Dr. Somnath Mukhopadhyay
Field(s) of Specialization
- Theoretical Nuclear Astrophysics
- Compact Stars
- Gravitational Waves
Employment Profile
| Job Title | Employer | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assistant Professor | NIT Trichy | 22-06-2020 | Till Date |
| Research Associate | Dept. of Atomic Energy, Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, Govt. of India. | 15-02-2019 | 04-06-2020 |
Academic Qualifications (From Highest Degree to High School):
| Examination | Board / University | Year | Division/ Grade | Subjects |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata and Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai | 2019 | Equations of States for White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars | |
| M.Sc. | S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, University of Calcutta, Kolkata | 2013 | 72.1% | Physics |
| B.Sc. (Honours) | Scottish Church College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata | 2011 | 63% | Physics (Hons.) |
Academic/Administrative Responsibilities within the University
| Position | Faculty/Department/Centre/Institution | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Member of Antiragging committee | Institution | 26.02.2021 | Till Date |
| Performance Analysis Committee Chairman and Class Coordinator of M.Tech. 1st year | Department | 22-06-2020 | Till Date |
| Faculty Advisor of Space and Astronomy Club - Nakshatra | Institution | 28-07-2021 | Till Date |
| Member of Syllabus revision committee for M.Tech. NDT | Department | 04-11-2020 | Till Date |
| Member of Departmental Library Committee | Department | 23-06-2022 | Till Date |
Awards, Associateships etc.
| Year of Award | Name of the Award | Awarding Organization |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | National Graduate Physics Examination (NGPE) Rank Holder | Indian Association of Physics Teachers, Kanpur. |
Details of Academic Work
- Curriculum Development
- Courses taught at Postgraduate and Undergraduate levels:
- UG (B.Tech.) 1st year – Physics Theory (PHIR11)
- UG (B.Tech.) 1st year – Physics Lab (PHIR12)
- PG (M.Tech.) Nondestructive Testing 1st year – Surface NDE Techniques (PH601)
- PG (M.Sc.) Physics 1st year – Statistical Mechanics (PH656)
Projects guided at Postgraduate level:
| Roll No. | Name | Title of Thesis | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 213219015 | Rishabh Kumar | Mass-Radius Relation of White Dwarfs at Finite Temperature | 2021 |
| 213219018 | Tambe Pranjal Anant | Equation of State of Magnetized White Dwarfs at Finite Temperatures | 2021 |
| 213220008 | Harihara Biswanath | Effects of Fermionic Mass and Interaction Strength on the Equation of State of Non-Interacting and Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas | 2022 |
| 213220025 | Zenia Zuraiq | Effects of Fermion Mass and Strong Two-Body Interactions on The Mass-Radius Relationship of Non-Rotating Fermionic Compact Stars | 2022 |
| 213120018 | Saiprakash C P | Effect of Fiber Layer Orientation on Thermal Diffusivity in Composites | 2021 |
| 213120018 | Saiprakash C P | Determination of Defect Position in Composite Material using Flash Thermography | 2022 |
Participation in Workshops/ Symposia/ Conferences/ Colloquia /Seminars/ Schools etc. (mentioning the role)
| Date (s) | Title of Activity | Level of Event(International/ National/ Local) | Role (Participant/ Speaker/ Chairperson, Paper presenter, Any other) | Event Organized by | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01.12.2021 | Symposium | National | Paper presenter | DAE-BRNS | DAE Convention Centre, BARC Mumbai. |
| 14.12.2020 | Symposium | International | Paper presenter | DAE-BRNS | NISER, Odisha. |
| 23.12.2019 | Symposium | National | Paper presenter | DAE-BRNS | University of Lucknow. |
| 10.12.2018 | Symposium | National | Paper presenter | DAE-BRNS | DAE Convention Centre, BARC Mumbai. |
| 04.12.2018 | Conference | International | Paper presenter | RIKEN Nishina Centre for Accelerator Based Science. | Saitama, Japan. |
| 09.07.2018 | Conference | International | Paper presenter | LPC, GANIL France | Caen, France. |
| 05.12.2016 | Symposium | National | Paper presenter | DAE-BRNS | SINP Kolkata. |
| 07.12.2015 | Symposium | National | Paper presenter | DAE-BRNS | SSSIHL, Prasanthi Nilayam, Andhra Pradesh. |
Membership of Learned Societies
| Type of Membership (Ordinary Member/ Honorary Member / Life Member ) | Organization | Membership No. with date |
|---|---|---|
| Ordinary Member | American Astronomical Society | 58806 (2017). |
Publications
(A) Refereed Research Journals:
| Author(s) | Title of Paper | Journal | Volume (No.) | Page numbers | Year | Impact Factor of the Journal (Optional) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rana Nandi, Somnath Mukhopadhyay and Sarmistha Banik | Effect of the Landau quantization of electrons on the inner crusts of hot neutron stars | Physical Review C | 104 | 025803-1 | 2021 | 3.199 |
| Sujan Kumar Roy, Somnath Mukhopadhyay and D. N. Basu | Universal relationship for magnetized white dwarfs | European Physical Journal Plus | 136 | 467-1 | 2021 | 3.911 |
| Sujan Kumar Roy, Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Joydev Lahiri, Debasis Atta, Partha Roy Chowdhury and D. N. Basu | Gravitational waves from non-radial perturbations in neutron stars | Annals of Physics | 415 | 168121-1 | 2020 | 3.036 |
| Somnath Mukhopadhyay and Sarmistha Banik | Gravitational waves from r-mode instability of massive young sub- and super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs | European Physical Journal Plus | 135 | 270-1 | 2020 | 3.911 |
