Amit Kumar Tamrakar

 Assistant Professor

M.Sc., M.Phil, SET

Ph.D. pursuing

Mobile No.: +919755971173

amit.durg@gmail.com

CAREER PROFILE

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

• Worked as Observatory Support Staff at IUCAA Girawali Observatory, IUCAA, Pune (M.H.). There I had experience of Operating and taking photometric, spectroscopic and polarimetric observations using 2m Optical Telescope during Dec2009 – Dec2010.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: UG 8 years; PG 5 years

• Assistant Professor (Contract) at Pragati College, Raipur during Aug 2012 – May 2013.
• Lecturer at Chhattisgarh Engineering College, Dhanora, Durg during Aug 2013 – May 2014.
• Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc) at Kalyan PG College, Bhilai Aug 2014 – Sept 2017.
• Assistant Professor (Guest) at Center for Basic Sciences, Pt. R. S. U., Raipur. Oct 2017 – Apr 2018.
• Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc) at Kalyan PG College, Bhilai Jul 2018 – May 2019.
• Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc) under Statue-28 at St. Thomas College, Bhilai Aug 2019-Jan 2020.
• Assistant Professor under Statue-28 at St. Thomas College, Bhilai; Jan 2020 till date.

PUBLICATIONS

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (ABSTRACT)

• Amit Kumar Tamrakar, S. K. Pandey, N.K. Chakradhari and Sheetal Sahu “Spectroscopic Study of some E/S0 galaxies using SDSS DR7 data”, ASI conference series, Volume 9, 124.

POSTER PRESENTED

• “Multiwavelength Photometric study of a sample of radio loud early-type galaxies.”; awarded as 2nd Best Poster presentation in the National Conference on Signal Processing, Sustainable Energy Materials and Astronomy & Astrophysics (NSSEMA-2017), R.S.U., Raipur (C.G.) during March 28-30, 2017.
• “Spectroscopic Study of some E/S0 galaxies using SDSS DR7 data” on 31^st Astronomical Society of India (ASI) Meeting 2013 held by ISSER and IIST, Kerala during 20-22 Feb, 2013.
• “Applications of Quantum Heterostructures” in National Conference on Recent Advances in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology “NCRAT 2009” at Shri Shankaracharya College of Engineering & Technology, Bhilai, (C.G.).

INVITED LECTURES etc.;

• Invited to give a lecture in the National workshop on Novel Materials and Medical Imaging Phosphors at Govt. V.Y.T.P.G. Auto. College, Durg on “TELESCOPES (The Big Eyes)” on 30^th January 2020.
• Invited as Judge for the Inter school Debate Competition on 15^th Nov 2019 at MGM Senior Secondary School, Sec-06, Bhilai.

PARTICIPATED IN WORKSHOPS

 Abroad

• Participated in The International School for Young Astronomers (ISYA 2016) held in School of Astronomy, Institute for Research in Fundamental Science (IPM) Tehran, IRAN during 21August – 8 September 2016 and delivered a Short talk based on the project.

In India

• “Workshop on Developing Astronomy Themed Experiments” for Colleges/Universities at UG/PG, held during June18-20, 2019 at IUCAA, Pune.
• Workshop on Materials Modeling for Device Application held at Shri Shankaracharya Technical Campus-SSGI, Bhilai from Feb 18-23, 2019 Under TEQIP-III.
• National Workshop for Master Trainers on Zero Shadow Day at Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, held on April, 21^st -22^nd 2018 jointly organized by Chhattisgarh Vigyan Sabha and PRSU Raipur with the support of Astronomical Society of India and Vigyan Prasar, DST, GOI.
• “Franco-Indian Astronomy School from Re-Ionization to Large Scale Structure – A multi-wavelength approach”, from 11th-17th February 2018, held at IUCAA, Pune.
• NPTEL Awareness Workshop at Shri Shankaracharya Technical Campus, Bhilai on 17/01/2017.
• Solar Training Program conducted by kWatt Solutions at Govt. V. Y. T. P. G. Auto. College, Durg on 19-20th March 2016.
• National workshop on General Relativity and Cosmology, during 8th–9th Feb 2016, organised by Dept. of Mathematics, Kalyan P.G. College, Bhilai Nagar.
• National Workshop on Astronomy with Small Telescopes jointly organised by IUCAA, Pune and Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University (SRTMU) Nanded, during December 8^th-11^th , 2015 at SRTMU, Nanded (M.H.).
• Workshop on Galaxies and Cosmology at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of the TIFR, Pune (M.H.) from July 7^th-18^th,
• Two days Workshop on “Experimental Physics” organized by the CSVTU, Bhilai at Rungta College of Engineering & Technology, Bhilai under the auspices of Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT) on January 13-14th 2014.
• One day workshop on Materials Modelling during 5^th National Symposium for Materials Research Scholars (MR13) held at Department of Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science, IIT Bombay on 8^th May 2013
• 3 day workshop on “Mathematical Methods & Astronomy (WMMA 2013)” conducted by IUCAA and Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad, during February 7^th-9^th , 2013 at ISM, Dhanbad (Jharkhand).
• 3 day workshop on “Science using Optical Spectra” conducted under the joint auspices of IUCAA Node for Astronomy and Astrophysics Development, Newman College, Thodupuzha, Kerala & IUCAA Resource Centre, Kochi held during 6th-8th Sept, 2012 at MACFAST, Tiruvalla, Kerala.
• Resource Person in the “State Level Training Program on Transit of Venus-2012” catalyzed by National Council of Science & Technology Communication, Department of Science & Technology, GOI and organized by CGCOST at Govt. Nagarjuna P.G. College of Science, Raipur on 01^st June 2012.
• International Workshop on Advanced Material Science and Astrophysics (IWAMA-2012) as a Local Organizing Committee (LOC) Member at SOS in Physics and Astrophysics, jointly organized by Pt. R. S. University, Raipur and Michigan Tech University, USA during 19^th-21^st Feb, 2012.
• Workshop on Multi-wavelength Astronomy with ASTROSAT organized by ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore & Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram during January 9^th-12^th , 2012.
• National Workshop on “Galaxies: Normal & Active” held atR.T.M. University, Nanded (M.H.) during November 14-17, 2011.
• One day Acquaintance Program of IUAC, New Delhi (July 20^th, 2007), at Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, (C.G.).
• Summer School Program (2006) on Astronomy and Astrophysics at Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune (M.H.).

Conferences/Meetings/Seminars (Participated/Attended)

• Presented a paper “The world of Exoplanets” on National Seminar on SCIENCE: TRAVERSING THE TIMELINE at Govt. Chandulal Chandrakar Arts & Science College, Patan on 20^th November, 2019.
• 30^th Astronomical Society of India (ASI) Meeting 2013 held by ISSER and IIST, Kerala during 20th-22nd Feb, 2013.
• 29^th Astronomical Society of India (ASI) Meeting 2011 at Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, (C.G.) as LOC member.
• YOUNG ASTRONOMERS MEET (YAM) 2009 at IIT Kharagpur, (WB)
• Silver Jubilee International Conference, Interdisciplinary Approaches in Physical Sciences, Growing Trends & Recent Advances “CONIAPS-X 2008” (January 12-14, 2008) organized by Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur (C.G.).
• National level Technical Conference “Technovision2007” (October 26-27, 2007) at Shri Shankaracharya College of Engineering & Technology, Bhilai.

SCIENCE POPULARIZATION ACTIVITIES:

• Involved in the Sky Gazing activities on 9^th May 2016, the Transit of Mercury, 6^th June 2012, the Transit of Venus, watching for the public at our University campus using 6”, 8” and 14”