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Research themes and interests in Srikanth Sastry’s group are broadly in the area of statistical mechanics, with a focus on understanding a range of unusual and interesting properties of liquids and other soft condensed matter, which are addressed with computation as a major tool. Some of the areas of research activity are: Slow dynamics and routes to structural arrest (glass transition, gelation, jamming, etc.) in supercooled liquids and other soft matter systems (colloids, gels, granular material). Mechanical properties of glasses and other amorphous solids, their yielding behaviour and memory effects. Routes to jamming in sphere packings and geometric aspects of jammed packings. Self assembly in soft matter, and inverse design of materials. Anomalous properties: liquid-liquid phase transition in network forming liquids. Statistical mechanical models of biological behaviour. Other (ongoing and prospective) areas of interest include the use of machine learning to understand the relatio

Research themes and interests in Srikanth Sastry’s group are broadly in the area of statistical mechanics, with a focus on understanding a range of unusual and interesting properties of liquids and other soft condensed matter, which are addressed with computation as a major tool. Some of the areas of research activity are: Slow dynamics and routes to structural arrest (glass transition, gelation, jamming, etc.) in supercooled liquids and other soft matter systems (colloids, gels, granular material). Mechanical properties of glasses and other amorphous solids, their yielding behaviour and memor