PA R A M E S WA R A N A J I T HInternational Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental ResearchTIFR Centre Building, IISc Campus, Subedarpalya, Bangalore 560012, India.Tel. +91 80 2360 8200 (Extn. 20), Fax. +91 80 2360 8199

E-mail: ajith@icts.res.inHome page: http://home.icts.res.in/~ajith

education

Ph.D. Physics Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert EinsteinInstitute) and Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany (December,2007). With Suma Kum Laude (‘outstanding’).

M.Sc. Physics (Astrophysics) School of Pure and Applied Physics, MahatmaGandhi University, Kottayam, India. (January, 2003).

B.Sc. Physics (Mathematics, Computer Science) M. E. S. Kalladi College, Man-narkkad, University of Calicut, India. (March, 2000).

research & employment

Reader (F), International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India (FromJan-2013) 1.

Senior post doctoral scholar at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,USA (Jan 2012 – Jan 2013). Mentors: Profs. Alan Weinstein, Yanbei Chen,Kip S. Thorne.

Post doctoral scholar at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA (Jan2009 – Jan 2012) 2. Mentors: Profs. Alan Weinstein, Yanbei Chen, Kip S. Thorne.

Post doctoral scholar at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AlbertEinstein Institute), Hannover, Germany (December 2007 – December 2008). Men-tor: Prof. Bruce Allen.

Graduate student at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Ein-stein Institute), Hannover, Germany (July 2004 – December 2007). Thesis title:On aspects of gravitational-wave detection: Detector characterisation, data analysis andsource modelling for ground-based detectors. Thesis advisers: Prof. Bernard Schutz,Dr. Martin Hewitson.

Visiting student at Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India (October 2003 –May 2004). Adviser: Prof. Bala R. Iyer.

awards & scholarships

Ramanujan Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. ofIndia (2013-2018).

Post-doctoral Fellowship of California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, USA(2009–2013).

Finalist, Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Cambridge MA, USA (2007).

Honorable mention in the PhD Thesis Prize competition by the Gravitational-WaveInternational Committee (2007).

1 Had a concurrent offer from the Indian Institute of Science also (Assistant Professor).2 Had concurrent postdoc offers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Potsdam), University of Jena, Syracuse

University, Cardiff University, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and Penn State University.

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International Max Planck Scholarship for Doctoral Students by Max Planck Institutefor Gravitational Physics, Germany (2004 – 2007).

research interests

Gravitational-wave source modelling using analytical and numerical relativity /Gravitational-wave data analysis / Tests of theories of gravity / Detector char-acterisation and veto development for gravitational-wave searches / RelativisticAstrophysics and Cosmology.

publications

25 articles in peer-reviewed journals (787 citations as on 6 Sep 2013) + Co-authorof 60 publications by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (total 4544 citations as on 8

May 2013). See the List of Publications (Page 5) for details. For additional metrics,see my publication profile in Google Scholar.

invited talks & lectures

Gravitational-wave- physics and astronomy: Status and prospects, Plenary talk at the27th Meeting of the Indian Association of General Relativity and Gravitation,Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar (Garhwal), India. (2013

March 7).

The gravitational-wave window to the Universe, Invited lecture as part of the FrontierLecture Series in Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam , India (15 Feb2013).

Introduction to approximation methods in General Relativity, Invited lectures at the24th Chris Engelbrecht Summer School 2013 on Gravitational Wave Astronomy,Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa (2013 January 15-24).

Interfacing analytical- and numerical relativity for gravitational-wave astronomy, Invitedtalk at the April Meeting of the American Physical Society, Atlanta, USA (2012

March 31).

Interface between numerical relativity and gravitational-wave astronomy, Invited lecturesat the 2010 International School on Numerical Relativity and Gravitational Waves,Asia-Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Korea (July 26 – 30, 2010).

Advances in phenomenological inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms for binary black holes:Invited talk at GR 19 (parallel session on Analytic Approximation and PerturbationMethods and their Applications), Mexico City, Mexico (2010 July 5).

Interfacing numerical and analytical relativity for gravitational-wave astronomy: Statusand prospects, Invited talk at the conference “Theory Meets Data Analysis at Com-parable and Extreme Mass Ratios” (NRDA + Capra Meetings), Perimeter Institutefor Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada (2010 June 24).

