29th Annual Report (2016-17)

206 Data Centre Areas of Research Workshops and Meetings List of Publications The Data Centre is being used by M.Sc. students for doing projects, and research scholars for their Ph.D. studies. Under-graduate and post-graduate students from neighbouring colleges and institutes have carried out their summer projects/training using the facilities available at the IRC. Physics of black holes Extended theories of gravity Bose-Einstein condensation General relativity and cosmology Three research scholars are now doing their studies in these areas, and one student has been awarded Ph.D. degree. IUCAA-APTWorkshop onVirtual Observatory, at the Department of Physics, Sacred Heart College, Chalakudy (July 16 – 17, 2016). Conference on Research in Astronomy: Opportunities and Challenges - III , at the Department of Physics, University of Calicut, Kozhikode (July 18 - 19, 2016) . C. B. Prasobh, Jishnu Suresh and V. C. Kuriakose (2016) Thermodynamics of charged Lovelock: AdS black holes, EPJC, 76, 207. Pankunni Prasia and V. C. Kuriakose (2016) Quasi-normal modes and P-V criticality for scalar perturbations in a class of dRGTmassive gravity around black holes, GReGr, 48, 89. Pankunni Prasia andV.C. Kuriakose (2017) Quasi-normal modes and thermodynamics of linearly charged BTZ black holes inmassive gravity in (anti) de Sitter spacetime, EPJC, 77, 27. · · · · Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi Coordinator: V. C. Kuriakose, and Joint Coordinator: Ramesh Babu T.