Dr. Gautam Rupak is Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Mississippi State University.

• Curriculum Vitae

Graduate Students

• Pradeepa Premarathna, 2015 MS, 2020 PhD
• Akshay Vaghani, 2017 PhD
• Kristopher Katterjohn, 2015 MS
• Pranaam Ravi, 2014 MS
• Lakma Fermando, 2013 PhD

Teaching Areas

• PH 2213 Physics I
• PH 2233 Physics III
• PH 3613 Modern Physics
• PH 4333/6333 Electricity and Magnetism
• PH 4413/6413 Thermal Physics
• PH 4713/6713 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics I
• PH 4723/6723 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics II
• PH 8313 Electricity and Magnetism

Education

• Ph. D., Physics, University of Washington, 2000
• M.S., Physics University of Washington, 1996
• B.A., Physics and Mathematics, Boston Unviersity, 1995

Experience

• 2014-present: Associate Professor, Mississippi State University
• 2008-2014: Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University
• 2007-2008: Research Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University
• 2006-2007: Postdoctoral Research Associate, North Carolina State University
• 2005-2006: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle
• 2003-2005: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Lab
• 2001-2003: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
• 2000-2001: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Canadian National Lab
• 1997-2000: Research Assistant, University of Washington
• 1994-1995: Undergraduate Senior Project, Boston University
• 1994: Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Indiana University

Research Interests

• Nuclear Structure and Reactions from Lattice Effective Field Theory

Publication Impact INSPIRE database

Recent Publications

• “Bayesian analysis of capture reactions 3He(α, γ) 7Be and 3H(α, γ) 7Li”, P. Premarathna and G. Rupak, arXiv:1906:04143. Submitted for journal publication
• “Universal behavior of p-wave proton-proton fusion near threshold”, B. Acharya, L. Platter and G. Rupak, Phys. Rev. C 100, 0210001 (2019)- Rapid Communications.
• “Fate of the neutron-deuteron virtual state as an Efimov level”, G. Rupak, A. Vaghani, R. Higa, U. van Kolck, Phys. Lett. B 791, 414 (2019).

Honors/Professional Activities

• Charter member of the Gamma chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in MS
• Member of Golden Key National Honor Society
• 1995 College Prize for Excellence in Mathematics, Boston University
• 1995 College Prize for Excellence in Physics, Boston University