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
- Feb 2019: Nick and Kinjal's paper on screening in dense ionic liquids gets included in the JCP Editors' choice 2018 collection !
- Feb 2019: Group welcomes a new postdoc! Yuqing Qiu will be a joint postdoc along with the Dinner group. Welcome Yuqing !
- Jan 2019: Clara's paper on interfacial fluctuations in driven liquids get picked to be highlighted as an Editor's pick !
- Jan 2019: Clara gets a poster prize for her poster describing her work on oscillations in non-equilibrium biochemical networks. Congrats Clara !
- Jan 2019: Suri gave a talk on dissipation induced transitions in membranes at the Berkeley Statistical Mechanics Meeting
- December 2018: The group was just awarded the NSF CAREER award!
- October/November 2018: Suri visited UMD (Stat Phys seminar), UCSD, Utah (Chemsitry Seminars), MIT (Biophysics seminar) and Northwestern (Applied Math Seminar).
- 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