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Shiladitya Sengupta
Assistant Professor
shiladityasg[at]ph.iitr.ac.in
Dept. of Physics, IIT Roorkee
https://sites.google.com/site/shiladityasg
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Research
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Books
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Honours and Awards
Honors
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Teaching Engagements
Teaching Engagements

Students
Supervisions
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Research Interests
Mechanical response of disordered solids e.g. glasses and granular matter, Dynamics of supercooled liquids, Physics of glass transition, Soft condensed matter, Statistical physics
BioSketch
Educational Details
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru, India
2013
PhD,
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
2006
M. Sc., Physics
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
2004
B. Sc. (Hons.), Physics
Professional Background
Post-doctoral Fellow
29 Aug 2016 - 28 Sep 2018
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Post-doctoral Fellow
02 Dec 2013 - 05 Jan 2016
Dept. of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Research
Projects
TOPIC START DATE FIELD DESCRIPTION FINANCIAL OUTLAY FUNDING AGENCY OTHER OFFICERS
Mesoscale modeling of amorphous solids for large scale simulation 12 Mar 2021 Elastoplastic response of amorphous solids INR 45.81 Lakhs National Supercomputing Mission- DST, Govt. of India, IMSc Chennai, TIFR Hyderabad, IIT Palakkad, India
Faculty Initiation Grant 16 Jan 2019 Mechanical response of amorphous solids INR 20 lakhs SRIC, IIT Roorkee, India




Publications
Cascade at local yield strain for silica and metallic glass
2025
Nandlal Pingua, Himani Rautela, Roni Chatterjee, Smarajit Karmakar, Pinaki Chaudhuri, Shiladitya Sengupta | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 214504 , Volumes: 162 ,
Breakdown of the Stokes–Einstein relation in Stillinger–Weber silicon
2025
Himani Rautela, Shiladitya Sengupta, and Vishwas V Vasisht | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 144502 , Volumes: 162 ,
Is the glassy dynamics same in 2D as in 3D? The Adam Gibbs relation test
2024
Santu Nath and Shiladitya Sengupta | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 034504 , Volumes: 161 ,
Thermodynamics and its correlation with dynamics in a mean-field model and pinned systems: A comparative study using two different methods of entropy calculation
2022
Ujjwal Kumar Nandi, Palak Patel, Mohd Moid, Manoj Kumar Nandi, Shiladitya Sengupta, Smarajit Karmakar, Prabal K Maiti, Chandan Dasgupta, Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 014503 , Volumes: 156 ,
Emergent solidity of amorphous materials as a consequence of mechanical self-organisation
2020
Hua Tong, Shiladitya Sengupta, and Hajime Tanaka | Nature Portfolio
Journal: N. Comm. Pages: 4863 , Volumes: 11 ,
Glass Transition in Supercooled Liquids with Medium-Range Crystalline Order
2018
Indrajit Tah, Shiladitya Sengupta, Srikanth Sastry, Chandan Dasgupta, and Smarajit Karmakar | APS
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. Pages: 085703 , Volumes: 121 ,
Power law relationship between diffusion coefficients in multi-component glass forming liquids
2018
Anshul D. S. Parmar, Shiladitya Sengupta, and Srikanth Sastry | Springer
Journal: Eur. Phys. J. E Pages: 90 , Volumes: 41 ,
Length scale dependence of the Stokes-Einstein and Adam-Gibbs relations in model glass formers
2017
Anshul D. S. Parmar, Shiladitya Sengupta and Srikanth Sastry | APS
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. Pages: 056001 , Volumes: 119 ,
What determines the static force chains in stressed granular media?
