Jaydeep Majumder Curriculum Vitae Name : Jaydeep Majumder Date of Birth : June 7, 1972 Nationality : Indian Designation : Reader-F Broad Areas of Research : Physical Sciences Specialization : String Theory (Theoretical High Energy Physics) Research Interest : • Inflation in String Theory • Tachyon Dynamics on Unstable D-branes • Emergence of Time in Quantum Gravity from Equilibrium Statistical Mechanical System • Phenomenological Aspects of Supersymmetry Breaking in KKLT Flux Compactification • Orientifolds of Gepner Models • Stable Non-BPS D-branes Present Address : School of Physical Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research, (NISER), Institute of Physics Campus, Bhubaneswar 751 005, INDIA. Email : [email protected] [email protected] Jaydeep Majumder Professional Training • Post Doctoral Fellow, 2004-2007, Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, Gustaf Hallstr¨ ominkatu¨ 2, 00014 Helsinki, Finland. • Post Doctoral Fellow, 2001-2004, New High Energy Theory Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, NJ 08854, USA Previous Work Experience • Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, (MNNIT), Allahabad 211 004, INDIA. From : 04.02.08 to 29.05.09 Jaydeep Majumder Educational Qualifications (Brief) • Ph.D. (Physics), 2002 Supervisor : Prof. Ashoke Sen Institute : Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Formerly, Mehta Research Institute, Allahabad, India. Title of the Thesis : Non-perturbative Aspects of String Theory. • M.Sc. (Physics), 1996, Division : 1st Class 1st. University : Calcutta University, Kolkata, India. • B.Sc. (Honours in Physics), 1994, Division : 1st Class. College : Presidency College, University : Calcutta University, Kolkata, India. Jaydeep Majumder Educational Qualifications (Full) Name of the Name of the Year of Subject Marks Rank/ Exams./Degrees Institution Passing (aggregate) Divn./Class (i) Secondary Hindu School, 1989 All of 88.1% 1st. division Kolkata, India basic sciences and humanities (ii) Higher Hindu School, 1991 Physics, Chemistry 88 % 1st. division; Secondary Kolkata, India Mathematics, rank : 15th. Statistics, Bengali, English (iii) B.Sc.(Hons.) Presidency College, 1994 Physics(Hons.) 70.4 % 1st. class Kolkata, India Mathematics and Statistics (Pass), English (iv) M.Sc.(Physics) University of 1996 80.8 % 1st. class 1st Calcutta, Physics Kolkata, India (v) Ph.D.(Physics) Harish-Chandra 2001 String Not Not Research Institute, Theory Applicable Applicable Allahabad 211019 and Thesis : Nonperturbative Allahabad University, Aspects of India String Theory Supervisor : Prof. Ashoke Sen (vi) Postdoctoral Rutgers University, NJ, Sept., 2001- Not Not Fellow USA Sept., 2004 Applicable Applicable (High Energy Physics Group) (vii) Postdoctoral Helsinki Institute Oct., 2004- Not Not Fellow of Physics, Finland December, Applicable Applicable (High Energy 2007 Physics Group) Jaydeep Majumder Awards, Prizes & Honours A1. Awarded by the Govt. of West Bengal for standing 15th. in the Higher Secondary Examination, 1991 conducted by West Bengal Higher Secondary Council. A2. Honoured for standing 1st. Class 1st. in the M.Sc.(Physics) Exam. in 1996 in the University of Calcutta, India(Gold Medal to be awarded). A3. Visiting senior research fellow at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics(ICTP), Trieste, Italy, March - June, 1999. A4. Visiting senior research fellow at the Summer School on ’String Theory and M Theory’, Carg’ese, France, June- July, 1999. A5. Visiting senior research fellow at the Dept. of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research(TIFR), May- June, 2000. A6. Awarded Post doctoral fellowship in NHETC, Dept. of Physics, Rutgers University, NJ USA in 2001. A7. Awarded Post doctoral fellowship in Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland in 2004. A8. Visiting Fellow and invited speaker at the conference “Cosmology, Strings and Black Holes”, organized by Niels Bohr Institute and NORDITA, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 18-21, 2006. A9. Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Physics, David Rittenhouse Laboratory, University of Penn- sylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, May 9-24, 2006. Jaydeep Majumder Teaching Experience Duration Organisation Area 3 Lectures MNNIT, Allahabad, Classical Electrodynamics and 2 Tutorials India in PHY-II for B.Tech. per week 1st Year students (each of 1 hr. duration) Feb.–April, 2008 18 hours of Lab. MNNIT, Allahabad, B. Tech 1st Year Laboratory per month India in PHY-II Feb. –April, 2008 3 Lectures MNNIT, Allahabad, Special Relativity, Polarization and 3 Tutorials India of Light, Holography in PHYS-I per week for B.Tech. 1st Year students (each of 1 hr. duration) July–Nov., 2008 3 Lectures MNNIT, Allahabad, Vector analysis, Electrostatics, and 1 Tutorial India Electric Currents and Time Varying per week Fields in PHY-II (each of 1 hr. duration) for B.Tech. 1st Year students Jan.