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October 2026

• The paper titled "Explaining the Fibonacci order in the period-doubling cascade to chaos " authored by Aarsh Chotalia, P Parmananda  has been published in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science . Read the full paper here:  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0353533.

August 2026

• The paper titled "Experimental evidence of double explosive synchronization in multilayer oscillator networks " authored by Taniya Khatun*, Md Sayeed Anwar*, P Parmananda  has been published in Physical Review E. Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1103/vvrf-qd6f.

July 2026

• Dr. Taniya Khatun, a former post-doctoral researcher from our institution, recently visited our lab for collaboration on project.

• Ratan Sarkar and Sapna Yadav attended CNSD 2026 organised at IISER Thiruvandrum. Ratan presented poster on "Experimental  three-state chimera in active rotors", and presented poster on "Experimental verification of stochastic resetting in active particles "

June 2026

• Aditi Bose, a research scholar from IIIT Hyderabad visited the lab for 1 month and worked on Brainwaves synchronization and cognitive activities.

May 2026

• The paper titled "Dynamics of Marangoni-driven elliptical Janus particles " authored by Pabitra Masanta, Ratan Sarkar, Punit Parmananda, Raghunath Chelakkot  has been published in Soft Matter. Read the full paper here:  https://doi.org/10.1039/d5sm01270h. 

• The paper titled "Resetting without resetting: An alternate strategy to experimentally verify optimal mean first passage time under stochastic resetting " authored by Abhishek Thakur*, Shrutija Swain*, Aarsh Chotalia*, P Parmananda  has been published in Physical Review E (Lettters). Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1103/pz27-bn88 .

• Prof. Punit Parmananda, Ratan Sarkar, and Sapna Yadav attended Gordon Research Conference and Seminar held at Les Diablerets, Switzerland. Prof. Parmananda was discussion leader of "Collective behavior, self-organization and self-assembly". Ratan gave a talk on "Dynamics of Marangoni driven ellipitical Janus particles" at GRS and presented poster on "Experimental  three-state chimera in active rotors" at GRC, and Sapna presented a poster on "Designing logic gates using active particles" at GRS and "Experimental verification of stochastic resetting in active particles " at GRC. 

April 2026

• Prof. Luca Giuggioli from the University of Bristol and Prof. Shamik Gupta from TIFR Mumbai, along with his students, visited our lab for 1 day.  

January 2026

• The paper titled "Role of visual brainwave entrainment on the resting state brainwaves of children with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder" authored by Sandhya Basu, Richa Phogat, Mayur Jartarkar, Bidisha Banerjee, Punit Parmananda  has been published in Applied Neuropsychology: Child. Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2024.2377656 

• Our group participated in the CDSA 2026 organized at Dhirubhai Ambani University, Gandhinagar. Prof. Punit gave a talk on "Synchronization and navagtion of active droplets".  Aarsh, Ratna, Sapna, and Aaryan gave talks at this conference. Furthermore, Ratan won the best talk award at the conference. Congratulations to all.

• Prof. Tomasz Kapitaniak from University of Lodz, Poland visited our lab for 3 days.

December 2025

• The paper titled "Confinement-induced intermittent motion of a camphor-infused paper disk " authored by Pampa Dey, Aarsh Chotalia, Anirban Sain, Amitabha Nandi, P Parmananda has been published in Physical Review E. Read the full paper here:  https://doi.org/10.1103/6wp7-lz6k. 

• The paper titled "Aging transition in a network of Wien-bridge oscillators" authored by Taniya Khatun*, Sapna Yadav*, Aryan Nagpal*, and P. Parmananda has been published in Physical Review E. Read the full paper here:  https://doi.org/10.1103/vyc4-mzsh.

• The paper titled "Designing logic gates using active particles" authored by Sapna Yadav*, Aarsh Chotalia*, Veronique Pimienta, Sudeshna Sinha, P Parmananda  has been published in Physical Review E. Read the full paper here:  https://doi.org/10.1103/gynr-fdhv.

August 2025

• Dr. Sayeed Anwar joined the lab as post-doctoral fellow.

May 2025

• The paper titled "Optimal energy pumping in an entrained neural system by frequency shuffling" authored by Aarsh Chotalia, Richa Phogat, P Parmananda has been published in Physical Review E (Letters). Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1103/255z-rdzp .

