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Tarun Kumar Jha

Associate Professor

Dark Matter, Dense matter relevant to compact stars, Nuclear Astrophysics, Relativistic nuclear theory
D 320/19
Department of Physics
BITS PILANI K K Birla Goa Campus,
Zuarinagar, Goa - 403726

Research Groups

Ph.D. THESIS SUPERVISION 
Ph.D. (Awarded)


1. Student Name: Debashree Sen (2013 PHXF 0414G)

Ph.D. Proposal Date: 18th August 2015

Pre-Ph.D. Submission Seminar: 2nd April 2019

Ph.D. Viva Date: 16th August 2019; Department of Physics, BITS PIlani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa - 403726
Thesis Title: Cold Dense Matter Phases and Neutron Star Structure in the Light of Recent Observation

CURRENT AFFILIATION: Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea University

 

2. Student Name: Tuhin Malik (2014 PHXF 0402G)

Ph.D. Proposal Date: 18th April 2016

Pre-Ph.D. Submission Seminar: 29th November 2019

Ph.D. Viva Date: 11th March 2020; Department of Physics, BITS PIlani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa - 403726
Thesis Title: Equation of State of Dense Matter From Finite Nuclei to Neutron Star Merger

CURRENT AFFILIATION: Postdoctoral Fellow, CFisUC, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Portugal


3. Student Name: Naresh Kumar Patra (2019 PHXF 0033G)

Ph.D. Proposal Date: 13th February 2021

Pre-Ph.D. Submission Seminar: 18th December 2023

Ph.D. Viva Date: 24th April 2024; Department of Physics, BITS PIlani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa - 403726
Thesis Title: Bayesian and Principal Component Analyses of Neutron Star Properties

CURRENT AFFILIATION: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

 

4. Student Name: Prashant Thakur (2019 PHXF 0072G)

Ph.D. Proposal Date: 27th April 2021

Pre-Ph.D. Submission Seminar: 3rd September 2024

Ph.D. Viva Date: 11th February 2025; Department of Physics, BITS PIlani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa - 403726
Thesis Title: Feasibility of Dark Matter in Neutron Stars: A Quantitative Analysis

CURRENT AFFILIATION: Postdoctoral Fellow, Yonsei University; Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Ph.D. (Ongoing)

1. Student Name: Harsh Chandrakar (2022 PHXF 0023G)

Ph.D. Proposal Date: 19th April, 2024


Department of Physics, BITS PIlani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa - 403726
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Masters Thesis

  1. Akshay Verenkar (2009B5A8465G); 2nd Semester 2013-14.
    Title: Dark Matter implications on Neutron Stars.
  2. Shobhit Srivastava (2010B5A8414G); 2nd Semester 2014-15.
    Title: Radius and Mass Measurements of Neutron Stars.
  3. Raghav Arora (ID No. 2012B5A70559G); 2nd Semester 2016-17.
    Title: Isolated Galaxy Simulations with Magnetic Fields" under Dr. Bastian K ̈ortgen, Faculty, Hamburg University and T. K. Jha (BITS Pilani, Goa Campus).
  4.  Aman Agrawal (ID No. 2012B5A70626G); 2nd Semester 2016-17.
    Title: Cold Atomic gasses and open quantum systems" under Dr. Manas Kulkarni (ICTS, Bengaluru) and T. K. Jha (On campus, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus)
  5. Yashraj Patil, ID: 2019B5A31038G (Ist semester 2023-24)                                                                                                                                                                      Title: Signatures of self-interacting dark matter from galaxies falling into galaxy clusters
  6. Aravind Taridalu, ID: 2019B5PS0507G (IInd semester 2024-25); Ongoing                                                                                                                                                Title: On Aspects of Magnetized Neutron Stars

     

Collaborators

  1. Prof. S K Patra (Institute of Physics, Bhubsnaeswar, India)
  2. Prof. K C Panda (Department of Physics, Sambalpur University, India)
  3. Prof. P K Raina (Department of Physics, IIT Ropar, India)
  4. Prof. Hiranmaya Mishra (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad - India)
  5. Prof. Bijay Kumar Agrawal, (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India)
  6. Prof. B. K Sharma (Department of Physics, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham - Coimbatore, India)
  7. Prof. V Sreekanth (Department of Physics, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham - Coimbatore, India)
  8. Dr. Tuhin Malik (CFisUC, Department of Physics,University of Coimbra, Portugal)
  9. Prof. Constança Providência (CFisUC, Department of Physics,University of Coimbra, Portugal)