Curriculum Vitae

Aniket Bhattacharya Telephone: (407)-823-5206Associate Professor Fax: (407)-823-5112Department of Physics Office: PS - 304University of Central Florida e-mail: aniket@physics.ucf.eduOrlando, Fl 32816-2385 URL: www.physics.ucf.edu/∼aniket

Professional Preparation

Ph.D. : University of Maryland at College Park, Condensed Matter PhysicsDissertation: “Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of an extended Hubbard Model

for high temperature superconductivity” (Thesis Advisor: C. S. Wang)M.S. : University of Calcutta, College of Science, Physics (with first class)B.S. : Presidency College, Physics (with first class Honors)

Appointments

Aug 2006 - Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Central FloridaAug 2000 - Aug 2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics University of Central FloridaJuly 1998 - July 2000 Research Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MIJune 1994 - June 1998 Research Associate, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MIAug 1992- May 1994 Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PAAug 1984- July 1992 Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Department of Physics & Center for Superconductivity Research

Fall 2010 - Spring 2011On Sabbatical leave from UCFShort term paid visits Institut fur Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Germany(once every year) Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011Visiting Appointment: Institut fur Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Germany (Fall-2010)Visiting Appointment: Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland (Fall-2010)Visiting Appointment: Florida Atlantic University, Department of Physics (Fall 2010 & Spring 2011)

Visiting Appointment: Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland (Summer-2009)Visiting Appointment: Institut fur Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Germany (Summer-2009)Visiting Appointment: Institut fur Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Germany (Summer-2008)Visiting Appointment: Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland (Summer-2007)Visiting Appointment: Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland (Summer-2006)Visiting Appointment: Institut fur Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Germany (Summer-2003)Visiting Appointment: Institut fur Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Germany (Summer-1999)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Theoretical and Simulation Studies Soft Condensed Matter, Polymer, & Biologically inspired physics,Complex and Disordered Systems, Computational Materials Physics, Nonlinear elasticity of Bio-logical Network, and Physics of Cancer

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AWARDS & FUNDING HISTORY• UCF College of Science SEED grant $10,000 (May 2012-Dec 2013)“Challenges in Computational Statistical Mechanics”PI: Aniket Bhattacharya• The National Science Foundation (NSF-CHEM): $504,854.00 (July 2008 - June 2011)“Electroless Metalization onto Polymeric Surfaces: Synthesis, Analysis, and Modeling for AchievingControlled Nanoscale Morphologies”, Co-PI (25%) with Stephen Kuebler and Prof. Helge Heinrich• The National Science Foundation (NSF-NIRT): $1200,000.00 (August 2001 - July 2006)“Self-Assembly of Magnetic Nanostructures and Related Enabling Technologies”Co-PI (25%) with Weili Luo, and K. Belfield.

• The National Science Foundation(NSF-NUE): $100,000.00 (July 2003 - December 2004)“An interdisciplinary Undergraduate program in Nanoscience and Nano-Engineering”Co-PI (20%) with Sudipta Seal, Beverly Regezinsgky, Craig Sider, and Elliot Vittes.

• UCF Start up grant: $70,000.00 (August 2000-June 2002)• UCF Presidential matching fund for major equipment: $5000.00 (2001)• UCF Undergraduate Teaching Equipment Grant: $3635.00 (2005).• UCF TIP award (2006)• Distinguished public service award from Lake Highland Preparatory School• Outstanding mentoring award for dissertation supervision by McKnight Foundation (2009).• In addition to the listed funding in above, I have been receiving travel support and local expensesfrom Finnish Academy (Prof. Tapio Ala-Nissila) and from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Prof.Binder) for my visits for last 4-5 years. Both Prof. Binder and Prof. Ala-Nissila have listed me asa foreign collaborator in their grants.

Pending Proposals

1. Project/Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Colloidal Particle Wettability andSelf-Assembly at Liquid-Vapor Surfaces )PI: Aniket BhattacharyaSource of Support: National Science Foundation, CBETTotal Award Amount: $349,881.00Total Award Period Covered: 09/01/2014 08/31/2018Location of Project: University of Central Florida (for the UCF PI)Person-Months Per Year Committed to the Project: Cal : 0 Acad: 0 Sum: 0.5Description: The Proposal is ready and will be submitted on or before Feb 20. This is acollaborative project with Prof. Bruce Law and Bret Flanders (PI and co-pI) from KansasState University where they will be carrying out experiments on colloidal particles of varioussizes. My role as a PI from UCF is to gain fundamental understanding by carrying out largescale simulation studies augmented by theory and guided by the experiments. The proposalwill be submitted for the 3rd time. At this point we think we left no room for further cri-tique. The previous reviews were mostly positive but wanted us to address a couple of issues.Therefore, we are very hopeful that the proposal will be funded this time.

Professional highlights & synergistic activities:

• 1.854 million dollar of NSF funding at UCF.• ∼ 1061 citations of research papers according to Google Scholar with H index 21• Graduate Coordinator (Graduate program director) for the physics department duringFall 2006 - Fall 2009; the program underwent substantial growth.

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• Invited speaker at the March meeting of the American Physical Society on focussed session(2007, 2009, and 2012).• Session chair for focus sessions in DNA transport through nano pore, APS March Meeting 2007,2012• Organized focus session on DNA transport through nano pore, APS March Meeting 2011, 2012.• Affiliate member of AMPAC, The Center for Nano Science and Technology• Member: Centre Europeen de Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire (CECAM) at Mainz node, Ger-many• Author or co-author of 52 refereed papers in high impact journals, 6 refereed conference pro-ceedings• Member of the American Physical Society, Member of the Materials Research Society• Panel and proposal reviewer for the NSF and other European agencies• Created and taught special topics interdisciplinary courses at UCF• 43 invited and 52 contributed talks in academic institutions, national and international meetings,workshops, in United States and abroad

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

54. Aiqun Huang, Aniket Bhattacharya, and Kurt Binder“Conformations, Transverse Fluctuations and Crossover Dynamics of a Semi-Flexible Chainin Two DimensionsJ. Chem. Phys. 140, 214902 (2014).

