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Faculty Profile
Dr. Minu Joy
Asst. Professor
Department of Physics
Alphonsa College, Pala, Kerala
Email: minujoy@gmail.com
- Experience
- August 2008 – Present
Asst. Professor
Department of Physics
Alphonsa College, Pala
- May 2008 – August 2008
Post Doctoral Fellow
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)Daejeon, Republic of Korea
- March. 2006 – March 2008
Post Doctoral Fellow
Inter-university Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA)
Pune, INDIA
- Sept. 2003 – August 2005
Postdoctoral Fellow
Theoretical High Energy Physics Group,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Republic of Korea
- Education
Ph.D in Physics - 2003
Cochin University of Science and Technology, India
Title of the Thesis : “Studies on Some Aspects of the Physics of the Early Universe Using Gravitationally Coupled Scalar Field”
Advisor : Prof. V.C. Kuriakose
- Master’s degree (M. Sc Physics) - 1998 - 83.83% - University First Rank
Cochin University of Science and Technology, India
- Bachelor’s degree (B. Sc Physics) - 1995 - 97.0% - University First Rank
Mahatma Gandhi University, India
- High school (S.S.L.C) - 1990 - 93.17% - Distinction
State Board of Public Examinations, Kerala, India
- Areas of Research Interest
- Cosmology & Quantum Gravity and specifically,
- Cosmological Perturbations
- Inflation
- Primordial Non-Gaussianity
- Cosmic Microwave Background studies
- Reconstruction of the Inflationary Parameters from CMB Observations
- Phase Transitions in the Early Universe
- Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-time and
- Awards & Distinctions
- Qualified NET (National Eligibility Test for lectureship conducted by UGC) and JRF- 1996
- Awarded University Grants Commission’s Junior Research Fellowship -1998
- Qualified GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) - 1998
- Selected as a category A TPSC (Theoretical Physics Seminar Circuit) speaker for the years 2002 and 2004
- Brain Korea 21 Post Doctoral Fellowship to work at Korea Advanced Insti. of Sci. & Tech. 2003 – 2005
- Obtained the Young Woman Scientist Award by Mathrubhumi daily Newspaper 2004
- Awarded a grant by the Yukawa Insti. for Theoretical Physics to visit the institute for 45 days 2004
- Post Doctoral Fellowship by Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics 2006 - 2008
- Member, Local Organising Committee, Int. Conf. Gravitation & Cosmology (ICGC07), IUCAA 2007
- PostDoctoral Fellowship by Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute 2008
- Sanctioned a Major Research Project Grant from UGC 2009
- Nominated as a writer for Astrophysics Encyclopaedia to be published by the Kerala State Encyclopaedia Institute 2009
- IUCAA Associateship for 3 years from August 2010
- Publications
- Perturbed Power-law parameters from WMAP7
Minu Joy and Tarun Souradeep, arXiv:1011.4357
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 1102:016,2011
- Is a step in the spectral index favoured by CMB data?