–May., 2009 30 hours of Lab. MNNIT, Allahabad, B. Tech 1st Year Laboratory per month India in PHY-I Jan. –May, 2009 10 Lectures Dept. of Physics, Statistical Physics I (each of 2 hrs.) University of Helsinki, (For advanced undergraduates) Spring 2007 FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland 13 Lectures Dept. of Physics, An Introduction to (each of 2 hrs. University of Jyvaskyl¨ a,¨ String Theory duration) FIN-40014, Finland (For advanced undergraduates, June and August, beginning graduate students) 2005(Starting June 7th.) 3 Lectures Workshop organised Vector Analysis and (each of 2 hrs. by HRI and Univ. of Complex analysis with duration) Allahabad for giving application to Electrostatics and Summer, 1998 courses to the University Electrodynamics and college teachers from Uttar Pradesh, India Jaydeep Majumder Courses Taught Course No. Level Books Number Developed & (UG/PG) Followed† of by Title Times you? An Introduction to Advanced Green-Schwarz- 1 Partially String Theory undergraduates -Witten, Vol. I and beginning & II and graduates Polchinski, Vol. I & II Statistical Physics I Beginning Pathria & 1 Partially Graduates Landau-Lifshitz, Vol. I Magnetism in B.Tech. Griffiths & 1 Partially Matter 1st. Year(2nd sem.) Feynman Lectures, undergraduates Vol. 2 Special Theory of B.Tech. Resnick, 1 Partially Relativity 1st. Year(1st. sem.) Griffiths & undergraduates Feynman Lectures, Vol. 1 Electricity & B.Tech. Griffiths 1 Partially Magnetism 1st. Year(2nd. sem.) & undergraduates Feynman Lectures, Vol. II Theory of B.Tech. Ghatak, 1 Partially Polarization of 1st Year(1st sem.) Hecht & Light and undergraduates Feynman Lectures, Holography Vol. 1 Vector analysis, Electrostatics, B.Tech. Griffiths & 1 Partially Electric Currents and 1st. Year(2nd sem.) Feynman Lectures, Time-varying fields undergraduates Vol. 2 †Book Details B1. Superstring Theory, Vol. 1 & 2, Green, Schwarz, Witten (Cambridge University Press, UK). B2. String Theory, Vol. 1 & 2, Joseph Polchinski (Cambridge University Press, UK). B3. Statistical Mechanics, 2nd Edition : R. K. Pathria (Butterworth-Heineman). B4. Statistical Physics(Courses of Theoretical Physics), Vol. 1 ; Landau and Lifshitz (Butterworth-Heineman). Jaydeep Majumder B5. Introduction to Electrodynamics; D. J. Griffiths; 3rd edition (Prentice-Hall). B6. Feynman Lectures in Physics, Vol. 1 & 2; Feynman, Leighton and Sands (Addison- Wesley). B7. An Introduction to Special Theory of Relativity; R. Resnick( Wiley Interscience). B8. Optics; Ajoy Ghatak; 4th Edition (Tata McGraw-Hill, 2008). B9. Optics; Eugene Hecht; 4th Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2001). Jaydeep Majumder Computational Skills CS1. Expertise in numerical computations using high level scientific computational pro- grams like MATHEMATICA, MAPLE along with the packages Ricci, LiE, Cartan, TTC, EinS and GRTENSOR. CS2. Expertise in Fortran 77 programming. CS3. Thorough knowledge of different Operating Systems — Linux(different distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, Mandrake), BSD(FreeBSD, PCBSD), Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows 95,98, Me, 2000, XP and Vista. CS4. Thorough knowledge of LATEX , html, graphics packages like GIMP, Photoshop, Xfig and presentation tools like Powerpoint, Keynote and Openoffice. CS5. Expertise in setting up Wiki and FTP server for distant collaboration. CS6. Expertise in video conferencing tools like NetMeeting and GnomeMeeting. CS7. Basic knowledge of networking in Linux/Unix/Mac OS X environments. Jaydeep Majumder Co-Guidance to Ph.D. outside India Serial No. Name of Year of Titles of Main No. of papers the Students Ph.D. the Thesis Supervisor written Completion together 1 Niko Jokela 2008 Rolling Tachyons, Dr. Esko 5 (Defended on : Random Matrices Keski-Vakkuri May 19, 2008) and Coulomb Gas Thermodynamics Guidance to Ph.D. in India Serial No. Name of Expected Year of Titles of No. of papers the Students Ph.D. the Thesis written with Date of Completion (Tentative) together Joining (Till now) 1. Sumat Kumar, 2013 Aspects of Inflationary 0 MNNIT, Alld. Cosmology in Reg. No. 2008rph02 String Theory (Date Joined: January, 2009) Jaydeep Majumder List of Publications ( Names of the authors appear in the papers according to alphabetical ordering of their last names except the paper 12.) 1. ‘Blowing up’ D-branes on Non-Supersymmetric Cycles ; Jaydeep Majumder and Ashoke Sen JHEP 09 (1999) 004; [hep-th/9906109]. 2. Vortex Pair Creation on Brane-Antibrane Pair via Marginal Deformation; Jaydeep Majumder and Ashoke Sen JHEP 06 (2000) 010; [hep-th/0003124]. 3. Non-BPS D-branes on a Calabi-Yau Orbifold; Jaydeep Majumder and Ashoke Sen JHEP 09 (2000) 047; [hep-th/0007158]. 4. Type IIA Orientifold Limit of M-Theory