Professor Apala Majumdar
Mathematics and Statistics
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Prize And Awards
- Fellowship of Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Recipient
- 9/4/2024
- Turner Kirk Fellowship, Isaac Newton Institute
- Recipient
- 1/8/2023
- Kirk Distinguished Fellowship at Isaac Newton Institut, Cambridge
- Recipient
- 1/8/2023
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
- Recipient
- 14/11/2022
- Suffrage Science Award in Mathematics
- Recipient
- 11/2020
- British Liquid Crystal Society Cyril Hilsum Medal
- Recipient
- 2020
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Publications
- Particle-based and continuum models for confined nematics in two dimensions
- Híjar Humberto, Majumdar Apala
- Soft Matter (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d3sm01684f
- The radial hedgehog solution in the Landau–de Gennes theory : effects of the bulk potentials
- McLauchlan Sophie, Han Yucen, Langer Matthias, Majumdar Apala
- Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Vol 459 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2023.134019
- Tunable templating of photonic microparticles via liquid crystal order-guided adsorption of amphiphilic polymers in emulsions
- Ma Xu, Han Yucen, Zhang Yan-Song, Geng Yong, Majumdar Apala, Lagerwall Jan P F
- Nature Communications Vol 15 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45674-5
- Stochastic effects on solution landscapes for nematic liquid crystals
- Dalby James Luke, Majumdar Apala, Wu Yue, Dond Asha Kisan
- Liquid Crystals (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2023.2294960
- A multi-faceted study of nematic order reconstruction in microfluidic channels
- Dalby James, Han Yucen, Majumdar Apala, Mrad Lidia
- SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics Vol 83, pp. 2284-2309 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1137/22M1490909
- A reduced Landau-de Gennes study for nematic equilibria in three-dimensional prisms
- Han Yucen, Shi Baoming, Zhang Lei, Majumdar Apala
- IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics Vol 88, pp. 645-676 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxad031
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Professional Activities
- 3rd International Conference of Applied Mathematics in Science and Engineering
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 25/7/2024
- SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (MS24) (Event)
- Advisor
- 20/5/2024
- Siebold-Collegium is the Institute for Advanced Studies (SCIAS) of Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) (External organisation)
- Member
- 5/2024
- WIAS seminar
- Speaker
- 16/4/2024
- Spring School on Mathematical Advances for Complex Materials with Microstructures
- Invited speaker
- 8/4/2024
- Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 1/4/2024
Projects
- Using Solution Landscapes to Engineer New Soft Material Devices
- Majumdar, Apala (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2025
- London Mathematical Society Scheme 5 grant
- Majumdar, Apala (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2023
- ICMS Visiting Fellowship for Professor Humberto Hijar
- Majumdar, Apala (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2023
- ICMS Strategic Event for "Retreat for Women in Applied Mathematics"
- Majumdar, Apala (Principal Investigator)
- Value: 19000GBP
- 09-Jan-2023 - 13-Jan-2023
- ICMS Visiting Fellowship for Mr Saurav Patranabish
- Majumdar, Apala (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2023
- Unravelling the Mysteries of Complex Nematic Solution Landscapes
- Majumdar, Apala (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2026
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Contact
Professor
Apala
Majumdar
Mathematics and Statistics
Email: apala.majumdar@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3716