Collective Phenomena Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, IISc Bangalore, India
Welcome to the Collective Phenomena Lab, (CoPhe LAB). Our research interests broadly encompass understanding the nonlinear interactions and collective dynamics in natural and artificial systems. We look at problems across a wide spectrum of systems that include, droplets in a microchannel, collective organismal motion, traffic and pedestrian dynamics. We use a combination of simple agent based models, data-driven approaches and machine learning to solve two kinds of problems:
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The scientific problem: understanding how the interactions at the level of the agents lead to the observed collective phenomena;
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The engineering problem: designing/tuning the inter-agent interactions and the surroundings to achieve the desired group-level behavior.
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Contact Information
Department of Chemical Engineering, IISc Bangalore
Office:
dannym[ at ]iisc[ dot ]ac[ dot ]in
danny[dot ]presto[at ]gmail[ dot]com
Lab 10, Chemical engineering, IISc Bangalore, Bengaluru-560012, Karnataka, India
Recent events
Link to the special session on "Modelling collective phenomena" in the virtual FIM conference
Invited speakers:
Prof Raghunathan Rengaswamy, Dept of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras
Dr Raghunath Chelakkot, Dept of Physics, IIT Bombay
Dr Jitesh Jhawar, Max Planck Institute for animal behaviour, Germany