C. Nagaraja Kumar
Professor
Department of Physics
Panjab University
Chandigarh 160014
India

Email: cnkumar@pu.ac.in
Phone: +91 172 2534453

CV (April 2019) Personal Homepage Dept. of Physics

Educational background

• M.Sc. Physics, University of Hyderabad (1983)
• Diploma in Advanced Physics, Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar (1984)
• Ph.D. (Science), Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar (1990)

Professional background

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad (1990–1991)
• R.A., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1991–1994)
• R.A., University of Hyderabad (1994–1996)
• S.R.A., University of Hyderabad (1996–1999)
• Lecturer, Panjab University, Chandigarh (1999–2005)
• Reader/Associate Professor, Panjab University, Chandigarh (2005–2011)
• Professor, Panjab University, Chandigarh (2011 onwards)

Main area of work

• Theoretical physics
• Nonlinear physics: Chaos, solitons/solitary wave solutions of NLEE's

Significant recent publications

1. Shally Loomba, Ritu Pal, C.N.Kumar, Bright solitons of the nonautonomous cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrodinger equation with sign-reversal nonlinearity, Physical Review A 92, 033811 (2015).
2. K. K. De, H. Kaur, A. Goyal, C. N. Kumar, and T. S. Raju, Airy-Bessel modulated self-similar rogue waves in a nonlinear Schrodinger equation model, Journal of Modern Optics 62(2) (2015) 137-144.
3. R. Gupta, C. N. Kumar, V. M. Vyas, and P. K. Panigrahi, Manipulating rogue wave triplet in optical waveguides through tapering Physics Letters A (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2014.10.053
4. S. Loomba, R. Gupta, C. N. Kumar, D. Milovic, Optical rogons for inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrodinger equation with inter modal dispersion, Applied Mathematics and Computation 225 (2013) 318.
5. P.K. Panigarhi, R. Gupta, A. Goyal and C.N. Kumar, Riccati generalization of self-similar solutions of nonautonomous Gross-Pitaevskii equation, Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 222 (2013) 655663.
6. C.N. Kumar, R. Gupta, A. Goyal, S. Loomba, T.S. Raju and P.K. Panigrahi, Controlled giant rouge waves in nonlinear fiber optics, Phys. Rev. A 86 (2012) 025802.
7. R. Gupta, S. Loomba and C.N. Kumar, Class of nonlinearity control parameter for bright solitons of non-autonomous NLSE with trapping potential, IEEE J. Quantum Electronics 48 (2012) 847.
8. T. S. Raju, C.N. Kumar and P.K. Panigrahi, On exact solitary wave solutions of Nonlinear Schrodinger equation with source, Journ. Phys. A. Math. Gen 38 L271 - L276 (2005)
9. R. Chitra, C.N. Kumar and D.Sen, Supersymmetry in two Anyon problem, Modern. Phy. Lett. A 7 855 -863 (1992)
10. Chaos in gauge theories possessing vortices and monopole solutions C. N. Kumar, A. Khare, 1989 Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 22 (17) L849-L853, 1989
11. C. N. Kumar, Isospectral Hamiltonians: Generation of the soliton profile, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 20, 5397-5401 (1987)