AR-2020-21

104 33 rd ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21 (d) SUPERVISION OF PhD THESES (Ongoing) Dipankar Bhattacharya Title: Accretion-Induced Evolution of Neutron Star Magnetic Field. Student: Suman Bala (IUCAA) and Ranjeev Misra (Co-supervision) Title: Spectro-Timing Study of Accretion Disks . Student: Yash Bhargava (IUCAA) and Dipanjan Mukherjee (Co-supervision) Title: An Investigation of Polarised Emission from Accreting Binary X-Ray Pulsars . Student: Parisee Shirke (IUCAA) Sukanta Bose Title: Constraining the Equation of State of Neutron Stars withGravitational Wave Observations. Student: Bhaskar Biswas (IUCAA) Title: ImprovedMethods for DiscriminatingGravitational Wave Signals of Compact Binary Coalescences fromNoise Transients. Student: Sunil Choudhary (IUCAA) Title: Spacetime Mapping. Student: Sayak G. Datta (IUCAA) Title: Numerical Study of Wave Propagation in General Relativity. Student: Shalabh Gautam (IUCAA) Title: Measuring Cosmological Parameters with Gravitational-wave Observations. Student: Tathagata Ghosh and Anupreeta More (Co-Supervision) Title: Using Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences to Probe Gravitational Lensing (Strong andMicro) and theMagnetic Penrose Process. Student: Anuj Mishra Title: Characterizing the Properties and Constitution of Compact Objects inGravitational Wave Binaries. Student: Samanwaya Mukherjee (IUCAA) Title: The Physics andAstrophysics of Binary Black HoleMergers and their Gravitational Radiation. Student: Vaishak Prasad (IUCAA)