Anand Priyadarshee   


 
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Anand Priyadarshee


Education

PhD. in Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC-USA. (Sept, 2006)

Thesis: Quantum Critical Behavior of Hard Core Bosons

Thesis advisor: Dr. Harold U. Baranger, Co-advisor: Dr. Shailesh Chandrasekharan


B.Tech. in Engineering Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. 1999

Thesis: Some Electronic Properties of Atoms in Confined Potentials


Professional Profile

  • Five years of graduate research experience in computational condensed matter physics. 

  • Performed research at the interface of physics, mathematics and engineering;  modeled and analyzed physical problems using mathematical equations.

  • Audited Corporate Finance, Market Derivatives and Fixed Income and Risk Management courses at Fuqua School of Business. 

  • Completed advanced courses in mathematics and engineering during the bachelors and doctoral programs.

  • Applied Path-Integral Monte Carlo methods and stochastic processes using probability theory for numerical computation.  

  • High programming skills: C/C++, Fortran, Mathematica and Matlab.  Working experience in data analysis packages, eg. CERN-Root.

  • Intermediate level experience in shell scripting.  Experienced in Linux and Windows environments.  Linux beta-software enthusiast.

  • Strong communication skills:  Experienced in teaching and conveying technical ideas in non-technical language.  

  • Assisted in designing labs and grading courses for Duke students. 


Accomplishments and awards     

  • Doctoral Research Fellowship, Nanophysics group, Duke University.   2001-2006
  • Conference Presentation Fellowships, Duke University.              2004, 2005, 2006
  • Teaching Scholarship, Graduate School, Duke University.                           1999
  • Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, Ranked 1st  in zone                        1998
    (18th nationwide, India).
  • Ranked in top 1% of the Joint Entrance Examination held for IITs in India.   1995      

Professional training experience
  • American Physical Society (APS):  Baltimore 2006,  L.A. 2005  and Montreal 2004.
    Presented conference papers at the APS March Meetings.
  • John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC), The Netherlands.          2002.
    Attended and interacted with scholars from computer science, mathematics, physics, and chemistry at NIC sponsored European Winter School, R.C.C Kerkrade. 

Research experience

Applied Science
   
Duke University  JET Quantum Optics Lab, Durham, NC.                        Summer 2000
  • Developed an ultra low noise photo-amplifier circuit. 
  • Fixed other customized circuitries as a part of Atom Cooling and Trapping Lab

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Gravitation Lab, Mumbai.           Summer 1998
  • Customized a precision step-rotor for gravitational equivalence experiment.
  • Developed a code in BASIC to interface experiment’s data acquisition system.
  • Awarded Graduate Fellowship based on my performance in the internship.
                                                                                                                             
Theoretical Physics 
  • Used C/C++ codes and ran several Monte Carlo simulations that resulted in the    discovery of a new universality class and its exponents.
  • Managed large data sets, simultaneous runs of about 40 processors and performed extensive analysis on their output.
  • Computed hyperpolarizability and other such properties in confined atoms with one, two, and many electrons as part of my junior thesis.
  • Published the findings in the Phys. Rev. Lett.; the results challenge the commonly believed theoretical predictions,  at the same time are consistent with experimental results found in some superconductor-insulator as well as superfluid-normal fluid transitions.

Community Service Experience
  • Duke Outreach Program Instructor, Taught Science and Astronomy for one year to 30-40 fourth graders at Durham public school at Forest View.
  • Mood-Indigo'98 Chief Coordinator for the fine-arts events in one of India's biggest student cultural festival held in IITB.
  • Regularly participate and volunteer for Yoga and meditation camps; help keep a balanced attitude and cooperative team spirit.
  • AID-Duke Volunteer, a university student body involved in social welfare.  Long time volunteer involved in organizing fund-raising events, projects review and management with annual budget of about $40,000.  Worked in different capacities including as treasurer and administrator.

Contacts:

Address: 6100 Bayberry Lane, Raleigh, NC 27612.

Phone: (252) -548-7912 (C)

Email:
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Web: www.duke.edu/~ap14

References: Available on request.