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Professor Apala Majumdar
Mathematics and Statistics
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Prize And Awards
- Fellowship of Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Recipient
- 9/4/2024
- Kirk Distinguished Fellowship at Isaac Newton Institut, Cambridge
- Recipient
- 1/8/2023
- Turner Kirk Fellowship, Isaac Newton Institute
- 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
- Topological defects as nucleation points of the nematic-isotropic phase transition in liquid crystal shells
- Han Yucen, Lagerwall Jan, Majumdar Apala
- Physical Review E Vol 109 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.064702
- Particle-based and continuum models for confined nematics in two dimensions
- Híjar Humberto, Majumdar Apala
- Soft Matter Vol 20, pp. 3755-3770 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d3sm01684f
- Multistability for nematic liquid crystals in cuboids with degenerate planar boundary conditions
- Shi Baoming, Han Yucen, Majumdar Apala, Zhang Lei
- SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics Vol 84, pp. 756-781 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1137/23m1604606
- 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 Vol 51, pp. 276-296 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2023.2294960
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Professional Activities
- Centre de Recherche Mathematique
- Visiting researcher
- 1/4/2025
- 3rd International Conference of Applied Mathematics in Science and Engineering
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 25/7/2024
- Guest lecture at NCMW - Finite Element Analysis of Variational Problems (2024)
- Speaker
- 8/7/2024
- LC2 Seminar: Solution Landscapes in the Landau-de Gennes theory for Nematic Liquid Crystals: Analysis, Computations and Applications
- Speaker
- 27/6/2024
- Faculty Internationalisation Event
- Chair
- 13/6/2024
- EDI event in Mathematics
- Organiser
- 12/6/2024
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