Swapan Chattopadhyay

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Swapan Chattopadhyay
University of California at Berkeley (1974–1982, 1984–2001, 2009–2011, 2013–2015, 2023–)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1976–1982, 1984–2001)
CERN (1982–1984, 2008–)
ThesisOn stochastic cooling of bunched beams from fluctuation and kinetic theory
Doctoral advisorsJoseph J. Bisognano
Other academic advisorsProf. Wulf Kunkel
Prof. Owen Chamberlain
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Swapan Chattopadhyay

Indian American physicist. Chattopadhyay completed his PhD from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1982.[1]

Currently, Chattopadhyay is part-time Faculty at

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), where he was a member of the director's senior leadership team and was director of the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between Fermilab and NIU.[2][3]

Chattopadhyay is a Fellow of the American Physical Society,[4] American Association for the Advancement of Science,[5] Institute of Physics (UK), Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (UK) and Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh[6] and a member of many international panels and committees, including the "International Committee for Future Accelerators" and the DESY Science Council (2008–2013).[7][8]

Early life and education

Early childhood

Swapan Chattopadhyay was born in

Ballygunge Government High School
and was selected a National Science Talent Scholar in a nationwide competition. It was in this high school, that he was the beneficiary of the gifted mentorship of the school's physics teacher, Pramatha Nath Patra.

Higher education and early career

Chattopadhyay completed his

Particle Physics
in 1972.

Chattopadhyay then joined in 1972 the Physics department of the

Super Proton-Antiproton Synchrotron, contributing to program of stochastic cooling of antiproton beams.[9]

Career

Chattopadhyay is noted for his pioneering contributions of innovative concepts, techniques and developments in

Free-Electron Lasers at Jefferson and Daresbury Laboratories.[14]

He was formerly the

Nobel Laureate credited with creating the field.[15][11] In this role he was the Inaugural Director of the Cockcroft Institute (UK), having been appointed in April 2007. Prior to this he served as associate director of Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (2001–2007),[16] staff/senior scientist and founding director of the Centre for Beam Physics at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1984–2001); and scientific attaché at CERN (1982–1984).[17]

After the period spent at CERN, Chattopadhyay returned to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1984, where he led and defined the accelerator physics of the Advanced Light Source (ALS)

superconducting version of the International Linear Collider
, to name a few. His research at the Cockcroft Institute in UK included development of sources of "ultra-cold"
photonic crystals and metamaterial
structures for charged particle acceleration; novel high energy colliders.

While working for

atom interferometry, and the creation of the Matter-wave Atomic Gradiometer Interferometric Sensor (MAGIS-100) experiment.[21][22]
Having contributed to the conception, design, construction, commissioning and operation of numerous accelerators for particle and nuclear physics, photon and neutron sciences around the world, with significant research accomplishments in advanced particle and photon beam physics,[23][24] and mentoring scientists around the world, in the developing nations in particular, in accelerator developments as a unifying global force among nations, Swapan Chattopadhyay is a frequently invited speaker and advisor at professional societies and government research agencies, serving on numerous editorial, advisory and review committees throughout the world.

He served as the Vice-Chair, Chair-elect, Chair and Past-Chair of the American Physical Society's Division of Physics of Beams (2007–2011). Chattopadhyay has delivered lectures throughout the world e.g. Saha Memorial Lecture,[25] Homi Bhabha Lecture, Raja Ramanna Memorial Lecture, and Cavendish Lecture among many.

References

  1. ^ Chattopadhyay, Swapan (1 September 1982). "On stochastic cooling of bunched beams from fluctuation and kinetic theory". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ "NIU Today – NIU, Fermilab land noted physicist in joint appointment". NIU Today. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Berkeley Physics page". Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  4. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  5. S2CID 220094341
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  6. ^ "Professor Dr Swapan Chattopadhyay CorrFRSE". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 15 March 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  7. ^ "DESY – SC – Members Scientific Council (September 2012)". 5 April 2013. Archived from the original on 5 April 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  8. ^ "Professional resume: Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay" (PDF). Northern Illinois University, Department of Physics. May 2017.
  9. ^
    doi:10.5170/CERN-1984-015.197. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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  10. ^ "Swapan Chattopadhyay and Omar Chmaissem – NIU – Huskie Spotlight". 22 April 2017. Archived from the original on 22 April 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  11. ^ a b "Swapan Chattopadhyay appointed to the UKs first Chair of Accelerator Physics and to be the Inaugural Director of The Cockcroft Institute". Interactions. 14 November 2006. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  12. ^
    OSTI 6841206. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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  13. S2CID 91179466
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  14. OSTI 833909. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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  15. ISSN 0031-9228
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  16. ^ "People". CERN Courier. 41 (3): 34. April 2001.
  17. ^ "INSPIRE: Swapan Chattopadhyay author profile". inspirehep.net. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  18. ISSN 0094-243X
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  19. ^ "ATAP News, April 2017". atap.lbl.gov. April 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  20. OSTI 833909. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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  21. S2CID 209178030
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  22. ^ "Faces and places: Chattopadhyay returns to new challenges in the US" (PDF). CERN Courier. 54 (7): 32. February 2014.
  23. ^ Chattopadhyay, Swapan (October 2002). "Viewpoint: Accelerators for nano- and biosciences". CERN Courier. 42 (8): 46.
  24. ^ Chattopadhyay, Swapan (March 2007). "Viewpoint: Amazing particles and light". CERN Courier. 47 (2): 50.
  25. ^ "Past Saha Memorial Lectures". Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics. Retrieved 26 April 2021.

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