Prakash Panangaden
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Comment: For a living person we have a high standard of referencing. Every substantive fact you assert, especially one that is susceptible to potential challenge, requires a citation with a reference that is about them, and is independent of them, and is in WP:RSYou are using his work as a reference. This almost always is inappropriate. Let me try to explain. If s/he manufactured vacuum cleaners, the cleaners would be her/his work. A vacuum cleaner could not be a reference for her/him, simply because it is the product he makes. So it is with research. However, a review of her/his work by others tends to be a review of her/him and her/his methods, so is a reference, as is a peer reviewed paper a reference for her/his work. You may find WP:ACADEME of some use in seeing how Wikipedia and Academe differ hugely Fiddle Faddle 23:00, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
Prakash Panangaden | |
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Prakash Panangaden | |
| Born | March 11, 1954 |
| Nationality | American/Canadian |
| Alma mater | IIT Kanpur University of Chicago University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee University of Utah |
| Known for | Markov processes, programming languages, concurrency theory and quantum field theory in curved space-time |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2013), Leo Yaffe Award for Outstanding Teaching (1999) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science,Physics |
| Institutions | Cornell University, McGill University |
| Doctoral advisor | Leonard Parker |
| 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, Josée Desharnais, Ellie d'Hondt, Norm Ferns, Yannick Delbecque, Pablo Castro. |
| Website | www |
Prakash Panangaden is an American/Canadian Computer Scientist noted for his research in programming languages, concurrency theory, Markov processes and duality theory [1]. Earlier he worked on quantum field theory in curved space-time and radiation from black holes. His PhD thesis was on renormalization of interacting fields in curved spacetime. [2]. He is the founding Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation (SIGLOG). [3]
Biography
Prakash Panangaden was born in Pune, India on March 11th, 1954. He attended Calcutta Boys' School from 1965 to 1969, IIT Kanpur from 1970 to 1975 where he received an MSc in physics, the University of Chicago from 1975 to 1977 where he received an MS in physics working with Robert M. Wald, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1977 to 1980 where he received a PhD under the supervision of Leonard Parker and the University of Utah from 1982 to 1984 where he received an MS in computer science in 1985 under the supervision of Robert Keller.
He joined the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University in 1985 as an Assistant Professor. 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 a visiting research associate at the University of Cambridge in 1987 and has spent sabbatical leaves at the University of Aarhus in 1996-97 and the University of Oxford in 2003-4 and in 2010-11. He was a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford in 2003-04.
The scientific community has high appreciation for Prakash's outstanding work and influence in various fields, as witnessed by the many invitations to speak at the main conferences including LICS [4] and ICALP [5]. .
Awards
In 2013 he was elected a FRSC. [6] 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 s 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 [7] and a Festschrift was published by Springer-Verlag [8] 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. [9]
References
- ^ "Horizons of the Mind: A Tribute to Prakash Panangaden". Springer-Verlag. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
- ^ Prakash Panangaden (1980). "Propagators and renormalization of quantum field theory in curved spacetimes". Retrieved 2015-04-05.
- ^ Association for Computing Machinery. "SIG Governing Board". Retrieved 2015-04-05.
- ^ "LICS Invited talk". LICS. Retrieved 2015-07-26.
- ^ "Invited Talk ICALP 2006". EATCS. Retrieved 2015-07-26.
- ^ Royal Society of Canada. "Class of 2013 List of New Fellows" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-04-05.
- ^ Department of Computer Science, Oxford University (May 23, 2014). "PrakashFest". Retrieved 2015-04-05.
- ^ "Horizons of the Mind: A Tribute to Prakash Panangaden". Springer-Verlag. Retrieved 2015-04-05.
- ^ Faculty of Science, McGill University. "Leo Yaffe Award for Excellence in Teaching". Retrieved 2015-04-05.
External links
- McGill University: Prakash Panangaden, School of Computer Science
- Google Scholar: Prakash Panangaden, Google Scholar
Category: computer scientists Category:McGill University faculty Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Category:Indian computer scientists Category:Living people
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