Prof. Arghya Taraphder

IIT Kharagpur

Professor and former HoD, Dept of Physics and Centre for Theoretical Studies, IIT Kharagpur
PhD: IISc Bangalore 1991
PhD guidance: 7 completed 1 submitted
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
Research Interests:
Problems in Condensed-Matter Physics -- Correlated and disordered electronic systems, Phase transitions, Statistical mechanics including biological and other complex systems.

NOC: Concepts in Magnetism and Superconductivity, IIT Kharagpur