CURRICULUM VITAE Aninda Sinha

CURRICULUM VITAE

Aninda Sinha

Aﬃliation: Centre for High Energy Physics, DOB: March, 1977 Indian Institute of Science, Nationality: Indian Bangalore 560012, India. Position: Associate professor. Phone: +91 80 22932851 Email: [email protected]

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 1. Postdoctoral fellow, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada, 2007-2010. 2. PPARC postdoctoral fellow and Gonville and Caius college fellow, Cambridge University, UK, 2004- 2007.

EDUCATION SUMMARY 1. Don Bosco, Calcutta, 1984-1996. Indian School Certificate. 2. Jadavpur University, Calcutta, 1996-1999. B.Sc., Physics honours (placed first, University gold medal). 3. Cambridge University, UK, 1999-2001. BA, MA, Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics–Part III applied mathematics (placed first with distinction, Mayhew prize). 4. Cambridge University, UK, (degree officially conferred 2005, Rayleigh-Knight Prize). PhD in theoretical physics, advisor Professor Michael Green, DAMTP. Thesis title: Aspects of IIB plane-wave string theory.

1 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 interpre- tation 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:1609.00572 appeared in PRL.

AWARDS and RECOGNITION 1. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize, Govt of India, 2019.

2. Member, editorial board, New Journal of Physics, Institute of Physics, UK and Deutsche Physikalis- che Gesellschaft, Germany from 2018.

3. ICTP Prize, 2016, in honour of Kenneth Wilson.

4. Swarnajayanti fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, 2015-2020.

5. Elected Simons associate, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 2014-2016.

6. Adjunct faculty, HRI, Allahabad, 2015-2017.

7. Ramanujan fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, 2010-2015.

8. PPARC postdoctoral fellowship held at DAMTP, Cambridge (2004-2007). Gonville and Caius college post-doctoral research fellowship, Cambridge (2004-2007).

9. Rayleigh-Knight essay prize, DAMTP, Cambridge, 2003 for essay based on PhD work written during my 2nd year PhD.

10. Scholarships during PhD: Gates Cambridge by Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, Perse and Matthews’ scholarships of Gonville and Caius college, Cambridge.

11. Mayhew prize, 2001 for mathematics tripos part III, Cambridge for highest proﬁciency in applied mathematics in Cambridge university.

2 12. Nehru Chevening scholarship, Cambridge, 1999-2001 to pursue masters studies in Cambridge.

13. 1st 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 PUBLICATIONS1 JOURNALS2 1. “Froissart bound for/from CFT Mellin amplitudes” P. Haldar and A. Sinha. arXiv:1911.05974 [hep-th]

2. “Renormalized Circuit Complexity” A. Bhattacharyya, P. Nandy and A. Sinha. arXiv:1907.08223 [hep-th]

3. “Positive geometry in the diagonal limit of the conformal bootstrap” K. Sen, A. Sinha and A. Zahed. arXiv:1906.07202 [hep-th] JHEP 1911, 059 (2019)

4. “On the Polyakov-Mellin bootstrap” R. Gopakumar and A. Sinha. arXiv:1809.10975 [hep-th] JHEP 1812, 040 (2018)

5. “Circuit complexity in interacting QFTs and RG ﬂows” A. Bhattacharyya, A. Shekar and A. Sinha. arXiv:1808.03105 [hep-th] JHEP 1810, 140 (2018)

6. “Simplifying large spin bootstrap in Mellin space” P. Dey, K. Ghosh and A. Sinha. arXiv:1709.06110 [hep-th] JHEP 1801, 152 (2018)

7. “Mellin space bootstrap for global symmetry” P. Dey, A. Kaviraj and A. Sinha. arXiv:1612.05032 [hep-th] JHEP 1707, 019 (2017)

8. “A Mellin space approach to the conformal bootstrap” * R. Gopakumar, A. Kaviraj, K. Sen and A. Sinha. arXiv:1611.08407 [hep-th] JHEP 1705, 027 (2017)

1TOTAL cits (google-scholar): ≈ 4000 . h index: 34 2*≡> 250 cits* ≡> 100 cits;* ≡> 50 cits

3 9. “Conformal Bootstrap in Mellin Space” * R. Gopakumar, A. Kaviraj, K. Sen and A. Sinha. arXiv:1609.00572 [hep-th]. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 081601 (2017).

