Gautam I Menon
Professor
Computational Biology
Theoretical Physics
2254 3266
menon @ imsc . res . in
416 New Building
Research Interests:
- Biophysics and Computational biology, in particular nuclear architecture, axonal transport and cell adhesion
- Mathematical and computational modeling for infectious diseases
- Statistical mechanics of time-dependent phenomena
- Soft condensed matter physics, including polymers, colloids, membranes
Education:
- PhD Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- MSc IIT Kanpur
- BSc (Hons) St.Stephens College, Delhi
Career History:
- Visiting Fellow, TIFR, Mumbai, India
- Post-doctoral fellow and Sessional Instructor, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
- (Fellow, Reader, Professor) The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India (1998 - current)
- Visiting professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2011-2013)
Courses Taught:
- Classical Field Theory
- Physical Biology
- Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Modeling Infectious Diseases
- Statistical Mechanics
- Quantum Mechanics
- Classical Electrodynamics
Selected publications:
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Ankit Agrawal, Nirmalendu Ganai, Surajit Sengupta and Gautam I. Menon, "Chromatin as Active Matter", J. Stat. Mech. 014001 (2017)
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Nirmalendu Ganai, Surajit Sengupta and Gautam I. Menon, ``Chromosome Positioning from Activity-based Segregation'', Nucleic Acids Research 42 (7): 4145-4159 (2014)
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D.O.G Heron, S.J. Ray, S.J. Lister, C.M. Aegerter, H. Keller, P.H. Kes, Gautam I. Menon and S. L. Lee, ``Muon-Spin Rotation Measurements of an Unusual Vortex-Glass Phase in the Layered Superconductor Bi 2.15 Sr 1.85 Ca Cu O 8+ delta'', Phys. Rev. Lett, 110, 107004 (2013)
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P. Ranjith and Gautam I. Menon, ``Stretching and Bending Fluctuations of Short DNA Molecules'', Biophys. J, 104 463-471 (2013)
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Ankush Sengupta, Surajit Sengupta and Gautam I. Menon, ``Driven Disordered Polymorphic Solids: Phases and Phase Transitions, Dynamical Coexistence and Peak Effect Anomalies'', Phys Rev. B 81 144521 (2010)
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Gautam I. Menon and Sriram Ramaswamy, ``Universality Class of the Reversible-Irreversible Transitionin Sheared Suspensions'', Phys. Rev. E. 79 061108 (2009)
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Alvise de Col, Gautam I. Menon, Vadim Geshkenbein and Gianni Blatter, ``Surface Melting of the Vortex Lattice'',Phys. Rev. Lett., 96, 177001 (2006)
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P. Ranjith, P. B. Sunil Kumar and Gautam I. Menon, ``Distribution Functions, Loop Formation Probabilities and Force-Extension Relations in a Model for Short Double-Stranded DNA Molecules'', Phys. Rev. Lett., 94, 138102 (2005)
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Sumithra Sankararaman, Gautam I. Menon and P.B. Sunil Kumar, ``Self-organized Pattern Formation in Motor-Microtubule Mixtures'', Phys. Rev. E., 70, 031905 (2004)