Research Areas
String Theory, AdS holography, Non-Lorentzian holography, Hydrodynamics, Conformal Field Theory.
Education
August 2013 – September 2019 Ph. D. in Theoretical Physics at Chennai Mathematical Institute, India.
Thesis title: Aspects of holography: mainly nAdS2 holography from dimensional reduction and non-relativistic holography for hyperscaling violating Lifshitz theories.
Advisor: Prof. K. Narayan
August 2010 – April 2012 M. Sc. in Physics from Center for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai, India.
September 2007 – April 2010 B. Sc. in Physics from Center for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Mumbai, India.
Work Experience
October 2019 – July 2023 Postdoctoral Fellow at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
Mentor: Prof. Arjun Bagchi
September 2012 – July 2013 Lecturer of Physics at Guru Nanak Khalsa College, Mumbai, India.
Awards
2022 PhD Conference Award, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore
Seminars and Talks
1. March 2023 Carrollian origins of Bjorken flow
String Seminar at National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneshwar, India.
2. February 2023 Carrollian origins of Bjorken flow
String Seminar at the University of Southampton, UK.
3. December 2018 AdS2 holography from redux, renormalization group flows and c-functions
Conference talk at Indian Strings Meeting 2018, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Trivandrum, India.
4. October 2018 AdS2 holography, reductions from higher dimensions and RG flows
Conference talk at Chennai Strings Meeting 2018, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India.
5. July 2018 AdS2 dilaton-gravity from reductions of some nonrelativistic theories
Gong show talk at PiTP 2018: From Qubits to Spacetime, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, US.
6. January 2018 Hyperscaling violation, the membrane paradigm and the shear diffusion constant
Gong show talk at Kavli Asian Winter School 2018, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru, India.
7. December 2017 Hyperscaling violation, the membrane paradigm and the shear diffusion constant
Conference talk at National Strings Meeting 2017, National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneshwar, India.
8. October 2017 Hyperscaling violation, the membrane paradigm and the shear diffusion constant
Ph. D. Research talk at Chennai Mathematical Institute, India.
Publications
1. Arjun Bagchi, Kedar S. Kolekar, Ashish Shukla, Carrollian Origins of Bjorken Flow, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130 (2023) 24, 241601 [arXiv:2302.03053 [hep-th]].
2. Arjun Bagchi, Aritra Banerjee, Sudipta Dutta, Kedar S. Kolekar, Punit Sharma, Carroll covariant scalar fields in two dimensions, J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 72 (2023) [arXiv:2203.13197 [hep-th]].
3. Arjun Bagchi, Rudranil Basu, Minhajul Islam, Kedar S. Kolekar, Aditya Mehra, Galilean gauge theories from null reductions, J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 176 (2020) [arXiv:2201.12629 [hep-th]].
4. Arjun Bagchi, Sudipta Dutta, Kedar S. Kolekar, Punit Sharma, BMS field theories and Weyl anomaly, J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 101 (2021) [arXiv:2104.10405 [hep-th]].
5. Karan Fernandes, Kedar S. Kolekar, K. Narayan, Sourav Roy, Schwarzschild de Sitter and extremal surfaces, Eur. Phys. J. C 80, 866 (2020) [arXiv:1910.11788 [hep-th]].
6. Dileep P. Jatkar, Kedar S. Kolekar, K. Narayan, N-level ghost-spins and entanglement, Phys. Rev. D 99, no. 10, 106003 (2019) [arXiv:1812.07925 [hep-th]].
7. Kedar S. Kolekar, K. Narayan, On AdS2 holography from redux, renormalization group flows and c-functions, JHEP 1902, 039 (2019) [arXiv:1810.12528 [hep-th]].
8. Kedar S. Kolekar, K. Narayan, AdS2 dilaton gravity from reductions of some nonrelativistic theories, Phys. Rev. D 98 (2018) no.4, 046012 [arXiv:1803.06827 [hep-th]].
9. Kedar S. Kolekar, D. Mukherjee and K. Narayan, Notes on hyperscaling violating Lifshitz and shear diffusion, Phys. Rev. D 96 (2017) no.2, 026003 [arXiv:1612.05950 [hep-th]].
10. Kedar S. Kolekar, D. Mukherjee and K. Narayan, Hyperscaling violation and the shear diffusion constant, Phys. Lett. B 760 (2016) 86-93 [arXiv:1604.05092 [hep-th]].
