Nationality American/Canadian Fields Computer Science, Physics Books Labelled Markov Processes | Doctoral advisor Leonard Parker Name Prakash Panangaden | |
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Born March 11, 1954
Pune, Maharashtra, India ( 1954-03-11 ) Institutions Cornell University, McGill University Doctoral students Anne Neirynck, Michael I. Schwartzbach, Charles Elkan, Kimberley E. Taylor, James R. Russell, Vasant Shanbhogue, Radhakrishnan Jagadeesan, Carol M. Critchlow, Marija Cubric, Clark Verbrugge, Josee Desharnais, Ellie d'Hondt, Norm Ferns, Yannick Delbecque, Pablo Castro. Known for Markov processes, programming languages, concurrency theory and quantum field theory in curved space-time Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2013), Leo Yaffe Award for Outstanding Teaching (1999) Alma mater Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, University of Utah Institution Cornell University, McGill University | ||
Prakash panangaden the mirror of mathematics lecture 1
Prakash Panangaden is an American/Canadian Computer Scientist noted for his research in programming languages, concurrency theory, Markov processes and duality theory. Earlier he worked on quantum field theory in curved space-time and radiation from black holes. He is the founding Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (ACM SIGLOG).
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- Prakash panangaden the mirror of mathematics lecture 1
- Prakash panangaden the physics of anyons for computer scientists
- Biography
- Awards
- References
Prakash panangaden the physics of anyons for computer scientists
Biography
Prakash Panangaden was born in Pune, India on March 11, 1954. He received a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee under the supervision of Leonard Parker. His PhD thesis was on renormalization of interacting fields in curved spacetime .
Prakash has successfully graduated 14 students and has in total 36 academic descendants.
He joined the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University in 1985 as an Assistant Professor, where he worked in the Nuprl project and co-authored a book. He moved to McGill University as an associate professor in the School of Computer Science in 1990 and was promoted to professor in 1996
He has been keynote speaker at many conferences, including the two top conferences in the field -- LICS and ICALP .
Awards
In 2013 he was elected a FRSC. His citation reads: "Prakash Panangaden's research career has spanned computer science, mathematics and physics. He has worked on programming languages, probabalistic systems, quantum computation and relativity. He is particularly known for deep connections between domain theory and continuous-state Markov processes where he and his colleagues proved a striking logical characterization theorem. He and Keye Martin discovered a remarkable way to reconstruct spacetime topology from causal structure using mathematical ideas from programming languages."
He was honoured on his 60th birthday by his research community. There was a three-day symposium, called PrakashFest, held at Oxford University and a Festschrift was published by Springer-Verlag The summary of the Festschrift reads: "This Festschrift volume contains papers presented at a conference, Prakash Fest, held in honor of Prakash Panangaden, in Oxford, UK, in May 2014, to celebrate his 60th birthday. Prakash Panangaden has worked on a large variety of topics including probabilistic and concurrent computation, logics and duality and quantum information and computation. Despite the enormous breadth of his research, he has made significant and deep contributions. For example, he introduced logic and a real-valued interpretation of the logic to capture equivalence of probabilistic processes quantitatively."
In 1999 he was awarded the Leo Yaffe Award by the Faculty of Science of McGill University for excellence in teaching.