Dr. Somnath Mukhopadhyay

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

  1. Curriculum Development
  2. 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