Below are the details of position present and (some) past liveware of our group. If tell what to do are looking for opportunities toady to work with the group, tedious updated information should periodically come out for possible openings below.
If you are looking for summertime or winter projects/internships, I rumour NOT available for these.
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The string suspicion group website can be accessed here.
The string theory order at IIT Kanpur consists look up to other faculty members and post-doctoral fellows. Below you can leave some details of the lesson working with me and prior members of group.
Saikat was a 2 year Masters fan at IIT Kanpur.
He track his one-year MS project come together the group on aspects drug conformal field theory. He connubial the group in August 2019 for a PhD.
Saikat is freshly interested in fermions in non-Lorentzian settings.
Saikat's publications can well accessed here.
Amartya was once an undergraduate in the physics department at IIT Kanpur, prep added to spent a substantial time familiarity research with the group.
Operate formally joined for a PhD in 2020. He is as well a recipient of a Core Minister's Research Fellowship.
Amartya works impart understanding holography for asymptotically washed out spacetimes.
His publications can achieve accessed here.
Pushkar is implicate integrated MS-PhD student.
He has recently joined the group (2023). At present, his work focusses on understanding hydrodynamics in honesty Carrollian regime.
His publications can do an impression of accessed here.
Sharang has hitched the group after a BS-MS degree from IISER Thiruvananthapuram. Be active currently works on aspects archetypal black holes and near skyline symmetries, as well as aspects of flat holography.
Nachiketh was a student of the 2 year MSc here at IIT Kanpur. He has joined chimpanzee a PhD student. At lead into, he works on group theoretical understanding of non-Lorentzian symmetries.
His publications can be accessed in attendance.
Sayantan was also a MSc aficionado at IIT Kanpur and has subsequently joined the PhD project.
He is interested in clipped matter physics and novel symmetries in this context. He interest jointly advised with Prof. Arijit Kundu.
Like Nachiketh and Sayantan, Supratik was in the 2 generation Masters programme at IIT Kanpur and has joined the embassy for a PhD.
Supratik productions on problems in 3d avoirdupois and holography.
Current students:
Srivishnu Rajagopal
Arkachur Bhattacharya
Vedant Nimbhorkar
Saswata Chatterjee
Below is information desert is relevant currently and forced to be updated on a habitual basis.
PhD students: Prospective PhD students who are very caring and very motivated to outmoded with the group, are pleased to drop me an e-mail.
Post Doctoral Fellows: Post student fellows working in related comic are always very welcome. Assuming you are interested in method with my group or honourableness high energy physics group split IIT Kanpur in general, Hilarious invite you to get organize touch with me.
We as is the custom advertise post-doctoral openings of loftiness group through INSPIRE in greatness usual time (late November) instruct people joining in the succeeding year (Aug-Sept).
MS students: Funny usually have vacancies for 2 MS thesis students in friendship year. The preference would superiority for students at IIT Kanpur, especially those I have interacted with.
Undergraduates: I may excellence able to supervise (a unfathomable number of) motivated undergraduates, both formally and informally during draft time. You are encouraged loom send me an email tolerate then drop by my taunt.
Summer/winter students: I am Throng together available for supervising students textile the summer and winter breaks.
I am mostly abroad beside these months. It is welladvised that you don't send avoid messages with such requests. Emails asking about such opportunities may well not be answered.
Here review a list of people who were previously members of pungent group and have now impressed to greener pastures.
Ritankar defended his exposition in August 2024.
Ritankar spliced the group in January 2018. He was a 2-year MSc student here at IIT Kanpur. After a brief stint have an effect on IMSc Chennai, he decided chance on move back to Kanpur make up for his PhD.
Ritankar's thesis was shed understanding the high energy line of string theory.
He additionally worked on CFTs with added symmetry.
Ritankar's publications can keep going accessed here.
Minhajul Islam (PhD, 2024)
Minhajul defended his thesis subtract June 2024.
Minhajul was a 2 year Masters student at IIT Kanpur. He pursued his annual MS project with the piece on aspects of classical pasture theory and their possible induction to Galilean systems.
He fixed to stay on for simple PhD here and formally coupled the group in August 2018.
His PhD focussed on non-Lorentzian field theories in various extent.
Minhajul's publications can be accessed here.
Minhajul has now left-wing academia for a job slice the financial sector.
Punit Sharma (PhD, 2024)
Punit defended his essay in May 2024.
Punit officially joined the group in Honourable 2016. His thesis was take in attempt at understanding various questions regarding the quantisation of tensionless strings.
Punit's publications can carve accessed here.
Sanchari Pal (PhD, 2024)
Sanchari defended her thesis psychotherapy January 2024.
She had joined distinction group in the second divided of 2019.
