Curriculum vitæ
Current Designation & Address
Dr. Sreekanth V.
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Sciences
Amrita Vishwa Vidya Peethom
Coimbatore -644112, INDIA
email: v_sreekanth AT cb.amrita.edu
Education
Ph.D. Theoretical Physics [2012] - Physical Research Laboratory (Dept. of Space, Govt. of India), Ahmedabad
Thesis: Properties of Strongly Interacting Matter under Extreme Conditions, Advisors: Prof. Hiranmaya Mishra & Prof. Jitesh Bhatt, Theoretical Physics Division
M.Sc. Physics [2005] - Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
Thesis: Geometrical Methods of Hamiltonian Dynamics, Advisor: Prof. Arul Lakshminarayanan, Dept. of Physics
B.Sc. Physics [2002] - University of Calicut, Calicut
Professional Affiliations
10/2017 - present : Assistant Professor - Dept. of Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidya Peethom, Coimbatore
08/2014 - 07/2017: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - Center for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
03/2012 - 08/2014: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - Dept of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
02/2012 - 03/2012: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - Theoretical Physics Division, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
07/2006 - 12/2011: Doctoral Research Fellow - Theoretical Physics Division, Physical Research Laboratory
03/2004 - 07/2004: Summer Internship - Theoretical Physics Division, Physical Research Laboratory
Teaching (Dec 2017 - Present)
Looke here for detailed information
PG/Ph.D:
Mathematical Physics I (2022-23 Odd, 2021-22 Odd, 2020-21 Odd, 2019-20 Odd, 2018-19 Odd)
Mathematical Physics II (2022-23 Even, 2021-22 Even, 2020-21 Even, 2019-20 Even, 2018-19 Even)
Introduction to General Theory of Relativity (2022-23 Odd, 2021-22 Odd)
Quantum Field Theory (2020-21 Even)
Advanced Particle Physics (2021-22 Even)
Applied Mathematics (2022-23 Odd)
General Theory of Relativity (2022-23 Odd)
Fundamentals of Plasma Physics (2019-20 Odd)
Computational Physics Lab (2018-19 Odd)
Simulation Lab (2021-22 Odd, 2019-20 Odd, 2018-19 Odd)
UG:
Intermediate Mechanics (2018-19 Even, 2017-18 Even)
Advanced Classical Dynamics (2021-22 Odd, 2020-21 Odd, 2019-20 Odd)
Mechanics & Properties of Matter (2018-19 Odd)
Modern Physics (2022-23 Even)
Engineering Physics - II (2020-21 Even, 2019-20 Even)
Advanced Computer Programming (2019-20 Even)
Physics Lab [Integrated M.Sc. Chemistry] (2017-18 Even)
Physics Lab (B. Tech) (2018-19 Even, 2018-19 Odd, 2017-18 Even)
Thesis Supervision
P.hD.
Lakshmi J. Naik - July, 2020 -
O. P. Jyothi Lakshmi - July 2022-
M.Sc.
Jyothi Lakshmi O.P. - Dec, 2020 - -- May, 2021 - Hyperon Bulk Viscosity and R-mode Damping
Sravan Krishnan P.E. - Dec, 2020 - -- May, 2021 - Neutron Stars with Hyperon Core: Stellar Properties
Archana Giri Nair - Dec, 2020 - -- May, 2021 - Eintein Ring: Theory & Modelling
C. Amruthavarsha - Dec, 2020 - -- May, 2021 - Relativity And Wigner Rotation
Namitha Suresh - Dec, 2020 - -- May, 2021 - Bubbles in Quark-Gluon Plasma
K. Sreelakshmi - July, 2019 - May, 2020 - Chemically Equilibrating QGP in Heavy Ion Collision
Lakshmi J. Naik - July, 2019 - May, 2020 - Thermal dilepton production in heavy-ion collisions under non-equilibrium scenarios
Jyothi Lakshmi O. P. - July - Nov, 2019 - Bulk Viscous Cosmology
Malavika A. - July - Nov, 2019 - Bubble Dynamics: Rayleigh-Plesset Equation
Sravan Krishnan P. E.- July - Nov, 2019 - Temperature And Relativistic Thermodynamics
K. Sreelakshmi - July - Nov, 2018 - Relativistic Navier-Stokes Equation
Lakshmi J. Naik - July - Nov, 2018 - Expanding Quark-Gluon Plasma within Bjorken flow
Undergraduate:
Athul Dev - Jan - May, 2021 - Aspects of Cosmological Evolution
R. Divadharshini - Jan-May, 2021 - Wiebel Instability in Plasma
P. Saidev - July, 2019 - May, 2020 - On Feynman’s Proof of Maxwell Equations
S. Saradha - July, 2019 - May, 2020 - Aspects of Five Dimensional Kaluza-Klein Theory
Thesis/Projects:
Properties of Strongly Interacting Matter Under Extreme Conditions - Doctoral Thesis (March 2007 - December 2011), Advisors: Prof. Hiranmaya Mishra & Prof. Jitesh Bhatt, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
Neutron Star Structure - Pre-Doctoral Project (July 2006 - February 2007), Advisor: Prof. Hiranmaya Mishra, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
Geometrical Methods of Hamiltonian Dynamics - M.Sc. Project (December 2004 - April 2005), Advisor: Prof. Arul Lakshminarayan, IIT Madras
Motion in Centrally Symmetric Gravitational Field - Summer Project (May 2004 - July 2004), Advisor: Prof. Subhendra Mohanty, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
Fellowships:
Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Research, CHEP, IISc (MHRD - Govt. of India), 2014–2017
