CURRICULUM VITAE. Aninda Sinha

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Aninda Sinha A liation: Centre for High Energy Physics, DOB: March, 1977 Indian Institute of Science, Nationality: Indian Bangalore , India. Position: Associate professor. Phone: asinha@chep.iisc.ernet.in OTHER PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 1. Adjunct faculty, HRI, Allahabad, Associate faculty, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore, , PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 1. Postdoctoral fellow, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada, PPARC postdoctoral fellow and Gonville and Caius college fellow, Cambridge University, UK, EDUCATION SUMMARY 1. Don Bosco, Calcutta, Indian School Certificate. 2. Jadavpur University, Calcutta, B.Sc., Physics honours (placed first, University gold medal). 3. Cambridge University, UK, BA, MA, Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics Part III applied mathematics (placed first with distinction, Mayhew prize). 4. Cambridge University, UK, (degree o cially conferred 2005, Rayleigh-Knight Prize). PhD in theoretical physics, advisor Professor Michael Green, DAMTP. Thesis title: Aspects of IIB plane-wave string theory. 1

2 RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS 1. Provided evidence for the systematic violation of the viscosity bound in controllable examples in string theory. This happens due to the presence of fundamental matter. 2. Using holographic techniques, found evidence for the Cardy conjecture (c-theorems) in arbitrary dimensions. The 4d theorem called the a-theorem was proven after our work. Gave a novel interpretation of the monotonic quantity in an RG flow in odd dimensions in terms of entanglement entropy. Subsequently this conjecture in 3d was proved by Casini and Huerta. 3. Found evidence using path integral techniques that the deviation from the naive application of the superposition principle in slit based interference experiments due to winding paths around slits can be big enough to be measured. This was a focus article in Physical Review Letters. Subsequently, these paths have been experimentally detected. 4. Found evidence for universality of anomalous dimensions for operators with large spin and large twist in conformal field theories using bootstrap techniques. 5. Developed a new method to do conformal bootstrap which uses Witten diagrams. This method reproduces old results of the Wilson-Fisher epsilon expansion of critical exponents and produces new analytic results that are unavailable using conventional techniques including Feynman diagrams. arxiv: appeared in PRL. AWARDS 1. ICTP Prize, 2016, in honour of Kenneth Wilson. 2. Swarnajayanti fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, Elected Simons associate, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, Honourable mention in the Gravity Research Foundation 2013 Awards for Essays on Gravitation. 5. Ramanujan fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, PPARC national postdoctoral fellowship held at DAMTP, Cambridge ( ). The PPARC fellowship was won in a national competition for all branches in particle physics where 14 were awarded nationwide. 7. Gonville and Caius college post-doctoral research fellowship, Cambridge ( ). The Gonville and Caius fellowship was open to all branches of academia and 2 were given that year. I had the privilege of having two concurrent fellowships. 8. Rayleigh-Knight essay prize, DAMTP, Cambridge, 2003 for essay based on PhD work written during my 2nd year PhD. 9. Gates scholarship for PhD at DAMTP, Cambridge. Typically around 100 scholars are chosen every year from around applicants worldwide. 10. Perse scholarship, Gonville and Caius college, for being one of the best 5 PhD applicants. 11. Matthews scholarship, for outstanding ongoing PhD work. 2

