spontaneous symmetry breaking in dense homogeneous networks of neural oscillators", Scientific Reports 6 (2016) 22074. (Abstract and Paper, open access) (Earlier version in arxiv)

P. Seenivasan, S. Easwaran, S. Sridhar and S. Sinha, "Using skewness and the first-digit phenomenon to identify dynamical transitions in cardiac models", Frontiers in Physiology 6 (2016) 390. (Reprint) (Earlier version in arxiv)

N. Abdul Majith and S. Sinha, "Dynamics of urban traffic congestion: A kinetic Monte Carlo approach to simulating collective vehicular dynamics", in Proc. 2016 8th Int. Conf. Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), IEEE (2016), pp. 1-5, doi:10.1109/COMSNETS.2016.7439986. (Reprint) (Version in IEEE Xplore)

V. Sasidevan and S. Sinha, "Symmetry warrants rational cooperation by co-action in social dilemmas", Scientific Reports 5 (2015) 13071. (Abstract and Paper, open access) (Version in arxiv)

A. Pathak and S. Sinha, "Complex ordering in spin networks: Critical role of adaptation rate for dynamically evolving interactions", J. Phys. Conference series 638 (2015) 012010. (Version in arxiv)

Arnold Emerson I. and S. Sinha, "Analysis of core-periphery organization in protein contact networks reveals groups of structurally and functionally critical residues", J. Biosciences 40(4) (2015) 683-699. (Reprint) (in Journal website)

J. Xu, S. N. Menon, R. Singh, N. B. Garnier, S. Sinha and A. Pumir, "The role of cellular coupling in the spontaneous generation of electrical activity in uterine tissue", PLoS ONE 10(3) (2015) e0118443. (Abstract and Paper, open access) (Earlier version in arxiv)

V. Sasidevan and S. Sinha, "A dynamical view of different solution paradigms in two-person symmetric games: Nash versus Co-action equilibria", in Econophysics and Data Driven Modelling of Market Dynamics (Eds. F. Abergel, H. Aoyama, B. K. Chakrabarti, A. Chakraborti and A. Ghosh), Springer (2015), pp. 213-223. (Reprint) (Version in arxiv)

N. Abdul Majith and S. Sinha, "Statistics of stop-and-go traffic: Emergent properties of congestion behavior arising from collective vehicular dynamics in an urban environment", in Proc. 2015 7th Int. Conf. Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), IEEE (2015), pp. 1-4, doi:10.1109/COMSNETS.2015.7098733. (Reprint) (Version in IEEE Xplore)

R. Singh, S. Dasgupta and S. Sinha, "Extreme variability in convergence to structural balance in frustrated dynamical systems", Europhys. Lett. 105 (2014) 10003. (reprint) (Earlier version in arxiv)

S. N. Menon and S. Sinha, " ``Defective'' Logic: Using spatiotemporal patterns in coupled relaxation oscillator arrays for computation", Proc. 10th IEEE Intl. Conf. Signal Processing & Communications, Bangalore (2014), doi:10.1109/SPCOM.2014.6983919 (Version in arxiv)

S. Sinha, "The importance of community: How modular organization of social networks affects their collective dynamics", Studies in Microeconomics 2 (2014) 49-61. (reprint) (Journal site)

S. Sinha and U. Kovur, "Uncovering the network structure of the world currency market: Cross-correlations in the fluctuations of daily exchange rates", in Econophysics of Agent-Based Models, Springer (2014) pp 203-218. (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sridhar, A. Ghosh and S. Sinha, "Critical role of pinning defects in scroll-wave breakup in active media", Europhys. Lett. 103 (2013) 50003. (reprint) (Earlier version in arxiv)

J. Xu, R. Singh, N. B. Garnier, S. Sinha and A. Pumir, "Effect of quenched disorder on dynamical transitions in systems of coupled cells", New J Phys 15 (2013) 093046. (Abstract and Paper, open access) (Earlier version in arxiv)

T. Jesan, U. Sarma, S, Halder, B. Saha and S. Sinha, "Branched motifs enable long-range interactions in signaling networks through retrograde propagation", PLoS ONE 8(5) (2013) e64409. (Abstract and Paper, open access)

S. Sridhar, D.-M. Le, Y.-C. Mi, S. Sinha, P.-Y. Lai and C. K. Chan, "Suppression of cardiac alternans by alternating-period-feedback stimulations", Phys Rev E 87 (2013) 042712 (1-8). (reprint)

R. Singh and S. Sinha, "Spatiotemporal order, disorder, and propagating defects in homogeneous system of relaxation oscillators", Phys Rev E 87 (2013) 012907 (1-5). (reprint) (Earlier version in arxiv)

