B. Sriram Shastry
B. Sriram Shastry (born November 26, 1950 in Akola , India ) is an Indian-American solid-state physicist.
Shastry graduated from Nagpur University (bachelor's degree) and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras with a master's degree in physics in 1970. He received his PhD in 1976 from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay . As a post-doctoral student he was a lecturer at the University of Hyderabad and from 1979 to 1980 a Royal Society scholarship at Imperial College London. From 1980 to 1982 he was an instructor at the University of Utah and from 1982 to 1989 a fellow and reader at the Tata Institute. In 1987/88 he was visiting lecturer at Princeton University and from 1988 to 1994 at Bell Laboratories (or its successor, Lucent Bell Laboratories). From 1994 to 2003 he was a professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore , from 2000/2001 a consultant at Lucent Bell Laboratories and visiting scientist at Princeton University and Rutgers University and from 2003 professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz .
Shastry deals with strongly correlated systems, magnetism, modeling of relaxation rates in NMR experiments, the Hubbard model, exactly solvable quantum spin systems, the Hall constant , thermoelectric materials and high-temperature superconductors (including Raman scattering in these systems).
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2006) and the Indian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (whose Physics Prize he received in 1999), the Indian National Science Academy and the National Academy of Sciences of India. From 2011 he is on the scientific advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems in Dresden.
In 2009 he received the Lars Onsager Prize for fundamental contributions to the development and solution of models of strongly correlated systems and for far-reaching contributions to the phenomenological many-body theory .
He is married and has two sons.
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- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ One example is high-temperature superconductors
- ↑ for pioneering work in developing and solving models of strongly correlated systems and for wide-ranging contributions to phenomenological many-body theory, which have advanced the analysis of experiments on strongly correlated materials . Laudation at the APS
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shastry, B. Sriram |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian-American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Akola |