Welcome to the Vaikuntanathan group webpage
We develop and use tools of equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics to understand the behavior of complex systems in physical chemistry, soft condensed matter physics, and biophysics. Specific research directions include: Statistical mechanics of driven systems and self assembly out of equilibrium, information processing and control in biology, and studies of aqueous fluctuations in heterogeneous environments with the goal of developing coarse grained models for efficient multiscale chemical and biophysical simulations.
Recent News
- September 2018: Suri gives a talk on stochastic thermodynamics of growing memrbanes @STET18, Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden. !
- August 2018: Suri gives a talk on dissipation induced phase transitions @ EIOSM2018, ICTS, Bengaluru !
- August 2018: New paper with Kim, Kinjal and Tom and Margaret has been posted !
- August 2018: New paper with Laura, Etienne and Takahiro has been posted !
- August 2018: Clara's new paper has been posted !
Postdoctoral positions available. Email svaikunt@uchicago.edu for details