Most of what I have written is in the numerous number of reports and seminars that we have to give each term. Posts on computer-related topics can be found in my journal.
paper reviews
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Topological defects in ordered media, slides [PDF]
based on paper "The topological theory of defects in ordered media", N.D. Mermin, Rev. Mod. Phys. 51, 591-648 (1979) -
Quantum Algorithm for Linear Systems of Equations, report [PDF]
Review of the paper of the same name by Aram W. Harrow, Avinatan Hassidim and Seth Lloyd, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 150502 (2009) -
DNA Computing, report [PDF]
based on the Science paper by Leonard Adleman. -
Gelfand Triples, report [PDF]
based on the paper by Rafael de la Madrid.
posters
- Chaotic double pendulum [PDF]
Poster presented accompanying our chaotic double pendulum demonstration at exSCIte 2010.
essays
Wrote these in the Indian Heritage and Communication courses.
- Stem Cell Research
a summary of the current state-of-the-art. - Origin of Newton's Laws
starting from Aristotle and ending at Einstein's relativity - Who are the Vedic
people?
A very interesting topic, with lots of different opinions. - Kuttaka method
the beautiful algorithm discovered by Aryabhatta
term projects
List of term projects in the first two years of college.
All links below are to PDF documents.
- Application of Hückel
Theory for Determining MOs and delocalisation energies of some
benzenoid compounds and graph theoretical aspects of Hückel
theory
with Arghya Modak, Sambit Bikas Pal. [talk] - Simulation of Ising Model
with Arghya Modak. Get the code here and check out the README. To compile you need curses.h which you can get by installing libncurses-dev in Debian. You also need to link against the math and ncurses library by passing the switches -lncurses and -lm to gcc. - Simulation of the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium with Sambit Bikas Pal.
- Determining dipole moment order from shift in fluorescence spectra with Arghya Modak
- Finding the refractive index from things which are darker when wet with Challenger Mishra
- Determining speed of sound through doppler effect [talk]
- Determination of molecular formula of a compound using spectroscopy with Arghya Modak. [talk]
- Investigation of Salt Tolerance in bacteria with Arghya Modak, Sambit Bikas Pal.
- Heater with temperature and time dependent buzzer [talk]
- Every 2-to-1 function in [0,1] is discontinuous
Done under the guidance of Prof. Pradipta Bandopadhyay at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata - Determining how surface tension changes with temperature and concentration with Shubham Dipt.
- Determination of pH using bromocresol green indicator with Abhishek Shukla.
- Effect of proline on yeast cells' recovery from heat shock.
This project was done as a team effort at our institute involving over 20 people.
experiment reports
- Bug Hunt
Camouflage
the NetLogo experiment of Bug Hunt Camouflage. - Life history traits of Drosophila
melanogaster
A study of the life history traits of the common fruit fly. We conducted the study using two variants and compared a few life history traits which show that there are trade-offs involved with selecting for faster development time. - Simulation of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
using differently coloured balls as alleles. An exploratory laboratory simulation of the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium using coloured balls.