Gravitational-wave astronomy: Opening a new window to the Universe: Invited talkat the Workshop on Advances in Observational Astronomy, Mahatma GandhiUniversity, Kottayam, India (2008 Dec 1).

Network analysis using null-stream: Invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the ILIAS-Gravitational Wave Antenna, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca,Spain (2005 Oct 25).

See the List of Presentations (Page 8) for colloquia, seminars and contributed talks.

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projects & grants

PI of the SERB FastTrack project “Gravitational-wave astronomy using astrophysicalblack-hole binaries”, funded by the Department of Science & Technoloy (2013–2016).

Co-PI of the International Teaching and Research Chair “Mathematics of ComplexSystems” at ICTS-TIFR and TIFR-CAM, funded by the EADS foundation (Euro200,000 × 4 yrs; 2013–2017)

Co-PI of the computational astrophysics project “Modeling gravitational wavesignals from black hole binaries” (PI: Sascha Husa, Palma) which was awarded37 million CPU hours on European supercomputers as part of the Partnership forAdvanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) program (2012).

Co-PI of the “Indo-US Virtual Center for Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astron-omy” (PIs: Tarun Souradeep, IUCAA and Rana Adhikari, Caltech) funded by theIndo-US Science and Technology Forum ($100,000 for 2011–2013).

Co-PI of the computational astrophysics project “Modeling gravitational wavesignals from black hole binaries” (PI: Sascha Husa, Palma) which was awarded 11

million CPU hours on European supercomputers as part of the PRACE program(2011).

Co-PI of the computational astrophysics project “General Relativity meets Astro-physics: Nonlinear Dynamics of Black Holes” (PI: Peter Diener, LSU) which wasawarded 8.2 million CPU hours on the Teragrid supercomputer network (2011).

Co-PI of the computational astrophysics project “Computational Relativistic As-trophysics Models of Stellar Collapse and Binary Black Hole Coalescence” (PI:Christian Ott, Caltech) which was awarded 7.5 million CPU hours on the Teragridsupercomputer network (2010).

professional memberships & activities

Member of LIGO Scientific Collaboration (since 2004), American Physical Society(since 2009), GEO Collaboration (2004 – 2008), American Association for theAdvancement of Science (since 2010), Indian Association of General Relativity &Gravitation (life member since 2007) and IndIGO consortium (founding member).

Contact Person of the Numerical-Relativity Injection Analysis collaborationhttps://www.ninja-project.org (Nov 2009 – June 2010).

Member of the Executive Committee, Caltech-JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research http://cajagwr.caltech.edu (2009 – 2013).

Referee of Classical and Quantum Gravity, International Journal of Modern Physics D.

Internal reviewer for the technical papers authored by the members of the LIGOScientific Collaboration, and for some of the codes used for LIGO data analysis.

Lead organizer of the ICTS Program on Numerical Relativity, ICTS Planck Day, andICTS Winter School on Experimental Gravitational-Wave Physics.

Active involvement of the activities of the IndIGO consortium: Designed andmaintain the web site http://www.gw-indigo.org, Coordinated the proposal forthe Indo-US Center for Gravitational-Wave Physics & Astronomy, Active involvementin the organization of the First IndIGO School on Gravitational-Wave Astronomy, andin the project proposal of LIGO-India including the preparation of the DetailedProject Report.

student mentoring

Vijay Varma, undergraduate student at BITS-Pilani (First Degree Thesis, 2013-2014).

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Ashok Choudhary, undergraduate student at IISER-Pune (Fifth year project, 2013-2014).

Amruta Jaodand, undergraduate student at BITS-Hyderabad (2013-2014).

Ankit Singh, undergraduate student at BITS-Pilani, as part of the Summer ResearchFellowship Programme for Students and Teachers, Indian Academy of Sciences(Summer 2013).

Nikhil Mukund, undergraduate student at NIT Calicut, as part of the VisitingStudents Program at Raman Research Institute (Summer 2013) [Co-mentor]

Ben Yuan, undergraduate student, Caltech, as part of the Caltech SURF program(Spring-Summer 2011).

Jessie Otradovec, undergraduate student, University of Wisconsin, Madison, aspart of the Caltech SURF program (Summer 2011) [Co-mentor].

