Curriculum Vitae
Name
:
Spenta R. Wadia
Date of Birth : 1 August 1950
Institution :
Deparment of Theoretical Physics
School of Natural Sciences
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Mumbai-400 005, India
Education:
- St. Mary's High School, Bombay, SSC 1967
- Bachelor of Science, St. Xavier's College, University of
Bombay, 1971
- Master of Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1973
- Doctor of Philosophy, City College of City University of New
York,
1978
Academic Positions:
- Enrico Fermi Institute Fellow, Enrico Fermi Institute,
University of Chicago, 1978-80
- Staff Scientist, University of Chicago, 1980-82
- Faculty of Department of Theoretical Physics, 1982-
Present Academic Position:
Distinguished Professor
and
Director, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of TIFR
Awards:
- Distinguished Alumnus of St. Xavier's College, Bombay Univeristy, 2009
- J.C. Bose Fellowship,Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, 2006 -
- TWAS (The Academy of Sciences of the Developing World)
Physics Prize, 2004
- Steven Weinberg Prize of the Abdus Salam International
Centerfor Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 1995
Academy Fellowships:
- Fellow, TWAS, Trieste, Italy, elected 2006
- Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India, elected
2000
- Fellow, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, USA, elected 1997
- Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, Delhi, India, elected
1997
- Fellow, Indian Academy of
Sciences, Bangalore, India, elected 1992
Honorary Positions:
- Staff Associate, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical
Physics, Trieste, Italy , 1996-2001
- Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 1996
- Honorary Faculty, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific
Research, Bangalore, India
Membership of Professional Bodies:
- Member, Commission on Mathematical Physics (C-18), International
Union of
Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), 1997-99-2002.
Positions during Sabbatical Leave from TIFR:
- Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 1991-92
- Theory Division, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 1996-97
- Theory Division, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003-04
Some Invited Lectures 2005-2010:
- Gauge/Gravity Duality and Some Applications,
Conference in Honor of Murray Gell-Mann's 80th Birthday,
Nanyang Technical University, Singapore, 25 Feb. 2010.
- IIT Kanpur Golden Jubillee Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Lecture: The Maldacena Duality Conjecture and Applications,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 30 January 2010.
- Real Time Dynamics of D1-D5 System from AdS/CFT Correspondence,
30 Years of Mathematical Methods in High Energy Physics,
Kyoto University, Japan, March 2008.
- Blackhole-String Crossover in AdS5 × S5 , Thermal Gauge Theory, Gravitational Aspects of Strings and Branes, Granada, Spain, June 2007.
- Thermal Gauge Theory and the Blackhole-String Transition, Yoneya Fest, Univ. of Tokyo, Feb. 2007.
- Blackhole - String Transition, AdS/CFT Correspondence and Unitary Matrix Models,
Batsheva de Rothschild Seminar on Innovative Aspects of String
Theory, Ein Boqeq, Dead Sea, Israel, March 2006.
- Black Holes as Beakons in the Dark Alleys of Quantum Gravity, TWAS Physics Prize lecture, TWAS 9th General Conference, Alexandria, Egypt, Dec. 2005.
- C. V. Raman Lecture: Space, Time and Strings , Indian Physics Association, Sept. 2005.
- Blackholes as Beacons of Quantum Gravity "Physics 2005 : 100 Years after Einstein's Revolution", IIT Kanpur, Nov. 2005.
- What can we learn about blackholes from string theory? Inauguration Conference of CQUEST (Center for Quantum Spacetime), Seoul, S. Korea, Oct. 2005.