Ghanashyam Date

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