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Dr. Ganesh Sundaram

Chairperson, Department of Physics, School of Physical Sciences , Amritapuri | Associate Professor, Department of Physics, School of Physical Sciences , Amritapuri

Qualification: B. Tech., Ph.D
ganeshsundaram@am.amrita.edu
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Research Interest: Condensed Matter Physics 
Theory  and computations:  Electron wave-packet dynamics in slowly perturbed crystals, Berry phase effects in condensed matter, anomalous Hall effects, Density functional calculations 
Complex Systems and Interdisciplinary Research 
-Multi-body dynamics – Simulation of soft landing with elasto-plastic damping 
-Optical metrology 
-Synchronization phenomena in nonlinear dynamics. 

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Bio

Dr. Ganesh Sundaram received his B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras and continued as a Junior Research Fellow and graduate student at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

He was selected for the prestigious Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Junior Research Fellowship in 1993 but chose instead to go to the University of Texas at Austin, USA. From 1993 to 2000, he worked as a teaching and research assistant at University of Texas where he received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2000. His dissertation work “Wave packet dynamics in slowly perturbed crystals: Gradient energy and Berry-phase corrections” has attracted wide interest among the scientific community with many citations.

Dr. Ganesh Sundaram joined Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in 2006 and is currently serving as an Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Physics, School of Physical Sciences, Amritapuri.

He has a wide variety of interests, education and experience in physics and interdisciplinary studies.

Publications

Journal Article

Year : 2018

Certain Investigations on Soft Lander for Lunar Exploration

Cite this Research Publication : Ganesh Sundaram ,Ganesha Udupa , Pooja Poduval, Aditya A.P., Kenneth Pillai,Naveen Kumar, Nikhil Shaji, Nikhil P.C., Praveen Ramacharan , Sreerag S. Rajan,"Certain Investigations on Soft Lander for Lunar Exploration", Procedia Computer Science, 2018, 133, pp. 393–400.

Publisher : Elsevier

Year : 1999

Wave-packet dynamics in slowly perturbed crystals: Gradient corrections and Berry-phase effects

Cite this Research Publication : Ganesh Sundaram and Qian Niu, "Wave-packet dynamics in slowly perturbed crystals: gradient corrections and berry-phase effects" ,Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 1999, 59(23), pp. 14915–14925.

Conference Paper

Year : 2025

Characterization of Background Surface Noise for Metrological Applications

Cite this Research Publication : Arjun K. Ashok, Jeevan Prasad, Sabareesh S. Bhaskar, Ganesh Sundaram, Characterization of Background Surface Noise for Metrological Applications, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Springer Nature Singapore, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6995-7_16

Publisher : Springer Nature Singapore

Year : 2017

Inverse Kinematics of a Dual Linear Actuator Pitch/Roll Heliostat

Cite this Research Publication : J. Freeman, B. Shankar, and G. Sundaram, “Inverse kinematics of a dual linear actuator pitch/roll heliostat”, in AIP Conference Proceedings, 2017, vol. 1850

Publisher : AIP Conference Proceedings, American Institute of Physics Inc.

Year : 2016

Fluidic Deflection ofAsymmetric Flexible Pipes and its Control for Robotic Applications

Cite this Research Publication : Pramod Sreedharan, Ganesh Sundaram, Ganesh Udupa, “Fluidic Deflection ofAsymmetric Flexible Pipes and its Control for Robotic Applications”, at NAFEMS2016, Aug 29-31, 2016, at NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore

Patents

Year : 2013

Integrated Closed-Loop Highly Efficient Renewable Energy System

Cite this Research Publication : G. Sundaram, Freeman, J., and Shanmugam, J., “Integrated Closed-Loop Highly Efficient Renewable Energy System”, U.S. Patent 4480/CHE/20132013.

Publisher : Number 4480/CHE/2013, INDIA

Research

Research Grants

  • Contributing Member in Amrita TBI Project “Amrita Form Tester” (part involving non-contact imaging-based method) (PI Dr Ganesha Udupa, Professor, Dept of Mechanical Engineering) on (2020-22, 10L)
  • (Co-PI) Lunar-Lander Soft Landing Dynamics Project with ISRO (2013, 10 L)

Research Talks Delivered

  • On “Wave-packet dynamics in slowly perturbed crystals and Berry-phase Effects”,2003, Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Matscience), Chennai.
  • IIIT, Kanceepuram, July, 2018
  • Institute of Mathematical Sciences, March, 2003.
  • APS March Meeting Talk, 1998
  • APS March Meeting Talk, 1997
FDP / Workshops
  • Co-organizer, QSEC – Quantum Science and Engineering – Workshop – March 3-4, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri.
  • Coordinator, Sixty-first Science Academies’ Refresher Course in EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS (16 June – 1 July 2014) (Two-weeks)
    Directed by Prof. R. Srinivasan, former professor of physics, IIT Madras, former director of UGC-DAE CSR, Indore, and a Fellow of Academy of Sciences.
    Sponsored by Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, The National Academy of Sciences, India, Allahabad
  • Co-organizer, NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Nano2007) (May 14 -18, 2007)
    Sponsored by AICTE and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri
Invited Talks
  • January 7, 2020: Introduction to Mathematica , AICTE sponsored Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on  Computer Algebra Systems in Applied mathematics, Vidya Academy of Science & Technology, Thrissur, Kerala during 30 Dec 2019 – 11 Jan 2020.
  • Talk on Berry Phases in Physics, RCEP64 FDP, 2014, Amritapuri
  • Talk in Physics for Nanotechnology Workshop, 2007, Amritapuri
Conferences
  • Conference presentation on “Certain Investigations on Soft Lander for Lunar Exploration”, 1st International Conference on Robotics and Smart Manufacturing, RoSMa 2018, IIIDM, Kancheepuram, 19 – 21 July 2018.
  • “Characterization of background surface noise for metrological applications”, ICICV-2024, Jaipur Manipal University, Jaipur, April 10-11, 2024.
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