CURRICULUM VITAE Name: Arghya Taraphder Designation: Professor Affiliation: Department of Physics Also at Centre for Theoretical Studies and Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, India. URL: http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/department/PH/faculty/ph-arghya Google scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=IY2VoH8AAAAJ&hl=en e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Fax: 91-3222-255303 Tel: 91-3222-283852/281645 Mobile: 91-9434715133 Date of Birth: October 03, 1961 Place of birth: Calcutta, India. Educational qualifications: School leaving (Class X) West Bengal Board 1977 1st Divn. Higher Secondary (Class XII) West Bengal Board 1979 1st Divn. B.Sc (Physics Hons.) Presidency College 1982 1st class (1st rank). M.Sc. (Physics) Calcutta University 1984 1st class. Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 1991 Awards/honours: Jagadish Bose National Talent Search Scholarship, Jubilee gold medal, Calcutta University, ICTP Regular associate 1997-2005. Thesis for Ph.D.: Ph.D. in Physics : Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 1991, thesis title Theoretical Studies of Some Models of High-Tc Oxide Superconductors: I. An Anderson Impurity Model for Core-level Photoemission Spectroscopy in Cuprates. II. Negative-U, Extended-Hubbard Model for Barium Bismuthates. Professional and administrative experience: Professional Positions: Permanent: Fellow (tenure track, senior lect. grade, as in TIFR), Mehta (Harish Chandra) Research Institute, Allahabad, Sep. 1994 – Oct. 1996 Visiting Asst. Professor (on leave from HRI), IIT Kharagpur, Nov. 1996 - February 1998 Asst. Professor, IIT Kharagpur, February 1998 - Apr. 1999 Associate Professor, IIT Kharagpur, May 1999 - April 2007 Professor, IIT Kharagpur, April 2007 – present Convener, Centre for Theoretical Studies, IIT Kharagpur 1998-2001 Head, Department of Physics, Feb.2014-Jan.2017 Temporary: Postdoctoral Associate in the Condensed Matter Physics Group, Rutgers University, USA: Aug. 1991 - Jan. 1993 Visiting Scientist, NEC Research Institute, Princeton, USA: Aug. 1991 - Jan. 1993 Visiting Scientist, LEPES, CNRS, Grenoble, France: Feb. 1993 – July 1994 Visiting Professor, Michigan State University, July 1999 Visiting Professor, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland Visiting Professor, Michigan State University, Feb. 2001-Apr. 2001 Visiting Associate, ICTP, Trieste Italy, May 2001-July 2001 Visiting Professor, Michigan State University, May 2001- July 2001 Visiting Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin, May 2003 Visiting Associate, ICTP, Trieste Italy, June 2003-Aug 2003 Visiting Professor, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, Aug-Sep 2003 Visiting Professor, ICMM, CSIC, Madrid, Spain Oct. 2003-Sep. 2004 Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, Oct. 2004 - Dec. 2004 Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, May 2005 - July 2005 Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, May 2006 - July 2006 Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, May 2007 - July 2007 Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, Jan 2008 - April 2008 Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, May 2009 – July 2009 Guest Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, May 2010 – July 2010 Visiting Professor, Michigan State University, June 2013- July 2013 Visiting Professor, University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, Aug 2014 Academia Sinica Foreign Expert, Yangchen Institute of Technology, China, Dec. 2014, June 2015 Ph.D. Thesis Guidance: Nine Ph.D. scholars awarded the degree: 1. Indira Choudhury, Physics PHD Joint Supervisor 2001 2. Tulika Maitra, Physics PHD Lone Supervisor 2003 3. Sudipta Koley Physics PHD Lone Supervisor 2013 4. Proloy Taran Das Physics PHD Principal Supervisor 2016 5. Narayan Mohanta Physics PHD Lone Supervisor 2016 6. Swagata Acharya Physics PHD Lone Supervisor 2017 7. Subhasree Pradhan Physics PHD Lone Supervisor, date 8/12/2017 8. Dibyendu Dey Physics PHD Lone Supervisor, date 19/11/2018 9. Snehasish Nandy Physics PHD Lone Supervisor July 2019 Present research group: 5 Ph.D students, two post-doctoral fellows Teaching: At the level of BSc, B.Tech, M.Sc, M.Tech and Ph.D,. at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, At PhD level in HRI Allahabad Courses: Classical Mechanics I & II, Quantum Mechanics I & II, Condensed matter physics I & II, Advanced condensed matter (Ph.D.), Quantum Many Body Physics (Ph.D.), Statistical mechanics I & II, Physics of Nanostructures (M.Tech.), Physics 101 (theory and laboratory), Computational Physics theory and lab (MSc), E & M and optics lab (MSc). In