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1 Gopal Hazra Curriculum Vitae Contact Information Room No : D2-02 Phone: Department of Physics hgopal@iisc.ac.in Indian Institute of Science web: Bangalore India, Personal Details Date of Birth 5th January 1990 Sex Nationality Marital status Languages Known Male Indian Single English, Bengali and Hindi August 2017 present Present Position Research Associate at Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Research Interests Astrophysical magnetic fields, Magnetohydrodynamics, Solar and Stellar cycle, Sunspots and Starspots, Dynamo Theory, Coronal Magnetic Fields, the effect of Solar cycle on the Earth s global climate, Space weather and Space climate. Collaborators Prof. Arnab Rai Choudhuri (IISc Bangalore, India), Prof. Dipankar Banerjee (IIA Bangalore, India), Dr. Mark S Miesch (NOAA, Boulder, USA), Dr. Bidya Binay Karak (HAO, Boulder, USA), Mr. Sudip Mandal (IIA Bangalore, India) Education Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore, [Thesis defended on 2nd Feb. 2018]. Thesis title: Understanding the behavior of the Sun s large scale magnetic field and its relation with the meridional flow Supervisors: Prof. Arnab Rai Choudhuri and Prof. Dipankar Banerjee Referees: Prof. Paul Charbonneau and Prof. Prasad Subramanian 1/5

2 M.Sc. in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Marks Obtained: 8.69/10 Master s Thesis: Particle in a three dimensional arbitrary shaped box. Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Khastgir B.Sc. (Physics Hons.), Berhampore Krishnath College, Kalyani University. Marks Obtained: (640/800)= 80% Honors and Awards 2017 Asia-Pacific Solar Physics Meeting 2017 (APSPM 4) Best Paper Award 2014 Senior Research fellowship (SRF) awarded by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR),Government of India 2012 Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) awarded by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India 2012 Qualified JEST (Joint Entrance Screening Test) 2011 Selected as a Summer Research Fellow by Indian Academy of Science 2010 Qualified JAM 2010 (Admission Test for getting admission in IITs) 2010 University 3rd Highest Scorer in BSc (2010) (Physics Hons), Kalyani University, West Bengal, India 2010 Prof. S K Sen memorial prize for excellence in Physics, Krishnath College, West Bengal, India Publications in Refereed Journals 8. Hazra, Gopal and Miesch, Mark Incorporating Surface Convection into a 3D Babcock-Leighton Solar Dynamo Model" ApJ (2018), Under revision, arxiv: Hazra, Gopal and Choudhuri, Arnab Rai A theoretical model of the variation of the meridional circulation with the solar cycle" MNRAS (2017), 472, Hazra, Gopal, Choudhuri, Arnab Rai and Miesch, Mark A theoretical study of the build-up of the Sun s polar magnetic field by using a 3D kinematic dynamo model" ApJ (2017), 835, Mandal, Sudip, Hegde, Manjunath, Samanta, Tanmoy, Hazra, Gopal, Banerjee, Dipankar and B, Ravindra Kodaikanal Digitized White-light Data Archive ( ): Analysis of various solar cycle features" Astronomy & Astrophysics (2016), 601, Choudhuri, Arnab Rai and Hazra, Gopal The treatment of magnetic buoyancy in flux transport dynamo models" Advances in Space Research (2016), Volume 58, Issue 8, p Hazra, Gopal, Karak, Bidya Binay, Banerjee, Dipankar and Choudhuri, Arnab Rai Correlation between Decay Rate and Amplitude of Solar Cycles as Revealed from Observations and Dynamo Theory" Sol. Phys. (2015), 290, Hazra, Gopal, Karak, Bidya Binay and Choudhuri, Arnab Rai Is a deep one-cell meridional circulation essential for the flux transport Solar Dynamo?" ApJ (2014), 782, 93 2/5

