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 Dr. Kiran M. Kolwankar
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Name

    Dr. Kiran M. Kolwankar.

Permanent Address

    45/1536, Subhash Nagar, Chembur, Mumbai 400 071, INDIA.

    Email:Kiran.Kolwankar(at the rate)gmail.com,  Phone: + 91 22 6411 3734.

Fields of Interest

    Nonlinear Dynamics, Statistical Mechanics, Mathematical Physics.

Education

Degree University/Institution Year of Award

Ph. D 

University of Pune, India 1998

M. Sc.

University of Pune, India 1992

Scholarships/Awards

  1. Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 2003.
  2. Best Thesis Award given by Indian Physics Association at the 40th Solid State Physics Symposium organized  by the Department of Atomic Energy at Co chin University of Science and Technology.
  3. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (NET) Fellowship (1992-1997).
  4. University Grants Commission Fellowship (Support for M. Sc. course).

Positions held

  1. Lecturer, September, 1st 2006 to present, R. J. College, Ghatkopar(W), Mumbai 400 086, India.
  2. Scientist, August, 7th 2006 to August, 31st 2006, Institute of Chemical Technology, Matunga, Mumbai 400 019,India.
  3. Post-doctoral fellow, January, 1st 2004 to March, 31st 2006, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
  4. Visiting Scientist, March, 1st 2003 to April, 30th 2003, Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute o f Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.
  5. CNRS Chercheur Associ´ e, October, 1st 2001 to November, 30th 2002, Laboratoire de Physique de la Mati`ere Condens´ ee, Ecole Polytechnique, France and Centre de Math´ematiques et de leurs Applications, Ecole Normale Sup´erieure, Cachan, France.
  6. Charg´ e de Recherche, October, 1st 2000 to September, 30th 2001, Laboratoire de Physique de la Mati` ere Con-dens´ee, Ecole Polytechnique, France.
  7. Post-doctoral fellow, January, 17th 2000 to September, 30th 2000, IRCCyN / ECN, Nantes, France (partially supported by Project Fractales, INRIA).
  8. Research Associate, December, 23rd 1997 to December, 31st 1999, Department of Mathematics, India n Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
  9. Senior Research Fellow, May, 1st 1994 to April, 30th 1997, Department of Physics, University of Pune, India.
  10. Junior Research Fellow, April, 7th 1992 to April, 30th 1994, Department of Physics, University of Pune, India.

Worked as a referee for

  1. Journal of Stastical Physics.
  2. Journal of Mathematical Geology.
  3. Journal of Geometry and Physics.
  4. Computer Aided Geometric Design, Elsevier.
  5. Journal of Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis.

Selected Visits

  1. Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, from 28th October 2007 to 17th November 2007.
  2. Abdus Salam Internationa l Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy, from 2nd May to 30th May 1999.
  3. Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, from 21st March to 24th April 1999 under their programme ’Mathematics and Applications of Fractals’.

Selected Conferences, Workshops

  1. Fractals in Engineering , 22-24 June 2005, Tours, France.
  2. Talk in ‘Scaling in Probability and PDE’, 25-29 March 2002, Strobl, Austria.
  3. Presented poster at 27 th conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics, 7-9 March 2002, Sopron, Hungary.
  4. Was one of the speakers in the International Conference on ‘Fractals in Engineering’, 14-16 June 1999 held at Delft, Netherlands.
  5. Workshop on ’Di erential Equations and Physics on Fractals’, 22-26 March 1999, held at Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK.
  6. 40th Solid State Physics Symposium organized by Department of Atomic Energy in Cochin University of Science and Technology on 25-31 Dec. 1997.
  7. International conference on ‘Fractals in Engineering’, 25-27 June 1 997, held at Arcachon, France.
  8. Workshop on recent developments in Chaotic Dynamics, 9-13 Dec. 1996 held at Department of Physics, Bharathi-dasan University.
  9. SERC school on Statistical Physics, Ja n-Feb 1994, organized by Institute of Physics, Bhubaneshwar, India.