3 12. Overseas Research Students award scheme, Mayhew prize, 2001 for mathematics tripos part III, Cambridge for highest proficiency in applied mathematics in Cambridge university. 14. Tutorial prize, St. Edmund s College for outstanding performance in part III. 15. Tutorial prize for outstanding performance in Natural Sciences Tripos II with experimental and theoretical physics, Cambridge, Top mark in theoretical physics I (95%) and theoretical physics II (100%)exams. 16. Nehru Chevening scholarship, Cambridge, to pursue masters studies in Cambridge. 17. Placed 1st in Ph.D. entrance examination (Joint Entrance Screening Test) organized all over India, st class 1st with distinction in Bachelor of Science, 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. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS 1 JOURNALS 2 1. Mellin space bootstrap for global symmetry P. Dey, A. Kaviraj and A. Sinha. arxiv: [hep-th] 2. A Mellin space approach to the conformal bootstrap R. Gopakumar, A. Kaviraj, K. Sen and A. Sinha. arxiv: [hep-th] JHEP 1705, 027 (2017) 3. Conformal Bootstrap in Mellin Space R. Gopakumar, A. Kaviraj, K. Sen and A. Sinha. arxiv: [hep-th]. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, (2017). 4. On critical exponents without Feynman diagrams K. Sen and A. Sinha. J.Phys.A (2016) [arxiv: [hep-th]]. 5. Entropy functionals and c-theorems from the second law S. Bhattacharjee, A. Bhattacharyya, S. Sarkar and A. Sinha. Phys. Rev. D 93, no. 10, (2016) [arxiv: [hep-th]]. 6. Improvements to the Froissart bound from AdS/CFT V. E. Diez, R. M. Godbole and A. Sinha. Phys. Lett. B 746, 285 (2015) [arxiv: [hep-ph]]. 1 TOTAL cits: h index: 28 2 * > 250 cits * > 100 cits; * > 50 cits 3

4 7. Universal anomalous dimensions at large spin and large twist A. Kaviraj, K. Sen and A. Sinha. JHEP 1507, 026 (2015) [arxiv: [hep-th]]. 8. Analytic bootstrap at large spin A. Kaviraj, K. Sen and A. Sinha. JHEP 1511, 083 (2015) [arxiv: [hep-th]]. 9. On the superposition principle in interference experiments A. Sinha, A. H. Vijay and U. Sinha. Sci. Rep. 5, [arxiv: [quant-ph]] A Strongly Coupled Anisotropic Fluid From Dilaton Driven Holography S. Jain, N. Kundu, K. Sen, A. Sinha and S. P. Trivedi. JHEP 1501, 005 (2015) [arxiv: [hep-th]]. 11. Holographic stress tensor at finite coupling K. Sen and A. Sinha. JHEP 1407, 098 (2014) [arxiv: [hep-th]]. 12. Nonlinear constraints on gravity from entanglement S. Banerjee, A. Kaviraj and A. Sinha. Class. Quant. Grav. 32, 6, (2015) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 13. Constraining gravity using entanglement in AdS/CFT S. Banerjee, A. Bhattacharyya, A. Kaviraj, K. Sen and A. Sinha. JHEP 1405, 029 (2014) [arxiv: [hep-th]]. 14. On generalized gravitational entropy, squashed cones and holography * A. Bhattacharyya, M. Sharma and A. Sinha. JHEP 1401, 021 (2014), [arxiv: [hep-th]]. 15. Non-classical paths in interference experiments R. Sawant, J. Samuel, A. Sinha, S. Sinha and U. Sinha. arxiv: [quant-ph] Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, (2014). Focus article. 16. Entanglement entropy in higher derivative holography * A. Bhattacharyya, A. Kaviraj and A. Sinha. JHEP 1308, 012 (2013), [arxiv: [hep-th]]. 17. Entanglement entropy from surface terms in general relativity A. Bhattacharyya and A. Sinha. IJMPD 22, 12, (2013), arxiv: [gr-qc] Honourable mention on Gravity Research Foundation 2013 awards on essays on gravitation. 18. Entanglement entropy from the holographic stress tensor A. Bhattacharyya and A. Sinha Class. Quant. Grav. 30 (2013) , arxiv: [hep-th]. 4

