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At Cafés Sciences, École Centrale Paris, June 2010 |
At Norwegian Univ Sc Tech, Trondheim August 2007 |
At Econophys-Kolkata I, SINP, March 2005 |
Namaskar! This is Bikas. My brief CV is as follows: Born in Dec. 1952, in Calcutta, to Bimal K. Chakrabarti and Pratima Chakrabarti. Got my Ph. D. Degree from Calcutta University in 1979. Married to Mrs. Kaberi Chakrabarti. Have two sons: Kalyan-Sundar Chakrabarti and Anindya-Sundar Chakrabarti.
I have professional interest in statistical physics, condensed matter physics, computational physics, and their application to social sciences. See my papers, reviews or books.
At present, Sr. Professor of Physics, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata and Visiting Professor of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Authored/co-authored more than 150 papers in refereed journals, 5 reviews (Eur. Phys. J. B, Phys. Rep., 3 Rev. Mod. Phys.), 2 books (Oxford Univ. Press, Springer), edited/co-edited 12 books (Allied, 2 Elsevier, 8 Springer, Wiley-VCH) and initiated, along with colleagues, the conference series: STATPHYS-KOLKATA in 1992 [Procs. in Physica A, Elsevier: I: Vol. 186 (1992), II: Vol. 224 (1996), III: Vol. 270 (1999), IV: Vol. 318 (2003), V: Vol. 346 (2005), VI: Vol. 384 (2007)] and ECONOPHYS-KOLKATA in 2005 [Procs. in New Economic Windows series, Springer: I (2005), II (2006), III (2007), IV (2010)].
A few representative (review) Papers :
♦ Dynamic Transitions and Hysteresis (with M. Acharyya), Rev. Mod.
Phys. 71 (1999) 847 ♦ Kinetic Exchange Models for
Income and Wealth Distributions (with A. Chatterjee), Eur. Phys. J.
B 60 (2007) 135 ♦ Quantum Annealing and Analog Quantum
Computations (with A. Das), Rev. Mod. Phys. 80 (2008) 1061
♦ Failure Processes in Elastic Fiber Bundles
(with S. Pradhan & A. Hansen), Rev. Mod. Phys. 82 (2010) 499.
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Books : ♦ Quantum Ising Phases & Transitions in Transverse
Ising Models (with A. Dutta & P. Sen), Springer (1996) ♦
Statistical
Physics of Fracture & Breakdown in Disordered Systems
(with L. G. Benguigui),
Oxford (1997).
Supervised Ph.D. theses of: S. S. Manna (1987) * A. K. Roy (1988) * P. Ray (1989) * M. Ghosh (1992) * P. Raychaudhuri (Sen) (1993) * K. Barat (1995) * M. Acharyya (1996) * A. Dutta (2000) * P. Bhattacharyya (2000) * A. Misra (2001) * A. Chakraborti (2003) * S. Pradhan (2005) * A. Chatterjee (2008) * A. Das (2008).
Citations of our work include: ♦ Editorial of Topical Issue on Physics in Society, The European Physical Journal B, Vol 57 (2007) pp 121-125, incorporating 2 of ours, in an Editorial Choice-list of 21 "exemplifying pioneering" publications (earliest in 1872) in "Economy & Political Economy"; ♦ Discussions on "pioneering" papers from "Chakrabarti's research group" (p 187; pp 185-206) in Applied Partial Differential Equations (by P A Markowich) Springer, Berlin (2007); ♦ Entry on Econophysics in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Ed., Vol 2, Macmillan, NY (2008), pp 729-732, beginning with "According to Bikas Chakrabarti (...), the term 'econophysics' was neologized in 1995 at the second Statphys-Kolkata conference in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India ..." ; ♦ Discussions on "influential" papers (p. 2803) from "Kolkata School" (p. 2808; pp. 2800-2826; see also pp. 2792-2800) in Encyclopedia of Complexity & System Science, Vol. 3, Springer, New York (2009) ♦ News & Views on Computing: quantum to classical & back, Nature Physics, Vol 3, pp 593-4 (2007); Commentry on Economics crisis, Nature Physics, Vol 5, pp 2-3 (2009); ♦ Discussions on "influential" (p. 1705) & "elegant" (p. 1711) papers from "Kolkata School" (p. 1711) in Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 81 (2009) pp. 1703-1725.
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