IAGRG Awards

V. V. Narlikar Best Thesis Award

Recognising outstanding doctoral research in gravitation and related areas

About this Award

The V. V. Narlikar Best Thesis Award recognises outstanding doctoral research carried out at universities in India in the areas of General Relativity, Gravitation, and related fields.

The award traces its origin to a proposal made at the 20th General Body Meeting of IAGRG, held on 20 January 1999 at D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, to institute a prize for exceptional PhD theses. Subsequently, the IAGRG Council resolved to encourage thesis presentations at future meetings, inviting recent PhD recipients in Mathematics and Physics whose work related to gravitation and allied areas.

The recipient would be selected by a panel of referees on the basis of scholarly quality and presentation. Following a suggestion by Prof. P. C. Vaidya, the prize was named the Professor V. V. Narlikar Award for Best Thesis in GRG and Related Areas, in honour of one of India’s distinguished scientific figures.The first award was conferred for the block 1997–2000, and it continues to celebrate excellence in young research scholarship.

Award Archive

2022-2024

Aditya Vijaykumar

ICTS, Bengaluru

To be updated

2020-2022

Akash Kumar Mishra

IIT Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar

To be updated

2020-2022

Ashish Kumar Meena

IISER Mohali, Mohali

To be updated

2018-2020

Kabir Chakravarti

Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune

Gravitational waves from compact binaries as probes of neutron star equation of state and extra-spatial dimension

2016-2018

Sk Jahanur Hoque

The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

Physics of Gravitational Waves in Presence of Positive Cosmological Constant

2014-2016

Sumanta Chakraborty

IUCAA, Pune

Classical and Quantum Aspects of Gravity in Relation to The Emergent Paradigm

2012-2014

Aditya Rotti

IUCAA, Pune

Weak Lensing Probes of Cosmology

2012-2014

Suprit Singh

IUCAA, Pune

Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Black Holes and Cosmological Spacetimes

2008-2012

Sandipan Sengupta

The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

Gauge Theory of Gravity with Topological Invariants

2004-2008

Sudipta Das

Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Aspects of Quintessence Matter - The Driver of the Late Time Acceleration of the Universe

2000-2004

Parampreet Singh

IUCAA, Pune

Gravity at High Energies

2000-2004

Ranjan Sharma

To be updated

A Model for a Class of Compact Stars

1997-2000

Dr. V. O. Thomas

M. S. University of Baroda

A Study of Some Relativistic Fields of Gravitation

1997-2000

Dr. Sarbeshwar Chaudhuri

University of Burdwan

Exact Solutions in Gravitation Theory