Vipin Kerala Varma
Personal
A brief CV is below; a fuller version can be found here.Research Interests
The main focus of my work has been on characterizing quantum effects in strongly correlated many body systems. Specifically, I investigate the properties of bosonic and spin systems, effects of ''frustration'', (quantum) critical behaviour, ground state and excited state properties etc. If you do not understand what all of that means, fear not: neither do I.Most of my work has been computational so far, with a little bit of mean-field analysis thrown in sometimes. The main computational tool being used is series expansion and its variants.
Sometimes I also find myself using the physics simulation software ALPS.
My curriculum vitae
Education
University of Bonn (UB), GermanyM.Sc. in Physics, 10/2008 - 12/2010
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Monien
National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, India
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication (ECE), 08/2002 - 05/2006
Major project: ``Quantum computation and quantum information algorithms''
Academic experience
Bonn Cologne Graduate SchoolMember: 10/2008 - present
Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, UB
Member and Tutor: 10/2009 - present
ECE Dept., NITK
Member and Tutor: Aug. 2002 - May 2006
Work experience
Nvidia Graphics Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore Design CenterHardware ASIC design engineer, Jul. 2006 - Jun. 2008
Nest Cyber Campus, SFO Technologies, Trivandrum
Industrial Intern, Jun. - Jul. 2005
Publications
Strong coupling expansion for bosons on the kagome latticeVipin Kerala Varma and Hartmut Monien, cond-mat:1103.6002 (2011)(to appear in PRB).