I am currently a fifth year graduate student
in the Department of Physics , University of
Florida at Gainesville, Florida, working with
Prof. Rick Field
. Prior to joining the Ph.D
program in the fall of 2003, I did my B.Sc and M.Sc in Physics from Jadavpur University
, Kolkata, India. I was a recipient of the Charles F. Hooper
Jr. Memorial Award for "showing distinction in research and
teaching" in December 2007.
We are a part of the CDF (The Collider Detector at Fermilab) collaboration - one of the experiments at the giant proton-antiproton collider at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory , near Chicago in Illinois. We are studying the event topology in Drell-Yan lepton-pair production to probe the underlying event - which are unavoidable physical background to any hadron collider process.
When not doing Physics, I love traveling
around, exploring new places and
capturing those moments in my camera. I won a
"honorable" mention" at the Global Culture Photography Contest organized by the
University of Florida International Center in 2006. I am also a
passionate follower of "
Gator sports " and
blog in my spare time.