Ashoke Sen

For the Indian politician, see Ashoke Kumar Sen.

anism and the precision counting of microstates of black

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Ashoke Sen, FRS (Bengali: ; born 1956)

is an Indian Bengali theoretical physicist and distinguished professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad.[1] He also is the Morningstar Visiting
professor at MIT. His main area of work is String Theory.
He was among the rst recipients of the Fundamental
Physics Prize for opening the path to the realisation that
all string theories are dierent limits of the same underlying theory. This prize has been set up by the Russian
billionaire Yuri Milner for rewarding scientic breakthroughs.

3 Honors and awards

Dirac Medal in 2014.[6]
Doctor of Literature(honorary),2013,awarded by
Jadavpur University.
Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa), 2013, awarded
by IIT Bombay [7]
M.P. Birla Memorial Award in 2013

Early life

Padma Bhushan in 2013.[8]

He was born in Kolkata, and is the elder son of Anil Kumar Sen, a former professor of physics at the Scottish
Church College, and Gouri Sen, a homemaker.[2]

Fundamental Physics Prize, 2012, for his work on

string theory.[9][10]

After completing his schooling from the Sailendra Sircar Vidyalaya and the Scottish Church Collegiate School
in Kolkata, he earned his bachelors of science degree in
1975 from the Presidency College under the University
of Calcutta, and his masters three years later from the
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. During his undergraduate studies at Presidency, he was greatly inspired
by the work and teaching of Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri.
He did his doctoral work in physics at Stony Brook University.

Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa), 2009, awarded

by IIT Kharagpur[11]

Infosys Prize in the Mathematical Sciences,

2009.[12]
Padma Shri in 2001.
Fellow of the Royal Society 1998.[1]
Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy
(1996)[13]
S.S. Bhatnagar award in 1994.

Career

ICTP Prize in 1989.[14]

Ashoke Sen made a number of major original contributions to the subject of string theory, including his
landmark paper on strong-weak coupling duality or Sduality,[3] which was inuential in changing the course
of research in the eld. He pioneered the study of unstable D-branes and made the famous Sen conjecture about
open string tachyon condensation on such branes.[4] His
description of rolling tachyons[5] has been inuential in
string cosmology. He has also co-authored many important papers on string eld theory. In 1998 he won the fellowship of the Royal Society on being nominated by the
theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.[1] His contributions include the entropy function formalism for extremal
black holes and its applications to attractors. His current
research interests are centered around the attractor mech-

4 References
[1] Pulakkat, Hari (Dec 19, 2013). How many of us know
about Breakthrough Prize winner, Ashoke Sen?". The
Economic Times.
[2] Physicist with pillow power
[3] Sen, Ashoke (1994). Dyon - monopole bound states,
selfdual harmonic forms on the multi - monopole
moduli space, and SL(2,Z) invariance in string theory.
Phys. Lett. B329: 217221. arXiv:hep-th/9402032.
Bibcode:1994PhLB..329..217S.
doi:10.1016/03702693(94)90763-3.

[4] Sen, Ashoke (1998). Tachyon condensation on the brane

antibrane system. JHEP 8: 012. arXiv:hep-th/9805170.
Bibcode:1998JHEP...08..012S.
doi:10.1088/11266708/1998/08/012.
[5] Sen, Ashoke (2002). Rolling Tachyon. JHEP 4: 048.
arXiv:hep-th/0203211. Bibcode:2002JHEP...04..048S.
doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2002/04/048.
[6] Dirac Medallists 2014.
[7]
[8] Rajesh Khanna, Sridevi, Mary Kom, Rahul Dravid on
Padma list. Times of India. TNN. Jan 26, 2013.
[9] New annual US$3 million Fundamental Physics Prize recognizes transformative advances in the eld, FPP, accessed 1 August 2012
[10] Indian scientist Ashoke Sen bags top physics honour.
The Times Of India. 2012-08-02.
[11] http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/institute/index.php?page=
honors
[12] Infosys Prize 2009 Mathematical Sciences
[13] The Year Book 2014 // Indian National Science Academy,
New Delhi
[14] ICTP Prize Winner 1989. Retrieved 2009-11-17.

Thomson Honours Leading Indian Scientists Five

people receive the Thomson Citation Laureate
Award, including physics professor Ashoke Sen of
the Harish-Chandra Research Institute.
The Hindu, Sunday, January 7, 2001: Stringing together the ultimate law States that Dr. Ashoke Sen
of HRI has made several important contributions
to the String Theory".

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