Nationality Indian Doctoral advisor George Sterman Fields Physics | Role Physicist Name Ashoke Sen Residence Kolkata, Allahabad | |
Born 15 July 1956 (age 67)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India ( 1956-07-15 ) Institutions Fermilab
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Harish-Chandra Research Institute Alma mater Scottish Church Collegiate School
Presidency College, Kolkata
University of Calcutta
IIT Kanpur
Stony Brook University Known for Contributions to string field theory Notable awards G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research (1996)
Padma Shri (2001)
Infosys Prize - Mathematical Sciences (2009)
Fundamental Physics Prize (2012)
Padma Bhushan (2013)
Dirac Medal (2014) Awards Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Education University of Calcutta, Presidency University, Kolkata | ||
Dr ashoke sen on winning biggest jackpot in the world of science
Ashoke Sen, FRS (; Bengali: অশোক সেন; born 1956) is an Indian theoretical physicist and distinguished professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad. He also is the Morningstar Visiting professor at 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 Fundamental Physics Prize “for opening the path to the realisation that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory”. Of the prizes for theoretical physics, the Fundamental Physics Prize is the one which pays the most prize money.
Contents
- Dr ashoke sen on winning biggest jackpot in the world of science
- Lecture by fundamental physics prize winner ashoke sen at techfest 2013 iit bombay
- Early life
- Career
- Honors and awards
- References
Lecture by fundamental physics prize winner ashoke sen at techfest 2013 iit bombay
Early life
He was born on 15 July 1956 in Kolkata, and is the elder son of Anil Kumar Sen, a former professor of physics at the Scottish Church College, and Gouri Sen, a homemaker.
After completing his schooling from the Sailendra Sircar Vidyalaya and the Scottish Church Collegiate School in Kolkata, he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 1975 from the Presidency College under the University of Calcutta, and his master’s a year later from the 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 string theory, including his landmark paper on strong-weak coupling duality or S-duality, which was influential in changing the course of research in the field. He pioneered the study of unstable D-branes and made the famous Sen conjecture about open string tachyon condensation on such branes. His description of rolling tachyons 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 Royal Society on being nominated by the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. His contributions include the entropy function formalism for extremal black holes and its applications to attractors. His current research interests are centered on the attractor mechanism and the precision counting of microstates of black holes. Recently he has joined National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India as an honorary fellow.