Theses completed under my supervision


Undergraduate Theses (B.Tech., Dual Degree, M.Sc. and M.Tech.)
  1. M.Tech. thesis titled Stacking Oranges: A study of square ice analogues of plane partitions (May 2016). She is currently a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  2. Dual degree (BS and MS) thesis titled Mathieu Moonshine: From M24 to M12 by Aniket S. Joshi (April 2016). He is currently a graduate student at the U. of Alberta.
  3. M. Tech. thesis titled On the Lie algebras of BPS states by Hershdeep Singh (May 2014). He is currently a graduate student at Duke University.
  4. Dual degree (BS and MS) thesis titled Superasymptotic analysis of the plane partition function by G. Mounika (May 2014). She is currently a graduate student at IISc, Bangalore.
  5. M. Sc. thesis titled On the BPS spectrum of N = 2 supersymmetric Quantum field theories by Medha Soni (May 2013). She completed her doctoral thesis at Toulouse in 2016.
  6. M. Sc. thesis titled Supergravity solutions for string networks from tropical curves by Mugdha Sarkar (May 2013). He is currently a graduate student at Saha Institute Kolkata.
  7. M. Sc. thesis titled Towards a CFT describing the 3D Ising Model at criticality by Sutapa Samanta (May 2013). She is currently a graduate student at IIT Madras.
  8. Optional Thesis submitted to IMSc by Naveen S. Prabhakar (2012). He is currently a graduate student of Physics at Stonybrook University.
  9. B. Tech. thesis titled On The Asymptotics of Some Counting Problems in Physics by Naveen S. Prabhkar (May 2011)
  10. M. Sc. thesis titled Gravitational wave and its detection by Rakesh Mazumder (May 2011).
  11. M. Tech. thesis titled From quenched disorder to Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory by Srinidhi T Ramamurthy (May 2011). He is currently a graduate student at U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
  12. M.Tech. thesis titled On The Zero Radius Limit Of The Type IIB Superstring On AdS3 × S3 by Anupam Prasad (May 2010). Anupam is currently in a doctoral student in Munich.
  13. B. Tech. thesis titled Fluid Dynamics from gravity by Akarsh Simha (May 2010). Akarsh is currently a doctoral student in Physics at UT Austin.
  14. B.Tech. thesis titled Quantum Dissipation through path-integrals by Aditya Aravind submitted to IIT Madras (May 2009). Aditya completed his Ph.D. at UT Austin in 2016 and is a post-doc in Korea.
  15. M.Sc. thesis titled Study of the spectrum of the scalar Laplacian on Five-dimensional Sasaki-Einstein Manifolds by Yasir Iqbal submitted to IIT Madras (May 2009). Yasir is a post-doc in Germany after completing his Ph.D. at Toulouse.
  16. B.Tech. thesis titled Resolution of Singular Spaces by Aswin K. Balasubramanian submitted to IIT Madras (May 2007). Aswin completed his Ph.D. at UT Austin and is currently a post-doc at Hamburg.
  17. M.Sc. thesis titled Introduction to Manifolds: Simple and Complex by Sidharth Kshatriya submitted to IIT Madras (May 2007).
  18. M.Sc. thesis titled Exactly Solvable Statistical Mechanical Models by Venugopal Nagam submitted to IIT Madras (April 2005). He works at Vellore Institute of Technology.
  19. M.Sc. thesis titled Large-N Matrix Models by Anosh Joseph submitted to IIT Madras (May 2004). Anosh is currently a post-doc at ICTS (Bangalore) after completing his PhD at Syracuse.
  20. M.Sc. thesis titled Instanton solutions in Yang-Mills theories by Abinash Das submitted to IIT Madras (May 2002).
  21. M.Sc. thesis titled Chaos in low-dimensional maps by Sudheesh C. submitted to IIT Madras (May 2001). Sudheesh completed his Ph.D. at IITM and is currently a faculty member IIST, Thiruvananthapurm.
  22. M.Sc. thesis titled Study of the Sine-Gordon model by Vinu Lukose submitted to IIT Madras (May 2001). Vinu completed his Ph.D. at IMSc. at ICTP, Trieste.
  23. M.Sc. thesis titled Solitons in supersymmetric field theory by Sudarshan Ananth submitted to IIT Madras (May 2000). Sudarshan completed his Ph.D. at the Univ. of Florida at Gainesville and is currently a faculty member at IISER, Pune.
  24. M.Sc. thesis titled Universality in chaos by B. Karthikeyan submitted to IIT Madras (May 1999).
  25. B.Tech. thesis titled Chaos and its applications in secure communications by Chethan Krishnan submitted to IIT Madras (June 1998). Chethan completed his Ph.D. in string theory from U. of Texas at Austin and is currently a faculty member at CHEP, IISc Bangalore.
  26. M.Sc. thesis titled Solitions in Non-linear field theories by K. Madhu submitted to IIT Madras(May 1998). Madhu also completed his doctoral thesis under my supervision and is currently a faculty member at BITS, Goa campus.
Doctoral Theses
  1. Thesis titlde On the stability of non-supersymmetric attractors in string theory submitted by Pramod Dominic to IIT Madras (April 2012) (Main Advisor: Prasanta K. Tripathy).
  2. Thesis titled Equilibrium and dynamical properties of a polyelectrolyte chain submitted by K. Jayasree to IIT Madras (December 2010). (Main Advisor: P. B. Sunil Kumar)
  3. Thesis titled BKM Lie superalgebras in N=4 supersymmetric theory submitted by K. Gopala Krishna to HBNI during October 2009.
  4. Thesis titled A perturbative study of the Leigh-Strassler deformations of N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory submitted by K. Madhu to IIT Madras (July-August 2007).