Sunil Mukhi

Sunil Mukhi

Infobox_Scientist
name = Sunil Mukhi


caption =
birth_date = 20 November, 1956
birth_place = Mumbai, India
residence = India
nationality = Indian
field = Physics
work_institution = International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
alma_mater = St Xavier's College Mumbai
State University of New York at Stony Brook
doctoral_advisor = George Sterman
doctoral_students = Keshav Dasgupta, Nemani Suryanarayana, Anindya Mukherjee
known_for = String Theory
prizes = S.S. Bhatnagar Award 1999
J.C. Bose Fellowship, 2008.
religion =
footnotes =

Sunil Mukhi is an Indian scientist working in the area of String Theory, Quantum Field Theory and Particle Physics. He earned a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics in 1981 from 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.

He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy and a recipient of the S.S. Bhatnagar Award for Physical Sciences, 1999 and the J.C. Bose Fellowship, 2008. He has been an Editor of the Journal of High Energy Physics since its inception.

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 [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=721816] , the study of supersymmetric solitons using index theorems [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=1178075] , the discovery of a new duality between string theory and M-theory [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=3277321] , the identification of string networks as supersymmetric states [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=3655156] , and the description of D-brane decays via noncommutative tachyons [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=4378989] .

Mukhi has been an invited speaker at the international conferences [http://feynman.physics.lsa.umich.edu/strings2000/ Strings 2000] in Michigan and [http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/strings02/ Strings 2002] in Cambridge, and was one of the organisers of [http://theory.tifr.res.in/strings/ Strings 2001] in Mumbai - a conference that attracted much publicity because of the participation of David Gross, Stephen Hawking and Edward Witten among other luminaries in the field. He has also lectured at advanced schools in theoretical physics, notably at Cargèse and Les Houches in France, at the [http://www.mri.ernet.in/~sercthep/ SERC school] series in India, and at the first PITP School at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton during his sabbatical year there.

In 2002, he played a role [http://frontlineonnet.com/fl1922/stories/20021108003508400.htm] 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 [http://www.indianexpress.com/india-news/full_story.php?content_id=17786] and subsequently resigned.

Mukhi has a number of interests in addition to physics, notably Indian Classical Music on which he maintains a [http://theory.tifr.res.in/~mukhi/Music/music.html webpage] , 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 [http://theory.tifr.res.in/~mukhi/Music/gandharva.html webpage] . He has recently started a blog, named "Tantu-jaal" [http://sunilmukhi.blogspot.com/]

External links

* [http://theory.tifr.res.in/~mukhi/index.html Sunil Mukhi's Home Page]
* [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?AUTHOR=mukhi&TITLE=&C=&REPORT-NUM=&AFFILIATION=&cn=&k=&cc=&eprint=&eprint=&topcit=&url=&J=&*=&ps=&DATE=&*=&FORMAT=WWW&SEQUENCE= Sunil Mukhi's scientific publications]


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