Alex Wein, undergraduate student, Caltech, as part of the Caltech SURF program(Summer 2010).

Daniel Stratman, undergraduate student, Purdue University, as part of the CaltechSURF program (Summer 2010).

Aaron Pearlman, undergraduate student, University of Maryland, as part of theCaltech SURF program (Summer 2009). Currently graduate student at Caltech.

Anahita Maghami, undergraduate student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,as part of the Caltech SURF program (Summer 2009) [Co-mentor].

Luis Colon Perez, MS student, University of Puerto Rico, as part of the InternationalREU Program of the NSF (Albert Einstein Institute, Summer 2007) [Co-mentor].

postdoc mentoring

Archisman Ghosh, EADS postdoctoral fellow at ICTS-TIFR (2013 –).

Manjari Bagchi, Postdoctoral visiting scientist at ICTS-TIFR (2013 –).

Chandra Kant Mishra, Postdoctoral visiting scientist at ICTS-TIFR (2013 –).

computing skills

Scientific programming in C, Matlab and Python. Scripting in Python and Bash.Experience in using Condor, OpenMP, GSL, FFTW etc. in large computing clusters,and administering Unix-type systems and MySQL databases. Familiarity withsetting up high-throughput computing clusters.

personal profile

Date of Birth : 27 May 1980

Sex : MaleMarital Status : MarriedNationality : IndianLanguage Proficiency : English and Malayalam

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L I S T O F P U B L I C AT I O N S

papers in peer-reviewed journals

1. S, Privitera, S.R.P. Mohapatra, P. Ajith, K. Cannon, N. Fotopoulos, M. A. Frei, C. Hanna, A. J. Weinstein,J. T. Whelan, Improving the sensitivity of a search for coalescing binary black holes with non-precessing spinsin gravitational wave data, Submitted to Phys. Rev. D (2013). arXiv:1310.5633

2. Michael Purrer, Mark Hannam, P. Ajith, Sascha Husa, Testing the validity of the single-spin approximationin inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms, Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D (2013). arXiv:1306.2320

3 citations

3. P. Ajith, N. Fotopoulos, S. Privitera, A. Neunzert, A. J. Weinstein, An effectual template bank for thedetection of gravitational waves from inspiralling compact binaries with generic spins, Submitted to Phys.Rev. D (2013). 6 citations

4. P. Ajith et al. (NINJA Collaboration), The NINJA-2 catalog of hybrid post-Newtonian/numerical-relativitywaveforms for non-precessing black-hole binaries, Class. Quantum Grav. 29 124001 (2012). 27 citations

5. P. Ajith, Addressing the spin question in gravitational-wave searches: Waveform templates for inspirallingcompact binaries with nonprecessing spins, Phys. Rev. D 84 084037 (2011). 19 citations

6. P. Schmidt, M. Hannam, S. Husa and P. Ajith, Tracking the precession of compact binaries from theirgravitational-wave signal, Phys. Rev. D 84 024046 (2011). 28 citations

7. P. Ajith, M. Hannam, S. Husa, Y. Chen, B. Brugmann, N. Dorband, D. Muller, F. Ohme, D. Pollney, C.Reisswig, L. Santamarıa, and J. Seiler, Inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational-waveforms for black-holebinaries with non-precessing spins, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 241101 (2011). 93 citations

8. M. Hannam, S. Husa, F. Ohme and P. Ajith, Length requirements for numerical-relativity waveforms, Phys.Rev. D 82 124052 (2010). 23 citations

9. L. Santamaria, F. Ohme, P. Ajith, B. Bruegmann, N. Dorband, M. Hannam, S. Husa, P. Moesta, D.Pollney, C. Reisswig, E. L. Robinson, J. Seiler, B. Krishnan, Matching post-Newtonian and numericalrelativity waveforms: systematic errors and a new phenomenological model for non-precessing black holebinaries, Phys. Rev. D 82 064016 (2010). 90 citations

10. D. Keppel and P. Ajith, Constraining the mass of the graviton using coalescing black-hole binaries, Phys.Rev. D 82, 122001 (2010). 29 citations

