“It would indeed be remarkable if nature fortified herself against further advances in knowledge behind the analytical difficulties of the many-body problem.” (Max Born,1960)

Since my childhood days, I am attracted to mathematics, but I came to know in my school’s days from a great friend that it is a language by which we model any physical systems. From those days, I began to wonder how we can manifest the governing laws of the physical world, and I dream of myself as a researcher who ponders in an ocean of questions. That drive to know the physical laws make me choose Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics after 10th grade. Due to scoring a good score in 12th, I was offered DST Inspire Scholarship for my higher educations. I decided to pursue Physics Honours during my bachelor’s degree from Burdwan Raj College to understand more deeply. After completing my B.Sc from Burdwan University, I was selected for M.Sc (Physics) programme at IIT Kanpur for securing an All India Rank 48 in JAM.

The excellent faculties of the Physics department of IIT Kanpur help me understand various physics topics, e.g., Classical Mechanics, Quantum mechanics, Statistical mechanics, General theory of Relativity, Classical and quantum Field theory e.t.c. A fascination with the GTR and statistical mechanics, and also after reading the book “The Black Hole War’’ by Leonard Susskind, I was pretty sure that it was my field. Therefore, I have joined an M.Sc project under the supervision of Prof. Tapobrata Sarkar in black hole thermodynamics. I worked hard on that project and wrote two papers published in Physics Letter B.

During the one-year project, I feel that I am more interested in complex systems and statistical mechanics than GTR. So, I decided to change my field and join as a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Debashish Chowdhury and Dr. Sagar Chakraborty. Currently, I am working on a mathematical model (Game Theory) of strategic interaction among individuals and studying (mathematically) the behaviour of the individuals in a population who share a common natural resource. Overuses of common goods by selfish individuals may become an unfortunate tragedy for that population. I am working passionately on the same topic and have submitted a paper in Physical Review E (under review). Another work is completed, which is about the microscopic details of the strategic interaction and will be published soon.

My lifetime research goal is to reach closer to an answer to the question well-posed by Erwin Schrodinger: “How can the events in space and time which take place within the spatial boundary of a living organism be accounted for by physics and chemistry?’’

Publications:

  1. The geometry of RN-AdS fluids;

    JD Bairagya, K Pal, K Pal, T Sarkar;

    Physics Letters B 805, 135416

  2. Geometry of AdS black hole thermodynamics in extended phase space;

    JD Bairagya, K Pal, K Pal, T Sarkar;

    Physics Letters B 805, 136424

  3. Game-environment feedback dynamics in growing population: Effect of finite carrying capacity;

    JD Bairagya, SS Mondal, D Chowdhury, S Chakraborty;

    Physical Review E 104 (4), 044407

  4. Eco-evolutionary games for harvesting self-renewing common resource: Effect of growing harvester population;

    JD Bairagya, SS Mondal, D Chowdhury, S Chakraborty;

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.04877