Dr. Somenath Chakrabarty
Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
Visva-Bharati
Santiniketan
India 731235
E-mail: somenath.chakrabarty@visva-bharati.ac.in

Personal Data



Higher Secondary, Year 1976 (First Division)
B-Zone Boys Multipurpose School, Durgapur, India

B.Sc. Physics (Hons.) 1979 (First Class First Position)
Bankura Christian College, Bankura, India
Under Burdwan University
Received P.N. Sinha Gold Medal for First Class First Position in B.Sc. Physics (Hons.).

Photograph of Bankura Christian College

M.Sc. in Physics (Nuclear and Particle Physics Special) 1982, First Class.
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Post M.Sc. Associateship Course & Ph.D. (Some Theoretical Studies of Quark-Gluon Plasma)
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Kolkata, India
Ph.D from Calcutta University


Occupation


Lecturer & Reader (1992-2005)
Department of Physics
University of Kalyani
Kalyani, India 741 235

Professor of Physics (2005 - present)
Department of Physics
Visva-Bharati , Santiniketan
India 731 235
E-mail: somenath.chakrabarty@visva-bharati.ac.in

Present Field of Research

  1. Effect of Strong Quantizing Magnetic Field on Dense Neutron Star Matter.

  2. Effect of Strong Quantizing Magnetic Field on Neutron Star / Magnetar Crustal Matter.

  3. Neutron Super-fluidity in Presence of Strong Magnetic Field- Effect of Neutron Anomalous Magnetic Moment.

  4. Some Theoretical Aspects of Cyclic Universe Models.


Achievements:

  1. Associate of IUCAA, Pune, upto the middle of 2011.
  2. P.N. Sinha Gold Medal for First Class First Position in B.Sc.
  3. INSA Visiting Fellow.
  4. Sort Listed for Swrna-Jayanti Fellowship.
  5. Junior Associate, ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
  6. Presented M.S. Satya Murthy Lecture.
  7. Delivered IPA Young Physicist Lecture.
  8. Dense Nuclear Matter in a Strong Magnetic Field, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 (1997) 2898.
  9. Quantizing Magnetic Field and Quark-Hadron Phase Transition in a Neutron Star, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79 (1997) 2176.



The Founder of Visva-Bharati and the Father of Modern Cosmology



List of Publications
Some of the Important Publications



Invited Lectures Presented

Number of Ph.D. Students Supervised: 04

 Number of Ph.D. Students Working at Present: 04

ICTS LECTURE AT TIFR, MUMBAI, IN NUCLEAR PHYSICS, November 18-28, 2010.

Inspire Lecture1, Lecture2 December 12-16, 2011, Visva-Bharati.

Article on Tagore Published in Dainik Statesman (in Bengali)

Courses teaching during the academic session 2012-13.

Last updated: May 12, 2012