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Hitesh Kishore Das
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1
85748 Garching, Germany
hitesh[AT]mpa-garching.mpg.de
hiteshkishored[AT]gmail.com
Website: hiteshkishoredas.github.io
Skype : hiteshkishoredas
Phone : +49 89 30000 - (2239) (MPA)
Education
PhD in Astrophysics} (Ongoing)
International Max Planck Research School on Astrophysics (IMPRS)
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), Garching, Germany
Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU), Munich, Germany
Duration: 2021-Present
Master of Science}
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India
Major: Physics
Duration: 2020-2021
Bachelor of Science (Research)} Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India
Major: Physics
Duration: 2016-2020
Senior Secondary (CBSE), 2016} Kendriya Vidyalaya No-4, Bhubaneswar, India
Stream: Science
Date: 21/05/2016
Research Experience
The dynamics of magnetized, multiphase gas in a turbulent environment
[ 8 SEP 2021 - PRESENT ]
We are studying the different aspects of multiphase gas, like survival, morphology and growth, in a turbulent medium in presence of magnetic fields. We use idealised MHD simulations run using Athena ++ for this study.
Doctoral Advisor: Dr. Max Gronke
Formal supervisor: Prof. Volker Springel
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching
Role of temperature and metallicity in the evolution of thermal instability
[ 1 AUG 2019 - PRESENT ]
In this project we investigate the role of different parameters like metallicity and temperature in the growth of thermal instability. The project includes setting up and running simulation for study of thermal instabilities using PLUTO.
This work led to some important insights into evolution of large-scale isochoric clouds.
This project contributed towards my Bachelors thesis and led to a research paper in collaboration with Dr. Prakriti Pal Choudhury and Prof. Prateek Sharma.
Under supervision of: Assoc. Prof. Prateek Sharma
Collaborator: Dr. Prakriti Pal Choudhury Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Computational Studies of Systems of Self-driven Particles
[ 8 MAY 2019 – 12 JUL 2019 ]
This project aimed at investigating the underlying physical origin of this “phase transition” via the development of appropriate computational models. The project goals included:
- Molecular dynamics code development (in LAMMPS), adapting existing code in the research group
- Reproduction of literature data
Under supervision of: Assoc. Prof. Massimo Pica Ciamarra
School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Electrostatics of Spherical Topological Insulators
[ 1 MAY 2018 – 30 JUN 2018 ]
Theoretical derivation of electric and magnetic scalar potentials for different cases of electric and magnetic fields near a spherical Topological insulator.
Under supervision of: Assoc. Prof. Subroto Mukerjee
Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Analysis of data from CERN 2010 open data and simulation of top pair production
[ 1 MAY 2017 – 31 JUL 2017 ]
It consisted of accessing CERN 2010 open data using CernVM and analysing the data using C++ and Python code incorporating ROOT to plot Dimuon spectra, Trimuon spectra and other related plots.
High-energy particle physics event simulations of top pair production were done using Pythia 8.2 and Madgraph 5.
Under supervision of: Asst. Prof. Jyothsna Rani Komaragiri
Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Publications
- Shatter or not: role of temperature and metallicity in the evolution of thermal instability
Hitesh Kishore Das, Prakriti Pal Choudhury, Prateek Sharma
Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 502, Issue 4, April 2021, Pages 4935–4952, doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab382
arXiv: 2009.11317
Conferences and Seminars
Modelling of Multiphase Astrophysical Media (May 30-June 2, 2023)
Presented a ~15 min talk about my work. In-person at Aspenstein Castle, near Lake Kochel, GermanyMPA weekly Institute Seminar (May 15, 2023)
Presented a ~45 min talk about my work. In-person at MPA, Garching, Germany52nd Saas-Fee winter School on “The Circum-Galactic Medium across cosmic time: an observational and modelling challenge”
(March 19-24, 2023)
Presented a poster about my work. In-person at Les Diablerets, SwitzerlandTeam meeting for “Observe Local Think Global: What Solar Observations can teach us about Multiphase Plasmas across Astrophysical Scales”
(March 13-17, 2023)
Presented an introduction for simulations in ICM/CGM, and my work. In-person at ISSI, Bern, SwitzerlandThe Multiphase Circumgalactic Medium (February 26- March 3, 2023)
Presented a ~15 min talk about my work. In-person at Ringberg Castle, GermanyLyman-X Day: ORIGINS workshop (October 5, 2022)
Attended in-person at European Southern Observatory (ESO), GarchingThe National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2022 (July 11-15, 2022)
Attended virtually and submitted a poster for the parallel session “Non-equilibrium thermodynamics across scales: from the solar corona to the intracluster medium”.Gas Flows around Galaxies: ORIGINS workshop (May 24, 2022)
Presented my work in-person at MPA, GarchingPresision Presidency Physics Summit (September 11-13, 2020)
Organized by Presidency University, Kolkata}
Presented work done on Thermal Instability as a talk in the Undergraduate Symposium.On the Origin, Nature, and Mixing of Multiphase Gas in Astrophysics KITP online conference (October 15-16, 2020)
Attended the conference virtuallyIAP online Colloquium on Intracluster Medium/Circumgalactic medium (June 22-26, 2020)
Attended the conference virtually
Extra-curricular Experience
13th IMPRS Symposium
Was involved in organising the 13th IMPRS Symposium as the Chair of the Local Organising Committee.Undergraduate Physics Club
Delivered a talk on “Special Relativity and Minkowski Diagrams”.Indian Instiute of Science Open Day
Constructed and demonstrated an experiment about Bernard cells, convection and convection cells in Sun. Also, demonstrated an experiment about Polarization of light.Institute Fest - “Pravega”
Involved in planning and conducting events by Physics club for Pravega - 2016 and Pravega - 2017.
Awards and Fellowships
Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Fellowship}
Funded by: Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
Stream: SX
Duration: 2016-2021National Cyber Olympiad 2014-15
National Rank: 1 (in 11th grade)
Organised by: Science Olympiad FoundationNational Standard Examination in Astronomy , 2015
Got certificate for being in top 10% of the examination centre.
Organised by: Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT)
Skills
C, C++
Athena++
LAMMPS
Madgraph 5
Mathematica
High Performance Computing
LaTeX
Python
PLUTO
ROOT
Pythia 8.2
SQL
Matlab
Bash scripting
Language proficiency
- English (Proficient)
- Hindi (Proficient)
- Odia (Native)
- German (Beginner A1)
References
Dr. Max Gronke
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
Email: maxbg[AT]mpa-garching.mpg.de
Website: max.lyman-alpha.com
Assoc. Prof. Prateek Sharma
Physical Sciences
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Email: prateek[AT]iisc.ac.in
Website: www.physics.iisc.ernet.in/~prateek
Assoc. Prof. Massimo Pica Ciamarra
Nanyang Associate Professor
School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Email: massimo[AT]ntu.edu.sg
Website: sites.google.com/site/ciamarragroup
Assoc. Prof. Subroto Mukerjee
Physical Sciences
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Email: smukerjee[AT]iisc.ac.in
Website: physics.iisc.ernet.in/~smukerjee
Asst. Prof. Jyothsna Rani Komaragiri
Centre for High Energy Physics
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Email: jyothsna.komaragiri[AT]gmail.com
Website: chep.iisc.ac.in/Personnel/pages/jyothsna