SRIHARI 4067 Type IV Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Uttar Pradesh 208 016 INDIA +91-512-2598721 srihari.keshava@gmail.com Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Uttar Pradesh 208 016 INDIA +91-512-2597043 srihari@iitk.ac.in EXPERIENCE Professor, IIT Kanpur, 2010- Associate professor, IIT Kanpur, 2003-2010 Assistant professor, IIT Kanpur, 1997-2003 Visiting assistant professor, Washington State University, Pullman, January 2001 - July 2001 Postdoctoral scholar, Cornell University, 1995-1996. Visiting scientist, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Universität Regensburg, Germany, August 2004 - October 2004. Visiting research scientist, Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, October 2004 - March 2005. Visiting researcher, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, March 2005 - July 2005. EDUCATION University of Madras (Vivekananda College) B.Sc. (Chemistry), 1987 Villanova University, Pennsylvania, USA M.S. (Theoretical Chemistry), 1989 University of California Berkeley, USA PhD. (Chemical Physics), 1994
HONORS ΣΠΣ Physics Research Society, 1989 ΣΞ Scientific Honor Society, 1995 Gopaldas Bhandari Outstanding Teacher Award, IIT Kanpur, 2008 Expert member of the advanced study group on ``Towards a Semiclassical Theory of Dynamical Tunneling, Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Summer 2011 PUBLICATIONS 1. ON THE NATURE OF HIGHLY VIBRATIONALLY EXCITED STATES OF THIOPHOSGENE S. Keshavamurthy, J. Chem. Sci. 124, 291-300 (2012). 2. DRIVEN COUPLED MORSE OSCILLATORS - VISUALIZING THE PHASE SPACE AND CHARACTERIZING THE TRANSPORT A. Sethi & S. Keshavamurthy, Mol. Phys. 110, 717-727 (2012). 3. LOCAL PHASE SPACE CONTROL AND INTERPLAY OF CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM EFFECTS IN DISSOCIATION OF A DRIVEN MORSE OSCILLATOR A. Sethi & S. Keshavamurthy, Phys. Rev. A 79, 033416 (1-12) (2009). 4. DECODING THE DYNAMICAL INFORMATION EMBEDDED IN HIGHLY EXCITED VIBRATIONAL EIGENSTATES: STATE SPACE AND PHASE SPACE VIEWPOINTS P. Manikandan & S. Keshavamurthy, J. Phys. Chem. A 113, 1717-1730 (2009). Page 2
5.BICHROMATICALLY DRIVEN DOUBLE WELL: PARAMETRIC PERSPECTIVE OF THE STRONG-FIELD CONTROL LANDSCAPE REVEALS THE INFLUENCE OF CHAOTIC STATES A. Sethi & S. Keshavamurthy, J. Chem. Phys. 128, 164117 (1-8) (2008). 6. DYNAMICAL TUNNELING IN MOLECULES: QUANTUM ROUTES TO ENERGY FLOW S. Keshavamurthy, Int. Rev. Phys. Chem. 26, 521-584 (2007). 7. INTRAMOLECULAR VIBRATIONAL ENERGY REDISTRIBUTION OF A HIGH FREQUENCY MODE IN THE PRESENCE OF AN INTERNAL ROTOR: CLASSICAL THICK-LAYER DIFFUSION AND QUANTUM LOCALIZATION P. Manikandan & S. Keshavamurthy, J. Chem. Phys. 127, 064303 (1-4) (2007). 8. INTRAMOLECULAR VIBRATIONAL ENERGY REDISTRIBUTION AS DIFFUSION IN STATE SPACE: CLASSICAL-QUANTUM CORRESPONDENCE A. Semparithi & S. Keshavamurthy, J. Chem. Phys. (communication) 125, 141101 (1-4) (2006). 9. RESONANCE-ASSISTED TUNNELING IN THREE DEGREES OF FREEDOM WITHOUT DISCRETE SYMMETRY S. Keshavamurthy, Phys. Rev. E (rapid communication) 72, 045203 (1-4) (2005). 10.ON DYNAMICAL TUNNELING AND CLASSICAL RESONANCES S. Keshavamurthy, J. Chem. Phys. 122, 114109 (1-12) (2005). 11.PARAMETRIC PERSPECTIVE ON HIGHLY EXCITED STATES: CASE STUDY OF CHBr C l F AND C2H2 A. Semparithi & S. Keshavamurthy, Chem. Phys. Lett. 395, 327-334 (2004). Page 3
12. INTRAMOLECULAR VIBRATIONAL ENERGY REDISTRIBUTION IN DCO: CLASSICAL-QUANTUM CORRESPONDENCE, DYNAMICAL ASSIGNMENTS OF HIGHLY EXCITED STATES, AND PHASE SPACE TRANSPORT A. Semparithi & S. Keshavamurthy, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 5, 5051-5062 (2003). 13. EXPLORING CLASSICAL PHASE SPACE STRUCTURES OF NEARLY INTEGRABLE QUANTUM SYSTEMS VIA PARAMETRIC VARIATIONS N. R. Cerruti, S. Keshavamurthy & S. Tomsovic, Phys. Rev. E 68, 056205: 1-13 (2003). 14. DYNAMICAL TUNNELING IN MOLECULES: ROLE OF THE CLASSICAL RESONANCES AND CHAOS S. Keshavamurthy, J. Chem. Phys. 119, 161-164 (2003). 15. UNDERSTANDING HIGHLY EXCITED STATES VIA PARAMETRIC VARI AT I O N S A. Semparithi, V. Charulatha & S. Keshavamurthy, J. Chem. Phys. 118, 1146-1157 (2003). 16. ANALYZING INTRAMOLECULAR VIBRATIONAL ENERGY REDISTRIBUTION VIA THE OVERLAP INTENSITY-LEVEL VELOCITY CORRELATOR S. Keshavamurthy, N. R. Cerruti & S. Tomsovic, J. Chem. Phys. 117, 4168-4177 (2002). 17. FINGERPRINTS OF A CLASSICAL RESONANCE ON THE EIGENLEVEL DYNAMICS OF THE CORRESPONDING QUANTUM HAMILTONIAN S. Keshavamurthy, J. Phys. Chem. A 105, 2668-2676 (2001). 18.REAL TIME SEMICLASSICAL INITIAL VALUE METHOD AND THRESHOLD TUNNELING PROBABILITIES R. Das & S. Keshavamurthy, Chem. Phys. Lett. 326, 544-550 (2000). Page 4
19. CLASSICAL RESONANCES AND THEIR QUANTUM MANIFESTATIONS S. Keshavamurthy, Ind. J. Chem. 39A, Special issue on theoretical chemistry, 307-315 (2000). 20. SCALING OF THE AVERAGE SURVIVAL PROBABILITY FOR LOW DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS S. Keshavamurthy, Chem. Phys. Lett. 300, 281-288 (1999). 21. EIGENSTATE ASSIGNMENTS AND THE QUANTUM- CLASSICAL CORRESPONDENCE FOR HIGHLY-EXCITED VIBRATIONAL STATES OF THE BAGGOT H2O HAMILTONIAN S. Keshavamurthy & G. S. Ezra, J. Chem. Phys. 107, 156-179 (1997). 22. ASSIGNING VIBRATIONAL SPECTRA OF HIGHLY EXCITED MOLECULES: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM VIBRATIONAL DYNAMICS OF THE H2O MOLECULE S. Keshavamurthy & G. S. Ezra, Chem. Phys. Lett. 259, 81-90 (1996). 23. SEMICLASSICAL CORRECTION FOR QUANTUM-MECHANICAL SCATTERING S. Keshavamurthy & W. H. Miller, Chem. Phys. Lett. 218, 189-194 (1994). 24. A SEMICLASSICAL MODEL TO INCORPORATE MUL- TIDIMENSIONAL TUNNELING IN CLASSICAL TRAJECTORY SIMULATIONS USING LOCALLY CONSERVED ACTIONS S. Keshavamurthy & W. H. Miller, Chem. Phys. Lett. 205, 96-101 (1993). Page 5
PREPRINTS 1. SCALING THEORY OF IVR: CLASSICAL-QUANTUM CORRESPONDENCE S. Keshavamurthy, Adv. Chem. Phys. (invited review article) (2012). 2. INTRAMOLECULAR VIBRATIONAL ENERGY REDISTRIBUTION: CONNECTING THE QUANTUM STATE SPACE AND CLASSICAL PHASE SPACE PERSPECTIVES P. Manikandan & S. Keshavamurthy, (in preparation) (2012). BOOK CHAPTERS (REFEREED) 1. SYMMETRY IN MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS In Symmetry: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective, Ed. I. B. Passi, Ramanujan Mathematical Society Lecture Notes Series 16, RMS publications, 71-95 (2011). 2. DYNAMICAL TUNNELING AND CONTROL In Dynamical Tunneling: Theory and Experiment, Eds. S. Keshavamurthy & P. Schlagheck, CRC Press Taylor & Francis, 225-256 (2011). 3. ANALYSIS OF QUANTUM EIGENSTATES IN A 3-MODE SYSTEM In Hamiltonian Systems with Three or More Degrees of Freedom, Ed. C. Simo, NATO-ASI Series 533, Kluwer Publications, 435-439 (1999). Page 6
BOOKS 1. DYNAMICAL TUNNELING: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT Edited with P. Schlagheck, CRC Press Taylor & Francis (2011). BOOK REVIEWS 1. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 2009 Current Science 98, 260 (2010). 2. COLLECTED PAPERS ON PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY Current Science 99, 1265 (2010). 3. THE STORY OF PHYSICS Current Science 95, 532 (2008). 4. STORY OF CHEMISTRY Current Science 95, 111 (2008). SELECTED INVITED LECTURES & TALKS 1. PROBING THE DYNAMICAL ORIGINS OF RESTRICTED INTRAMOLECULAR ENERGY FLOW Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Molecules and Clusters (SDMC)-IX, Bengaluru 2012. 2. INTRAMOLECULAR ENERGY FLOW DYNAMICS AND EIGENSTATES: CONNECTING THE QUANTUM STATE SPACE AND CLASSICAL PHASE SPACE PERSPECTIVES The Third Asian Spectroscopy Conference, Xiamen, China 2011. Page 7
3. INTRAMOLECULAR VIBRATIONAL ENERGY REDISTRIBUTION: ANALOGIES, INSIGHTS AND CHALLENGES TIFR Wednesday Colloquium, Mumbai 2011. 4. DYNAMICAL TUNNELING IN THREE DEGREES OF FREEDOM AND BEYOND: THE FINAL FRONTIER? Advanced Study Group: Focus Week, Dresden 2011. 5. DECODING THE DYNAMICAL INFORMATION EMBEDDED IN HIGHLY EXCITED STATES ICTS workshop on Quantum Chaos & Information, Chennai 2010. 6. ROLE OF INTRAMOLECULAR VIBRATIONAL ENERGY FLOW IN CONTROL Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Molecules and Clusters (SDMC)-VII, Goa 2010. 7. INTRAMOLECULAR VIBRATIONAL ENERGY REDISTRIBUTION: DYNAMICAL INSIGHTS AND CONTROL FROM A CLASSICAL- QUANTUM CORRESPONDENCE PERSPECTIVE 2nd German-Indian Symposium Frontiers of Chemistry, Leipzig 2009. 8. CLASSICAL-QUANTUM CORRESPONDENCE IN ISOMERIZATION DYNAMICS: QUANTUM EIGENSTATES AND CLASSICAL ARNOLD WEB APS Focus Meeting on Transition States in Chemistry, Physics & Astrophysics, Pittsburg 2009. 9. DYNAMICAL TUNNELING: MECHANISM AND CONTROL CRSI-RSC Joint Symposium, Bengaluru 2008. 10.INTRAMOLECULAR VIBRATIONAL ENERGY FLOW,QUANTUM EIGENSTATES AND THE DYNAMICAL ARNOLD WEB BIFUR08, Madrid 2008. Page 8
11.DOES VIBRATIONAL ENERGY FLOW FILL THE MOLECULAR STATE SPACE? Theoretical Chemistry Conference, Tiruchirapalli 2006. 12. DYNAMICAL TUNNELING: ROLE OF THE CLASSICAL RESONANCES School of Mathematics, Bristol 2005. 13. DYNAMICAL TUNNELING IN MOLECULES: SPECTRAL CONSEQUENCES OF CLASSICAL PHASE SPACE STRUCTURES Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics & Self Organization, Göttingen 2004. 14. CLASSICAL-QUANTUM CORRESPONDENCE AND IVR: BEYOND TWO DEGREES OF FREEDOM VIA PARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES Telluride Summer Research Workshop on Condensed and Gas Phase Vibrational Dynamics, Telluride 2003. 15. SCARRING OF HIGHLY EXCITED STATES DUE TO RESONANCES - A LEVEL DYNAMICS PERSPECTIVE Miller Festschrift, Berkeley 2001. 16. SEMICLASSICAL TRANSITION STATE THEORY AND BEYOND Theoretical Chemistry Discussion Meeting, Hyderabad 1998. Page 9