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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS
DEEPIKA JANAKIRAMAN
DST - INSPIRE FacultyEducation
Biography
Deepika Janakiraman obtained her Ph. D from the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. K. L. Sebastian. Subsequently, she was a Simons Career Development Fellow at the Simons Centre, NCBS, Bangalore. Her research focus is on modeling anomalous diffusion using theoretical methods.
Research Interests
- Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, path integrals, theoretical chemistry
Honors and Recognitions
Representative Publications
- Path-integral formulation for Lévy flights: Evaluation of the propagator for free, linear, and harmonic potentials in the over-and underdamped limits, D Janakiraman; KL Sebastian; Phys. Rev. E, 2012, 86, 061105
- Unusual eigenvalue spectrum and relaxation in the Lévy–Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process; D Janakiraman; KL Sebastian; Phys. Rev. E, 2014, 90, 040101
- Lévy flights in the presence of a point sink of finite strength; D Janakiraman; KL Sebastian; Phys. Rev. E, 2017, 95, 012154
- Transition path time distributions for Lévy flights; D Janakiraman; J. Phys. A, 2018, 51, 285001
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