Asim Gangopadhyaya

Dr. Gangopadhyaya's graduate education was in the field of theoretical physics. In particular, his doctoral thesis was on weak interactions among quarks and electrons. However, in last ten years, most of his work has been on Supersymmetric Quantum Mecahanics, a relatively new formalism for studying the motion of extremely small particles. He has been fascinated by why some problems of Quantum Mecahanics can be solved exactly using the above formalism while most cannot. It has been known for a very long time that some of the solve able problems are solvable because they have a built in symmetry, which in physics is called an algebraic structure. In 1998, he and his research group showed that all solvable problems are solvable because of an underlying symmetry and gave give a general prescription to identify and study the structure of this symmetry. His work since then has been mostly centered around refining this prescription.

Dr. Gangopadhyaya received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the City University of New York. At Loyola, he has developed a distinguished career as both a research active scientist and a educator, having received the Sujack Award for Teaching Excellence in 2003.