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (Visiting Scientist), TIFR (Department of Atomic Energy - Govt. of India), 2013–2014
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (Visiting Fellow), TIFR (Department of Atomic Energy - Govt. of India), 2012–2013
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, PRL (Department of Space - Govt. of India), 2012
Fellowship for Doctoral studies & Research, PRL (Department of Space - Govt. of India), 2006–2011
Fellowship under Summer Student Programme, PRL, May–June 2004
Research Interests:
Quark-Gluon Plasma
Strongly Interacting Matter
Relativistic Dissipative Hydrodynamics
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Nuclear Astrophysics
Research Highlights
Our works have shown the importance of viscosity and other non-ideal effects (equation of state, second order hydrodynamics theories, chemical non-equilibrium, turbulent chromo fields etc) in evolution and signals from heavy-ion collisions.
We were the first to study the effect of bulk viscosity in thermal particle (photon and dilepton) production in heavy-ion collision.
Our investigations on the phenomenon of cavitation in the expanding QGP produced in heavy-ion collisions, showed the possibility of novel shear viscosity induced cavitation scenarios.
We were one of the first to study the effect of shear viscosity on thermal particle production using causal second order hydrodynamical theories.
Recent Scientific Visits (2016-18)
European Center for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*), Trento, Italy, 27 September - 4 October, 2016
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sezione di Torino (INFN Torino), Italy, 5-6 October, 2016
Laboratori Nazionali del Sud INFN, Catania, Italy, 7-8 October, 2016
School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) Odisha, India, 31 July - 7 August, 2017
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar, India, 1-8 June, 2018
Publications
14 citable publications, 10 peer-reviewed articles, ~ 215 citations, h-index: 8 (source: HEP-Spires)
Updated list can be found here
Selected Seminars/ Invited Talks/Presentation
“Thermal dilepton production in collisional hot QCD medium in the presence of chromo-turbulent fields”, XXIV DAE-BRNS “High Energy Physics Symposium” (DAE-BRNS HEP 2020), National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) Odisha, India, December 2020
"Invited Talk", "Workshop on Dynamics of QCD matter” (DQCD-2019), School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, (NISER Jatni), India, August 2019
“Viscous Quark-Gluon Plasma & thermal dileptons in quasi-particle picture”, “Seminar”, School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) Odisha, India, August 2017
“Viscous Quark-Gluon Plasma & thermal dileptons in quasi-particle picture”, “Seminar”, School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) Odisha, India, August 2017
“Viscosity, chemical equilibration and cavitation in Quark-Gluon Plasma”, “Theory Seminar”, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC) Kolkata, India, April 2017
“Viscous chemical equilibration of Quark-Gluon Plasma at high energies”, “Seminar”, School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) Odisha, India, November 2016
“High values of Quark-Gluon Plasma Shear viscosity: Some concerns”, “Group Seminar”, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud INFN, Catania, Italy, October 2016
“Shear viscosity and chemical equilibration of quark-gluon plasma formed at relativistic heavy-ion collisions”, “INFN Seminar”, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Sezione di Torino, Italy, October 2016
“Chemical non-equilibrium and viscosity at the early stages of heavy-ion collisions”, “ECT* Seminar”, European Center for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*), Trento, Italy, September 2016
“Viscous chemical equilibration and cavitation at LHC energies”, “International School on Nuclear Physics : Nuclear matter under extreme conditions Relativistic heavy ion collisions”, Ettore Majorana Foundation & Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, September 2016
“Some studies on hot and dense quark matter”, “CHEP Seminar”, Centre for High Energy Physics, IISc Bangalore, India, September 2015
“Onset of cavitation in the quark gluon plasma”, “BSM Seminar”, Centre for High Energy Physics, IISc Bangalore, India, May 2015
”New results in the formalism and application of relativistic hydrodynamics”[poster], Quark Matter 2014, Darmstadt, Germany, May 2014
“Dissipative Hydrodynamics & signals from QGP”, “Theory Seminar”, Centre for High Energy Physics, IISc Bangalore, India, March 2014
