Ashoke Sen
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 Ashoke Sen at Harvard
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| Born | 1956 |
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| Residence | India  |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Fermilab Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Harish-Chandra Research Institute |
| Alma mater | Presidency College, Kolkata Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| Known for | String Theory |
- For the Indian politician, see Ashoke Kumar Sen.
Ashoke Sen (b. 1956) is among India's most outstanding theoretical physicists. He has made a number of major original contributions to the subject of string theory, including his landmark paper on strong-weak coupling duality or S-duality[1] which was influential in changing the course of research in the field. He pioneered the study of unstable D-branes and made the famous Sen conjecture about open string tachyon condensation on such branes. His description of rolling tachyons has been influential in string cosmology. He has also co-authored many important papers on string field theory. Of his nearly 200 research papers, as many as 47 papers have over 100 citations each [2].
Sen received his PhD from State University of New York at Stony Brook. During his early career, he worked as a research scientist at Fermilab and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Later he joined the Indian Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) before finally moving to the Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) where he currently works. He is married to Dr. Sumathi Rao, a condensed matter physicist at HRI.
Sen was awarded the ICTP Prize in memory of Hideki Yukawa in 1989[1] and the S.S. Bhatnagar award in 1994. In 1998 Sen was made a Fellow of the Royal Society.[2]
The Outlook magazine of April 23, 2007 has listed him amongst India's 25 people who will not make it to the power list, yet have made significant contributions to society.
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- 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".