53. Aiqun Huang and Aniket Bhattacharya“DNA confined in a two-dimensional strip geometry”Euro Phys. Lett. 106, 18004 (2014).

52. Aiqun Hunag, Ramesh Adhikari, Aniket Bhattacharya, and Kurt Binder,”Universal monomer dynamics of a two dimensional semiflexible chain”,Euro Phys. Lett. 105, 18002 (2014).

51. Christopher J. Clukay, Christopher N. Grabill, Michelle A. Hettinger, Aniruddha Dutta,Daniel J. Freppon, Anthony Robledo, Helge Heinrich, Aniket Bhattacharya, Stephen M.Kuebler, “Controlling formation of gold nanoparticles generated in situ at apolymeric sur-face”, Applied Surface Science 292, 128 (2013).

50. Timo Ikonen, Aniket Bhattacharya, Tapio Ala-Nissila, and Wokyung Sung,“Influence of pore friction on the universal aspects of driven polymer translocation”EPL 103 38001 (2013).

49. Ramesh Adhikari and Aniket Bhattacharya,“Driven translocation of a semi-flexible Chain through a nanopore: A Brownian dynamicssimulation study in two dimensions”, J. Chem. Phys. 138, 204909 (2013).

48. A. Dutta, C. J. Clukay, C. N. Grabill, D. J. Freppon, A. Bhattacharya, S. M. Kuebler, andH. Heinrich, “Nanoscale Characterization of gold nanoparticles created by in situ reduction

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at a polymeric surface”, Journal of Microscopy, 251, 27 (2013).

47. Aniket Bhattacharya“Translocation Dynamics of a Semi-flexible Chain Under a Bias: Comparison with TensionPropagation TheoryPolymer Science Series C 55, 1 (2013)

46. Timo Ikonen, Aniket Bhattacharya, Tapio Ala-Nissila, and Wokyung Sung,“Influence of non-universal effects on dynamical scaling in driven polymer translocation”J. Chem. Phys. 137 085101 (2012).

45. Timo Ikonen, Aniket Bhattacharya, Tapio Ala-Nissila, and Wokyung Sung,“Unifying model of driven polymer translocation”Phys. Rev. E 85, 051803 (2012).

44. Anthony Robledo,Anthony, Christopher N. Grabill, Stephen M. Kuebler, Aniruddha Dutta,Helge Heinrich, and Aniket Bhattacharya,“Morphologies from slippery ballistic deposition model: A bottom-up approach for nanofabri-cation”Phys. Rev. E 83, 051604 (2011)).

43. Christopher Lorscher, Tapio Ala-Nissila, and Aniket Bhattacharya“Polymer Translocation induced by a Bad Solvent”Phys. Rev. E. 83, 011914 (2011).

42. Aniket Bhattacharya and Kurt Binder“Out-of-equilibrium aspects of a translocating chain through a nanopore”Phys. Rev. E 81, 041804 (2010).

41. Aniket Bhattacharya, Heath Morrison, Kaifu Luo, Tapio Ala-Nissila, See-Chen Ying, AndreyMilchev, and Kurt Binder“Scaling of Driven Polymer Translocation through a nanopore”Eur. Phys. J. E 29, 423 (2009)).

40. Kaifu Luo, Tapio Ala-Nissila, See-chen Ying, Aniket Bhattacharya“Translocation Dynamics with Attractive Nanopore-Polymer Interactions”Phys. Rev. E 78, 061918 (2008). arXiv:0805.4312

39. Kaifu Luo, Tapio Ala-Nissila, See-chen Ying, Aniket BhattacharyaDynamics of DNA translocation through an attractive nanoporePhys. Rev. E 78, 061911 (2008). arXiv:0810.2917

38. Kaifu Luo, Santtu T. T. Ollila, Ilkka Huopaniemi, Tapio Ala-Nissila, Pawel Pomorski, MikkoKarttunen, See-Chen Ying, and Aniket Bhattacharya

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“Dynamical Scaling Exponents for Polymer Translocation through a Nanopore”Phys. Rev. E 78, 050901(R) (2008). arXiv:0805.4312

37. Kaifu Luo, Tapio Ala-Nissila, S-C Ying, and Aniket Bhattacharya“Sequence dependence of DNA translocation thorough a nanopore”Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 1058101 (2008).

36. Kaifu Luo, Tapio Ala-Nissila, S-C Ying, and Aniket Bhattacharya“Influence of polymer-pore interactions on translocation”Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 148102 (2007).

35. George Bourov and Aniket Bhattacharya“Effect of hydrophilicity and packing constraints in phase diagram of amphiphiles: An off-lattice Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo approach”J. Chem. Phys. 127, 244905 (2007).

34. K. Luo, T. Ala-Nissila, S-C Ying, and Aniket Bhattacharya“Heteropolymer Translocation through Nanopore”J. Chem. Phys. 126, 14501 (2007).

33. Monojoy Goswami, Sanat K. Kumar, Aniket Bhattacharya, and Jack F. Douglas“Computer simulations of ionomer self-assembly and dynamics”Macromolecules 40, 4113 (2007).

32. Wayne Finger, J. Kapat, and Aniket Bhattacharya“Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Absorbent Layer effect on Tangential Momentum Ac-commodation Coefficient”J. Fluids. Eng. 129, 31 (2006).

