Wherever there are two, there is fear, there is danger, there is conflict, there is strife. When it is all One, who is there to hate, who is there to struggle with? When it is all He, with whom can you fight? This explains the true nature of life; this explains the true nature of being. This is perfection, and this is God. As long as you see the many, you are under delusion.

-- Swami Vivekananda

Curriculum vitae

Name : Anirban Chakraborti                                                                          

Place and Date of Birth : Darjeeling, February 10, 1975

Academic Record

1. Completed secondary examinations from the St. Joseph's School, Darjeeling, India, in the year 1991.

2. Completed higher secondary examinations from the Mount Hermon School, Darjeeling, India, in the year 1993.

3. Completed B. Sc. with Honours in Physics from the Scottish Church  College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, in the year 1996  (won National Scholarship).

4. Completed M. Sc. in Physics from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, in the year 1998 (ranked First).

5. Completed Post M. Sc Associateship Course in 1999 from the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India (ranked First).

6. Completed Ph.D. research from the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India. Submitted Ph. D. thesis in June, 2002 to the Jadavpur University, India. Degree awarded in September, 2003.

    Title of thesis: Application of Statistical Physics to some Econophysics and Optimization Problems
    Supervisor: Prof. Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India.

7. Done post-doctoral research at the Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland, from July, 2002 to August, 2003.

    Mentors: Prof. Kimmo Kaski, Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland and Prof. J. Kertész, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary.

8. Currently a research associate at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA.

Workshops/Schools/Conferences

1. International Summer School on ``Statistical Physics and Probabilistic  Methods in Computer Science: A Primer for Physicists, Mathematicians  & Computer Scientists'', held at the Abdus Salaam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy from August 23-September 3, 1999.

2. International Conference on ``NP-hardness and Phase transitions", held at the Abdus Salaam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy from September 6-10, 1999. Poster presentation entitled ``The Travelling Salesman Problem on Manhattan Metric- A Physicist's  Approach''.

3. SERC School on ``Field Theory in Condensed Matter Systems", held at the Mehta Research Institute, Allahabad, India from February  13-March 4, 2000.

4. International Summer School and Workshop on ``Second School on the Mathematics of Economics'', held at the Abdus Salaam International  Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy from August 21-September 1, 2000. Oral presentation entitled ``The Statistical Mechanics of Money''.

5. One-day seminar on ``Recent Trends in Condensed Matter Physics'', held at the Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India on December  17, 2000. Invited talk entitled ``Application of Statistical Physics to Economics: An Introduction''.

6. Workshop on ``Probability and Statistical Physics'', held at S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences during February 19-23, 2001. Poster presentation entitled ``Study of the distribution functions in the minimal model market''.

7. International Conference ``Conference on Computational Physics (CCP 2001)'', held at Aachen, Germany during September 5-8, 2001. Oral presentation entitled ``Study of the distribution functions in minimal model market''.

8. Invited talk--"Erich Schneider Seminar" at Dept. of Economics, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, on September 18, 2001 entitled ``The Distribution Functions of Money and Commodity Holdings in a Minimal Model of a Market Economy".

9. International Conference STATPHYS-KOLKATA IV, held at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science and S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata during January 14-19, 2002. Poster presentation on ``Distribution Functions of Money in Model Market of Economy".

10. Santa Fe Institute-Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics Joint Workshop on ``Dynamical and Spatially Extended Systems" held at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata on January 21-23, 2002. Poster presentation on ``Market application of percolation theory".

11. Invited talk at the Biophysics and Statistical Mechanics Group, Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland on February 26, 2003, entitled ``An Introduction to the Travelling Salesman Problem".

12. International Conference on "Unconventional Applications of Statistical Physics" held at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata on March 20-22, 2003. Invited talk on ``Biology helps you to win a game". 

13. International Workshop entitled "Workshop on Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting agents 2003" held at the Institute for World Economics, Kiel on May 29-31, 2003. Oral presentation on "Adaptation amongst Heterogeneous Interacting Agents in a model Economy". [PDF]

14. International Conference entitled "91st Statistical Mechanics Conference" held at Rutgers University, New Jersey on May 16-18, 2004. Oral presentation on "Statistical Mechanics of Multiple Local Sequence Alignment".

15. Workshop entitled "BioMaPS/DIMACS/MBBC/PMMB Short Course: Transcriptional Regulation from Molecules to Systems and Beyond" held at the DIMACS Center - Rutgers University, New Jersey on June 21 - 25, 2004.

16. Invited talk at the Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland on July 21, 2004, entitled ``Genome-wide identification of transcription factor binding sites: A Physicist's Viewpoint".