5 19. E ect of environmental coupling on tunneling of quasiparticles in Josephson junctions M. H. Ansari, F. K. Wilhelm, U. Sinha, and A. Sinha Supercond. Sci. Technol. 26 (2013) arxiv: [cond-mat]. 20. On c-theorems in arbitrary dimensions A. Bhattacharyya, L. -Y. Hung, K. Sen and A. Sinha. Phys. Rev. D 86, (2012). arxiv: [hep-th]. 21. Quantum corrections to screening at strong coupling A. Singh and A. Sinha. Nucl. Phys. B , 864 (2012) arxiv: [hep-th] 22. Counterterms, critical gravity and holography K. Sen, A. Sinha and N. V. Suryanarayana. Phys. Rev. D 85, (2012) arxiv: [hep-th] 23. Implications of a viscosity bound on black hole accretion A. Sinha and B. Mukhopadhyay Phys. Lett. B 709, 289 (2012) arxiv: [astro-ph.he] 24. Cavitation in holographic sqgp A. Klimek, L. Leblond and A. Sinha Phys. Lett. B 701, 144 (2011) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 25. New Massive Gravity and AdS 4 counterterms D. P. Jatkar and A. Sinha Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, (2011) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 26. Holographic c-theorems in arbitrary dimensions * R. C. Myers and A. Sinha JHEP 1101, 125 (2011) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 27. On higher derivative gravity, c-theorems and cosmology A. Sinha Class. Quant. Grav. 28, (2011) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 28. Non-relativistic metrics from back-reacting fermions L. Y. Hung, D. P. Jatkar and A. Sinha Class. Quant. Grav. 28, (2011) arxiv: [hep-th] 29. Seeing a c-theorem with holography * R. C. Myers and A. Sinha Phys. Rev. D 82, (2010) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 30. Holographic studies of quasi-topological gravity * R. C. Myers, M. F. Paulos and A. Sinha JHEP 1008, 035 (2010) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 31. On the new massive gravity and AdS/CFT * A. Sinha JHEP 1006, 061 (2010) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 5

6 32. Holographic GB gravity in arbitrary dimensions * A. Buchel, J. Escobedo, R. C. Myers, M. F. Paulos, A. Sinha and M. Smolkin JHEP 1003, 111 (2010) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 33. Holographic quantum liquids in 1+1 dimensions L. Y. Hung and A. Sinha JHEP 1001, 114 (2010) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 34. Non-relativistic metrics with extremal limits E. Imeroni and A. Sinha JHEP 0909, 096 (2009) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 35. Holographic Hydrodynamics with a Chemical Potential * R. C. Myers, M. F. Paulos and A. Sinha JHEP 0906, 006 (2009) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 36. Improving high-t c dc-squid performance by junction asymmetry U. Sinha, A. Sinha and F. K. Wilhelm Supercond. Sci. Technol. 22 (2009) [arxiv: [cond-mat]] 37. Beyond /s =1/4 * A. Buchel, R. C. Myers and A. Sinha JHEP 0903, 084 (2009) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 38. 1/N E ects in Non-Relativistic Gauge-Gravity Duality * A. Adams, A. Maloney, A. Sinha and S. E. Vazquez JHEP 0903, 097 (2009) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 39. Universal holographic hydrodynamics at finite coupling * A. Buchel, R. C. Myers, M. F. Paulos and A. Sinha Phys. Lett. B 669, 364 (2008) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 40. On quark masses in holographic QCD R. McNees, R. C. Myers and A. Sinha JHEP 0811, 056 (2008) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 41. Quantum corrections to /s * R. C. Myers, M. F. Paulos and A. Sinha Phys. Rev. D 79, (2009) Rapid Comm. [arxiv: [hep-th]] 42. On transmission line resonances in high T C dc SQUIDS U. Sinha, A. Sinha and E. J. Tarte Supercond. Sci. Technol. 21 (2008) [arxiv: [cond-mat]] 43. The fast life of holographic mesons R. C. Myers and A. Sinha JHEP 0806, 052 (2008) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 44. Black Hole Giants A. Sinha and J. Sonner JHEP 0708, 006 (2007) [arxiv: [hep-th]] 6

