Pinaki Chaudhuri
Professor
Theoretical Physics
2254 3293
pinakic @ imsc . res . in
325 New Building
Research Interests:
- Soft condensed matter
- Disordered systems: supercooled liquids, glasses, jammed materials, gels
- Non-equilibrium phenomena
Education:
- PhD, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2006
- MS, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2000
- BSc, Presidency College, Calcutta, 1997
Career History:
- Faculty member, Institute of Mathematical Sciences (2014 --)
- Postdoc, Institute of Theoretical Physics II, Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf (2010 -- 2014)
- Postdoc, LPMCN, Université Claude Bernard. Lyon (2008 -- 2010)
- Postdoc, LCVN, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier (2006 -- 2008)
- Postdoc, JNCASR, Bangalore (2005 -- 2006)
Courses Taught:
- Statistical Mechanics I
- Statistical Mechanics II
- Advanced Condensed Matter
Selected publications:
- Two-dimensional squishy glass: yielding under oscillatory shear, S Ghosh, R Nayak, S Vemparala, P Chaudhuri, Soft Matter 21 (7), 1286 (2025).
- Universal mechanical instabilities in the energy landscape of amorphous solids: Evidence from athermal quasistatic expansion, UA Dattani, S Karmakar, P Chaudhuri, Physical Review E 106 (5), 055004 (2022).
- Modelling the first wave of COVID-19 in India, DK Hazra et al, PLoS computational biology 18 (10), e1010632 (2022).
- Relaxation dynamics in the energy landscape of glass-forming liquids, Y Nishikawa, M Ozawa, A Ikeda, P Chaudhuri, L Berthier, Physical Review X 12 (2), 021001 (2022)
- Elastoplastic Approach Based on Microscopic Insights for the Steady State and Transient Dynamics of Sheared Disordered Solids,C Liu, S Dutta, P Chaudhuri, K Martens, Physical Review Letters 126 (13), 138005 (2021)
- Extreme active matter at high densities,R Mandal, PJ Bhuyan, P Chaudhuri, C Dasgupta, M Rao, Nature communications 11 (1), 1-8 (2020)
- Poiseuille flow of soft polycrystals in 2D rough channels,T Sarkar, P Chaudhuri, A Sain, Physical review letters 124 (15), 158003 (2020)
- Response of glassy liquids to thermal gradients,V Vaibhav, J Horbach, P Chaudhuri, Physical Review E 101 (2), 022605 (2020)
- Effect of pinning on the yielding transition of amorphous solids,B.P. Bhowmik, P. Chaudhuri, S. Karmakar, Physical review letters 123 (18), 185501 (2019)
- Glassy swirls of active dumbbells,R Mandal, PJ Bhuyan, P Chaudhuri, M Rao, C Dasgupta, Physical Review E 96 (4), 042605 (2017)
- Ultra-long-range dynamic correlations in a microscopic model for aging gels,P Chaudhuri, L Berthier, Physical Review E 95 (6), 060601 (2017)
- Yielding of glass under shear: A directed percolation transition precedes shear-band formation,GP Shrivastav, P Chaudhuri, J Horbach, Physical Review E 94 (4), 042605 (2016).
- Impact of attractive interactions on the rheology of dense athermal particles,E Irani, P Chaudhuri, C Heussinger, Physical review letters 112 (18), 188303 (2014).
- Onset of flow in a confined colloidal glass under an imposed shear stress,P Chaudhuri, J Horbach, Physical Review E 88 (4), 040301 (2013).