Context
Deepak Dhar, a physicist and emeritus faculty at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, has been selected for the prestigious Boltzmann Medal for 2022.
Key-points
- An alumnus of University of Allahabad and IIT Kanpur, Dhar's tryst with research in statistical physics and stochastic processes goes back a long way beginning with his PhD in 1978 at the California Institute of Technology.
- Dhar has been at IISER Pune since 2016 and is working on phase transitions and lattice models.
Reason for the honour
- Dhar has been given the award for his seminal contributions to several areas of statistical physics, including 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 problems and definition of the spectral dimension of fractals.
The medal
- The Boltzmann Medal is instituted by the C3 Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).
- It is given out once in three years and honours outstanding achievements in statistical physics.
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Deepak Dhar is one of the two physicists selected for the award. The second awardee is John Hopfield from Princeton University.
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