Parthasarathy Srinivasan

Research Interest:

I am currently working at the National High Magnetic Field Lab located in Tallahassee. My advisor is Dr. John Quine. Our group mainly works with solid state nuclear magnetic resonance techniques to understanding the structure of proteins. We are also working on many new projects, involving experimental techniques and theory for quadrupolar nuclei . I am currently working on developing the quantum mechanical theory for quadrupolar nuclei in terms of irreducible representations of su(2). We extensively use perturbation theory and average Hamiltonian theory to explain many of the experimental observations.

I am also interested in the topology and geometry of 3-manifolds. Some interesting notes on 3-manifolds can be found at Allen Hatcher's homepage. You can also find notes on Seifert fibered 3-manifolds at Matthew Brin's homepage. 

Papers/posters:

• Third-order effect in solid state NMR of quadrupolar nuclei (Joint with Z. Gan, J. R. Quine, B. Knott and S. Seurnagel) Chemical Physics Letters, 367 (2003), 163-169.
• Satellite Transition Rotational Resonance between Homonuclear Quadrupolar Spins (Along with Hyung-Tae Kwak, John Quine, Dominique Massiot and Zhehong Gan, submitted to Chemical Physics Letters.)
• Analysis of Orientational Restraints in NMR, 47^th Annual Biophysics Society Meeting (March 2003.)
• Third Order Quadrupolar Effects, 43rd  Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference (Apr. 2002). My poster, which was made using LaTeX, can be viewed as a pdf file.
• Every Ph. D student in most Mathematics departments undergoes the trauma of having to defend one's thesis proposal and the Ph. D thesis. I have been lucky enough to get through my thesis proposal. For those poor souls interested, you can get a pdf file of my thesis proposal here.

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