Gravity from strings and strings from gravity (The Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture 2026)

by Prof. Ashoke Sen (International Centre for Theoretical Sciences)

Thursday 22 Oct 2026, 15:15 → 16:15 Europe/Stockholm

About the speaker:

Ashoke Sen is an Indian theoretical physicist and ICTS-Infosys Madhava Chair Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore. A former distinguished professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj, he has also been an honorary fellow in National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) India, Morningstar Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a distinguished professor at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study. His main area of work is string theory. He was among the first recipients of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics "for opening the path to the realization that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory".