Arjendu K. Pattanayak: Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor, Fall 2001 -- Spring 2007
  Department of Physics and Astronomy, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota.


• Instructor and Clinical Assistant Professor, July 1998 - Aug 2001
  Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas.


• Post-doctoral Fellow, Jan 1995 - Jun 1998 Chemical Physics Theory Group, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
  Topic: Signatures of chaos in classical and quantum phase-space distributions.
  Advisor: Paul Brumer, University Professor and Roel Buck-Weizmann Professor in Chemical Physics


• Ph.D. (Physics), Dec 1994 The University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
  Topic: Gaussian approximation methods in nonlinear quantum dynamics.
  Committee: Profs. D. Lippmann, I. Prigogine, L. Reichl, W. C. Schieve (advisor), J. Turner, R. Wyatt.


• Sc.M. (Physics), May 1988
  Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.


• B.Sc. (Physics), May 1986
  St. Stephen's College (Delhi University), Delhi, India.


• Sixth Annual Complex Systems Summer School, Jun 1993
  Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico

• Chaos; Hamiltonian chaos. 
• Nonlinear quantum systems; Quantum chaos; decoherence
• Stochastic processes; Nonlinear nonequilibrium statistical mechanics.

• Decoherence and the transition from quantum to classical behavior.
• Hamiltonian chaos with added noise: persistent states in fluid dynamics and Liouvillian dynamics.
• Chaos and entanglement
• Transport in nonlinear classical and quantum systems

Journals
1. ``Nonmonotonicity in the Quantum-Classical Transition: Chaos Induced by Quantum Effects," A. Kapulkin and A.K. Pattanayak, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101074101 (2008).


2. ``Controlling the Ratchet Effects for Cold Atoms," A. Kenfack, J.B. Gong, and A. Pattanayak, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 044104 (2008).


3. ``Bifurcations and suddent current change in ensembles of classically chaotic ratchets", A. Kenfack, S.M. Sweetnam, and A.K. Pattanayak, Phys. Rev. E. 75 056215 (2007).


4. ``Quantum entropy dynamics for chaotic systems beyond the classical limit", A. Gammal and A.K. Pattanayak, Phys. Rev. E 75, 036221 (2007).


5. ``Coarse-grained entropy decrease and phase-space focusing in Hamiltonian dynamics'', A.K. Pattanayak,D.W.C. Brooks, A. de la Fuente, L. Uricchio, E. Holby, D. Krawisz, and J.I. Silva, Phys. Rev. A 72, 013406 (2005).


6. ``Parameter Scaling in the Decoherent Quantum-Classical Transition for Chaotic Systems,'' A.K. Pattanayak, B.Sundaram, and B.D. Greenbaum, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 014103 (2003).


7. ``Pulse-induced focusing of Rydberg wave packets,'' D.G. Arbo, C .O. Reinhold, J. Burgdorfer, A.K. Pattanayak, C.L. Stokely, W. Zhao, J.C. Lancaster, and F.B. Dunning, Phys. Rev. A 67, 063401 (2003).


8. ``Non-Hermiticity in a kicked model: Decoherence and the semiclassical limit,'' I.I. Satija and A.K. Pattanayak, Phys. Rev. E 65, 045205(R) (2002).


9. "Transient phase-space localization", C.L. Stokely, F.B. Dunning, C.O. Reinhold and A.K. Pattanayak, Phys. Rev. A, 65, 021405(R) (2002).


10. ``Stabilizing an attractive Bose-Einstein condensate by driving a low-lying surface collective mode", A.K. Pattanayak, A. Gammal, C.A. Sackett and R.G. Hulet, Phys. Rev. A, 63, 033604 (2001).


11. ``Characterizing the metastable balance between chaos and diffusion", A.K. Pattanayak, Physica D, 148, 1 (2001).


12. ``Comment on Generalized Spectral Decomposition and Intrinsic Irreversibility of the Arnold Cat Map",  J. Wilkie, A.K. Pattanayak and P. Brumer, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 11, 1473 (2000).


13. ``Lyapunov exponents, entropy production and decoherence", A.K. Pattanayak, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4526 (1999).


14. ``Exponentially rapid decoherence in quantum chaotic systems",A.K. Pattanayak and P. Brumer, Phys.Rev.Lett. 79,4131 (1997).


15. ``Chaos and Lyapunov exponents in classical and quantal distribution dynamics", A.K. Pattanayak and P. Brumer, Phys.Rev.E 56, 5174 (1997).
    
