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{{short description|Indian physicist (born 1956)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Rahul Pandit
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1956|4|22}}
| birth_place = [[New Delhi]], India
| death_date =
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| residence = [[Bengaluru]], [[Karnataka]], India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Condensed matter physics]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | 1984– [[Indian Institute of Science]] | 2002–08 [[International Centre for Theoretical Sciences|ICTS]] | 2013– [[Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research|JNCASR]]-honorary | 1986–93 [[Ohio State University]]-visiting | 1995–96 [[University of Missouri]]-visiting | [[Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics|ASICTP]]-visiting | 2001 [[Côte d'Azur Observatory]]-visiting | 2014 [[École Normale Supérieure]]-visiting }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | 1972–77 [[Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi|IIT Delhi]] | 1977–82 [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|University of Illinois]] | 1982–83 [[Cornell University]] }}
| doctoral_advisor = {{ublist | Michael Wortis }}
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = Studies on [[phase transitions]] and spatiotemporal [[Chaos theory|chaos]] and turbulence
| awards = {{ublist| 1988 [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] Young Scientist Medal | 2001 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] | 2004 [[University Grants Commission (India)|UGC]] Meghnad Saha Award | 2009 [[Indian Institute of Science|IISc]] Professor Rustom Choksi Award | 2010 [[Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi|IITD]] Distinguished Alumni Award }}
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'''Rahul Pandit''' (born 22 April 1956) is an Indian condensed matter physicist, a professor of physics and a divisional chair at the [[Indian Institute of Science]]. Known for his research on [[phase transitions]] and ''spatiotemporal [[Chaos theory|chaos]] and turbulence'', Pandit is an elected fellow of [[Indian Academy of Sciences]], [[Indian National Science Academy]] and [[The World Academy of Sciences]]. The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2001.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx |title=View Bhatnagar Awardees |date=2017-11-11 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-11-11}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Long link - please select award year to see details}}

== Biography ==
[[File:IISc Main Building.jpg|thumb|left|Indian Institute of Science]]
Rahul Pandit was born on 22 April 1956 in the Indian capital of [[New Delhi]].<ref name="Biographical Information">{{Cite web |url=http://www.physics.iisc.ernet.in/~rahul/cvrahul.pdf |title=Biographical Information |date=2017-10-19 |website=Indian Insttute of Science |access-date=2017-10-19}}</ref> After early schooling, he did his under-graduate studies as a [[National Talent Search Examination|National Talent Search scholar]] at the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi]] and continued there to earn an MS in physics in 1977. Subsequently, he moved to the US and obtained a second master's degree in physics in 1979 from the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]]. His doctoral studies under the guidance of Michael Wortis were also at the same institution, to secure a PhD in 1982. After completing his post doctoral studies at [[Cornell University]] in 1983, he returned to India to join the [[Indian Institute of Science]] as a research associate in 1984.<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/P06-1418 |title=Indian fellow |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref>

Pandit has been serving out his career at IISc ever since. He has held several positions at the institute such as those of a research scientist (1985–90), assistant professor (1990–96) and associate professor (1996–2002) till he became a professor in 2002,<ref name="Profile on IISc">{{Cite web |url=http://www.physics.iisc.ernet.in/~rahul/ |title=Profile on IISc |date=2017-10-19 |website=Indian Insttute of Science |access-date=2017-10-19}}</ref> a position he holds till date along with the chair of the Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the institute.<ref name="Divisional Chairs">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iisc.ac.in/about/administration/divisional-chairs/ |title=Divisional Chairs |date=2017-10-19 |website=Indian Insttute of Science |access-date=2017-10-19}}</ref> In between, he chaired the International Relations Cell of IISc and the Theoretical Sciences Unit of [[Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research]] (JNCASR) during 2002–08 and served as a member of the Condensed Matter Theory Unit of JNCASR until 2012. A three-year stint as an adjunct professor at the [[International Centre for Theoretical Sciences]] of [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]] during 2009–12 was another position he has held. His current responsibilities include the MSIL Chair Professorship of IISc and Honorary Professorship of JNCASR. He has also been a visiting professor at various institutions such as [[Ohio State University]], [[University of Missouri]], [[Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics]], [[Côte d'Azur Observatory]] and [[École Normale Supérieure]].<ref name="Biographical Information" />

