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
- Sept 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 !
- July 2018: Suri gives a talk on dissipation induced phase transitions @Telluride !
- July 2018: Kinjal accepts faculty position @ UC Merced ! Congrats Kinjal !!
- June 2018: Nick's new paper on a lattice model for ionic liquids has been submitted !
- May 2018: Suri gives a talk on Topological modes in non-equilibrium systesm at a workshop on topological protection in messy systesm @GeorgiaTech!
- April 2018: Suri gives a talk on non-equilibrium self-assembly @Brandeis!
- March 2018: Michael's new paper has been posted !
- March 2018: Clara's new paper has been posted !
- February 2018: New paper in collaboration with Vincenzo Vitelli's group posted !
- February 2018: Clara and Laura's paper on energy flows in driven liquids has been accepted for publication at PNAS, congrats !
- Feburary 2018: Suri gives a talk at a symposium on non-equilibrium dynamics and information processing at Okinawa.
- January 2018: Suri gives a talk at Active Matter Session at UC Berkeley.
- October 2017: Clara awarded Arts, Science and Culture Fellowship. Congratulations!
- August 2017: Nick gives talk at the Gordon Research Seminar accompanying the GRC Liquids meeting
Postdoctoral positions available. Email svaikunt@uchicago.edu for details