    
16. ``Calculation of eigenvalues of a strongly chaotic system using Gaussian wavepacket dynamics", A.K. Pattanayak and W.C. Schieve, Phys. Rev. E 56, 278 (1997).


17. ``Predicting two dimensional Hamiltonian chaos",A.K. Pattanayak and W.C. Schieve, Z. Naturforsch. 52a, 34 (1997).
    


18. ``Exponential divergence and long time relaxation in chaotic quantum dynamics", A.K. Pattanayak and P. Brumer, Phys.Rev.Lett. 77, 59 (1996)


19. ``Gaussian effective potential: computation of eigenvalues",A.K. Pattanayak and W.C. Schieve, Phys. Rev. A 54, 947 (1996).


20. ``Semiquantal corrections to stochastic resonance", D.O. Reale, A.K. Pattanayak and W.C. Schieve, Phys. Rev. E 51, 2925 (1995).


21. ``Gaussian wave packet dynamics: semiquantal and semiclassical phase space formalism", A.K. Pattanayak and W.C. Schieve, Phys. Rev. E 50, 3601 (1994).
    


22. ``Semiquantal dynamics of fluctuations: ostensible quantum chaos", A.K. Pattanayak and W.C. Schieve, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 2855 (1994).


23. ``Effective potentials and chaos in quantum systems", A.K. Pattanayak and W.C. Schieve, Phys. Rev. A 46, 1821 (1992).

Proceedings Volumes

• ``Symmetry breaking through autocatalysis", D. Lippmann and A.K. Pattanayak, pg. 151,
  Physical Origin of Homochirality in Life, Ed. David B. Cline, AIP Press, Woodbury, New York (1996).


• ``Semiquantal and semiclassical dynamics & Chaos", A.K. Pattanayak and W.C. Schieve, pg. 369, Proceedings of the Fourth Drexel Symposium on Quantum Non-Integrability , Eds. B.-L. Hu and D.-H. Feng (International Publishers, Boston, 1996).


• ``Blood coagulation is a complex system", M. Hoffman, W. Fortin, A.K. Pattanayak and D. Monroe, pg. 487, Lecture Notes of the 1993 Complex Systems Summer School, Eds. D. Stein and L. Nadel, (Addison-Wesley, 1995).


• ``Cellular automata with changing radii: a model for intraspecific competition in plant populations", A.K. Pattanayak and A. Hübler, pg. 543, Lecture Notes of the 1993 Complex Systems Summer School, Eds. D. Stein and L. Nadel, (Addison-Wesley, 1995).



Non-technical

• Review of Chet Raymo's ``The Path: A One Mile Walk Through The Universe",
  Science Books and Films (AAAS)
• Review of F. David Peat's ``The Black-winged Night: Creativity in Nature and Mind ", 
  Science Books and Films (AAAS), 37, 72 (Mar/Apr 2001).
• Review of Bart Kosko's ``The Fuzzy Future: From Society and Science to Heaven in a Chip", 
  Science Books and Films (AAAS), 36, 167 (Jul/Aug 2000).
• Review of John Barrow's `` Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits", 
  Science Books and Films (AAAS), 34, 265 (Dec 1998).
• Review of David Deutsch's ``The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications",
  Science Books and Films (AAAS) 34, 106 (May 1998).
• Review of F. David Peat's ``Infinite Potential: The life and times of David Bohm", 
  Science Books and Films (AAAS) 33, 137 (July 1997).
  
 

Invited Colloquia:

Chaos, decoherence, and correspondence
• Department of Physics, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN (Nov 2005).
• Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA (Nov 2005).

Coherence and decoherence in nonlinear systems

• Department of Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX (Oct 2004).

Chaos and quantum chaos

• Department of Physics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (Apr 2000).
• Department of Physics, Washington University at St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (Nov 1999).
• Department of Physics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (Apr 1999).
• Department of Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX (Feb 1998).
• Department of Physics, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (Feb 1998).
• Department of Physics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (Jan 1997).
• Department of Physics, Williams College, Williamstown, MA (Jan 1998).

