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Hitesh Kishore Das
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1
85748 Garching, Germany
hitesh[AT]mpa-garching.mpg.de
hiteshkishored[AT]gmail.com
Website: hiteshkishoredas.github.io
Skype : hiteshkishoredas
Phone : +49 89 30000 - (2239) (MPA)
Education
PhD in Astrophysics (Ongoing)
Thesis title: The dynamics of multiphase gas in astrophysical media
International Max Planck Research School on Astrophysics (IMPRS)
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), Garching, Germany
Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU), Munich, Germany
Duration: Aug 2021-Present
Doctoral Advisor: Dr. Max Gronke
Formal supervisor: Prof. Volker Springel
Master of Science
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India
Major: Physics
Duration: Aug 2020 - July 2021
Bachelor of Science (Research)
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India
Major: Physics
Duration: Aug 2016 - July 2020
Research Experience
Subgrid model for multiphase gas interactions [ FEB 2024 - ]
Collaborators: Rainer Weinberger, Dr. Max Gronke
Three-phase gas in a turbulent medium [ MAY 2024 - ]
Project is led by Zewei “Jason” Wu from UChicago during his DAAD-RISE internship. Involved as the advisor for his internship, including framing the research proposal.
Collaborators: Zewei “Jason” Wu, Dr. Max Gronke
Linear and nonlinear evolution of thermal instability in 2D/3D [ MAR 2021 - ]
Collaborator: Dr. Prakriti Pal Choudhury, Prof. Prateek Sharma
Survival, destruction and formation of cold molecular gas [ MAY 2023 - AUG 2023 ]
Part of the work was done by Atal Agarwal from IIT Roorkee during his DAAD-WISE internship. I was involved in the intership as a co-supervisor.
Collaborators: Atal Agarwal, Dr. Max Gronke
Multiphase gas dynamics in Magnetised, turbulent medium [ SEP 2021 - JAN 2024 ]
Collaborators: Dr. Max Gronke
Role of temperature and metallicity in the evolution of thermal instability [ AUG 2019 - APR 2021 ]
Part of Bachelors thesis project under the supervision of Prof. Prateek Sharma Collaborators: Dr. Prakriti Pal Choudhury, Prof. Prateek Sharma
*Computational Studies of Systems of Self-driven Particles [ 8 MAY 2019 – 12 JUL 2019 ]
Internship under supervision of: Assoc. Prof. Massimo Pica Ciamarra (NTU, Singapore)
Publications
- Magnetic Fields in Multiphase Turbulence: Impacts on Dynamics and Structure
Hitesh Kishore Das, Max Gronke
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 527, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages 991–1013, doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3125
arXiv: 2307.06411
- Shatter or not: role of temperature and metallicity in the evolution of thermal instability
Hitesh Kishore Das, Prakriti Pal Choudhury, Prateek Sharma
Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 502, Issue 4, April 2021, Pages 4935–4952, doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab382
arXiv: 2009.11317
Conferences and Seminars
Talk at Lars Hernquist group meeting at Center for Astrophyiscs, Harvard University on August 23, 2024.
Multiphase Madness: Resolving the CGM in Theory and Observations (August 21-23, 2024). Gave a talk in-person at Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge.
Talk at Computational Structure and Galaxy formation group meeting at MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophyiscs on August 19, 2024.
Talk in GalRead at Peyton Hall, Princeton University, on August 16, 2024.
Team meeting for “Observe Local Think Global: What Solar Observations can teach us about Multiphase Plasmas across Astrophysical Scales”
(May 13-17, 2024)
Presented my work. In-person at ISSI, Bern, SwitzerlandTalk in Cosmology section meeting at AIP, Potsdam, on May 8, 2024.
Annual Astronomical Society of India (ASI) meeting 2024 (Jan 30-Feb 4, 2024).
Presented a at IISc, Bangalore, India.2023 IAP colloquium: New simulations for new problems in galaxy formation (December 11-15, 2023). Gave a in-person at IAP, Paris, France.
MIST2023 : Cosmic turbulence and Magnetic fields (September 24 - October 1, 2023) Gave a in-person at Cargese, Corsica, France.
