Welcome to my web page. My name is Ashoke Sen and I work at the International Center for Theoretical Sciences in Bangalore.

My area of research is string theory, -- a theory that tries to give a unified description of all matter and the forces between them based on the postulate that the elementary constituents of matter are tiny one dimensional (string-like) objects instead of point particles. My specific research interests include S-duality, tachyon condensation, black hole entropy and superstring perturbation theory.

1. My brief biodata (html version)

2. Full curriculum vitae including list of publications and research summary

3. A summary of my research

External links

1. List of research papers from Spires-HEP database.

2. List of research papers from google scholar database.

3. Brief biodata from Wikipedia.

1. Lectures on `extremal black hole entropy' given during January 2012 at the Asian Winter School at Kusatsu, Japan

2. Lectures on `Superstring perturbation theory' given during December 2021 at the LACES, GGI Florence

1. Classical mechanics

Notes taken by Ipsita Mandal and documented by Shweta Srivastava

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3. Quantum mechanics 2 (Notes taken by Sauri Bhattacharyya and documented by Ipsita Mandal)

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4. Atomic and Molecular Physics (Notes taken by Sauri Bhattacharyya and documented by Ipsita Mandal)

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5. Statistical mechanics (Notes taken by Ipsita Mandal and documented by Avinanda Chaudhuri and Ipsita Mandal)

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6. General relativity

a. My notes (documented by Shweta Srivastava)

b. Notes taken by Ipsita Mandal and documented by Avinanda Chaudhuri and Ipsita Mandal

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7. Quantum field theory 1

Lecture notes

Problem set

Lecture videos from HRI youtube channel

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8. Quantum field theory 2

a. My notes (documented by Shweta Srivastava)

b. Notes taken by Ipsita Mandal and documented by Avinanda Chaudhuri and Ipsita Mandal

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c. Video recording of lectures (recorded by Sitender Kashyap)

9. Cosmology: Inflation to Last Scattering (Rough Notes)

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2021 course on Cosmology

Lecture notes

Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Lecture 5 Lecture 6 Lecture 7 Lecture 8 Lecture 9 Lecture 10 Lecture 11 Lecture 12 Lecture 13 Lecture 14 Lecture 15 Lecture 16 Lecture 17 Lecture 18 Lecture 19 Lecture 20 Lecture 21 Lecture 22 Lecture 23 Lecture 24 Lecture 25 Lecture 26 Lecture 27 Lecture 28 Lecture 29 Lecture 30 Lecture 31 Lecture 32 Lecture 33 Lecture 34 Lecture 35 Lecture 36 Lecture 37 Lecture 38

Lecture videos from HRI youtube channel

Lecture videos from ICTS

10. String Theory 1 (documented by Shweta Srivastava)

(a) Lecture notes taken by Mritunjay Verma (200MB)

(b) Video recording of lectures (recorded by Sitender Kashyap)

12. Superstring compactification

a. Rough notes

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b. Video recording of lectures (recorded by Sitender Kashyap and documented by Padakshep)

13. Few lectures on quantum field theory at finite temperature

(Based on the review article `Basics of Thermal Field Theory' by Mikko Laine and Aleksi Vuorinen, Lect.Notes Phys. 925 (2016) pp.1-281 [arXiv:1701.01554])

a. Video recording of lectures (recorded by Sitender Kashyap)

14. Some lectures on geometry and entanglement

(Based on the review article `TASI Lectures on the Emergence of Bulk Physics in AdS/CFT' by Daniel Harlow, Published in: PoS TASI2017 (2018) 002 [arXiv:1802.01040])

Notes taken by Shoaib Akhtar

Lecture 9 Lecture 10 Lecture 11 Lecture 12 Lecture 13 Lecture 14 Lecture 15 Lecture 16 Corrections

15. Some lectures on `Superstring perturbation theory'

1. Search for a Unified Theory of Matter (postscript file of an article written for high school students and published in Resonance, Vol 5, No. 1, January 2000 )

2. Duality Symmetries in String Theory (postscript file of an article written for physicists and published in Current Science, vol. 77, No. 12, p 1635, Dec. 25, 1999)

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