7 45. At the horizon of a supersymmetric AdS(5) black hole: Isometries and half-bps giants A. Sinha, J. Sonner and N. V. Suryanarayana JHEP 0701, 087 (2007) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] 46. Two-charge small black hole entropy: String-loops and multi-strings A. Sinha and N. V. Suryanarayana JHEP 0610, 034 (2006) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] 47. Extremal single-charge small black holes: Entropy function analysis A. Sinha and N. V. Suryanarayana Class. Quant. Grav. 23, 3305 (2006) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] 48. Mixing of the RR and NSNS sectors in the BMN limit M. B. Green, S. Kovacs and A. Sinha Phys. Rev. D 73, (2006) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] 49. Non-perturbative e ects in the BMN limit of N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills M. B. Green, S. Kovacs and A. Sinha JHEP 0512, 038 (2005) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] 50. Warped tachyonic inflation in type IIB flux compactifications and the open-string completeness conjecture D. Cremades, F. Quevedo and A. Sinha JHEP 0510, 106 (2005) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] 51. Non-perturbative contributions to the plane-wave string mass matrix M. B. Green, S. Kovacs and A. Sinha JHEP 0505, 055 (2005) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] 52. On the plane-wave cubic vertex J. Lucietti, S. Schafer-Nameki and A. Sinha Phys. Rev. D 70, (2004) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] 53. On the exact open-closed vertex in plane-wave light-cone string field theory J. Lucietti, S. Schafer-Nameki and A. Sinha Phys. Rev. D 69, (2004) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] 54. Oblique and curved D-branes in IIB plane-wave string theory M. R. Gaberdiel, M. B. Green, S. Schafer-Nameki and A. Sinha JHEP 0310, 052 (2003) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] 55. Tadpole Analysis Of Orientifolded Plane-Waves A. Sinha and N. V. Suryanarayana JHEP 0211, 026 (2002) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] 56. The Ĝ4 16 term in IIB supergravity A. Sinha JHEP 0208, 017 (2002) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] 57. Fermion helicity flip in a Kalb-Ramond background S. SenGupta and A. Sinha Phys. Lett. B 514, 109 (2001) [arxiv:hep-th/ ] 7

8 58. Does a Kalb-Ramond field make space-time optically active? * S. Kar, P. Majumdar, S. SenGupta and A. Sinha Eur. Phys. J. C 23, 357 (2002) [arxiv:gr-qc/ ] CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 1. AdS/CFT and sqgp A. Sinha Nucl. Phys. A , 168 (2011) Invited Plenary contribution in the International Conference on the Physics and Astrophysics of Quark Gluon Plasma, Goa, December Quark Soup: Applied Superstring theory A. Buchel, R. C. Myers and A. Sinha Feature article Canadian Journal of Physics, print-buchel.pdf 3. The viscosity bound in string theory * A. Sinha and R. C. Myers Nucl. Phys. A 830, 295C (2009) [arxiv: [hep-th]] Contributed to Quark Matter 2009: 21st International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus- Nucleus Collisions (QM2009), Knoxville, Tennessee, 30 Mar - 4 Apr The fast life of holographic mesons R. C. Myers and A. Sinha Proceedings of Continuous Advances in QCD 2008, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, May ; ed., M. Peloso. 5. The fast life of holographic mesons A. Sinha and R. C. Myers J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys Proceedings for Quark Matter 2008, 20th International conference on ultra-relativistic nucleus nucleus collisions. 6. Non-perturbative contributions in the plane-wave / BMN limit M. B. Green, S. Kovacs and A. Sinha arxiv:hep-th/ Contributed to Einstein Symposium 2005, Alexandria, Egypt, 4-6 Jun 2005 TALKS and SEMINARS 1. The Schwinger computation in Quantum Electrodynamics and its relevance to topological string theory Student seminar, Cambridge, May B.N. Majumdar memorial lecture Higher derivative corrections in type IIB supergravity Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta, September Oblique D-branes in type IIB string theory Student seminar, Cambridge, March,

