Tarun Souradeep

Brief About the Session :

Our Place in the Cosmos

From the vantage point of a tiny speck of cosmic dust, Earth, humanity has made commendably robust deductions about cosmic history, composition and architecture across unimaginably vast scales of space and time. My talk attempts to convey this spectacular success story of human intellect and technical ingenuity thus far in the pursuit of the timeless quest to understand our place in the cosmos, but there are many fascinating possibilities that future observations could uncover in the coming decades.

Education :

Ph. D. IUCAA, Pune, India (granted by Univ. of Poona) Physics (Cosmology) Sept. 1995
M.Sc. (PPPR) University of Poona, Pune, India Physics Feb. 1994
B.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Mechanical Engineering May 1988

Career :

Organization/Institution	Position	Period
IUCAA	Scientist-G Scientist-F Scientist-E Scientist-D	Oct.2009-Jun.2015 Apr.2006-Sep.2009 Apr.2003-Mar.2006 Oct.2000-Mar.2003
Kansas State University (HEP Group)	Postdoctoral Research Associate	Nov. 1998 - Oct. 2000
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics	Postdoctoral Fellow	Nov. 1995 - Oct. 1998
Eicher Research Centre Delhi, India	Automobile Design Engineer (GTE)	July 1988 - Dec. 1988

Research Interests/Areas :

Cosmology

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)
Large-Scale Structure in the Universe.
Primordial cosmological perturbations from Inflation.
Early Universe and applications of QFT in curved spacetime.

Gravitational Wave (GW) Physics & Astronomy

Lead roles in Indian observational programs in GW observations: direct (LIGO-India) and through CMB polarisation (CMB-Bharat).
Stochastic GW background.
Simulation and modelling aspects of GW detectors (entering the field).

Awards and Honors :

Fellow of International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation, 2013.
Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore 2013.
Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India 2018
Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2016 : International award co-shared with authors of the Gravitational wave discovery paper.
Princess of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research 2017 (shared with LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Fundacion Principe de Asturias, Spain.
Gruber Cosmology Prize 2016 (shared with LIGO Scientific Collaboration), Gruber Foundation.
Hari Om prerit Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for Space science (PRL, Ahmedabad, Aug 2012).
B. M. Birla Science prize in Physics–2006 (awarded Dec 31, 2007).
DST Swarnajayanti fellowship award 2005-06 (DST, India).
INSA-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award for Physics - 2006 (Elsevier).
Buti Foundation Award for 2006. (Indian Physics Association).
N. S. Satyamurthy Award for Young scientists - 2001 (Indian Physics Associ- ation). Awarded in 2003.
EGIDE program visitor (Embassy of France) to IAP, Paris (2003)
NSF grant for Summer at Aspen center for Physics, Colorado, USA, (1999).
Postdoc. Fellowship, CITA, Toronto, Canada (1995-98) KSU, USA (1998-2001)
Ravi Kumar Bhalla award - 1994 (Indian Physics Association).
Certificate of appreciation 1994 – Rotary Club of Poona Rotary International Dist: 3130,Rotary Club of Poona.
Special EMCSC Scholarship for attending Erice School (1992).
Junior & Senior Research Fellowship, Council for Scientific and Industrial Re- search, India. (First B.Tech. degree holder to be granted CSIR, JRF in India)

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Brief About the Session :

Our Place in the Cosmos

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Research Interests/Areas :

Cosmology

Gravitational Wave (GW) Physics & Astronomy

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2024 Faculty - Tarun Souradeep

Tarun Souradeep

Current Designation :

Current Affiliation :

Brief About the Session :

Our Place in the Cosmos

Education :

Career :

Research Interests/Areas :

Cosmology

Gravitational Wave (GW) Physics & Astronomy

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