Associate Professor, IIT Gandhinagar

Sudipta Sarkar

Department : Physics

sudiptas@iitgn.ac.in

Research Interests

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

Professional Summary

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)

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].
Complete List of Publications