Modelling of Multiphase Astrophysical Media (May 30-June 2, 2023)
Presented a ~15 min talk about my work. In-person at Aspenstein Castle, near Lake Kochel, GermanyMPA weekly Institute Seminar (May 15, 2023)
Presented a ~45 min talk about my work. In-person at MPA, Garching, Germany52nd Saas-Fee winter School on “The Circum-Galactic Medium across cosmic time: an observational and modelling challenge”
(March 19-24, 2023)
Presented a poster about my work. In-person at Les Diablerets, SwitzerlandTeam meeting for “Observe Local Think Global: What Solar Observations can teach us about Multiphase Plasmas across Astrophysical Scales”
(March 13-17, 2023)
Presented an introduction for simulations in ICM/CGM, and my work. In-person at ISSI, Bern, SwitzerlandThe Multiphase Circumgalactic Medium (February 26- March 3, 2023)
Presented a ~15 min talk about my work. In-person at Ringberg Castle, GermanyLyman-X Day: ORIGINS workshop (October 5, 2022)
Attended in-person at European Southern Observatory (ESO), GarchingThe National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2022 (July 11-15, 2022)
Attended virtually and submitted a poster for the parallel session “Non-equilibrium thermodynamics across scales: from the solar corona to the intracluster medium”.Gas Flows around Galaxies: ORIGINS workshop (May 24, 2022)
Presented my work in-person at MPA, GarchingPresision Presidency Physics Summit (September 11-13, 2020)
Organized by Presidency University, Kolkata
Presented work done on Thermal Instability as a talk in the Undergraduate Symposium.On the Origin, Nature, and Mixing of Multiphase Gas in Astrophysics KITP online conference (October 15-16, 2020)
Attended the conference virtuallyIAP online Colloquium on Intracluster Medium/Circumgalactic medium (June 22-26, 2020)
Attended the conference virtually
Mentoring
Fully Supervised the DAAD-RISE intership of Zewei “Jason” Wu (UChicago) at MPA, Garching between May - August 2024
Co-supervised the DAAD-WISE intership of Atal Agarwal (IIT Roorkee) at MPA, Garching between May-August 2023
Mentored Tapan Mayukh from LMU during their Masters thesis project at MPA during 2023-24 academic year
Service
Refereed:
- Scientific article for A&A
- Computating time proposal for DIRAC HPC facility
External PhD representative at MPA (July 2024-)
13th IMPRS Symposium: Chair of the Local Organising Committee
Extra-curricular Experience
IISc Undergraduate Astro Club
Delivered a talk on “Astrophysical media and their behaviour”.IISc Undergraduate Physics Club
Delivered a talk on “Special Relativity and Minkowski Diagrams”.Indian Instiute of Science Open Day
Constructed and demonstrated an experiment about Bernard convection cells on Sun.Institute Fest - “Pravega”
Involved in planning and conducting events by Physics club for Pravega - 2016 and Pravega - 2017.
Awards and Fellowships
Funded Max Planck Society PhD position
Funding for the PhD salary at MPA Duration: Sept 2021 - Sept 2025NTU-India Connect Research Fellowship 2-month long intership opportunity at NTU, with funding for travel, accommodation and living costs. Funded by: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) Duration: May 2019 – July 2019
Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Fellowship}
Funded by: Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
Stream: SX
Duration: 2016-2021
Skills
C, C++
Athena++
LAMMPS
Madgraph 5
Mathematica
High Performance Computing
LaTeX
Python
PLUTO
ROOT
Pythia 8.2
SQL
Matlab
Bash scripting
Compiled languages: C, C++
Hydrodynamic Simulation: AREPO, Athena++ , PLUTO
Interpreted languages: Python, Matlab, Mathematica
Others: LaTeX, ROOT, Bash scripting, High Performance Computing, LAMMPS, Madgraph 5, Pythia
Language proficiency
- English (Proficient)
- Hindi (Proficient)
- Odia (Native)
- German (Beginner A1)
Worked with
Dr. Max Gronke
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
Email: maxbg[AT]mpa-garching.mpg.de
Website: max.lyman-alpha.com
Prof. Prateek Sharma
Physical Sciences
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Email: prateek[AT]iisc.ac.in
Website: www.physics.iisc.ernet.in/~prateek
Dr. Rainer Weinberger
Leibniz Instiute for Astrophyiscs (AIP), Potsdam, Germany
Email: rweinberger[AT]aip.de
Website: rainerweinberger.com
Assoc. Prof. Massimo Pica Ciamarra
Nanyang Associate Professor
School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Email: massimo[AT]ntu.edu.sg
Website: sites.google.com/site/ciamarragroup