Rahul Pandit

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Rahul Pandit was born on 22 April 1956 in the Indian capital of New Delhi.{{Cite web |url=http://www.physics.iisc.ernet.in/~rahul/cvrahul.pdf |title=Biographical Information |date=2017-10-19 |website=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=2017-10-19}} After early schooling, he did his under-graduate studies as a National Talent Search scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and continued there to earn an MS in physics in 1977. Subsequently, he moved to the US and obtained a second master's degree in physics in 1979 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His doctoral studies under the guidance of Michael Wortis were also at the same institution, to secure a PhD in 1982. After completing his post-doctoral studies at Cornell University in 1983, he returned to India to join the Indian Institute of Science as a research associate in 1984.{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/P06-1418 |title=Indian fellow |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2017-10-17}}

Pandit has been serving out his career at IISc ever since. He has held several positions at the institute such as those of a research scientist (1985–90), assistant professor (1990–96) and associate professor (1996–2002) until he became a professor in 2002,{{Cite web |url=http://www.physics.iisc.ernet.in/~rahul/ |title=Profile on IISc |date=2017-10-19 |website=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=2017-10-19}} a position he holds until date along with the chair of the Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the institute.{{Cite web |url=http://www.iisc.ac.in/about/administration/divisional-chairs/ |title=Divisional Chairs |date=2017-10-19 |website=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=2017-10-19}} In between, he chaired the International Relations Cell of IISc and the Theoretical Sciences Unit of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) during 2002–08 and served as a member of the Condensed Matter Theory Unit of JNCASR until 2012. A three-year stint as an adjunct professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research during 2009–12 was another position he has held. His current responsibilities include the MSIL Chair Professorship of IISc and Honorary Professorship of JNCASR. He has also been a visiting professor at various institutions such as Ohio State University, University of Missouri, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Côte d'Azur Observatory and École Normale Supérieure.

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Pandit has been focusing his work on the problems related to phase transitions, statistical mechanics and non-linear dynamics,{{cite book|author=Asoke Nath Mitra|title=India in the World of Physics: Then and Now|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hRLPM6s7hWAC&pg=PA190|year=2009|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-1579-6|pages=190–}} Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation and Complex-Ginzburg-Landau equations.{{Cite web |url=http://www.physics.iisc.ernet.in/~rahul/research.html |title=Research Interests |date=2017-10-19 |website=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=2017-10-19}} His contributions reportedly include theoretical elucidation of multilayer-adsorption and wetting phenomena on attractive substrates and the scaling properties of quasiperiodic Schroedinger operators. He is known to have developed a a theory of hysteresis loops in model spin systems{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=227 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-10-17}} and a cardiac arrhythmias model and his studies have assisted in a wider understanding of low-amplitude defibrillation schemes and cardiac arrhythmias. Glass formation in soft condensed matter systems,{{Cite web |url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |access-date=2017-10-17}} interacting bosons, colossal magnetoresistance manganites and complex fluids have been some of his other interests. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rahul_Pandit4 |title=On ResearchGate |date=2017-10-17 |access-date=2017-10-17}}{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=75RHOJQAAAAJ&hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Google Scholar |access-date=2017-10-17}}{{Refn|group=note|Please see Selected bibliography section}} and the online article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 79 of them.{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Pandit=3ARahul=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-10-17}} Besides, he has mentored 15 research scholars in their doctoral studies.

Pandit was involved, in the capacity of the secretary of the organizing committee, in the organization of STATPHYS 22 the international statistical physics conference of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics held at the IISc campus in 2004.{{Cite web |url=http://www.physics.iisc.ernet.in/~statphys22/ |title=STATPHYS 22 |date=2017-10-19 |website=Indian Institute of Physics |access-date=19 October 2017 |archive-date=31 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231140510/http://www.physics.iisc.ernet.in/~statphys22/ |url-status=dead }} He is the secretary of the C3 Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics{{Cite web |url=http://iupap.org/commissions/c3-commission-on-statistical-physics/members/ |title=C3-Officers |date=2017-10-19 |website=the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics |access-date=2017-10-19}} and has held the chair of IUPAP national committee in India. He is a former divisional associate editor of Physical Review Letters journal (2004–10) and a former member of the editorial advisory board of Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications of Elsevier (2001–07). He is a member of the divisional committee of the Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) program of the Department of Science and Technology{{Cite web |url=http://www.inspire-dst.gov.in/ |title=INSPIRE divisional chair persons |date=2017-10-19 |website=Department of Science and Technology |access-date=2017-10-19}} and sits on the editorial board of Cambridge IISc Series, a publishing collaboration between the Indian Institute of Science and Cambridge University Press India.{{Cite web |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/cambridge-iisc-series/472253A39B5BB5646065F732FF7F2E66 |title=Cambridge IISc Series |date=2017-10-19 |website=Cambridge University Press India |access-date=2017-10-19}} He has delivered invited speeches at various conferences including the International Symposium on Fluid Days held in December 2007–January 2008.{{cite book|author=Connie Malamed|title=Visual Language for Designers: Principles for Creating Graphics that People Understand|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yUalr7fhZMEC&pg=PA97|date=October 2011|publisher=Rockport Publishers|isbn=978-1-59253-741-9|pages=97–}}

