1 Curriculum Vitae Name Archisman Ghosh Contact email:[email protected], phone:+1-859-494-7785, Webpage http://www.pa.uky.edu/~archis Birth 5th March, 1983 (Calcutta, India) Citizenship Indian Education • Graduate student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington since August 2006. Expecting to complete Ph.D. by April 2012. • M.Sc. (Integrated) in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (completed in May, 2006). Research Interests • Cosmology: CMB, Inflation. • String Theory: AdS/CFT Correspondence, String Cosmology. • Quantum Gravity and Black Holes. Publications • Pallab Basu, Diptarka Das, Archisman Ghosh, Leopoldo A. Pando-Zayas, \Chaos around holographic Regge Trajectories"; [arXiv:1201.5634[hep-th]]. • Pallab Basu, Diptarka Das, Archisman Ghosh, \Integrability Lost: Chaotic dynamics of classical strings on a confining holographic background", Phys. Lett. B 699 (2011) 388-393; [arXiv:1103.4101[hep-th]]. • Sumit R. Das, Archisman Ghosh, Alfred D. Shapere, Jae-Hyuk Oh, \On dumb holes and their gravity duals", JHEP 40 (2011) 030; [arXiv:1011.3822[hep-th]]. • Adel Awad, Sumit Das, Archisman Ghosh, Jae-Hyuk Oh, Sandip Trivedi, \Slowly varying dilaton cosmologies and their field theory duals", Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) 126011; [arXiv:0906.3275[hep-th]]. • Archisman Ghosh, S. Shankaranarayanan, Saurya Das, \High frequency quasi-normal modes for black holes with generic singularities: II. Asymptotically non-flat spacetimes", Class. Quant. Grav. 23 (2006) 1851-1874; [arXiv:hep-th/0510186]. Awards and Fellowships • Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of Kentucky (2011{2012). • Presidential Fellowship, University of Kentucky (2009{2010). • Max Steckler Fellowship, University of Kentucky (2006, 2007). • Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Fellowship awarded by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (2001{2006). • Undergraduate Associateship at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India (2002{2004). • Institute Award for Academic Excellence, IIT Kanpur (2001{02). • National Talent Search (NTS) Scholarship awarded by National Council of Educational Research and Training, India (1999{2001). Teaching and Outreach • Grader for Graduate-level Condensed Matter Theory (Fall 2010). • Teaching Assistant for Hands-on Physics and Astronomy for Elementary Teachers (2010{2011). • Assistant at the MacAdam Student Observatory, University of Kentucky (2007{2008). • Teaching Assistant for General College Physics { II (Electricity, Magnetism & Optics) laboratory (2006{2007). 2 Conferences attended • 7th International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology (December 14{19, 2011, Goa, India). • Confronting Particle-Cosmology with Planck and LHC (August 10{12, 2011, IUCAA, Pune, India). • Great Lakes Strings Conference 2011 (April 29 { May 1, 2011, Chicago, Illinois). • Great Lakes Strings Conference 2010 (March 20{21, 2010, Cincinnati, Ohio). • Strings 2010 (March 15{19, 2010, College Station, Texas). • Great Lakes Strings Conference 2009 (April 3{5, 2009, Ann Arbor, Michigan). • Indian Strings Meeting 2008 (December 6{13, 2008, Pondicherry, India). • Great Lakes Strings Conference 2008 (April 26{27, 2008, Madison, Wisconsin). Schools and Symposia attended • ICTS school on \Cosmology and Gravitational Waves" (IUCAA, Pune, December 1{11, 2011). • Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI) 2010 { \String theory and its Applications: From meV to the Planck Scale" (University of Colorado, Boulder, June 1{25, 2010). • \Exploring the Cosmological Frontiers" (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, June 24 { July 1, 2009). • Prospects in Theoretical Physics 2008 { \Strings and Phenomenology" (Institute for Advanced Studies, Prince- ton, July 13{24, 2008). • \Introductory School on Gauge Theory/Gravity Correspondence" (The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, May 19{30, 2008). • Prospects in Theoretical Physics 2007 { \The Standard Model and Beyond" (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, July 16{27, 2007). • \String Theory { Basic Notions and Recent Developments" (Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, Oct 1{2, 2005). • \Summer School on Gravitation and Cosmology" (HRI Allahabad, May 10{21, 2004). Presentations • \Singularity resolution in cosmologies using the AdS/CFT correspondence." (received best poster award in the Quantum Gravity and Early Universe session of the 7th International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology, Goa; December 2011). • \Characterizing statistical isotropy violation in the CMB" (University of Alberta, Edmonton; November 2011). • \Integrability and chaos in asymptotically AdS spacetimes" (University of Kentucky, Lexington; S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata; Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata; Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai; Great Lakes Strings Conference 2011, Chicago; April { July 2011). • \On dumb holes and their gravity duals" (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata; University of Kentucky, Lexington; Colloquium at Winnipeg Institute of Theoretical Physics, Manitoba; University of British Columbia, Vancouver; University of Victoria; University of Lethbridge; Queen's University, Kingston; McGill University, Montr´eal;July 2010 { February 2012). • \Slowly varying dilaton cosmologies and their field theory duals" (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai; Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai; Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad; Univer- sity of Kentucky, Lexington; Great Lakes Strings Conference 2010, Cincinnati; Poster at Strings 2010, College Station; Simon Fraser University, Barnaby; August 2009 { November 2011). • \High frequency quasinormal modes for black holes with generic singularities in asymptotically non-flat space- times" (University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada; July 2005). 3 Programming and Software Skills • Experience with numerical techniques and Monte Carlo simulations. • Experience in programming and data-analysis in C/C++, Python; symbolic manipulation and numerics in Mathematica, Maple. • Familiarity with Unix Systems. Academic References • Sumit R. Das (University of Kentucky) [email protected] +1-859-257-4686. • Alfred D. Shapere (University of Kentucky) [email protected] +1-859-257-8896. • Sandip P. Trivedi (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) [email protected] +91-22-2278-2424. • Ganpathy Murthy (University of Kentucky) [email protected] +1-859-257-4729. • Pallab Basu (University of Kentucky) [email protected] +1-859-257-2757..