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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 was awarded "for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems" with one half jointly to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann "for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming" and the other half to Giorgio Parisi "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales."
Introduction
Dr. R. Shankar
Retired Professor, Theoretical Physics
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Climate Physics
Dr. G. Baskaran
Retired Professor, IMSc, Chennai
Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Madras
Understanding Complexity
Q & A
Dr. R. Shankar is a Retired Professor at the Department of Physics , The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. His area of interest are Glaciers and climate change, Geometry and topology of quantum many-body systems. He has his post doctoral assignments with IMSc, [1987-89] and IIT Kanpur, [1989-1991]. He is part of IMSc since 1991.
Dr. Ganapathy Baskaran is an Indian theoretical physicist, known for his work on condensed matter physics and strongly correlated materials. Baskaran is an Retired Professor of physics at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai, India and a Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Baskaran completed his undergraduate education at the Thiagarajar college and the American College in Madurai, India. He got his PhD in theoretical physics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1975. In 1987–88, Baskaran, along with P.W. Anderson at Princeton University, developed the resonating valence bond theory to describe the behavior of high-temperature superconductors. Baskaran is also known for his discovery of emerging gauge fields in strongly correlated systems, and for his predictions of p-wave superconductivity in strontium ruthenate and of high-temperature superconductivity in graphene; predictions which were later experimentally verified. In 1983, Baskaran was the first recipient of the ICTP Prize awarded by the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste to young scientists in developing countries for work in physics and mathematics. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the summer of 1996. He was also awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize by the Government of India in 1990.