“Particle production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions: A consistent hydrodynamic approach”, “Free Meson Seminar”, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India, January 2014
“Viscosity and Thermal Dilepton Production in QGP”, “Free Meson Seminar”, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India, July 2011
“Thermal dileptons in QGP and non-ideal effects”, “General Seminar”, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN Rome, Italy, June 2011
“Bulk viscosity and particle production in QGP”, “Theory Seminar”, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria, June 2011
“Viscosity and Thermal Dilepton Production in the QGP”, “Lunch Club Seminar”, Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), Germany, June 2011
“Cavitation and thermal dilepton production in QGP” [poster], Quark Matter 2011, Annecy, France, May 2011
“Cavitation and Thermal Dilepton Production in QGP”, “KFKI RMKI Elmleti Fosztly Szeminriuma” (RMKI Theory Lunch Seminar), KFKI Budapest, Hungary, May 2011
“Bulk viscosity and thermal particle production in QGP”, “Quark-Gluon Plasma and Heavy Ion Collisions: Past, Present, Future”, Villa Gualino, Torino, Italy, March 2011
“Thermal Photons in QGP and Non-Ideal Effects”, XIX DAE-BRNS “High Energy Physics Symposium” (HEPS 2010), The LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT), Jaipur, India, December 2010
“Thermal Photons in QGP and Non-Ideal Effects”, “Bring your own Phase Diagram”, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India, December 2010
“Thermal Photons in QGP and Non-Ideal Effects” [poster], The 6th International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark Gluon Plasma (ICPAQGP-2010), National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa, India, December 2010
“Cavitation and thermal photon production in relativistic heavy ion collisions”, “ Dense QCD phases in Heavy-Ion Collisions” (DM2010), Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia, August 2010
“Thermal Photons in QGP and Non-Ideal Effects”, “Theory Division Seminar”, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, India, July 2010
“Photon Emission From Out of Equilibrium Dissipative Parton Plasma” [poster], Strong Interactions in the 21st Century, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India, February 2010
“Rotating Neutron Star”, “Theory Division Seminar”, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, India, March 2008
Conferences/Schools/Workshops
XXIV DAE-BRNS “High Energy Physics Symposium” (DAE-BRNS HEP 2020), National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) Odisha, India, December 2020
"Workshop on Dynamics of QCD matter” (DQCD-2019), School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, (NISER Jatni), India, August 2019
International School on Nuclear Physics: “Nuclear matter under extreme conditions Relativistic heavy ion collisions”, Ettore Majorana Foundation & Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, September 2016
“Indo-French LIA THEP and CEFIPRA INFRE-HEPNET Kick Off Meeting”, Center for High Energy Physics, ICTS/IISc, Bangalore, May 2016
“Recent Trends in AstroParticle and Particle Physics”, Center for High Energy Physics, IISc, Bangalore, October 2015
“Quark Matter 2014”, Darmstadt, Germany, May 2014
DAE “International Symposium on Nuclear Physics”, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India, December 2013
“Quark Matter 2011”, Annecy, France, May 2011
International School on “Quark-Gluon Plasma and Heavy Ion Collisions: Past, Present, Future”, Villa Gualino, Torino, Italy, March 2011
XIX DAE-BRNS “High Energy Physics Symposium” (HEPS 2010), LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT), Jaipur, India, December 2010
“Bring your own Phase Diagram”, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India, December 2010
The 6th “International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark Gluon Plasma” (ICPAQGP-2010), National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India, December 2010
’HIC for FAIR’ Workshop and School on “ Dense QCD phases in Heavy-Ion Collisions” (DM2010), Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia, August-September 2010
6th International Workshop on “ Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement” (CPOD-2010), Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia, August 2010
“Strong Interactions in the 21st Century”, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India, February 2010
Workshop on “High Energy Physics Phenomenology” (WHEPP XI), Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, India, January 2010
XIII SERC Main School on “Theoretical High Energy Physics”, IIT Mumbai, India, February 2008
SERC Preparatory School on “Theoretical High Energy Physics”, Benaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India, November 2007