Mrityunjay Kothari
WELCOME
I am currently a postdoc at MIT in Prof. 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 often indulge in solving mathematical puzzles. Overview of my research, including the publications, are available on this site.
EDUCATION
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, 2013
CONTACT
Mrityunjay Kothari
Masschusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave #1-330, Cambridge, MA 02139
Email: mjayk at mit dot edu
Others: Google Scholar
UPDATES
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Our latest pre-print "The crucial role of elasticity in regulating liquid-liquid phase separation in cells" is up on arxiv!
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Check out the MIT news coverage of our latest work on mechanics of growth: https://news.mit.edu/2022/exploring-growth-within-confined-space-0104
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How does a growing body takes its shape and form when it is embedded inside another body? We attempt to answer this question in our latest JMPS paper.
Morphogenesis and cell ordering in confined bacterial biofilms
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Our collaborative work on the mechanics-driven morphogenesis in embedded bacterial biofilms is now online on PNAS! Check it out.
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Check out our research on the effects of elasticity on liquid-liquid phase separation through a short and fun video.
See the paper here.
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Our work on the peeling of soft adhesive layers featured on the front cover of Soft Matter.
See the paper here.
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Nov, 2020: Our work is featured on the front cover of Soft Matter!
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Oct, 2020: "Effect of elasticity on phase separation in heterogeneous systems" is online at JMPS.
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Sep, 2020: "Controlled propagation and jamming of a delamination front" is online at Soft Matter.
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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.
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Apr, 2020: Pre-print of our latest work on the effect of elasticity on phase separation is now on arXiv.
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Sep, 2019: Our work on modeling phase transitions in stainless steel at cryogenic temperatures is now online at JMPS.
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Jun, 2019: Started Postdoc in the Nonlinear Solid Mechanics group with Tal Cohen at MIT.
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May, 2019: Awarded the 'Outstanding Thesis Award' by School of Engineering at Brown.
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Jan, 2019: Joined Srivastava Research Lab.
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Jan, 2019: Brown's coverage of our work.
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Jan, 2019: Part II of the two part on Curvature Localization in Graphene is now online.
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Dec, 2018: Part II of the two part paper on crinkles got accepted in Proceedings of Royal Society A. To appear online soon.
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Jun, 2018: NSF coverage.
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Jun, 2018: More news coverage of our work on crinkles.
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Jun, 2018: Coverage of our work on Brown's engineering page.
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Jun, 2018: Our work on crinkles now online at Proceeding of Royal Society A.