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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Ramamurti Shankar Telephone 203-432-6917 1 CURRICULUM VITAE Ramamurti Shankar Telephone 203-432-6917 Birth April 28, 1947, New Delhi, India Citizenship U.S. Website http://pantheon.yale.edu/ rshankar/ Career Highlights Bachelor of Technology (Electrical Engg.) Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, (1969) Ph.D. (Theoretical Physics) University of California, Berkeley, (1974) 1974-77 Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows 1977-79 J.W. Gibbs Instructor of Physics, Yale 1979-83 Assistant Professor, Yale 1982 Spring: Visiting Associate Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris 1982-86 A.P. Sloan Fellow 1983-88 Associate Professor, Yale 1988- Professor, Yale 1989 - Spring Visiting Professor ITP, Santa Barbara 2001- Fellow American Physical Society 2001-2007 Chairman of Physics 2004 John Randolph Huffman Professor of Physics 2005 Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall Teaching Prize, Yale. 2008 - Spring Visiting Professor MIT 2009- Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society. 2011- Spring Visiting Professor U.C. Berkeley 2013: Distinguished Alumnus Award IIT Madras. 2014: Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2014: Simons Distinguished Visiting Scholar (Fall), KITP, Santa Barbara. 2015-2020: Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Madras. 2019 Josiah Willard Gibbs Professor of Physics Affiliations Editorial Board, Journal of Statistical Physics 1988-90 Dannie Heineman Prize Committee 1997- and 1998 General Member, Aspen Center for Physics 98-2013 Committee of Visitors, National Science Foundation, 1999 Trustee, Aspen Center of Physics, 2004-2010 Executive Committee, Aspen Center of Physics, 2006-2010 Advisory Board, Center for Correlated Electrons and Magnetism, Augsburg, 2007- Lilienfeld Prize Committee 2011 Advisory Board, Kavli Institute of Physics, 2010-2013 2 Books Principles of Quantum Mechanics (Plenum 1980), Second Edition (Plenum 1994), Polish Edition (Springer 2006), Indian Edition ( Springer-Prism Books 2007). Basic Training in Mathematics ( Plenum 1995). Fundamentals of Physics: mechanics, relativity and thermodynamics, Yale Press 2014, Chi- nese translation 2017. Expanded edition 2019. Fundamentals of Physics II: electromagnetism, optics and quantum mechanics, Yale Press 2016, Chinese translation 2018. Expanded edition 2020. Quantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter-An Introduction, Cambridge Press, 2017. 3 PUBLICATIONS 1. Feedback Model of Systems Obeying Quantum Statistical Mechanics J. Stat. Phys. 14, 61, (1972). 2. Clarification of Multi-Regge Theory, Phys. Rev. D7, 3513, (1973). 3. Can and Does the Pomeron Occur More Than Once in a Single Process? Nucl. Phys. B63, (1974). 4. Role of the Pion Mass in Triple-Regge Physics, Nucl. Phys. B79, 126, (1974). 5. Missing Mass as an Alternative to Rapidity in the Experimental Study of Diffraction, with D.M. Chew, Phys. Rev. D11, 1036, (1975). 6. Electromagnetic Decay of the New Heavy Resonances at 3:1 and 3:7 Gev. with J. Boren- stein, Phys. Rev. Lett., 34, 752, (1975). 7. 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B158, 319, (1979). 17. Some Novel Features of the Gross-Neveu Model, Phys. Lett. 92B, 333, (1980). 18. Bohr-Sommerfield Quantization of Pseudospin Hamiltonian, Phys. Rev. Lett. 45, 1088, (1980). Reprinted in Coherent States, Editors-J.R. Klauder and B.S. Skagerstam, World Scientific, Singapore. 19. PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM MECHANICS, Plenum Press, New York (1980). 20. Solvable Models with Self-triality in Statistical Mechanics and Field Theory, Phys. Rev. Lett. 46, 379, (1981). 21. A Model that Acquires Integrability and O(2N) Invariance at a Critical Coupling, Phys. Lett. 102B, 257, (1981). 22. A Simple Derivation of the Baxter Model Free Energy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 1177, (1981). 23. Self-triality in Statistical Mechanics and Field Theory, Proceedings of the XI-Conference on Group Theoretic Methods, Istanbul, Springer Verlag (1982). 24. On the Solution of Some Vertex Models Using Factorizable S-Matrices, J. Stat. Phys. 29, 649 (1982). 4 25. Self-triality of the Ashkin-Teller Model, Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 787, (1983). 26. Solution of a Factorizable S-Matrix and an Asymmetric Eight-vertex Model, with M. Doria, J. Stat. Phys. 33, 695 (1983). 27. Response to a comment by de Felicio and Libero, regarding ref. 25; Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 2230, (1983). 