Ghanashyam Date
Retired Professor
Theoretical Physics
2254 3177
shyam @ imsc . res . in
RSA Annex
Research Interests:
- Four dimensional, classical and (Loop) Quantum Gravity
- Gravitational Waves in de Sitter background
Education:
- B. Sc. , 1976, University of Bombay
- M.A and Ph. D., 1982, SUNY at Stony Brook
Career History:
- Postdoctoral, 1982 - 85, Weizmann Institute of Science
- Faculty, 1987 -- , IMSc
Courses Taught:
- Classical Mechanics
- Quantum Mechanics
- General Relativity
- Advance General Relativity
- Classical Field Theory
- Group Theory
- Differential Geometry
Selected publications:
- Gravitational waves from compact sources in de Sitter background, Phys. Rev. D 94, 064039 (2016), arXiv:1510.07856
- Polymer quantization and Symmetries Class. Quantum Grav. 30, 075010, (2013) arXiv:1211.0823
- Matter in Loop Quantum Gravity , SIGMA 8, 010, (2012) arXiv:1110.3874v3
- On obtaining classical mechanics from quantum mechanics Class. Quant. Grav. 24, 535-550, (2007) arXiv:gr-qc/0606078v2
- A Discrete Time Presentation of Quantum Dynamics Class. Quant. Grav. 20, 303, (2003) arXiv:gr-qc/0210056