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Professional
Experience:
 Post
Doctoral Research
Associate, Institute of Theoretical Science & Department
of
Chemistry,
University of Oregon, 2005-current.
Research
Associate, Condensed Matter Theory Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre
for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India (2004 -
05).
Education:
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Degree
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University,
Year
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B.Sc.
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University
of Calcutta, Calcutta, India. 1995.
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M.Sc.
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University
of Calcutta, Calcutta, India. 1997.
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Ph.D
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Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore, India. 2004.
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Honors
and
Awards:
National
Merit Scholarship: Awarded by Department of
Education,
Government of West
Bengal, India,
on the basis of Higher Secondary Exam. result
(1992).
National
Merit Scholarship: Awarded by Department
of Education, Ministry of Human
Resource
Development,
Government of India,
on the basis of B. Sc. Exam. result (1995).
Graduate
Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE '97): Conducted
by Indian Institute of
Technology, Percentile Score:
99.24, All India
Rank -12.
Junior
Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Lectureship: Awarded
by Council
of Scientific
and
Industrial
Research, New Delhi, India (1997-99)
on the basis of an all India Examination.
Senior
Research Fellowship: Awarded
by the Council
of Scientific and Industrial Research,
New
Delhi, India
(1999-2002)
on the basis of research done as Junior Research Fellow.
Selected
for Gordon-Kenan
Graduate Research Seminar on Molecular Energy Transfer
in
Buellton California, USA, Jan. 8-9 2005.
Selected
for poster presentation at
the Gordon
Research Conference on Molecular Energy
Transfer
in Buellton
California, USA, Jan. 10-14 2005.
Selected
for poster presentation at the Gordon
Research Conference on Chemical Reactions
at
Surfaces in Ventura Beach
Marriott Ventura, CA, USA, February 13-18, 2005.
Selected
at ACS PRF Summer
School on
Computation, Simulation and Theory in Chemistry,
Chemical Biology,
and
Materials Chemistry, June 11-18, 2005 in Park City, Utah, USA.
Selected
for travel grant from the organizers of ACS PRF Summer
School on Computation,
Simulation, and
Theory in Chemistry, Chemical Biology
and
Materials Chemistry, June11-18,
2005 in Park
City, Utah, USA.
Selected
for travel grant from Council
of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India
for poster
presentation at
the Gordon
Research Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer
in Buellton
California, USA, Jan. 10-14 2005.
Selected
for travel grant from Department
of Science and Technology, Government of India
for poster
presentation at
the Gordon
Research Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer
in Buellton
California, Jan. 10-14 2005.
Conferences
and Symposia:
Theoretical Chemistry 2000, Department
of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur, India, 2000.
Indo-French
Workshop on "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology", Indian Institute of
Science,
Bangalore, India, October, 2004.
DAE-BRNS
Symposium on
Theoretical
Chemistry, Bhaba
Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai,
India,
December, 2004.
Indo-Japan
Students Symposium, Department
of Inorganic
& Physical Chemistry, Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore, India,
February, 2005.
Discussion
Meeting on Advances
in
Spectroscopy, Department
of Inorganic
& Physical
Chemistry, Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore, February,
2005.
Telluride Workshop on complexity of
dynamics and kinetics in many dimension,
Camel's Garden Resort
Hotel, Telluride Summer Research Center, Telluride, CO,
USA, August
13-24, 2007.
Research
Experiences:
Single
molecule transistor,
buckled nano rod, electron solvation, curve crossing
problems,
wave packet
dynamics involving conical
intersection,
divergent free WKB approximation,
solvent effect
on
resonace Raman excitation profile, surface enhanced resonance
raman
scattering, surface enhanced
IR spectra, depinning of dislocation, spontaneous bond
breaking, nonadiabatic effects on
quantum scattering,
isomerizing coupled stretch-bend
system, kinetically coupled Morse oscillators etc.
Publications:
Chaos in molecular vibrations:
A. Chakraborty [to be submitted to Resonance].
Effective Hamiltonian for
Chaotic Coupled Oscillators
A. Chakraborty & M. E. Kellman, [manuscript under preparation]
(Full paper).
Effective Hamiltonian for
Chaotic Coupled Oscillators
A. Chakraborty & M. E. Kellman, J. Chem. Phys. 129, 171104 (2008)
[Communication].