31. Vincent Maycock and Aniket Bhattacharya, “Effect of head-tail ratio and range of head-headinteraction in Amphiphilic Self-assembly”,Euro. Phys. J. E 20, 201 (2006).

30. Geuorgui Bourov and Aniket Bhattacharya“Brownian dynamics of mixed surfactant micelles”J. Chem. Phys. 123, 204712 (2005).

29. A. Milchev, K. Binder, and Aniket Bhattacharya,“Polymer translocation through a nanopore induced by adsorption: Monte Carlo simulationof a coarse-grained model”,J. Chem. Phys. 121, 6042 (2004).

28. Geuorgui Bourov and Aniket Bhattacharya,“Brownian Dynamics Simulation Study of Self-assembly of Amphiphiles with Large Hydrophilic

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Head”,J. Chem. Phys. 122, 044702 (2005).

27. Aniket Bhattacharya,“Conformation and drift of a telechelic chain in porous media”,J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 16, S203 (2004).

26. M.D. Johnson, X. Duan, Brett Riley, Aniket Bhattacharya, and Weili Luo,“Thermodynamic Model of Electric-Field-Induced Pattern Formation in Binary DielectricFluids”,Phys. Rev. E 69, 041501 (2004).

25. Geuorgui Bourov and Aniket Bhattacharya,“The role of Geometric Constraints in Amphiphilic Self-Assembly: a Brownian DynamicsStudy”,J. Chem. Phys. 119, 9219 (2003).

24. Aniket Bhattacharya and Andrey Milchev,“Electrophoresis of an end-labeled polymer chain: a molecular dynamics study”Phys. Rev. E 66, 041806 (2002).

23. Andrey Milchev and Aniket Bhattacharya,“Polymer depletion interaction between a colloid particle and a wall”,J. Chem. Phys. 117, 5415 (2002).

22. Brett Riley, Aniket Bhattacharya, Michael Johnson, Xiaodong Duan, and Weili Luo,“Electric Field Induced Lamellar Structures in Magnetic Fluids: A 2D diffusion model”,Int. Journal Mod. Phys. B 16, 2341 (2002).

21. Aniket Bhattacharya and S. D. Mahanti,“Critical Micelle Concentration in three dimensional lattice models of amphiphiles”,Letter to the Editor, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 13, L861 (2001).

20. Aniket Bhattacharya and S. D. Mahanti,“Self-Assembly of ionic surfactants and formation of mesostructures”,J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 13, 1413 (2001).

19. A. Milchev, Aniket Bhattacharya, and K. Binder,“Formation of block copolymer micelles in solution: A Monte Carlo study of chain lengthdependence”,Macromolecules 34, 1881 (2001).

18. Aniket Bhattacharya & S. D. Mahanti,“Energy and size fluctuations of amphiphilic aggregates in a lattice model”,

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J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 12, 6141 (2000).

17. Hong Liu, Aniket Bhattacharya, and Amitabha Chakrabarti,“Network Domain Structure in Phase Separating Polymer Solutions”,J. Chem. Phys. 111, 11183 (1999).

16. Hong Liu, Aniket Bhattacharya, and Amitabha Chakrabarti,“Early Stage Dewetting of Microscopically Thin Polymer Films: A Molecular Dynamic Study”,J. Chem. Phys. 109, 8607 (1998).

15. Aniket Bhattacharya, S. D. Mahanti, and Amitabha Chakrabarti,“Self-Assembly of Neutral and Ionic Surfactants: An Off-Lattice Monte Carlo Approach”,J. Chem. Phys. 108, 10281 (1998).

14. Aniket Bhattacharya, S. D. Mahanti, and Amitabha Chakrabarti,“Networklike Pattern Formation in Phase Separating Polymer Solutions: a Molecular Dy-namics Study”,Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 333 (1998).

13. Aniket Bhattacharya and S. D. Mahanti,“Spin echo diffraction in disordered porous media with single length scales”,Phys. Rev. B 55, 11230 (1997).

12. Gayle Tanner, Aniket Bhattacharya, Saroj K. Nayak, and S. D. Mahanti,“Dynamics of melting Argon clusters”,Phys. Rev. E 55, 322 (1997).

11. Aniket Bhattacharya, Madan Rao, and A. Chakrabarti,“Kinetics of phase ordering of nematic liquid crystals in a confined geometry”,Phys. Rev. E 53, 4899 (1996).

10. Aniket Bhattacharya, S. D. Mahanti, and A. Chakrabarti,“Diffusion and magnetic relaxation in model porous media”,Phys. Rev. B 53, 11495 (1996).

9. Aniket Bhattacharya, B. Y. Chen & S. D. Mahanti,“Structural dynamics of clusters near melting”,Rapid Communication, Phys. Rev. E 53, R33 (1996).

8. Marek Cieplak, Amos Maritan, Michael Swift, Aniket Bhattacharya, and & Jayanth Banavar,“Optimal path and universality”,J. Phys. A 28, 5693 (1995).

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7. Aniket Bhattacharya and J. B. Anderson,“The interaction potential of a symmetric helium trimer”,J. Chem. Phys. 100, 8999 (1994).

6. Aniket Bhattacharya,“Random walk for interacting particles on a Sierpinski Gasket”,Phys. Rev. E 49, 4946 (1994).

5. Aniket Bhattacharya and J. B. Anderson,“Exact quantum Monte Carlo calculation of the H-He interaction potential”,Phys. Rev. A 49, 2441 (1994).

4. Aniket Bhattacharya, Madan Rao, and Amitabha Chakrabarti,“Phase separation in binary mixtures confined in a strip geometry”,Phys. Rev. E 49, 524 (1994).

3. Aniket Bhattacharya and C. S. Wang,“Spin and charge fluctuations in an extended Hubbard model of oxide superconductors”,Phys. Rev. B 48, 13949 (1993).