17. Invited talk at the second mini-symposium of the EXYSTENCE Thematic Institute ``From Many-Particle Physics to Multi-Agent Systems" held at the  Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS) in Dresden, Germany on August 23, 2004, entitled ``Adaptive Minority Games''.

18. Workshop ``Multi-Agent Systems - Swarms, Ecology, and Society", held at the  Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS) in Dresden, Germany during August 30-September 3, 2004.

19. Invited talk at the School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India on March 2, 2005 entitled "Correlations and other studies in Financial Time Series".

20. Invited talk at Physics Department, Delhi University, New Delhi, India on March 3, 2005 entitled "Model to study Adaptation in Multi-Agent Systems".

21. Invited Colloquium at Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India on March 9, 2005 entitled "Correlations and other studies in Financial Time Series".

22. Invited lectures at Physics Department, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India on March 11, 2005 entitled "What is Econophysics? Part I and II".

23. Invited talk at the International Workshop on "Econophysics of Wealth Distributions", held at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata on March 15-19, 2005 entitled "A Physicist's attempt to model wealth distributions in Economic systems".

24. One-day Special Plenary Session of the Conference in Computational Physics (CCP2005), held at Los Angeles, California on March 20, 2005.

25. March Meeting of the American Physical Society, held at Los Angeles, California, during March 21-25, 2005. Oral presentation on "Statistical model with a standard Gamma distribution".

26. Informal Seminar at the Bussemaker Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York on April 13, 2005 entitled "What is Econophysics?".

27. Invited Seminar at the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, Maryland on May 3, 2005 entitled "Econophysics: Analyses & Modelling".

28. International Conference entitled "93rd Statistical Mechanics Conference" held at Rutgers University, New Jersey on May 15-17, 2005. Oral presentation on "Statistical Mechanics of Money Savings".

Scientific visits

1. The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy during  August 21- September 10, 1999.

2. The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy during August 20-September 01, 2000.

3.  The University of Cologne, Dept. for Theoretical Physics, Cologne, Germany during September 8-15, 2001.

4. The University of Kiel, Dept. of Economics, Kiel, Germany during September 16-21, 2001.

5. The Institute of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary, during October 25- November 8, 2002.

6. Rutgers University, Dept. of Physics, New Jersey, USA January 9, 2004--.

7. King's College, Dept. of Mathematics, London, UK during July 9-18, 2004.

8. Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland during July 18-25, 2004.

9. The EXYSTENCE Thematic Institute ``From Many-Particle Physics to Multi-Agent Systems" held at the  Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS) in Dresden, Germany during August 20-September 16, 2004.

10. School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Department of Physics, Delhi University, New Delhi, India during March 1-4, 2005.

11. Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India during March 5-10, 2005.

12. Bose Institute, Kolkata, India during March 10-14, 2005.

13. Kelloggs School of Management, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA on April 25, 2005.

List of Publications

(a) Publications in Journals

1. ``Anomalous transmission in a hierarchical lattice'', Anirban Chakraborti, Bibhas Bhattacharyya and Arunava Chakrabarti, Phys. Rev. B 61, 7395 (2000).
[preprint] [PDF]

2. ``The travelling salesman problem on randomly diluted lattices: Results for small-size systems'', Anirban Chakraborti and Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Eur. Phys. J. B 16, 677 (2000).
[preprint] [PDF]

3. ``Statistical mechanics of money: How saving propensity affects its distribution'', Anirban Chakraborti and Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Eur. Phys. J. B 17, 167 (2000).
[preprint] [PDF]

4. ``A self-organising model of market with single commodity'', Anirban Chakraborti, Srutarshi Pradhan and Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Physica A 297, 253 (2001).
[preprint] [PDF]

5. ``The Euclidean travelling salesman problem: Frequency distribution of neighbours for small-size systems'', Anirban Chakraborti, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 12, 857 (2001).
[preprint] [PDF]

6. ``Market application of the percolation model: Relative price distribution'', Anirban Chakraborti, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 13, 25 (2002).
[preprint] [PDF]

7. ``Distributions of money in model markets of economy'', Anirban Chakraborti, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 13, 1315 (2002).
[preprint] [PDF]

8. ``Dynamic asset trees and portfolio analysis", J.-P. Onnela, A. Chakraborti, K. Kaski and J. Kertész, Eur. Phys. J. B 30, (Rapid Note) 285-288 (2002).
[preprint] [PDF]

9. ``Adaptation using hybridized genetic crossover strategies", M. Sysi-Aho, A. Chakraborti and K. Kaski, Physica A 322, 701 (2003).
[preprint] [PDF] 

