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 2022: New paper titled “Implications of the cosmological 21-cm absorption profile for high-redshift star formation and deep JWST surveys”
- October 2021: New paper titled “Background of radio photons from primordial black holes”
- September 2021: New paper titled “Radio antenna design for sky-averaged 21 cm cosmology experiments: the REACH case”
- September 2021: New paper titled “The effect of inhomogeneous reionisation on the Lyman-α forest power spectrum at redshift z>4: implications for thermal parameter recovery”
- September 2021: New paper titled “Chasing the tail of cosmic reionization with dark gap statistics in the Lyα forest over 5<z<6”
People
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)
Shikhar Asthana (former master’s student; now at University of Cambridge)
Sreeta Roy (former master’s student)
Mohit Saharan (former master’s student; now at Radboud University)
Yash Sharma (former master’s student; now at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)
Recent Talks
2021 September 22: “Cosmological Radiative Transfer Simulations” (Online Workshop on High Performance Computing for Astronomy and Astrophysics)
2021 September 17: “Revealing 13 billion years of the thermal history of the universe” (IIT Delhi)
2021 April 22: “Synergies between 21-cm and other reionization probes” (India EoR Workshop)
2021 February 18: “Cosmological Radiative Transfer Simulations” (“Computational Astrophysics: An Emerging Avenue for Indian Astronomy Community” workshop)
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)
Teaching
2019: Mathematical Methods
2019: Numerical Methods
2020: Computational Physics