Structure and Dynamics Group

Welcome to the official website of the Structure and Dynamics Group (SanD).

The Structure and Dynamics Group is one of the six laboratories tasked to implement the research programs of the National Institute of Physics (NIP).

Objective: The macroscopic properties of bulk solids and living organisms to atoms and molecules are dictated by the structure of their constituent parts and the underlying dynamics with which these microscopic components undergo. Understanding the fundamental principles behind their behavior through theoretical and computational physics methods is the research thrust of SanD.

The current SanD research areas include:

• biophysics - population dynamics, biological aging
• low temperature physics - two-dimensional electron systems, spin fluctuations, magnetism
• computational physics - quantum computing search optimization, malware epidemiology, percolation

Announcement: SanD is currently accepting applications for membership from bonafide undergraduate and graduate students. Deadline for submission of application is on February 15, 2011. For more information on the requirements and student expectations in the SanD see the training and recruitment section.

The Structure and Dynamics Group has steadily gained research momentum since its inception in January 2003. It grew from the expansion and reorganization of the Liquid Crystals Laboratory upon the approval of the NIP Executive Council to encompass research areas in computational physics and theoretical condensed matter physics.

Several students have trained and completed their respective theses in the various research disciplines of the SanD. The number of those who obtained their degrees from March 2004 to April 2010 are: 24 Bachelor of Science in Physics / Applied Physics graduates and 12 Masters of Science in Physics graduates. Since then some NIP students have been accepted to do their Ph.D. in Physics dissertations at the SanD.