| Sujan Kumar Roy, Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Joydev Lahiri and D. N. Basu | Relativistic Thomas-Fermi equation of state for magnetized white dwarfs | Physical Review D | 100 | 063008-1 | 2019 | 5.407 |
| Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Joydev Lahiri, Debasis Atta, Kouser Imam and D. N. Basu | Gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars: Mass dependence of r - mode instability | Physical Review C | 97 | 065804-1 | 2018 | 3.199 |
| Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Debasis Atta, Kouser Imam, D. N. Basu and C. Samanta | Compact bifluid hybrid stars: hadronic matter mixed with self-interacting fermionic asymmetric dark matter | European Physical Journal C | 77 | 440-1 | 2017 | 4.59 |
| Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Debasis Atta and D. N. Basu | Landau quantization and mass-radius relation of magnetized white dwarfs in general relativity | Romanian Reports in Physics | 69 | 101-1 | 2017 | 2.147 |
| Debasis Atta, Somnath Mukhopadhyay and D. N. Basu | Nuclear constraints on the core-crust transition and crustal fraction of moment of inertia of neutron stars | Indian Journal of Physics | 91 | 235 | 2017 | 1.947 |
(B) Conferences/Workshops/Symposia Proceedings:
| Author(s) | Title of Abstract/ Paper | Title of the Proceedings | Page numbers | Conference Theme | Venue | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tambe Pranjal Anant, Rishabh Kumar, Sujan Kumar Roy and Somnath Mukhopadhyay | Thomas-Fermi Treatment for Hot and Magnetized White Dwarfs | Proceedings of the 65th DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Volume 65, Year 2021. | 476 | 65th DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics | DAE Convention Centre, BARC Mumbai | 2021 |
| Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Rana Nandi and Sarmistha Banik | Inner crusts of hot magnetars in strong quantizing magnetic fields | Proceedings of the 65th DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Volume 65, Year 2021. | 474 | 65th DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics | DAE Convention Centre, BARC Mumbai | 2021 |
| Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Sujan Kumar Roy and D. N. Basu | I-Eccentricity-Q Relation as the Universal Relation for Rotating Magnetized White Dwarfs | Springer Proceedings in Physics | (Accepted for publication) | XXIV DAE-BRNS Symposium on High Energy Physics | NISER, Odisha | 2020 |
| Debasis Atta, Somnath Mukhopadhyay and D.N. Basu | R-Mode Instability of Neutron Stars Using Nuclear EoS from DDM3Y | Springer Proceedings in Physics, Volume 238, Year 2020. | 223 | XXII International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (FB22) | Caen, France | 2020 |
| Sujan Kumar Roy, Joydev Lahiri and Somnath Mukhopadhyay | Tidal Deformability in Compact Star Merger Events | Proceedings of the 64th DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Volume 64, Year 2019. | 610 | 64th DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics | University of Lucknow | 2019 |
| Sujan Kumar Roy, Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Joydev Lahiri and D. N. Basu | Gravitational waves from non-radial perturbations in neutron stars | Proceedings of the 64th DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Volume 64, Year 2019. | 614 | 64th DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics | University of Lucknow | 2019 |
| Sujan Kumar Roy, Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Joydev Lahiri and D. N. Basu | Relativistic Thomas-Fermi EoS of magnetic White Dwarfs | Proceedings of the 63rd DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Volume 63, Year 2018. | 760 | 63rd DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics | DAE Convention Centre, BARC Mumbai | 2018 |
| Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Debasis Atta and D. N. Basu | Mass-Radius Relationship of Neutron Stars Admixed with Fermionic Asymmetric Dark Matter | JPS Conference Proceedings, Volume 32, Year 2020. | 010073 | 13th International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (NN2018) | Saitama, Japan | 2018 |
| Debasis Atta, Somnath Mukhopadhyay and D. N. Basu | Effect of the DDM3Y Nuclear Equation of State on the R-mode Instability of Neutron Stars | JPS Conference Proceedings, Volume 32, Year 2020. | 010071 | 13th International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (NN2018) | Saitama, Japan | 2018 |
| Debasis Atta, Somnath Mukhopadhyay, D. N. Basu and C. Samanta | Interacting & non-interacting fermionic dark matter and quark matter compact stars | Proceedings of the 61st DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Volume 61, Year 2018. | 890 | 61st DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics | SINP, Kolkata | 2016 |
| Debasis Atta, Somnath Mukhopadhyay and D. N. Basu | Crustal fraction of moment of inertia in pulsars | Proceedings of the 60th DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Volume 60, Year 2015. | 854 | 60th DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics | SSSIHL, Prasanthi Nilayam | 2015 |
| Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Debasis Atta and D. N. Basu | Mass-radius relation of magnetized White Dwarfs | Proceedings of the 60th DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Volume 60, Year 2015. | 838 | 60th DAE BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics | SSSIHL, Prasanthi Nilayam | 2015 |
Contacts Details
Dr. Somnath Mukhopadhyay
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Room No. PH115, OJAS Building
National Institute of Technology
Tiruchirappalli – 620 015
Tamil Nadu, India
Email: somnath@nitt.edu