By means of PTI
NEW DELHI: Eminent astrophysicist Somak Raychaudhury has been appointed as vice chancellor of Ashoka College, officers mentioned on Thursday.
Raychaudhury, who’s recently director of the Inter-College Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), will take over from Professor Malabika Sarkar who has been serving because the VC since August 2019.
“Professor Raychaudhury’s appointment follows an in depth world seek performed through a Seek Committee consisting of the chancellor, deans, school contributors, founders and trustees of Ashoka College. His date of becoming a member of can be introduced in a while,” the school mentioned in a remark.
Raychaudhury holds a PhD in Astrophysics from Churchill Faculty, College of Cambridge and undergraduate levels in Physics from Trinity Faculty at College of Oxford and Presidency Faculty at College of Calcutta.
He was once previous the Head of Division of Physics and Dean of Sciences at Presidency College.
He additionally held more than a few positions on the College of Birmingham, UK; the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics and Lowell Area at Harvard College; and the Institute of Astronomy on the College of Cambridge.
Raychaudhary is one in all India’s main observational astronomers, and has made seminal discoveries the use of observations at radio, optical and X-ray frequencies.
He pioneered the learn about of galaxy superclusters because the universe’s biggest constructions, and has labored on unique stars corresponding to black holes in close by galaxies.
“He has evolved cutting edge machine-learning algorithms for mining massive astronomical datasets, and just lately co-chaired the committee to bring together the imaginative and prescient file for the following decade of astronomy analysis for the Executive of India,” the remark added.
NEW DELHI: Eminent astrophysicist Somak Raychaudhury has been appointed as vice chancellor of Ashoka College, officers mentioned on Thursday.
Raychaudhury, who’s recently director of the Inter-College Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), will take over from Professor Malabika Sarkar who has been serving because the VC since August 2019.
“Professor Raychaudhury’s appointment follows an in depth world seek performed through a Seek Committee consisting of the chancellor, deans, school contributors, founders and trustees of Ashoka College. His date of becoming a member of can be introduced in a while,” the school mentioned in a remark.
Raychaudhury holds a PhD in Astrophysics from Churchill Faculty, College of Cambridge and undergraduate levels in Physics from Trinity Faculty at College of Oxford and Presidency Faculty at College of Calcutta.
He was once previous the Head of Division of Physics and Dean of Sciences at Presidency College.
He additionally held more than a few positions on the College of Birmingham, UK; the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics and Lowell Area at Harvard College; and the Institute of Astronomy on the College of Cambridge.
Raychaudhary is one in all India’s main observational astronomers, and has made seminal discoveries the use of observations at radio, optical and X-ray frequencies.
He pioneered the learn about of galaxy superclusters because the universe’s biggest constructions, and has labored on unique stars corresponding to black holes in close by galaxies.
“He has evolved cutting edge machine-learning algorithms for mining massive astronomical datasets, and just lately co-chaired the committee to bring together the imaginative and prescient file for the following decade of astronomy analysis for the Executive of India,” the remark added.