Curriculum Vitae Shiraz Minwalla Address: Telephone: Department of Theoretical Physics Office: (022) 2278{2212 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Home: (022) 2287{5952 Homi Bhabha Rd, Mumbai 400 005 Fax: (022) 2280 4611 [email protected] Citizenship: Indian Current Appointments: Senior Professor, The Dept. of Theoretical Physics, TIFR (From Jan 1, 2017.) Staff Associate, ICTP, (From May 1, 2012) Past Appointments: IBM Einstein Fellow and Visting Faculty, IAS, Princeton, (July 2013 - May 2014) Professor, The Departpment of Theoretical Physics, TIFR, (Aug 1, 2009 - Dec 31, 2016) Associate Professor, The Dept of Theoretical Physics, TIFR, (Aug 1 2006- July 31 2009). Asst. Professor, The Department of Physics, Harvard University (Sept 1, 2001 -July 31 2006). Reader, Dept of Theoretical Physics, TIFR (Aug 17 2004- July 31, 2006) Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows. (June 2000{June 2003) Education: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ September 1995 { Dec. 1999 Degree: Ph.D. Physics (Nov 2000) Thesis: Branes and Holography (July 2000) Advisor: Prof. Nathan Seiberg Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India August 1990 { May 1995 Degree: M.Sc. (Physics) (May 1995) Fellowships and Awards: Elected Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences, Jan 2018. Awarded TWAS Award, The World Academy of Science, 2016 Awarded Distinguished Alumni Award, IIT Kanpur, 2015 Awarded IIM Lucknow Young Leader Award (Science and Technology) 2014 Awarded Infosys Prize in the Physical Sciences, 2013 Awarded New Horizons in Physics Prize, Dec 2013 Awarded Innaugural Nishina Asia Award, Aug 2013. Awarded Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize, Sept 2011 Elected Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Jan 2011. Awarded ICTP Prize 2010, Sept 2010. Elected Young Affiliate of TWAS, Sept 2008 Awarded Swarnajayanti Fellowship, Jan 2007 Awarded Five Year NSF USA Presidential Career Fellowship, Feb. 2003. Elected Alfred. P. Sloan Research Fellow, May 2002. Elected Junior, Harvard Society of Fellows, Dec 1999. Awarded President's Gold Medal, IITK, July 1995. Doctoral Students 1. I. Haldar, Supervised Aug 2017 onwards. Expected Phd (TIFR) 2020 2. L. Jangial, Supervised July 2016 onwards. Expected Phd (TIFR) 2019. 3. Y. Dandekar, Supervised July 2015 onwards. Phd (TIFR) 2018 Post Doctoral Appointment, ICTS, Bengaluru. 4. S. Mazumdar, Supervised July 2014 onwards. Phd 2017 Post doctoral appointment, Jerusalem, 2017 5. M. Mandlik, Phd (TIFR) 2016 Post doctoral appointment, Technion U, Haifa, Israel, 2016- 6. T. Sharma, Supervised Aug 2010 onwards. Phd (TIFR) 2014 Post doctoral appointment, Weizmann Institute, Israel Post doctoral appointment, Wits, Johannaesburg, South Africa 7. V. Umesh, Phd (TIFR) 2016 Post doctoral appointment, Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa 8. J. Bhattacharyya, supervised Jan 2007 onwards. Phd (TIFR) 2011 Post Doctoral Appointment: IPMU, Japan, 2011-2014 Post Doctoral Appointment: Durham, UK, 2014- 2017 Assistant Professor, IIT Khadagpur, 2017- present 9. R. Loganayagam, supervised Jan 2008 onwards. Phd (TIFR) May 2010. Post Doctoral Appointment, Harvard Junior Fellow, Aug 2010-July 2013 Post Doctoral Appointment, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Aug 2013-2016 Appointed Reader, ICTS, TIFR, Bangalore 2015 10. S. Bhattacharyya, supervised Jan 2007 onwards. Phd (TIFR) May 2010. Post Doctoral Appointment: HRI, Allahabad, Aug 2010 onwards. Faculty Appointment, RKMU, Kolkata, March 2013. Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur, Jan 2014- March 2017 Reader, NISER Bhubhaneshwar, Mar 2017- present 11. Subhaniel Lahiri, supervised Aug 2005 onwards. Phd (Harvard) April 2009. Post Doctoral position in Biophysics, Harvard, 2009-2012 Post Doctoral position in Neuroscience, Sanford,2012-present 12. Suvrat Raju, supervised Jan 2004 onwards. Phd (Harvard) May 2008. Post Doctoral Appointment, HRI, Allahabad. Faculty Appointment, Reader, ICTS (TIFR) Bangalore, Oct 2012 13. Lars Grant, supervised May 2004 onwards. Phd May 2008. Transferred to medical school. 14. Joeseph Marsano, supervised May 2002-May 2006 Phd (Harvard) May 2006. Post Doctoral Appointment: Caltech Aug 2006-2009. Post Doctoral Appointment: U Chigaco, Aug 2009-2012 15. Kyriakos Papadodimas, supervised Jan 2003 -May 2006. Phd (Harvard) May 2006. Post Doctoral Appointment: Amsterdam, Aug 2006-2010. Post Doctoral Appointment: CERN, Aug 2010-2013. Faculty Appointment, Gronigen, Aug 2012. Visiting Professor (5yr) CERN, 2013-2018 Professor, ICTP Trieste, Sept 2018 onwards 16. Matthew Headrick, supervised 2000-2003. Phd, Harvard, 2003. Elected Pappalardo Fellow at MIT, 2003-2006. Appointed Post Doctoral Fellow at Stanford Aug 2006-2009. Appointed Assistant Professor, Brandeis University, Aug 2008. Appinted Associate Professor, Brandeis University, 2014. Teaching: Principal Instructor for: \String Theory 1", Aug 2018- Dec 2018, TIFR \General Relativity, Aug 2017-Dec 2017, TIFR \String Theory 2", Aug 2016-Dec 2016, TIFR \String Theory, 1", Aug 2015- Dec 2015, TIFR \Quantum Field Theory, 2", Aug 2014-Dec 2014, TIFR \String Theory, 1 and 2", Aug 2012-May 2013, TIFR \General Relativity", Aug 2011-Dec2011, TIFR \Classical Mechanics" Aug 2010-Dec 2010, TIFR \String Theory, 1 and 2" October 2007-Dec 2009, TIFR \ Quantum Mechanics", Aug 2006-Dec 2006, TIFR \Supersymmetric Qauntum Field Theory", Aug 2005- Dec 2005, Harvard. \Advanced String Theory", Feb 2005-May 2005, Harvard. \Quantum Field Theory", Aug 2004-Jan 2005, TIFR. \Advanced Quantum Field Theory", Feb 2004-May 2004, Harvard. \String Theory", Sept 2003-Dec 2003, Harvard. \Advanced String Theory", Feb 2002-May 2002, Harvard. \String Theory", Sept 2001-Dec 2001, Harvard. Teaching Assistant at Princeton University for: \Physics for Poets", January{May 1999 \General Relativity", August 1998{January 1999 \Undergraduate Quantum Mechanics I, II",August 1997{May 1998 \Graduate Quantum Mechanics II', January{May 1997 \General Relativity", August 1996{January 1997 \Quantum Field Theory" August 1996{May 1997 \Electromagnetism", January { May 1996 Invited Conference Talks 1. \ ", ISM 2018, IISER Trivandrum, Dec 2018. 2. \ ", Order from Chaos, KITP Santa Barbara, Dec 2018 3. \ 3 d Bose Fermi duality in Matter Chern Simons thoery, ", 28th TWAS annual meeting, Trieste, Nov 2018. 4. \Critical Fermion Regular Boson Matter Chern Simons duality", 10th Joburg workshop on string theory, Sept 2018. 