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Who is Prof. Shiraz Naval Minwalla?

Meet the $100,000 prize winner of the New Horizon Prize in Physics, Prof. Shiraz Naval Minwalla. He is a theoretical physicist who works with string theory and quantum field theory. He is noted for connecting the equations of fluid dynamics and Einstein’s equations of relativity.

He hails from Mumbai. After completing his Masters in Physics from IIT-Kanpur, he went to Princeton University, U.S.A. for his PhD. He was a junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and then served as assistant professor for five years. After that he joined the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai.

He won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 2011 and Infosys Prize in Physical sciences in 2013. He also got the TWAS prize in 2016.

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Did Saket Saurabh win the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize?

Yes. Saket Saurabh did win the said prize in Mathematical Sciences in 2021. He is the Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai and an adjunct faculty at University of Bergen, Norway. He specializes in parameterized complexity, exponential algorithm, graph theory and algorithmic game theory which are different fields of computation.

We’ve seen what algorithms are. Hard algorithmic problems are dealt with in parameterized complexity. Exponential algorithm is used to sort infinite range. Graph theory deals with the study of graphs. Algorithmic game theory combines algorithmic thinking with theoretical ideas.

Saurabh got BSc (Honours) in Mathematics and MSc in Computer Science from Chennai Mathematical Institute. He did his PhD in Theoretical Computer Science from Indian Institute of Mathematical Science (IMSc) and became a faculty member later.

He had worked as a research assistant at the University of Bergen and also did post-doctoral studies there. He received a European Research Council Grant twice, and is a recipient of the 2020 ACM India Early Career Researcher Award. He was elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2020. He has also co-authored two books- Parameterized Algorithms and Kernelization: Theory of Parameterized Preprocessing.

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What are the achievements of Anish Ghosh?

Anish Ghosh is a professor in the School of Mathematics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. He specialises in ergodic theory, Lie groups and number theory and has greatly contributed in these areas of mathematics.

He is a part of the INFOSYS-Chandrasekharan Virtual Centre for Random Geometry which is a group of scientists at TIFR, Mumbai and ICTS, Bengaluru working together.

Ghosh finished his BSc degree from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai and received his PhD degree from the Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts in 2006. His research supervisor was Dmitry Yanovich Kleinbock, renowned mathematician from Brandeis University. He did post-doctoral studies at the University of Texas at Austin. After that he started his teaching career as Lecturer in the University of East Anglia, U.K. He then moved on to the Tata Institute.

Anish Ghosh bagged the 2021 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Mathematical Sciences, India’s highest science award within the country. He was also awarded the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award in 2017, DST Swarnajayanti Fellowship in 2017, Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2018 and B M Birla Science Prize in 2017.

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