WELCOME

I am currently a postdoc at MIT in Tal Cohen's Nonlinear Solid Mechanics group. I have a Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from Brown University. I was born and brought up in India. A certified mechanical engineer from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), I am a cricket fan and like to keep myself updated on the bleeding edge of technology. When not working on mechanics problems, I can be found solving mathematical puzzles. Overview of my research, including the publications, are available on this site.

EDUCATION

2016 - 2019

Brown University

Ph.D., Solid Mechanics

2013 - 2016

Brown University

Sc.M., Solid Mechanics

2009 - 2013

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering

CONTACT

Mrityunjay Kothari

Masschusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Ave #1-330, Cambridge, MA 02139

Email:

mjayk at mit dot edu

Others:

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Updates

• Nov, 2020: Our work is featured on the front cover of Soft Matter!

• Oct, 2020: "Effect of elasticity on phase separation in heterogeneous systems" is online at JMPS.

• Sep, 2020: "Controlled propagation and jamming of a delamination front" is online at Soft Matter.

• Jun, 2020: Pre-print of our latest work on the propagation and jamming of a delamination front in a peeled adhesive layer is now on arXiv.

• Apr, 2020: Pre-print of our latest work on the effect of elasticity on phase separation is now on arXiv.

• Sep, 2019: Our work on modeling phase transitions in stainless steel at cryogenic temperatures is now online at JMPS.

• Jun, 2019: Started Postdoc in the Nonlinear Solid Mechanics group with Tal Cohen at MIT.

• May, 2019: Awarded the 'Outstanding Thesis Award' by School of Engineering at Brown.

• Jan, 2019: Joined Srivastava Research Lab.

• Jan, 2019: Brown's coverage of our work.

• Jan, 2019: Part II of the two part on Curvature Localization in Graphene is now online.

• Dec, 2018: Part II of the two part paper on crinkles got accepted in Proceedings of Royal Society A. To appear online soon.

• Jun, 2018: NSF coverage.

• Jun, 2018: More news coverage of our work on crinkles.

• Jun, 2018: Coverage of our work on Brown's engineering page. 

• Jun, 2018: Our work on crinkles now online at Proceeding of Royal Society A.