Advisor(s): Dr. Rumi De (IISER Kolkata, India)

Duration: Jan 2013 - May 2013

Summary: The project was carried out as a part of the biological physics course at IISER Kolkata. The project involved a review of the FitzHugh-Nagumo model which although was motivated by the Hodgkin-Huxley model, yet is analytically simpler & effective in explaining neural firing.

Advisor(s): Dr. Ayan Banerjee (IISER Kolkata, India)

Duration: Jan 2013 - May 2013

Summary: The project was carried out as a part of the lab rotation course at IISER Kolkata. The project involved Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy of Rubidium. The power broadening & cross over resonances of the ⁸⁷Rb F=2 to F'=2 transition was analyzed at different pump intensities. Natural line width for Rubidium was obtained.

Advisor(s): Dr. Anandamohan Ghosh (IISER Kolkata, India)

Duration: Jan 2013 - May 2013

Summary: The project was carried out as a part of the seminar course at IISER Kolkata. The project involved a review of the phenomenon of spontaneous synchronization of a large population of coupled limit-cycle oscillators ('Kuramoto oscillators') whose natural frequencies are drawn from some prescribed distribution.

Advisor(s): Dr. Siddhartha Lal (IISER Kolkata, India)

Duration: Aug 2012 - Dec 2012

Summary: The project was carried out as a term-paper for the Advanced Quantum Mechanics course at IISER Kolkata. The physical & mathematical concepts associated with the Landau-Zener effect along with experimental results to justify the theory were studied.

Advisor(s): Dr. Anandamohan Ghosh (IISER Kolkata, India) & Dr. Rajesh Kumble Nayak (IISER Kolkata, India)

Duration: Sep 2011 - Dec 2011

Summary: The project was carried out as a part of the MATLAB based Computational Physics course at IISER Kolkata. The project involved computationally studying the phenomenon of synchronization in chaotic systems such as Lorenz system, Rössler system, etc. Further, the change in the bifurcation structure of the systems undergoing synchronization was studied. The simulations were carried out in MATLAB & Fortran.

Advisor(s): Dr. Ananda Dasgupta (IISER Kolkata, India)

Duration: Jan 2010 - May 2010

Summary: The project was carried out as a part of the Python based computer laboratory course at IISER Kolkata. The project involved writing a Python program that takes a square matrix as an input & returns its LU form, given that it exists. The product of the lower triangular matrix L & the upper triangular matrix U gives the matrix which has been decomposed.