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Department of Computational & Data Sciences

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore - 560012.

We develop custom tools based on our analytical and computational solutions to the problems. Our custom solvers for emitter-matter interactions are based on volume integral approaches in frequency domain like Discrete Dipole Approximations (DDA).  We have other resources developed that are useful in iterative methods for solving high-condition / large linear systems. We make our general purpose tools available freely to others wherever possible.

Multi-core processors with large RAMs are used for simulation of optical processes.  In addition, the computational resources of SERC and its cluster computing facilities are available freely.

Though the group is primarily involved in theoretical studies and computational models, we also contribute to experiments in developing materials and sensors.  Some of it may involve designing and setting up devices / experiments, and in cases explaining new data and optical phenomena observed in experiments.  These are done in collaboration with the relevant labs in departments of Nanoscience (1,2) and Physics (1).

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

                                   - Henri Poincare