29th Annual Report (2016-17)

IUCAA-NCRA GRADUATE SCHOOL Ph.D. Programme During the year of this report, four IUCAA Research Scholars have defended their Ph.D. theses, namely: Sumanta Chakraborty (Guide: T. Padmanabhan), VikramKhaire (Guide: R. Srianand), NagendraKumar (Guide: RanjeevMisra) and SuvodipMukherjee (Guide: Tarun Souradeep). Their Ph.D. degrees have been awarded by the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The synopses of their theses are given below: Sumanta Chakraborty CLASSICALAND QUANTUMASPECTS OF GRAVITY IN RELATION TO THE EMERGENT PARADIGM 111