Prof. Shubho R. Roy

IIT Hyderabad

Prof. Shubho R. Roy is currently an Associate Professor of Physics at IIT Hyderabad, where he joined in 2016. Prior to that, he held postdoctoral positions at the City Univ. of New York (CUNY), New York, at the Center for High Energy Physics (CHEP) of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and at the Racah Inst. of Physics of the Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem. He holds a PhD in String Theory from Brown Univ., Providence, RI, USA, in 2010. His specialities are String Theory, Quantum Field Theory, and General Relativity. The complete list of his publications can be found here: https://inspirehep.net/authors/1058703. He supervises students on research projects at all levels, PhD, MSc, and Btech in Engineering Physics - one completing PhD, 10 completing MSc, and 1 completing BTech. He teaches core and elective courses at all levels, undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD - a partial list includes Gravitation and Cosmology, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Yang-Mills theory, Special Relativity, Thermodynamics, Quantum Mechanics, Classical Field Theory, Maxwell Equations and Electromagnetic Waves, Physics Laboratory.

Prof. Arpan Bhattacharyya

IIT Gandhinagar

Prof. Arpan Bhattacharyya: He is an assistant professor at the Department of Physics of IIT Gandhinagar (2019-present). Before that, he was a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at the Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University, Japan. His research interests include the application of quantum information in quantum many-body systems and quantum gravity (particularly in the context of AdS/CFT correspondence), as well as understanding gravitational wave physics through the lens of scattering amplitude. He has published 76 papers, which have total citations > 2400 (h-index 28). His publication profile can be found here: List of Publications. He has graduated one PhD student and is currently advising six more, as well as mentored three postdoctoral fellows and several master’s students in gravitational physics, quantum field theory and string theory. Besides undergraduate courses, he has been teaching advanced courses like General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory several times at IIT Gandhinagar in the past five years. Recently (in 2023), he has been selected as an associate of the Indian Academy of Science (IASc, Bangalore).

NOC: Introduction to General Relativity, IIT Hyderabad and IIT Gandhinagar