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I am primarily interested in the dynamics and evolution of galaxies. I use N-body simulation as well as semi-analytic techniques to address a variety of issues in this subject. Current topics of research includes the formation and evolution of bars and bulges in disk galaxies; spiral structures; the role of dark matter haloes and super-massive black holes. I am also interested in the dynamical modeling of galaxies (both external and the Milky Way) using stellar kinematics as well as gas kinematics data and inferring about the distribution of dark matter. My other interests includes development of galaxy models; study galaxy interaction and mergers, long term evolution.
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Prof. Ramaprakash's research interest is astronomical instrumentation. In the recent past, he has been largely involved in setting up the IUCAA Girawali Observatory, which has a 2m diameter optical, near-IR telescope and associated back-end instruments. He has also worked on CCD and near-IR detectors and data acquisition systems, cold optics and cryogenic design, testing and assembling, integral field units using optical fibres, OH-suppression spectroscopy, polarimetry etc. His observational interests relate to polarimetric studies of a range of astronomical sources such as pre-main sequence stars, brown dwarfs, galactic molecular clouds, and observations of transient phenomenae like GRBs and SNe.
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Thanu Padmanabhan
Prof. Padmanabhan is interested in all areas of theoretical physics, especially those which have something to do with gravity. A more specific perspective is available on his personal homepage.
Sanjit Mitra
Contact: +91 020 2560 4126
E-mail: sanjit [at] iucaa [dot] in
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Dr. Mitra works on observation of gravitational waves (GW) and cosmic microwave background (CMB). He has developed algorithms for accurate and efficient analysis of data coming from current GW and CMB experiments. For many years he is part of the LIGO-Virgo Scientific Collaboration, the IndIGO consortium and the Planck Collaboration.
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