Personality profile - ECG Sudarsan

1. Personality Profile
Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan
Born 16 September 1931 (age 82)
Pallam, Kottayam, India
Residence United States
Nationality India
Doctoral
advisor
Robert Marshak
Doctoral Mohammad Aslam Khan Khalil

2. students Narasimhaiengar Mukunda
Known for Optical coherence
Notable
awards
Early Life
Sudarshan-Glauber representation
V-A theory
Tachyon
Quantum Zeno effect
Open quantum system
Spin-statistics theorem
ICTP Dirac Medal (2010)
Padma Vibhushan (2007)
Majorana Prize (2006)
Third World Academy of Sciences
Prize (1985)
Bose Medal (1977)
Padma Bhushan (1976)
C V Raman Award (1970)
 Born in a Syrian Christian family in Pallam, Kottayam
district,Kerala, India.
 Studied at CMS College Kottayam
 Graduated with honors from the Madras Christian College in 1951.
 Master's degree at the University of Madras in 1952.

3.  Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and worked there
with Homi Bhabha
 Moved to University of Rochester in New York to work under Robert
Marshak as a graduate student. In 1958
 Received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Rochester.
Career
 The originator (with Robert Marshak) of the V-A theory of the weak
force
 Eventually paved the way for the electroweak theory.
 Developed a quantum representation of coherent light later known
as Sudarshan-Glauber representation
 Predicts optical effects that are purely quantum, and cannot be
explained classically.
 existence of tachyons, particles that travel faster than light
 Developed formalism called dynamical maps that is one of the most
fundamental formalism to study the theory of open quantum system.
 Proposed the quantum Zeno effect.
Working
 Taught at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), University
of Rochester, Syracuse University, and Harvard.
 Professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin and a Senior
Professor at the Indian Institute of Science.
 Worked as the Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc)

4. interest
 Elementary particle physics
 Quantum optics
 Quantum information
 Quantum field theory
 Gauge field theories
 Classical mechanics and foundations of physics.
 Vedanta
Awards
 Kerala Sastra Puraskaram for lifetime accomplishments in science, 2013
 Dirac Medal of the ICTP, 2010
 Padma Vibhushan, second highest civilian award from the Government
of India, 2007
 Majorana Prize, 2006
 First Prize in Physics, Third World Academy of Sciences, 1985
 Bose Medal, 1977
 Padma Bhushan, third highest civilian award from the Government of
India, 1976
 C V Raman Award, 1970