Mapping the quantum-classical transition for chaotic systems
• Department of Physics, University of Massachussets at Boston, Boston, MA (Feb 2007)
• Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology at Madras, Chennai, India (Nov 2006)

Careers at liberal arts colleges

• Panel presentation, Annual Meeting of National Society of Black Physicists/National Society of Hispanic Physicists, Boston, MA (Feb 2007)

Chaos, decoherence, and correspondence

• Workshop on Chaos, Fidelity and Decoherence, Centro Internacional de Ciencias, Cuernavaca, Mexico (Dec 2005)

Strategies for Research with Undergraduates

• Oberlin conference on Computation in the undergraduate arena, Oct 2005, Oberlin, OH

Persistent patterns in statistical mechanics

• SIAM (Snowbird) conference on Dynamical Systems, May 2005, Snowbird, UT
Coherence and decoherence in nonlinear Hamiltonian systems
• Max Planck Institut for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany (Apr 2005)
• Department of Physics, Technical University, Dresden, Germany (Apr 2005)
• Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (Oct 2004)
• Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, Orissa (Dec 2003)
• School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (Nov 2003)
• Gordon Conference on Nonlinear Science, Tilton, NH (Aug 2003)
• KITP workshop on Theory at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions, Santa Barbara, CA (July 2003)
• Herb Materials seminar, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (March 2003)
• Department of Physics, University of Texas, Austin, TX (March 2002)
• Department of Physics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (March 2002)

Lyapunov exponents in quantum systems

• Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC (Nov 2001).
• Fall meeting of Texas Section of the APS, Forth Worth, TX (Oct 2001).

Bose-Einstein condensates

• CECAM workshop on dynamics of attractive condensates, 'Ecole Normal Supérieure, Lyon, France (May 2000).
• Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (Mar 2000).

Classical chaos and quantum decoherence

• Department of Physics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (Apr 1999).
• Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (Feb 1999).
• Department of Physics, Rice University, Houston TX (Oct 1998).
• ITAMP Workshop on Quantum Nonintegrability, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, (May 1998). Presented by Paul Brumer.
• Department of Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont. (Dec 1997).
• Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. (Nov 1997).
• School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (Oct 1997).

Chaotic advection in fluid mixing

• Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. (Nov 1996).

Quantum-classical correspondence

• Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont (Oct 1996).
• Department of Physics, The University of Texas, Austin, TX (Mar 1996).

Gaussian approximations in nonlinear quantum systems

• Department of Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont. (Mar 1995).
• Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (Nov 1994).
• Theoretical Astrophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (Jun 1994).

• Gordon research conference on Nonlinear Dynamics, Tilton, NH, with Dan Brooks, Lawrence Uricchio, Edward Holby and Jorge Silva (Aug 2003)
• Workshop on Quantum coherence and control, Ann Arbor, MI (July 2002)
• DAMOP Annual meeting, Williamsburg, VA (2002).
• Gordon research conference on Nonlinear Dynamics, Mt. Holyoke, MA (July 2001)
• DAMOP Annual meeting, Storrs, CT (Jun 2000).
• Spring meeting of the Texas Section of the APS, College Station, TX (Mar 2000).
• Dynamics Days, Santa Fe, NM (Jan 2000)
• Fall meeting of the Texas Section of the APS, Austin, TX (Oct 1999).
• Gordon Research Conference on Soft Condensed Matter, Tilton, NH (July 1997).
• SIAM conference on Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah (May 1997).
• Quantum-Classical Correspondence: The 4th Drexel Symposium on Quantum Non-Integrability , Philadelphia, PA (Sept 1994).
• CNLS Conference on Quantum Complexity, Los Alamos, NM (May 1994).
• Dynamics Days, Tempe, AZ (Jan 1993).
• SIAM conference on Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah (Oct 1992).
• Spring meeting of the American Physical Society, San Antonio, TX (Jan 1991).
• Workshop in honor of Prof. E. C. G. Sudarshan, Austin, TX (Sept 1991).

Department of Physics, Rice University
Instructor, Fall 1998 - Summer 2001

• Asked to work on improving introductory large-enrollment courses.
• Participant at 'Revitalization of undergraduate physics' conference, Arlington VA (Oct 1998).
• Have introduced several innovations/improvements: 
• Peer-discussion of conceptual questions in large lectures
• Cooperative group problem-solving tutorial sessions
• Online quizzing
• Electronic discussion list and improved course web-pages
• Awarded grant ($15000) by Rice Information Technology and School of Natural Sciences for use in innovations.

• Fall 1998, Fall 1999, Fall 2000: Mechanics for scientists and engineers
  (primarily for freshmen, enrollment approx. 200, co-taught)
• Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001: Electricity & Magnetism for scientists and engineers
  (primarily for freshmen, enrollment approx. 200, co-taught)
• Spring 2000: Classical and quantum chaos 
  (primarily for seniors and graduate students)

• Assistant Instructor, Fall 1989 - Fall 1994
• Teaching Assistant, Fall 1988 - Spring 1989

• Head Teaching Assistant, Fall 1987 - Spring 1988 
• Teaching Assistant, Fall 1986 - Spring 1987.