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	'''Narasimhaiengar Mukunda''' (born 25 January 1939, [[New Delhi]], [[India]]) is an Indian theoretical physicist.<ref name=ICAST>{{cite web \| url=https://www.icast.org.in/events/OA-NAL-Speakers-nm.pdf \| title=Brief Resume - Prof. N. Mukunda \| publisher=ICAST \| access-date=19 May 2019}}</ref>		'''Narasimhaiengar Mukunda''' (born 25 January 1939, [[New Delhi]], [[India]]) is an Indian theoretical physicist.<ref name=ICAST>{{cite web \| url=https://www.icast.org.in/events/OA-NAL-Speakers-nm.pdf \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624163523/http://www.icast.org.in/events/OA-NAL-Speakers-nm.pdf \| url-status=usurped \| archive-date=24 June 2017 \| title=Brief Resume - Prof. N. Mukunda \| publisher=ICAST \| access-date=19 May 2019}}</ref>

	Mukunda's higher education began at [[Delhi University]], where he was granted a [[B.Sc. (Hon)]] degree in 1953. For his Ph.D. he studied at [[University of Rochester]] with [[George Sudarshan\|E. C. G. Sudarshan]] and graduated in 1964. Mukunda’s thesis dealt with [[Hamiltonian mechanics]], [[symmetry group]]s and [[elementary particle]]s.<ref>Narasimhaigar Mukunda (1964) ''Studies in Hamiltonian theories of relativistic interacting particles, and in the application of symmetry groups to elementary particle physics'', [http://hdl.handle.net/1802/28575 Seventh supplement to Checklist of Doctors’ Theses] from [[University of Rochester]]</ref> He also studied [[group theory]] at [[Princeton University]] with [[Valentine Bargmann]], including [[topological group]]s and [[Lie theory]].		Mukunda's higher education began at [[Delhi University]], where he was granted a [[B.Sc. (Hon)]] degree in 1953. For his Ph.D. he studied at [[University of Rochester]] with [[George Sudarshan\|E. C. G. Sudarshan]] and graduated in 1964. Mukunda’s thesis dealt with [[Hamiltonian mechanics]], [[symmetry group]]s and [[elementary particle]]s.<ref>Narasimhaigar Mukunda (1964) ''Studies in Hamiltonian theories of relativistic interacting particles, and in the application of symmetry groups to elementary particle physics'', [http://hdl.handle.net/1802/28575 Seventh supplement to Checklist of Doctors’ Theses] from [[University of Rochester]]</ref> He also studied [[group theory]] at [[Princeton University]] with [[Valentine Bargmann]], including [[topological group]]s and [[Lie theory]].
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	He was a post-doctoral fellow at [[Syracuse University]] before he returned to India. In 1967, he became a Fellow at [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]]. In 1969 he transferred to [[IISc]], Bangalore. From 1972 to 2001 he served as professor at the Center for Theoretical Studies.<ref name=ICAST/> Using the notes from Bargmann's lectures, Mukunda contributed chapters on [[Lie group]]s to ''Classical Dynamics: a modern perspective'' that he authored with Sudarshan in 1974. The expression of symmetries on physics rests largely on Lie groups, and his later works exploit these [[classical group]]s for physical theory. Mukunda was particularly impressed by [[W. R. Hamilton]]'s "theory of turns" ([[versor]]s), and worked to extend the use of turns in [[Sp(2)]], [[SU(1,1)]] and the [[Lorentz group]]. In 1989 Mukunda, [[Rajiah Simon]] and Sudarshan published "Hamilton’s theory of turns and a new geometrical representation for polarization optics" which developed the [[coset space]] SU(2)/U(1) = S<sup>3</sup>/S<sup>1</sup> as an alternative to the [[Poincaré sphere (optics)\|Poincaré sphere]] in the description of [[light polarization]].		He was a post-doctoral fellow at [[Syracuse University]] before he returned to India. In 1967, he became a Fellow at [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]]. In 1969 he transferred to [[IISc]], Bangalore. From 1972 to 2001 he served as professor at the Center for Theoretical Studies.<ref name=ICAST/> Using the notes from Bargmann's lectures, Mukunda contributed chapters on [[Lie group]]s to ''Classical Dynamics: a modern perspective'' that he authored with Sudarshan in 1974. The expression of symmetries on physics rests largely on Lie groups, and his later works exploit these [[classical group]]s for physical theory. Mukunda was particularly impressed by [[W. R. Hamilton]]'s "theory of turns" ([[versor]]s), and worked to extend the use of turns in [[Sp(2)]], [[SU(1,1)]] and the [[Lorentz group]]. In 1989 Mukunda, [[Rajiah Simon]] and Sudarshan published "Hamilton’s theory of turns and a new geometrical representation for polarization optics" which developed the [[coset space]] SU(2)/U(1) = S<sup>3</sup>/S<sup>1</sup> as an alternative to the [[Poincaré sphere (optics)\|Poincaré sphere]] in the description of [[light polarization]].