11. S. Bose, S. Ghosh and P. Ajith, Systematic errors in measuring parameters of non-spinning compact binarycoalescences with post-Newtonian templates, Class. Quantum Grav. 27 114001 (2010). 3 citation

12. C. Pankow, S. Klimenko, G. Mitselmakher, I. Yakushin, G. Vedovato, M. Drago, R. A. Mercer and P.Ajith, A burst search for gravitational waves from binary black holes, Class. Quantum Grav. 26 204004

(2009). 5 citations

13. P. Ajith and S. Bose, Estimating the parameters of non-spinning binary black holes using ground-basedgravitational-wave detectors: Statistical errors, Phys. Rev. D 79 084032 (2009). 41 citations

14. P. Ajith, Gravitational-wave data analysis using binary-black-hole waveforms, Class. Quantum Grav. 27114033 (2008). 52 citations

15. P. Ajith, S. Babak, Y. Chen, M. Hewitson, B. Krishnan, A. M. Sintes, J. T. Whelan, B. Bruegmann,P. Diener, N. Dorband, J. Gonzalez, M. Hannam, S. Husa, D. Pollney, L. Rezzolla, L. Santamaria,U. Sperhake, J. Thornburg, Template bank for gravitational waveforms from coalescing binary black holes:non-spinning binaries, Phys. Rev. D 77 104017 (2008). 166 citations

16. P. Ajith, M. Hewitson, J. R. Smith, H. Grote, S. Hild and K. A. Strain, Physical instrumental vetoes forgravitational-wave burst triggers, Phys. Rev. D 76 042004 (2007). 8 citations

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17. P. Ajith, S. Babak, Y. Chen, M. Hewitson, B. Krishnan, J. T. Whelan, B. Bruegmann, P. Diener, J.Gonzalez, M. Hannam, S. Husa, M. Koppitz, D. Pollney, L. Rezzolla, L. Santamaria, A. M. Sintes,U. Sperhake, J. Thornburg, Phenomenological template family for black-hole coalescence waveforms, Class.Quantum Grav. 24 S689–S699 (2007). 112 citations

18. S. Hild, P. Ajith, M. Hewitson, H. Grote and J. R. Smith, A statistical veto method employing an amplitudeconsistency test, Class. Quantum Grav. 24 3783–3798 (2007). 4 citations

19. P. Ajith, M. Hewitson, J. R. Smith and K. A. Strain, Robust vetoes for gravitational-wave burst triggersusing known instrumental couplings, Class. Quantum Grav. 23 5825-5837 (2006). 9 citations

20. P. Ajith, M. Hewitson and I. S. Heng, Null-stream veto for two co-located detectors: Implementation issues,Class. Quantum Grav. 23 S741-S749 (2006). 5 citations

21. J R Smith, P Ajith, H Grote, M Hewitson, S Hild, H Luck, K A Strain, B Willke, J Hough andK Danzmann, Linear projection of technical noise for interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, Class.Quantum Grav. 23 527-537 (2006). 13 citations

22. M. Hewitson and P. Ajith, Using the null-stream of GEO 600 to veto transient events in the detector output,Class. Quantum Grav. 22 4903-4912 (2005). 9 citations

23. M. Hewitson, H. Grote, S. Hild, H. Luck, P. Ajith, J. R. Smith, K. A. Strain, B. Wilke and G. Woan,Optimal time-domain combination of the two calibrated output quadratures of GEO 600, Class. QuantumGrav. 22 4253-4261 (2005). 19 citations

24. P. Ajith, B. R. Iyer, C. A. K. Robinson and B. S. Sathyaprakash, Complete adiabatic waveform templates fora test-mass in the Schwarzschild spacetime: VIRGO and Advanced LIGO studies, Class. Quantum Grav. 22S1179-S1188 (2005). 7 citations

25. P. Ajith, B. R. Iyer, C. A. K. Robinson and B. S. Sathyaprakash, New class of post-Newtonian approximantsto the waveform templates of inspiralling compact binaries: Test-mass in the Schwarzschild spacetime, Phys.Rev. D 71 044029 (2005). 16 citations

technical documents

1. P. Ajith, M. Boyle, D. A. Brown, S. Fairhurst, M. Hannam, I. Hinder, S. Husa, B. Krishnan, R. A.Mercer, F. Ohme, C. D. Ott, J. S. Read, L. Santamaria, J. T. Whelan, Data formats for numerical relativitywaves, arXiv:0709.0093 [gr-qc]

