Education

• BSc (1st Class, Honours) Physics, Scottish Church College University of Calcutta West Bengal, India, 1994.
• MSc (1st Class, Specialization in High Energy Physics) University of Calcutta West Bengal, India, 1996.
• Post MSc Graduate Course Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, West Bengal, India, 1997.
• PhD S.N.Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Calcutta, India, 2001.

Selected Publications

• Mukhopadhyay, B. Estimate of Shakura-Sunyaev viscosity parameter in the Keplerian accretion disk from hydrodynamic turbulence International Journal of Modern Physics D (to appear in a special issue for Gravity Research Foundation 2007).
• Ghosh S. and Mukhopadhyay, B., Generalized pseudo-Newtonian potential for studying accretion disk dynamics in off-equatorial planes around rotating black holes: Description of a vector potential Astrophysical Journal 667, 367, 2007; arXiv:0706.2221.
• Mukhopadhyay, B., Growing hydrodynamic modes in Keplerian accretion disks during secondary perturbations: Elliptical vortex effects Astrophysical Journal 653, 503, 2006; astroph/0608402.
• Mukhopadhyay, B., Afshordi, N. and Narayan, R., Bypass to turbulence in hydrodynamic accretion disks: An eigenvalue analysis Astrophysical Journal 629, 383, 2005; astroph/0412193.
• Afshordi, N., Mukhopadhyay, B. and Narayan, R., Bypass to turbulence in hydrodynamic accretion disks: Lagrangian analysis of energy growth
  Astrophysical Journal 629, 373, 2005; astro-ph/0412194.