B.Sc in Physics at Presidency College Calcutta

M. A. and D. Phil. in Physics at Oxford as India's second woman Rhodes scholar

Research associateships held in IBM New York and the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge

Currently Professor in Theoretical Physics at the S.N. Bose National Centre , Calcutta.

On Editorial Board of Granular Matter and CHAOS.

Awarded the Stree Shakti award for the Woman Scientist of the year 2004.

Elected as Radcliffe Fellow to Harvard in 2006-7.

Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (2007).

Research interests

 

My current research is focused on complexity in natural as well as intelligent systems. In the category of natural systems, my focus remains granular physics, with an emphasis on heterogeneities (static and dynamical), nucleation phenomena in compaction and surface dynamics. In the category of intelligent systems, I am trying to understand memory storage and preservation, with special reference to the differentiation between long- and short-term memories. Other areas in which I've worked recently are game-theoretic models of strategic learning, network dynamics and their role in risk minimisation, optimal encodings on landscapes for NP-complete problems, zero-temperature dynamics in constrained systems, and the design and analysis of experiments on perception.