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Email: anand@duke.edu

Anandhan Jayaraman
 

Education	Ph.D in Physics 1993-1999 Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA  Thesis: Nonlinear evolution of unstable electrostatic waves in collisionless plasma. Research Advisor: John David Crawford B.Tech in Engineering Physics 1989-1993 Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Research Interests	Viscoelastic Fluids  Simple flows in complex fluids Nonlinear dynamics and Bifurcation theory  Instabilities in Hamiltonian systems Computational finance
Journal Papers	J.D. Crawford and A. Jayaraman, Nonlinear saturation of electrostatic waves: mobile ions modify trapping scaling, Phys. Rev. Lett., 77 3549-3552 (1996). J.D. Crawford and A. Jayaraman, Amplitude equations for unstable electrostatic waves: multiple species, J. Math. Phys., 39 4546 (1998). J.D. Crawford and A. Jayaraman, First principles justification of a "Single Wave Model" for electrostatic instabilities, Phys. Plasmas., 6 666 (1999). J. Jacobsen, A. Jayaraman and A. Belmonte, " Monotone Solutions of a Nonautonomous Differential Equation for a Sedimenting Sphere", Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Vol 2001(2001), No. 62, pp. 1-17. A. Jayaraman and A. Belmonte, "Oscillations of a solid sphere falling through a wormlike micellar fluid " , (physics/0205067), Phys. Rev. E 67, 065301(R) (2003).
Conference Papers	A. Jayaraman and J.D. Crawford, Search for scaling in the dynamics of an unstable mode, APS-Division of Plasma Physics meeting, 1995. A. Jayaraman and J.D. Crawford, Amplitude equations for electrostatic mode in a multi-species Vlasov plasma, APS-Division of Plasma Physics meeting 1996. A. Jayaraman and J.D. Crawford, Scaling of Traveling waves produced from electrostatic instabilities, SIAM Nonlinear Dynamics meeting, Snowbird 1997.  J.D. Crawford and A. Jayaraman, First principles justification of a single wave model, APS-Division of Plasma Physics meeting, 1997. A. Jayaraman and J.D. Crawford, Single wave model for a weakly unstable mode: theory and numerics, APS-Division of Plasma Physics meeting 1997. A. Belmonte and A. Jayaraman, Oscillations of a cusped bubble rising through a micellar solution, SIAM meeting on Mathematical aspects of Material sciences, 2000. A. Jayaraman and A. Belmonte,Oscillations of a Falling sphere and rising bubbles in a Micellar Solution, APS-Division of Fluids meeting, 2000
Experience	Visiting Assistant Professor  1999-Present Dept of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Adjunct Faculty Summer of 1998 Dept of Physics, Community College of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA Responsibilities included designing and teaching introductory algebra based first physics course. Teaching Assistant/ Fellow 1993-1999 Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Responsibilities included teaching recitations and grading for introductory physics courses. Junior Scientist Summer of 1992  Theoretical Nuclear Physics Division, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India As a member of the Theoretical Nuclear Physics division, my research involved calculation of scattering cross sections for Relativistic Heavy-ion collisions I was also involved in the design and implementation of a table-top model of an experimental high-voltage generating device, for future additions to the Pelletron accelerator.
Other Skills	Programming Languages: Fortran , C++ Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows, DOS Numerical Techniques: Proficient in numerical integration methods for PDE's and ODE. Numerical solutions to nonlinear equations etc. Symbolic computation Packages: Mathematica, Mathcad etc.
Awards Received	Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Jan 96- Aug 96 University of Pittsburgh Award for Teaching Excellence 1998 University of Pittsburgh. Ranked 1st Nationwide (India) in "Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering" 1993 (An entrance exam for Ph.D. in India)
Professional Societies	American Physical Society Society of Industrial and Applied mathematics
References	On Request