K. Narayan
Associate Professor, Physics, Chennai Mathematical Institute
Hi ...
I'm Narayan Krishnan, a faculty member in Physics at the
Chennai Mathematical Institute, India.
(Narayan is my first name) Research interests: broadly, various aspects of string theory -- specifically string cosmology, stringy spacetime geometry and singularity resolution, D-brane gauge theories and geometry, black holes and so on.
Here are some talks (pdf files) I've given over the last few years.
Publications : my papers, available at Spires, arXiv .
Teaching: Classical Mechanics II (Spring '08); General Relativity (Fall '08). Quantum Mechanics I (Spring '09); Quantum Mechanics II (Fall '09); Quantum Mechanics III (Spring '10).
Email: "my first name" at cmi dot ac dot in
Mailing address : Chennai Mathematical Institute, Plot H1, SIPCOT IT Park, Padur PO, Siruseri 603103, India.
Positions held:
Present: Associate Professor of Physics, CMI, & Ramanujan Fellow, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Aug 2004-07), Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Aug 2002-04), Center for Geometry and Theoretical Physics, Duke University, USA.
Ph.D. (2002): Newman Lab. of Elementary Particle Physics, Cornell University, USA.
B.Tech. (1997): Engg. Phys., IIT Bombay, India.
Professional activities:
Co-organizer, Indian Strings Meeting (ISM08) international string theory conference, Dec 6-13, 2008, Pondicherry.
String theory seminar organizer, CGTP, Duke, Aug '02-'04.
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