Abstracts - Statphys iitg 2008

Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee	*Inaugural Lecture: Physics of Rare Events*

Attilio L. Stella	*Key Note Lecture to the Conference*

Deepak Dhar	*Concluding Lecture*

Biology Inspired Physics
Mustansir Barma
S. M. Bhattacharjee	*DNA Phase Transitions*	L1, L11
Indrani Bose	*Development of heterogeneity in a genetically identical bacterial population*	L2, L12
Marcel Filoche	*Diffusion of gases into the lung: how physics can help to understand physiology*	T8
Sarika Mehra	*A bistable gene switch for antibiotic Initiation*	T9
Ram Ramaswamy	*Synchronization of stochastic oscillators*	T10
A. Sain	*Origin of contractile force during cell division of bacteria*	T11
Rahul Siddharthan	*PhyloGibbs-MP: what DNA sequence tells us about gene regulation*	T12
Somdata Sinha	*Synchronization in Multi-cell Systems*

Soft Condensed Matter
Ronojoy Adhikari	*Jamming at fluid-fluid interfaces: a route to bicontinuous nano-gels*	T2
K. G. Ayappa	*Time correlation functions and its applications in confined systems*	L3, L13
Jaydeb Chakrabarti	*Density mode instability in a nonpolar fluid*	T3
Hans Fogedby	*Growth and Pattern Formation in the Kardar Parisi Zhang equation*	T1
Kavita Jain	*Adaptation dynamics of the quasispecies model*	T4
Sanjay Kumar	*Conformational properties of polymers*	L4, L14
Mangal Mahato	*Motional dispersions and ratchet effect in inertial systems*	T5
K. P. N. Murthy	*Density of States of Interacting Self Avoiding Walks*	T6

Complex Networks
Ravindra E. Amritkar	*Multicluster Synchronization & Glassy states of coupled dynamical systems*	L5, L15
Niloy Ganguly	*Measuring Robustness of Peer to Peer Networks*	T18
Neelima Gupte	*Transport, congestion and traps in a communication network*	T15
K. Kaski	*Emergence of Communities in Weighted Social Networks*	T16
Parongama Sen	*Searching dynamics on networks: a new perspective and results*	T17
Sitabhra Sinha	*The Importance of Being Modular: Emergence and Utility of Modular Structure in Complex Networks*	T14
Bing-Hong Wang	*What Is The Best Routing Strategy For Future Communication Networks?*	L6, L16

Econophysics
Bikas K. Chakrabarti	*Econophysics of Income & Wealth Distributions*	L7, L17
Anirban Chakraborti	*Methods in Econophysics: Successes and Failures*	T21
Janos Kertesz	*Correlations on the stock market & Fluctuation scaling in complex systems: Taylor's law and beyond*	L8, L18
Pradeep K. Mohanty	*Modeling ideal-gas like markets*	T22
S. Thurner	*From games to solvable spin models on networks*	T23

Statistical Physics of Materials
Kamal Bardhan	*Nature of electrical breakdown in disordered systems*	T25
Amit Dutta	*Critical behaviour of random fibers with a mixed uniform distribution*	T26
Alex Hansen	*The Cross-Flow Instability in Porous Media*	T27
Purusattam Ray	*Statistical Physics of Fracture*	L9, L19
Surajit Sengupta	*Microstructure Selection in Materials*	L10, L20
Subodh R Shenoy	*Strain textures and dynamics in complex elastic solids*	T28
Prabodh Shukla	*Random Fields in Materials*	T29