HRI, Adv Stat Phys. (Ph.D) Refereeing: APS journals: PRL, PRB, RMP; IOP journals: Europhysics Letters, JPCM, NJP, EPJB; Solid. State. Commun. Pramana, JMMM, IJMPB and various others. Mentoring: (i) Helped set up the basic sciences division in IIT Mandi (2012): worked in framing the UG and PG courses, research guidance modalities, advised in setting up advanced research laboratories (XRay, HRTEM, ARPES, PPMS, SQUID, RAMAN, 14T Magnet, DLS, clean room), taught one full and one part course. (ii) Founding convener of Centre for Theoretical Studies, IIT Kharagpur. (iii)UG and PG syllabus committee of Physics and engineering Physics, NIT Agartala. Administrative: (i) IIT Mandi: Involved in recruitment of faculty and staff, help in planning Research and Teaching laboratories, design courses, act as a senate member (2012-2016). (ii) Head, department of Physics, IIT Kharagpur (Feb. 2014- Jan. 2017). (iii) Founding convener, Centre for Theoretical Studies, IIT Kharagpur. (iv) Member, board of studies: Vidyasagar University, Medinipur. Member, doctoral committee, Presidency University, Kolkata. Member, academic programme committee, IIEST, Shibpur. Member PG and UG committee and curriculum development committee, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol (Govt. of West Bengal). Sponsored Projects: Completed: DST: Theoretical Studies on the magnetic and orbital order in colossal magnetoresistive manganites (1998-2001, Rs. 8 lakh) DST (with. D. Parihari): Theoretical investigations on correlated electronic systems (2009-2011, Rs.12 lakh) BRNS (with T. K. Nath and D. Gaitonde): Effect of nanometer scale grain size modulation on electrical, magnetic and magneto-transport properties of CMR manganites (2006-2008, Rs. 30 lakh) Ongoing: CSIR: Electronic structure and transport in correlated electronic systems (2016- present, Rs. 16.25 lakh) Submitted: National supercomputing mission (NSM) project for high performance computing (co-author of the Institute project, 2016. Proposed value Rs. 90 Crore) Research Interests: Problems in Condensed-Matter Physics -- Correlated and disordered electronic systems, Phase transitions, Statistical mechanics including: Correlated Electrons: ◦ Correlation driven metal insulator transitions, charge (or Spin)-density wave and other instabilities in electron systems, phenomenology of High-Tc superconductors, heavy fermions and Kondo effect, metamagnetism. ◦ Phenomenology and modeling of correlated systems. dichalcogenides and other frustrated systems. ◦ Statistical mechanics and studies of correlated and frustrated models (e.g., the Hubbard and extended-Hubbard models, Falicov-Kimball model): Spinels, magnetic and orbital frustration, Kitaev model, excitons. Superconductivity in doped carbon. ◦ Frustrated systems. Quantum phase transition in d4 and other correlated systems Oxide Hetero-Interfaces: nature of superconductivity, magnetism, Lifshitz transition, Majorana modes, disorder. Topological effects in condensed matter. Electron-phonon interaction, formation and stability of polarons. Electrons in a strong magnetic field. Correlated, disordered Bosons: phase diagram, low-lying excitations and thermodynamics, competition between correlation and disorder.. Statistical mechanics of quasicrystals, NP-complete problems in physics. List of Publications: 1. The Travelling Salesman Problem on a Randomly Diluted Lattice, D. Dhar, M. Barma, B. K. Chakraborty and A. Taraphder, J. Phys. A 20, 5289 (1987). 2. Electronic Structure of High-Tc Cuprates from Core-level Photoemission Spectroscopy of Cuprates, D. D. Sarma A. Taraphder, Phys. Rev. B 39, 11570 (1989). 3. Hole Pairing within an Extended Anderson Impurity Model Applicable to the High-Tc Cuprates, D. D. Sarma, S. Ramasesha and A. Taraphder, Phys. Rev. B 39, 12286 (1989). 4. Heavy Fermion Behaviour in a Negative-U, Anderson Model, A. Taraphder and P. Coleman, Phys. Rev. Lett 66, 2814-2817 (1991). 5. Exotic Physics in the Negative-U, Extended-Hubbard Model for Barium Bismuthates, A. Taraphder, H.R. Krishnamurthy, R. Pandit, and T.V. Ramakrishnan, Europhys. Lett., 21, 79-85 (1993). 6. Fluctuating Phase Pairs in High Tc Superconductors, B. K. Chakraverty, A. Taraphder and M. Avignon, Physica C (superconductivity) 235-240, 2323-2324 (1994). 7. Local attractive Interaction and Anomalous Normal State Properties in Barium Bismuthates, A. Taraphder and B. K. Chakraverty, (Supercond.) 235-240, 2351-2352 (1994). 8. The Negative-U, Extended-Hubbard Model for Doped Barium Bismuthates, A. Taraphder, H.R. Krishnamurthy, R. Pandit, and T. V. Ramakrishnan, Phys. Rev. B, 52 1368 (1995). 9. The Exotic Barium Bismuthates , A. Taraphder, H.R.Krishnamurthy, R. Pandit, and T. V. Ramakrishnan, Int. J. Mod. Phys.