2016
Oleg Gendelman, Yoav G. Pollack, Itamar Procaccia, Shiladitya Sengupta and Jacques Zylberg | APS
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. Pages: 078001 , Volumes: 116 ,
Unravelling the success and failure of mode coupling theory from consideration of entropy
2015
Manoj Kumar Nandi, Atreyee Banerjee, Shiladitya Sengupta, Srikanth Sastry and Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 174504 , Volumes: 143 ,
The role of structure and entropy in determining differences in dynamics for glass formers with different interaction potentials
2014
Atreyee Banerjee, Shiladitya Sengupta, Srikanth Sastry and Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya | APS
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. Pages: 225701 , Volumes: 113 ,
Nesting of thermodynamic, structural, and dynamic anomalies in liquid silicon
2014
Vishwas V. Vasisht, John Mathew, Shiladitya Sengupta and Srikanth Sastry | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 124501 , Volumes: 141 ,
Distribution of diffusion constants and Stokes-Einstein violation in supercooled liquids
2014
Shiladitya Sengupta and Smarajit Karmakar | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 224505 , Volumes: 140 ,
Diffusivity anomaly in modified Stillinger-Weber liquids
2014
Shiladitya Sengupta, Vishwas V. Vasisht and Srikanth Sastry | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 044503 , Volumes: 140 ,
Density-temperature scaling of the fragility in a model glass-former
2013
Shiladitya Sengupta, Thomas B. Schrøder and Srikanth Sastry | Springer
Journal: Eur. Phys. J. E Pages: 141 , Volumes: 36 ,
Breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein relation in two, three and four dimensions
2013
Shiladitya Sengupta, Smarajit Karmakar, Chandan Dasgupta and Srikanth Sastry | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 12A548 , Volumes: 138 ,
Adam-Gibbs relation for Glass-Forming Liquids in Two, Three, and Four Dimensions
2012
Shiladitya Sengupta, Smarajit Karmakar, Chandan Dasgupta and Srikanth Sastry | APS
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. Pages: 095705 , Volumes: 109 ,
Dependence of the fragility of a glass former on the softness of interparticle interactions
2011
Shiladitya Sengupta, Filipe Vasconcelos, Frédéric Affouard and Srikanth Sastry | AIP
Journal: J. Chem. Phys. Pages: 194503 , Volumes: 135 ,
Books
Kinetic, Thermodynamic, and Adam-Gibbs Fragilities [Chapter 7 of Fragility of Glassforming liquids, TRiPS Series]
Year: 2014 , ISBN: 9789380250618
Srikanth Sastry and Shiladitya Sengupta | Hindustan Book Agency, India
Honors And Awards
Honors
Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
2018
IIS Fellowship for Post-doctoral Research
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
2016
INSPIRE Faculty Award
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India.
2006
CSIR-NET Junior Research Fellowship
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru, India
2004
Summer Research Fellowship
Teaching Engagements
Teaching Engagements
Mathematical Physics [2025] ( PHC 202 )
Spring
Mathematical Physics [2024] ( PHN 210 )
Spring
Advanced Mathematical Physics [2024] ( PHC 523 / PH 305 )
Autumn
Numerical Analysis and Computational Physics [2023] ( PHN 311 )
Autumn
Numerical Analysis and Computational Physics [2022] ( PHN 311 )
Autumn
Mathematical and Computational Techniques [2023] ( PHN 789 )
Autumn
Mathematical and Computational Techniques [2022] ( PHN 789 )
Autumn
Statistical Mechanics [2023] ( PHN 506 )
Spring
Statistical Mechanics [2022] ( PHN 506 )
Spring
Statistical Mechanics [2021] ( PHN 506 )
Spring
Mechanics [2021] ( PHN 001 )
Autumn
Mechanics [2020] ( PHN 001 )
Autumn
Mechanics [2019] ( PHN 001 )
Autumn
Electromagnetic Theory [2020] ( PHN 008 )
Spring
Electromagnetic Theory [2019] ( PHN 008 )
Spring
Students
SuperVisions
Dynamical and mechanical response study of self organization in silicon and silica, India
26 Dec 2019 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Himani Rautela
Plasticity in Amorphous Solids, India
26 Dec 2019 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Avinash Kumar Jha
Atomistic Study of Complex Systems using Machine Learning, India
26 Dec 2019 - Present
Other Supervisors: Prof. Abhishek Tewari, Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engg. and MFSDSAI, IIT Roorkee., Scholar: Ayush Kumar Pandey
Topological data analysis for glasses using computational homology, India
16 Jul 2024 - 27 May 2025
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Rajib Das
Computational modelling of amorphous solids, India
16 Jul 2024 - 27 May 2025
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Adityan S
Comparison of VSP-BKS and Vashishta Potentials for Silica, India
18 Jul 2023 - 15 May 2024
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Abhay Kasturi
Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of cavitation in Silica, India
26 Jul 2022 - 13 May 2023
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Mayank Sharma
Theoretical study of active matter systems, India
26 Jul 2022 - 13 May 2023
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Atharva Shukla
Glassy dynamics in Two dimension (2D), India
31 Jul 2021 - 14 May 2022
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Santu Nath