Shivam Garg

Integrated BSMS dual degree, Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Kolkata, India

I am a BSMS undergraduate from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, India. I am looking for an opportunity to rub shoulders with great stalwarts of science, so that I can also follow their footprints and ultimately contribute to the welfare of science.
During the past few years I have developed an interest in astronomy and astrophysics, as I got a few opportunities to work on some training assignments related to various topics such as Dark matter, Dark Energy, Gravitational waves, Stellar spectrum, Rainbow formation, Pulsar observations at institutions of repute like IIT-Kanpur, Delhi University, NCRA Pune, IISER Mohali, Indian Institute of Astrophysics - Bangalore, Radio Astronomy Centre (Ooty).

• Current Address: F-306 Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Hall, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur, PIN - 741246, West Bengal (India)
• Permanent Address: 13/104, Indiranagar, Lucknow - 226016, UP, INDIA
• Mobile: +918981891308, +917607362567
• Email(s): shivamgarg2@gmail.com , sg12ms102@iiserkol.ac.in
• Father: Mr. Sunil Ji Garg, Educationist and IT Entrepreneur at Lucknow, India - 9936145539
• Mother: Mrs. Shikha Garg, Supports Father's Venture at Lucknow, India - 9335282665

• Completed Integrated BSMS Program from IISER, Kolkata in May 2017, CGPA - 8.63
• 97%, 12th Class, CISCE Board, Passed from Seth MR Jaipuria School, Lucknow
• 95.6%, 10th Class, CISCE Board, Passed from Seth MR Jaipuria School, Lucknow.

I pursued my master's thesis titled "Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime and Anomalies" under the supervision of Dr. Sunandan Gangopadhyay (Dept. of Physical Sciences, IISER Kolkata). Hawking radiation and Unruh effect are two well known examples of the effect of quantum fields in curved spacetime. Anomalies play an important role in quantum field theory. It has been shown that anomalies can be used to find Hawking temperature. In this Master's thesis, we reviewed Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime (including Unruh and Hawking effects) and then studied the application of gravitational anomalies for deriving Hawking radiation in Schwarzschild spacetime.
Master's Thesis

• Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis using Wavelets
• N-body simulation of Ideal and Non-Ideal Gas. Report
• Summer Project Student at Dept. of Maths and Astronomy, Lucknow University (June-July 2015) Topic - Stellar spectrum analysis. Report
• Pulsar Observation for Students, Radio Astronomy Centre, Ooty (July 2014). Presentation
• Summer Research Student at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore (June 2014) Topic - Investigation of modified gravity theories and application to cosmology. Report
• Summer Project Student at Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi (May 2014) Topic - Mathematical Modeling & Numerical Simulation of Rainbows
• GW@ASI 2014: Satellite Workshop on Gravitational Waves (19th March 2014)
• Radio Astronomy Winter School (RAWS) (December 2013). Poster Presentation
• Summer Project Student at IIT-Kanpur (June 2013) Topic - Dark Matter. Report

• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for CS1201.
  Second part of the two-semester long primer on computer programming.
• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for CS1101.
  Introductory course on Linux, Python, Gnuplot and their application to scientific programming.

• Awarded the INSPIRE fellowship by DST, Govt. of India (2012-2017)
• Awarded the best poster and presentation award at Radio Astronomy Winter School, organised by National Centre for Radio Astronomy, Pune.

• Submitted a talk titled "Chameleon field theories" for my summer project at Indian Institute of Astrophysics.
• Poster presentation at RAWSC. Title - "Black Holes and their Signatures".

• Well acquainted with Windows and Linux Operating Systems
• Proficient in C, Java, Python, FORTRAN, R and also web designing languages such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS.
• Used software packages including Origin, Gnuplot, Sigproc (software package for analyzing data obtained from Ooty Radio Telescope)

• Quizzing and Spelling Events' Accolades winner.
• Music (Graduate in Vocal Singing), Playing Guitar.
• Sports : Volleyball, Basketball, Table-tennis, Football, Cricket. Participated and won in college and inter-college events.
• State level champion in abacus mathematics competition.

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