Our group works on theoretical problems in soft condensed matter and biologically motivated physics, where our specific interests are in elastic, hydrodynamic, topological and statistical phenomena. We use both analytical and numerical tools in our research and often need large-scale parallel computation. A distinct, but technically related, research activity uses statistical learning and Bayesian inference to unravel "signal" from "noise" in data from diverse sources. Our group has a wide interest in music and develops mathematical models of musical instruments guided by a detailed appreciation of their physics.

Selected publications

A. Laskar, R. Singh, S. Ghose, G. Jayaraman, P. B. Sunil Kumar and R. Adhikari, "Hydrodynamic instabilities provide a generic route to spontaneous biomimetic oscillations In chemomechanically active filaments," to appear in Nature Scientific Reports, 2013.

G. Jayaraman, S. Ramachandran, S. Ghose, A. Laskar, P. B. Sunil Kumar, and R. Adhikari, "Autonomous motility of active filaments due to spontaneous flow symmetry breaking," Physical Review Letters, vol. 109, p. 158302, 2012.

S. Saha, S. Ghose, R. Adhikari, and A. Dua, "Non-renewal statistics in the catalytic activity of enzyme molecules at mesoscopic concentrations," Physical Review Letters, vol. 107, p. 21830, 2011.

R. Nash, R. Adhikari, J. Tailleur, and M. E. Cates, "Run-and-tumble particles with hydrodynamics: sedimentation, trapping, and upstream swimming," Physical Review Letters, vol. 104, p. 258101, 2010.

R. P. N. Rao, N. Yadav, M. N. Vahia, H. Joglekar, R. Adhikari, and I. Mahadevan, "Entropic evidence for linguistic structure in the Indus script.," Science, vol. 324, iss. 5931, p. 1165, 2009.

R. P. N. Rao, N. Yadav, M. N. Vahia, H. Joglekar, R. Adhikari, and I. Mahadevan, "A Markov model of the Indus script.," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 106, iss. 33, p. 13685, 2009.

P. Stansell, K. Stratford, J. -C. Desplat, R. Adhikari, and M. E. Cates, "Nonequilibrium steady states in sheared binary fluids," Physical Review Letters, vol. 96, p. 085701, 2006

R. Adhikari, K. Stratford, M. E. Cates, and A. J. Wagner, "Fluctuating lattice Boltzmann," Europhysics Letters, vol. 71, iss. 3, pp. 473-479, 2005.

K. Stratford, R. Adhikari, I. Pagonabarraga, J-C. Desplat, and M. E. Cates, "Colloidal jamming at interfaces: a route to fluid-bicontinuous gels.," Science, vol. 309, iss. 5744, p. 2198, 2005.