Prof. Deepak Dhar has been chosen to receive the Boltzmann Medal in 2022. He is one of two physicists who have been chosen for the award. The other is John Hopfield, a professor of physics. Next year, the award will be given out in Tokyo, Japan.
Key Highlight:
- Professor Deepak Dhar, the emeritus physicist of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, has been selected to win the renowned Boltzmann Medal for 2022.
- He is one of two physicists to receive the honor, Princeton professor John Hopfield.
- In August, the award will be handed at Statphys28 in Tokyo, Japan.
- This is because Dhar has made many important contributions to statistical physics. These include exact solutions of self-organized criticality models, inter-facial growth, universal long-time relaxation in disordered magnetic systems, exact solutions in percolation and cluster-counting problem areas, and setting up a way to measure fractals’ spectral dimension.
- Dhar has been working on phase transitions and lattice models at IISER Pune since 2016.
Physicist Deepak Dhar, an emeritus faculty member at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Pune, has been chosen to receive the Boltzmann Medal in 2022, a top official from the top facility said on Monday. He is one of two physicists who have been chosen for the award. The other one is John Hopfield, a professor at Princeton University, also chosen.
Every three years, the Boltzmann Medal is given to someone who has made a big contribution to statistical physics. The C3 Commission created it on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. In August next year, the Statphys28 conference will be held in Tokyo. The award will be given out at that time.
This is because Dhar has made many important contributions to statistical physics. These include exact solutions of self-organized criticality models, inter-facial growth, universal long-time relaxation in disordered magnetic systems, exact solutions in percolation and cluster-counting problem areas, and setting up a way to measure fractals’ spectral dimension. It all started when Dhar got his Ph.D. in statistical physics in 1978 at the California Institute of Technology, where he went to school.
At Mumbai’s Tata Institute of Fundamental Research for the next four decades, Dhar took on several areas of statistical physics to better understand the behavior of self-organized critical systems and explain the dynamics at phase interfaces. He also worked to define the spectrum dimension of fractals.” According to what it said, Dhar has been at IISER Pune since 2016. He is working on phase transitions and lattice models there. Jayant Udgaonkar, the director of IISER Pune, said that it was great that his work had been recognized in a note.
Then, when he talked to PTI, Dhar said: “It is an honor to be chosen for this award. Our job isn’t to get medals and awards, but it is always nice to be recognized.”
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