Somnath Bharadwaj (born 28 October 1964) is an Indian theoretical physicist who works on Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology.
Somnath Bharadwaj | |
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| Born | 28 October 1964 Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | |
| Doctoral advisor | Rajaram Nityananda |
Bharadwaj was born in India, studied at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, and later received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science. After having worked at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, he is now a professor at IIT Kharagpur. He has made significant contributions to the dynamics of large-scale structure[1] formation.
In 2003, he was selected to be one of the professors from IIT whose class room lectures would be broadcast in the Eklavya Technology Channel.[2] [3] [4]
Bharadwaj was an invited speakers on Galaxy Formation at the prestigious Indo-US Frontier of Science symposium which was organized by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2005.[5] [6]
He is currently in the editorial board of the Journal of Astrophysics & Astronomy published by the Indian Academy of Sciences.[7]
References
edit- ^ Galaxy filament
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2007. Retrieved 25 October 2006.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Oct-Dec-wide Archived 6 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ http://www.cdeep.iitb.ac.in/pages/oct_dec2004.pdf[permanent dead link]
- ^ National Academy of Sciences: Frontiers of Science Archived 3 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ National Academy of Sciences: Frontiers of Science Archived 3 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
External links
edit- Somnath Bharadwaj's page at IIT
- Somnath Bharadwaj's articles on INSPIRE-HEP
- NASA ADS database of Somnath Bharadwaj's articles
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