== Legacy ==
[[File:Surface tension.svg|thumb|235px|Wetting of different fluids: A shows a fluid with very little wetting, while C shows a fluid with more wetting. A has a large contact angle, and C has a small contact angle]]
Pandit has been focusing his work on the problems related to [[phase transitions]], [[statistical mechanics]] and [[non-linear dynamics]],<ref name="Mitra2009">{{cite book|author=Asoke Nath Mitra|title=India in the World of Physics: Then and Now|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hRLPM6s7hWAC&pg=PA190|year=2009|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-1579-6|pages=190–}}</ref> [[Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation]] and Complex-Ginzburg-Landau equations.<ref name="Research Interests">{{Cite web |url=http://www.physics.iisc.ernet.in/~rahul/research.html |title=Research Interests |date=2017-10-19 |website=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=2017-10-19}}</ref> His contributions reportedly include theoretical elucidation of ''multilayer-adsorption and wetting phenomena on attractive substrates'' and the scaling properties of ''[[quasiperiodic]] [[Schrödinger equation|Schroedinger operators]]''.<ref name="Indian fellow" /> He is known to have developed a ''a theory of hysteresis loops in model spin systems''<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{Cite web |url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=227 |title=Brief Profile of the Awardee |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref> and a [[cardiac arrhythmias]] model and his studies have assisted in a wider understanding of low-amplitude [[defibrillation]] schemes and [[cardiac arrhythmias]]. ''Glass formation in soft condensed matter systems'',<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf |title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref> interacting bosons, colossal magnetoresistance manganites and complex fluids have been some of his other interests.<ref name="Research Interests" /> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rahul_Pandit4 |title=On ResearchGate |date=2017-10-17 |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref><ref name="On Google Scholar">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=75RHOJQAAAAJ&hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Google Scholar |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and the online article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 79 of them.<ref name="Browse by Fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Pandit=3ARahul=3A=3A.html |title=Browse by Fellow |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref> Besides, he has mentored 15 research scholars in their doctoral studies.<ref name="Indian fellow" />

Pandit was involved, in the capacity of the secretary of the organizing committee, in the organization of ''STATPHYS 22'' the international statistical physics conference of the [[International Union of Pure and Applied Physics]] held at IISc campus in 2004.<ref name="STATPHYS 22">{{Cite web |url=http://www.physics.iisc.ernet.in/~statphys22/ |title=STATPHYS 22 |date=2017-10-19 |website=Indian Institute of Physics}}</ref> He is the secretary of the ''C3 Commission on Statistical Physics'' of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics<ref name="C3-Officers">{{Cite web |url=http://iupap.org/commissions/c3-commission-on-statistical-physics/members/ |title=C3-Officers |date=2017-10-19 |website=the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics |access-date=2017-10-19}}</ref> and has held the chair of IUPAP national committee in India. He is a former divisional associate editor of [[Physical Review Letters]] journal (2004–10) and a former member of the editorial advisory board of [[Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications]] of [[Elsevier]] (2001–07).<ref name="Biographical Information" /> He is a member of the divisional committee of the ''Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research'' (INSPIRE) program of the [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]]<ref name="INSPIRE divisional chair persons">{{Cite web |url=http://www.inspire-dst.gov.in/ |title=INSPIRE divisional chair persons |date=2017-10-19 |website=Department of Science and Technology |access-date=2017-10-19}}</ref> and sits in the editorial board of ''Cambridge IISc Series'', a publishing collaboration between the Indian Institute of Science and [[Cambridge University]] Press India.<ref name="Cambridge IISc Series">{{Cite web |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/cambridge-iisc-series/472253A39B5BB5646065F732FF7F2E66 |title=Cambridge IISc Series |date=2017-10-19 |website=Cambridge University Press India |access-date=2017-10-19}}</ref> He has delivered invited speeches at various conferences including the ''International Symposium on Fluid Days'' held in December 2007–January 2008.<ref name="Malamed2011">{{cite book|author=Connie Malamed|title=Visual Language for Designers: Principles for Creating Graphics that People Understand|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yUalr7fhZMEC&pg=PA97|date=October 2011|publisher=Rockport Publishers|isbn=978-1-59253-741-9|pages=97–}}</ref>

== Awards and honors ==
Pandit, who was a [[National Talent Search Examination|National Talent Search scholar]] during his early college days (1972–77), stood first in his Physics for his graduate examination in 1977.<ref name="Biographical Information" /> While at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]], he held the Exxon Fellowship and on his return to India, he was a Young Associate of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]]. He received the Young Scientist Medal of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] in 1988.<ref name="INSA Young Scientists Medal">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/youngmedal.php |title=INSA Young Scientists Medal |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref> The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2001.<ref name="CSIR list of Awardees">{{Cite web |url=http://www.csir.res.in/careeraward/prize-winner-indexdiscipline-wise |title=CSIR list of Awardees |date=2017 |publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research}}</ref> He was selected for the Meghnad Saha Award by the [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]] in 2004 and the Indian Institute of Science chose him for the Professor Rustom Choksi Award.<ref name="Professor Rustom Choksi Award">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iisc.ac.in/institute-awards/prof-rustom-choksi-award-for-excellence-in-research-in-scienceengineering/ |title=Professor Rustom Choksi Award |date=2017-10-19 |website=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=2017-10-19}}</ref> His alma mater, IIT Delhi selected him as the Distinguished Alumunus in 2010.<ref name="Distinguished Alumni Award">{{Cite web |url=http://www.iitd.ac.in/convocation/2010/DAA_Pandit.pdf |title=Distinguished Alumni Award |date=2017-10-19 |website=IIT Delhi |access-date=2017-10-19}}</ref>

