IITKGP

Research Areas

  • General Relativity and Modified Gravity
  • Theoretical High Energy Physics
  • Physics education
My current research interests include various modified theories of gravity which address some of the unsolved problems that arise in General Relativity.  I also work in selected areas related to gravitational wave physics.
I have interest in some specific topics in String Theory and High Energy Physics which are linked to gravitational physics.  Earlier, I  have worked on string-inspired gravity, braneworld models, aspects related to the
Raychaudhuri equations, geometric flows and selected topics in quantum mechanics. Over the years, I have also attempted  contributing to physics pedagogy through articles on classical and quantum physics, optics, geometry
and gravity.  
  • Evolving wormholes and the weak energy condition Sayan Kar By Physical Review D 49 - (1994)
  • Scalar kinks and fermion localisation in warped spacetimes Ratna Koley and Sayan Kar By Classical and Quantum Gravity 22 - (2005)
  • Traversable wormholes with arbitrarily small energy condition violations Matt Visser, Sayan Kar and Naresh Dadhich By Physical Review Letters 90 - (2003)
  • Focusing of timelike worldsheets in a theory of strings Sayan Kar By Physical Review D 55 - (1997)
  • Can extra dimensional effects replace dark matter? Supratik Pal, Somnath Bharadwaj and Sayan Kar By Physics Letters B 609 - (2005)
  • Can degenerate bound states occur in non-relativistic quantum mechanics? Sayan Kar and Rajesh Parwani By Europhysics Letters 80 - (2007)
  • Kinematics of deformable media Anirvan DasGupta, Hemwati Nandan and Sayan Kar By Annals of Physics 323 - (2008)
  • Confinement of test particles in warped spacetimes Suman Ghosh, Hemwati Nandan and Sayan Kar By Physical Review D 82 - (2010)
  • Higher order geometric flows on three dimensional locally homogeneous spaces Sanjit Das, Kartik Prabhu and Sayan Kar By Journal of Mathematical Physics 54 - (2013)
  • A simple experiment on diffraction of light using liquid surface waves Tarun K Barik, Anushree Roy and Sayan Kar By American Journal of Physics 73 - (2005)

Principal Investigator

  • Black Holes in Screened Modified Gravity: Theory and Phenomenology
  • Investigating tidal interaction between white dwarfs and intermediate-mass black holes as an astrophysical tool to test modified gravity theories

Ph. D. Students

Abhisek Barman Maji

Area of Research: Gravitational Physics

Anjan Kar

Area of Research: Gravitational Physics

Ritwik Acharyya

Area of Research: Gravitational Physics