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Arjun Bagchi
PhD (HRI, 2010)
Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Research Interest
I am interested in understanding the workings of the Holographic Principle in terms of the gauge/gravity duality. The main focus of my recent research has been the attempt at a formulation of holography for flat spacetimes, away from its usual setting in Anti de Sitter spacetimes. I also work on understanding non-relativistic conformal systems and various singular limits of string theory, like the tensionless limit that offers a window into the behaviour of strings at ultra high energies.
Room No.
374
IIT Kanpur-208016, Uttar Pradesh, India
Specialization
Theoretical High Energy Physics, String Theory.
Education
PhD (2010): Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India.
MS (2004): Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
BSc (2002): Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
Professional Affiliations
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK: Junior Member.
Selected Publications
"Holography of 3D Flat Cosmological Horizons" Arjun Bagchi, Stephane Detournay, Reza Fareghbal, Joan Simon. Phys.Rev.Lett. 110 (2013) 14, 141302.
"Flat-Space Chiral Gravity" Arjun Bagchi, Stephane Detournay, Daniel Grumiller. Phys.Rev.Lett. 109 (2012) 151301.
"Correspondence between Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes and Nonrelativistic Conformal Field Theories" Arjun Bagchi. Phys.Rev.Lett. 105 (2010) 171601.
"GCA in 2d" Arjun Bagchi, Rajesh Gopakumar, Ipsita Mandal, Akitsugu Miwa. Journal of High Energy Physics 1008 (2010) 004.
"Galilean Conformal Algebras and AdS/CFT" Arjun Bagchi, Rajesh Gopakumar. Journal of High Energy Physics 0907 (2009) 037.
Awards & Fellowships
Max Planck Visiting Fellowship (2015): Awarded by the Max Planck Society.
Fulbright Research Award (2014): Awarded by the Department of State, USA.
PEIN Excellence Fellowship (2014): Visiting professorship, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Lise Meitner Award (2013): Awarded by FWF Austria.
Early Career Award (2013): Awarded by the Scottish University Physics Alliance. (Visiting fellowship to MIT for a period of 6 months.)
Professional Experience
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (01/2015 to 07/2016): Fulbright Fellow.
Vienna University of Technology, Austria (05/2014 to 11/2014): Lise Meitner Fellow.
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune (08/2013 to 12/2014): DST Inspire Faculty Fellow.
University of Edinburgh, UK (09/2010 to 07/2013): Post-doctoral Research Fellow.