	Mukunda is an honorary professor at [[IISER Bhopal]],<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Physics Department, IISER Bhopal\|url=https://phy.iiserb.ac.in/faculty.php#~~\|url-status=live~~}}</ref> [[IISER Mohali]] and [[IISER Thiruvananthapuram]]. He is also the Distinguished associate of [[Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute]].<ref>[http://physics.rkmvu.ac.in/faculty/ Faculty at Ramakrishna Mission]</ref>		Mukunda is an honorary professor at [[IISER Bhopal]],<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Physics Department, IISER Bhopal\|url=https://phy.iiserb.ac.in/faculty.php#}}</ref> [[IISER Mohali]] and [[IISER Thiruvananthapuram]]. He is also the Distinguished associate of [[Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute]].<ref>[http://physics.rkmvu.ac.in/faculty/ Faculty at Ramakrishna Mission]</ref>

	He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for work in Nonlinear and Quantum Optics in 1980<ref>{{Cite book \| title = Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners (1958 - 1998) \| url = http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf \| publisher = Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi \| date = 1999 \| access-date = 11 April 2012 \| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf \| archive-date = 4 March 2016 \| url-status = dead }}</ref> In 2016 Mukunda gave the Fifteenth Memorial V.G. Kulkarni Lecture: "The Nature of Scientific Knowledge: some reflections".<ref>[http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/vgk-memorial-lecture-series/2016 VGK Memorial Lecture Series] from [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]]</ref>		He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for work in Nonlinear and Quantum Optics in 1980<ref>{{Cite book \| title = Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners (1958 - 1998) \| url = http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf \| publisher = Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi \| date = 1999 \| access-date = 11 April 2012 \| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf \| archive-date = 4 March 2016 \| url-status = dead }}</ref> In 2016 Mukunda gave the Fifteenth Memorial V.G. Kulkarni Lecture: "The Nature of Scientific Knowledge: some reflections".<ref>[http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/vgk-memorial-lecture-series/2016 VGK Memorial Lecture Series] from [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]]</ref>

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'''Narasimhaiengar Mukunda''' (born 25 January 1939, [[New Delhi]], [[India]]) is an Indian theoretical physicist.<ref name=ICAST>{{cite web | url=https://www.icast.org.in/events/OA-NAL-Speakers-nm.pdf | title=Brief Resume - Prof. N. Mukunda | publisher=ICAST | access-date=19 May 2019}}</ref>

Mukunda's higher education began at [[Delhi University]], where he was granted a [[B.Sc. (Hon)]] degree in 1953. For his Ph.D. he studied at [[University of Rochester]] with [[George Sudarshan|E. C. G. Sudarshan]] and graduated in 1964. Mukunda’s thesis dealt with [[Hamiltonian mechanics]], [[symmetry group]]s and [[elementary particle]]s.<ref>Narasimhaigar Mukunda (1964) ''Studies in Hamiltonian theories of relativistic interacting particles, and in the application of symmetry groups to elementary particle physics'', [http://hdl.handle.net/1802/28575 Seventh supplement to Checklist of Doctors’ Theses] from [[University of Rochester]]</ref> He also studied [[group theory]] at [[Princeton University]] with [[Valentine Bargmann]], including [[topological group]]s and [[Lie theory]].

He was a post-doctoral fellow at [[Syracuse University]] before he returned to India. In 1967, he became a Fellow at [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]]. In 1969 he transferred to [[IISc]], Bangalore. From 1972 to 2001 he served as professor at the Center for Theoretical Studies.<ref name=ICAST/> Using the notes from Bargmann's lectures, Mukunda contributed chapters on [[Lie group]]s to ''Classical Dynamics: a modern perspective'' that he authored with Sudarshan in 1974. The expression of symmetries on physics rests largely on Lie groups, and his later works exploit these [[classical group]]s for physical theory. Mukunda was particularly impressed by [[W. R. Hamilton]]'s "theory of turns" ([[versor]]s), and worked to extend the use of turns in [[Sp(2)]], [[SU(1,1)]] and the [[Lorentz group]]. In 1989 Mukunda, [[Rajiah Simon]] and Sudarshan published "Hamilton’s theory of turns and a new geometrical representation for polarization optics" which developed the [[coset space]] SU(2)/U(1) = S<sup>3</sup>/S<sup>1</sup> as an alternative to the [[Poincaré sphere (optics)|Poincaré sphere]] in the description of [[light polarization]].

