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|name = Ashok Das
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|caption = 
|birth_date = {{b-da|March 23, 1953}}
|birth_place = [[Place:Puri|Puri]], Odisha [[Image:Flag of India.svg|20px]]
|residence = {{wipe|United States}} [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px]]
|nationality = {{wipe|United States}} [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px]]
|field = Theoretical Physics 
|work_institutions = [[Organization:University of Rochester|University of Rochester]]<br />[[Organization:Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics|Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics]], [[Place:Kolkata|Kolkata]]
|alma_mater = University of Delhi, [[Place:New Delhi|New Delhi]]<br />SUNY, Stony Brook
|doctoral_advisor = 
|doctoral_students = 
|known_for  = High Energy Physics<br />Finite Temperature Field Theory<br />Non linear [[Physics:Integrable systems|Integrable systems]]<br />String Theory
|prizes = William H. Riker University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (2006)<br />Fulbright Fellowship (1997, 2006)<br />Rockefeller Foundation Award (2004)<br />Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator (1983-1989)<br />Edward Peck Curtis Award (1991)
|religion = Hindu
|footnotes = 
}}

'''Ashok Das''' (born March 23, 1953) is an Indian American theoretical physicist, an author and award-winning teacher of Physics. He is professor of physics at [[Organization:University of Rochester|University of Rochester]] and [[Social:Adjunct professor|Adjunct professor]] of Physics at [[Organization:Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics|Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics]], [[Place:Kolkata|Kolkata]], {{wipe|India}} and [[Organization:Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar|Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar]], Bhubaneswar, {{wipe|India}}.

Das was born in [[Place:Puri|Puri]], Odisha.  He received his BS (honours) in 1972 and MS in 1974 in [[Physics:Physics|physics]] from University of Delhi. He did his graduate studies in [[Physics:Supersymmetry|supersymmetry]] and [[Physics:Supergravity|supergravity]] at State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received his PhD (''Spin 3/2 Fields and Supergravity Theories'') in 1977.

He was a research associate at the City College of New York, the [[Organization:University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]] and at [[Organization:Rutgers University|Rutgers University]] before joining the [[Organization:University of Rochester|University of Rochester]] in 1982. He was promoted to professor in 1993 and is still there.<ref>[http://www.rochester.edu/news/experts/index.php?id=65 Faculty Experts: Ashok Das]</ref> He is also the adjunct professor of physics at [[Organization:Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics|Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics]] in India.

Das' research is in the area of theoretical [[Physics:High energy physics|high energy physics]]. He works on supersymmetry and supergravity. In recent years, he has worked extensively on non-linear [[Physics:Integrable systems|integrable systems]], which are systems which in spite of their complicated appearance can be exactly solved. He has also been working on finite temperature field theories, generalization of the [[Physics:Standard Model|Standard Model]] to incorporate [[Physics:CP violation|CP violation]], and problems in [[Physics:Quantum field theory|quantum field theory]] and [[Physics:String theory|string theory]].

Although he has published widely with physicists around the world, his particularly strong collaboration with Latin American physicists is well known. In fact, he has coauthored over 100 published research papers with {{wipe|Brazil}}ian physicists alone. In 2006 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach physics in Brazil.<ref>University of Rochester. ''Physics professor Ashok Das Receives Fulbright to Teach in Brazil [http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2693]
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He is known for his teaching and has received university and department awards for his teaching including the Department Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester four times (1987, 1990, 1997 and 2006), the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1991), and the 2006 William H. Riker University Award for Excellence in Graduate teaching.

He has written numerous books and monographs on various disciplines of theoretical physics in advanced and undergraduate and graduate level, like  ''A Path Integral Approach'' ([[Company:World Scientific|World Scientific publishers]]), ''Finite Temperature Field Theory'' (World Scientific publishers),  ''Integrable Models'' (World Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics), ''Lectures on Gravitation'' (World Scientific publishers),  and ''Lectures on Electromagnetism'': second edition (World Scientific publishers) etc.	
	
In 2002 Das was made a [[Social:Fellow|fellow]] of the [[Organization:American Physical Society|American Physical Society]] "For contributions in the areas of supergravity, integrable models and finite temperature field theory".<ref>[http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=D&year=2013&unit_id=&institution= APS Fellows Archive]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.pas.rochester.edu/%7Edas/homepage.html personal home page]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070630223729/http://spider.pas.rochester.edu/mainFrame/people/pages/Das_Ashok.html Institute Home Page of Dr. Ashok Das]
*[https://arxiv.org/find/hep-th/1/au:+Das_A/0/1/0/all/0/1 papers from arXiv]
*[https://www.amazon.com/s?initialSearch=1&url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Ashok+Das Books of Ashok Das @ Amazon.com]


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