Morung Express News
Dimapur | April 12
A memorial service in remembrance of Late Dr. Sentitemsu Imsong – a Particle Physicist – was today held at University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. Late Sentitemsu was 31 when he passed away at Columbia Asia Hospital, Bengaluru while undergoing treatment for Severe Septic Shock on October 30, 2015.
Dr. Sentitemsu’s PhD supervisor, Professor B. Ananthanarayan from the Centre for High Energy Physics (CHEP), Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, led the memorial service. A few faculty and student friends from the university along with well wishers of late Senti joined in the memorial.
After the memorial service on Tuesday, the group of well wishers decided to form a working committee to somehow commemorate late Senti’s achievements and to look into the possibility of extending support to his family.
In his eulogy to late Senti, Prof Ananth, who is also Chairman of CHEP stated, “I did not think a day would come when I would have to stand here in front of you and speak in this manner. His altogether brief life touched everyone of us. His life streaked across the sky like a beautiful comet. It appeared as briefly as it left.”
Prof Ananth recalled late Senti as having come to IISc in 2008 after his M. Sc. in University of Hyderabad. “You must understand that he actually did not spend a whole lot of time here. In fact, he finished his Ph. D. in a sort of a record 4 years and won the Meera Memorial Award for theoretical physics for his thesis,” he recalled.
Late Senti’s work was in the field of low energy strong interaction dynamics and use of analyticity methods and modern inputs from effective theories and lattice gauge theories to improve our description of form factors.
Prof Ananth observed that Imsong, in his work, showed great diligence and attention to detail and was “not keen on flamboyance”. “Imsong was widely liked and had friends of all ages and from all walks. He had the ability to go for tea with any crowd and had the innate ability to listen and would not speak too much,” the professor from IISc fondly remembered.
“In his simplicity and his humility Imsong has given us all a lesson. That indeed life is short, and we must make the best of it. Let his sincerity be a beacon and a touchstone for us. He will live on in us, as we enshrine these in our lives as a solemn tribute to this noble young man. Unlike us who will age, and grey and grow infirm, Imsong will always be a fine young man,” Prof Ananth stated.
Dr. Sentitemsu was consistent in his academic excellence emerging as topper in both HSLC and HSSLC exams while also winning a Gold Medal in his BSc at Kohima Science College, Jotsoma. He finished his MSc in Physics from University of Hyderabad with First Class.
In 2012, the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore conferred PhD for his thesis, “Improvement on Hadronic form factors using analyticity and unitarity constraints”. His research was adjudged the best thesis in theoretical physics in the university for academic year 2012-2013. Thereafter, he pursued his post-doctoral studies in Germany for two years and in Israel for nearly a year.
Late Senti had been selected as Assistant Professor in IIT Guwahati and was transiting through Bangalore to join his new post before his demise. He had also been selected for the same post in IIT Hyderabad.
