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)

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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