CURRICULUM VITAE Name: Sunandan Gangopadhyay Father s Name: Suddhabrata Gangopadhyay Mother s Name: Madhusree Gangopadhyay Date and Place of birth: 18th November 1979, Calcutta, West Bengal, India Nationality: Indian Marital Status: Married Designation: Assistant Professor Present Affiliation: Department of Physics, West Bengal State University, Barasat, Kolkata 700126, India. Associateship : Visiting Associate in Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune, India e-mail: sunandan.gangopadhyay@gmail.com, sunandan@iucaa.ernet.in Permanent Address: 69/1/4A, Diamond Harbour Road, Kolkata 700038, P.O. Sahapur, India Address for Communication: A7/5, Karunamoyee Housing Estate, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700091, India Phone: +91-33-23590641 Mobile: +91-9830124471 1
Educational qualifications I.C.S.E. (Delhi Board) (Class X Board Examinations) from Don Bosco School, Park Circus, Kolkata in 1996 (secured 87.8% marks). I.S.C. (Delhi Board) (Class XII Board Examinations) from Don Bosco School, Park Circus, Kolkata in 1998 (secured 89.75% marks). B.Sc. in Physics(Hons) from St. Xaviers College, Calcutta University in 2001 (First class, secured 69.5% marks). M.Sc. in Physics from S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India; degree awarded by West Bengal University of Technology in 2003 (secured a degree grade point average (DGPA) of 8.73 on a scale of 10). Ph.D. in Theoretical High Energy Physics from S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India; degree awarded by West Bengal University of Technology in August 2008. Title of the Ph.D. Thesis : Some Studies in Noncommutative Quantum Field Theories ; (arxiv:0806.2013 [hep-th]). Appointments Visiting Scientist for a month in Indian Insitute of Astrophysics, Kodaikanal in June 2004. Post doctoral fellow in National Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa from November 2008 to February 2009. Assistant Professor in Department of Physics, West Bengal State University, Barasat, Kolkata 700126, India from March 2009 onwards. Visiting Academic in National Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa for a period of one year from July 2013 to June 2014 (on study leave for one year from Department of Physics, West Bengal State University, Barasat, Kolkata 700126, India ). Teaching experience I have been invited to teach a summer course on Electrodynamics in Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Kodaikanal in 2004. 2
I have taught the following courses in M.Sc. level in the Physics Department, West Bengal State University, Barasat, India : Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Classical Field Theory Nuclear Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics Relativistic Quantum Mechanics Quantum Field Theory and Particle Physics Mathematical methods in Physics I have taught the following course in the Post M.Sc. level (Ph.D. course work) in the Physics Department, West Bengal State University, Barasat, India : General Theory of Relativity Some important seminars Talk given in the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) Symposium (2004) organized in Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics on Noncommutativity and Reparametrisation symmetry. Talk given in the International Conference on Noncommutative Geometry and Quantum Physics and Bose Fest organized in S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (2006) on Non(anti)commutativity in open superstrings. Talk given in Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and University of Stellenbosch, South Africa on Twisted galilean Symmetry and Pauli principle at low energies in 2006. Talk given in Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata and National Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stellenbosch, South Africa on 3
Hawking radiation via covariant anomalies and effective actions in 2008. Talk given in Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur on Noncommutative Quantum Theories and dualities in 2008. Talk given in National Workshop on Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences on Path Integral Action of a particle in noncommutative plane in 2009. Talk given in 37th UGC Orientation Programme at Jadavpur University, Academic Staff College in 2011 and Invited Talk given in Krishnagar Govt. College, Krishnagar on Black holes : formation and radiance in Jan 2012. Invited Talk given in UGC Sponsored National Seminar at Narasinha Dutt College, Howrah on Path Integral Formulation and Statistical Interparticle Potential in Noncommutative Plane in Nov 2011. Talk given in Associates Day Fest at S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India on Voros product, noncommutative Schwarzschild black hole and Komar energy in 2012. Talk given in Relativity & Cosmology Centre, Jadavpur University in Aug 2012, Invited Talk given in Department of Physics, St. Xavier s College, Kolkata in Sep 2012, Talk given in 4