S. Sinha, M. Thess and S. Markose, "How unstable are complex financial systems? Analyzing an inter-bank network of credit relations", in Econophysics of Systemic Risk and Network Dynamics (Eds. F. Abergel, B. K. Chakrabarti, A. Chakraborti and A. Ghosh), Springer (2013) pp 59-76. (reprint)

R. K. Pan, S. Sinha, K. Kaski and J. Saramaki, "The evolution of interdisciplinarity in physics research", Scientific Reports 2 (2012) 551. (Abstract and Paper, open access) (Earlier version in arxiv)

S. Sinha and B. K. Chakrabarti, "Econophysics: An emerging discipline", invited survey article in Economic & Political Weekly 46(no. 32) (2012) 44-65. (paper, 513 KB)

U. Sarma, A. Sareen, M. Maiti, V. Kamat, R. Sudan, S. Pahari, N. Srivastava, S. Roy, S. Sinha, I. Ghosh, A. G. Chande, R. Mukhopadhyaya and B. Saha, "Modeling and experimental analyses reveals signaling plasticity in a bi-modular assembly of CD40 receptor activated kinases", PLoS ONE 7(7) (2012) e39898. (Abstract and Paper, open access)

R. Singh, J. Xu, N. G. Garnier, A. Pumir and S. Sinha, "Self-organized transition to coherent activity in disordered media", Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (2012) 068102 (1-5). (reprint) (Earlier version in arxiv).

This paper was highlighted in a Synopsis: Birth Rhythms in Physics (February 9,2012).

M. I. Ashraf and S. Sinha, "Core-periphery organization of graphemes in written sequences: Decreasing positional rigidity with increasing core order", in CICLing 2012, Part I (Ed. A. Gelbukh) Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7181 (2012) 142-153. (reprint)

S. Sinha, N. Yadav and M. Vahia, "In Square Circle: Geometric knowledge of the Indus civilization", in Math Unlimited: Essays in Mathematics (Eds. R. Sujatha, H.N. Ramaswamy and C.S. Yogananda), Science Publishers and CRC Press (2012) 451-462. (Abstract and Paper)

R. Singh, S. Dasgupta and S. Sinha, "Chimera order in spin systems", Europhys. Lett. 95 (2011) 10004 (1-5). (reprint) (Earlier version in arXiv)

S. Sinha and S. Poria, "Multiple dynamical time-scales in networks with hierarchically nested modular organization", Pramana: J. Phys. 77 (2011) 833-842. (Abstract and Paper)

N. Pradhan, S. Dasgupta and S. Sinha, "Modular organization enhances the robustness of attractor network dynamics", Europhys. Lett. 94 (2011) 38004 (1-6). (reprint) (Earlier version in arxiv)

T. Jesan, G. I. Menon and S. Sinha, "Epidemiological dynamics of the 2009 Influenza A(H1N1)v outbreak in India", Current Science 100 (2011) 1051-1054. (Earlier version in arxiv) (reprint)

This paper was highlighted in the In This Issue section of the journal (April 10,2011).

S. V. Vikram and S. Sinha, "Emergence of universal scaling in financial markets from mean-field dynamics", Phys. Rev. E 83 (2011) 016101 (1-4). (reprint) (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha, A. M. Izhar, R. K. Pan and B. K. Wells, "Network analysis of a corpus of undeciphered Indus civilization inscriptions indicates syntactic organization", Computer Speech and Language 25 (2011) 639-654. (Abstract and Paper)

V. S. Vijayraghavan and S. Sinha, "Are the trading volume and the number of trades distributions universal?", in Econophysics of Order-Driven Markets (Eds. F. Abergel, B. K. Chakrabarti, A. Chakraborti and M. Mitra), Springer (2011) pp 17-30. (reprint)

S. Sridhar and S. Sinha, "Response to sub-threshold stimulus is enhanced by spatially heterogeneous activity", Europhys. Lett. 92 (2010) 60006 (1-6). (reprint) (Earlier version in arxiv)

S. Sridhar, S. Sinha and A. V. Panfilov, "Anomalous drift of spiral waves in heterogeneous excitable media", Phys. Rev. E 82 (2010) 051908 (1-5). (reprint) (Earlier version in arxiv)

R. K. Pan and S. Sinha, "The statistical laws of popularity: Universal properties of the box office dynamics of motion pictures", New Journal of Physics 12 (2010) 115004. (Abstract and Paper, open access) (Earlier version in arxiv)

