Friends:
Here is some good news. Eminent Indian theoretical physicist Prof. Ganapathy Baskaran of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, has been appointed as a Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, along with seven others.
In making the announcement, Dr. Turok stated, "We are thrilled to welcome these eight world-leading scientists to PI's research community. Science is an inherently human process, and bringing the right people together is often the key to success. Each of these new DRCs will bring significant new ideas and expertise to PI. We cannot tell exactly what they will do, but based on their past record we know it will be very exciting."
Distinguished Research Chairs come to PI for extended periods each year to do research. The program enables them to be part of Perimeter's scientific community while retaining permanent positions at their home institutions. The new appointees join PI's 19 current Distinguished Research Chairs.
The press release from Perimeter Institute states: Ganapathy Baskaran is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai in India, where he has recently founded the Quantum Science Centre. He has made important contributions to the field of strongly correlated quantum matter. Novel emergent quantum phenomena in matter, including biological ones, are his passion and research focus. He is well known for his contributions to the theory of high temperature superconductivity and for discovering emergent gauge fields in strongly correlated electron systems. He predicted p-wave superconductivity in Sr2RuO4, a system believed to support Majorana fermion mode, which is a popular qubit for topological quantum computation. In recent work, he predicted room temperature superconductivity in optimally doped graphene.
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