• Ph D, Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2016

• Understanding Hot and Cold Nuclear matter using Effective Field Theories, US Department of Energy, (2024 - 2027)

Citations listed below are presented in a standardized, modified format for display purposes only. They do not necessarily reflect the preferred style and conventions of the faculty member or discipline.

• Vaidya, Varun, and Stewart, Iain. Power Counting to Saturation. Physical Review D Letters, 2024. (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.L011504)
• Vaidya, Varun, Slatyer, Tracy, Rodd, Nicholas , and Baumgart, Matthew. The Quintuplet Annihilation Spectrum. arXiv:2309.11562, Submitted to Journal of High Energy Physics. (DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2024)158)
• Vaidya, Varun, and Asadi, Pouya. 1+1D Hadrons Minimize their Biparton Renyi Free Energy. Physical Review D. (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.014036)
• Vaidya, Varun, and Asadi, Pouya. Quantum Entanglement and the Thermal Hadron. Physical Review D. (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.054028)

• EPSCoR grant, U. S Department of Energy, 2024

• Vaidya, Varun, Power counting to jet quenching. Presented at the Heavy Ion physics in EIC era workshop, Seattle. (August 2024)
• Vaidya, Varun, Power counting to jet quenching.. (May 2024)
• Vaidya, Varun, Factorization for jet propagation.. Presented at the Jet propagation in dense media, Seattle. (October 2023)
• Vaidya, Varun, Factorization Violation and Saturation Physics. Presented at the Frontiers of Quantum Field Theory, Vienna. (August 2023)
• Vaidya, Varun, Confinement and quantum entanglement. Presented at the Quark Confinement Workshop, U Minnesota. (May 2023)
• Vaidya, Varun, Quantum entanglement and 1+1 D hadron structure. Presented at the SCET Workshop (March 2023)
• Vaidya, Varun, Jet propagation in Heavy Ion Coliisions. Presented at the TIFR Meson Seminar, Mumbai(online). (February 2023)
• Vaidya, Varun, Small x physics at the Electron Ion Collider. Presented at the Resummation, Evolution, Factorization 2022, Online. (November 2022)
• Vaidya, Varun, Power counting to saturation. Presented at the INT workshop on Hadron structure, Seattle. (September 2022)