S. Sinha, "Are large complex economic systems unstable ?" Science and Culture (Special Issue on Econophysics) 76 (2010) 454-458. (Abstract and Paper)

R. K. Pan, N. Chatterjee and S. Sinha, "Mesoscopic organization reveals the constraints governing Caenorhabditis elegans nervous system", PLoS ONE 5(2) e9240 (2010). (Abstract and Paper, open access) (Earlier version in arxiv)

A. Pumir, S. Sinha, S. Sridhar, M. Argentina, M. Horning, S. Filippi, C. Cherubini, S. Luther and V. Krinsky, "Wave-train-induced termination of weakly anchored vortices in excitable media", Phys. Rev. E 81 (2010) 010901 (R) (1-4). (reprint) (Earlier version in arxiv)

S. Dasgupta, R. K. Pan and S. Sinha, "Phase of Ising spins on modular networks analogous to social polarization", Phys. Rev. E 80 (2009) 025101(R) (1-4). (reprint) (Earlier version in arxiv)

S. Sinha, T. Jesan and N. Chatterjee, "Systems Biology: From the cell to the brain", Current Trends in Science: Platinum Jubilee Special (Ed. N Mukunda), Bangalore: Indian Academy of Sciences (2009) pp 199-205. (reprint) (Earlier version in arxiv)

S. Sinha, R. K. Pan, N. Yadav, M. Vahia and I. Mahadevan, "Network analysis reveals structure indicative of syntax in the corpus of undeciphered Indus civilization inscriptions", Proc. Workshop on Graph-based methods for Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNL 2009, Suntec, Singapore, pp 5-13. (reprint)

R. K. Pan and S. Sinha, "Modularity produces small-world networks with dynamical time-scale separation", Europhys. Lett. 85 (2009) 68006 (1-6). (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and B. K. Chakrabarti, "Towards a physics of economics", Physics News (2009) 39 No. 2 (April 2009) 33-46. (low-resolution scanned pdf, 2 MB) (high-resolution pdf, 37 MB)

S. Sinha, "From network structure to dynamics and back again: Relating dynamical stability and connection topology in biological complex systems", in Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks (Eds. N. Ganguly, A. Deutsch, and A. Mukherjee), Birkhauser (2009) pp 3-18. (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and S. Sridhar, "Controlling Spiral Turbulence in Simulated Cardiac Tissue by Low-Amplitude Traveling Wave Stimulation", in Complex Dynamics in Physiological Systems: From Heart to Brain (Eds. S. K. Dana, P. K. Roy and J. Kurths), Springer (2009) pp 69-87.

T. K. Shajahan, S. Sinha and R. Pandit, "The Mathematical Modelling of Inhomogeneities in Ventricular Tissue", in Complex Dynamics in Physiological Systems: From Heart to Brain (Eds. S. K. Dana, P. K. Roy and J. Kurths), Springer (2009) pp 51-67.

S. Sridhar and S. Sinha, "Controlling spatiotemporal chaos in excitable media using an array of control points", Europhys. Lett. 81 (2008) 50002. (Abstract and Paper)

R. K. Pan and S. Sinha, "Modular networks with hierarchical organization: The dynamical implications of complex structure", Pramana: J. Phys. 71 (2008) 331-340. ( Abstract and Paper)

R. K. Pan and S. Sinha, "Inverse-cubic law of index fluctuation distribution in Indian markets", Physica A 387 (2008) 2055-2065. (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and S. Sridhar, "Controlling Spatiotemporal Chaos and Spiral Turbulence in Excitable Media", in Handbook of Chaos Control, 2nd rev edition (Eds. E. Scholl and H. G. Schuster), Wiley-VCH (2008) pp 703-718. (A slightly altered version)

R. K. Pan and S. Sinha, "Modular networks emerge from multiconstraint optimization", Phys. Rev. E 76 (2007) 045103(R) (1-4). (reprint) (version in arxiv)

R. K. Pan and S. Sinha, "Collective behavior of stock price movements in an emerging market", Phys. Rev. E 76 (2007) 046116 (1-9). (reprint) (version in arxiv)

S. Sinha, J. Saramaki and K. Kaski, "Emergence of self-sustained patterns in small-world excitable media", Phys. Rev. E 76 (2007) 015101(R) (1-4). (reprint) (version in arxiv)

N. Chatterjee and S. Sinha, "Understanding the Mind of a Worm: Hierarchical network structure underlying nervous system function in C. Elegans", Progress in Brain Research 168 (2007) 145-153. (Paper).