28. Solvable Analog to Quantum Chromodynamics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 2363, (1984). 29. Commensurate-incommensurate and disordering transitions in an exactly solved model of uniaxial adsorbates, with M. Kardar, J. Phys. C18, L5 (1985). 30. New Commensurate-incommensurate and disordering transitions in an exactly solved model of adsorbed layers, with M. Kardar, Phys. Rev. B31, 1525, (1985). 31. Statistical behaviour in deterministic quantum systems with few degrees of freedom, with R.V. Jensen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 1879 (1985). 32. Possible tests and improvements for blockspin Monte Carlo studies, with G. Murthy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 1110, (1985). 33. Ashkin-Teller and Gross-Neveu Models: New Results and Relations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 453, (1985). 34. Tests for Monte Carlo Renormalization Studies on Ising Models, with G. Murthy, J. Stat. Phys. 42, 275, (1985). 35. Redundant Operators for Ising Spins, with G. Murthy, Phys. Rev. B32, 5851 (1985). 36. Dealing with Truncation in Monte Carlo Renormalization Group Calculations, with G. Murthy and R. Gupta, Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 1812, (1985). 37. Clear Evidence of Redundant Operators in the Monte Carlo Study of the d = 2 Ising Model, with R. Gupta, in Rapid Communications Phys. Rev. B32, 6084 (1985). 38. Truncation Errors in Monte Carlo Renormalization Group - A Comparative Study, Phys. Rev. B33, 6515, (1986). 39. Solvable Case of a Spin-1 Model in a Magnetic Field, Phys. Lett. A 117, 365, (1986). 40. Frustrated Nearest-Neighbor d=2 Ising Model: Exact Results; with G. Murthy, Phys. Rev. B35, Rapid Communications, 3671, (1987). 41. Nearest Neighbor Frustrated Random-Bond Model in d=2: Some Exact Results; with G. Murthy, Phys. Rev. B36, 536, (1987). 42. Exact Critical Behavior of a Random-Bond Two- dimensional Ising Model, Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2466, (1987). 43. Superconductivity of Itinerant Electrons Coupled to Spin Chains, with Subir Sachdev, Phys. Rev. B38, 826, (1988).Also to be reprinted in Interacting Electrons in reduced Dimen- sions, Plenum, New York, 1990. 44. What is the Lowest Spin for Which Neel Order is Possible in the D = 2 Heisenberg Model?; with G. Murthy, Phys. Lett. A137, 2652, (1989). 45. Spin 1=2 Antiferromagnetic XXZ Chain : New Results and Insights, with R.R.P Singh and M.E.Fisher, Phys.Rev. B 39, 2652, (1989). 46. Hole Motion in Quantum Antiferromagnets: New Approach and Exact Results; Phys.Rev.Lett; 63, 203, (1989) . 47. The θ = π Sigma Model is Massless; with N. Read, Nucl.Phys. B.330 , 433, 1990. 48. Holes in a Quantum Antiferromagnet : A Formalism and Some Exact Results, Nucl. Phys.B130 , 433, (1990). 49. Statistical Mechanics of Random Systems : IXth International Conference on Mathe- 5 matical Physics Edited by B.Simon, A.Truman, and I.M.Davis, Adam Hilger, (1989). 50. Symmetry Breaking in Mott Insulators, with D. H. Lee Phys.Rev. Lett; 65, 1490, (1990). 51. A Solvable Model of the Metal Insulator Transition, Intl.J.Mod.Phys.,B4, 2371, June 1990. 52. Renormalization Group for Interacting Fermions in d > 1., Physica A177, 530, (1991). 53. Bosonization: How to make it work for you in Condensed Matter Physics, Lectures given at the Katmandu Summer School, 1990 in Current Topics in Condensed Matter and Particle Physics, Editors J.Pati, Q.Shafi and Yu Lu, World Scientific (1993). 54. PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM MECHANICS, Second Edition, Plenum (1994). 55. Renormalization Group Approach to Interacting Fermions, Rev. Mod. Phys. 66, 129, (1994). 56. The Integer Quantum Hall Transition: New Approach and Exact Results, with A.W.W.Ludwig, M.P.A.Fisher, R.Shankar and G.Grinstein, Phys. Rev. B 50 , 7526 , (1994). 57. Finite Temperature Properties of Quantum Antiferromagnets in a Uniform Field in One and Two Dimensions, with S.Sachdev and T.Senthil, Phys. Rev. B 50 , 258, (1994). cond- mat 9401040 58. Coulomb Interaction is Screened in Bosonized Fermi Liquids, with A.Houghton, H.J.Kwon, and B.Marston, J.Phys. C J.Phys. Cond. Matt., 6, 4909, 1994. cond-matt 9312067, 59. Thomas Precession, Berry Potential and the Meron, with Harsh Mathur. Phys. Rev. Lett., 73, 1565, (1994). Cond-matt 9403076. 60. A Condensed Matter Analog of QCD with Quarks, Int. J. Mod. Phys. 8, 417, 1994. 61. BASIC TRAINING IN MATHEMATICS - A Fitness Program for Science Students, Plenum Publishers, New York (1995). 62. Novel phases of planar fermionic systems, with G.Murthy, Journal of Physics - Con- densed Matter, 7, 9155, (1995). 63. 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