Teaching

String Theory · PHY 622/623

Stony Brook University · Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 · co-instructor with Prof. Martin Roček

During Fall 2024 and Spring 2025, I was a Co-Instructor (with Prof. Martin Roček) of the two-semester graduate course sequence on String Theory at Stony Brook University. Here is a list of topics I taught, and associated lecture notes, which remain in continuous evolution.

Spring 2025: PHY 623 String Theory II

  • T-duality
  • Buscher rules
  • Complex manifolds
  • Calabi-Yau manifolds
  • Quaternion-Kähler manifolds
  • Heterotic string theory

Fall 2024: PHY 622 String Theory I

  • Covariant/BRST quantization of the spinning string
  • GSO projection
  • Eleven-dimensional supergravity
  • M-theory
  • Branes in M-theory

Past teaching

Stony Brook University

Teaching assistant for Introduction to Theoretical Physics, Group Theory, Geometry and Field Theory of Gravity/Supergravity/String Theory, and String Theory I/II. Delivered supplemental lectures on spinor differential geometry and eleven-dimensional supergravity.

IIT Kanpur

Teaching assistant for EE 380 and EE 381 analog/digital electronic circuits laboratory courses. Awarded the Best Teaching Assistant Award by the Department of Electrical Engineering.