talks, etc.

taking my research out and about

TALKS, POSTERS

  • Talk: Anisotropic neutron stars as mass gap candidates
    Brainstorming workshop on neutron stars, IMSc, Chennai, India (Aug 2025)

  • Talk: Addressing fundamental puzzles with the neutron star EOS
    University of California, Riverside, USA (Jun 2025)

  • Talk: Explaining unusual observations using magnetized white dwarfs
    IPTA Meeting 2025, California Institute of Technology, USA (Jun 2025)

  • Talk: Simulating magnetized white dwarfs: Chandrasekhar limit and beyond
    GW Paleontology group meeting, University of California, San Diego (Jun 2025)

  • Talk: Explaining unusual observations using magnetized white dwarfs
    43rd Meeting of the Astronomical Society of India, NIT Rourkela, Odisha (Feb 2025)

  • Talk: Simulating magnetized whtie dwarfs by time evolution: Chandrasekhar Limit and beyond
    4th Symposium of the BRICS Association on Gravity, Astrophysics and Cosmology, SGT University, Gurugram, India (Dec 2024)

  • Poster: Explaining unusual observations using magnetized white dwarfs In-House Symposium, Department of Physics, IISc (Nov 2024)

  • Talk: Anisotropic neutron stars as mass gap candidates
    National conference on classical and quantum gravity, CUSAT, Cochin, India (Nov 2024)

  • Talk (invited): A journey towards compact star physics… and beyond!
    Stella Maris College Research Day talk, Stella Maris College, Chennai India (Sep 2024)

  • Talk: Massive, magnetized neutron stars as mass gap objects
    Seventeeth Marcel Grossmann meeting, Pescara, Italy (Jul 2024)

  • Talk: Simulating magnetized white dwarfs by time evolution: Chandrasekhar limit and beyond
    Seventeeth Marcel Grossmann meeting, Pescara, Italy (Jul 2024)

  • Poster (invited): Massive neutron stars as mass gap candidates
    PMRF Annual Symposium, IIT Indore, Indore, India (Mar 2024)

  • Poster: Simulating super-Chandrasekhar white dwarf from main sequence star: Exploring stellar evolution codes STARS and MESA
    42nd annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of India, Bangalore, India (Feb 2024)

  • Talk: Simulating super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs
    International Symposium on Recent Development in Relativistic Astrophysics (ISRA 2023), SRM Sikkim, Gangtok, India (Dec 2023)

  • Talk: Massive, magnetized compact stars: Theory and Simulation
    10th International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology: New Horizons and Singularities in Gravity (ICGC 2023), IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, India (Dec 2023)

  • Poster : Massive neutron stars as mass gap candidates
    In-House Symposium, Department of Physics, IISc, India (Nov 2023)
    Won best poster award | Link to poster

  • Online Talk (invited) : Massive neutron stars: effects of EOSs vs magnetic field
    London-Oldenburg Relativity Series (Oct 2023)

  • (Online) Talk : Massive neutron stars: effects of EOSs and magnetic field
    ECT* workshop: Strongly interacting matter in extreme magnetic fields, Trento, Italy (Sep 2023)

  • Poster : Simulating magnetised super-Chandrasekhar white dwarf using STARS
    3rd Conference on Plasma Simulations, Raman Science Center, IIA, Leh, India (Jul 2023)

  • Talk : Exploring massive neutron stars towards the mass gap : constraining the high density nuclear equation of state
    Fifth Zeldovich Meeting, Yerevan, Armenia (Jun 2023)

RESEARCH VISITS

  • University of California, Riverside (Jun 2025)
  • University of California, San Diego (Jun 2025)
  • Department of Physics, San Diego State University (Jun 2025)
  • Instytut Fizyki Teoretycznej, Uniwersytet Wroclawski (University of Wroclaw) (Jul 2024)
  • University of Warsaw (Jul 2024)
  • ICRANet-Ferrara, University of Ferrara (Jun 2024)
  • Meeting on Pulsar Timing Array Experiments: Present and Future of Indian Collaboration at IMSc (Feb 2024)

MISC. TALKS AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

  • Looking out at the universe: multi-wavelength astronomy
    Talk at SERB outreach program for class X students, IISc (Oct 2024)

  • Volunteer at 42nd annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of India, Bengaluru, India, IISc Bengaluru (Feb 2024)

  • Conducted Quiz at IISc Open Day 2024

  • External expert for Q/A session at “National Workshop on physical sciences for CSIR-UGC NET and GATE aspirants”
    NIT Tiruchirappalli (May 2023)

  • Overview of fermionic compact stars
    Talk I : Non-interacting stars and white dwarfs
    Talk II : Introducing interactions
    PMRF outreach talk series: Christ University, Bangalore (Feb-Apr 2023)

  • The Sun and our Solar System
    Public Talk, IISc Open Day 2023

  • Equation of motion of double pendulum using different mechanics and MATLAB
    NIT-T weekly colloquium (Jun 2021)

  • Exoplanet detection by transit method
    NIT-T weekly colloquium (Oct 2020)

  • Space Debris
    Talk at Loyola Astronomy and Rocketry Club (Feb 2019)

TEACHING

  • Teaching tutorials for the course “Mechanics and Waves II”, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru (Aug 2025 - Present)

  • PMRF Teaching Assistant for the NPTEL course: The Joy of Computing using Python (Jul 2025 - Present)

  • Teaching assistant for the course UPH202L: Intermediate Mechanics (Lab) for second year undergraduates (B.Sc./B.Tech.) of IISc (Jan 2025 - Apr 2025)

  • PMRF Teaching Assistant for the NPTEL course: Programming, Data Structures And Algorithms Using Python (Jan 2025 - Mar 2025)

  • PMRF Teaching Assistant for the NPTEL course: The Joy of Computing using Python (Jul 2024 - Oct 2024)

  • Taught a value-added course on introductory Astronomy and Astrophysics at M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences (Apr 2024 - Jun 2024)

  • PMRF Teaching Assistant for the NPTEL course: Nuclear Astrophysics (Jan 2024 - Mar 2024)

  • Teaching assistant for the course UPH101T: Introductory Mechanics for first year undergraduates (B.Sc./B.Tech.) of IISc (Aug 2023 - Dec 2023) [Best TA Award]

  • Taught introductory astronomy to classes VI-X students at SPARC Public School, Bengaluru (Aug 2023 - Dec 2023)

  • Taught class XI NCERT Physics at Kendriya Vidyalaya, IISc Bengaluru (Jan 2023 - Jun 2023)