Amit Acharya who is also a member of the university’s Mechanics, Materials, and Computing research group was among the seven (7) accomplished researchers drawn from across universities in the US that make the list of the first class of the Pivot Fellows.
A released publication by the Simon Foundation's stated that each of the Pivot Fellows will be allotted a mentor who will guide them in training for a period of one year after which they are eligible to apply for a research funding of up to three (3) years in new fields.
The publication revealed that the programme is design to help scientists in the academic institutions whose fields of interest are in data science, mathematics, computer science, engineering and natural sciences and who moved into new fields to accelerate the process and to break hindrances in moving between fields.
Becoming a Pivot Fellow eligible Amit Acharya to salary support, research, travel and professional development funding during the fellowship year and three (3) years research award of up to $1.5million in new field after fellowship.
Simon Foundation stated that during his fellowship, "Amit Acharya will work with his mentor Ambar Sengupta of the University of Connecticut. They plan to develop the mathematical background to establish a branch of mathematical gauge theory directly adapted to studying the dynamics and collective behavior of topological defects called dislocations and disclinations in nonlinear elastic solids. Their goal is to study topological defect dynamics in elasticity by path integral methods (at least in the finite-dimensional approximation) to understand its statistical properties, and thus hopefully shed light on the plasticity of crystalline solids — a scientifically intricate macroscopic phenomenon of great technological importance".
Amit Acharya expertise span the continuum mechanics, applied mathematics and theoretical materials science.
He obtained his Ph.D degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1994. MS in Mining Engineering from the University of Utah in 1991 while he earned his Bachelor of Technology in Mining Engineering from Indian School of Mines in 1988.
Amit Acharya's mentor during the fellowship will receive the sum of $50,000.
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