Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi
Oral history interview with Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, 2021 July 14.
In this interview, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Director of The Chatterjee Group - Centers of Research in Education, Science, and Technology, discusses his time working in the United States and India. He discusses his time at Northwestern University as an advisee of John Ketterson and his work with liquid crystals. He also speaks about the interplay between experiment and theory. Bhattacharya details his time as a James Franck Fellow at the University of Chicago and his collaboration with Sid Nagel on the glass transition of glycerol. He speaks about his experience working on charge density waves at Exxon, as well as his discovery of the pseudo-gap phase while there. He discusses working at NEC with vortex phases in type-II superconductors. Bhattacharya reflects on the joy he found teaching physics to undergraduate students. He details his time working at Ashoka University where he was allowed the opportunity to create an undergraduate education framework and build a physics department. Lastly, Bhattacharya discusses the importance of incorporating science into culture.
Sabyasachi Bhattacharya is the Director of The Chatterjee Group, Centers of Research in Education, Science, and Technology (TCG CREST). He completed his graduate studies in physics at Northwestern University and postdoctoral research at the National Magnet Laboratory at MIT. Bhattacharya has also worked at Exxon Corporate Research Laboratory, the University of Chicago, and the Tata Institute in India.
Ketterson, J. B. (John Boyd)
Letcher, Stephen V.,
Nagel, Sidney R.
Ashoka University
Exxon Corporation
NEC Corporation.
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
University of Chicago
University of Delhi
Charge density waves.
Condensed matter. fast
Glass transition temperature
Liquid crystals.
Physics -- Study and teaching
Superconductors.
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Zierler, David, 1979- interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA