Dr. Shirshendu Chowdhury

Academic Background

  1. Ph.D. (Mathematics), TIFR CAM, Bangalore (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai), 2013, Dissertation Title: Control of Linearized Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations
  2. M.Sc. (Mathematics), TIFR CAM, Bangalore (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai), 2008
  3. B.Sc (Mathematics), Serampore College (University of Calcutta), 2005

Positions

  1. Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata (current)
  2. Assistant Professor in Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. (2016 - 2017)
  3. Inspire Faculty in Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science Education And Research, Kolkata, India. (2015 - 2016)
  4. Post Doc Fellow, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India. (2014 - 2015)
  5. IFCAM post doc fellow, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France (2013 - 2014)

Awards and Honors

  1. INSPIRE Faculty Award from Department of Science & Technology (2015)
  2. Harish Chandra Memorial Award from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (2014)

Extramural Grant and Project

  1. Be a member of Indo-French Centre for Applied Mathematics(IFCAM) Project: “Analysis, Control and Homogenization of Complex systems” for the year 2019-2021.
  2. Inspire Research Grant, 35 Lakhs (7 Lakhs per year) for 5 years (2015-2020).
  3. MATRICS Research Grant, Funding Agency: SERB Amount: 6 Lakhs (2 Lakhs per year) Duration: 2022-25.

Visits and Fellowship Obtained

  1. Fellowship obtained for visit as an Invited Assistant Professor from Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse (The “Fermat prize”is awarded by this Institute), Uni- versité Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, for the period 30th May,2018- 29th June,2018.
  2. Visited as an Invited Assistant Professor to Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, for one month namely June, 2019 under the Fund of IFCAM Project.

Workshop Organized

  1. One of the four organizers and chairperson of 7 Sessions in the International programme in Zoom:WEBINAR ON PDE AND RELATED AREAS (https://www.iitk.ac.in/math/weekly-webinar-on-pde-and-related-areas) during 3rd September- 15 th December, twice a week, 2020.

For more details see the CV.

Partial Differential Equations, Fluid Mechanics, Control Theory.

Linear and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Fluid Mechanics, Compressible Navier-Stokes equations, Viscoelastic flow of Maxwell and Jeffreys fluid, Control of PDE (In particular Controllability, Stabilizability, Optimal control problem for Compressible Navier-Stokes equations, FitzHugh-Nagumo equation, Rogers-McCulloch equation and Viscoelastic fluid model).

  1. Chowdhury, Shirshendu,Dutta, Rajib and Majumdar, Subrata. 2024 Local exponential stabilization of Rogers-McCulloch and FitzHugh-Nagumo equation by the method of backstepping, Accepted in ESAIM Control Optim. Calc. Var., 2024.
  2. Chowdhury, Shirshendu,Dutta, Rajib; Majumdar, Subrata 2023 Boundary controllability and stabilizability of a coupled first-order hyperbolic-elliptic system. Evol. Equ. Control Theory 12 , no. 3, 907-943.
  3. Chowdhury, Shirshendu, Dutta, Rajib and Majumdar, Subrata. 2021. “ Boundary Stabilizability of the linearized compressible Navier-Stokes system in one dimension by Backstepping approach.” SIAM J. Control Optim., 59, 2147-2173
  4. Chowdhury, Shirshendu, Biswas, Mrinmay and Dutta, Rajib. 2020."Approximate controllability of the FitzHugh-Nagumo equation in one dimension." J. Differential Equations, 268, 3497-3563
  5. Chowdhury, Shirshendu and Ervedoza, Sylvain. 2019."Open loop stabilization of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a 2d channel using power series expansion." J. Math. Pures Appl., 9, 301-346
  6. Chowdhury, Shirshendu Mitra, Debanjana and Renardy, Michael. 2018."Null controllability of the incompressible Stokes equations in a 2-D channel using normal boundary control.." Evol. Equ. Control Theory, 7, 447-463
  7. Chowdhury, Shirshendu Mitra, Debanjana; Ramaswamy, Mythily and Renardy, Michael. 2017."Approximate controllability results for linear viscoelastic flows." J. Math. Fluid Mech., 19, 529-549
  8. Chowdhury, Shirshendu Maity, Debayan; Ramaswamy, Mythily and Raymond, Jean-Pierre. 2015." Local stabilization of the compressible Navier-Stokes system, around null velocity, in one dimension.." J. Differential Equations , 259, 371-407
  9. Chowdhury, Shirshendu 2015."Approximate controllability for linearized compressible barotropic Navier-Stokes system in one and two dimensions.." J. Math. Anal. Appl. , 422, 1034-1057
  10. Chowdhury, Shirshenduand Mitra, Debanjana. 2015."Null controllability of the linearized compressible Navier–Stokes equations using moment method." J. Evol. Equ. , 15, 331-360
  11. Chowdhury, Shirshendu Mitra, Debanjana; Ramaswamy, Mythily and Renardy, Michael. 2014."Null controllability of the linearized compressible Navier Stokes system in one dimension.." J. Differential Equations, 257, 3813-3849
  12. Chowdhury, Shirshenduand Ramaswamy, Mythily. 2013."Optimal control of linearized compressible Navier-Stokes equations." ESAIM Control Optim. Calc. Var. , 19, 587-615
  13. Chowdhury, Shirshendu Ramaswamy, Mythily and Raymond, Jean-Pierre. 2012."Controllability and stabilizability of the linearized compressible Navier-Stokes system in one dimension." SIAM J. Control Optim., 50, 2959-2987

Post-Doc

  • Samprita Das Roy (02 November, 2021-)

Ph.D

  • Jiten Kumbhakar (2019- onwards)Prime Minister's Research Fellow (PMRF)
  • Debanjit Mondal (2022- onwards)

Project Students

Prof. Shirshendu Chowdhury
Department Department-of-Mathematics-Statistics, AAC Building,
Room No. 331,
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
Mohanpur 741246 West Bengal, India
E-mail : shirshendu@iiserkol.ac.in