A. Chatterjee, S. Sinha and B. K. Chakrabarti, "Economic inequality: Is it natural ?", Current Science 92 (2007) 1383-1389. (Paper)

This paper has been the subject of a news story in Physorg (April 6,2007):

World's economies show similarities in economic inequality

R. K. Pan and S. Sinha, "Self-organization of price fluctuation distribution in evolving markets", Europhys. Lett. 77 (2007) 58004 (1-5). (Abstract and Paper)

T. K. Shajahan, S. Sinha and R. Pandit, "Cardiac arrhythmias depend sensitively on inhomogeneities in ventricular tissue", Phys. Rev. E 75 (2007) 011929 (1-8). (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and R. K. Pan, "Uncovering the Internal Structure of the Indian Financial Market: Large cross-correlation behavior in the NSE", in Econophysics of Markets and Business Networks (Eds. A. Chatterjee and B. K. Chakrabarti), Springer (2007) pp 3-19. (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and N. Srivastava, "Is Inequality Inevitable in Society?: Income distribution as a consequence of resource flow in hierarchical organizations", in Econophysics of Markets and Business Networks (Eds. A. Chatterjee and B. K. Chakrabarti), Springer (2007) pp 215-226. (Reprint)

S. Sinha and S. Raghavendra, "Market Polarization in Presence of Individual Choice Volatility", in Advances in Artificial Economics (Ed. C. Bruun), Springer (2006) pp 177-190. (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha, "The Apparent Madness of Crowds: Irrational collective behavior emerging from interactions among rational agents", in Econophysics of Stock and Other Markets (Eds. A. Chatterjee and B. K. Chakrabarti), Springer (2006) pp 159-162. (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and R. K. Pan, "The Power (Law) of Indian Markets: Analysing NSE and BSE trading statistics", in Econophysics of Stock and Other Markets (Eds. A. Chatterjee and B. K. Chakrabarti), Springer (2006) pp 24-34. (reprint) (version in arxiv)

S. Sinha and S. Raghavendra, "Emergence of two-phase behavior in markets through interaction and learning in agents with bounded rationality", in Practical Fruits of Econophysics (Ed. H. Takayasu), Springer (2006) pp 200-204. (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha, "Phase Transitions in the Computational Complexity of `Elementary' Cellular Automata", in Unifying Themes in Complex Systems (Eds. A. A. Minai and Y. Bar-Yam), Springer (2006) pp 337-348. (Paper)

S. Sinha and S. Sinha, "Robust emergent activity in dynamical networks", Phys. Rev. E 74 (2006) 066117 (1-5). (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha, "Evidence for Power-law tail of the Wealth Distribution in India", Physica A 359 (2006) 555-562. (Abstract and Paper)

M. Brede and S. Sinha, "Assortative mixing by degree makes a network more unstable", submitted . (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and R. K. Pan, "Blockbusters, Bombs and Sleepers: The income distribution of movies", in Econophysics of Wealth Distributions (Eds. A. Chatterjee, B. K. Chakrabarti and S. Yarlagadda), Springer (2005) pp 43-47. (Abstract and Paper)

This paper has been the subject of a news story in PhysicsWeb (May 6,2005):

How to make a blockbuster

S. Sinha, "The Rich Are Different!: Pareto Law from asymmetric interactions in asset exchange models", in Econophysics of Wealth Distributions (Eds. A. Chatterjee, B. K. Chakrabarti and S. Yarlagadda), Springer (2005) pp 177-184. (Abstract and Paper)

T. K. Shajahan, S. Sinha and R. Pandit, "Spatiotemporal chaos and spiral turbulence in models of cardiac arrhythmias: an overview", Proc Indian Natl Sci Acad 71 A (2005) 47-57.

S. Sinha, "Complexity vs. stability in small-world networks", Physica A 346 (2005) 147-153. (Abstract and Paper)

J. Breuer and S. Sinha, "Death, dynamics and disorder: Terminating reentry in excitable media by dynamically induced inhomogeneities", Pramana: J. Phys. 64 (2005) 553-562. ( Abstract and Paper)

This paper has been the subject of a news story in Nature NewsIndia (May 2005): ``Revealing the patterns at the heart of life and death'' (pgs 8-9).

