Short Bio
Aswin K. Balasubramanian
Education :
- Schooling : Campion, Trichy (one year) &
Devi Academy SSS/HSS, Valasaravakkam, Chennai - 600087 (13 years) (and the closest to an online avatar for DA is this) - Undergraduate : B. Tech (Aerospace Engineering), IIT Madras 2003-07
Final year thesis : "Resolutions of singular spaces"
Advisor : Prof. Suresh Govindarajan , Dept. of Physics, IIT Madras - Graduate : PhD in Physics, University of Texas at Austin 2012 (?)
I am yet to have a formal advisor at UT.
- Quantum field theory, String theory and related mathematical topics.
Publications
- Symplectic potentials and resolved Ricci-flat ACG metrics.
Aswin K. Balasubramanian, Suresh Govindarajan (Indian Inst. Tech., Madras) , Chethan N. Gowdigere (ICTP, Trieste) . IITM-PH-TH-2007-8, IC-2007-059, Jul 2007. 32pp.
Published in Class.Quant.Grav.24:6393-6416,2007.
Other interests include
- Amateur Astronomy. I was part of the astro club @ IITM. Now, I dont get enough time to run to a dark place and just stare at the stars.
- Playing with my linux box (i run ubuntu 7.10)
- Occasional programming in C/C++/Python
