
Professor Apala Majumdar
Mathematics and Statistics
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Prize And Awards
- IOP Publishing Top Cited Paper Award for China
- Recipient
- 13/8/2024
- 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
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Publications
- How smectic-A and smectic-C liquid crystals resolve confinement-induced frustration in spherical shells
- Majumdar Apala, Han Yucen, Lagerwall Jan PF, Walba David M, Sharma Anjali, Margini Mitchell
- Soft Matter Vol 20, pp. 9586-9596 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SM01263A
- 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
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Professional Activities
- Centre de Recherche Mathematique
- Visiting researcher
- 1/4/2025
- The Mathematics of Liquid Crystals: Analysis, Modelling and Computations
- Speaker
- 25/3/2025
- Public Talk at AIMS Senegal
- Speaker
- 20/2/2025
- Scottish Soft Matter Meeting
- Organiser
- 12/2/2025
- Analysis-Seminar Augsburg-München
- Speaker
- 14/11/2024
- Keynote speaker for "Mathematical Sciences in Machine Learning and Physical Sciences Problems" International Workshop
- Keynote speaker
- 19/10/2024
Projects
- Retreat for Women in Applied Mathematics 2025
- Majumdar, Apala (Principal Investigator)
- ICMS Strategic Workshop funded by Supported by EPSRC Grant EP/Z000467/1.
Grant value: £25000 (see https://www.icms.org.uk/RWAM2025) - 13-Jan-2025 - 17-Jan-2025
- Uncertainty Quantification for the Landau-de Gennes Theory for Nematic Liquid Crystals - Benchmark Problems
- Majumdar, Apala (Principal Investigator)
- 02-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2026
- Retreat for Women in Applied Mathematics - South East Asia
- Majumdar, Apala (Principal Investigator)
- Funded by ICMS Mathematics for Humanity Grant of £35000
- 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2025
- 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
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Contact
Professor
Apala
Majumdar
Mathematics and Statistics
Email: apala.majumdar@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3716