Dr. Prasad Basu

Dr. Prasad Basu

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. : Jadavpur University

Research Interests:

Accretion around compact star; Gravitational wave-Hawking Radiation
Joined the University in May 30, 2015

Phone: 8116819083
Email: prasad.basu@cottonuniversity.ac.in

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About

Academic: 

 B. Sc in Physics Honours, University of Calcutta, 1999 

 M. Sc in Physics, University of Calcutta, 2001 

 Ph. D. in Physics, Jadavpur University, 2008 

 

Career Profile: 

Present Position: 
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Cotton University, Guwahati,Assam ( 30.05.2015 - 

Previous Positions:  
A) Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology Sikkim, Rvangla, South Sikkim, India.  Pin:-737139

 
B) Assistant Professor in the department of Physics, Omdayal Group of Institutions (AICTE  accredited), Uluberiah Industrial Growth Centre, Howrah, West Bengal, India. Pin:- 711316 


C) Post doctoral fellow In the Department of Theoretical Sciences, S.N.Bose National Centre  for Basic Sciences , Saltlake Sector-III, Block-JD, Kolkata-700098, India.  


D) Post Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for High energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science  (IISc.), Bangalore-560012, India (Jan. 2009 to Apr. 2010).  


E) Post Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Physics Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore-560012, India (Apr 2008 to Jan. 2009).  
 

 

Recent Activities: 

Coordinator:

CCSU Astronomy and Astrophysics Summer School, June 22- July 11, 2015

CCSU Astronomy and Astrophysics Summer School, June 21- July 12, 2016

Cotton University Astronomy and Astrophysics Summer School, June 19- July 3, 2017. 

 

Research paper publications till 2021

1. Biplab Sarkar and Prasad Basu, “Solution of Lagrange’s equation of motion from the  first principle for volumetric modulated arc therapy delivery”, Health and Technology,  2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-021-00545-7.  
2. Soumen Mondal and Prasad Basu, “On the properties of dissipative shocks in the  relativistic accretion flows, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume  497, Issue 2, September 2020, Pages 2119–2132, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2035 
3. Sangita Chatterjee, Soumen Mondal and Prasad Basu, “An improved approach to find  the height of the accretion disk”, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 1579,  Issue 1, article id. 012008 (2020), July, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1579/1/012008 
4. Prasad Basu, “Gravitational Wave Emission from Binary Mergers: Ideal Versus Real  Picture” Mukhopadhyay B., Sasmal S. (eds) Exploring the Universe: From Near  Space to Extra-Galactic. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 53, 2018  Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94607-8_4. 
5. Prasad Basu and Soumen Mondal “The relativistic equation of state in accretion and  wind flows” (New Astronomy, Volume 26, p. 33-39, 2014) 
6. Soumen Mondal and Prasad Basu, “On the possibilities of shocks in accretion and wind  flows” (Astronomical Society of India Conference Series, Vol. 8, pp. 127-130)  
7. Prasad Basu and Soumen Mondal, “A new model of relativistic equation of state in  accretion and wind flows using 4-velocity distribution function” (Astronomical Society  of India Conference Series, Vol. 8, pp.123-126, 2013 ) 

8. Soumen Mondal and Prasad Basu, “Accretion and wind solutions with a variable  adiabatic index and the possibilities of shock” (CQGra, 28, 5004, 2011)   

9. Prasad Basu, Biswajit Chakraborty, F.G. Scholtz, “A unifying perspective on the Moyal  and Voros products and their physical meanings” (JPhA, 44B, 5204B, 2011) 

10. Prasad Basu, Rahul Shrivastava and S. Vaidya, , “Thermal Correlation function of the  twisted quantum field” (Phys. Rev. D 82, 025005, 2010)  

11. Prasad Basu, Biswajit Chakraborty and Sachindeo Vaidya, “Fate of super conducting  ground state on the Moyal plane” (Phys. Lett. B 690, 431, 2010)   

12. S. Mondal, Prasad Basu and S.K. Chakrabarti, “Studies of accretion flows around  rotating black holes III. Shock oscillations and an estimation of the spin parameter from  QPO frequencies” ( MNRAS, 396, 1038, 2009) 

13. Prasad Basu, Soumen Mondal and S.K.Chakrabarti, “Gravitational wave emission from  a stellar companion black hole in presence of an accretion disk around a supermassive  Kerr black hole” (MNRAS, 388, 219, 2008) 

14. Prasad Basu and S.K. Charabarti, “Gravitational Wave damping from a self gravitating  vibrating ring of matter around Black hole” (NewA, 13, 451, 2008)  

15. Prasad Basu and Sandip K. Chakrabarti, “Gravitational wave emission from a black  hole surrounded by a massive disk” (Bul. Astron. Soc. Ind., v. 33, p. 387, 2005) 

 

Students

Sl.No Name Research Topic Roll No
1 Sandeep Bhattacharjee General Theory of relativity and Blackhole Physics

Other Informations

Awards and Achievements : 

• National Eligibility Test [NET] Scholar: An award Based on country-wide Master of  Science standard test (2002)   

• Qualified GATE in 2001 (percentile 90.69) 

• Joint Entrance Screening Test [JEST] Scholar, Percentile 99.3% . It is a Fellowship  and award based on country-wide Master of Science standard test and the selection  criteria for the Research fellow in most of the Research Institute in India.

 

 Conferences, Schools and workshops Attended: 

1.Attended Astronomical Society of India meeting, February 21st to February 24th 2005,  Nainital, India. 

2. Attended SINP and IICS, Kolkata, India during ’Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri School on  General Relativity’, October 17-29 (2005) . 

3.Attended 11th Marcell Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity,Berlin, Germany. from July 

23-30, 2006.  

4. Participated in the Workshop on Multi-Wavelength Astronomy with ASTROSAT. Organized  by ISRO Satellite Centre and Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, IIST  Thiruvanantapuram (Jnauary 9-12, 2012).  

5. Participated in the conference “Recent Trends in the Study of Compact Objects: Theory and  Observations” in IIT-Guwahati (March 11-13, 2013) 

 

Other academic activities: 

1.Attended State Wise Telescope Making Workshop, June 2nd. to June 8th, 2003, Salt Lake,  Kolkata, India. organized by Centre for Space Physics, Garia, Kolkata, India.  

2.Attended District-wise Space Science Symposium (DSSS), February 2004, Coochbihar, West  Bengal, India, organized by Centre for Space Physics, Garia, Kolkata, India. 

3.Attended District-wise Space Science Symposium (DSSS), February 2nd. 2005, Bankura, West  Bengal, India, organized by Centre for Space Physics, Garia, Kolkata, India. 

4.Attended District-wise Space Science Symposium (DSSS), February 3rd. 2005, Purulia, West  Bengal, India, organized by Centre for Space Physics, Garia, Kolkata, India. 

5. Attended District-wise Space Science Symposium (DSSS), on 21st and 22nd February 2006, at  Balurghat and Siliguri, West Bengal, India, organized by Centre for Space Physics, Kolkata. 

 

 

Publications in popular magazine: 

Written an article in Bengali,named as ”MahaKarshya Taranger Samparke Kichhu Katha” (Some  words about Gravitational Wave.) in the Bengali Magazine ”Mahabiswa O Ami”(The Universe  and I.) 

Publications in popular magazine:Written an article in Bengali,named as ”Prokiti Bigyan er  Moulik dhrubak guli —- Abiskar o gurutto.” (The fundamental constants of nature ......Their  discovery and significance. ) in the Bengali Magazine ”Mahabiswa O Ami”(The Universe and I.)