Recent News
Here you would find recent (mainly research related) news of the members of the group.
May 2023: Paper authored by AB, Kedar Kolekar and Ashish Shukla (arXiv link) is accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
Jan 2023: Sudipta Dutta accepts a 2 +1 year postdoctoral offer split between ULB Brussels and Vienna University of Technology.
Jan 2023: Poulami Nandi who is now a postdoc at IIT Gandhinagar (visa issues prevented her from joining BIMSA earlier), is awarded a Fulbright Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship. She will take up a position at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA.
Jun 2022: Paper authored by AB, Shamik Banerjee, Rudranil Basu and Sudipta Dutta is published in Physical Review Letters. Link to the paper.
May 2022: AB on sabbatical in Europe (Paris/Vienna/Copenhagen/Stockholm/Brussels) till July 2023.
The Third PhD from the group!
Congratulations Dr. Poulami Nandi!!
Poulami defended her thesis, titled "Carrollian Conformal Symmetry and Holography", on April 6, 2022.
Jan 2021: Poulami accepts a 2+1 year post-doctoral position in the newly opened BIMSA centre of Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Jan 2021: Paper authored by AB, Aritra Banerjee and Shankhadeep Chakrabortty is published in Physical Review Letters. Link to the paper.
Aug 2020: Amartya Saha joins the group as a PhD student. He is also awarded the prestigious Prime Minster's Research Fellowship which makes him a rich graduate student, an oxymoron if ever there was one!
Mar 2020: COVID19! The world as we know it stops.. so does most of our research.
Jan 2020: Pulastya defends his thesis and leaves for a post-doc in CECS, Valdevia, Chile.
Jan 2020: AB awarded the Swarnajayanti Fellowship by DST and SERB.
The Second PhD from the group!
Congratulations Dr. Pulastya Parekh!!
Pulastya defended his thesis, titled "Tensionless Strings: A Perspective from the Worldsheet", on January 13, 2020.
July 2019: Paper authored by AB, Aritra Banerjee and Pulastya Parekh (arXiv link) is accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. Link to the published version.
July 2019: AB is back in India after 6 months in the UK, at Durham University and Imperial College London.
May 2019: Poulami Nandi is selected for a SERB Overseas Doctoral Fellowship. She will spend 6 months with this at the Vienna University of Technology under the supervision of Daniel Grumiller.
The first PhD from the group!
Congratulations Dr. Aditya Mehra!!
Aditya defended his thesis, titled "Galilean Conformal Field Theories", on November 14, 2018.
Rajesh Gopakumar was his external examiner. So he did not have an easy ride :-)
November 2018: Poulami Nandi's paper on Large D gravity is accepted for publication in the Journal of High Energy Physics. (arXiv link)
November 2018: Aditya Mehra is awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for post-doctoral researchers. His host institution is Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
November 2018: Aditya Mehra defends his thesis [Nov 14]: Congratulations Dr. Mehra !!
October 2018: Poulami Nandi is awarded a Fulbright-Nehru doctoral fellowship. She would be spending 9 months at the University of California at Davis in the second half of 2019.
August 2018: Aditya Mehra submits his PhD thesis. (8th August, 2018)
July 2018: Minhajul Islam joins the group as a new PhD student. He was previously a Masters student with the group.
June 2018: Pulastya Parekh is awarded a Junior Research Fellowship at the Erwin Schrodinger Institute, Vienna for a period of 4 months.
March 2018: Aditya Mehra is offered a 2+2 year post-doctoral position at the International Institute of Physics, Natal, Brazil.