3 1. Panda, Subhasis and Hazra, Gopal Boundary perturbations and the Helmholtz equation in three dimensions" Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2014) 129: 53 Computational Skills HPC experience: Pleiades (NASA), Yellowstone (NCAR), SahasraT (IISc Bangalore) Languages used: Fortran, C, IDL, Python, Matlab, HTML, Latex Advanced Codes Used: Surya (Solves 2D mean-field dynamo equations), ASH code (Anelastic Spherical Harmonic code) Operating systems used: Linux, Windows Software Packages used: Mathematica, GNU plot, Origin, GIMP Teaching Experience Teaching Assistant: Thermal and Modern Physics, UG Physics Course, August to December 2014, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Teaching Assistant: Statistical Mechanics, Integrated PhD Course, January to April 2015, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Professional Service Referee for Astrophysical Journal. Academic Visit High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, USA, 2 months (from 5th June to 5th August, 2015) Host: Dr. Mark S Miesch Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, 29th January, 2016 Host: Prof. Takaaki Yokoyama and Dr. Hideyuki Hotta Kiepenheuer Institute of Solar Physics, Freiburg, Germany from 15th Oct to 19th Oct, 2016 Host: Prof. Oskar Steiner Max Plank Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany from 19th Oct to 22nd Oct, 2016 Host: Dr. Maarit käpylä Schools attended 1. ICTS Summer School on Numerical Relativity." June 2012, IISc Bangalore 2. Heliophysics Summer School on Seasons In Space: Cycles of variability of Sun-Planet systems.", July 2015, HAO, Boulder 3. Asian Solar Physics Winter School, January, 2016, National Astrophysical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), JAPAN 4. Introductory Parallel Programming School, October 2016, ICTP, Italy 5. SCOSTEP-ISWI International School on Space Science, 7th November to 17th November, 2016, Sangli, India Seminar Presentations Presented a MPS seminar on Flux transport Dynamo Model -understanding the Solar magnetic field generation process at Max Plank Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany, 20th October, /5

4 Presented a KIS colloquium on Flux transport Dynamo Model -understanding the Solar magnetic field generation process at Kiepenheuer Institute of Solar Physics, Freiburg, Germany, 18th Oct, 2016 Presented a seminar at Tokyo University, Japan on Flux Transport Dynamo Model- From 2D to 3D on 29th January, 2016, Tokyo, Japan Conference Talks Talk presented at Asia Pacific Solar Physics Meeting (APSPM-4), 2017" on A Theoretical Model of the variation of the Meridional Circulation with the Solar Cycle at Kyoto University, November 10, 2017, Japan Talk presented at Asia Pacific Solar Physics Meeting (APSPM-3), 2015" on Unification of Babcock-Leighton dynamo models with surface flux transport models at Seoul National University, November 6, 2015, South Korea Talk presented at Flux Emergence Workshop" on The treatment of Magnetic Buoyancy in Flux Transport Dynamo at HAO June 15, 2015 to June 19, 2015, NCAR, Colorado, USA Talk presented at Solar Dynamo Frontiers: Helioseismology, 3D Modeling, and Data Assimilation" on Multicell Meridional Circulation in Flux Transport Dynamo held at HAO, Boulder, June 9-12, 2015, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Colorado, USA Talk presented at COUPLING AND DYNAMICS OF SOLAR ATMOSPHERE on Is a deep one-cell meridional circulation essential for the flux transport Solar Dynamo? in IUCAA Pune (10-15th November 2014) Talk presented at INDO-FRENCH SEMINAR ON DYNAMICS OF EARTH AND PLANETARY CORES on Multi-cell meridional circulation in Flux Transport Solar Dynamo Model in IISc Bangalore (SEPT. 2013) Poster Presentations Poster presented at 34th MEETING OF ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA on Incorporating Surface Convection into A 3D Babcock-Leighton Solar Dynamo Model at University of Kashmir, May 2016 Poster presented at 33rd MEETING OF ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA on Correlation between Decay Rate and Amplitude of Solar Cycles as Revealed from Observations and Dynamo Theory in NCRA Pune (Feb 2015). Poster presented at Plasma Processes in the Solar and Space Plasma at Diverse Spatio-Temporal Scales: Upcoming Challenges in the Science and Instrumentation on Correlation between Decay Rate and Amplitude of Solar Cycles as Revealed from Observations and Dynamo Theory in ARIES Nainital (26-28 March 2014) Poster presented at 32nd MEETING OF ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA on Is a deep one-cell meridional circulation essential for the flux transport Solar Dynamo? in IISER MOHALI (March 2014). 4/5

5 References Prof. Arnab rai Choudhuri Prof. Dipankar Banerjee Department of Physics Indian Institute of Astrophysics Indian Institute of Science Koramangala, Bangalore Bangalore, India, India Phone: Phone: Fax: Fax: Dr. Mark Miesch Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation NOAA David Skaggs Research Center 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO Phone: /5