UGC Refresher Course on Perspectives in Physics at Department of Physics, Jadavpur University in Dec 2012, IAGRG27, 2013 at Department of Physics, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Theory division, May 2013, National Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, Aug 2013, and Invited Talk given in The Laboratory for Quantum Gravity & Strings, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Aug 2013 on Analytic study of properties of holographic superconductors. Invited Talk given in School of Physics, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, April 2014 on Path Integral action of a particle in noncommutative plane and Aharonov-Bohm effect. Invited Talk given in Astrophysics & Cosmology Research Unit, University of Kwazulu Natal, Durban, South Africa, May 2014, Talk given in Topical Conference on Gravity & Cosmology at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in Feb 2015, Invited Talk given in Department of Physics, Scottish Church College, Kolkata, in March 2015 on Generalized uncertainty principle and black hole thermodynamics. Talk given in National Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, June 2014 on Path Integral action, Aharonov-Bohm effect in the noncommutative plane and dualities from exact renormalization group. Reviewer Selected as Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews in 2007, reviewer for International Journal of Modern Physics A since 2010 and Euro Physics Letters since 2012. 5
Awards Ranked among one of the top 24 students in National Graduate Physics Examination conducted by the Indian Association of Physics Teachers in 2001. Received National Scholarship in (2001) on the merit of B.Sc. Received Best presentation award in SNBOSEFEST 2006. Awarded a Post doctoral fellowship in National Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa in 2008 for a period of two years. Awarded Visiting Associateship in Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, India for a period of three years from 27th July, 2009 to 26th July 2012. Awarded Visiting Associateship in Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India for a period of three years from 1st July, 2011 to 30th June 2014. Awarded a Visiting Academic position in National Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa for a period of one year from 1st July, 2013 to 30th June 2014. Awarded Visiting Associateship in Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India for a period of three years from 1st July, 2014 to 30th June 2017. Visits to other institutes Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Kodaikanal Observatory, June 2004. Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai in August 2005. Centre of High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in March 2006. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in Sep 2006. Department of Physics, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa in (September- October) 2006. National Institute of Theoretical Physics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa from November 2008 to February 2009. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in July 2009. Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune in July 2012. 6
National Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa from 1st July 2013 to 30th June 2014. Total Number of Publications in peer reviewed journals : 50 Total Number of contributions in Conference Proceedings : 1 Total Number of Citations : 734 h index : 15 7
List of publications 1. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Path integral action and exact renormalization group dualities for quantum systems in noncommutative plane, Euro.Phys.Lett.; arxiv: 1410.0750 [hepth]. 2. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Minimal length effects in black hole thermodynamics from tunneling formalism, Int.J.Theo.Phys.; arxiv: 1405.4229 [gr-qc]. 3. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, A. Saha, S. Saha Interaction of a circularly polarised gravitational wave with a charged particle in a static magnetic background, Gen.Rel.Grav. 47 (2015) 65; arxiv: 1412.7632 [gr-qc]. 4. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, A. Saha, S. Saha Noncommutative quantum mechanics of simple matter systems interacting with circularly polarized gravitational waves, Gen.Rel.Grav. 47 (2015) 28; arxiv:1409.3378 [gr-qc]. 5. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, F.G. Scholtz, Noncommutativity from exact renormalization group dualities, Phys.Rev.D 90 (2014) 047702; arxiv:1406.4717 6. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Holographic superconductors in Born-Infeld electrodynamics and external magnetic field, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 29 (2014) 1450088; arxiv:1311.4416 7. