PhDSupervision:Dhananjay Ipparthi

Personal Information

Name: Dhananjay Ipparthi

Date of arrival in Brussels: 08th February, 2012

Home address: Rue des Vierges 58, 1000 Bruxelles

Telephone number: +32 483 382 207

Milestones

• Three papers
• Thesis

Papers in progress

• Theory of incompatible substructures
  • Authors: Marco Dorigo, Dhananjay Ipparthi, Massimo Mastrangeli and Andrew Winslow
  • Target conference: ??
  • Synopsis: A closed form model for the formation of incompatible substructures. Statistics to compare model and physical experiments.
  • Project page: Theory of incompatible substrucutre problem

• Experiments to validate: incompatible substructures model and growth of incompatible substructures
  • Authors: Dhananjay Ipparthi, Andrew Winslow, Massimo Mastrangeli and Marco Dorigo
  • Target journal:
  • Synopsis: Study of how the incompatible substructures are formed, how the grow and a summary of possible ways to eliminate the problem.
  • Project page:

• Impact of different modes of shaking on a self-assembling system
  • Authors: Dhananjay Ipparthi, Massimo Mastrangeli, Marco Dorigo
  • Target conference:
  • Synopsis: Impact of different modes of shaking on a self-assembling system: orbitatl, linear, orbital + linear with kicks (random)
  • Project page: Different modes of shaking

• Aperiodic breaking up of substructures
  • Authors: Dhananjay Ipparthi, Massimo Mastrangeli, Marco Dorigo
  • Target conference:
  • Synopsis: Study of how high inertia objects can be used to reduce the formation of incompatible substructures.
  • Project page: Use of a external agent to break incompatible substructures

• Conformational switching
  • Authors: Dhananjay Ipparthi, Massimo Mastrangeli and Marco Dorigo
  • Target journal: Artificial Life
  • Synopsis: Presentation of a purely mechanical conformational switching mechanism used for self-assembly.
  • Project page: Conformational Switching

Academic Activities

2nd March - 9th March, 2015

• Master student Nicolas starts today.
  • I've set up a git repo for the TrackingOfSelfAssembly project. Nicolas, Marco, you and I have access to this repo.
  • His immediate deliverable to the university is a state of the art section as well as a brief project proposal.
  • Thus far he has setup OpenCV. He is able to capture image stream and store the frames sequentially.
  • His next steps will be to detect blobs, and then tracking using frame differencing.

• Towards our work with Andrew
  • In depth lit review to see if the work we propose has already been done.
  • Write out outline: relevant literature, physical experiment set up, experiment procedure, analytical model, discussion

• Try out new lead pellets for conformational switching experiments

• Clean up shared Dropbox folder, svn up all changes.