10. “On critical exponents without Feynman diagrams” K. Sen and A. Sinha. J.Phys.A 49 44 (2016) [arXiv:1510.07770 [hep-th]].

11. “Entropy functionals and c-theorems from the second law” S. Bhattacharjee, A. Bhattacharyya, S. Sarkar and A. Sinha. Phys. Rev. D 93, no. 10, 104045 (2016) [arXiv:1508.01658 [hep-th]].

12. “Improvements to the Froissart bound from AdS/CFT” V. E. Diez, R. M. Godbole and A. Sinha. Phys. Lett. B 746, 285 (2015) [arXiv:1504.05754 [hep-ph]].

13. “Universal anomalous dimensions at large spin and large twist” * A. Kaviraj, K. Sen and A. Sinha. JHEP 1507, 026 (2015) [arXiv:1504.00772 [hep-th]].

14. “Analytic bootstrap at large spin” * A. Kaviraj, K. Sen and A. Sinha. JHEP 1511, 083 (2015) [arXiv:1502.01437 [hep-th]].

15. “On the superposition principle in interference experiments” A. Sinha, A. H. Vijay and U. Sinha. Sci. Rep. 5, 10304 [arXiv:1412.2198 [quant-ph]]. http://www.nature.com/srep/2015/150514/srep10304/full/srep10304.html

16. “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:1406.4874 [hep-th]].

17. “Holographic stress tensor at ﬁnite coupling” K. Sen and A. Sinha. JHEP 1407, 098 (2014) [arXiv:1405.7862 [hep-th]].

18. “Nonlinear constraints on gravity from entanglement” S. Banerjee, A. Kaviraj and A. Sinha. Class. Quant. Grav. 32, 6, 065006 (2015) [arXiv:1405.3743 [hep-th]]

19. “Constraining gravity using entanglement in AdS/CFT” S. Banerjee, A. Bhattacharyya, A. Kaviraj, K. Sen and A. Sinha. JHEP 1405, 029 (2014) [arXiv:1401.5089 [hep-th]].

20. “On generalized gravitational entropy, squashed cones and holography” * A. Bhattacharyya, M. Sharma and A. Sinha. JHEP 1401, 021 (2014), [arXiv:1308.5748 [hep-th]].

21. “Non-classical paths in interference experiments” * R. Sawant, J. Samuel, A. Sinha, S. Sinha and U. Sinha.

4 arXiv:1308.2022 [quant-ph] Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 120406 (2014). Focus article.

22. “Entanglement entropy in higher derivative holography” * A. Bhattacharyya, A. Kaviraj and A. Sinha. JHEP 1308, 012 (2013), [arXiv:1305.6694 [hep-th]].

23. “Entanglement entropy from surface terms in general relativity” A. Bhattacharyya and A. Sinha. IJMPD 22, 12, 1342020 (2013), arXiv:1305.3448 [gr-qc] Honourable mention on Gravity Research Foundation 2013 awards on essays on gravitation.

24. “Entanglement entropy from the holographic stress tensor” A. Bhattacharyya and A. Sinha Class. Quant. Grav. 30 (2013) 235032, arXiv:1303.1884 [hep-th].

25. “Eﬀect 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) 125013. arXiv:1211.4745 [cond-mat].

26. “On c-theorems in arbitrary dimensions” A. Bhattacharyya, L. -Y. Hung, K. Sen and A. Sinha. Phys. Rev. D 86, 106006 (2012). arXiv:1207.2333 [hep-th].

27. “Quantum corrections to screening at strong coupling” A. Singh and A. Sinha. Nucl. Phys. B 167-189, 864 (2012) arXiv:1204.1817 [hep-th]

28. “Counterterms, critical gravity and holography” K. Sen, A. Sinha and N. V. Suryanarayana. Phys. Rev. D 85, 124017 (2012) arXiv:1201.1288 [hep-th]

29. “Implications of a viscosity bound on black hole accretion” A. Sinha and B. Mukhopadhyay Phys. Lett. B 709, 289 (2012) arXiv:1108.5177 [astro-ph.HE]

30. “Cavitation in holographic sQGP” A. Klimek, L. Leblond and A. Sinha Phys. Lett. B 701, 144 (2011) [arXiv:1103.3987 [hep-th]]