Pandit, a member of [[Phi Kappa Phi]] and [[Sigma Xi]], was elected as a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1996.<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Pandit,_Prof._Rahul |title=Fellow profile |date=2017 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref> A decade later, the Indian National Science Academy elected him as their fellow<ref name="INSA Year Book 2016">{{Cite web |url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |title=INSA Year Book 2016 |date=2017 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy}}</ref> and he became an elected fellow of [[The World Academy of Sciences]] in 2015.<ref name="TWAS fellow">{{Cite web |url=https://twas.org/member/pandit-rahul |title=TWAS fellow |date=2017-10-17 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences |access-date=2017-10-17}}</ref> [[American Physical Society]] awarded him Outstanding Referee citation to him in 2012 for his work on [[Physical Review]] and [[Physical Review Letters]] journals.<ref name="Biographical Information" /> The award orations delivered by him include 2007 [[Department of Atomic Energy|DAE]] Raja Ramanna Award Lecture on ''The mathematical modelling of cardiac arrhythmias'' of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research.<ref name="Raja Ramanna Award Lecture">{{Cite web |url=http://www.jncasr.ac.in/blank_page.php/DAE--Raja-Ramanna-Lecture-in-Physics/68/1/ |title=Raja Ramanna Award Lecture |date=2017-10-19 |website=Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research |access-date=2017-10-19}}</ref> He has also been holding J. C. Bose National Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology since 2007.<ref name="Biographical Information" />

== Selected bibliography ==
=== Books ===
* {{cite book|author=S. Dattagupta, H.R. Krishnamurthy, R. Pandit, T.V. Ramakrishnan, D. Sen (Editors)|title=Proceedings of the 22nd IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics (STATPHYS 22)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yt-0nQAACAAJ|year=2005|publisher= International Union of Pure and Applied Physics}}

=== Chapters ===
* {{cite book|author1=M Lal|author2=R A Mashelkar, B D Kulkarni, V M Naik (Editors)|author3=Aswin Pande, Rahul Pandit (chapter authors)|title=Structure and Dynamics of Materials in the Mesoscopic Domain|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B2VtDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA94|date=1 October 1999|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-1-78326-350-9|pages=94–|chapter=Spatiotemporal Chaos in a Model or Co Oxidation on Pt(110)}}

===Articles ===
* {{Cite journal |author1=Samriddhi Sankar Ray |author2=Dhrubaditya Mitra |author3=Rahul Pandit |title=The universality of dynamic multiscaling in homogeneous, isotropic Navier-stokes and passive-scalar turbulence |journal=New Journal of Physics |date=2008 |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=033003 |doi=10.1088/1367-2630/10/3/033003|bibcode=2008NJPh...10c3003S |doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Prasad Perlekar |author2=Rahul Pandit |title=Statistically steady turbulence in thin films: direct numerical simulations with Ekman friction |journal=New Journal of Physics |date=2009 |volume=11 |issue=7 |pages=073003 |doi=10.1088/1367-2630/11/7/073003|bibcode=2009NJPh...11g3003P |doi-access=free }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Prasad Perlekar |author2=Rahul Pandit |title=Turbulence-induced melting of a nonequilibrium vortex crystal in a forced thin fluid film |journal=New Journal of Physics |date=2010 |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=023033 |doi=10.1088/1367-2630/12/2/023033|arxiv=0910.3096 |bibcode=2010NJPh...12b3033P |s2cid=26611984 }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=Prasad Perlekar |author2=Samriddhi Sankar Ray |author3=Dhrubaditya Mitra |author4=Rahul Pandit |title=Persistence problem in two-dimensional fluid turbulence |journal=Physical Review Letters |date=2011 |volume=106 |issue=5 |pages=054501 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.054501|pmid=21405401 |arxiv=1009.1494 |bibcode=2011PhRvL.106e4501P |s2cid=33997946 }}
* {{Cite journal |author1=J. M. Kurdestany |author2=R. V. Pai |author3=R. Pandit |title=The inhomogeneous extended Bose-Hubbard model: a mean-field theory |journal=Annalen der Physik |date=2012 |volume=524 |issue=3–4 |pages=234–244 |doi=10.1002/andp.201100274|bibcode=2012AnP...524..234K |arxiv=1201.6451 |s2cid=118596810 }}

== See also ==
* [[Chaos theory]]
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rKYGoWr7lo |title=Dynamo onset as a first-order transition |last=Rahul Pandit |date=9 December 2015 |website=International Centre for Theoretical Sciences |format=YouTube vide |access-date=2017-10-19}}
* {{Cite web |url=http://www.physics.iisc.ernet.in/~rahul/publish.html |title=List of Publications |date=2017-10-19 |website=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=2017-10-19}}

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