Atish Dabholkar

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Director

High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

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Atish Dabholkar

Atish Dabholkar, a theoretical physicist from India, became ICTP's 5th director in November 2019.

Dabholkar is well-known for his research on string theory and quantum black holes, including investigations that build on ICTP founder Abdus Salam's Nobel-winning work on electroweak unification. Born in 1963 in India, he is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, one of India's premier educational institutes. He earned a PhD in theoretical physics from Princeton University, followed by postdoctoral and research positions at Rutgers University, Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology. Until 2010, he was a professor of theoretical physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, and has been a visiting professor at Stanford University and a Visiting Scientist at CERN. He joined ICTP in 2014 on secondment from Sorbonne Université and the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), where he has been a research director until 2019. At ICTP, he was head of the High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics section.

He has received many honours, including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (2006), the most prestigious national science prize awarded by the Indian Prime Minister, for his "outstanding contributions for establishing how quantum theory modifies the entropy of black holes and his pioneering studies of supersymmetric solitons in string theory". He is an elected member of the Indian Academy of Sciences, an elected fellow of The World Accademy of Sciences (TWAS) for the advancement of science in developing countries, and a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. In 2007 he received the Chair of Excellence award from the National Research Agency (ANR) in France.

Publications

Preprint

2008

Borcherds-Kac-Moody Symmetry of N=4 Dyons

Miranda C. N. Cheng | Atish Dabholkar

Journal article

2007

Cargèse Lectures on Black Holes, Dyons, and Modular Forms

Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements (2007)

Dabholkar, A.

Preprint

2007

Comments on the Spectrum of CHL Dyons

Journal of High Energy Physics (2007)

Atish Dabholkar | Davide Gaiotto | Suresh Nampuri

Preprint

2007

Fundamental Superstrings as Holograms

Journal of High Energy Physics (2007)

Atish Dabholkar | Sameer Murthy

Preprint

2007

Exact chiral ring of AdS(3)/CFT(2)

Atish Dabholkar | Ari Pakman

Journal article

2006

Black hole entropy and attractors

Classical and Quantum Gravity (2006)

Dabholkar, A.

Preprint

2006

Black Hole Microstates and Attractor Without Supersymmetry

Journal of High Energy Physics (2006)

Atish Dabholkar | Ashoke Sen | Sandip Trivedi

Preprint

2006

Spectrum of CHL Dyons from Genus-Two Partition Function

Journal of High Energy Physics (2006)

Atish Dabholkar | Davide Gaiotto

Book chapter

2006

Black hole entropy in string theory: A window into the quantum structure of gravity

The Legacy of Albert Einstein: A Collection of Essays in Celebration of the Year of Physics (2006)

Dabholkar, A.

Preprint

2006

Spinning Strings as Small Black Rings

Journal of High Energy Physics (2006)

Atish Dabholkar | Norihiro Iizuka | Ashik Iqubal | Ashoke Sen | Masaki Shigemori

Preprint

2006

Spectrum of Dyons and Black Holes in CHL orbifolds using Borcherds Lift

Journal of High Energy Physics (2006)

Atish Dabholkar | Suresh Nampuri

Journal article

2006

Black hole entropy in string theory: Going beyond Bekenstein and Hawking

International Journal of Modern Physics D (2006)

Dabholkar, A.

Book chapter

2006

String compactifications — old and new

The Tenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting: On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and Relativistic Field Theories (2006)

Dabholkar, A.

Journal article

2005

Exact and asymptotic degeneracies of small black holes

Journal of High Energy Physics (2005)

Dabholkar, A. | Denef, F. | Moore, G.W. | Pioline, B.

Journal article

2005

Exact counting of supersymmetric black hole microstates

Physical Review Letters (2005)

Dabholkar, A.

Journal article