31. “New Massive Gravity and AdS4 counterterms” D. P. Jatkar and A. Sinha Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 171601 (2011) [arXiv:1101.4746 [hep-th]]

32. “Holographic c-theorems in arbitrary dimensions”* R. C. Myers and A. Sinha JHEP 1101, 125 (2011) [arXiv:1011.5819 [hep-th]]

33. “On higher derivative gravity, c-theorems and cosmology” A. Sinha Class. Quant. Grav. 28, 085002 (2011) [arXiv:1008.4315 [hep-th]]

5 34. “Non-relativistic metrics from back-reacting fermions” L. Y. Hung, D. P. Jatkar and A. Sinha Class. Quant. Grav. 28, 015013 (2011) arXiv:1006.3762 [hep-th]

35. “Seeing a c-theorem with holography” * R. C. Myers and A. Sinha Phys. Rev. D 82, 046006 (2010) [arXiv:1006.1263 [hep-th]]

36. “Holographic studies of quasi-topological gravity” * R. C. Myers, M. F. Paulos and A. Sinha JHEP 1008, 035 (2010) [arXiv:1004.2055 [hep-th]]

37. “On the new massive gravity and AdS/CFT” * A. Sinha JHEP 1006, 061 (2010) [arXiv:1003.0683 [hep-th]]

38. “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:0911.4257 [hep-th]]

39. “Holographic quantum liquids in 1+1 dimensions” * L. Y. Hung and A. Sinha JHEP 1001, 114 (2010) [arXiv:0909.3526 [hep-th]]

40. “Non-relativistic metrics with extremal limits” E. Imeroni and A. Sinha JHEP 0909, 096 (2009) [arXiv:0907.1892 [hep-th]]

41. “Holographic Hydrodynamics with a Chemical Potential” * R. C. Myers, M. F. Paulos and A. Sinha JHEP 0906, 006 (2009) [arXiv:0903.2834 [hep-th]]

42. “Improving high-Tc dc-SQUID performance by junction asymmetry” U. Sinha, A. Sinha and F. K. Wilhelm Supercond. Sci. Technol. 22 (2009) 055002 [arXiv:0812.4237 [cond-mat]]

43. “Beyond η/s = 1/4π” * A. Buchel, R. C. Myers and A. Sinha JHEP 0903, 084 (2009) [arXiv:0812.2521 [hep-th]]

44. “1/N Eﬀects in Non-Relativistic Gauge-Gravity Duality” * A. Adams, A. Maloney, A. Sinha and S. E. Vazquez JHEP 0903, 097 (2009) [arXiv:0812.0166 [hep-th]]

45. “Universal holographic hydrodynamics at ﬁnite coupling” * A. Buchel, R. C. Myers, M. F. Paulos and A. Sinha Phys. Lett. B 669, 364 (2008) [arXiv:0808.1837 [hep-th]]

46. “On quark masses in holographic QCD” R. McNees, R. C. Myers and A. Sinha JHEP 0811, 056 (2008) [arXiv:0807.5127 [hep-th]]

6 47. “Quantum corrections to η/s” * R. C. Myers, M. F. Paulos and A. Sinha Phys. Rev. D 79, 041901 (2009) Rapid Comm. [arXiv:0806.2156 [hep-th]]

48. “On transmission line resonances in high TC dc SQUIDS” U. Sinha, A. Sinha and E. J. Tarte Supercond. Sci. Technol. 21 (2008) 085021 [arXiv:0806.3187 [cond-mat]] 49. “The fast life of holographic mesons” R. C. Myers and A. Sinha JHEP 0806, 052 (2008) [arXiv:0804.2168 [hep-th]] 50. “Black Hole Giants” A. Sinha and J. Sonner JHEP 0708, 006 (2007) [arXiv:0705.0373 [hep-th]] 51. “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/0610002] 52. “Two-charge small black hole entropy: String-loops and multi-strings” A. Sinha and N. V. Suryanarayana JHEP 0610, 034 (2006) [arXiv:hep-th/0606218] 53. “Extremal single-charge small black holes: Entropy function analysis” A. Sinha and N. V. Suryanarayana Class. Quant. Grav. 23, 3305 (2006) [arXiv:hep-th/0601183] 54. “Mixing of the RR and NSNS sectors in the BMN limit” M. B. Green, S. Kovacs and A. Sinha Phys. Rev. D 73, 066004 (2006) [arXiv:hep-th/0512198] 55. “Non-perturbative effects 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/0506200] 56. “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/0505252] 57. “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/0503077] 58. “On the plane-wave cubic vertex” J. Lucietti, S. Schafer-Nameki and A. Sinha Phys. Rev. D 70, 026005 (2004) [arXiv:hep-th/0402185] 59. “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, 086005 (2004) [arXiv:hep-th/0311231]

