Teaching

Listed below are the undergraduate and the Master's courses that I have taught and I am currently teaching here at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM). I have also listed the graduate level courses I had taught earlier at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), Allahabad, and a few other courses I have taught or tutored at various schools and other institutions. When complete, I have made the structure and the syllabus of the courses, the problem sheets and the question papers available in the links below.

All the instructors and courses at IITM are evaluated by the students who attend the course, referred to as the Teacher Course Feedback (TCF). The numbers within the square brackets below are the scores (upon one) that I have received as a teacher for the courses. I have also made the complete TCF reports available at the links next to the scores. Note that, since 2015, the students have also been given the opportunity to provide detailed remarks on the teachers and courses.

At IITM

  1. EP2102, Classical Dynamics (in progress), July-November 2024
  2. EP2210, Principles of Quantum Mechanics (~41 lectures), January-May 2024 [0.91. TCF report]
  3. PH1010, Physics I (~48 lectures), July-November 2023 [0.86. TCF report]
  4. PH5875, Advanced General Relativity (~42 lectures), January-May 2023 [0.84, TCF report]
  5. PH5870, Introduction to General Relativity (~43 lectures), July-November 2022 [0.95, TCF report]
  6. PH5875, Advanced General Relativity (~42 lectures), January-May 2022 [0.92, TCF report]
  7. PH5870, Introduction to General Relativity (~41 lectures), July-November 2021 [0.91, TCF report]
  8. PH5170, Quantum Mechanics II (~ 37 lectures + 4 tutorials), February-May 2021 [0.89, TCF report]
  9. PH5100, Quantum Mechanics I (~ 50 lectures), September-December 2020 [0.97, TCF report]
  10. PH5170, Quantum Mechanics II (~26 lectures + ~11 recorded lectures), January-May 2020 [0.96, TCF report]
  11. PH5460, Classical Field Theory (~47 lectures), July-November 2019 [0.94, TCF report]
  12. EP2210, Principles of Quantum Mechanics (~45 lectures), July-November 2018 [0.82, TCF report]
  13. PH1020, Physics II (~54 lectures), January-May 2018 [0.76, TCF report]
  14. PH1010, Physics I (~54 lectures), July-November 2017 [0.87, TCF report]
  15. PH5870, General Relativity and Cosmology (~48 lectures), January-May 2017 [0.93, TCF report]
  16. EP2210, Principles of Quantum Mechanics (~42 lectures), July-November 2016 [0.91, TCF report]
  17. PH1020, Physics II (~56 lectures), January-May 2016 [0.84, TCF report]
  18. PH1010, Physics I (~56 lectures), July-November 2015 [0.89, TCF report]
  19. PH5870, General Relativity and Cosmology (~45 lectures), January-May 2015 [0.88, TCF report]
  20. EP2210, Principles of Quantum Mechanics (~45 lectures), July-November 2014 [0.909, TCF report]
  21. PH5870, General Relativity and Cosmology (~45 lectures), January-May 2014 [0.931, TCF report]
  22. PH5460, Classical Field Theory (~45 lectures), July-November 2013 [0.945, TCF report]
  23. PH3520, Quantum Physics (~40 lectures), January-May 2013 [0.871, TCF report]
  24. PH3500, Classical Physics (~45 lectures), July-November 2012 [0.891, TCF report]
  25. PH5870, General Relativity and Cosmology (~45 lectures), January-May 2012 [0.976, TCF report]
  26. PH3500, Classical Physics (~40 lectures), July-November 2011 [0.960, TCF report]

At HRI

  1. Classical Electrodynamics (~35 lectures), August-December 2010
  2. General Theory of Relativity (~35 lectures), August-December 2009
  3. Quantum Mechanics (~35 lectures), August-December 2008
  4. Cosmology (a reading course), January-May 2008
  5. Cosmology (~20 lectures), January-March 2007
  6. Astrophysics (~40 lectures), August-December 2006
  7. Astrophysics (~40 lectures), August-December 2004
  8. Classical Mechanics (~40 lectures), August-December 2003

Others

  1. Physics of Inflation and Reheating (12 lectures), Vignyana Patashala, at Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, July 11-19, 2024.
  2. Introduction to General Relativity (5 lectures), at IUCAA-CUTN School on Introductory General Relativity and Cosmology, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, January 4-6, 2020.
  3. Inflation and Cosmological Perturbation Theory (3 lectures), at Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, September 30-October 1, 2019.
  4. Introduction to Inflationary Cosmology (3 lectures), in Pre-SUSY School, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, December 4-8, 2017.
  5. Cosmological Perturbation Theory and Non-Gaussianities (3 lectures and 4 tutorials for the course taught by Jerome Martin), in GIAN Course on Origin and Evolution of Perturbations during Inflation and Reheating, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, November 25-30, 2016.
  6. Inflation (4 lectures), in School on Recent Advances in Cosmology, Department of Physics, North Bengal University, Siliguri, February 24-26, 2011.
  7. Inflation and Cosmological Perturbation Theory (9 lectures), in SERC Main School in Theoretical High Energy Physics, Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, February 11-20, 2011.
  8. The Smooth and the Perturbed Universe (7 tutorials for the courses taught by T. R. Seshadri and Tirthankar Roy Choudhury) and Inflationary Cosmology (2 lectures), in Summer School on Gravitation and Cosmology, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, May 17-22, 2010.
  9. Generation and Evolution of Perturbations During Inflation and Reheating (16 lectures), Special course at Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, January-March 2010.
  10. Origin and Evolution of Perturbations During Inflation and Reheating (11 lectures), Topical course at Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, February 9-20, 2009.
  11. Cosmology (9 lectures), in The Fourth Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri School on General Relativity, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, October 21-24, 2008.
  12. Black Holes (2 lectures), in Introductory Summer School on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Inter- University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, June 2-3, 2008.
  13. The Smooth and the Perturbed Universe (7 tutorials for the courses taught by Shiv Sethi and Somnath Bharadwaj), in Summer School on Gravitation and Cosmology, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, May 12-24, 2008.
  14. Cosmology for Particle Physicists (8 tutorials for the course taught by Urjit Yajnik), in SERC Main School in Theoretical High Energy Physics, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, February 11-21, 2006.
  15. The Smooth and the Perturbed Universe (10 lectures), in Summer School on Gravitation and Cosmology, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, May 10-21, 2004.
  16. Introduction to the Standard Model of Cosmology (9 tutorials for the course taught by T. Padmanabhan), in SERC Main School in Theoretical High Energy Physics, Department of Physics, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, February 9-17, 2004.