Prof. Subodh R. Shenoy

Subodh R Shenoy did his school studies at St Xavier’s High School Ahmedabad, his B.Sc in Physics at the University of London, and his PhD at Yale University. After a return to India,he has been at TIFR Bombay; the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar; the University of Hyderabad; the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, and IISER Trivandrum. He is presently a Visiting Professor at TIFFR Hyderabad.

His interests over the past few decades, have performed a random walk over some of the broad canvas of theoretical condensed matter and statistical mechanics. The problems considered include: Thermal fluctuations in superconductors; spin glasses; the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition and topological excitations in 2D and 3D XY models; first-passage times and hysteresis; Josephson tunneling in Bose-Einstein Condensates; martensitic structural transitions; and post-quench phase ordering dynamics.

Looking back, maybe there was an unconscious correlation, in the problems chosen: The study of how fluctuations at multiple scales, can modify order or coherence. This not-so-random walk, continues…