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Personal Information:

Name :	Jayanti Prasad
Date of Birth:	June 30, 1977
Sex :	Male
Nationality :	Indian
Marital Status :	Married to Ritu Mamgain

Contact (Office) Address:

Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics (IUCAA)
Pune University Campus
Pune - India, 411007
Phone +91-020-2560-4306

Permanent Address:

Village Daduwa, PO Basti
Via. Chandrapuri, Dist. Rudraprayag
Uttar akhand - India
Pin -246425

Emails:

prasad dot jayanti at gmail dot com
jayanti at iucaa dot ernet dot in

Education

Degree	Year	Board/University	Marks/Division
Ph.D	2009	Allahabad University
B.Ed	2000	H. N. B Garhwal University	I
M.Sc (Physics)	1998	H. N. B. Garhwal University	I
B.Sc	1996	H. N. B. Garhwal University	I
S.Sc	1993	U.P. Board Allahabad	I
H.Sc	1991	U.P. Board Allahabad	II

Award and Fellowships:

• CSIR-UGC (NET) cleared (January 2000 and June 2001)
• JEST passed (January 2000)
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the National Centre For Radio Astronomy Pune, India (2008-2010)
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the IUCAA (2010-2015)
• DST-SERB (Fast Track) Fellow at CMS Pune University (2015-2016)

Research

Research Interests:

Cosmology (Large Scale Structure, CMBR ), Radio Astronomy (Transients and Synthesis Imaging), High Performance Computing, Grvaitaional Wave Astronomy, Artificial Intelligence

Ph.D thesis:

Area of Research :	Astrophysics (Cosmology)
Institute :	Harish-Chandra Research Institute Allahabad
Year of thesis Submission :	2008
Title of Thesis :	Aspects of Gravitational Clustering
Thesis Supervisor :	Prof. Jasjeet Singh Bagla

Publications:

1. Bagla, J. S., Prasad, Jayanti and Ray, Suryadeep (2005)
   MNRAS, 360, 194, [ astro-ph/0408429]
   Gravitational collapse in an expanding background and the role of substructure I: Planar collapse
2. Bagla, J. S., Prasad, Jayanti (2008)
   MNRAS, 1365, 2966 [arXiv:0802.2796 [astro-ph]]
   Gravitational collapse in an expanding background and the role of substructure II: Excess power at small scales and its effect of collapse of structures at larger scales.
3. Bagla, J. S., Prasad, Jayanti (2006)
   MNRAS, 370, 993, [astro-ph/0601320 ]
   Effects of the size of cosmological N-Body simulations on physical quantities -- I: Mass Function
4. Prasad, Jayanti (2007)
   J. Astrophys.Astron. 28, 117 [astro-ph/0702557]
   Effects of the size of cosmological N-Body simulations on physical quantities -- II: Halo Formation and Destruction rate
5. J.S. Bagla, Jayanti Prasad, Nishikanta Khandai (2009)
   MNRAS,395,918 [arXiv:0804.1197 [astro-ph]]
   Effects of the size of cosmological N-Body simulations on physical quantities - III: Skewness.
6. Jayanti Prasad, Tarun Souradeep (2012)
   Phys. Rev. D 85, 123008 (2012) [arXiv:1108.5600v2 ]
   Cosmological parameter estimation using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)
7. Jayanti Prasad and Jayaram Chengalur (2011)
   Experimental Astronomy [arXiv: 1111.6415 ]
   FLAGCAL:A flagging and calibration package for radio interferometric data
8. Abhik Ghosh, Jayanti Prasad, Somnath Bharadwaj, Sk. Saiyad Ali, Jayaram N. Chengalur (2012)
   MNRAS 426, 3295 [arXiv:1208.1617v1]
   Characterizing Foreground for redshifted 21-cm radiation: 150 MHz GMRT observations
9. N. D. R. Bhat, J. N. Chengalur, P. J. Cox, Y. Gupta, J. Prasad, J. Roy, M. Bailes, S. Burke-Spolaor, S. S. Kudale, W. van Straten (2013)
   ApJ. Supp. 206, 2 [arXiv:1302.3418
   Detection of fast transients with radio interferometric arrays
10. Gaurav Goswami, Jayanti Prasad (2013)
    Phys. Rev. D 88, 023522 (2013) [arXiv:1303.4747v1 [astro-ph.CO]
    Maximum entropy deconvolution of primordial power spectrum
11. Aasi et. al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration )(2014)
    Class. Quantum Grav. 31 115004, 2014, [arXiv:1401.0939 [gr-qc]] ,
    The NINJA-2 project: Detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary black hole simulations.
12. Aasi et. al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration )(2014)
    Phys. Rev. D 89, 102006 (2014) , [arXiv:1403.5306 [gr-qc]]
    Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed intermediate mass black holes in LIGO-Virgo data from 2005-2010.
13. Aasi et. al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration )(2014)
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 011102 (2014) [[arXiv:1403.6639 [astro-ph.HE]]
    Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by the InterPlanetary Network.
14. Aasi et. al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration )(2014)
    Phys. Rev. D 89, 122003 (2014) [[arXiv:1404.2199 [gr-qc]]
    Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run.
15. Aasi et. al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration )(2014)
    Phys. Rev. D 89, 122004 (2014) [arXiv:1405.1053 [astro-ph.HE]]
    Methods and results of a search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts using the GEO600, LIGO, and Virgo detectors.
16. Aasi et. al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration )(2014)
    Class. Quantum Grav. 31 165014, [arXiv:1402.4974 [gr-qc]]
    Implementation of an F-statistic all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Virgo VSR1 data.

