Associate Professor

Address : Physics Dept, IIT Bombay, Powai, 400076, Mumbai, India
Email: asain@phy.iitb.ac.in , Telephone : +91-22-2576 7553
Fax : +91-22-2576 7552

MSc (5 year, integrated), IIT Kanpur, India (1993).
PhD, IISc Bangalore, India (1999). Adviser: Prof. Rahul Pandit.
PDF, Simon Fraser Univ, Canada (1999-2000), with Prof. Michael Wortis.
Industrial Research in Hindustan Lever Res. Centre, Mumbai,India(2001).
PDF, Waterloo Univ, Canada (2002), with Prof. Jeff Chen.
PDF, McGill Univ, Canada (2003), with Prof. Martin Grant.
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Current Research:
1. Biophysics of bacterial cell division.
2. Mechanics and hydrodynamic interaction in biopolymers.
3. Grain growth and recrystallization in polycrystalline material, using phase field model.

Earlier Research:
1. Phase separation kinetics in Binary Fluids.
2. Breakage of weak bonds in extended objects (Multidimensional Kramers escape).
3. Conformational fluctuations of single stranded DNA.
4. Fluid Turbulence.

Funding:
Dept.Sc.Tech.(DST, India)
TATA Steel (India)

At IIT Bombay, India.
Advanced Statistical Physics (PH542): Autumn 2011
Electricity and Magnetism (Ph103): Spring 2008.
Nonlinear Dynamics (PH542; UG, MSc elective course) : Spring 2006,2007.
Statistical Physics (EP320, UG core course): Spring 2004,2005.
Statistical Physics (PH507, MSc core course): Fall 2006.
Continuum Mechanics (EP323, UG core course): Fall 2004,2005,2007.

At McGill University, Canada.
Classical Mechanics (Phys451B, UG Physics Hon. course): Spring 2003.

Santidan Biswas (PhD,3rd yr)
Surya K. Ghosh (Integrated MSc-PhD,4th yr)
Kulveer Singh (Integrated MSc-PhD,3rd yr)

1. Force generation in bacteria without nucleotide-dependent bending of cytoskeletal filaments. - Biplab Ghosh and Anirban Sain, Phys. Rev. E., 83, 051924 (2011).

2. Coarsening in polycrystalline material using Quaternions. - Santidan Biswas, Indradev Samajdar, Arunansu Haldar and Anirban Sain, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 23,072202 (2011) (Fast track comm.) (included in IOP SELECT).

3. Effect of hydrodynamic interaction on polymeric tethers.- Suman G. Das, Dimitri Pescia, Mithun Biswas and Anirban Sain, Phys. Rev. E 82, 041910 (2010). (selected for the October 15, 2010 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research); highlighted by Nature-India.

4. Effect of Intrinsic Curvature on Semiflexible Polymers. -Surya K. Ghosh, Kulveer Singh and Anirban Sain, Phys.Rev.E 80, 051904 (2009). (selected for the Nov 15th, 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research).

5. Predicting the coherence resonance curve using a semianalytic treatment. - Santidan Biswas, Dibyendu Das, Punit Parmananda and Anirban Sain, Phys.Rev.E 80, 046220 (2009).

6. Self-organization of the MinE protein ring in subcellular Min oscillations. -Julien Derr, Jason T. Hopper, Anirban Sain, and Andrew D. Rutenberg, Phys.Rev.E 80, 011922 (2009). (selected for the Aug 1st, 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research)

7. Origin of contractile force during cell division of bacteria. -Biplab Ghosh and Anirban Sain, Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 178101 (2008); highlighted by Nature-India .
http://www.nature.com/nindia/2008/081111/full/nindia.2008.317.html.
(selected for the Nov 1st, 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research)

8. Effect of hydrodynamic interaction on partially stretched polymers.- Anirban Sain, Phys.Rev.E, 77, 061603 (2008). (selected for the July 1st, 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research).

9. Microscopic strain distribution profile in a 1-D chain during rupture - a many body Kramers calculation. -Anirban Sain, Cristiano Dias, and Martin Grant, Phys.Rev.E, 74, 046111 (2006). (selected for the Nov 1st, 2006 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research).

10. Review of Resistance to Hydriding in Zirconium - An Emerging Possibility - K.V. Mani Krishna, A. Sain, I. Samajdar, G.K. Dey, D. Srivastava, S. Neogi, R. Tiwari and S. Banerjee, Acta Materialia, 54, 4665(2006).

11. Effect of base stacking interaction in heterogeneous single stranded DNA. - Anirban Sain, Bae-Yeun Ha, and Jeff.Z.Y. Chen, Physica-A, 369,679, (2006).

12. Phase ordering kinetics of a binary fluid mixture in the inertia dominated regime.- Anirban Sain, and Martin Grant, Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 255702 (2005).

13. Chain persistency in single stranded DNA - effect of stacking interactions. - Anirban Sain, Bae-Yeun Ha, Heng-Kwong Tsao and Jeff.Z.Y. Chen , Phys. Rev. E, 69, 061913, (2004).

14. The Influence of tether dynamics on forced Kramers escape from a kinetic trap. - Anirban Sain and Michael Wortis, Phys. Rev. E, 70, 031102, (2004). (selected for the September 15, 2004 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research).

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