Date of birth: 31.03.1977
Curriculum
Vitae
ACADEMIC
- Ramanujan fellowship, Department of Science and Techology,
Govt. India, 2010-.
- Research fellowship,
Gonville and Caius college and
PPARC postdoctoral fellowship, DAMTP, Cambridge from
October,2004. Distinction of double named fellowships.
- Ph.D., University of Cambridge,
November, 2004.
- Rayleigh-Knight
essay prize, DAMTP, Cambridge, 2003.
- Gates
scholarship 2001-2004. Perse scholar, Gonville and Caius college,
2001-2003. Matthews scholar, 2003-2004.
- Mayhew prize , 2001 for mathematics tripos part
III (equiv to Masters). Standing first in applied mathematics in Cambridge University.
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Natural Sciences Tripos II with experimental and theoretical physics,
Cambridge,
2000. Placed among the top 3. Overall: 76%, Theory option-I: 96%,
Theory
option-II: 100%. Tutorial prize, St. Edmund's College.
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Nehru Chevening scholarship, Cambridge, 1999-2001.
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Ranked 1st in Ph.D. entrance
examination (Joint Entrance Screening Test) organized all over India,
1999.
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1st class 1st with distinction in Bachelor of Science(B.Sc.- with
physics
honours, 86.25%), '96-'99, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India.
University
gold medal for standing first in order of merit, Sibapriya Chatterjee
memorial
bronze medal for standing first in physics, D.N. Dey memorial gold
medal
for highest aggregate marks.
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2nd prize in Inter-University scientific model competition, 1998-99.
Project
dealt with data-encryption using synchronized chaos.
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Surjit
Singh Memorial gold medal for standing 1st in Indian Certificate of
Secondary
Examination (equivalent to O-levels), from Don Bosco, Calcutta, 1994.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Supervised part III string theory course
taken
by Peter Goddard, lent term, 2002.
- Supervised Dalibor Hrg and James Ettle for
IUSS
project entitled "Data encryption using chaos," 2002.
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Supervised part III quantum field theory course taken by Ian Drummond,
michaelmas term, 2002-2003.
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Supervised part III string theory course taken by Michael Green, lent
term, 2003.
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Supervised part IB Quantum Mechanics for Gonville and Caius college,
michaelmas-lent
term, 2004.
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Supervised IB mathematical methods for Gonville and Caius college,
Michaelmas 2004.
- Supervised part II electrodynamics, Michaelmas 2005.
INVITED TALKS
- 2007: Durham, UK. Cambridge. Perimeter, Canada. Ecole Normale, Paris. SINP, Kolkata.
- 2006: Harvard. UCBerkeley. UCLA. Caltech. King's College
London. Cambridge. Eurostrings. IACS, Kolkata.
- 2005: Queen Mary, London. Cambridge. IACS, Kolkata.
- 2003: IIT Kanpur. Cambridge. IACS, SINP Kolkata.
- 2002: B.N. Dey Memorial lecture, IACS, Kolkata.
ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE