About my lectures etc.
My google scholar page (not terribly updated)
The Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Lecture Series
Selected recent lectures -
Centre for Technology Foresight and Policy Lecture at Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, 2024
91st RUSA Lecture at Bharatidasan University, 2023
Steel Lecture at IIT Bombay, 2017
Interview with John and Matt (Podcast), 2019
PBS Stem Spots Interview with Prof David Cornelison, 2019
Some of my favorite papers
(not easy to find ..., if you have difficulty accessing these papers somehow, please drop me a mail at sen@buffalo.edu)
Novel and highly complex granular breathing
Sen, S and Simion, R.P. "Non-linear resonance-like processes in confined driven granular alignments and energy harvesting," June 2011. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part I Journal of Systems and Control Engineering 225(4):522-529
A Study of Chimpanzee Societies (using Molecular Dynamics)
Matthew Westley, Surajit Sen and Anindya Sinha, Newtonian Chimpanzees: A molecular dynamics approach to understanding decision making by wild chimpanzees, In: Nature’s Longest Threads: New Frontiers in the Mathematics and Physics of Information in Biology (eds. Balakrishnan J and Sreekantan BV), Chapter 8, World Scientific Lecture Notes in Complex Systems. World Scientific, Singapore, 2014), pp 81-102.
Study of strategic land battles
Westley, Alexandra, et al. "Study of simple land battles using agent-based modeling: Strategy and emergent phenomena." International Journal of Modern Physics B 31.10 (2017): 1742002. https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/S0217979217420024?casa_token=D4aKylE855IAAAAA:DfEUPdeV0c2p_cWoTt6kRhngxB75_XGRWlLgSuYCvCDtKCbrY2KJnCiCOowf0CEWSX6qZhRfQkE
How to amplify voice frequency with granular chains
Luis Machado, Cody Kowal, Rafael Suzuki Bayma and Surajit Sen, Mechanical signals controlled by inverse tapered chains, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156, 1241-1251 (2024)
How to recover useful energy from noise using a granular system
Sourish Chakravarty and Surajit Sen, Characterization of solitary waves in a granular chain under short duration random loading, Granular Matter 20:42, pp 1-10 (2018)
Rogue Fluctuations
Rahul Kashyap and Surajit Sen, Rogue fluctuations in the strongly nonlinear, non-integrable 1D systems, Mechanics Research Communications, 132, 104179 (2023).
A way to deal with non-convergent series
Surajit Sen and Tyler J Barrett, Solving the Liouville equation to probe relaxation in strongly nonlinear systems, International Journal of Modern Physics B 36, 2240077 (2022).
COVID Spread in New York State (Agent based study)
Amitava Datta, Peter Winkelstein and Surajit Sen, An agent-based model of spread of a pandemic with validation using COVID-19 data from New York State, Physica A 585, 126401 (2022).
Study of elections - toy model
Mukesh Tiwari, Xiguang Yang and Surajit Sen, Modeling the nonlinear effects of opinion kinematics in elections: A simple Ising model with random field based study, Physica A 582, 126287 (2021).
A strange new solitary wave in a granular chain
Tengfei Jiao, Weizhong Chen, Yoichi Takato, Surajit Sen, and Decai Huang, Revisiting Nesterenko’s solitary wave in the precompressed granular alignment held between fixed ends, Granular Matter 25, 17 (2023). (Invited, Special Issue on Wave Propagation in Granular Materials)
Here's a study of how to hear the inaudible
Elbens Carlos Viana Reis, Luis Paulo Silveira Machado, Surajit Sen, Infrasound amplification using simple strongly nonlinear granular metamaterials, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 178, 2025, 105160 ISSN 0020-7462, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2025.105160.(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020746225001489)