Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Bulbul Chakraborty is the Enid and Nate Ancell Professor of Physics at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on theory of soft condensed matter. She obtained her doctorate from Stony Brook University with a thesis on superconductivity. Her early work focused on strongly correlated electronic systems, including high Tc superconductors. Her recent research has focused on developing a statistical mechanics framework for granular media and other disordered systems that are non-thermal. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society.

Statistical and Non-linear Physics: Introduction.- Complex Systems and Emergent Phenomena.- Polymer Physics.- Chaotic Dynamics in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics.- Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics.- Nonlinear Fluid Flow, Pattern Formation, Mixing, and Turbulence.- Fluid Dynamics in Clouds.- Collective Transport and Depinning.- Disordered Elastic Media.- Physics of Jerky Motion in Slowly Driven Magnetic and Earthquake Fault Systems.- Flexible mechanical structures and their topologically protected deformations.- A Statistical Mechanics Perspective on Glasses and Aging.- Stress Localization in Soft Particulate Gels.- Nonlinear Mechanics of Colloidal Gels: Creep, Fatigue, and Shear-Induced Yielding.- Statistical physics of the yielding transition.- Granular Flows.- Statistical Mechanics of Clogging.- Jamming of Granular Matter.- Rigidity Percolation and Frictional Jamming