7 60. “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/0306056]

61. “Tadpole Analysis Of Orientifolded Plane-Waves” A. Sinha and N. V. Suryanarayana JHEP 0211, 026 (2002) [arXiv:hep-th/0209247]

62. “The Gˆ4λ16 term in IIB supergravity” A. Sinha JHEP 0208, 017 (2002) [arXiv:hep-th/0207070]

63. “Fermion helicity ﬂip in a Kalb-Ramond background” S. SenGupta and A. Sinha Phys. Lett. B 514, 109 (2001) [arXiv:hep-th/0102073]

64. “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/0006097]

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 1. “AdS/CFT and sQGP” A. Sinha Nucl. Phys. A 862-863, 168 (2011) Invited Plenary contribution in the International Conference on the Physics and Astrophysics of Quark Gluon Plasma, Goa, December 2010.

2. “Quark Soup: Applied Superstring theory ” A. Buchel, R. C. Myers and A. Sinha Feature article Canadian Journal of Physics, 2010. http://www.cap.ca/sites/cap.ca/ﬁles/article/1413/apr10-oﬀprint-buchel.pdf

3. “The viscosity bound in string theory” * A. Sinha and R. C. Myers Nucl. Phys. A 830, 295C (2009) [arXiv:0907.4798 [hep-th]] Contributed to Quark Matter 2009: 21st International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus- Nucleus Collisions (QM2009), Knoxville, Tennessee, 30 Mar - 4 Apr 2009

4. “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 15-18 2008; ed., M. Peloso.

5. “The fast life of holographic mesons” A. Sinha and R. C. Myers J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 35 104062. Proceedings for Quark Matter 2008, 20th International conference on ultra-relativistic nucleus nucleus collisions.

8 6. “Non-perturbative contributions in the plane-wave / BMN limit” M. B. Green, S. Kovacs and A. Sinha arXiv:hep-th/0510166 Contributed to Einstein Symposium 2005, Alexandria, Egypt, 4-6 Jun 2005

TEACHING EXPERIENCE • Lectured Standard Model (48 hours), IISc graduate course, Aug-Dec 2018. • Lectured General Relativity (48 hours), IISc graduate course, Jan-Apr 2017, Jan-Apr 2018. • Lectured Quantum Field Theory-II (48 hours), IISc graduate course, Jan-Apr 2015, Jan-Apr 2016. • Lectured Quantum Field Theory-I (48 hours), IISc graduate course, Aug-Dec 2012, Aug-Dec 2013. • Lectured Advanced Mathematical Methods in Physics (total 48 hours), IISc graduate course, Jan-Apr 2011. • 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 2008. • Supervised part II electrodynamics, Michaelmas term, Cambridge 2005-2006. • Supervised part IB mathematical methods, Michaelmas term, Cambridge 2004-2005. • Supervised part IB quantum mechanics (mathematics) for students of Gonville and Caius College, Michaelmas term, Cambridge, 2003-2004. • Supervised part III string theory examples classes for a course given by Michael Green, Lent term, Cambridge, 2003. • Supervised part III quantum ﬁeld theory examples classes for a course given by Ian Drummond, Michael- mas term, Cambridge, 2002-2003. • Supervised Dalibor Hrg and James Ettle for IUSS project entitled “Data encryption using chaos,” In- stitute of Astronomy, Cambridge, 2002. • Supervised part III string theory examples classes for a course given by Peter Goddard, Lent term, Cambridge, 2002.