9 4. Oblique and curved D-branes in type IIB string theory Invited talk, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta, April Oblique and curved D-branes in type IIB string theory Invited talk, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, April On the exact open-closed vertex in plane-wave light-cone string field theory. Given at the annual string theory workshop, IIT Kanpur, India, 2003 December. 7. Neumann matrices in plane-wave string theory. 3 talks in Cambridge, 2004 February-March. 8. Non-perturbative e ects in the plane-wave/bmn limit of AdS/CFT. Invited seminar, Queen Mary College, London, 2005 June. 9. Non-perturbative e ects in the plane-wave/bmn limit of AdS/CFT. Invited seminar, IACS, Kolkata, 2006 January. 10. Extremal single-charge small black holes. Invited seminar, IACS, Kolkata, 2006 January. 11. Extremal single-charge small black holes. String seminar, DAMTP, Cambridge, 2006 January. 12. Extremal single-charge small black holes. Invited seminar, Kings college, London, 2006 February. 13. Extremal single-charge small black holes. Eurostrings European Strings Network international conference 2006, Cambridge, 2006 April. 14. Small black holes in string theory. String seminar, Caltech, 2006 September. 15. Small black holes in string theory. String seminar, UCLA, 2006 October. 16. Small black holes in string theory: Some puzzles. String seminar, UC Berkeley, 2006 October. 17. Small black holes in string theory: Some puzzles. Duality seminar, Harvard, 2006 October. 18. Black hole giants, Ecole Normale, Paris, February Black hole giants, Perimeter, March Black hole giants, Cambridge, April Black hole giants, Durham, April String group seminar, Perimeter, November Parallel talk The fast life of holographic mesons, Quark Matter 2008, 20th international conference on ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions, Jaipur, India, February Invited talk The fast life of holographic mesons, IACS, Kolkata, February Invited talk Quantum corrections to /s, Emerging Directions in String Theory, Ban, Canada, June Invited talk Holographic hydrodynamics at finite coupling, Cambridge, UK, September Invited talk Holographic hydrodynamics at finite coupling, Imperial College, UK, September

10 28. Invited talk Holographic hydrodynamics at finite coupling, Strings and gauge theories workshop, University of Michigan, USA, September Invited talk Holographic hydrodynamics at finite coupling, McGill, Canada, October Invited talk Holographic hydrodynamics at finite coupling, Indian Strings Meeting 2008, Pondicherry, India, December Invited talk Two lessons from higher derivative gravity, IISc, Bangalore, December Invited talks The viscosity bound in string theory, SINP and VECC, Kolkata, December Invited talk The viscosity bound in string theory, TIFR, Mumbai, January Journal club Something about shear viscosity, Perimeter, Canada, February Invited talk The viscosity bound in string theory, Harvard, USA, February Invited talk The viscosity bound in string theory, Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, USA, March, Parallel talk The viscosity bound in string theory, Quark Matter 2009, 21st international conference on ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions, ORNL, Knoxville, USA, April Invited talk Constraining eta/s in string theory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, December, Invited colloquium AdS/CFT and sqgp, HRI, Allahabad, India, February, Invited talk, Anomalies, central charges and holography, HRI, Allahabad, India, February, Invited talk, Anomalies, central charges and holography, DAMTP, Cambridge, AdS/CFT conference, March Invited talk, Non-relativistic metrics from back-reacting fermions, AdS/CFT conference, McGill, Canada, June Invited talk, c theorems in higher derivative gravity, University of Kentucky, USA, August Invited talk, c theorems in higher derivative gravity, Princeton University, USA, September Invited plenary talk at the International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of the Quark Gluon Plasma (ICPAQGP) 2010, Goa, India, December Invited talk, Holographic c theorems in arbitrary dimensions, Indian Strings Meeting (international edition), Puri, India, January Invited talk, New massive gravity and AdS/CFT, IACS, Kolkata, May Invited talk, Astrophysical implications of a viscosity bound, ICTS, Bangalore, June Invited talk, Critical gravity from the AdS boundary, SPOCK meeting, University of Cincinnati, Nov Invited talk, Critical gravity from the AdS boundary, Perimeter Institute, Nov

