5 Indian Americans Receive Simons Fellowships

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 22 March 2012, 22:38 IST   |    1 Comments
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Bangalore: Five Indian Americans were selected for Simons fellowships in mathematics and Theoretical Physics, on the basis of their proposed research plans.  The Simons Foundation based in New York City aims towards the progress of research frontiers in math and science and it provides fund to the selected people to carry out their research work.

Senthil Todadari

Senthil is a Physics Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was selected in Theoretical Physics category. In his research Senthil tries to understand the phenomenon in materials whose properties does not fit with the conventional theories of the physics of solids. He first worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara before joining MIT in the year 2011.He holds an M.S in physics from IIT-Kanpur and completed his Ph.D from Yale University in Physics.



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