Dipan Ghosh

Dipan Kumar Ghosh
Residence	Mumbai, India
Citizenship	India
Nationality	India
Fields	Condensed matter theory
Institutions	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Alma mater	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Doctoral advisor	Chanchal Kumar Majumdar
Known for	Majumdar-Ghosh Model

Dipan Ghosh is an Indian theoretical physicist, best known for his exact enumeration of the ground state of a Heisenberg antiferromagnet, known in literature as the Majumdar–Ghosh Model.^[1] He was the deputy director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay from 2005 to 2006, and was the president of the Indian Physics Association from 2005 to 2007.^[2]

Ghosh did his PhD from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, under the guidance of Prof. C. K. Majumdar, with a thesis titled “Study of Magnetic Hamiltonians”.^[2] He held appointments at the University of California, Santa Cruz and at Viswa Bharati University, before joining IIT Bombay in 1974. He is currently Professor Emeritus at IIT Bombay.

References

1. ^ Dattagupta, Sushanta (2000). "Chanchal Kumar Majumdar (1938–2000) – An obituary". Current Science 79 (1): 115–116. http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jul102000/book%20reviews.pdf. Retrieved 16 September 2010. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "faculty:dkg:home · Department of Physics". Department of Physics, IITB. http://www.phy.iitb.ac.in/doku/doku.php/faculty/dkg/home. Retrieved 16 September 2010. 

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