Narasimhaiengar Mukunda
Narasimhaiengar Mukunda (born 25 January 1939, New Delhi, India) is an Indian theoretical physicist.[1]
Mukunda's higher education began at
E. C. G. Sudarshan and graduated in 1964. Mukunda’s thesis dealt with Hamiltonian mechanics, symmetry groups and elementary particles.[2] He also studied group theory at Princeton University with Valentine Bargmann, including topological groups and Lie theory
.
He was a post-doctoral fellow at
light polarization
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Mukunda and collaborators initiated the "Quantum theory of charged-particle
Dirac Equation
.
Mukunda is an honorary professor at
IISER Thiruvananthapuram. He is also the Distinguished associate of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute.[4]
He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for work in Nonlinear and Quantum Optics in 1980[5] In 2016 Mukunda gave the Fifteenth Memorial V.G. Kulkarni Lecture: "The Nature of Scientific Knowledge: some reflections".[6]
Selected publications
According to Mathematical Reviews, Mukunda contributed to 143 scholarly publications, including
- 1974: (with MR0434047
- 1987: "The mathematical style of modern physics", pages 1 to 20 in Recent Developments in Theoretical Physics, MR935612
- 1989: (with MR0986460
- 1989: (with R. Simon and George Sudarshan) "The theory of screws: a new geometric representation for the group SU(1,1"), MR0992568
- 1989: (with R. Simon and George Sudarshan) "Hamilton's turns and a new geometrical representation for polarization optics", Pramana 32(6): 769–92.
- 1989: (with R. Jagannathan, Rajiah Simon & E.C.G. Sudarshan) "Quantum theory of magnetic electron lenses based on the Dirac equation", doi:10.1016/0375-9601(89)90685-3 bibcode = 1989PhLA..134..457J pdf
- 1992: (with R. Simon) "Hamilton's turns and geometric phase for two-level systems", MR1193846
- 1993: Twisted Gaussian Schell-model beams. I & II. Symmetry structure and normal-mode spectrum via Indian Academy of Sciences
- 1996: "Planetary Motions and the Birth of Classical Mechanics", MR1412435
- 1997: "Geometry, Fields, and Cosmology", Fundamental Theories of Physics 88, MR1601142(from First Inter-University Graduate School on Gravitation and Cosmology held in Pune, 1989)
- 1999: "Mathematics and the Physicist's Conception of Nature", Current Science 76(5): 634–9 MR1678395
- 2006: (with R. Simon, S. Chaturvedi, and V. Srinivasan) "Hamiltion's Turns for the Lorentz Group", MR2275839
- 2010: (with MR2777931(Mukunda wrote part 2: Group Theory and Structure and Representations of Compact, Simple Lie Groups and Algebras.)
- 2017: (with Arvind and Chaturvedi) "Global aspects of polarization optics and coset space geometry", MR3688582
References
- ^ a b "Brief Resume - Prof. N. Mukunda" (PDF). ICAST. Archived from the original on 24 June 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Narasimhaigar Mukunda (1964) Studies in Hamiltonian theories of relativistic interacting particles, and in the application of symmetry groups to elementary particle physics, Seventh supplement to Checklist of Doctors’ Theses from University of Rochester
- ^ "Physics Department, IISER Bhopal". Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
- ^ Faculty at Ramakrishna Mission
- ^ Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners (1958 - 1998) (PDF). Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi. 1999. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
- ^ VGK Memorial Lecture Series from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
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