Asis Kumar Chaudhuri

I am a theoretical physicist at the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, India. I had my initial training at the prestigious Training School of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. I obtained my doctoral degree from the University of Calcutta. My primary research interest is High Energy Nuclear Physics, in particular, physics of Quark Gluon Plasma. I do have a healthy interest in other areas of physics, e.g. chaos, early universe, physics beyond standard model etc. and occasionally contributed scientifically in those areas. I have authored/co-authored approximately 100 research articles. I have also authored an advanced textbook, "A short course on Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions" published by Institute of Physics, London. I have also published a popular science book, "Cooking Cosmos: Unraveling the mysteries of the Universe." The book was published by World Scientific, Singapore.

Being a practitioner of science, it pained me to find our society getting more and more apathetic to science and scientific thinking. Sir Oliver Lodge once wrote about the attitude of common man to science; “I (the common man) won’t cross the street to learn about it.” The attitude is not changed, if not more apathetic now. Yet, I believe that science is the key to human freedom, freedom from religious bondage, freedom from superstition, freedom from poverty, freedom from hunger. To popularize science and scientific thinking, I am maintaining a blog Cooking Cosmos at;

https://asischaudhuri.wordpress.com

where from time to time I write on various subjects.