Ashoke Sen

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Ashoke Sen
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
  • Harish-Chandra Research Institute
  • Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
    • Doctoral advisor
    Websitehome.icts.res.in/~sen/

    Ashoke Sen

    MIT and a distinguished professor at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study. His main area of work is string theory. He was among the first recipients of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics "for opening the path to the realization that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory".[4]

    Early life

    He was born on 15 July 1956[5] in Kolkata, and is the elder son of Anil Kumar Sen, a former professor of physics at the Scottish Church College, Kolkata, and Gouri Sen, a homemaker.[6]

    After completing his schooling from

    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. During his undergraduate studies at Presidency, he was greatly inspired by the work and teaching of Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri. He did his doctoral work in physics at Stony Brook University
    .

    Career

    Ashoke Sen made a number of major original contributions to the subject of

    D-branes and made the famous Sen conjecture about open string tachyon condensation on such branes.[8] His description of rolling tachyons[9] has been influential in string cosmology. He has also co-authored many important papers on string field theory
    .

    In 1998, he won the fellowship of the

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    Honors and awards

    Gallery

    • Sen and Prof. Sumathi Rao with students at Harish-Chandra Research Institute, 2018.
      Sen and Prof. Sumathi Rao with students at Harish-Chandra Research Institute, 2018.
    • Sen preparing barbecue chicken at Barbecue Festival (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Feb 2019)
      Sen preparing barbecue chicken at Barbecue Festival (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Feb 2019)

    References

    1. ^ a b "Ashoke Sen | ICTS". www.icts.res.in. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
    2. ^ a b c Pulakkat, Hari (19 December 2013). "How many of us know about Breakthrough Prize winner, Ashoke Sen?". The Economic Times. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
    3. ^ a b "School of Physical Sciences". National Institute of Science Education and Research. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
    4. ^ a b "Breakthrough Prize - Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize Laureates - Ashoke Sen". breakthroughprize.org. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
    5. ^ a b "Fellow Profile – Sen, Prof. Ashoke". Indian Academy of Sciences. Bangalore: Indian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
    6. ^ Miudur, G.S. (2 August 2012). "Physicist with pillow power". Retrieved 4 September 2019.
    7. S2CID 17534677
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    8. S2CID 14588486
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    9. S2CID 12023565
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    10. ^ "Department of Physics". Indian Institute of Science, Education & Research- Bhopal (IISER-Bhopal). Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
    11. ^ "ICTP Prize Winner 1989". Retrieved 4 September 2019.
    12. ^ "Prizes and Awards". The World Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
    13. ^ The Year Book 2014 // Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.
    14. Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Archived from the original
      (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
    15. ^ "Infosys Prize - Laureates 2009 - Prof. K VijayRaghavan". www.infosys-science-foundation.com.
    16. ^ "New annual US$3 million Fundamental Physics Prize recognizes transformative advances in the field". Breakthrough Prize. 31 July 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
    17. ^ "Indian scientist Ashoke Sen bags top physics honour". The Times of India. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
    18. ^ "Rajesh Khanna, Sridevi, Mary Kom, Rahul Dravid on Padma list". The Times of India. TNN. 26 January 2013. Archived from the original on 28 January 2013.
    19. ^ "ICTP - Dirac Medallists 2014". www.ictp.it.

    External links

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