Nayana Shah is a theoretical physicist who has studied, done research and worked in academia in a variety of settings across the globe. After receiving her PhD in 2003 from Rutgers University in USA she has worked at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in Switzerland; University of Cologne in Germany; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Cincinnati in USA. Currently she is an Adjunct (Hon.) Faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, a position she holds since 2009 (she declined the regular tenure-track faculty offer due to dual career reasons).
B. Sc (Bachelor of Science) in Physics, Fergusson College, University of Pune, India, 1994
M. Sc (Master of Science) in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, India, 1996
Ph. D, Rutgers University, Piscataway NJ, USA, 2003
Thesis title: Quantum Fluctuations in Correlated Electron Systems
Advisor: Prof. Andrew J. Millis
Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, IL, USA, June 8-20, 2003; June 6-12, 2004
Materials Theory Institute, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, IL, USA, International Argonne Fall Workshop on Nanophysics VII, November 6-11, 2007
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Program on Low Dimensional Electron Systems, June 4-13, 2009
Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, USA, Summer 2010 Program, Workshops: "Quantum Many-Body Physics in One Dimension" and "Low Dimensional Topological Matter", August 1-22, 2010
Division of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, January 18-March 16, 2012
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Program "Quantum Dynamics in Far from Equilibrium Thermally Isolated Systems" August 6-24 and the associated conference "Dynamics and Thermodynamics in Isolated Quantum Systems", August 20-24, 2012
Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Programs "Symmetry, Topology, and Quantum Phases of Matter: From Tensor Networks to Physical Realizations" and “Synthetic Quantum Matter”, November 21- December 16, 2016
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, June 1-August 19, 2017
International Center for Theoretical Sciences, Program "Open Quantum Systems" July 17-August 4, 2017
Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, USA, Summer 2018 Program, Workshops: "From Physics to Applications of Quantum Computers" (primary); "The Physics of Behavior: Movement, Control, and Learning" and "Physical Principles Governing the Organization of Microbial Communities" (secondary), May 27-June 17, 2018
International Center for Advanced Studies, Buenos Aires, June 5-July 19, 2019
More than 100 international research presentations
Recent invited conference/workshop talks at the XVIII International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories, August 2015, Niagara Falls, USA ; American Physical Society’s March meeting, 2016, Baltimore, USA; Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, December 2016, Santa Barbara, USA; Open Quantum Systems program at International Center for Theoretical Sciences, July 2017, Bangalore, India; Aspen Center for Physics, June 2018, Aspen, USA; Q-MAT 2020, Quantum Matter conference, S. N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, September 2020, Kolkata, India (converted to online format due to covid-19 pandemic).
Recent contributions in StatPhys27, the 27th International Conference on Statistical Physics, July 2019, Buenos Aires, Argentina; American Physical Society’s March meetings.
Recent invited colloquia and seminars at the University of Kentucky (Colloquium, November 2015), Ball State University (Colloquium, April 2016), Case Western Reserve University (Condensed Matter Seminar, October 2016), Washington University in St. Louis (Colloquium, October 2016), University of California, Berkeley (Condensed Matter Seminar, December 2016), Texas A&M University (Condensed Matter Seminar, January 2017), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research at Pune (Colloquium / Physics seminar, June 2017), Indian Institute of Science (Condensed Matter Seminar, August 2017), Brown University (Condensed Matter and Biophysics Seminar, September 2017), Harvard University (Condensed Matter Seminar, September 2017), International Center for Advanced Studies at Buenos Aires (Condensed Matter Seminar, July 2019)
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