2. 295 Aniket Bhattacharya and C. S. Wang“Generalized flux phases, Hubbard versus t− J model”,Rapid Communication, Phys. Rev. B 45, 10826 (1992).

1. C. S. Wang, P. A. Sterne, P. G. McQueen, and Aniket Bhattacharya“Magnetic interactions in High-Tc Superconductors”,Journal de Physique 49, 2243 (1988).

REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS:

6. Aniket Bhattacharya“How local factors affect the “universal”scaling exponents of forced polymer translocation througha nano-pore”, Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics XXII , Eds. D.P. Landau, S. P. Lewis, and H. B. Schuttler, Elsevier, 2009.

5. Aniket Bhattacharya and Geuorgui Bourov“Effect of packing parameter on amphiphilic self-assembly: a Brownian dynamics study”,Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics XVI , Eds. D. P. Landau, S. P.Lewis, and H. B. Schuttler (Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin, 2003)

4. Aniket Bhattacharya and S. D. Mahanti,“Self-Assembly of Amphiphiles: An Overview of Lattice and Continuum Model Simulations”,Proceedings of the Science and Technology of the Nanostructured Materials” held in Puri,India, January 4-8, 2001, Nova Publisher, U.S.A.

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3. S. D. Mahanti and Aniket Bhattacharya“Melting and Dynamics of Clusters”,Proceedings of the International Conference On Clusters And Nanostructured Materials, heldin Puri, India, December,1994 - January 1995, ed. P. Jena and S. N. Behera (Nova SciencePublishers).

2. Aniket Bhattacharya and S. D. Mahanti“Diffusion and magnetic relaxation in computer generated model porous media”,Proceedings of the Access in Nanoporous Media Symposium, held in Lansing, Michigan, June7-9, 1995, ed. T. J. Pinnavaia and M. F. Thorpe (Plenum).

1. B. Y. Chen, W. Hammond, A. Bhattacharya, S. D. Mahanti, and M. Youssoff“Rare Gas Clusters Inside K-L Zeolite Cage”,International Symposium on the science and technology of atomically engineered materialsheld in Richmond, Virginia, 1995.

MANUSCRIPT UNDER REVIEW

1. Ramesh Adhikari and Aniket Bhattacharya“Deconvoluting chain heterogeneities from driven translocation through a nano-pore”Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (2014). (with the referees)

MANUSCRIPT UNDER PREPARATION

1. Ramesh Adhikari, Aniket Bhattacharya, Tapio Ala-Nissila, and Wokyung Sung,“Polymer translocation facilitated by Chaperones”

2. Aiqun Huang, Walter Reisner, and Aniket Bhattacharya,“Denaturization dynamics of a dsDNA confined inside a nanochannel”

3. Aiqun Huang, H.-P. Hsu, Aniket Bhattacharya, and Kurt BinderOn universal aspects of conformations of a semi-flexible chain: results from lattice MonteCarlo and Brownian dynamcics simulation studies.

4. Ramesh Adhikari, Aiqun Hunag, and Aniket Bhattacharya, “Normal modes of crosslinkedsemiflexible polymers”

RESEARCH SUPERVISION & MENTORING

Current Graduate Advisees:

Ramesh Adhikari: 2nd year graduate student at UCF1st and 2nd authors in two papers, one submitted to PRL, another almost done, expected to grad-uate in Fall 2016.

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Aiqun Huang: 3rd year graduate student at UCF, 1st author in 3 papers, working on two in-dependent problems, expected to graduate Summer 2016.

Current Undergraduate Advisees:

Nathaniel Tukdurian: Junior, Physics Major at UCFWorking on diffusion in random potential using theory and computer simulation studies.

David Hammond: Junior, Bio-med Major with minor in Computer Science at UCFWorking on statistical mechanics of long range correlation (LCR) in DNA and DNA bends usingdata from genome data bank.

Former Graduate Advisees:

1. Philip T. Metzger (Awarded Ph. D. during Spring 2005 Commencement)Employed as a staff scientist with Kennedy Space Center, NASA.Dissertation topic: “Deriving Density of States for Granular Contact Forces”

2. George Bourov (Awarded Ph. D. during Summer 2005 Commencement)Employed as a visiting Asst. Professor with Embry Riddle University, Daytona Beach,FloridaDissertation topic: “Simulation studies of self-assembly and phase diagram of amphiphilicmolecules”

3. Vincent Maycock: Worked on Lattice model of self-assembly for an MS thesis. Please seereference [31] in the publication list.

4. Christopher J. Lorscher: Worked on DNA translocation Fall 2008-Spring 2010. Please seereference [43] in the publication list.

5. Abdelillah Y. Ouazzani: Supported by a NSF grant; worked on simulation and modelling ofelectroless metal deposition.

6. Timo Ikonen: Timo, my collaborator Prof. Ala Nissila’s student working with me on a com-mon problem. He visited last year and will visit for a month during March 2012.

