CURRICULUM VITAE Aninda Sinha
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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.