11 51. Invited review talk, Status of the viscosity bound, 3rd Indian-Israeli strings meeting, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Feb Invited talk, Counterterms, critical gravity and holography, 3rd Indian-Israeli strings meeting, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Feb Invited talk, Status of the viscosity bound, Perimeter Institute, Feb Invited talk, Fluctuating surfaces, black hole entropy and c-theorems in odd dimensions, IACS, May Invited colloquium, The strongly coupled quark gluon plasma and AdS/CFT, TIFR, May Invited talk, c-theorems in arbitrary dimensions, ICTS, Bangalore, June Invited talk, c-theorems in arbitrary dimensions, IMSc, Chennai, July Invited talk, RG flows, entanglement entropy and c-theorems, IISc, CHEP symposium, November Invited talk, RG flows, entanglement entropy and c-theorems, ISM, Puri, December Invited review lecture, Derivations of holographic entanglement entropy, 7th regional meeting, Crete, Greece, June Invited talk, Entanglement in holography, 2-day meeting on firewalls, ICTS, Bangalore, September Invited talk, HEE-how? Perimeter Institute, Canada, October Invited talk, HEE-how? IISER Pune, November Invited lecturer, Annual Taiwan String Workshop at Physics Department, National Taiwan University (NTU Physics), December 12th-15th Invited review talk, Holographic Entanglement Entropy, National Strings Meeting, IIT Kharagpur, December Invited talk, Holographic stress tensor in higher derivative gravity, TIFR Mumbai, March Invited talk, Lessons from holographic relative entropy, HRI Allahabad, April Invited talk, Lessons from holographic relative entropy, 3 day conference in Yukawa Insititute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, May Invited talk, Entanglement entropy in higher derivative holography, long term workshop in Yukawa Insititute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, May Invited talk, Stress tensor correlators from holography, ISM, Puri, December Invited talk, Holographic c-theorems, Saha Institute for Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, December Invited talk, Quantum mechanics, entanglement entropy and the conformal bootstrap, IISc, CHEP symposium, January Invited talk, Holographic c-theorems, IIT Kharagpur, February,

12 74. Invited talk, Analytic bootstrap at large spin, Indo-UK meeting at Swansea University, UK, March Invited talk, Some analytic results from conformal bootstrap, Parallel session, Strings 2015, June Invited talk, Analytic results from bootstrap, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, August Invited colloquium, Quantum bounds from classical limits, Ashwini Kumar Rath memorial lecture, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneshwar, September Invited talk, Unitary conformal bootstrap, Indo-Israel meeting at Goa, December Invited talk, Conformal bootstrap and critical phenomena, ICTS workshop on questions for QFT from condensed matter physics, Bangalore, December Invited talk, Conformal bootstrap using unitary blocks, String seminar, TIFR, March, Invited DTP colloquium, Critical exponents without Feynman diagrams, TIFR, March, Invited talk, Conformal bootstrap in Mellin space, YITP, Kyoto, Japan in the conference Quantum Information in String Theory and Many-body Systems, June, Invited talk, Conformal bootstrap in Mellin space, Workshop on Conformal field theories and renormalization group flows in dimensions d>2, Galileo Galilei institute for Theoretical Physics, Florence, Italy, June Invited talk, Conformal bootstrap in Mellin space, Spentafest, ICTS Bangalore, January Lecturer, Advanced Strings School, Puri February ICTP Prize lecture, ICTP, Trieste Italy, March Lecturer, Spring school on superstring theory and related topics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, March Invited colloquium, IIT Kanpur, April Invited colloquium, ICTS, Bengaluru, April TEACHING EXPERIENCE Lectured General Relativity (48 hours), IISc graduate course, Jan-Apr Lectured Quantum Field Theory-II (48 hours), IISc graduate course, Jan-Apr Lectured Quantum Field Theory-II (48 hours), IISc graduate course, Jan-Apr Lectured Quantum Field Theory-I (48 hours), IISc graduate course, Aug-Dec Lectured Quantum Field Theory-I (48 hours), IISc graduate course, Aug-Dec Lectured Advanced Mathematical Methods in Physics (total 48 hours), IISc graduate course, Jan-Apr Lectured (total 1.5 hours) on Strings vs particles. Branes and Holography in quantum gravity for New Horizons in Fundamental Physics course coordinated by Freddy Cachazo for 4th year undergraduates in Universities of Waterloo and Guelph students held at Perimeter, March Supervised part II electrodynamics, Michaelmas term, Cambridge Supervised part IB mathematical methods, Michaelmas term, Cambridge

