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Atish Dabholkar
Born (1963-09-16) September 16, 1963 (age 60)
India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Known forStudies on quantum gravity, black holes and string theory
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisor

Atish Shirpad Dabholkar (born September 16, 1963) is an Indian theoretical physicist, the director of research at the "Laboratory of Theoretical and High Energy Physics" (LTHEP) of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the head of High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics section at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics. Known for his research on quantum gravity, black holes and string theory, Dabholkar is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2006.[1][note 1]

Biography

IIT Kanpur

Born on September 16, 1963, Atish Dabholkar earned a master's degree in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1985 and proceeded to the US for his doctoral studies under the guidance of Jeffrey A. Harvey to secure a PhD in 1990.[2] Subsequently, he joined Rutgers University for his post-doctoral work which he completed in 1993 and moved to Harvard University as a post-doctoral associate for a one year term. Joining California Institute of Technology as a senior research fellow in 1994, he spent the next couple of years there before returning to India in 1996 to take up the position of a professor of theoretical physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, a position he holds till date. Simultaneously, he serves as the head of "High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics" section at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)[3] and as a director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in their Laboratory of Theoretical and High Energy Physics (LPTHE) since 2007. He also had a short stint at Stanford University during 2003–04 as a visiting professor.[2]

Legacy and honors

Soliton hydro - Solitary wave in a laboratory wave channel.

Dabholkar's work is reported to have assisted in understanding the entropy of black holes through quantum theory.[4] He is also credited with pioneering studies on string theory in relation to supersymmetric solitons.[5] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles[6][note 2] and the online article repository of the Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 43 of them.[7] He was the editor of Strings 2001, a book detailing the proceedings of the Strings 2001 Conference held at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 2001.[8] He has also done a series of lectures including the one on Quantum Black Holes which has since been published as Lectures on Quantum Black Holes by Lecture Notes in Physics journal.[9]

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded Dabholkar the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2006.[10] The Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as a fellow in 2007[11] and he was selected for the Chaire de Excellence of the Agence nationale de la recherche the same year.[12] He is also a recipient of the Recipient of the National Leadership award from the President of India in 2008.[2]

Selected bibliography

Books

  • Atish Dabholkar (2002). Strings 2001: Proceedings of the Strings 2001 Conference, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, January 5-10, 2001. American Mathematical Soc. ISBN 978-0-8218-2981-3.

Articles

  • Atish Dabholkar, Joao Gomes, Sameer Murthy, Ashoke Sen (2011). "Supersymmetric Index from Black Hole Entropy". JHEP. arXiv:1009.3226.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Atish Dabholkar, Suresh Nampuri (2012). "Lectures on Quantum Black Holes". Lecture Notes in Physics. 851: 165–232. arXiv:1208.4814.
  • Teresa Bautista, Atish Dabholkar (2015). "Quantum Cosmology Near Two Dimensions". Phys. Rev. D. 94. arXiv:1511.07450.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Long link - please select award year to see details
  2. ^ Please see Selected bibliography section

References

  1. ^ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c "Biographical Information". University of Kongresni. 2017-10-25. Retrieved 2017-10-25.
  3. ^ "Members HECAP Scientists and Staff". International Centre for Theoretical Physics. 2017-10-30. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
  4. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2017-10-21. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  5. ^ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2017-10-17. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  6. ^ "On ResearchGate". On ResearchGate. 2017-10-17. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  7. ^ "Browse by Fellow". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2017-10-21. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  8. ^ Atish Dabholkar (2002). Strings 2001: Proceedings of the Strings 2001 Conference, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, January 5-10, 2001. American Mathematical Soc. ISBN 978-0-8218-2981-3.
  9. ^ Atish Dabholkar, Suresh Nampuri (2012). "Lectures on Quantum Black Holes". Lecture Notes in Physics. 851: 165–232. arXiv:1208.4814.
  10. ^ "CSIR list of Awardees". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2017.
  11. ^ "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2017-10-21. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
  12. ^ "Scientific partnerships". Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and High Energies. 2017-10-30. Retrieved 2017-10-30.

Further reading

  • Atish Dabholkar, Jo˜ao Gomes (2009). "Perturbative tests of non-perturbative counting". arXiv:0911.0586. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links

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