Spouse Rukmini Dey | Name Rajesh Gopakumar Citizenship Indian | |
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Institutions Harish-Chandra Research InstituteInstitute for Advanced Study Known for Gopakumar–Vafa dualityGopakumar–Vafa invariants Notable awards Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, International Centre for Theoretical Physics Similar People David Gross, Frank Wilczek, Hugh David Politzer | ||
From the Very, Very Large to the Very, Very Small | Rajesh Gopakumar | TEDxPESU
Rajesh Gopakumar (born 1967 in Kolkata, India) a theoretical physicist is director of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR) in Bangalore, India. He was previously a professor at Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) in Allahabad, India. He is known for his work on topological string theory.
Contents
- From the Very Very Large to the Very Very Small Rajesh Gopakumar TEDxPESU
- Rajesh gopakumar higher spin theories on ads 3 and their cft duals 1
- Background
- Research
- Awards
- Selected publications
- References
Rajesh gopakumar higher spin theories on ads 3 and their cft duals 1
Background
Gopakumar was born in 1967 to Jaishree and G. Gopakumar in Kolkata. His family hails from the southern Indian state of Kerala. He has the distinction being ranked 1 in the entrance examination for the Indian Institute of Technology in 1987.
Gopakumar obtained his integrated M.Sc. degree in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1992. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1997 under the supervision of David Gross. After a few years as a research associate at Harvard University, he joined HRI in 2001. He was also a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey from 2001 to 2004.
He is married to Rukmini Dey, a Professor of Mathematical Physics and Geometry at ICTS-TIFR.
Research
Gopakumar is a string theorist. His research is primarily focused on topological string theory. He is known for proposing with Cumrun Vafa the Gopakumar–Vafa duality and Gopakumar–Vafa invariants.
Awards
Gopakumar was awarded the 2004 B.M. Birla Science Prize in Physics.
He received the 2006 ICTP Prize.
He received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 2009.
He was named Fellow of the Global Young Academy of Scientists for 2010. He is a member of the Indian National Science Academy, and the Indian Academy of Sciences.
He received TWAS Prize in Physics in 2013.