IMSc Research Snapshots 2024
Further Reading:
- Blending theory with experiments reveals multiplayer actin dynamics. Bharti Dharapuram, IMSc Newsletter - August 2024.
- Goode, B. L., Eskin, J., & Shekhar, S. (2023). Mechanisms of actin disassembly and turnover. In Journal of Cell Biology (Vol. 222, Issue 12). Rockefeller University Press. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202309021
- Lappalainen, P., Kotila, T., Jégou, A., & Romet-Lemonne, G. (2022). Biochemical and mechanical regulation of actin dynamics. In Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (Vol. 23, Issue 12, pp. 836–852). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41580-022-00508-4
Further Reading:
- A new framework to study rare events in aggregation. Bharti Dharapuram, IMSc Newsletter - September 2024.
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Random House.
Further Reading:
- Anatomy of a proton and its exotic cousins . Bharti Dharapuram, IMSc Newsletter - December 2024.
- LHCb Collaboration. (2022). Observation of an exotic narrow doubly charmed tetraquark. Nature Physics, 18(7), 751–754. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01614-y
- Exotic hadrons bend the rules. Frank Close, CERN Courier, March 2017.
- Gell-Mann, M. (1964). A schematic model of baryons and mesons. Physics Letters, 8(3), 214–215. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0031-9163(64)92001-3
Further Reading:
- A new model reveals the weight of a newborn from routine pregnancy scans. Bharti Dharapuram, IMSc Newsletter - October & November, 2024.
Further Reading:
- A Blueprint for Brains. Bharti Dharapuram, IMSc Newsletter - July 2024.
- Neuroscience’s Existential Crisis. Grigori Guitchounts, Nautilus, October 2021.
- Connectome: How the brain's wiring makes us who we are. Sebastian Seung, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Further Reading:
- Arithmetic circuit complexity. Wikipedia article.
- Planar graph. Wikipedia article.
Further Reading:
- What is entropy? A measure of just how little we really know. Zack Savitsky, Quanta magazine, December 2024.
- Uncovering universal principles of homing in the lab and nature. Bharti Dharapuram, IMSc Newsletter - August 2024.
- Wiltschko, R., & Wiltschko, W. (2022). Animal navigation: how animals use environmental factors to find their way. In The European Physical Journal Special Topics (Vol. 232, Issue 2, pp. 237–252). Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-022-00610-w
Further Reading:
- Representation Theory by Amritanshu Prasad. Cambridge University Press.
- A trapdoor to another mathematical realm. Bharti Dharapuram, IMSc Newsletter - September 2024.
Further Reading:
- Spin. Wikipedia article.
- Introduction to spin Hamiltonian. Christopher L. Henley.
- Transverse-field Ising model [A simple quantum spin model]. Wikipedia article.