Ashwin Pande
Assistant Professor
PhD (Indian Institute of Science & University of Maryland)
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Research Interests: Developing A Broad Agenda For Teaching Interdisciplinary Courses Which Try To Link Mathematic And Physics To Various Subjects.
Professor Ashwin Pande is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics in the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University. Apart from teaching, he conducts research into subjects of his interest. He is also working on Spatiotemporal Chaos in a model for Active Membranes proposed Professor Sriram Ramaswamy (IISc-Bangalore).
Professor Pande has a Doctorate in Pure Mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park. For this thesis, he worked on Topological T-duality with Professor Jonathan Rosenberg at the Department of Mathematics, the University of Maryland at College Park. He also has an MA in Mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, the University of Maryland at College Park.
In addition, he has a Doctorate in Physics from the Physics Department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. For his thesis, he studied some spatiotemporally chaotic states of some model Nonequilibrium Systems with Professor Rahul Pandit in the Theory Group (now the Centre for Condensed Matter Theory), Physics Department, IISc Bangalore. Dr Pande also has an MS degree in Physics from the Physics Department, IISc Bangalore.
Professor Pande was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences, NISER, Bhubaneshwar between 2014-2016. He was granted a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Mathematics Department, HRI Allahabad from 2011-2014. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the String Theory Group, RSPHYSSE, ANU Canberra with Professor P. Bouwknegt from 2007-2009.
In addition to conducting research into subjects of his interest, Dr Pande is interested in developing a broad agenda for teaching interdisciplinary courses which try to link mathematics and physics to various subjects.
Professor Ashwin S. Pande conducts research on problems in Pure Mathematics connected to Theoretical Physics. His current research is on Topological T-duality, a relatively new branch of Topology and Geometry inspired by the T-duality symmetry of String Theory. He recently extended the work of Bunke and co-workers on applications of the theory of Topological Stacks to Topological T-duality. Currently, he is interested in studying the crossed product of locally trivial bundles with fiber a strongly self-absorbing algebra by an action of R as a possible extension of Topological T-duality.
His earlier research is on Spatiotemporal Chaos in Nonequilibrium Systems, a by-now well-established part of both Nonequilibrium Physics and Chaos Theory.
Professor Ashwin S. Pande is interested in developing a broad agenda for teaching interdisciplinary courses which try to link mathematics and physics to various subjects. At Ahmedabad University he has taught courses on introductory biomathematics, business calculus, hypothesis testing and its applications to business mathematics and applications of elementary statistics and data visualization to environment and climate change. He has developed and is currently teaching introductory courses in calculus and introductory college algebra at Ahmedabad University.