J. Breuer and S. Sinha, "Controlling spatiotemporal chaos in excitable media by local biphasic stimulation", preprint (2004). (Abstract and Paper )

S. Sinha and J. Breuer, "Terminating ventricular tachycardia by pacing induced dynamical inhomogeneities in the reentry circuit", To appear in Proc. Int. Conf. Math. Biol. (IIT Kanpur, 2004). (Abstract and Paper )

S. Sinha and S. Sinha, "Evidence of universality for the May-Wigner stability theorem for random networks with local dynamics", Phys. Rev. E 71 (2005) 020902(R) (1-4). (Published version) (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha and S. Raghavendra, "Hollywood blockbusters and long-tailed distributions: An empirical study of the popularity of movies", Eur. Phys. J. B 42 (2004) 293-296. ( Abstract and Paper )

T. K. Shajahan, S. Sinha and R. Pandit, "Ventricular fibrillation in a simple excitable medium model of cardiac tissue", Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 17 (2003) 5645-5654.

S. Sinha, "Stochastic Maps, Wealth Distribution in Random Asset Exchange Models and the Marginal Utility of Relative Wealth", Phys. Scr. T 106 (2003) 59-64. (Abstract and Paper )

S. Sinha and D. J. Christini, "Termination of reentry in an inhomogeneous ring of model cardiac cells", Phys. Rev. E 66 (2002) 061903 (1-7). (Abstract and Paper )

S. Sinha, K. M. Stein and D. J. Christini, "Critical role of inhomogeneties in pacing termination of cardiac reentry", CHAOS 12 (2002) 893-902.

C. Wilmers, S. Sinha and M. Brede, "Examining the effects of species richness on community stability: an assembly model approach", Oikos 99 (2002) 363-367. (paper, 207 KB) ( (SFI Working Paper 02-10-059) .

R. Pandit, A. Pande, S. Sinha and A. Sen, "Spiral turbulence and spatiotemporal chaos: Characterization and control in two excitable media", Physica A 306 (2002) 211-219. (reprint)

S. Sinha and J. Basak, "Response of an excitatory-inhibitory neural network to external stimulation: An application to image segmentation", Phys. Rev. E 65 (2002) 046112 (1-6). (reprint)

S. Sinha, A. Pande and R. Pandit, "Defibrillation via the elimination of spiral turbulence in a model for ventricular fibrillation", Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 3678-3681. ( Published version). (Abstract and Paper)

S. Sinha, "Noise-free stochastic resonance in simple chaotic systems", Physica A 270 (1999) 204-214. ( Paper )

S. Sinha and B. K. Chakrabarti, "Dynamical Transitions in Network Models of Collective Computation", Current Science 77 (1999) 420-428.(Special Issue on Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics) (Paper)

A. Pande, S. Sinha and R. Pandit, "Spiral Turbulence: From the oxidation of CO on Pt(110) to Ventricular Fibrillation", J. IISc 79 (1999) 31-40. (Abstract and Paper )

S. Sinha, "Chaotic dynamics in iterated map neural networks with piecewise linear activation function", Fundamenta Informaticae 37 (1999) 31-50. (Abstract and Paper )

S. Sinha and B. K. Chakrabarti, "Deterministic stochastic resonance in a piecewise linear chaotic map", Phys. Rev. E 58 (1998) 8009-8012. (Paper )

S. Sinha, "Frustrated synchronization in competing drive-response coupled chaotic systems", LANL E-print ( Abstract and Paper ) (1998).

S. Sinha, "Chaos and synchronization in simple excitatory-inhibitory neural network models", Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Nonlinear Dynamics and Brain Functioning, IISc, Bangalore (1998) 54.

S. Sinha and S. Biswas, "Associative Memory for Gray-Level Images", Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. in Image Processing, Santa Barbara, (1997) 871-873. ( Paper).

S. Sinha, "Adaptive walks in fitness landscapes", Ind. J. Theo. Phys. 44 (1996) 63-73.

S. Sinha and S. Kar, "Competition among synchronizing chaotic systems: Implication for neural computation", in T. Yamakawa and G. Matsumoto (eds.) Methodologies for the conception, design and application of intelligent systems, Singapore: World Scientific, (1996) 700-703.

S. Sinha, "Chaos control in an oscillatory neural network model", J. IETE 42 (1996) 205-213.

S. Sinha, "Controlled transition from chaos to periodic oscillations in a neural network model", Physica A 224 (1996) 433-446. ( Paper ).

S. Sinha, "The evolution of adaptability: the artificial life approach", Ind. J. Phys. B 69 (1995) 625-640.

S. Sinha, "Influence of asymmetric initial configurations on the recall properties of the Hopfield net", J. Inst. Engg. (India) 74 (1993) 28-31.

Patents

R. Pandit, S. Sinha, A. Pande and A. Sen, "Defibrillation and spiral turbulence in a model for ventricular fibrillation", Indian Patent Number 199042 (date granted: 01/03/2006).