FY2012 Annual Report

Collective Interactions Unit

Assistant Professor Mahesh Bandi

 

Ms. Sakurako Watanabe
OIST Graduate Student (lab rotation)

Mr. Ravi Shanker Singh
Visiting student from Brown University

Dr. Aryesh Mukherjee
Postdoctoral fellow
(jointly with Prof. Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama)
 
Dr. Jean -Francois Metayer
Postdoctoral Fellow
 
Dr. Tamoghna Das
Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Mahesh Bandi
Assistant Professor

 
Ms. Ayano Sakiyama
Group Administrator

 

 

 

Abstract

We are an experimental group with broad interests in soft matter physics, applied mathematics, mechanics, and their application to biologically inspired problems. Our experimental skills, the tools in our labs, and around the OIST campus, allow us to work in the general area that concerns macroscopic, non-relativistic matter and their interactions. Our current interests are in problems related to interfacial fluid dynamics, granular solids, and biomechanics of the human foot.

1. Staff

Members (as of March 31, 2013)

  • Dr. Mahesh M. Bandi, Assistant Professor
  • Dr. Jean-Francois Metayer, Researcher
  • Dr. Tamoghna Das, Researcher
  • Dr. Ceyda Sanli-Cakir, Researcher
  • Dr. Deniz Cakir, Visiting Researcher
  • Ms. Sakurako Watanabe, Graduate Student (Lab Rotation)
  • Mr. Ravi Shanker Singh, Visiting Graduate Student (Brown University)
  • Ms. Ayano Sakiyama, Research Administrator

Alumni

  • Ms. Yoko Kudeken, Research Administrator
  • Ms. Momoko Zamami, Research Administrator
  • Ms. Jessica Verena Schulze, Graduate Student (Lab Rotation)

2. Collaborations

None

3. Activities and Findings

Professor Bandi started at OIST in July 2012 with most research members arriving in September 2012. During the past year, the Collective Interactions Unit has been busy setting up the laboratory, procurement of equipment, and have started design and construction of experimental setups. Being a relatively young group, we have no findings to report at the present time.

4. Publications

4.1 Journals

  1. Slim, A. C., Bandi, M. M., Miller, J. C. & Mahadevan, L.  Dissolution-driven convection in a Hele–Shaw cell. Physics of Fluids 25, 024101, doi:10.1063/1.4790511 (2013).

4.2 Books and other one-time publications

Nothing to report

4.3 Oral and Poster Presentations

  1. Bandi, M., Rivera, MK., Krzakala, F. & Ecke, R.  Fragility and hysteretic creep in frictional granular jamming, in 10th The Northeastern Granular MateriaRiverals Workshop (NEGW), Clark University, USA (2012).
  2. Bandi, M.  Frictional Granular Jamming and its potential relation to Biology, in NCBS iBio Colloquium, Bangalore, India (2012).
  3. Bandi, M.  Shock-driven Jamming and Periodic Fracture at Particulate Interfaces, in 2012 SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, The University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA (2012).
  4. Sanli, C.  From antinode clusters to node clusters: The concentration dependent transition of floaters on a standing Faraday wave, in 65th Annual meeting of the American Physical Society's Fluid Dynamics Division, San Diego, USA (2012).

5. Intellectual Property Rights and Other Specific Achievements

Nothing to report

6. Meetings and Events

6.1 Seminar

  • Date: August12, 2012
  • Venue: OIST C209
  • Speaker: Professor Michelle Girvan (University of Maryland)

6.2 Seminar

  • Date: November 1, 2012
  • Venue: OIST C209
  • Speaker: Dr. Dongshin Kim (Brandeis University)

6.3 Seminar

  • Date: November 2, 2012
  • Venue: OIST C209
  • Speaker: Dr. Dongshin Kim (Brandeis University)

6.4 Seminar

  • Date: January 10, 2013
  • Venue: OIST C209
  • Speaker: Professor Madhusudhan Venkadesan (National Centre for Biological Sciences, India)

6.5 Seminar

  • Date: January 11, 2013
  • Venue: OIST C209
  • Speaker: Professor Shreyas Mandre (Brown University)

6.6 Seminar

  • Date: March 5, 2013
  • Venue: OIST C210
  • Speaker: Professor Karen Daniels (North Carolina State University)