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Dr. Sumanth Swaminathan

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Northwestern University
Cook 4033
2220 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

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phone: +1-847-491-5958 (office)

Research Interests

  • Pattern formation in nonequilibrium biological systems: Self-assembly in the cytoskeleton and cell motility
    • Nonlinear partial differential equations ; weakly nonlinear asymptotic analysis
    • Stochastic differential equations: Langevin & associated Fokker-Planck eqns
    • Brownian Dynamics, phase field modeling
  • Conformation and Mechanical Properties of fibers
    • Calculus of variations
    • Differential geometry

Recent publications

  1. S. Swaminathan, F. Solis, M. Olvera de la Cruz
    Conformation and Mechanical Properties of Closed Diblock Fibers
    Phys. Rev. E, 83(6), 061912, June 2011.
  2. H. Nakanishi, D. Walker, K. J. Bishop, P. J. Wesson, Y. Yan, S. Swaminathan, B. Grzybowski
    Controlling electronic conductance through a nanostructured material by internal ionic gradients
    Accepted by Nature Nanotechnology, August 2011.
  3. S. Swaminathan, F. Ziebert, I.S. Aranson, D. Karpeev
    Motor-Mediated Microtubule Self-Organization in Dilute and Semi-Dilute Filament Solutions
    MMNP, 6(1), 119, 2010.