Gour Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor

B.Sc. (Physics)- Calcutta University (Presidency College)-1982

M.S. (Physics)-University of Wisconsin-Madison-1989

Ph.D. (Physics)-University of Wisconsin-Madison-1992

POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS:

(1) Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa and Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Physics (OCIP)-1992-1995

(2) Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, 1999-2002

After finishing my undergraduate studies in physics at Presidency College, I have worked at three universities in North America; University of Missouri-Rolla, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Carleton University at Ottawa, in various capacities, from graduate student to postdoctoral researcher. I have also worked in a non-tenured research position at Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar. I joined West Bengal Education Service (WBES) as a faculty member in 2002. I was initially posted at Taki Govt. College in N. 24 Parganas and was duly transferred to Presidency College in 2006. I have continued to work as a faculty member in this institution after it was transformed to a University.

Research interests:

(1) Theoretical cosmology, in particular, modelling of Late time cosmic acceleration of the Universe, within the dark energy paradigm

(2) Interdisciplinary area of high energy physics and astrophysics

Administration:

(1) Coordinator of GenEd programme for the Department of Physics

Fall 2016 (Teaching Assignment)

(1) UG-Semester-1-General Education (GenEd)- Mechanics and Special Relativity

(2) PG-Semester-1-Mathematical Physics

(3) PG-Semester-1-Classical Mechanics

(4) PG-Semester-3-Quantum Field Theory (Elective)

(5) PG-Semester-3-Astrophysics (Advanced) Laboratory

I have supervised the following student's master's projects:

(1) Surajit Saha (2013)-Quantum Computation: Computation in the multiverse

(2) Tamaghna Moitra (2013)-Quantum Computation and Grover's search algorithm

(3) Devadyouti Das (2014)-Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND):An alternative to Dark Matter

I have supervised the following student's undergraduate projects:

(1) Anirban Bhattacharjee (2015)

(2) Debopriya Sikdar (2015)

Both undergraduate students worked in the general area of Quantum Computation & Information

(1) Gour Bhattacharya, Pradip Mukherjee, Amit Singha Roy, Anirban Saha: The role of

potential in the ghost-condensate dark energy model, Eur. Phys. J. C (2015) 75, 84.