Former Undergraduate Advisees:

1. Sohang Gandhi: Worked on lattice model of self-assembly

2. Sergio Tafur: Developed message passing instructions(MPI) for efficient use of my computingcluster.

3. Heath Morrison: Worked on modeling DNA transport through protein nanopore (ref. [41] inthe publication list)

4. John Heys: UG student involved in the NSF sponsored research on electroless metal deposi-tion on polymeric surfaces.

5. Anthony Robledo: UG student involved in the NSF sponsored research on electroless metaldeposition on polymeric surfaces.( please see ref. [44] and [51] in the publication list)

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High school advisee:Mark White (went to Dartmouth College for university degree)

RESEARCH COLLABORATORS

Prof. Kurt Binder, Institut fur Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Germany; Prof. An-drey Milchev, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria Prof. Tapio Ala-Nissila, Dept. ofApplied Physics, Helsinki University of technology, Prof. See-chen Ying, Physics Department,Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, Prof. Wokyung Sung, Dept. of Physics, POSTECH &Asia Pacific Center, Pohang, South Korea, Prof. Mikko Karttunen, The University of WesternOntario, Canada, Prof. Sanat Kumar, Columbia University, New York, USA, Prof. KaifuLuo, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P. R. China;

TEACHINGAt UCF I have been involved in teaching at all levels from 1000 level GEP courses to most ofthe graduate core courses. I have introduced two special topics courses and plan to introduce twoothers. More recently I taught (Fall 2012, Fall 2013) “SCALE-UP” versions of algebra and calculusbased introductory physics courses (PHY-2053). I am also involved with the ongoing discussionsabout improving the usefulness of undergraduate recitations and laboratory sections. I have plansto take initiatives for a “bio and soft matter track” in both the graduate and undergraduate programand take additional teaching load on special topics courses, if necessary. I have written an R15proposal to the NIH. If funded, I will introduce another inter-disciplinary course “Introduction toDNA: science & technology of this amazing biopolymer”.

• Interdisciplinary Courses:(i) Designed and coordinated a course, Introduction to Nanophysics (PHZ 3432) dur-ing Summer 2004; the very first course in Nanoscience and technology at UCF.(ii) Introduced and several times taught an interdisciplinary course on Soft CondensedMatter Physics (PHZ-5432) with enrollments from Physics, College of Optics & Photon-ics, Chemistry & Engineering.

• Graduate Courses:

Graduate Quantum Mechanics-I Graduate Quantum Mechanics-IIGraduate Statistical Physics Graduate Classical MechanicsGraduate Candidacy Workshop

• Undergraduate courses:

Calculus based Physics for Engineers & Scientists-I & II (PHY 2048 and PHY 2049)Algebra based College Physics-I & II (PHY 2053 and PHY 2054)Physical Science (PHY 1121)Undergraduate Wave Mechanics-I Assigned for Fall 2011

• Independent Study supervision:Heath Morrison, Vincent Maycock, Karlo Kitanovski, George Bourov, Philip Metzger, FirozeHaque, Daniel Macey, Abdelillah Y. Ouazzani, Christopher Lorscher, Anthony Robledo

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• Summer Undergraduate & REU mentoring:Gayle Tanner, Kirstin Purdy, Daniel Bridges, John Hays

SERVICES:During these 14 years, since my arrival at UCF in Fall 2010, I have always been very enthusiasticin offering service to the department at time going out of my way (excepting during 2010 when Iwas at Sabbatical and 2011 when I had to take acute family problem). The most significant one isbeing the graduate coordinator immediately after my tenure and promotion. This academic yearI am also heavily involved with the work of graduate admission committee (which requires lot ofwork on a weekly basis) and just finished my job of Physics representative in the COS sabbaticalleave committee. Please refer to the summary of the service below.Graduate Coordinator (program director) Fall 2006 - Fall 2009This is a major time consuming faculty service to the department after the department chair. Dur-ing these 3 years the physics graduate program at UCF has undergone substantial growth both interms of number of graduate students (more than double), quality, and diversity.

Committee Chair: Graduate Admission Committee (Fall 2006 - Fall 2008) Graduate CandidacyExamination Committee (2002-2006); Physics Colloquium Committee (2002-2003)Committee Member: Physics representative: College of Science Sabbatical Committee (2013-2014); Computer & Technology Committee (2002-2004); Physics Undergraduate Committee (2012);Physics Nano-Bio search committee (2009); Graduate Affairs committee (Fall 2007 - 2009); Grad-uate Admission committee (Fall 2006 - 2009,2012,2013,2014); New faculty search Committee (2002& 2003); Graduate Committee (2000-2005); Physics Colloquium Committee (2001-2004); PhysicsBuilding Committee (2004-2005); PHY2048/PHY2049 book review Committee (Spring 2005);Computer & Technology Committee (2004-2006); Library Liaison (2001-2003); Physics Web-master(2004-2005).

REVIEWER OF SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

Nature Nanotechnology, Soft Matter, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Journal ofChemical Physics, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, European Journal of Physics, Lang-muir, Macromolecules, Physical Chemistry-Chemical Physics

REVIEWER OF SCIENTIFIC PROPOSALS:

Panelist and regular reviewer to the National Science Foundation proposals; Fundamental On-derzoek der Materie(FOM), The Netherlands; U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation(CRDF); Israel National Science Foundation; The National University of Singapore

SEMINARS & INVITED TALKS

43. Universal monomer dynamics of a two dimensional semi-flexible chain, Institut fur Physik,Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Germany, October, 2013.

42. “Emerging Physical Picture of DNA Dynamics Through a Nanopre”,CECAM Workshop on Polymer Translocation through nanopore, Sept 16 - Sept 18, 2012.

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41. “How does a DNA translocate through a nanopore ?”,Condensed Matter Seminar, Kansas State University, April 02 (2012).

40. “Some aspects of polymer translocation dynamics through nanopore: comparison of recent thetheories with simulation results”,APS March Meeting 2012 Focus Session: Translocation through Nanopores - Novel Devicesand Computational Approaches, Feb 27 - MARCH 2012, Boston, MA.

39. “Effects of cis-trans asymmetry on Polymer Translocation through Nano pores”,NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Computational Biology Branch, Na-tional Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, August 11,2011.

