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Sudipta Sarkar

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Sudipta Sarkar

Associate Professor, Physics

  • BSc: University of Calcutta, 2002
  • MSc: University of Calcutta, 2004
  • PhD: University of Pune, IUCAA, 2009

Email: sudiptas -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Office: 5/329
VOIP: 2448


  • Selected Publications

    1. "Entropy functionals and c-theorems from the second law" (With Srijit Bhattacharjee, Arpan Bhattacharyya, and Aninda Sinha), [arXiv:1508.01658].

    2. "The holographic entropy increases in quadratic curvature gravity" (With Srijit Bhattacharya and Aron C. Wall), [arXiv:1504.04706].

    3. "Physical process rst law and caustic avoidance for Rindler horizon" (With Srijit Bhattacharya), Phys. Rev. D, 91. 024024, [arXiv:1412.1287].

    4. "A generalized second law at linear order for actions that are functions of Lovelock densities" (with Aron C. Wall), Phys. Rev. D, 88, 044017, [arXiv:1306.1623].

    5. "Thermodynamics of Local Causal harizons" (with Arif Mohd), Phys. Rev. D, 88, 024026, [arXiv:1304.2008].

  • Work Experience

    • Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Feb 2020 to Present)
    • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (July 2014 to Feb 2020)
    • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali (Dec 2013 - July 2014)
    • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Dec 2012 - Dec 2013)
    • Post-Doctoral Researcher, IMSC, Chennai (2011 - 2012)
    • Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Maryland, USA (2009 - 2011)
    • Research Scholar, IUCAA, Pune ( 2004 - 2009)

Research Interests

  • ● Gravitation
  • ● Black hole physics
  • ● Thermodynamics and Quasi normal modes
  • ● Field theory in curved space-time

Complete List of Publications