Sneha Girap (Editor)

Shiraz Minwalla

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Residence
  
India

Doctoral advisor
  
Nathan Seiberg

Role
  
Physicist

Name
  
Shiraz Minwalla

Citizenship
  
Indian



Institutions
  
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Harvard University

Alma mater
  
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (M.Sc.), Princeton University (Ph.D.)

Notable awards
  
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, ICTP Prize, New Horizons in Physics Prize, Infosys Prize

Awards
  
New Horizons in Physics Prize

Education
  
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Princeton University

Fields
  
String theory, Theoretical physics

Similar People
  
Rajesh Gopakumar, Nathan Seiberg, Spenta R Wadia, Andrew Strominger, Sandip Trivedi

String theory lecture 1 shiraz minwalla


Shiraz Naval Minwalla is an Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist. He is a faculty member in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Prior to his present position, he was a Harvard Junior Fellow and subsequently an Assistant Professor at Harvard University.

Contents

Shiraz Minwalla wwwtifrresinwebimagesphotosSMA4281jpg

Nxu guest lecture series shiraz minwalla


Early life

Shiraz Minwalla String Theory Lecture 19 Part 2 Shiraz Minwalla YouTube

Born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, in 1973, in a Parsi-Zoroastrian family, Minwalla graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1995. He later moved to Princeton University to earn his Ph.D. under the guidance of Nathan Seiberg.

Awards

Shiraz Minwalla String Theory Lecture 1 Shiraz Minwalla YouTube

Minwalla was awarded the Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2005-06 by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. He was awarded the ICTP Prize in 2010 and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the physical sciences category in 2011. He was awarded the Infosys Prize 2013 in the field of Physical Sciences by the Infosys Science Foundation. He was awarded the 2014 New Horizons in Physics Prize by the Fundamental Physics Prize for "his pioneering contributions to the study of string theory and quantum field theory; and in particular his work on the connection between the equations of fluid dynamics and Albert Einstein's equations of general relativity." In 2016, The World Academy of Sciences awarded him the TWAS Prize in Physics.

Notable contributions to the field

Shiraz Minwalla String theorists regale in new accolades Indigenus

  • Analysis of primary operators on AdS4 and AdS7
  • Three-point functions in N=4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory and AdS/CFT
  • Noncommutative perturbative dynamics (with Nathan Seiberg and Mark Van Raamsdonk)
  • Noncommutative solitons (with Andrew Strominger and Rajesh Gopakumar)
  • OM-theory (with Nathan Seiberg, Andrew Strominger and Rajesh Gopakumar)
  • Stringy interactions in pp-waves
  • Some insights about tachyon condensation
  • Selected works

  • Bhattacharyya, Sayantani; Hubeny, Veronika E.; Loganayagam, R.; Mandal, Gautam; Minwalla, Shiraz; Morita, Takeshi; Rangamani, Mukund; Reall, Harvey S. (2008). "Local fluid dynamical entropy from gravity". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2008 (6): 055. Bibcode:2008JHEP...06..055B. arXiv:0803.2526 . doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/06/055. 
  • References

    Shiraz Minwalla Wikipedia