Ashoke Sen

Ashoke Sen
Ashoke Sen
	Sen in the Physics department of Scottish Church College in 2019
Born	15 July 1956; Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Alma mater	Presidency College, Kolkata (BSc); IIT Kanpur (MSc); Stony Brook University (PhD);
Known for	Contributions to string field theory; S-duality; Sen Conjecture
Spouse	Sumathi Rao
Awards	G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research (1996); TWAS Prize (1997); Padma Shri (2001); Infosys Prize - Mathematical Sciences (2009); Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2012); Padma Bhushan (2013); Dirac Medal (2014);
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Fermilab; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; Harish-Chandra Research Institute; Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal;
Doctoral advisor	George Sterman;
Website	home.icts.res.in/~sen/

Ashoke Sen FRS (/əˈʃoʊk sɛn/; born 1956) is an Indian theoretical physicist and distinguished professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore. A former distinguished professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, He is also an honorary fellow in National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India he is also a Morningstar Visiting professor at MIT and a distinguished professor at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study. His main area of work is string theory. He was among the first recipients of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics "for opening the path to the realization that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory".

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