10. ``Intelligent Minority Game with genetic-crossover strategies", M. Sysi-Aho, A. Chakraborti and K. Kaski, Eur. Phys. J. B 34, 373 (2003).
[preprint] [PDF]  

11. ``Dynamics of market correlations: Taxonomy and portfolio analysis", J.-P. Onnela, A. Chakraborti, K. Kaski, J. Kertész and A. Kanto, Phys. Rev. E 68, 056110 (2003).
[preprint] [PDF]

12. ``Searching good strategies in adaptive minority games", M. Sysi-Aho, A. Chakraborti and K. Kaski, Phys. Rev. E 69, 036125 (2004).
[preprint] [PDF]

13. ``A statistical model with a standard Gamma distribution", M. Patriarca, A. Chakraborti and K. Kaski, Phys. Rev. E 70, 016104 (2004).
[preprint] [PDF]

14. ``Financial and other spatio-temporal time series: Long-range correlations & Spectral properties", A. Chakraborti and M.S. Santhanam, accepted for publication in Int. J. Mod. Phys. C (2005).
[PDF]

(b) Publications as Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

15. ``Dynamic asset trees and Black Monday", J.-P. Onnela, A. Chakraborti, K. Kaski and J. Kertész, Physica A 324, 247 (2003).
[preprint] [PDF] 

16. ``Biology helps you to win a game", M. Sysi-Aho, A. Chakraborti and K. Kaski, Physica Scripta T106, 32 (2003).
[preprint] [PDF] 

17. ``Asset trees and asset graphs in financial markets", J.-P. Onnela, A. Chakraborti, K. Kaski, J. Kertész and A. Kanto, Physica Scripta T106, 48 (2003).
[preprint] [PDF]

18. ``Gibbs versus non-Gibbs distributions in money dynamics", M. Patriarca, A. Chakraborti and K. Kaski, Physica A 340, 334 (2004).
[preprint] [PDF]

(c) Publications as other Conference/Symposium Proceedings

19. ``Statistical Physics of the Travelling Salesman Problem'', Bikas K. Chakrabarti and Anirban Chakraborti, Indian J. Theo. Phys. 47, 1 (1999).
[preprint] [PDF]

20.  "Kinetic theory models for the distribution of wealth: power law from overlap of exponentials", Marco Patriarca, Anirban Chakraborti, Kimmo Kaski, Guido Germano, physics/0504153 (2005), invited book chapter in "Econophysics of Wealth Distributions", Chatterjee, Arnab; Yarlagadda, Sudhakar; Chakrabarti, Bikas K. (Eds.).
 [preprint] [PDF]

(d) Papers in pre-print servers

21. ``The average distance of the n-th neighbour in a uniform distribution of random points", Pratip Bhattacharyya, Bikas K. Chakrabarti and Anirban Chakraborti, cond-mat/0104139 (2001).
[preprint] [PDF]

22. "Influence of saving propensity on the power law tail of wealth distribution", Marco Patriarca, Anirban Chakraborti, and Guido Germano, physics/0506028 (2005).
 [preprint] [PDF]

(e) Work in progress

23. ``Econophysics: Basic concepts, analyses & modelling", A. Chakraborti, invited book chapter to be published in Springer, Eds. D. Stauffer and T. Lux (2005).

24. ``Statistical Mechanics of Multiple Local Sequence Alignment", A. Chakraborti and A.M. Sengupta (2005).

25. ``Simple models of Economy dynamics on Social Networks", A. Chakraborti, M. Patriarca, R. Carvalho and G. Iori (2004). Presented at the ``Verhulst 200 Chaos meeting" at Brussels on September 16-18, 2004.

26. ``Minority Game with Groups of Heterogeneous Agents", A. Chakraborti, M. Sysi-Aho and T. Platkowski, to be submitted to Advances in Complex Systems.

Teaching and Supervision experience

Statistical Physics Tutorial Classes, Post M. Sc. Course, First semester, 2001 at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India.

Co-supervisor (Instructor) of M. Sc. Thesis of Mr. J.-P. Onnela entitled ``Taxonomy of Financial Assets'' at Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland (2002). 

Presently co-supervising Ph. D theses of Mr. J.-P. Onnela and Mr. M. Sysi-Aho at Laboratory of Computational Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.

Professional Activities

Reviewer of papers submitted to journals Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, European Physical Journal B, Management Science (Special Issue).

Member of the Advisory Committee for the International Conference "Unconventional Applications of Statistical Physics", Kolkata, 2003.

Member of the American Physical Society.

References:

Upon request.