Curriculum  Vitae

Name :
Supratim Sengupta

Address :
Centre for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics  
School of Computational & Integrative Science
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi - 110067
India




Telephone (Office) :
+91-11-2670-4043


Fax :
+91-11-2674-1586


E-mail :
sengupta at mail dot jnu dot ac dot in



Education

B.Sc. Physics (Hons.)1992 : Presidency College, Calcutta, India.

M.Sc. Physics  (1994) : Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

M.Sc. Thesis : The Principle Non-Degenerate Series of Representations of Complex Unimodular Groups.

Thesis Advisor : Prof. D. Basu.

Post. M.Sc. Diploma (M.Phil, 1995) : Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India.

Ph.D. Physics (2000) : Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India.

Thesis : Topological Defect Formation and Other Consequences of Phase Transitions in Field Theories.

Thesis Advisor: Prof. Ajit M. Srivastava.

Post-doctoral Fellow (2000-2003): Theoretical Physics Institute, Dept. of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada with Prof. F.C. Khanna.

Post-Doctoral Fellow (2003-2005): Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Mcmaster University, Hamilton, Canada with Prof. Paul Higgs.

Post-Doctoral Fellow (2005-2007): Dept. of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada with Prof. Andrew Rutenberg.

Associate Professor (March 2007 - Present): School of Computational & Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India.

Associate Professor (December 2011 - Present ): IISER, Kolkata, India (on leave from JNU).


List of Publications/Preprints

1.  Defect-Antidefect Pair Production via Field Oscillations , S. Digal, S. Sengupta and A.M. Srivastava; Phys. Rev. D55, 3824-3829  (1997)

2.  Vortex-Antivortex Pair Production in a First Order Phase Transition , S. Digal, S. Sengupta and A.M. Srivastava; Phys. Rev. D56,   2035-2043  (1997)

3.  Simulation of Vortex-Antivortex Pair Production in a Phase Transition with Explicit Symmetry Breaking ,   S. Digal, S. Sengupta and A.M. Srivastava; Phys. Rev. D58, 103510 (1998)

4.  Possibility  of  Forming  a  Large  DCC   in  Ultra-Relativistic  Heavy-Ion Collisions , S. Digal, R. Ray, S. Sengupta and A.M. Srivastava; . International Journal of Modern Physics A15,  2269 (2000)

5.  Resonant Production of Topological Defects , S. Digal, R. Ray, S. Sengupta and A.M. Srivastava; Phys. Rev.  Lett.  84,  826  (2000)

6. Electroweak Baryogenesis in a Cold Universe , R. Rangarajan, S. Sengupta and A.M. Srivastava;  Astroparticle Physics 17,  167  (2002)

7.  Multiple-Scale Analysis and Renormalization of Quenched Second Order Phase Transitions, S.P. Kim, S. Sengupta and F.C. Khanna; Phys. Rev. D64, 105026 (2001)

8.  Stochastic Production Of Kink-Antikink Pairs In The Presence Of An Oscillating Background , R. Ray and S. Sengupta; Phys. Rev. D65, 063521 (2002)

9.  Non-equilibrium Evolution of Correlation Functions: A Canonical Approach ,  S. Sengupta, F.C. Khanna and S.P. Kim;  Phys. Rev. D68, 105014 (2003)

10.  A Unified Model of Codon Reassignment in Alternative Genetic Codes ,  S. Sengupta and Paul G. Higgs; Genetics 170:831-840 (2005)

11.  Stochastic Resonance in Underdamped,Bistable Systems , R. Ray and S. Sengupta; Phys. Lett. A353:364-371 (2006)

12.  The Mechanisms of Codon Reassignments in Mitochondrial Genetic Codes , S. Sengupta, X. Yang and Paul G. Higgs; J. Mol. Evol. 64:662-688 (2007)

13.  Modeling partitioning of Min proteins between daughter cells after septation in Escherichia coli , S. Sengupta and Andrew D. Rutenberg; Phys. Biol. 4:145-153 (2007)

14.  Riboswitch Detection using Profile Hidden Markov Models , Payal Singh, P. Bandyopadhyay, S. Bhattacharya, A. Krishnamachari and S. Sengupta; BMC Bioinformatics 10:325 (2009) [Highly Accessed]


16.  Classification of HIV-1 sequences using profile Hidden Markov Models , Sanjiv K Dwivedi and S. Sengupta; PLoS One 7(5):e36566 (2012)

17.  Stuttering Min oscillations within E. coli bacteria: a stochastic polymerization model , S. Sengupta, J. Derr, A. Sain and A.D. Rutenberg; (submitted to Physical Biology)

18.  Phylogenetic analysis and comparative genomics of Purine riboswitch distribution , Payal Singh and S. Sengupta; (submitted to BMC Evolutionary Biology)


Selected Conference Proceedings and Invited Reviews

1. ``A new mechanism of Formation of Topological Defects.'', Supratim Sengupta ; Proc. of the workshop on cosmology titled ``Observations Confront Theories.'', held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in January '99;  Pramana Journal of Physics, Vol.53, No.6; December '99.

2. ``Formation of Vortex-Antivortex Pairs'', S.Digal, R. Ray, Supratim Sengupta and A. M. Srivastava; (Invited Review Article) in ``Connectivity and Superconductivity'' Eds. Jorge Berger and Jacob Rubinstein; Springer-Verlag, 2001.

3. ``"Non-Equilibrium Phase Transition Dynamics Beyond the Gaussian Approximation"'', Supratim Sengupta in ``Fundamental Interactions" - Proceedings of the Sixteenth Lake Louise Winter Institute. '' Eds., A Astbury, B.A. Campbell, F.C. Khanna, M.G.Vincter; World Scienti c, 2002.

4. ``"Kink-Antikink Pair Production in the Presence of a Stochastic and Oscillating Back- ground"'', Supratim Sengupta in ``Fundamental Interactions" - Proceedings of the Sixteenth Lake Louise Winter Institute. '' Eds., A Astbury, B.A. Campbell, F.C. Khanna, M.G.Vincter; World Scienti c, 2003.






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