Sunil Mukhi
| Sunil Mukhi | |
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| Born |
20 November 1956 (age 60) India, Mumbai, |
| Residence | India . . |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune International Centre for Theoretical Physics Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| Alma mater |
St Xavier's College Mumbai Stony Brook University |
| Doctoral advisor | George Sterman |
| Doctoral students | Keshav Dasgupta, Bahniman Ghosh, Nemani Suryanarayana, Anindya Mukherjee, Rahul Nigam |
| Known for | String Theory |
| Notable awards | S.S. Bhatnagar Award 1999 J.C. Bose Fellowship, 2008. |
Sunil Mukhi is an Indian theoretical physicist working in the areas of string theory, quantum field theory and particle physics.
He earned a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics in 1981 from Stony Brook University (then called the State University of New York at Stony Brook). After spending two years at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics at Trieste, Italy, he returned to India where he has worked at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India since 1984. In November, 2012 he joined Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune as the head of physics department.
His major publications deal with fundamental properties of string theories, and include the conformal invariance of supersymmetric two-dimensional field theories which describe the world-sheet dynamics of strings, the study of supersymmetric solitons using index theorems, the discovery of a new duality between string theory and M-theory, the identification of string networks as supersymmetric states and the discovery of a novel Higgs mechanism in the worldvolume theory of M-theory membranes.
In 2002, he played a role in exposing a series of instances of plagiarism by the Vice-Chancellor of Kumaon University in India. The Vice-Chancellor was eventually found guilty by a national committee and subsequently resigned.
Mukhi has a number of interests in addition to physics, notably Indian Classical Music on which he maintains a webpage [1], science popularisation which he carries out through seminars at schools and colleges as well as newspaper articles, and cinema, cooking and meditation. Within the field of Indian Classical Music he has spent considerable effort archiving classic recordings, particularly those of notable vocal artist Pandit Kumar Gandharva on whom he also maintains a webpage [2]. He also writes a blog, named "Tantu-jaal"[3]
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