Rahul Pandit was born on 22 April 1956 and is an Indian condensed matter physicist, a professor of physics and a divisional chair at the Indian Institute of Science.
16 Facts About Rahul Pandit
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Rahul Pandit was born on 22 April 1956 in the Indian capital of New Delhi.
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Rahul Pandit has been serving out his career at IISc ever since.
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Rahul Pandit has held several positions at the institute such as those of a research scientist, assistant professor and associate professor until he became a professor in 2002, a position he holds until date along with the chair of the Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the institute.
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Rahul Pandit has been a visiting professor at various institutions such as Ohio State University, University of Missouri, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Cote d'Azur Observatory and Ecole Normale Superieure.
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Rahul Pandit has been focusing his work on the problems related to phase transitions, statistical mechanics and non-linear dynamics, Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation and Complex-Ginzburg-Landau equations.
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Rahul Pandit is known to have developed a a theory of hysteresis loops in model spin systems and a cardiac arrhythmias model and his studies have assisted in a wider understanding of low-amplitude defibrillation schemes and cardiac arrhythmias.
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Rahul Pandit's studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and the online article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 79 of them.
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Rahul 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.
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Rahul Pandit is the secretary of the C3 Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics and has held the chair of IUPAP national committee in India.
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Rahul Pandit is a former divisional associate editor of Physical Review Letters journal and a former member of the editorial advisory board of Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications of Elsevier.
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Rahul Pandit is a member of the divisional committee of the Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research program of the Department of Science and Technology and sits on the editorial board of Cambridge IISc Series, a publishing collaboration between the Indian Institute of Science and Cambridge University Press India.
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Rahul Pandit, who was a National Talent Search scholar during his early college days, stood first in his Physics for his graduate examination in 1977.
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Rahul Pandit received the Young Scientist Medal of the Indian National Science Academy in 1988.
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Rahul Pandit 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.
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Rahul Pandit has been holding J C Bose National Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology since 2007.