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Vasudev
(Nitant) Mangesh Kenkre |
Professor of
Physics
University of New Mexico
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Office: P&A 35
Albuquerque, NM - 87131
(505) 277-4846
Web Site : http://panda.unm.edu/kenkre
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Education :
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M.A. and Ph.D. (Physics) SUNY Stony
Brook, 1971
B. Tech. (Electr. Eng.) I.I.T. Bombay,
1968;
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Research Interests :
Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics,
theoretical solid state physics, and nonlinear science. Particularly
quantum transport theory, sensitized luminescence and exciton/electron
dynamics in molecular solids, cross-disciplinary topics such
as photosynthesis, and work on unconventional topics of interdisciplinary
interest as in the statistical mechanics of granular materials,
and the theory of sintering of ceramics under microwaves. Also
self-trapping, solitons, and nonlinear phenomena, theory of
scanning tunneling microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance in
confined geometries, transport of charges, excitons, and polarons,
energy transfer and dynamic disorder in molecular aggregates,
vibrational relaxation in liquids, fractals, and master equation
and random walk techniques. Recent work has concentrated on
decoherence in nanostructures, formation/tunneling of Bose-
Einstein condensates, flow and stress distribution of granular
materials, ecological systems, growth phenomena, laser damage,
and reaction diffusion systems. Generally transport and response
phenomena in complex systems.
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Professional Activities:
| Director, Consortium
of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science (U. of New Mexico)
Director, Center for Advanced Studies (Univ.
of New Mexico)
Adjunct Professor, of Physics (Univ. of Pune,
India)
Visiting Professor, CNR Bologna, Italy, Univ.
Federal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Institute for Mathematical
Modeling, Denmark, Biophysical Institute, Pisa, Italy, Stanford
University, Stanford, Max Planck Institut & Universitaet
Stuttgart, Germany, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg,
France, Universitaet Ulm, Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany)
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Awards and Honors :
11/98 Elected Fellow of the American
Physical Society
05/01 UNM Award for Outstanding Contributions
to International Research Outreach |
Recent Publications :
V.M. Kenkre: Exciton
Dynamics in Molecular Crystals and Aggregates: the Master
Equation Approach, Springer Tracts in Modern Physics,
Vol. 94, ed. G. Hoehler (Springer, Berlin,
1982).
V. M. Kenkre: Thermally Induced Limit
Cycles in the Nonlinear Theory of Fluorescence Depolarization,
J. Phys. Chem. 98, 7371-7375 (1994).
V. M. Kenkre, S. Raghavan, L. Cruzeiro-Hansson:
Thermal Stability of Extended Nonlinear Structures Related
to the Davydov Soliton, Phys. Rev. B 49,
9511-9522 (1994).
V. M. Kenkre: Aspects of Dynamic Disorder
in Charge Transport in Polymers, Proc. of the International
Society for Optical Engineering, ed. S. Ducharme and P. M.
Borsenberger, 2526, 49-52 (1995).
D. H. Dunlap, P. E. Parris, V. M. Kenkre:
Charge-Dipole Model for the Universal Field-Dependence
of Mobilities in Molecularly-doped Polymers, Phys. Rev.
Letters 77, 542-545 (1996).
V. M. Kenkre: What do Polarons Owe to
their Harmonic Origins? in Fluctuations and Nonlinearity,
ed. G. P. Tsironis and E. Economou, Physica D 113,
233-241 (1998).
V. M. Kenkre: Four Stages in the Study
of Electron-Phonon Interactions, J. Luminescence 76/77,
511-517 (1998).
S. Raghavan, A. Smerzi, V. M. Kenkre: Transitions
in Coherent Oscillations between Two Trapped Bose-Einstein
Condensates, Phys. Rev. A 60, R1787-R1790
(1999).
V. M. Kenkre, S. Raghavan: Dynamic Localization
and Related Resonance Phenomena, J. Optics B: Quantum
Semiclass. Opt. 2, 686-693 (2000).
P. E. Parris, V. M. Kenkre, D. H. Dunlap:
Nature of Charge Carriers in Disordered Molecular Solids:
are Polarons Compatible with Observations, Phys. Rev.
Lett, 87, 126601 1-4 (2001).
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