Teaching

String Theory (PHY622 [Fall 2024] and PHY623 [Spring 2025])

During Fall 2024 and Spring 2025, I was a Co-Instructor (with Prof. Martin Roček) of the two-semester graduate course sequence on String Theory at Stony Brook University. Here is a list of topics I taught, and associated lecture notes (which remain in continuous evolution).

Spring 2025: PHY 623 String Theory II

Lecture Notes [PDF]

Table of 10d and 11d SUGRA solutions [PDF]

• T-Duality
• Buscher Rules
• Complex Manifolds
• Calabi-Yau Manifolds
• Quaternion-Kähler Manifolds
• Heterotic String Theory

Fall 2024: PHY 622 String Theory I

• Covariant/BRST Quantization of the Spinning String (NSR Formalism)
• GSO Projection
• Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity
• M-Theory
• Branes in M-Theory

Prior Teaching

At Stony Brook University

Teaching Assistant for

• Introduction To Theoretical Physics (Fall 2019)
• Group Theory (Fall 2018)
• Geometry and Field Theory of Gravity, Supergravity, and String Theory (Fall 2017)
• String Theory I and II (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019)

Delivered supplemental lectures delivered on differential geometry of spinors and eleven-dimensional supergravity in Prof. Peter van Nieuwenhuizen's Fall 2019 course, Introduction To Theoretical Physics.

Also:

• Course Instructor In Charge for PHY 133 and PHY 134 (Summer 2014)
• Teaching Assistant for various introductory physics laboratory courses from Fall 2013 through Fall 2015.

At Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Teaching Assistant for EE 380 and EE 381 laboratory courses on analog/digital electronic circuits (Aug. 2011 - Aug. 2012). Awarded the best Teaching Assistant Award by the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.