Dynamics of
vibrational excitation in the Fullerene single molecule transistor:
A. Chakraborty, K. Kumar & K. L. Sebastian,
Phys. Rev. B 68, 085411 (2003).
[This paper has been selected for
publication in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology].
Buckled nano rod: A
two state system and its dynamics:
A. Chakraborty, S. Bagchi & K. L. Sebastian , J. Comput. Theor.
Nanosci. 4, 504
(2007).
Buckled nano rod: A
two state system and quantum effects on its dynamics
A. Chakraborty, Mol. Phys. (2009)
[Under revision].
Curve crossing effects
on absorption and resonance Raman spectra:
Analytical treatment for a delta-function coupling
in parabolic potentials.
A. Chakraborty, Mol. Phys. 107, 165 (2009).
Multichannel curve
crossing problems - An analytically solvable model:
A. Chakraborty, Mol. Phys. (2009) [Under revision].
Multichannel
scattering
problems - An analytically solvable model:
A. Chakraborty (to be submitted).
A continuum
approach to electron solvation by a layer of polar adsorbates:
K. L. Sebastian, A. Chakraborty & M. Tachiya, J.
Chem. Phys. 119, 10350 (2003).
The dynamics of
solvation of an electron in the image potential state by a layer of
polar adsorbates: K. L. Sebastian, A.
Chakraborty & M. Tachiya, J. Chem. Phys. 123,
214704 (2005). [This paper has been selected for
publication in the Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science].
Presentations:
Seminars:
What
is Decoherence?
Departmental
Seminar,
Department of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry,
Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore, India,
September, 1998.
Time
dependent theory of resonance Raman spectroscopy.
Departmental
Seminar,
Department of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry,
Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore, India,
January, 1999.
Dynamics
of vibrational excitation in
the Fullerene single molecule transistor. [presentation]
Inhouse
Symposium, Department of
Inorganic & Physical Chemistry,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India,
July, 2002.
Dynamics
of some nano devices
and 2D electron solvation.
[presentation]
Ph.D
colloquium,
Department of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry,
Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore, India, 29 August, 2003.
A
continuum approach to electron solvation by
a layer of polar adsorbates. [presentation]
Indo-Japan
Students
Symposium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India,
February, 2005.
Dynamics
of vibrational excitation in
the Fullerene single molecule transistor. [presentation]
ITS seminar, Institute
of Theoretical Science, University of Oregon, USA, July, 2005.
Posters:
Curve crossing problem - an
analytically solvable model. [poster]
Theoretical
Chemistry 2000, Department
of Chemistry,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India,
December,
2000.
A
continuum approach to electron solvation by a layer
of polar adsorbates. [poster]
Inhouse
Symposium, Department of
Inorganic & Physical Chemistry,
Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore,
India, May, 2003.
Buckled nano rod: two state system
and its dynamics. [poster]
DAE-BRNS
Symposium on
Theoretical Chemistry, Bhaba Atomic Research Centre,
Mumbai,
India, December, 2004.
A continuum approach to electron
solvation by a layer of polar adsorbates. [poster]
Discussion
Meeting on Advances in Spectroscopy, Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore,
India, February,
2005.
Computational
skills:
Platforms:
Windows,
UNIX & Linux.
Languages:
Fortran
& C.
Software: LaTeX, Axum,
Origin, Sigmaplot,
Mathematica, Matlab & Maple.
'Simulation' experiences:
Method
of images, wave
packet dynamics involving a
conical intersection, Feynman-
Kleinert variational
method for calculating 'centroid' partition function, Dirac-Frenkel
variational
method
for solving time dependent Schrodinger equation, Raman
excitation profile and
electronic absorption spectrum using Green's
function, Poincare
surface of section, inverse
eigenvalue problem,
bifurcation
analysis.
'Analytical'
experiences:
Path
integrals, Green's function, instability theory and many body methods
in quantum
mechanics.
Professional affiliations:
American
Physical Society.
American
Chemical Society.
International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry (IUPAC).
References:
Prof. M. E. Kellman
Department
of Chemistry, University
of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA.
e-mail: kellman@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Prof. K. L. Sebastian
Department
of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, India.
e-mail: kls@ipc.iisc.ernet.in
Prof. E. Arunan
Department
of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, India.
e-mail: arunan@ipc.iisc.ernet.in
Dr. S. S. Z.
Adnan
University College of
Science and Technology, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India.
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