5. \Matter Chern Simons duality in the Higgs phase", New Frontiers in String Theory, Kyoto, July 2018. 6. \2 Questions about Gravity", Perspective Talk on String theory at the commemoration of 50 years of String theory, Strings 2018, Okinawa, Japan, June 2018. 7. \\Matter Chern Simons duality in the Higgs phase", 20 Years of AdS/CFT, ICTS, Bangalore, May 2018. 8. \Black Hole dynamics at large D, ", 2nd Annual BHI conference, Harvard, Cambridge, May 2018 9. \Critical Fermion Regular Boson duality in matter Chern Simons theories", Aspen workshop, Aspen, March 2018 10. \Bose Fermi Duality in Matter Chern Simons Theories", NSM, NISER Bhubhaneshwar, Dec 2017. 11. \The Improved large D Membrane Paradigm", Twenty years of AdS/CFT, Princeton, Sept 2017. 12. \Notes on Melonic Tensor models", Bangalore Area String Meeting, Aug 2017. 13. \Flows, Fixed Points and Duality in Matter Chern Simons Theory", Strings 2017, Tel Aviv, Israel. 14. \The Large D Black Hole Membrane Paradigm", Spentafest, ICTS, Bangalore, Jan 2017. 15. \The Large D Black Hole Membrane Paradigm", Frontiers in Mathematical Physics, Rikkyo U, Tokyo, Jan 2017. 16. \The Large D Black Hole Membrane Paradigm", ISM2016, IISER, Pune, Dec 2016. 17. \Regular boson critical fermion duality", Sunilfest, IISER, Pune, Dec 2016. 18. \The Large D Black Hole Membrane Paradigm", Natifest, IAS, Princeton, Sept 2016. 19. \The Large D Black Hole Membrane", Inward Bound- a conference on black holes and emergent spacetime, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug 2016. 20. \The Large D Black Hole Membrane", Strings 2016, Beijing, China, Aug 2016. 21. \The Large D Black Hole Membrane", The Bangalore Area String Meeting, ICTS, Bangalore, July 2016. 22. \A Charged `Membrane Paradigm' at large D ", Quantum Field Theory, String Theory and Beyond, Jerusalem, Israel, Feb 2016. 23. \A Charged `Membrane Paradigm' at large D ", String Math, Sanya, China, Jan 2016. 24. \Dualities in Matter Chern Simons Theories", ICTS meeting on string theory and condensed matter, ICTS, Bangalore, Dec 2015. 25. \Black hole physics at large D", National Strings Meeting, Mohali, Dec 2015. 26. \Gravity at large D ", Nag Lecture Series, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Nov 2015. 27. \Applied Gravity", Symposium on General Relativity, Indian Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, IISER, Pune, Nov 2015. 28. \A Membrane Paradigm at large D", KIAS - KIAS-YITP Joint Workshop 2015: Ge- ometry in Gauge Theories and String Theory, Seoul, Korea, Sept 2015. 29. \A `Membrane Paradigm' at large D ", Andyfest, Harvard, Cambridge, USA, July 2015. 30. \Unitarity, Crossing Symmetry and Duality in the scattering of supersymmetric Chern Simons Matter theories, " Amplitudes 2015, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2015. 31. \ A membrane paradigm at large D", Gauge/Gravity Duality 2015, GGI Florence, Italy, April 2015 32. \Unitarity, Crossing Symmetry and Duality in the scattering of supersymmetric Chern Simons Matter theories, " Eurostings 2015, Cambridge, UK, March 2015. 33. \Unitarity, Crossing Symmetry and Duality in the scattering of supersymmetric Chern Simons Matter theories, " Holography, Strings and Higher Spins, Swansea, UK, March 2015. 34. \Unitarity, Crossing Symmetry and Duality in the S Matrix of Chern