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Tapobrata Sarkar
PhD (IMSc Chennai)
Professor, Department of Physics
Research Interest
String Theory, Theories of Gravity, Information Geometry, Classical and Quantum Phase Transitions.
FB-375,
Department of Physics
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Education
PhD, Madras University (work done at IMSc, Chennai) 1999.
M.Sc., Research, Anna University (work done at IMSc, Chennai), 1995.
B.Sc., Presidency College (University of Calcutta) 1993
Selected Publications
S. Govindarajan, T. Jayaraman and T. Sarkar, World sheet approaches to D-branes on supersymmetric cycles, Nucl. Phys. B580 (519) 2000.
P. Ramadevi, T. Sarkar, On link invariants and topological string amplitudes, Nucl. Phys. B 600 (487) 2001.
S. Govindarajan, T. Jayaraman and T. Sarkar, On D-branes from gauged linear sigma models, Nucl. Phys. B593 (155) 2001.
T. Sarkar, G. Sengupta, B. N. Tiwari, On the thermodynamic geometry of BTZ black holes, JHEP 0611 (015) 2006.
D. Dey, K. Bhattacharya, T. Sarkar, Galactic dark matter and Bertrand space-times, Phys. Rev. D87 103503 (2013).
Awards & Fellowships
P. K. Kelkar fellowship IIT Kanpur 2009 – 2012.
IRCC Research & Industrial Consultancy Award, IIT Bombay : Best Paper award of 2006 (Paper reviewed by Nobel Laureate).
Editorial Board Member of ISRN High Energy Physics (Hindawi).
Invited Lead Guest Editor for the Special Issue titled ``Information Geometry: from Black Holes to Condensed Matter Systems,'' published by Advances in High Energy Physics (impact factor : 3.5).
Director's citation for teaching excellence for five different UG and PG courses including core course (twice) and core tutorial.