Students and postdocs supervision

PhD: • Pratik Nandy for PhD, IISc, 2017-. • Ahmadullah Zahed for PhD, IISc, 2017-. • Parthiv Haldar for PhD, IISc, 2016-. • Kausik Ghosh for PhD, IISc, 2017-. • Apratim Kaviraj for PhD, IISc, 2011-2017 (ENS, Simons Bootstrap collaboration postdoc), best thesis medal, IISc 2017-2018. Indian Physics Association Rahul Basu memorial best thesis award for high energy physics between the period 2016-2018. • Kallol Sen for PhD, IISc, Dec 2010-2016 (IPMU, Tokyo, Japan as postdoc), best thesis medal, IISc 2016-2017. • Arpan Bhattacharyya or PhD, IISc, Dec 2010-2015, JSPS postdoc at YITP, Kyoto.

Postdocs: • Atanu Bhatta (PhD, IMSc) October 2018-. • Amin Nizami (PhD, Cambridge) September 2017-July 2018 (currently faculty Ashoka Univ).

9 • Bidisha Chakrabarty (PhD, IOP Bhubaneswar) jointly with R. Gopakumar, September 2017-. • Parijat Dey (PhD, Saha Institute) September 2015-September 2018 (since Oct 2018 Uppsala, Sweden as postdoc). • Dibakar Roychoudhury (PhD, Bose Institute) July 2014-June 2015 (now faculty in IIT Roorkee.). • Menika Sharma (PhD, Arizona) June 2012-July 2013 (now in UK). • Shubho Roy (PhD, Brown) Oct 2012-July 2014 (presently faculty at IIT-Hyd).

Masters: • Anjishnu Bose, Shaswat Tiwari, IISc 2019, Prithish Sinha, CMI 2019. • Abhiram Anand, IISc 2018. • Aniruddha Venkata (jointly with Prasad Hegde), Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR, Mumbai 2017-2018. • Diksha Rehal (IISc) 2015-2016. • Abhijith Gandrakota (IISER Pune) 2014-2015 (to join Rutgers for PhD). • 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 2013-2014.

IISc UG: • Jeevan Chandra, Nirmalya Brahma, 2019. • Anjishnu Bose, Shaswat Tiwari, Soham Ray, 2018. • Arvind Shekar, 2017-2018. • Atul Sharma, (jointly with Prasad Hegde) 2016-2017. • Abhishek Mehta 2016-2017. • Diptaparna Biswas 2015-2016. • Diksha Rehal 2014-2015.

Project assistants: • Praharsh Suryadevara (M.S. IIT Kanpur), June 2017-September 2017. • Aaditya Salgarkar (M.S. IIT Kharagpur) jointly with R. Gopakumar, August 2016-June 2017. • Shinjini Basu (M.S. IIT Kanpur), August 2013-March 2014. • Aruna Rajagopal (M.S. Perimeter and IIT Madras), October 2015-April 2016.

PEDAGOGICAL LECTURES (last 5 years) 1. Yukawa Insititute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan, May 2014.

2. ICTS, Bengaluru, January 2016.

3. Advanced Strings School, Puri, February 2017.

4. ICTP Spring school, March 2017.

5. SERC school, November-December 2018.

10 ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE • In charge of string seminars, DAMTP, 2004-2005. • Co-organized Eurostrings 2006, Cambridge, April 2006. • In charge of string seminars, Perimeter, 2007-2008. • Organized Math-Phys seminars, IISc, 2012. • Co-organized the Subrahmanian Chandrasekhar lectures by Nima Arkani-Hamed, ICTS Bangalore, September 2012. • Co-organized Winter school on Quantum Computing and Quantum Information, ICTS Bangalore Jan- uary 2013. • Organized workshop on “Non-perturbative gauge theories and holography,” IISc Bangalore January 2013. • Organizer Chandrasekhar lectures by Robert Myers, ICTS-TIFR Bangalore December 2014. • Co-organizer Strings 2015 hosted at ICTS-TIFR Bangalore June 2015. • NOC Indian Strings Meeting 2016 hosted at IISER Pune December 2016. • Co-organizer ”Nonperturbative and Numerical Approaches to Quantum Gravity, String Theory and Holography” hosted at ICTS-TIFR Bangalore January-February 2017.

OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Referee for JHEP, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, Physical Review B, Reviews of Modern Physics, Nuclear Physics B, Physics Letters B, Annals of Physics, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Foun- dations of Physics, MPLB, IJMPA, Indian Journal of Physics, Canadian Journal of Physics, European Journal of Physics. • Named one of most valued reviewers, Nuclear Physics B, 2016. • Named one of most valued reviewers, Physics Letters B, 2017.