- Official Email: [email protected]
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- Ph no: (602) 475-6262
- Website: kswanand95.me
- Location: Tempe, USA and Nagpur, IN
Doctoral student in the department of Physics and the beyond center at Arizona State University, USA. I am working in the research group of Prof Sara Walker on the broad topics realted to physics of life, evolution of complex systems and collective computation in plants. Along with that, my other areas of interests are origins of life, understanding adaptation in complex adaptive systems.
Arizona State University (ASU) | 2019-2025 (expected) | Tempe, AZ, USA
Thesis supervisor: Prof Sara Imari Walker
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) | 2013-2018 | Pune, MH, India
Masters thesis: Einstein-Cartan-Dirac (ECD) Theory
Thesis supervisor: Prof TP Singh, Tata Institute of Fundamnetal Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India
[In preparation, submitted]
- George Bassel; Gwendolyn V. Davis; Tatiana de Souza Moraes; Swanand Khanapurkar; Hannah Dromiack; Zaki Ahmad; Emmanuelle Bayer; Rishi Bhalerao; Sara I. Walker, Towards uncovering an operating system in plant organs, Trends in Plant Science (2023)
[Published]
- Swanand Khanapurkar, Abhinav Varma, Nehal Mittal, Navya Gupta and T. P. Singh, Einstein-Cartan-Dirac equations in the Newman-Penrose formalism, Phys.Rev. D98 (2018) no.6, 064046.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.064046 - Swanand Khanapurkar and T. P. Singh, A duality between curvature and torsion, Int. J. Mod. Phys, Vol. 27, No. 14, 1847008 (2018). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271818470089
- Swanand Khanapurkar, Arnab Pradhan, Vedant Dhruv and T. P. Singh, Nonrelativistic limit of Einstein-Cartan-Dirac equation, Phys.Rev. D98 (2018) no.10,104027. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.104027
- Masters Thesis: The Einstein-Cartan-Dirac Theory
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10621
- Swanand Khanapurkar, The Big Picture: A Physicist’s Perspective on Purpose, Lokmat Oxygen Oct 2019
The original article can be accessed here. The English translation is here
- PHY122 | Classsical Machanics Lab | Fall 2019 (in-person), Summer 2020 (online)
- PHY101 | Introductory Physics lab | Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
- PHY131 | Classical Electrodynamics lab | Spring 2021
- Presented a talk titled Uncovering the operating system of trees using the approach of 'cellular' automaton at the Conference on Complex Systems (CCS)-2022, Palma De Mallorca, Spain in October 2022
- Presented a talk titled Multiscale information procesing model of the dormant aspen bud at the HFSP annual meeting at Bordeaux, France in June 2022
- Participant in Infinite turtles or Ground truth, a workshop organized by the Beyond center for the fundamental concepts in science, ASU, Tempe, USA in May 2022
- Participant in Beyond COVID-19, a workshop organized by the Beyond center for the fundamental concepts in science, ASU, Tempe, USA in May 2020
- Mind and Machines- debates on the nature of intelligence from interdisciplinary perspective at National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), IISc, Bangalore, India in December 2017
- National Science Camp (VIJYOSHI), KVPY At Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India in the summer of 2014
- Software, Programming languages: Python (networkx, MESA, pandas, PyInform, scikit-learn, scipy, numpy), Wolfram Mathematica, LaTex, Netlogo, Digital Zettlekasten (Obsidian and Tana), Venism, MS Office, Mindmaps.
- Natural languages: Marathi (mother tongue), Hindi, English; fluent in all three.
- NIRMAN (2016 - current): I have been associated with an organization called NIRMAN since 2016. I am a part of its extended team
- SPICMACAY (2015-2018): I volunteered for the IISSER-Pune chapter of SPICMACAY
- DISHA: I Volunteered in Disha (2013-2015), a voluntary student run social organization of IISER Pune and Conducted various science popularization activities for underprivilidged school students.
- [2018] Honorable mention, in the ‘awards for essays on gravitation’ by Gravity Research Foundation (GRF). Essay can be accessed here.
- [2013] INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE) by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India.
- [2010] Second prize in the ‘NASA Ames space settlement design contest’ by National Space Society (NSS) in collaboration with NASA, USA.
- [2009] National Talent Search Scholarship (NTSE Scholarship) by National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), India.