Bulbul Chakraborty

Bulbul Chakraborty is the Enid and Nate Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University.[1][2] She is a condensed matter theorist, studying systems far from equilibrium, such as granular materials.[3][4]

Academic career

Chakraborty graduated with a BSc in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1974 and earned a PhD in 1979 from State University of New York, Stony Brook. The title of her PhD thesis is "Influence of thermal disorder on electronic properties of solids".[5] She was a postdoctoral fellow at Argonne National Laboratory, NORDITA, Denmark, and a Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Science. She was a Scientific Officer (equivalent of Assistant Professor) at the Materials Science Laboratory, Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research (1984–1986), and an Associate Research Physicist and Lecturer, in Applied Physics, at Yale University (1987–1989). Chakraborty joined the faculty in the Physics Department at Brandeis University in 1989 where she has been Full Professor since 2000.[6]

Awards and honors

Chakraborty is the Enid and Nate Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University.[1][2] She was elected fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2008 "for important theoretical contributions to diverse areas of condensed matter physics, including frustrated magnets, diffusion of light particles in metals, the glass transition, and jamming in granular systems".[7] In 2018, the Simons Foundation awarded Chakraborty a Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics.[8][9]

Selected publications
  • Bi, Dapeng; Zhang, Jie; Chakraborty, Bulbul; Behringer, R. P. (14 December 2011). "Jamming by shear". Nature. 480 (7377): 355–358. doi:10.1038/nature10667. PMID 22170683.
  • Henkes, Silke; O’Hern, Corey S.; Chakraborty, Bulbul (20 July 2007). "Entropy and Temperature of a Static Granular Assembly: An Ab Initio Approach". Physical Review Letters. 99 (3). arXiv:cond-mat/0701489. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.038002. PMID 17678329.
  • Read, N.; Chakraborty, B. (1 October 1989). "Statistics of the excitations of the resonating-valence-bond state". Physical Review B. 40 (10): 7133–7140. doi:10.1103/physrevb.40.7133. PMID 9991099.
  • Mailman, Mitch; Schreck, Carl F.; O’Hern, Corey S.; Chakraborty, Bulbul (22 June 2009). "Jamming in Systems Composed of Frictionless Ellipse-Shaped Particles". Physical Review Letters. 102 (25). arXiv:0812.1234. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.255501. PMID 19659093.
  • Bi, Dapeng; Henkes, Silke; Daniels, Karen E.; Chakraborty, Bulbul (March 2015). "The Statistical Physics of Athermal Materials". Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics. 6 (1): 63–83. arXiv:1404.1854. doi:10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031214-014336.

References
  1. "Bulbul Chakraborty | Physics | Brandeis University". www.brandeis.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  2. "Physicist Bulbul Chakraborty is finding equilibrium". BrandeisNOW. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  3. "Field theory of amorphous solids describes toothpaste, concrete and more". Physics World. 2018-09-17. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  4. "domain-b.com : Researchers explain granular material properties". www.domain-b.com. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  5. Chakraborty, Bulbul (1979). Influence Of Thermal Disorder On Electronic Properties Of Solids (Thesis). ProQuest 303001823.
  6. "Bulbul Chakraborty | Physics | Brandeis University". www.brandeis.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  7. "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  8. "2018 Simons Fellows in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Announced". Simons Foundation. 2018-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  9. "Physicist Chakraborty wins prestigious Simons Foundation fellowship". BrandeisNOW. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
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