Deepak Dhar

Deepak Dhar (born 30 October 1951) is an Indian theoretical physicist known for his research on statistical physics and stochastic processes.

Deepak was born on 30 October 1951 at Pratapgarh, in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh to Murli Dhar and Rama Gupta.

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.

In between, he had a one-year sabbatical at the University of Paris as a visiting scientist during 1984–85) and a month-long stint at Isaac Newton Institute in May 2006 as a Rothschild Professor.

[11][12] Dhar also demonstrated the predominance of slow flipping of isolated unfrustrated clusters in auto-correlation functions and proposed models of metastable glassy states in stochastic evolution.

[15] 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 (1993–96 and 1999–2002).

[18] Dhar has also 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.

[7] INSA honored Dhar again in 2001 with the Satyendranath Bose Medal[22] and he received the TWAS Prize of The World Academy of Sciences in 2002.