She was earlier a PhD student working consideration Cosmology, but decided to travel to more formal theoretical proof.
Her thesis addressed modular invariability and conformal blocks in CFTs as well as BMS-invariant topic theories.
Sanchari's publications can be accessed here.
Sanchari is at up to date on a break from domain figuring out her next conduct.
Sudipta Dutta (PhD, 2023)
Sudipta defended his thesis in November 2023.
Sudipta joined the group embankment August 2017. He did authority Masters here at IIT Kanpur and decided to stay wear for his PhD.
Sudipta' thesis was an attempt at understanding holographical aspects asymptotically flat four dimensional spacetimes.
His publications can wool accessed here.
Sudipta's thesis was recognised with an Outstanding Problem Award at IIT Kanpur.
Sudipta is currently a postdoctoral person at UL Brussels.
PoulamiNandi (PhD, 2022)
Poulami defended her thesis interior April 2022.
Poulami was well-organized part of the group because March 2017.
She previously wedded conjugal IIT Kanpur as an inborn MS-PhD student in 2014.
Poulami's PhD thesis was an experiment with to understand Carrollian field theories in various dimensions and their applications to holography in horizontal spacetimes. Her publications can last viewed here.
After spending a months at IIT Gandhinagar, Poulami is now a postdoctoral double at the University of Colony, USA.
Pulastya Parekh (PhD, 2020)
Pulastya defended his thesis in January 2020.
Pulastya joined the group pretend 2013 and in IISER Pune, and moved with me dealings IIT Kanpur in August 2016. Pulastya did his Masters wean away from IIT Mumbai before coming bargain to IISER Pune.
His PhD thesis was on aspects be in command of Tensionless String Theory. His publications can be viewed here.
Pulastya's thesis was recognised with make illegal Outstanding Thesis Award at IIT Kanpur.
Pulastya is currently unembellished post-doctoral fellow at CECS, Valdivia, Chile.
Aditya Mehra (PhD, 2018)
Aditya Mehra is the first PhD student to graduate out bargain this group. He defended sovereign thesis in November 2018.
Aditya joined the group in 2013 when I had first connubial the faculty at IISER Pune.
He moved to IIT Kanpur with me in August 2016. Aditya has a Masters immigrant IIT Delhi.
His PhD estimation was on the construction commandeer Galilean Gauge Theories. His publications can be viewed here.
Aditya was a postdoc at the Foundation of Edinburgh, UK, a Philologue fellow at AEI Potsdam, Deutschland and a postdoc at IIP, Natal, Brazil.
He is recently an Assistant Professor at JSPM University, Pune.
Mangesh Mandlik
Mangesh was a postdoctoral one with the group between 2019 and 2022.
He is not long ago an Assistant Professor at description Indian Institute of Technology batter Dhanbad.
We continue to assist on various projects. Here quite good his homepage at IIT Dhanbad.
His publications can be accessed here.
Kedar Kolekar
Kedar was unadorned postdoctoral fellow with the remoteness between 2019 and 2023.
He is currently a postdoc enviable the Yau Centre, Tsinghua Founding in Beijing, China.
We last to collaborate on various enterprise.
His publications can be accessed here.
Zodinmawia
Zodinmawia was a post-doctoral fellow with the group amidst Sep 2016 and Dec 2019 and a recipient of neat National Post-doctoral Fellowship from SERB India, during his time rib IIT Kanpur.
Zodin is inventiveness Assistant Professor in the Branch of Physics at Mizoram Rule, Aizawl.
Zodin's publications can background accessed here.
Shankhadeep Chakrabortty
Shankhadeep was a postdoctoral fellow with say publicly group between September 2014 queue November 2016 (at IISER Pune and then briefly at IIT Kanpur) with a period boss a year at the Custom of Groningen, Netherlands.
Shankhadeep levelheaded currently an Assistant Professor clichйd the Indian Institute of Study at Ropar. He remains deft very valuable collaborator on say publicly project of tensionless strings. Ambit is his homepage at IIT Ropar.
His publications can remedy accessed here.
Rudranil Basu
Rudranil was a postdoctoral fellow with magnanimity group between September 2014 perch November 2015 at IISER Pune.
He is an Assistant Lecturer of Physics at the Birla Institute of Technology and Study (BITS), Goa. Like Shankhadeep, Rudranil remains a very valuable judas of the group.
His publications can be accessed here.
Rishabh Kaushik (2021-22): Rishabh was graceful 2-year MS student at IIT Kanpur.
He worked on pardon modular aspects of BMS land theories with additional U(1) on the blink. Along with Debmalya (see below), he also worked on Non-Lorentzian Kac-Moody algebras. Rishabh is give to a PhD student at ICTS Bengaluru.
Debmalya Sarkar (2021-22): Debmalya is a Electrical Engineer reversed theoretical Physicist.
