Teaching

Courses taught at IOP

  1. Predoctoral course on “High Energy Physics”, 3rd Trimester, for academic years: 1994-95, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 2001-2002, 2011-2012, 2012-2013.
  2. Advanced course on “Topological Defects in Condensed Matter and Particle Physics”, First Trimester, academic year: 1996-97.
  3. Predoctoral Course on “Advanced Quantum Mechanics”, 2nd Trimester, for academic years: 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2009-2010, 2011-2012, 2013-14.
  4. Advanced course on “Physics of Quark-Gluon Plasma”, 1st Trimester, for academic year: 2003-2004
  5. Predoctoral course on “Classical Electrodynamics”, 1st Trimester for academic years: 2004 – 05, 2005 – 06, 2010-11, 2014-15 .
  6. Predoctoral course on “ Quantum Field Theory”, 2nd Trimester for academic years: 2006 – 07, 2007 – 08, 2015-16.
  7. Predoctoral course on “ Statistical Mechanics”, 2nd Trimester for academic years: 2008 2009, 2016 – 2017.
  8. Advanced course on “Topological Defects in Condensed Matter and Particle Physics”, Second semester, academic year: 2017-2018. (Lectures on youtube, Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVTX7BVdU8I).

Courses taught at other Institutions (India and Abroad)

As Adjunct Faculty at IIT Bhubaneswar, taught following courses:

  • Taught part of the course (20 lectures) on ”Classical Electrodynamics”, for M.Sc. students, at the Physics Dept., IIT Bhubaneswar in 2016.
  • Taught part of the course (20 lectures) on ”Quantum Mechanics”, for M.Sc. students, at the Physics Dept., IIT Bhubaneswar, during the Autumn Semester, 2017.
  • Taught part of the same ”Quantum Mechanics” course (20 lectures) at IIT Bhubaneswar for the Autumn Semester, 2018.

Following courses taught at the Physics Dept. Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA in Spring Semester 2019.

  • Taught half of the Undergraduate course on ”Conceptual issues in quantum mechanics, special relativity and general theory of relativity”, Jan – Feb , 2019 (20 lectures).
  • Taught half of the Graduate course on ”Continuous groups in physics” March – April, 2019 (25 lectures).

Online course for Matser’s students at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, 2022-23

  • Taught an online course for Matser’s students at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, on ”Quantum Electrodynamics”, during May-June, 2022, 23 lectures (including 5 tutorials), each of 90 minutes duration, along with two exams plus one makeup exam. Course organized by ICTP, Trieste, through the program ”Physics without frontiers program” of ICTP.

Lecture courses given at Advanced Schools

At the SERC Schools

  • Four Lectures + Four tutorial in the SERC school on “Topological defects in condensed matter physics”, Mehta Research Institute (now called Harish-Chandra Research Institute), Allahabad, Feb.’2000
  • Nine lectures (1 1/2 hrs. each) given at XXI SERC main school in Theoretical High Energy Physics, on “Quark-Gluon Plasma in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions”, at PRL Ahmadabad, Feb. 2006.
  • Six lectures given on “QCD” in the SERC school on “Quark-Gluon Plasma” at IOP, Dec. 2006.
  • Seven lectures given on “QCD” in the SERC school on “Matter in extreme conditions” at VECC, Jan. 2013.
  • Lecture given on “Quark-gluon plasma” in the HEP Experimental SERC school At IIT Madras in Dec. 2013.

At Other Schools

  • Two lectures on “Topological Defects” in a school on “Geometric and Topological Methods in Physics” held at Mysore in March’96.
  • Lectures on “Topological defects in cosmology and condensed matter physics”, given at the refresher course on ”Recent trends and methods in Physics” for college teachers at Banaras Hindu university, Aug.’ 2000
  • Two lectures ( 1 1/2 hrs each) on ”Universe and elementary particles” at the refresher course, Utkal university, Physics Dept. March, 2011.
  • Six lectures given on “Introduction to Field theory and QCD” in Conference on Compressed Baryonic Matter, at Bose Institute, Kolkata, Jan. 2014.
  • Lecture on ”Introduction to Quantum Mechanics”, at Refresher Course for School Teachers at DAV School, Bhubaneswar, 17 May 2016.
  • Eight lectures on ”Introduction to QCD and Quark-gluon plasma”, given at the Physics Dept., IIT Indore, July 4-8, 2016.
  • Two lectures on ”Cosmology” given at the ”Faculty Development Program” at the College of Engineering and Technology (CET), Bhubaneswar, 31st Aug. 2016.
  • Refresher course talk at Physics Dept., Utkal Univ. on ”QGP in lab and in the universe”, 9th March, 2017.
  • Two lectures (one and half hour each) on ”The Universe: An Introduction” given for the Online Refresher Course in Physics, organized by The School of Physics and UGC-HRDC at Sambalpur University, for participants from different states of the country, 19 Feb. 2021.