Deepak Dhar was born on 30 October 1951 and is an Indian theoretical physicist known for his research on statistical physics and stochastic processes.
18 Facts About Deepak Dhar
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Deepak Dhar graduated in science from the University of Allahabad in 1970 before earning a master's degree in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1972.
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Post-retirement, Deepak Dhar served as a distinguished professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.
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Deepak Dhar is currently serving as a faculty at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru.
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Deepak Dhar is married to Manju and the couple has two children.
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Deepak Dhar is credited with the introduction of spectral dimension concept in the studies of fractals and contributed to developing a methodology for determining their critical phenomena using real-space renormalization group techniques which was the first time the mathematical apparatus was used for calculations on nontrivial critical exponents on fractals.
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Deepak Dhar worked with Ramakrishna Ramaswamy to solve the Abelian sandpile model of self-organized criticality and developed a new model which came to be known as Deepak Dhar-Ramaswamy model.
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Deepak Dhar demonstrated the predominance of slow flipping of isolated unfrustrated clusters in auto-correlation functions and proposed models of metastable glassy states in stochastic evolution.
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Deepak Dhar's studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and the online article repository of Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 113 of them.
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Deepak Dhar is an associate editor of Journal of Statistical Physics, a Springer publication since 2005 where he sat in the editorial board on two previous terms.
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Deepak Dhar is an editorial board member of the Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics of the National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources, a former editorial adviser to Physica A, an Elsevier science journal, and has been associated with journals such as Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, Physical Review E and Pramana as an editorial board member.
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Deepak Dhar was a member of the Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics from 1992 to 1995 and is a member of the program committee of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences.
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Deepak Dhar has delivered invited speeches and the special lecture on The Curious Relationship Between Physics and Mathematics at the University of Mumbai on 19 October 2016 was one among them.
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Deepak Dhar received the Young Scientist Medal of the Indian National Science Academy in 1983.
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Deepak Dhar was elected as a fellow by the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1990 where he is a sitting council member.
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Deepak Dhar became an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy on 1995 and the National Academy of Sciences, India elected him as a fellow in 1999.
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Deepak Dhar has been chosen for the prestigious Boltzmann Medal award for the year 2022 and becomes the first Indian to receive the honor.
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Deepak Dhar received the 2023 Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award by Government of India.