Theoretical physicist Ashoke Sen, the first Indian to win the Oskar Klein Medal for his string‑theory research, delivered the Mahendra Lal Sircar Memorial Lecture titled Gravity from Strings and Strings from Gravity on Friday at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS). It was his second lecture in Kolkata, held on the occasion of Mahendra Lal Sircar’s 193rd birth anniversary and as part of the celebration of IACS’s 150th foundation anniversary.
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Ashoke Sen gives second Kolkata lecture after winning Oskar Klein Medal
Theoretical physicist Ashoke Sen, the first Indian to receive the Oskar Klein Medal, delivered the Mahendra Lal Sircar Memorial Lecture on “Gravity from Strings and Strings from Gravity” at IACS. It was his second talk in Kolkata, coinciding with Sircar’s 193rd birth anniversary and IACS’s 150th anniversary.
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Ashoke Sen gives second Kolkata lecture after winning Oskar Klein MedalPhoto via Times of India — Kolkata
