Sumit Ranjan Das

Sumit Ranjan Das
Born (1955-12-11) 11 December 1955
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Residence Kentucky, USA
Nationality Indian
Alma mater
Known for Studies on string theory
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Sumit Ranjan Das (born 11 December 1955) is a US-based Indian high energy physicist and a Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences. Known for his research on string theory, Das 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 1998.[1][note 1]

Biography

Calcutta University- a Francis Frith photo

Born on 11 December 1955 at Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal, Sumit Ranjan Das did his early schooling at South Point School and earned his graduate and master's degrees from the University of Calcutta.[2] Moving to the US, he enrolled at the University of Chicago for his doctoral studies and after securing a PhD in 1983, he did his post-doctoral studies at Fermilab (1983–85) and California Institute of Technology (1985–87).[3] On his return to India in 1987, he joined Tata Institute of Fundamental Research where he served as a member of faculty till 2001. Subsequently, he went back to the US and joined the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences where he holds the position of a University Research Professor. He was a senior associate at Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe during 2009–10 [4] and a Visiting Professor at Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University during 2014 and has held visiting positions at several universities in the US.

Legacy

The principal focus of Das' research is string theory and quantum field theory.[5] His work on two dimensional strings is the earliest example of holographic principle. His work on black holes in string theory assisted in resolving the information paradox with regard to black holes.[6]

Awards and honors

Das was a gold medalist in both his graduate and master's examinations.[2] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 1998.[7] The Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as a fellow the same year.[8]

Selected bibliography

  • Sumit Das (2005). "Time-dependent 2D spacetimes from matrices". Modern Physics Letters A. 20 (28): 2101–2118. Bibcode:2005MPLA...20.2101D. doi:10.1142/S0217732305018153.
  • Sumit Das, Jeremy Michelson (2006). "Matrix membrane big bangs and D-brane production". Physical Review D. 73 (12). arXiv:hep-th/0602099. Bibcode:2006PhRvD..73l6006D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.73.126006.
  • Sumit Das (2007). "Holography and cosmological singularities". International Journal of Modern Physics A. 22 (31): 5638–5655. arXiv:0706.4188. Bibcode:2007IJMPA..22.5638D. doi:10.1142/S0217751X0703889X.
  • Adel Awad, Sumit Das, K. Narayan, Sandip Trivedi (2008). "Gauge theory duals of cosmological backgrounds and their energy momentum tensors". Physical Review D. 77 (4). arXiv:0711.2994. Bibcode:2008PhRvD..77d6008A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.77.046008.
  • Sumit Das, Gautam Mandal (2009). "Microstate dependence of scattering from the D1-D5 system". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2009 (4). arXiv:0812.1358. Bibcode:2009JHEP...04..036D. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/036.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Long link - please select award year to see details

References

  1. ↑ "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2017-11-11. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
  2. 1 2 "ASPEXS - South Point Ex-students' Association". South Point Ex-students' Association. 2017-10-17. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  3. ↑ "Faculty Profile". College of Arts & Sciences Physics & Astronomy - University of Kentucky. 2017-10-17. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  4. ↑ "Alumnae and Alumni". Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe. 2017-10-17. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  5. ↑ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2017-10-17. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  6. ↑ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2017-10-17. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  7. ↑ "CSIR list of Awardees". Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 2017.
  8. ↑ "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2017-10-17. Retrieved 2017-10-17.

Further reading

  • Sumit Ranjan Das (2002). "Einstein's Miraculous Year - Book review" (PDF). Current Science. 83 (4): 510. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
  • Amitav Ghosh (1999). Countdown. Orient Blackswan. pp. 107–. ISBN 978-81-7530-025-5.
  • Sanjay Mohapatra; Ranjan Prasad Singh (16 January 2012). Information Strategy Design and Practices. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-1-4614-2427-7.
  • Sanjay Mohapatra (1 January 2009). Business Process Automation. PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. pp. 12–. ISBN 978-81-203-3927-9.
  • Amitav Ghosh (23 April 2007). Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of our Times. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 300–. ISBN 0-547-52713-6.
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