Mukunda is an honorary professor at [[IISER Bhopal]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Physics Department, IISER Bhopal|url=https://phy.iiserb.ac.in/faculty.php#|url-status=live}}</ref> [[IISER Mohali]] and [[IISER Thiruvananthapuram]]. He is also the Distinguished associate of [[Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute]].<ref>[http://physics.rkmvu.ac.in/faculty/ Faculty at Ramakrishna Mission]</ref>

He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for work in Nonlinear and Quantum Optics in 1980<ref>{{Cite book | title = Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners (1958 - 1998) | url = http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | publisher = Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi | date = 1999 | access-date = 11 April 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date = 4 March 2016 | url-status = dead }}</ref> In 2016 Mukunda gave the Fifteenth Memorial V.G. Kulkarni Lecture: "The Nature of Scientific Knowledge: some reflections".<ref>[http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/vgk-memorial-lecture-series/2016 VGK Memorial Lecture Series] from [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]]</ref>

==Selected publications==
According to [[Mathematical Reviews]], Mukunda contributed to 143 scholarly publications, including
* 1974: (with [[George Sudarshan]]) ''Classical Dynamics: a modern perspective'', [[John Wiley & Sons]] {{mr|id=0434047}}
* 1987: "The mathematical style of modern physics", pages 1 to 20 in ''Recent Developments in Theoretical Physics'', [[World Scientific]] {{mr|id=935612}}
* 1989: (with [[Rajiah Simon]] and Sudarshan) "Hamilton's theory of turns generalized to Sp(2,R)", [[Physical Review Letters]] 62(12): 1331–4 {{mr|id=0986460}}
* 1989: (with R. Simon and George Sudarshan) "The theory of screws: a new geometric representation for the group SU(1,1"), [[Journal of Mathematical Physics]] 30(5): 1000–1006 {{doi|10.1063/1.528365}} {{mr|id=0992568}}
* 1989: (with R. Simon and George Sudarshan) "Hamilton's turns and a new geometrical representation for polarization optics", [[Pramana (journal)|Pramana]] 32(6): 769–92.
* 1989: Mukunda and collaborators initiated the "Quantum theory of charged-particle [[beam optics]]" by working out the focusing action of a magnetic quadrupole using the [[Dirac Equation]].<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Jagannathan | first1 = R. | last2 = Simon | first2 = R. |author-link2 = Rajiah Simon| last3 = Sudarshan | first3 = E. C. G. |author-link3= George Sudarshan| last4 = Mukunda | first4 = N. | title = Quantum theory of magnetic electron lenses based on the Dirac equation | doi = 10.1016/0375-9601(89)90685-3 | journal = [[Physics Letters A]]| volume = 134 | issue = 8–9 | pages = 457 | year = 1989 |bibcode = 1989PhLA..134..457J | url = http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/964/1/Quantum_theory_of_magnetic_electron_lenses.pdf }}</ref>
* 1992: (with R. Simon) "Hamilton's turns and geometric phase for two-level systems", [[Journal of Physics A]] 25(22): 6135–44 {{mr|id=1193846}}
* 1993: [http://repository.ias.ac.in/25267/ Twisted Gaussian Schell-model beams. I & II. Symmetry structure and normal-mode spectrum] via [[Indian Academy of Sciences]]
* 1996: "Planetary Motions and the Birth of Classical Mechanics", [[Current Science]] 71(7): 527–32 {{mr|id=1412435}}
* 1997: "Geometry, Fields, and Cosmology", ''Fundamental Theories of Physics'' 88, [[Kluwer]] {{mr|id=1601142}} (from First Inter-University Graduate School on Gravitation and Cosmology held in Pune, 1989)
* 1999: "Mathematics and the Physicist's Conception of Nature", ''Current Science'' 76(5): 634–9 {{mr|id=1678395}}
* 2006: (with R. Simon, S. Chaturvedi, and V. Srinivasan) "Hamiltion's Turns for the Lorentz Group", [[International Journal of Theoretical Physics]] 45(11): 2051–2070 {{mr|id=2275839}}
* 2010: (with [[Sunil Mukhi]]) ''Lectures on Advanced Mathematical Methods for Physicists'', [[World Scientific]], {{ISBN|981-4299-73-1}} {{mr|id=2777931}} (Mukunda wrote part 2: Group Theory and Structure and Representations of Compact, Simple Lie Groups and Algebras.)
* 2017: (with Arvind and Chaturvedi) "Global aspects of polarization optics and coset space geometry", [[Physics Letters]] A 381(35): 3005–9 {{doi|10.1016/j.physleta.2017.06.053}} {{mr|id=3688582}}

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