Dr. Prithish Halder

Research Interests

Dust in Astrophysics: Comet dust (morphology and composition), Asteroid dust, Interplanetary dust, Proto-planetary dust, Interstellar dust/medium, Circum-galactic dust/medium.
Light Scattering Processes: Polarization, Scattering, Absorption, Extinction.
Solar Physics: Solar energetic particles (SEP), Solar flares (Magnetic topology), Flare Prediction, Stellar flares & CMEs.
Atmospheric Science & Nanoscience: Aerosols, Air borne micro-plastics, Plasmonics, Nano crystals, Perovskite.

Programming: Julia, Fortran, C/C++, Python, R, Bash, Java, Visual Basic, MatLab, LaTeX
Light Scattering Tools: Mie theory, T-matrix, DDA, RGD
Data Reduction & Topology: IRAF, PyRAF, DS9, DAVE4VM, ARTop, NLFFF, GPU Computing (CUDA.jl)
Machine Learning: XGBoost, CNN, Siamese Neural Network, Random Forest
Graphics & Plotting: Gnuplot, Matplotlib, Origin, VTK, Paraview, Blender 3D