Pandit, who was a National Talent Search scholar during his early college days (1972–77), stood first in his Physics for his graduate examination in 1977. While at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he held the Exxon Fellowship and on his return to India, he was a Young Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences. He received the Young Scientist Medal of the Indian National Science Academy in 1988.{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/youngmedal.php |title=INSA Young Scientists Medal |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2017-10-17 |archive-date=11 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511084357/https://www.insaindia.res.in/youngmedal.php |url-status=dead }} The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2001.{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/careeraward/prize-winner-indexdiscipline-wise |title=CSIR list of Awardees |date=2017 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research}} He was selected for the Meghnad Saha Award by the University Grants Commission in 2004 and the Indian Institute of Science chose him for the Professor Rustom Choksi Award.{{Cite web |url=http://www.iisc.ac.in/institute-awards/prof-rustom-choksi-award-for-excellence-in-research-in-scienceengineering/ |title=Professor Rustom Choksi Award |date=2017-10-19 |website=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=2017-10-19}} His alma mater, IIT Delhi selected him as the Distinguished Alumunus in 2010.{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitd.ac.in/convocation/2010/DAA_Pandit.pdf |title=Distinguished Alumni Award |date=2017-10-19 |website=IIT Delhi |access-date=2017-10-19}}

Pandit, a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi, was elected as a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1996.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Pandit,_Prof._Rahul |title=Fellow profile |date=2017 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}} A decade later, the Indian National Science Academy elected him as their fellow{{Cite web |url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |title=INSA Year Book 2016 |date=2017 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy}} and he became an elected fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2015.{{Cite web |url=https://twas.org/member/pandit-rahul |title=TWAS fellow |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-10-17}} American Physical Society awarded him Outstanding Referee citation to him in 2012 for his work on Physical Review and Physical Review Letters journals. The award orations delivered by him include 2007 DAE Raja Ramanna Award Lecture on The mathematical modelling of cardiac arrhythmias of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research.{{Cite web |url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/blank_page.php/DAE--Raja-Ramanna-Lecture-in-Physics/68/1/ |title=Raja Ramanna Award Lecture |date=2017-10-19 |website=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research |access-date=2017-10-19}} He has also been holding J. C. Bose National Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology since 2007.

• {{cite book|author=S. Dattagupta, H.R. Krishnamurthy, R. Pandit, T.V. Ramakrishnan, D. Sen (Editors)|title=Proceedings of the 22nd IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics (STATPHYS 22)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yt-0nQAACAAJ|year=2005|publisher= International Union of Pure and Applied Physics}}

• {{cite book|author1=M Lal|author2=R A Mashelkar, B D Kulkarni, V M Naik (Editors)|author3=Aswin Pande, Rahul Pandit (chapter authors)|title=Structure and Dynamics of Materials in the Mesoscopic Domain|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B2VtDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA94|date=1 October 1999|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-1-78326-350-9|pages=94–|chapter=Spatiotemporal Chaos in a Model or Co Oxidation on Pt(110)}}

• {{Cite journal |author1=Samriddhi Sankar Ray |author2=Dhrubaditya Mitra |author3=Rahul Pandit |title=The universality of dynamic multiscaling in homogeneous, isotropic Navier-stokes and passive-scalar turbulence |journal=New Journal of Physics |date=2008 |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=033003 |doi=10.1088/1367-2630/10/3/033003|bibcode=2008NJPh...10c3003S |doi-access=free }}
• {{Cite journal |author1=Prasad Perlekar |author2=Rahul Pandit |title=Statistically steady turbulence in thin films: direct numerical simulations with Ekman friction |journal=New Journal of Physics |date=2009 |volume=11 |issue=7 |pages=073003 |doi=10.1088/1367-2630/11/7/073003|bibcode=2009NJPh...11g3003P |doi-access=free }}
• {{Cite journal |author1=Prasad Perlekar |author2=Rahul Pandit |title=Turbulence-induced melting of a nonequilibrium vortex crystal in a forced thin fluid film |journal=New Journal of Physics |date=2010 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=023033 |doi=10.1088/1367-2630/12/2/023033|arxiv=0910.3096 |bibcode=2010NJPh...12b3033P |s2cid=26611984 }}
• {{Cite journal |author1=Prasad Perlekar |author2=Samriddhi Sankar Ray |author3=Dhrubaditya Mitra |author4=Rahul Pandit |title=Persistence problem in two-dimensional fluid turbulence |journal=Physical Review Letters |date=2011 |volume=106 |issue=5 |pages=054501 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.054501|pmid=21405401 |arxiv=1009.1494 |bibcode=2011PhRvL.106e4501P |s2cid=33997946 }}
• {{Cite journal |author1=J. M. Kurdestany |author2=R. V. Pai |author3=R. Pandit |title=The inhomogeneous extended Bose-Hubbard model: a mean-field theory |journal=Annalen der Physik |date=2012 |volume=524 |issue=3–4 |pages=234–244 |doi=10.1002/andp.201100274|bibcode=2012AnP...524..234K |arxiv=1201.6451 |s2cid=118596810 }}

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• {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rKYGoWr7lo |title=Dynamo onset as a first-order transition |last=Rahul Pandit |date=9 December 2015 |website=International Centre for Theoretical Sciences |format=YouTube vide |access-date=2017-10-19}}
• {{Cite web |url=http://www.physics.iisc.ernet.in/~rahul/publish.html |title=List of Publications |date=2017-10-19 |website=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=2017-10-19}}

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