Shantanu Desai's Homepage

I was a graduate student at Boston University. I am currently a postdoc at UIUC
Welcome to my homepage. To contact me send email to shantanu[at]budoe.bu.edu

My thesis consisted of various Physics and Astronomy studies with upward going muons in Super-Kamiokande detector.

I have worked on the following projects in Super-K:

My Ph.D thesis :
High Energy Neutrino Astrophysics with Super-Kamiokande: [in pdf format] or [in ps format] or [in ps.gz format]

  Recent Talks  
  • Physics and Astronomy with Showering Upward Muons in Super-Kamiokande Ph.D Final Defense Oral Exam, December 3rd 2003
  • Upward Showering Muons in Super-Kamiokande at 28th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Tsukuba, Japan , August 2003
  • Indirect WIMP Searches with Super-Kamiokande at 4th International Workshop on Identification of Dark Matter, York, England, September 2002
  • Indirect Searches for Wimps with Super-K using upward muons DM 2000, UCLA, Jan 2000

      My favorite Science and Research Links. 
  • Astronomy Conferences
  • Particle Data Group
  • LIGO Project
  • Supernova Cosmology Project
  • Best Ever Neutrino Page
  • Physics Papers at Los Alamos
  • Best ever Cosmology page
  • Another Excellent Cosmology page
  • Best ever Relativity page
  • Dark Matter portal
  • Gamma-Ray Bursts
  • Magnetars
  • On line Software for Statistics
  • Neutrino Astrophysics Literature
  • Radio Astronomy Tutorial
  • Database of Astronomy papers
  • Database of High Energy Physics papers
  • How stuff works
  • Physics journal Links from BU
  • Simbad Astrophysical Queries
  • Superk Group at BU
  • SETI Institute
  • Fractal Antenna Systems Inc.
  • Photo archive of nuclear astrophysicists in the past 4 decades
  • Open Questions in Physics ( by John Baez)

      Physics and Astrophysics Colloquia in Boston Area. 

  • MIT Astrophysics Colloquim
  • BU Physics Colloquim
  • BU Astrophysics Seminar Series
  • CFA colloquim
  • MIT center for space Research Lunch

    Web Pages of various Physics courses  

  • Graduate Physics Lab at Harvard
  • Cosmology by Prof Bertschinger
  • General Relativity by Prof Bertschinger
  • Astronomical Instrumentation by Prof Bertschinger
  • General Relativity by Prof Lindblom
  • Major Open Questions in Physics by Prof Kamionkowski

       Other Non-academic Links. 

  • Latest in world of Cricket
  • Latest in world of Tennis
  • Times of India newspaper
  • Rediff
  • Internet English movie Database
  • Colin Wilson Fan webpage
  • United Airlines
  • Tons of Indian songs in real audio
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