Dipan Ghosh

Dipan Kumar Ghosh
Residence	Mumbai, India
Nationality	India
Fields	Condensed matter theory
Institutions	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Alma mater	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Doctoral advisor	Chanchal Kumar Majumdar
Known for	Majumdar–Ghosh model

Dipan Ghosh is an Indian theoretical physicist, best known for his exact enumeration of the ground state of a Heisenberg antiferromagnet, known in literature as the Majumdar–Ghosh model.^[1]

Education

Ghosh was awarded an M.Sc. in physics in 1966 from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack Utkal University, as that university's gold medalist. He would later receive his Ph. D. from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India in 1971 on the strength of his thesis, entitled "Study of Magnetic Hamiltonians", under the guidance of the late Professor Chanchal Kumar Majumdar. Post-doctoral work at Bristol University, Bristol, England with Professor John Ziman. (1971–72) Post-doctoral work at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA with the late Professor K. S. Singwi. (1972–73)

Occupation

• He was the deputy director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay from 2005 to 2006, and was the president of the Indian Physics Association from 2005 to 2007.^[2]
• He held appointments at the University of California, Santa Cruz and at Viswa Bharati University, before joining IIT Bombay in 1974.
• He is currently Professor Emeritus at IIT Bombay.

References

1. Dattagupta, Sushanta (2000). "Chanchal Kumar Majumdar (1938–2000) – An obituary" (PDF). Current Science 79 (1): 115–116. Retrieved 16 September 2010.^{[dead link]}