Description
The thesis presents a systematic study of the Mpemba effect in a colloidal system with a micron-sized particle diffusing in a water bath. By carefully designing a double-well potential using feedback-based optical tweezers, the author demonstrates that an initially hot system can sometimes cool faster than an initially warm system.
Dr. Avinash Kumar was born in Munger, India and received his integrated BS-MS degree in Physics in 2015 from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India. He received his PhD degree in Physics, under the supervision of Prof. John Bechhoefer, from Simon Fraser University, Canada. Currently, Dr. Kumar is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Cell Biology at the Yale School of Medicine, USA.