At present I work as the development manager for a small software firm called Beam Technologies that specializes in developing software to help engineers design collaborative solutions for complex multi-faceted problem.

Before this I was a postdoctoral research assistant at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Ohio University.

I can be contacted at the following addresses through regular mail, or through e-mail at dutta@compuserve.com.

My astronomical interests are Computational Astrophysics, Galactic Astronomy and Cosmology.

I was born in Calcutta the capital city of West Bengal, in India. I did my undergraduate degree at the Presidency College, University of Calcutta, majoring in Physics.

In 1989 I started my graduate studies in the Princeton University Observatory at the Princeton University. After getting my Ph.D. in astrophysics there in 1993 I joined the Theoretical Physics department of Oxford University as a postdoctoral research assistant.

Useful and Interesting (to me) Links:

• A quick reference for HTML.
• I used to teach an undergraduate class of astronomy in Ohio University. Here are the notes from my Astro 100 class.
• The Simla Agreement between the governments of India and Pakistan over Kashmir.
• The United Nations declaration on human rights