2. P. Ajith, S. Mohapatra, A. Pai, A Gravitational-Wave Data Analysis Primer for the IndIGO Mock DataChallenge, LIGO-T1100462-v1. link

3. R. Adhikari, Y. Chen, C. D. Ott, N. Fotopoulos, I. Mandel, V. Dergachev, P. Ajith, J. G. Rollns, J. Read,P. Kalmus, Astrophysical Motivations for the Third Generation LIGO Detectors, LIGO-T1200099v2. link

theses

1. P. Ajith, On aspects of gravitational-wave detection: Detector characterisation, data analysis and sourcemodelling for ground-based detectors, Ph.D Thesis, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AlbertEinstein Institute) and Leibniz Universitat Hannover (2007). link

popular articles

1. P. Ajith, Indian Neutrino Observatory: Science, Sociology and Politics (Popular science article in May-alayam). http://malayal.am (Oct 2012).

2. P. Ajith and K. G. Arun, Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: A new window to the Universe, Resonance 16922-932 (October 2011). link

3. P. Ajith, Understanding the building blocks of the Universe (Popular article in Malayalam on the LHCexperiment), Grandhalokam Monthly (January 2009).

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selected publications from the ligo scientific collaboration

(60 publications. 2369 citations on 6 April 2012. See this link from NASA-AdsAbs for a full list).

1. J. Abadie et al. [LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaborations ], Search for gravitational wavesfrom binary black hole inspiral, merger and ringdown, Phys. Rev. D83, 122005 (2011). 43 citations

2. J. Abadie et al. [LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration], TOPICAL REVIEW: Predictionsfor the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors, Class.Quantum Grav. 27, 173001 (2010). 246 citations

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C O N T R I B U T E D TA L K S , S E M I N A R S & C O L L O Q U I A

contributed talks in conferences

1. Addressing the spin question: Search templates for gravitational waves from spinning compact-binary coales-cences: Contributed talk at the International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology, Goa, India(2011 Dec 15).

2. Addressing the spin question in gravitational-wave searches: Waveform templates for inspiralling compactbinaries with nonprecessing spins: Contributed talk at the Amaldi+NRDA Meeting, Cardiff, UK (2011

July 11).

3. “Complete” gravitational waveforms from black-hole binaries with non-precessing spins: Contributed talk atthe 12th Marcel Grossmann meeting, Paris, France (2009 July 16).

4. Estimating parameters of non-spinning black-hole binaries using ground-based GW detectors: Statistical errors:Contributed talk at the 12th Marcel Grossmann meeting, Paris, France (2009 July 17).

5. “Complete” gravitational waveforms from black-hole binaries with non-precessing spins: Contributed talkat the Numerical Relativity - Data Analysis (NRDA) meeting, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam,Germany (2009 July 8).

6. Estimating the parameters of intermediate-mass black holes using gravitational-wave observations: Posterpresentation at the Workshop on “Intermediate-Mass Black Holes: from First Light to Galactic Nuclei”,University of California, Irvine, USA (2009 April 1-3).

7. Template bank for gravitational waves from coalescing binary black holes: Contributed talk at the Interna-tional Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology, IUCAA, Pune, India (2007 Dec 19).

8. Phenomenological template bank for black-hole coalescence waveforms: Contributed poster at Amaldi 7

Meeting, Sydney, Australia (2007 July 8-14).

9. Gravitational-wave burst vetoes in the S5 data of GEO 600: Contributed poster at Amaldi 7 Meeting,Sydney, Australia (2007 July 8-14).

10. Gravitational-wave burst vetoes using known instrumental couplings: Contributed talk at the Gravitational-wave Data Analysis Workshop 11, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Germany (2006 Dec 18).

11. Phenomenological template bank for black-hole coalescence waveforms: Contributed talk at the Gravitational-wave Data Analysis Workshop 11, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Germany (2006 Dec 20).

12. Phenomenological template family for black-hole coalescence waveforms: Contributed talk at the 11th MarcelGrossmann Meeting, Frei Universitaet Berlin, Germany (2006 July 27).

