Sociophysics: An Introduction

by Sen, Parongama; Chakrabarti, Bikas K.

• ISBN13: 9780199662456
• ISBN10: 0199662452
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-01-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Parongama Sen, Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Calcutta, India,Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Professor of Physics, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India

Parongama Sen is Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Calcutta. Her research interests include phase transitions and critical phenomena, complex networks, physics of quantum and classical random walks, and applications of physics to social sciences.


Bikas K. Chakrabarti is Professor of Physics at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, and Visiting Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute. He has research interests in statistical physics, condensed matter physics, physics of quantum glasses, annealing and computation, and applications of physics to social sciences.