Invited Talks

  1. Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, January 2004.
  2. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, May 2003.
  3. Eco le Polytechnique, Paris, November 2002.
  4. lPolitecnico di Torino, Italy, June 2000.
  5. lINRIA, Paris, March 2000.
  6. Eco le Polytechnique, Paris, June 1999.
  7. Dept. of Physics, University of Bologna, Italy, May 19 99.
  8. Politecnico di Torino, Italy, May 1999.
  9. Dept of Physics, Manchester University, UK, April 1999.
  10. Issac Newton Institute, Cambridge, April 1999.
  11. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, February 1999.
  12. Institute for Mathematical  Sciences, Chennai, January 1998.
  13. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, January 1998.
  14. S. N. Bose Center, Kolkata, November 1 997.
  15. Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, October 1997.
  16. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, September 1997.

Peer reviewed articles (Total citations: > 100)

  1. K. M. Kolwankar and A. D. Gangal, Fractional di erentiability of nowhere di erentiable functions and dimensions, Chaos, (1996) 6, 505. (chao-dyn/9609016)
  2. K. M. Kolwankar and A. D. Gangal, Ho lder exponents of irregular signals and local fractional derivatives, Pramana - J. Phys., (1997), 48, 49. (chao-dyn/9711010)
  3. K. M. Kolwankar and A. D. Gangal, Local fractional Fokker-Planck equation, Phys. Rev. Lett., (1998) 80, 214. (cond-mat/9801138)
  4. K. M. Kolwankar and A. D. Gang al, Lo cal fractional derivatives and fractal functions of several variables, in proceedings of the Conference on Fractals in Engineering, Arcachon, 1 997.
  5. K. M. Kolwankar and A. D. Gangal, Local fractional calculus: A calculus fo r fractal space-time, in Fractals: Theory and Applications in Engineering, M. Dekking, J. L´ evy V´ ehel, E. Lutton and C. Tricot, Eds. (Springer, 1999).
  6. K. M. Kolwankar and A. Punnoose, Diso rdered totally asymmetric simple exclusion process: exact results, Phys. Rev. E, (2000 ) 61, 2453. (cond-mat/9807246)
  7. K. M. Kolwankar and J. L´ evy V´ ehel, Measuring functions’ smoothness with local fractional derivatives, J. of Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis, (2001) 4, 285.
  8. K. M. Kolwankar and J. L´ evy V´ ehel, A time domain characterization of the fine lo cal regularity of functions, J. of Fourier Analysis and Applications, (2002) 8, 319.
  9. K. M. Kolwankar, M. Plapp and B. Sapoval, Chemical kinetics and avalanches in the etching of random solids, Europhys. Lett., (2003) 62, 519.
  10. A. Carpinteri, P. Cornetti and K. M. Kolwankar, Fractional calculus for computing the tensile and  exural strength of disordered materials, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, (2004) 21, 623.
  11. K. M. Kolwankar, Decomposition of Lebesgue-Cantor devil’s staircase, Fractals, (2004) 12, 375.
  12. J. Jost and K. M. Kolwankar, Fractal stationary density in coupled maps, in Fractals in Engineering: New Trends in Theory and Applications, J. L´evy-Vehel and E. Lutton, Eds. (Springer, 2005). (MPI-MIS 95/2004).
  13.  P. Levitz, D. S. Grebenkov, M. Zinsmeister, K. M. Kolwankar and B. Sapoval, Brownian  ights over a fractal nest and first passage statistics on irregular surfaces, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2006) 96 180601.
  14. J. Jost and K. M. Kolwankar, Global analysis of synchroniza tion in coupled maps, Int. J. of Bifurcation and Chaos (2006) 16 3 695.

Other articles/Preprints

  1. K. M. Kolwankar, Fractals and di erential equations of fractional order, J. of Indian Inst. Sci., (1998) 78, 275.
  2. K. M. Kolwankar, Brownian motion of fractal particles: L´ evy processes from white noise, (communicated).
  3. K. M. Kolwankar, Phase transitio n in the LR model, (in preparation).

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