Himalaya Senapati

Here is a pdf copy of my CV and Research statement .

Education

Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India (2010-present)

• Research scholar working towards Ph.D in Theoretical Physics.
  Advisor: Govind S. Krishnaswami.

• Master of Science in Physics, 2015.

• Bachelor of Science in Physics, 2013.

Papers

1. Classical three rotor problem: periodic solutions, stability and chaos, G. S. Krishnaswami and H. Senapati, Chaos 29 (12), 123121 (2019) (Editor's pick, Featured article). doi:10.1063/1.5110032, arXiv:1811.05807 [nlin.CD].

2. Stability and chaos in the classical three rotor problem, G. S. Krishnaswami and H. Senapati, Indian Academy of Sciences Conference Series 2(1),139-143 (2019). arXiv:1810.01317 [nlin.CD].

3. Curvature and geodesic instabilities in a geometrical approach to the planar three-body problem, G. S. Krishnaswami and H. Senapati, J. Math. Phys. 57, 102901 (2016) (Featured Article). doi:10.1063/1.4964340, arXiv:1606.05091 [math-phys].

Expository

1. An introduction to the classical three-body problem: From periodic solutions to instabilities and chaos, G. S. Krishnaswami and H. Senapati, Resonance 24, 87-114 (2019). doi:10.1007/s12045-019-0760-1, arXiv:1901.07289 [nlin.CD].

   • Indexed in Physics4me and The Net Advance of Physics.

Chapters

1. On a theorem of Lambert: Medians in spherical and hyperbolic geometries, H. Senapati, 57-65. doi:10.1063/1.4964340.

2. Inscribing a triangle in a circle in spherical geometry, H. Senapati, 67-79. doi:10.1063/1.4964340.

3. Monotonicity in spherical and hyperbolic triangles, H. Senapati, 81-91. doi:10.1063/1.4964340.

Preprints

1. Ergodicity, mixing and recurrence in the three rotor problem, G. S. Krishnaswami and H. Senapati, e-print arXiv:1910.04455 (2019).

Awards and Honors

• CMI Research Fellowship, Awarded by Chennai Mathematical Institute, 2013-present.

• KVPY Fellowship, Awarded by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, 2008-2013.

• Best Poster Presentation Award at the Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics, IIT Kanpur, 2019.

• National Child Award for Exceptional Achievement, Awarded by Department of Women and Child Development, Govt. of India in 2008 for performance in the fields of Mathematics and Astronomy.

• Silver in XII International Astronomy Olympiad, 2007.

• Qualified Indian National Mathematics Olympiad, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.

• Qualified Indian National Astronomy Olympiad, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.

• Qualified Zonal Informatics Olympiad, 2009.

Travel grants

• International Travel Support grant awarded by SERB, India (2017).

• Oberwolfach Leibniz Graduate Students travel grant awarded by MFO, Germany (2018).

Schools and Workshops

• Statistical Physics of Machine Learning, Jan 6 - 10, 2020 (ICTS, Bengaluru).

• Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics, Dec 12 - 15, 2019 (IIT Kanpur).

• CIMPA school on Finsler geometry and applications, Dec 5 - 15, 2019 (BHU, Varanasi).

• Workshop on Data Analysis and Machine Learning, May 24 - 28, 2019 (IISER Tirupati).

• Workshop on Topological Dynamics, Number Theory and related areas, Jan 04 - 13, 2019 (RKMVERI, Belur Math).

• New Trends in Teichmüller Theory and Mapping Class Groups, Sep 02 - 08, 2018 (MFO, Oberwolfach).

• SERB School on Nonlinear dynamics, January 02 - 29, 2018 (SPPU, Pune).

• Geometry, Groups and Dynamics, November 06 - 24, 2017 (ICTS, Bengaluru).

• Probabilistic and statistical methods for networks, August 21 - September 1, 2017 (BMS Summer School, Berlin).

Talks

• Poster presentation on Ergodicity, mixing and recurrence in the classical three rotor problem at CNSD, IIT Kanpur (Dec 2019) [Got the Best poster presentation award].

• IPA colloquium on Instabilities and chaos in the three rotor problem at BHU Varanasi (Dec 2019).

• Poster presentation on Instabilities, chaos and ergodicity in the classical three rotor problem at IISER Tirupati (May 2019).

• Seminars at CMI

  • Lectures on non-linear time series analysis (Sep 2019).

  • Periodic orbits and stability in the classical three-rotor problem (Jan 2019).

  • A geometrical approach to the classical three body problem (Oct 2017).

  • Classical Three Body Problem and Stability Analysis (May 2015).

  • 2D Ising Model: Analytic and Numerical approaches (Apr 2013).

Past Research Experience

• Classical three body problem and stability analysis with G S Krishnaswami (M.Sc. Thesis, 2015).

• 2D Ising Model: Analytic and Numerical approaches with G S Krishnaswami (B.Sc. Thesis, 2013).

• Renormalization group approach to Ising model with G S Krishnaswami (May 2012).

• Experimental rheology on macro and micro gels with B V R Tata, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (December 2011).

• Mossbauer Spectroscopy of $Fe^{57}$ with R Govindaraj, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (July 2011).

• Gamma Ray Spectroscopy with R Rajaraman, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (May 2011).

• Pulsar Emission Properties with Dipanjan Mitra, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (December 2010).

Others

• Participated as an organizational member of the Academic team in the $10^{th}$ International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Bhubaneswar, December 2016.

• Competent in Python and Mathematica. Some knowledge of Java, C++ and Matlab.

• Taught at winter camps for children selected in Rural Mathematics Talent Search, Orissa, 2010 and 2012.