Conferences/Schools/Workshops Attended:

1. June 2002, Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC) School in Astrophysics , IIT Kharagpur, India.
2. January 2003, Eighth discussion meeting on frontier areas in Physics , Raman Research Institute $ &$ Center for Learning, Bangalore, India
3. June 2003, School on Radio Interferometry and Aperture Synthesis , National Center for Radio Astronomy (NCRA), Pune, India
4. December 2003, An advanced school on the physics of galaxy formation , Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India
5. January 2004, International Conference on Gravitation and cosmology (ICGC) , Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India
6. December 2004, XXIII Conference of the Indian Association for General Relativity and Gravitation (IAGRG) , Department of Mathematics, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
7. January 2005, School on Parallel Computing and Applications , Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
8. February 2005, XXIII meeting of Astronomical Society of India , Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital, India
9. September 2005, Summer School in cosmology (NOVICOSMO 2005) , Novigrad, Croatia
10. July 2006, Summer School in Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics , the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
11. January 2007, Workshop on study of emission from hot diffuse gas with ASTROSAT , Christ College Bangalore, India
12. May 2007, Course on Linux Systems, Network and Advanced Administration (conducted by Linux Learning Center Bangalore , Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India
13. November 2007, Indian Conference on Cosmology and Galaxy Formation (ICCGF-07) , Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India
14. December 2007, International Conference on Gravitation and cosmology (ICGC 2007) , Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India
15. May 2008, Radio Astronomy School-2008 at NCRA-TIFR Pune
16. July-August 2008, Conference and Workshops on Cosmology with the CMB and LSS at IUCAA-Pune.
17. September 2008, Performance Enhancement on Emerging Parallel Processing Platforms (PEEP-2008), IUCAA-CDAC Pune
18. December (8-12) 2008, The Low-Frequency Radio Universe, National Center for Radio Astronomy (NCRA), Pune, India
19. December 14 - 18, 2010, Primordial Features and Non-Gaussianities (PFNG), HRI Allahabad
20. August 10 - 12, 2011, Indo-UK Scientific Seminar: Confronting Particle-Cosmology with Planck and LHC, IUCAA Pune

Talks & Presentation:

• January 2004 Poster presentation in ICGC 2004
• December 2004 Short talk in IAGRG 2004
• February 2005 Poster presentation in XXIII ASI meeting
• February 2006 TPSC (2006) seminar , Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai)
• February 2006 TPSC (2006) seminar , Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (Pune)
• February 2006 TPSC (2006) seminar , Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
• February 2006 TPSC (2006) seminar , Dept. of Physics and Astrophysics University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
• July 2006 A short presentation in the Summer School in Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics , ICTP (Italy)
• November 2007 Presentation in the ICCGF-07 , Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India
• December 2007 Presentation in the ICGC 2007 , Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India
• February 2008, Seminar at the National Center for Radio Astrophysics Pune

Computation Skills

• Linux: More than five years experience of working with Linux systems (Suse, Fedora, Ubuntu) as user and administrative level.
• Programming: More than five years experience of programming using FORTRAN (77/99), C and C++
• Parallel Programming: Working experience of parallel programming on distributed and shared memory platforms using MPI, OpenMP, Pthread etc
• Scripting: Perl, Awk, Sed, Bash Shell, main interest in Perl & Java scripting.
• Scientific Software: MATHEMATICA etc.
• Web designing and Documentation: HTML, CSS, PHP, Java Scripting