38. “Effects of cistrans asymmetry on Polymer Translocation through Nano pores”Center for Biological and Materials Physics, Florida Atlantic University, September, 2010

37. “Polymer translocation through a nano-pore: scaling, universality and prospective applica-tion”Technical University of Munich: Modern topics in bio-soft matter, May 2009

36. “Some aspects of forced polymer translocation through a nano-pore”Institut fur Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Germany, May 2009

35. “Simulation studies of DNA translocation trough nanopore”Invited talk at the Focused session , APS March Meeting, March 17-21, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA

34. “On universal aspects of forced polymer translocation through a nano-pore” Presented at theworkshop on Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics, Athens, GA, February2009.

33. “DNA dynamics in Protein and Silicon Nanopore”Institut fur Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Germany, August 2008

32. “DNA dynamics in Protein and Silicon Nanopore”Invited talk at the Focused session on Computational Nanoscience, APS March Meeting,March 5-9, 2007, Denver, CO

31. “DNA dynamics in Protein and Silicon Nanopore”Colloquium, Department of Physics, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, March30, 2007

30. “DNA dynamics in Protein and Silicon Nanopore”Condensed Matter Seminar, Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode

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Island, April 30, 2007

29. “Morphology and Dynamics of Ionomers”Presented at the Florida Materials SimulationWorkshop, University of South Florida, Tampa,May 2007

28. “DNA transport through protein and synthetic nanopore: theory meets experiment”UCF, Department of Chemistry weekly seminar October, 2007

27. “DNA dynamics in Protein and Silicon Nanopore”Helsinki University of technology, Helsinki, Finland, August, 2006 .

26. “DNA dynamics in Protein and Silicon Nanopore”The Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India, June, 2006 .

25. “DNA dynamics in Protein and Silicon Nanopore”Colloquium, Physics Department, University of South Florida, Jan 20, 2006 .

24. “Morphology and Dynamics of Structured Molecules”Weekly Seminar, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Florida State Univer-sity Tallahassee, Nov 18, 2005 .

23. “DNA dynamics in Nanopore”UCF Biophysics Seminar, Nov 17, 2005 .

22. “DNA dynamics in Nanopore”SPS and recruitment Seminar, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Sept 30, 2005.

21. “Morphology and dynamics of soft structured molecules”Invited talk presented at Materials simulators Workshop, organized by the MaterialsScience Department., University of Gainesville, Florida, Aug 18-19, 2005.

20. “Morphology and dynamics of soft structured molecules”UCF, Department of Physics Colloquium, Orlando, April 2005.

19. “Phase Ordering Dynamics of polymers in solution”,Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, May 2004.

18. “Of Micelles & Membranes:results from large scale simulation”,UCF BMSC Colloquium, Jan 2004.

17. “Phase Ordering Dynamics in Macromolecules”UCF, Department of Mathematics Colloquium, Nov 2003.

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16. “Self-Assembly of Amphiphiles: Comparison of Simulation Results from Different Models andMethods”,Talk presented at the 16th Annual Workshop Computer Simulation Studies in CondensedMatter Physics organized by the Center of simulation physics, The University of Georgia,Athens, GA, February 23-27, 2003.

15. “Self-Assembly and Pattern Formation in Soft Matter”,Colloquium: Florida Institute of Technology, October, 2001.

14. “A Random walk in Polymer Physics”,Applied Physics Division, Kettering University, Flint, MI 48504-4898, September, 1999.

13. “Self-Assembly of Amphiphiles”,Science Research Laboratory, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, May, 1999.

12. “Self-Assembly of Amphiphiles”,San Diego State University, Department of Physics Colloquium, February, 1999.

11. “Micellization of Surfactants and Co-operative Self-Assembly”,Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Germany, August, 1998.

10. “Micellization of Surfactants and Co-operative Self-Assembly”,Michigan State University, Brown Bag Seminar, October, 1997.

9. “Numerical simulation of spin echo diffraction in disordered media with single length scales”,Michigan State University, Condensed Matter Seminar, October 1996.

8. “Diffusion and Magnetic relaxation in computer generated model porous media”,Access in Nanoporous media Symposium, June 7-9, 1995, Michigan State University, EastLansing, Michigan.

7. “Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Bose Gas”,23rd Midwest Solid State Theory Symposium, Manhattan, Kansas, October 14-15 (1995).

6. “Dynamics of phase ordering in restricted geometries”,Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, February, 1995.

5. “An overview of Quantum Monte Carlo methods; few “exact” results”,Kansas State University, February, 1995.

4. “An overview of Quantum Monte Carlo methods; few “exact” results”,Michigan State University, March, 1995.

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3. “Exact Quantum Monte Carlo results for many fermion systems”,The Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, India, January, 1995.

2. “Quantum Monte Carlo results for an extended multi-band Hubbard model for oxide super-conductors”,Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India, December, 1994.

1. “Dynamics of phase transition in restricted geometries”,Department of Physics, Michigan State University, May, 1994.

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CONTRIBUTED TALKSWith UCF graduate students and other collaborators in US and abroad

1. Aniket Bhattacharya & C. S. Wang“Quantum Monte Carlo simulation of an extended Hubbard model for high temperature su-perconductors”,APS March Meeting, New Orleans, March 21-25, 1988.

2. Aniket Bhattacharya & C. S. Wang“Variational Monte Carlo Simulation of an extended Hubbard model of CuO2 lattice”,APS March Meeting, New Orleans, March 21-25,1988.

3. Aniket Bhattacharya & C. S. Wang“Comparison of various band model of high temperature superconductivity”,APS March Meeting, Anaheim, California, Anaheim, California, March 12-16, 1990.

4. Aniket Bhattacharya & C. S. Wang“Variational Monte Carlo studies of Flux phases in the Hubbard model”,APS March Meeting, Cincinnati, March 18-22,1991.

5. Aniket Bhattacharya & C. S. Wang“Variational Monte Carlo studies of a two dimensional electron gas under a strong magneticfield”,APS March Meeting, Indianapolis, March 16-20, 1992.