Minu Joy, A. Shafelio, Varun Sahni and A. A. Starobinsky, arXiv:0807.3334
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 0906:028,2009
- A new Universal Local Feature in the Inflationary Perturbation Spectrum,
Minu Joy, Varun Sahni and Alexei A. Starobinsky, astro-ph/0711.1585
Physical Review D 77 (2008), 023514
- Inflationary Hubble Parameter from the Gravitational Wave Spectrum in the General
Slow-roll Approximation,
Minu Joy, astro-ph/0709.321
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 09 (2007), 019
- From the Spectrum to Inflation: A Second Order Inverse Formula for the General Slow-Roll Spectrum,
Minu Joy and Ewan D Stewart, astro-ph/0511476
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 02 (2006), 005
- From the Spectrum to Inflation : An Inverse Formula for the General Slow-Roll Spectrum
Minu Joy, Ewan D Stewart, Jinn-Ouk Gong and Hyun-Chul Lee
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 04 (2005), 012
- A Field Theoretic Approach to Structure Formation in an Anisotropic Medium,
Minu Joy and V. C. Kuriakose,
Physical Review D, 67 (2003), 084029
- Phase Transitions for a φ6 model in Curved Spacetime
Minu Joy and V. C. Kuriakose,
Modern Physics Letters A, 18 (2003), 937
- Renormalised Energy-momentum Tensor of lφ4 theory in Curved Space-time,
K. G. Arun, Minu Joy and V. C. Kuriakose,
Pramana J. of Physics, 60 (2003), 1161
- Role of Scalar Field in the Formation of Structure in the Universe
Minu Joy and V. C. Kuriakose,
Physical Review D, 66 (2002), 024038
- First Order Phase Transitions in a Bianchi Type-I Universe,
Minu Joy and V. C. Kuriakose,
Physical Review D, 62 (2000), 104017
- Conferences Attended and Papers Presented
- Indo-UK meeting on ‘Confronting Particle Cosmology with Planck and LHC’,Aug. 10-12, 2011
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune
Perturbed Power Law parameters
- Primordial features and non-Gaussianities (PFNG), Dec. 14 – 18, 2010
Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), Allahabad
Non-Gaussianity from inflationary model with a step in the spectral index
- Workshop on Galaxy Astronomy (WOGA), Oct 30 – Nov. 5, 2009
School of Pure and Applied Physics, M G University, Kottayam
Primordial Nongaussianity
- IUCAA Reunion meeting ; Frontiers in Theory and Observation, Aug. 11 – 14, 2009
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA)
Step in the primordial power spectral index, observed by WMAP
- Xth Workshop in High Energy Physics Phenomenology (WHEPP X), Jan. 2- 13, 2008,
Inst. Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
- International Conference on Gravitation & Cosmology (ICGC-07), Dec. 17-21, 2007,
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India
Step in the primordial spectral index ns : A new feature in the inflationary
perturbation spectrum
- NHTEP 2007 National Conference on “New Horizons in Theoretical and Experimental
Physics”, Oct . 8 -10, 2007, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin, India
Exact inflationary solution for the primordial density perturbation spectrum with a sudden change of slope
- IUCAA – MPA Workshop on Astrophysics and Cosmology,
March 5 – 9, 2007, IUCAA, Pune, India
- PASCOS 05, The 11th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology,
May 30 - June 4, 2005, Gyeongju, S. Korea
Reconstruction of the Inflationary Parameters from the Second Order General Slow-Roll Spectrum
- APCTP Workshop on Particle Physics and Cosmology, Oct. 18-21, 2004,
Cheju National University, Cheju Island, S. Korea
The Power spectrum of density perturbations produced during Inflation with General slow-roll approximation
- International Conference on Gravitation & Cosmology (ICGC-04), Jan 4-9, 2004,
Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin, India
Density Perturbations and Structure Formation
- The 6th RESCEU Int. Symposium Frontier in Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology, Nov. 4-7,
2003, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- National Workshop on Field Theory Aspects of Gravity (FTAG –III), Jan. 23-29, 2003,
Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin, India
Physics of the Early Universe: Field Theoretic Aspects
- 22nd meeting of Indian Association of General Relativity & Gravitation (IAGRG),
Dec. 11-14, 2002, IUCAA, Pune, India
A field theoretic approach to Jeans analysis in an anisotropic medium
- Summer School on Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology, June 18- July 5, 2002, ICTP, Italy
Density fluctuations of a scalar field and Jeans mass calculations
- First Workshop on Interface of Gravitation and Quantum Realms, Dec 17-21, 2001,
IUCAA, Pune, India
- IRC Colloquium on Evolution of Universe, April 21, 2001,
Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin, India
Towards the Early Universe…
- Seminar on Current issues in Theoretical Physics, July 30-31, 2001,
Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin, India
- XIV DAE Symposium on High Energy Physics, Dec 18-22, 2000, HCU Hyderabad, India,
Phase Transitions in a Curved space-time
- Workshop on Gravity : Field Theory Aspects (Advanced level), Oct 12-20, 2000,
IUCAA, Pune, India
- Summer School on Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology, June 12- 30, 2000, ICTP, Italy
- International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology (ICGC - 2000), Jan 4-7, 2000,
IIT Kharagpur, India.
Phase Transitions in the Early Universe
- School on Gravitation and Cosmology , Oct. 26-31, 1998,
Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin, India.
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