13 Supervised part IB quantum mechanics (mathematics) for students of Gonville and Caius College, Michaelmas term, Cambridge, Supervised part III string theory examples classes for a course given by Michael Green, Lent term, Cambridge, Supervised part III quantum field theory examples classes for a course given by Ian Drummond, Michaelmas term, Cambridge, Supervised Dalibor Hrg and James Ettle for IUSS project entitled Data encryption using chaos, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, Supervised part III string theory examples classes for a course given by Peter Goddard, Lent term, Cambridge, Students and postdocs supervision PhD: Parthiv Haldar for PhD, IISc, Kausik Ghosh for PhD, IISc, Apratim Kaviraj for PhD, IISc, (ENS, Simons Bootstrap collaboration postdoc). Kallol Sen for PhD, IISc, Dec ( IPMU, Tokyo, Japan as postdoc). Arpan Bhattacharyya or PhD, IISc, Dec (postdoc at Fudan with Ling-Yan Hung), JSPS at YITP, Kyoto from Co-supervised Ajay Singh and Jorge Escobedo, both PhD students at University of Waterloo/Perimeter Institute, 2008 with Robert C. Myers on 2 research papers. Masters: Supervised Diksha Rehal (IISc) Supervised Abhijith Gandrakota (IISER Pune) (to join Rutgers for PhD). Supervised Aravind HV (at TIFR Mumbai doing PhD), Sandesh Bhat (IISER Pune, doing masters in Leipzig), Surya Kiran (BITS Goa, going to Texas A&M for PhD) for Masters IISc UG: Abhishek Mehta Diptaparna Biswas Diksha Rehal Project: Shinjini Basu (M.S. IIT Kanpur), August 2013-March Aruna Rajagopal (M.S. Perimeter), October 2015-April Postdoc mentee: Parijat Dey (PhD, Saha Institute) September Dibakar Roychoudhury (PhD, Bose Institute) July 2014-June 2015 (now postdoc at IIT Kanpur). Menika Sharma (PhD, Arizona) June 2012-July 2013 (now postdoc at HRI). Shubho Roy (PhD, Brown) Oct 2012-July 2014 (now postdoc at Racah University, Israel, to join IIT- Hyd as faculty). Summer: Supervised Charuhas Shiveshwarkar (IIT Mumbai), Sagar Lokhande (IISER Pune), Anandita De (IISER Pune), Summer

14 Supervised Aravind HV, Sandesh Bhat (IISER Pune), Surya Kiran (BITS Goa), Sridip Pal (IISER, Kolkata) and Apratim Kaviraj (IISc), Summer Supervised Aravind HV, Sandesh Bhat (IISER, Pune) and Abhiram MK (Univ. Nottingham, UK) during summer Co-supervised Aleksandra Klimek for a summer project with Louis Leblond in Perimeter Institute during 2010 which resulted in a publication in Physics Letters B. ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE In charge of string seminars, DAMTP, Co-organized Eurostrings 2006, Cambridge, April In charge of string seminars, Perimeter, Organized Math-Phys seminars, IISc, Co-organized the Subrahmanian Chandrasekhar lectures by Nima Arkani-Hamed, ICTS Bangalore, September Co-organized Winter school on Quantum Computing and Quantum Information, ICTS Bangalore January Organized workshop on Non-perturbative gauge theories and holography, IISc Bangalore January Organizer Chandrasekhar lectures by Robert Myers, ICTS-TIFR Bangalore December Co-organizer Strings 2015 hosted at ICTS-TIFR Bangalore June OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Referee for Physical Review Letters, JHEP, Physical Review D, Physical Review B, Nuclear Physics B, Physics Letters B, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Foundations of Physics, MPLB, IJMPA, Indian Journal of Physics, Canadian Journal of Physics, European Journal of Physics. Named one of most valued reviewer, Nuclear Physics B, REFERENCES Professor Michael B. Green DAMTP, University of Cambridge Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK. m.b.green@damtp.cam.ac.uk Professor Fernando Quevedo DAMTP, University of Cambridge Wilberforce Road Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK. f.quevedo@damtp.cam.ac.uk Professor Robert C. Myers Professor Ashoke Sen Perimeter Institute, Harish Chandra Research Institute, 31 Caroline St. North, Chhatnag Road, Jhusi, Waterloo N2L 2Y5, Canada. Allahabad , India rmyers@perimeterinstitute.ca sen@mri.ernet.in 14