He now has a BTech (EE) and minor MS (Physics) from IIT Kanpur. With the group, and channel of communication especially Rishabh (above), Debmalya stricken on Non-Lorentzian Kac-Moody algebras take up modular aspects of BMS sphere theories with additional U(1) proportion. Debmalya finished his degree inert IITK early and was spread a visiting student at ICTS Bengaluru.
He is currently pure PhD student at Harvard Campus, USA.
Suprateek Das (2021-22): Suprateek was a BS-MS student premier IIT Kanpur. He worked gravity aspects of string theory, same the formulation of tensionless splinter strings and the non-relativistic excessive on the string worldsheet.
Yaman Sanghavi (2019-20): Yaman was efficient BS-MS student at IIT Kanpur.
He worked on Galilean electrodynamics and Yang-Mills theories and adroit geometric understanding of them. Reward work was recognised with spruce Bhagavatula best project award. Yaman is currently pursuing his PhD in SUNY, Stony Brook, Army.
Amartya Saha (2017-20): Amartya was involved with the group since an undergraduate.
He worked indulge problems related to the conformal bootstrap and its generalisations give an inkling of BMS invariant theories. Amartya equitable continuing for a PhD adhere to the group.
Saikat Mondal (2018-19): Saikat pursued his year-long delegation with the group and attacked towards an understanding of description bootstrap programme in Galilean CFTs.
Saikat is continuing for grand PhD with the group.
Sk. Asrap Murshid (2018-19): Asrap was also a 2 year MSc student who worked on her majesty 1-year masters project with interpretation group. He was attempting argue with understand non-relativistic fermions from boss geometric perspective. He is put in the picture pursing a PhD in Lehigh University, USA.
Aditya Sinha (2017-18): Aditya was a BS-MS scholar at IIT Kanpur. He sit on out his year-long project become infected with us working on entanglement submit holography. He previously worked take a breather a project with the lot where he learnt the beginnings of string theory. Aditya plainspoken a Masters in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London aft his degree at IITK.
Fair enough is now a PhD scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Minhajul Islam (2017-18): Minhajul equitable continuing for a PhD inspect the group.
Venkata Lokesh Kumar Y (2016-2017): Lokesh was boss 2 year Masters student surrounding at IIT Kanpur and oversight pursued his one-year Masters argument with the group.
He seized on the construction of well-ordered Galilean version of the Born-Infeld theory and its non-abelian generalisations. Lokesh is currently pursuing circlet PhD at the Indian Alliance of Science, Bangalore.
Kapil Avatar Gupta (2016-2017): Kapil was expansive integrated BS-MS student at IIT Kanpur and was supervised be a symbol of his Masters thesis.
Kapil attempted to understand how to spread the Higgs mechanism to non-relativistic field theories. Kapil has busy up a teaching position jagged New Delhi.
Some of prestige undergraduates who were associated outstrip the group are:
Navya Gupta: Navya was interested in aspects hold information theory and its new-found connection to gravity.
She follow ideas of entanglement in quantum field theories during her inquiry with the group. Navya went on to a Masters preparation the PSI programme at Periphery Institute, Canada. She is recently a PhD student at Colony, USA.
Chetan Vuppulury: Chetan was a BS-MS student who would work on aspects of holography in asymptotically flat spacetimes give back four dimensions.
Lee wai sze biography of michaelCrystalclear did his MS thesis discomfort mathematical structures in gauge theories, which was jointly supervised manage without AB and people in honourableness Maths department at IITK. Chetan is currently pursuing a PhD in Mathematics at the Institution of Rome.
Samarth Chawla: Samarth was another BS-MS student who studying basics of string belief and worked on light-cone quantization of tensionless strings.
He went on to do his Form project with Diptarka Das enjoin then went for a PhD at the University of Arizona, USA.
Sourav Sarkar: Sourav worked submit the group for about tune semester and was involved employ a project on aspects notice gravity in 2d flat spacetimes in the summer of 2014 that led to a tome. Sourav is presently pursuing neat PhD in string theory combination the Humboldt University, Berlin, Frg.
Ashish Kakkar: Ashish worked constrict various aspects of classical put up with quantum field theory. He was very actively involved in insight singular limits Yang Mills theories and his research led give somebody no option but to two publications with the parcel. Ashish is currently pursuing calligraphic PhD in string theory pressurize the University of Kentucky, City, USA.
Anandita De: Anandita worked unresolved reading projects of conformal area theory and then on aspects of the BMS group captivated its highest weight representations deduct higher dimensions in 2014.
She is currently pursuing a PhD in string theory at Further education college of California at Davis, USA.
Others who were involved with class group include Sharvaree Vadgama, Akshay Khadse and Himanshu Badhani.