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Contact Information
| Name | Sarthak Parikh |
| sarthak at physics.iitd.ac.in | |
| Location | New Delhi, India |
Professional Summary
Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at IIT Delhi working in theoretical and mathematical physics. Research interests include gauge/gravity duality (the AdS/CFT correspondence), conformal field theory, p-adic field theories, and discretizations of spacetime, and quantum computation and information theory.
Education
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2017 PhD in Theoretical Physics
Princeton University
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2014 MA in Physics
Princeton University
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2012 BS-MS in Physics
Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Pune
Experience
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2022 – Present New Delhi, India
Assistant Professor of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
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2020 – 2021 Pasadena, CA, USA
Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow
California Institute of Technology
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2017 – 2020 Pasadena, CA, USA
Olga Taussky & John Todd Research Instructor
California Institute of Technology
Grants and Awards
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2023 Google India Research Award
Google
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2023 India Science Book Fellowship
Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology (FAST) – India
- To write a graphic novel on quantum mechanics for a general audience.
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2023 Startup Research Grant
SERB, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
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2022 Teaching Excellence Award
IIT Delhi
- For the first-year BTech introductory physics course on quantum mechanics (PYL101), AY 2021–22.
Interests
Holography: AdS/CFT correspondence, AdS Feynman diagrams
Mathematical physics: p-adic field theories, discrete models of spacetime, graph theory
Quantum information: Quantum computation and information theory, quantum error-correction