Ashoke Sen.
Ashoke Sen ( Bengali : অশোক সেন , Aśok Sen ; * July 1956 ) is an Indian theoretical physicist and one of the leading string theorists .
From 1962 to 1972 he attended the Sailendra Sirkar Vidyalaya School in Kolkata and then the Presidency College of Calcutta University . From 1976 he studied for two years at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur . In 1982 he graduated from the State University of New York at Stony Brook . As a postdoc , he was at Fermilab from 1982 to 1985 and at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 1985 to 1988 . In 1988 he went to the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai as a professor and since 1995 he has worked at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute in Prayagraj . In addition, he has been a Distinguished Professor at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study since 2015 .
Ashoke Sen is one of the discoverers of the S-duality and put forward a theory about the tachyon condensation of open strings. He also works in the field of string theory .
In 2012 he received the Fundamental Physics Prize and in 2014 the Dirac Medal of the ICTP.
Web links
- Ashoke Sens's homepage at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute
- Ashoke Sen's publications on SPIRES
- Ashoke Sen . In: arXiv.org
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| SURNAME | Sen, Ashoke |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1956 |