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Argha Banerjee

INSPIRE Fellow
Dept: Earth Sciences
E-mail: argha.banerjee [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
  • Himalayan glaciers
  • Debris covered glaciers


Academic Background:
  1. Ph. D. (2004 - 2010) Department of Theoretical Physics, TIFR, Mumbai, India
  2. M.Sc. in Physics (2002- 2004) Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
  3. B.Sc. in Physics (1999 - 2002) Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India


Positions:
  1. Post Doctoral Fellow, IMSc, Chennai (2010-2012
  2. INSPIRE Faculty Fellow, IISER-Kolkata (2013-)


Awards and Honors:
  1. National Talent Search Scholarship, NCERT (1997)
  2. Joint CSIR-UGC Junior Research Fellowship (2003)
  3. INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship Award, DST (2012)


Selected Publications:
  1. Argha Banerjee, and R. Shankar: On the response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change, Journal of Galciology 59, 215, 480 (2013)
  2. Argha Banerjee, Kedar Damle, and Arun Paramekanti: Néel to staggered dimer order transition in a generalized honeycomb lattice Heisenberg model, Phys. Rev. B 83, 134419 (2011)
  3. Argha Banerjee, Kedar Damle, and Fabien Alet: Impurity spin texture at a deconfined quantum critical point, Phys. Rev. B 83, 155139 (2010)
  4. Argha Banerjee, Sergei V. Isakov, Kedar Damle, and Yong Baek Kim: Unusual liquid state of hard-core Bosons on pyrochlore lattice, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 047208 (2008)