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, F.G. Scholtz, Path integral action and Chern-Simons quantum mechanics in noncommutative plane, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 47 (2014) 235301; arxiv:1402.6156 8. Abhijit Dutta, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Remnant mass and entropy of black holes and modified uncertainty principle, Gen.Rel.Grav. 46 (2014) 1747; arxiv:1402.2133 [gr-qc]. 9. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, F.G. Scholtz, Path integral action of a particle in a magnetic field in the noncommutative plane and the Aharonov-Bohm effect, J. Phys. A 47 (2014) 075301; arxiv:1309.3144 10. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, A. Dutta, A. Saha, Generalized uncertainty principle and black hole thermodynamics, Gen.Rel.Grav 46 (2014) 1661; arxiv:1307.7045 [gr-qc]. 11. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, A. Saha, S. Saha, Trace of phase-space noncommutativity in response of a free particle to linearized gravitational waves, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 28 (2013) 1350161; arxiv:1301.2981 [gr-qc]. 12. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Analytic study of properties of holographic superconductors away from the probe limit, Phys. Lett. B 724 (2013) 176; arxiv:1302.1288 8
13. R. Banerjee, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, D. Roychowdhury, A. Lala, Holographic s-wave condensate with nonlinear electrodynamics: A nontrivial boundary value problem, Phys. Rev. D 87 (2013) 104001; arxiv:1208.5902 14. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Voros product and noncommutative inspired black holes, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 28 (2013) 1350030; arxiv:1303.5282 15. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, A. Saha, Quantum mechanics of a charged particle in a background magnetic field interacting with linearized gravitational waves, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 27 (2012) 1250192; arxiv:1204.0337 [gr-qc]. 16. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, D. Roychowdhury, Analytic study of properties of holographic p-wave superconductors, JHEP 1208 (2012) 104; arxiv:1207.5605 17. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, D. Roychowdhury, Analytic study of Gauss-Bonnet holographic superconductors in Born-Infeld electrodynamics, JHEP 05 (2012) 156; arxiv:1204.0673 18. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, D. Roychowdhury, Analytic study of properties of holographic superconductors in Born-Infeld electrodynamics, JHEP 05 (2012) 002; arxiv:1201.6520 19. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, D. Roychowdhury, Corrected area law and Komar energy for noncommutative inspired Reissner-Nordström blackhole, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 27 (2012) 1250041; arxiv:1012.4611 20. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, R.N. Deb, F.G. Scholtz, Statistical interparticle potential on noncommutative space, Euro.Phys.Lett.97 (2012) 21001; arxiv:1111.6817 21. R. Banerjee, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, D. Roy, Hamiltonian analysis of symmetries in a massive theory of gravity, JHEP 10 (2011) 121; arxiv:1108.4591 [gr-qc]. 22. R. Banerjee, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Komar energy and Smarr formula for noncommutative inspired Schwarzschild black hole, Gen.Rel.Grav. 43 (2011) 3201; arxiv:1008.1683 23. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, A. Saha, F.G. Scholtz, Voros product and the Pauli principle at low energies, J. Phys. A 44 (2011) 175401; arxiv:1011.3301 24. A. Saha, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, S. Saha, Noncommutative quantum mechanics of a harmonic oscillator under linearized gravitational waves, Phys. Rev. D 83 (2011) 025004; arxiv:1005.3373 25. R. Banerjee, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, S. Kulkarni, Hawking radiation and near horizon universality of chiral Virasoro algebra, Gen.Rel.Grav. 42 (2010) 2865; arxiv:0804.3492 9
26. R. Banerjee, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, P. Mukherjee, D. Roy Symmetries of topological gravity with torsion in the hamiltonian and lagrangian formalisms, JHEP 02 (2010) 075; arxiv:0912.1472 [gr-qc]. 27. R. Banerjee, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, S. Modak, Voros product, noncommutative Schwarzschild black hole and corrected area law, Phys.Lett.B 686 (2010) 181; arxiv:0911.2123 28. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Hawking radiation from black holes in de Sitter spaces via covariant anomalies, Gen.Rel.Grav. 42 (2010) 1183; arxiv:0910.2079 29. R. Banerjee, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, S. Kulkarni, Aspects of diffeomorphism and conformal invariance in classical Liouville theory, Euro.Phys.Lett 89 (2010) 11003; arxiv:0806.3135 30. A. Saha, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Noncommutative quantum mechanics of a test particle under linearized gravitational waves, Phys.Lett.B 681 (2009) 96; arxiv:0908.4319 31. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, F.G. Scholtz, Path integral action of a particle in the noncommutative plane, Phys.Rev.Lett. 102 (2009) 241602; arxiv:0904.0379 32. Joseph Ben Geloun, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, F.G. Scholtz, Harmonic oscillator in a background magnetic field in noncommutative quantum phase-space, Euro.Phys.Lett. 86 (2009) 51001; arxiv:0901.3412 33. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Anomalies, Horizons and Hawking radiation, Euro.Phys.Lett 85 (2009) 10004; arxiv:0809.4572 34. S. Adhikari, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, A study of the efficiency of the class of W -states as a quantum channel, Int.J.Theo.Phys. 48 (2009) 403; arxiv:0803.0607 [quant-ph]. 35. C. Chatterjee, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, κ-minkowski and Snyder algebra from reparametrisation symmetry, Euro.Phys.Lett 83 (2008) 21002; arxiv:0806.0758 36. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Hawking radiation in Reissner-Nordström blackhole with a global monopole via Covariant anomalies and Effective action, Phys.Rev.D 78 (2008) 044026; arxiv:0803.3492 37. C. Chatterjee, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, A. Ghosh Hazra, S. Samanta, String non(anti)commutativity for Neveu-Schwarz boundary conditions, Int.J.Theor.Phys.47 (2008) 2372; arxiv:0801.4189 38. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Hawking radiation in GHS blackhole, Effective action and Covariant Boundary condition, Phys.Rev.D 77 (2008) 064027; arxiv:0712.3095 39. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Strings in pp-wave background and background B-field from membrane and its symplectic quantization, Phys.Lett.B 659 (2008) 399; arxiv:0711.0421 10
40. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, S. Kulkarni, Hawking radiation in GHS and non-extremal D1- D5 blackhole via covariant anomalies, Phys.Rev.D 77 (2008) 024038; arxiv:0710.0974 41. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Lie algebraic noncommuting structures from reparametrisation symmetry, J. Math. Phys. 48 (2007) 052302; [hep-th/0703174]. 42. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, A. Ghosh Hazra, Normal ordering and non(anti)commutativity in open super strings, Phys.Rev.D 75 (2007) 065026; [hep-th/0703091]. 43. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, A. Ghosh Hazra, A. Saha, Noncommutativity in interpolating string: A study of gauge symmetries in noncommutative framework, Phys.Rev.D 74 (2006) 125023; [hep-th/0701012]. 44. B. Chakraborty, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, A.G. Hazra, Normal ordering and noncommutativity in open bosonic strings, Phys.Rev.D 74 (2006) 105011; [hep-th/0608065]. 45. B. Chakraborty, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, A.G. Hazra and F. G. Scholtz, Twisted Galilean symmetry and the Pauli principle at low energies, J. Phys. A 39 (2006) 9557; [hepth/0601121]. 46. F. G. Scholtz, B. Chakraborty, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Jan Govaerts, Interactions and non-commutativity in quantum Hall systems, J. Phys. A 38 (2005) 9849; [cond-mat/0509331]. 47. B. Chakraborty, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, A.G. Hazra, F.G. Scholtz, Non(anti) commutativity for open superstrings, Phys.Lett.B 625 (2005) 302; [hep-th/0508156]. 48. F.G. Scholtz, B. Chakraborty, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, A.G. Hazra, Dual families of non-commutative quantum systems, Phys. Rev. D 71 (2005) 085005; [hep-th/0502143]. 49. R. Banerjee, B. Chakraborty, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Reparametrisation symmetry and Noncommutativity in particle mechanics, J. Phys. A 38 (2005) 957; [hep-th/0405178]. 50. B. Chakraborty, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, A. Saha, Seiberg-Witten map and Galilean symmetry violation in a non-commutative planar system, Phys.Rev.D 70 (2004) 107707; [hep-th/0312292]. List of contributions in Conference Proceedings 1. Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Noncommutative inspired Schwarzschild black hole, Voros product and Komar energy, J.Phys.Conf.Ser 405 (2012) 012014; arxiv:1212.4049 [grqc]. 11
Research Experience Noncommutative Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory. Noncommutativity in String theory. Hawking radiation via anomalies, effective actions and tunneling. Constrained Hamiltonian dynamics (Hamiltonian analysis of Topological gravity). AdS/CFT correspondence to study analytically the properties of holographic superconductors. Generalized uncertainty principle and black hole thermodynamics. 12