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Professor
Kingshuk Majumdar
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Dr.
Kingshuk Majumdar, assistant professor of physics at Berea College is
the recipient of two major awards for physics research and study.
The Cottrell College Research Award of more than $22,000 will support
Majumdar’s research project “Study of vortex deconfinement
in condensed matter physics.” The grant is one of 38 awards made
to scientists at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada
by Research Corporation, a foundation for the advancement of science.
The grant will support two summers of research for Majumdar and two students
in Berea’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects program.
Through the Cottrell Science Awards faculty at primarily undergraduate
institutions are challenged to explore new areas of science and to
make new discoveries that contribute to their discipline. A key element
in these research programs is that they involve undergraduate students
in meaningful ways. It is also expected that these endeavors will spill
over into teaching, raising the quality of undergraduate education.
Majumdar also was named a Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
(KITP) Scholar. The award will fund travel and study over a three year
period at the Kavli Institute, located at the University of California,
Santa Barbara, where he will work with others on current problems of
interest. Majumdar was one of seven theoretical physicists chosen from
institutions nation-wide.
The KITP is one of the premier physics research facilities in the
world. Institute director David Gross is one of the recipients of the
2004 Nobel Prize in physics, for work on quarks and quantum chromodynamics.
“The awards reflect the skill and knowledge that Kingshuk possesses
and the level of work that he does on current problems in theoretical
physics,” said colleague Dr. Smith T. Powell, professor of physics
at Berea since 1970. “He is already involving students in his
research and is eager to involve them in future research. We are fortunate
to have Kingshuk working with us.”
Majumdar joined the Berea faculty in 2000. He earned a B.S. from Presidency
College, a M.S. from the University of Calcutta, and his Ph.D. from
the University of Florida.
For more information, visit Dr. Majumdar’s web pages at http://www.berea.edu/physics/people/kingshukmajumdar.asp or contact him at
(859) 985-3299.
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