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About me
I am Ritajit Kundu, currently a research scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), doing my research work in theoretical condensed matter physics.
I am financially supported by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India under the Prime Minister's Research Fellows scheme
Supervisor
I am being supervised by Prof. Arijit Kundu and co-supervised by Prof. Amit Dutta at IITK
Prof. Arijit Kundu
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, IITK
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Prof. Amit Dutta
Professor
Department of physics, IITK
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Education
- B.Sc physics Scottish Church College Kolkata (2014-2017)
- M.Sc Physics Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (2017-2019)
- PhD Physics Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (2019-present)
Coursework during M.Sc
- Mathematical Methods (I+II)
- Classical Mechanics
- Quantum Mechanics (I+II)
- Statistical Mechanics
- Electrodynamics
- Electronics
- Experimental physics (I+II)
- Computational physics
- Many-body physics
- Condensed matter physics
- General relativity and cosmology
- Atomic and nuclear physics
- Quantum field theory
- Master's project ( Under the supervision of Prof. Amit Dutta )
Overall CPI 8.6
CPI stands for Cumulative Performance index and is equivalent to CGPA
Coursework during PhD
- Quantum Field theory
- Advanced statistical mechanics
- Magnetism in materials
- Strongly correlated systems
Overall CPI 9.5
By April, 2020 I've complete two semesters of coursework and I'll be taking the comprehensive exam in December 2020.
Teaching assistant
I was teaching assistant in the following courses
- PHY441 Electronics During 2019 odd semester at IITK
- PHY543 Condensed Matter Physics during 2020 odd semester at IITK
Awards
- Academic excellence award at IITK ( 2018 )
- Prime Minister's Research Fellow ( May 2019 - present )