6. Aniket Bhattacharya & C. S. Wang“On signs of the hopping integrals of an extended Hubbard model for oxide superconductors”,APS March Meeting, Indianapolis, March 16-20, 1992.

7. Aniket Bhattacharya & J. B. Anderson“Binding energy of a helium trimer by novel Green’s function Monte Carlo method”,APS March Meeting, Seattle, March 22-26, 1993.

8. Aniket Bhattacharya, M. Rao, & A. Chakrabarti“Dynamics of phase ordering in fluid mixtures and liquid crystals”,APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, March 21-25, 1994.

9. Aniket Bhattacharya & J. B. Anderson“Exact results for the interaction potentials for Helium trimers and H-He”,APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, March 21-25, 1994.

10. Aniket Bhattacharya & S. D. Mahanti“Probing cluster melting through molecular dynamic simulation of dynamic structure factor”,APS March Meeting, San Jose, March 20-24, 1995.

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11. W. R. Hammond, S. D. Mahanti, & A. Bhattacharya“Xenon micro-clusters inside Zeolite channels”,APS March Meeting, San Jose, March 20-24, 1995.

12. S. D. Mahanti, Aniket Bhattacharya & Amitabha Chakrabarti“Diffusion in computer generated model Vycors and Aerogels”,APS March Meeting, St. Louis, March 20-24, 1996.

13. Aniket Bhattacharya & Satya N. Majumdar“Dynamics of Bose Gas”,APS March Meeting, St. Louis, March 20-24, 1996.

14. Aniket Bhattacharya & S.D. Mahanti“Simulation of Spin Echo in Disordered Media with single length scales”,APS March Meeting, Kansas City, March 17-21, 1997.

15. S. D. Mahanti, Aniket Bhattacharya, & Amitabha Chakrabarti“Network Formation in Phase Separating Polymer Solution: A molecular Dynamics Simula-tion Studies”,APS March Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 16-20, 1998.

16. Aniket Bhattacharya & S. D. Mahanti“Ionic Micelles and Co-operative Self-Assembly”,APS March Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 16-20, 1998.

17. S.D. Mahanti & Aniket Bhattacharya“Susceptibilities and Moments in a Lattice Model of Surfactant Self-Assembly”,APS March Meeting, Atlanta, GA, March 20-26, 1999.

18. Hong Liu, Aniket Bhattacharya, & Amitabha Chakrabarti,“Network Domain Structure in Phase Separating Polymer Solution”,APS March Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, March 20-24, 2000.

19. Aniket Bhattacharya & S. D. Mahanti“New Results from a Lattice Model of Amphiphiles,APS March Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, March 20-24, 2000.

20. Aniket Bhattacharya“Comparison of Different Lattice Models of Amphiphiles: A Monte Carlo Study”,APS March Meeting, Seattle, March 12-16, 2001

21. Aniket Bhattacharya“Conformation and Dynamics of an End-Labeled Polymer Chain in Porous Media”,

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APS March Meeting, Indianapolis, March 18-22, 2002

22. “Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Electrophoresis of a Telechelic Polymer Chain”,Paper presented at the American Physical Society Division of Computational Physics An-nual Meeting: Conference on Computational Physics 2002 August 25-28, 2002; San Diego,California.

23. George Bourov and Aniket Bhattacharya“Brownian dynamics simulation of colloidal self-assembly”,APS March Meeting, March 3-7, 2003; Austin, Texas.

24. Karlo Kitanovski, George Bourov, and Aniket Bhattacharya“Generalized kink-jump and reptation algorithm for amphiphilic self-assembly: the role ofpacking parameter”,APS March Meeting March 3-7, 2003; Austin, Texas.

25. Geuorgui Bourov & Aniket Bhattacharya,“A 3D Brownian Dynamics simulation study of packing constraints in amphiphilic self-assembly”,APS March Meeting 2004, March 22-26, Montreal, Canada

26. Aniket Bhattacharya & Geuorgui Bourov“A comparison of results of amphiphilic self-assembly in NVT and NPT ensembles: effect ofvolume release due to packing constraints”,APS March Meeting 2004, March 22-26, Montreal, Canada.

27. Vincent Maycock & Aniket Bhattacharya,“Cluster autocorrelation and distribution in amphiphilic self-assembly: effect of geometry”,APS March Meeting 2004, March 22-26, Montreal, Canada.

28. Aniket Bhattacharya, Monojoy Goswami,& Sanat Kumar“Morphology and Dynamics of Associative Ionomers”,MRS Fall Meeting 2004, November 29- Dec 03, Boston, MA

29. Aniket Bhattacharya, Monojoy Goswami,& Sanat Kumar“Brownian Dynamics Studies of Morphology and Dynamics of Associative Ionomers”,APS March Meeting 2005, March 19-25, Los Angeles, CA

30. Geuorgui Bourov & Aniket Bhattacharya,“Effect of Amphiphilic Geometry on Phase Separation and Micellization: A Gibbs-ensembleMonte Carlo Study”,APS March Meeting 2005, March 19-25, Los Angeles, CA

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31. Monojoy Goswami, Sanat Kumar, Gerassimos Orkoulas, and Aniket Bhattacharya,“Computer Simulations of Aggregate Formation and Dynamics in Ionomers”,APS March Meeting 2005, March 19-25, Los Angeles, CA

32. Aniket Bhattacharya, Monojoy Goswami, & Sanat Kumar,“Brownian Dynamics Studies of Morphology and Dynamics of Associative Ionomers”,APS March Meeting 2005, March 19-25, Los Angeles, CA

33. Aniket Bhattacharya“Driven DNA translocation through thin and long nanopores”APS March Meeting 2006, March 13-17, Baltimore, MD

