{"id":29,"date":"2018-08-07T10:45:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T14:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/garg-group\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2018-10-11T20:44:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T00:44:27","slug":"prof-umesh-garg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/garg-group\/prof-umesh-garg\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Umesh Garg"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Advisor<\/h1>\n<h2>Prof. Umesh Garg<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-256 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/garg-group\/files\/2018\/08\/umesh_garg_1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Education:<\/h2>\n<p>B.Sc, Birla Institute of Technology &amp; Science, Pilani, India (1972)<\/p>\n<p>M.Sc., Birla Institute of Technology &amp; Science, Pilani, India (1974)<\/p>\n<p>M.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York(1975)<\/p>\n<p>Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York (1978)<\/p>\n<h2>Current Research:<\/h2>\n<p>Prof. Garg\u2019s current research interests include experimental investigation of compressional-mode giant resonances and exotic quantal rotation in nuclei.<\/p>\n<p>Giant resonances are highly collective states of nuclear vibration. The compressional-mode giant resonances provide the only direct experimental measurement of the nuclear incompressibility, a fundamental property of nuclear matter that is crucial to understanding of a number of nuclear and astrophysical phenomena, including strength of collapse in supernovae explosions, collective-flow in high-energy heavy ion collisions, and properties of neutron stars\u2014the \u201clargest nuclei\u201d that exist in nature. Prof. Garg\u2019s group has been investigating the Isoscalar Giant Dipole Resonance, an exotic compressional-oscillation, also referred to as the \u201csqueezing mode\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The atomic nuclei exhibit a number of interesting and exciting phenomena at large angular momenta viz. shape transitions, quenching of superfluid behavior, order-to-chaos transitions, etc. These effects are studied through the gamma-ray de-excitation of the nucleus following heavy-ion reactions. In recent years, Prof. Garg\u2019s group has investigated the exotic processes of chiral rotation (yes, the nuclei can be left- or right-handed!) and \u201canti-magnetic\u201d rotation in nuclei.<\/p>\n<h2>Honors:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Fellow of the American Physical Society<\/li>\n<li>Fulbright Specialist Award, 2015-<\/li>\n<li>Guest Professor, Peking University, China, 2015-<\/li>\n<li>Adjunct Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India, 2014-<\/li>\n<li>JSPS Fellow, RIKEN, Japan, 2012<\/li>\n<li>PKU Fellow, Peking University, China, 2012<\/li>\n<li>EMMI Visiting Professor, GSI, Germany, 2011<\/li>\n<li>Guest scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory (since 1983)<\/li>\n<li>Recipient of the 2006 Kaneb Award for Excellence in Teaching<\/li>\n<li>Recipient of the inaugural Terrence Akai Award for Service to International Students<\/li>\n<li>Director of the Department of Physics Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program (since 2000)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Contact:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:garg@nd.edu\">garg@nd.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advisor Prof. Umesh Garg Education: B.Sc, Birla Institute of Technology &amp; Science, Pilani, India (1972) M.Sc., Birla Institute of Technology &amp; Science, Pilani, India (1974) M.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York(1975) Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York (1978) Current Research: Prof. Garg\u2019s current research interests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3137,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/garg-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/garg-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/garg-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/garg-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/garg-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/garg-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/garg-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/garg-group\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}