Contact
Department of Theoretical Physics
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Homi Bhabha Road
Mumbai 400005, India
Office: A323
Email: kulkarni@theory.tifr.res.in
Phone: +91 (0) 22–22782427
News
- March 2021: New paper titled: “Implications of the z > 5 Lyman-α forest for the 21-cm power spectrum from the epoch of reionization”
- September 2020: New paper titled: “Lyman-α coupling and heating during Cosmic Dawn”
- June 2020: New paper titled:“The correlation of high-redshift galaxies with the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect traces reionization”
- April 2020: New paper titled “Revised estimates of CMB B-mode polarization induced by patchy reionization”
- January 2020: New paper titled “Probing the thermal state of the intergalactic medium at z > 5 with the transmission spikes in high-resolution Lyα forest spectra”
People
Shikhar Asthana (master’s student; epoch of reionization)
Nabendu Khan (PhD student; intergalactic medium)
Shikhar Mittal (PhD student; cosmic dawn)
Janakee Raste (postdoctoral researcher; intensity mapping)
Sindhu Sri Sravya (PhD student; intergalactic medium)
Mohit Saharan (former master’s student; now at Radboud University)
Yash Sharma (former master’s student)
Sreeta Roy (former master’s student)
Recent Talks
2021 February 18: “Cosmological Radiative Transfer Simulations” (“Computational Astrophysics: An Emerging Avenue for Indian Astronomy Community” workshop, online)
2020 March 4: “IGM and Reionization: A Theoretical Review” (“Black Holes and Galaxies at the Edge of the Universe” conference, Ringberg Castle, Germany)
2020 February 15: “When did reionization happen?” (38th Meeting of the Astronomical Society of India, Tirupati)
2020 January 21: “Constraints on the AGN contribution to reionization” (“The First Billion Years of the Universe” conference, IIT Indore)
2019 December 19: “Luminosity functions and clustering of Lyman-α Emitters” (“Science with Subaru: An Indian Perspective” conference, TIFR Mumbai)
2019 November 5: “TMT Synergies for the First Billion Years of the Universe” (TMT Science Forum, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China)
2019 October 7: “Hints of a concordant reionization model from the Lyman-α Forest” (Second Global 21-cm Workshop, McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
2019 September 26: “When did reionization happen?” (APEC Seminar, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Tokyo, Japan)
2019 August 6: “Recent progress towards revealing thirteen billion years of cosmic thermal history” (CAS Seminar, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India)
2019 July 16: “Large Lyman-α opacity fluctuations in models of late reionization” (“Barefoot EoR” conference, Fitzroy Island, Australia)
Teaching
2019: Mathematical Methods
2019: Numerical Methods
2020: Computational Physics