34. Tapio Ala-Nissila, Kaifu Luo, See-Chen Ying, and Aniket Bhattacharya“Influence of polymer-pore interactions on translocation”APS March Meeting 2008, March 10-14, 2008; New Orleans, Louisiana

35. Kaifu Luo, Tapio Ala-Nissila, Powel Pomorski, Mikko Karttunen, See-Chen Ying, and AniketBhattacharya“Scaling Exponents for Polymer Translocation through a Nanopore”APS March Meeting 2008, March 10-14, 2008, New Orleans, Louisiana

36. Aniket Bhattacharya, Kaifu Luo, Tapio Ala-Nissila, and See-Chen Ying“Polymer translocation through a nanopore in presence of attractive binding particles”APS March Meeting 2008, March 10-14, 2008; New Orleans, Louisiana

37. Christopher Lorscher, Aniket Bhattacharya, and Tapio Ala-Nissila“Polymer translocation induced by bad solvent”APS March Meeting 2009, March 1620, 2009; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

38. Abdelillah Ouazzani, Abdelkader Kara, and Aniket Bhattacharya“Self-assembly of FKE8 peptides using CHARMM”APS March Meeting 2009, March 1620, 2009; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

39. Mike Lively, Aniket Bhattacharya, Chris Grabill, Stephen M. Kuebler, Aniruddha Dutta,and Helge Heinrich“Simulation studies of electroless metal deposition using gold nano-clusters on polymeric sur-faces”APS March Meeting 2010, March 1519, 2010; Portland, Oregon, USA.

40. “Dynamics of polymer translocation rectified by attractive binding particles”Aniket Bhattacharya, Christopher Lorscher, Tapio Ala-Nissila, and Wokyung Sung,APS March Meeting 2010, March 1519, 2010; Portland, Oregon, USA.

41. “Rectified polymer translocation induced by solvent assymetry between cis and trans com-partments”

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Christopher Lorscher, Aniket Bhattacharya, and Tapio Ala-Nissila,APS March Meeting 2010, March 1519, 2010; Portland, Oregon, USA.

42. “Out of Equilibrium Characteristics of a Forced Translocating Chain through a Nanopore”Aniket Bhattacharya and Kurt Binder,APS March Meeting 2010, March 1519, 2010; Portland, Oregon, USA.

43. “Polymer translocation facilitated by Chaperones”,Aniket Bhattacharya, Tapio Ala-Nissila, and Wokyung SungAPS March Meeting 2011, March 2125, 2011; Dallas, Texas, USA.

44. “A Coupled-Dynamics Model for Polymer Translocation”,Timo Ikonen, Tapio Ala-Nissila, Aniket Bhattacharya, and Wokyung SungAPS March Meeting 2011, March 2125, 2011; Dallas, Texas, USA.

45. “Simulation studies of diffusion limited ballistic growth of particles from a surface”Stephen M. Kuebler and Aniket Bhattacharya APS March Meeting 2011, March 2125, 2011;Dallas, Texas, USA.

46. “Quantitative Transmission Electron Microscopy of Nanoparticles and Thin-Film Formationin Electroless Metalization of Polymeric Surfaces”Aniruddha Dutta, Helge Heinrich, Stephen Kuebler, Chris Grabill, and Aniket BhattacharyaAPS March Meeting 2011, March 2125, 2011; Dallas, Texas, USA.

47. “Quantification of metallic nanoparticle morphology with tilt series imaging by transmissionelectron microscopy”Aniruddha Dutta, Biao Yuan, Helge, Christopher J. Clukay, Chris Grabill, Helge Heinrich,Aniket Bhattacharya, and Stephen Kuebler,APS March Meeting 2012, Feb 27 - March 02, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

48. “Morphologies of an anisotropic diffusion limited growth model to study electroless deposi-tion”Stephen Kuebler, Aniruddha Dutta, Christopher J. Clukay, Chris Grabill, Helge Heinrich,and Aniket Bhattacharya,APS March Meeting 2012, Feb 27 - March 02, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

49. “Non-equilibrium tension propagation as a unifying description of driven polymer transloca-tion”Timo Ikonen, Tapio Ala-Nissila, Aniket Bhattacharya, and Wokyung SungAPS March Meeting 2012, Feb 27 - March 02, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

50. “Translocation dynamics of a semi-flexible chain through a nano-pore”Ramesh Adhikari, Andy W.C. Lau and Aniket BhattacharyaAPS March Meeting 2012, Feb 27 - March 02, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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51. “How tension propagates for a driven semi-flexible chain while translocating through a nano-pore”Ramesh Adhikari and Aniket BhattacharyaAPS March Meeting 2013, March 1822, 2013; Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

52. “Fluctuations and structural transitions of confined biopolymers”Aiqun Huang and Aniket Bhattacharya,APS March Meeting 2013, March 1822, 2013; Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

53. “Driven translocation of Polymer through a nanopore: effect of heterogeneous flexibility”,Ramesh Adhikari and Aniket Bhattacharya,APS March meeting 2014, March 06, session W11.00008

54. Aniket Bhattacharya, Aiqun Huang, and Kurt Binder,“Universal Crossover Dynamics of a Semi-Flexible Polymer in Two Dimensions”,March 03, APS March meeting 2014, March 06, session A10.00010

55. Aiqun Huang, Aniket Bhattacharya, and Kurt Binder,“Conformations and Transverse Fluctuations of a Semi-Flexible Chain in Two Dimensions,March 03, APS March meeting 2014, March 06, session A10.00011

56. Aniket Bhattacharya,“College Physics in Studio and Standard Classroom Environment”,Poster presented at the AAPT meeting “Introductory Physics for Life Sciences”,Arlington, VA Feb 16-18, 2014.

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