• The paper titled "Blink it to sync it: Experimental evidence of synchronization of human brainwaves subjected to common photic forcing" authored by Aarsh Chotalia, Sapna Yadav, Richa Phogat, P Parmananda has been published in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0276609 .

• The paper titled "Anticipating synchronization in electrochemical systems" authored by R Vidal, J Escalona, M Rivera, A Flores-Rosas, Fernando Montoya, Tanushree Roy, P Parmananda has been published in Physical Review E. Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.064206 .

April 2025

• The paper titled "Brainwaves and their entrainment influence the processing speeds of in-congruent stimuli" Brainwaves and their entrainment influence the processing speeds of in-congruent stimuli authored by Richa Phogat, Sandhya Basu, Aarsh Chotalia, Bidisha Banerjee and P. Parmananda has been published in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals . Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2025.116410 .

March 2025

• Dr. Shiva Dixit, a former post-doctoral researcher from our institution, recently visited our lab for collaboration on multiple projects.

• The paper titled "Experimental evidence of community switching en route to global synchronization" authored by Sapna Yadav*, Taniya Khatun*, Heirtami Paswet*, and P. Parmananda  has been published in  Physical Review E. Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.034204 .

• Professor Tatsu Sakurai and Dr. Hitoshi Mahara, a former postdoctoral researcher from our group, visited our lab for a week.

February 2025

• Dr. Marco has come to our lab for a month to collaborate on several projects.

• The paper titled "Run-and-tumble-like motion of a camphor-infused Marangoni swimmer" authored by Pampa Dey*, Abhishek Thakur*, Aarsh Chotalia, Amitabha Nandi, and P. Parmananda has been published in Soft Matter. Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SM01363H.

December 2024

• A paper titled "Stationary and libration motion in two coupled rotors: Theoretical and experimental study"  authored by, Monish B.,  Abhishek Thakur,  Ratan Sarkar,  K. Ujjwal Singh, Jyoti Sharma,  Ishant Tiwari,  Suresh Kumarasamy,  Sangeeta D. Gadre,  P. Parmananda and  A. Prasad has been published in Physical Review E. Read here: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.064208

September 2024

• A paper titled "Surface tension gradient invoked path selection"  authored by Anjuman Ara Khatun*, Aarsh Chotalia*, Kalpita Das, Shiva Dixit and P. Parmananda, has beem published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Read here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CP01832J

August 2024

• Roxana Vidal from UAEM - Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (Mexico) visited the lab for three months. She worked on synchronization of self-propelled disks.

July 2024

• Prof. Punit Parmananda, Pampa Dey and Aarsh Chotalia attended Gordon Research Conference and Seminar held at Les Diablerets, Switzerland. Prof. Parmananda delivered a talk on "Quest for Experimental Chimera-like States". Pampa gave a talk on "Run and tumble like motion of a Marangoni Swimmer" and Aarsh presented a poster on "Chemical Intelligence by active particles". 

April 2024

• Dr. Shiva Dixit, a former post-doctoral researcher from our institution, recently visited our lab for collaboration on multiple projects.

March 2024

• Dr. Tanya Khatun has joined our lab as an institute Post-Doc. 

• Our group participated in the SymPhy organized by the physics department of IIT Bombay. Pampa  gave a talk at this conference whereas Anjuman, Aarsh and Sapna presented posters entailing their works. Furthermore, Aarsh won the best poster award at the conference. Congratulations to all.

Feb 2024

• Dr. Marco has come to our lab for a month to collaborate on several projects.

• Dr. Tanushree Roy,  a distinguished alumnus of the lab, paid a visit to the lab and presented her recent research work.

Jan 2024

• Aarsh Chotalia and Pampa Dey presented their work on "Chemical Intelligence" and "Dynamics of run, tumble and rest of a Marangoni swimmer" respectively at conference on CDSA (Complex Dynamical Systems and Applications) organized by ISI ,Kolkata.

• Dr. Richa Phogat, a distinguished alumnus of the lab, paid a visit to the lab and presented the recent research work she has been conducting as a post-doc at the University of Newcastle.

Nov 2023

• The paper titled "A memory-based approach to model glorious uncertainties of love", authored by Aarsh Chotalia, Shiva Dixit and Punit Parmananda, has been published in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 

• Illustrious alumnus Dr. Ishant Tiwari visited the lab and presented his recent work on "Optimal unravelling of tangled filaments".

Sept 2023

• Prof. Punit Parmananda gave a talk on "Quest for experimental chimeras" at IIT Bhubaneswar.