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Prof. Kameshwar Wali is currently the distinguished research professor emeritus at the Department of Physics at Syracuse University. His main long-time research interest has been in the symmetry properties and dynamics of elementary particles. His current research activities involve, higher dimensional Kaluza-Kline type theories with torsion [Einstein-Cartan theory] and a new approach based on "Clash of Symmmetries" to symmetry breaking in a brane world picture of the universe.

Recent presentations at Conferences and Workshops

Kaluza-Kline theory with Torsion, Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (Cos PA 2009), Nov 18-20, University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Also at Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS 2009), July 6-10, 2009, DESY, Hamburg, Germany.

An E6 Invariant action leading to a SU(5) Grand Unified theory on a Domain Wall, Particle Astrophysics and Quantum Field Theories (PAQFT 2008), Nanyang Executive Center, Singapore.

• Also at Miami 2007, Conference, December 13-18, 2007.

Recent Conferences and Workshops

• Bhabha Centennial, Dec 3-5, 2009, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.

• XXIII International Conference on High Energy Physics ICHEP 06, Moscow, Russia (July 26-August 2, 2006).

• Planck 06, Paris France (May 29-June 2, 2006).

• International Conference on Lepton-Photon Interactions, Upsala, Sweden (June 30-July 5, 2005).

• Planck 05, Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (May 23-28, 2005).

• International Symposium on Quantum Theory and Symmetries, Varna, Bulgaria (August 15-21, 2005).

Recent Colloquia

• Cremona Violins; A Physicist's Quest for the Secrets of Stradivari, March 8, 2010, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

• The legacy of Jagdis Chandra Bose (1858-1937); 150th Birth Anniversary Memorial Lecture, Acharya J.C. Bose Trust, November 28, 2009, Kolkata, India.

• Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974) and S. Chandrasekhar (1910-1995), November 30, 2009, Saha Institute, Kolkata, India.

• Also at University of Purdue, West Lafayette, In, October 8, 2009.

Other topics of interest for Colloquia

• What are the building blocks of our Universe?

• Exploring the Universe - Chandra X-ray Laboratory.

• Bose and Einstein; Discovery of Bose-Einstein Statistics.

• The Legacy of S. Chandrasekhar.

Books and Articles

Cremona Violins; A Physicist's Quest for the Secrets of Stradivari, World Scientific, Singapore (2010).

Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974); His Life and Times Selected Works (With Commentary), World Scientific, Singapore (2009).

A Quest for Perspectives; Selected Works of S. Chandrasekhar (With Commentary), Volumes 1&2, Imperial College Press, London (2001).

• S. Chandrasekhhar; The Man Behind the Legend, Imperial College Press, London (1997).

CHANDRA; A biography of S. Chandrasekhar, Universsity of Chicago Press (1991).

Satyendra Nath Bose; The Man behind the Statisitics, Physics Today, December 2006.

Robert Green Sachs (1916-1999); A biographical Memoir; The National Academy Press, Washington D.C. 2004.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar; New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2007.

Experiment and Theory in Physics, Progress In Theoretical Physics, in honor of Y. Nambu's 60th Birthday Celebration.

Academic and Professional Positions

• Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus (1998-present)

• J. D. Steele Professor (1996 - 1998).

• Senior Scholar, Fulbright Foundation, Australia (Jan - May 1995).

• Dozor Visiting Fellow, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel (Jan - Feb, 1993).

• Chairman, Physics Department, Syracuse University (1986-1989).

• Project Director, Elementary Particle Theory Group, DOE (1964-1993).

• Visiting Scientist, University of Chicago (Summer 1985).

• Associate of the Physics Department, Harvard University (since 1982).

• Visiting Scientist, Institutes des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES), Bures-sur-Yvette, France (Fall 1971, 1975, 1979, 1983, and Spring 1990).

• Professor of Physics (1969 to 1998).

• Professorial Lecturer, University of Chicago (1967-1969).

• Professor and Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory (1967-1969)

• Visiting Scientist, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (1967).

• Associate Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory (1964-1967)

• Associate Visiting Professor, Northwestern University (1964-1966).

• Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory (1963-1964)

Academic Honors and Membership in Professional and Learned Societies

• Scientist of the Year Award 2001, India Chapter of American Physical Society

• Fellow of the American Physical Society

• Founding member of Organizing Committee, Division of History of Physics

• Recipient, Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievements at Syracuse University, 1980

• Member of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars since 1980

• Chancellor's Gold Medal, Banaras Hindu University, 1955

• Listed Who is Who in America and in Men and Women in Science

Wali

Prof. Kameshwar Wali

311 Physics Building
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
USA

Ph: 315-443-9113(O)

E-mail: wali [at] phy.syr.edu