Name:                        Dr. Somdatta Bhattacharya         

Designation:                         Assistant Professor in Physics

Address:                    C-26, Satyajit Kanan, 1609 Mukundapur

                                    Kolkata-700099    

Tel. No.:                     +91 9903524717

e-mail:                       somdatta.bhattacharya@gmail.com

2003-2005    Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Harish-Chandra Research Institute,

                        Allahabad      

2004               Ph.D. in Physics

Thesis title: “Studies in Aspects of The AdS-CFT Correspondence”

Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

1993-1995     Masters of Science in Physics (M.Sc)

                        IIT Kharagpur

1993-1997     Bachelor of Science in Physics (Hons.), Chemistry, Mathematics (B.Sc)

                        IIT Kharagpur

1991-1993     Higher Secondary Examination

                        Subjects: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Statistics, English, Bengali

Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur

1991               Madhyamik Exam

                        Marks obtained: 84.6%

Subjects: Physical Science, Life Science, Mathematics, English, Bengali, History, Geography, Physical Education and Work Education

Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur

2005-present Lecturer

At St.Xavier’s College (from 2005-2006)

Part-time Lecturer

At IISER, Kolkata (from 2006-2007)

Part-time Lecturer

At West Bengal State University (from 2007-2009)

Part-time Lecturer

At RKMRC, Narendrapur (from 2008-2010)

Assistant Professor

At New Alipore College (from 2010-present)

1997-2005     Various Aspects of The AdS-CFT Correspondence

• As pertaining to Non-commutative field theories like NCYM
• As pertaining to the Berenstein-Maldacena-Nastase proposal of studying operators with large R-charge
• As pertaining to the working towards a proof of the AdS-CFT correspondence using string field theory methods

2005-present    Various Aspects of The Worldline Approach To Field Theory

• As pertaining to the derivation of worldline representations of propgators of spinning particles

• As pertaining to the uses of worldline methods in the field theories of the Grand Unified Models.

Have already published 8 papers, all in international journals

Special Training/Course: Various SERC schools on Theoretical High Energy Physics in India, Various Spring Schools on String Theory organized by ICTP Trieste, Orientation Programme organized by Jadavpur University

Annexure

Lectures given at Conferences and other places

1) "Inflation and Graceful Exit in the Randall-Sundrum Type-I model",

at the conference on "Physics and Astrophysics of Extra Dimensions" held

at College de France in Paris from 18-22 June, 2001.

2) "Inflation and Graceful Exit in the Randall-Sundrum Type-I model",

at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 2002 and at HRI, Alla-

habad in 2001.

3) "Consequences of extended worldline susy", at the national workshop

on string theory held at IIT, Kanpur from 9th to 16th of October, 2005.

4)"An alternative route to unification", a series of 5 lectures delivered to

the faculty at the West Bengal University of Technology, in January 2008.