13. Implementing the Null-stream veto in the network analysis of gravitational-wave bursts: Contributed talk atthe Gravitational-wave Data Analysis Workshop 10, University of Texas at Brownsville, USA (2005

Dec 18).

seminars & colloquia

1. Detection template bank for gravitational waves from inspiralling compact binaries with spins, LIGO Seminarat California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA (2012 Dec 7).

2. The gravitational-wave window to the Universe, ICTS Colloquium, International Center for TheoreticalSciences, Bangalore, India (2012 June 11).

3. Interfacing analytical- and numerical relativity for gravitational-wave astronomy, ICTS Seminar, InternationalCenter for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India (2012 June 12).

4. Interfacing analytical- and numerical relativity for gravitational-wave astronomy, RRI Seminar, RamanResearch Institute, Bangalore, India (2012 June 8).

5. Interfacing analytical- and numerical relativity for gravitational-wave astronomy, Seminar at Indian Instituteof Science, Bangalore, India (2012 Jan 10).

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6. Addressing the spin question in the search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries: LIGOSeminar at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA (2011 Sep 20).

7. Vetoes for transient gravitational-wave triggers using instrumental coupling models: LIGO Seminar atCalifornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA (2011 April 5).

8. Interfacing analytical- and numerical relativity for gravitational-wave astronomy: Seminar at University ofDelhi, India (2011 Feb 6).

9. Gravitational-wave astronomy: Opening a new window onto the Universe: IRC Colloquium at CochinUniversity of Science and Technology, Cochin, India (2011 January 10).

10. Coalescing compact binaries: From birth to death: Seminar at the Indian Institute for Science Educationand Research, Thiruvananthapuram, India (2011 January 6).

11. Interfacing analytical- and numerical relativity for gravitational-wave astronomy: Seminar at Inter-UniversityCenter for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India (2010 Dec 9).

12. Searching for gravitational waves from coalescing black hole binaries: Seminar at Universitat de les IllesBalears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2010 May 5).

13. Identifying and subtracting noise transients in gravitational-wave detectors: Seminar at the Max PlanckInstitute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Hannover, Germany (2010 April 8).

14. Gravitational-wave astronomy: Opening a new window onto the Universe: Seminar at the Indian Institutefor Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, India (2009 December 10).

15. Searching for gravitational waves from coalescing binary black holes: Seminar at Inter-University Center forAstronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India (2008 Nov 21).

16. Searching for gravitational waves from coalescing binary black holes: Seminar at Institute of MathematicalSciences, Chennai, India (2008 July 28).

17. Gravitational-wave data analysis using binary black-hole waveforms: Seminar at the Institut d’Astrophysiquede Paris, France (2008 June 5).

18. A template bank for gravitational waves from coalescing binary black holes: Seminar at Raman ResearchInstitute, Bangalore, India (2008 Jan 23).

19. A template bank for gravitational waves from coalescing binary black holes: LIGO Seminar at CaliforniaInstitute of Technology, Pasadena, USA (2007 November 27).

20. A template family for gravitational waves from coalescing binary black holes: Seminar at the Albert EinsteinInstitute, Hannover, Germany (2007 May 9).

21. Phenomenological template bank for black-hole coalescence waveforms: Seminar at the Friedrich SchillerUniversitaet, Jena, Germany (2007 Apr 16).

22. Null-stream veto for the network analysis of gravitational-wave bursts: Seminar at the Raman ResearchInstitute, Bangalore, India (2006 Jan 2).

23. New class of post-Newtonian approximants to the waveform templates of inspiralling compact binaries: Seminarat the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India (2005 Jan 19).

24. Looking for gravitational-wave bursts using a network of detectors: Seminar at the Albert Einstein Institute,Hannover, Germany (2005 Oct 19).

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popular talks

1. Black holes, gravitational waves and other curved ideas of Dr. Einstein: Christ College Irinjalakuda, Kerala,India (2008 Oct 21).

2. Understanding the building blocks of our Universe: Lecture for school children on the LHC experiment atthree Higher Secondary Schools in Kerala, India (2008).

3. A layman’s introduction to gravitational waves: MES Kalladi College Mannarkkad, Kerala, India (2005

Jan).

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