Biography
Abhay Ashtekar grew up in several cities, including Mumbai, in the state of Maharashtra, India. After completing his undergraduate education in India, Ashtekar enrolled in the graduate program for gravitation at the University of Texas at Austin. He went on to complete his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago under Prof. Robert Geroch in 1974 (thesis titled: "Asymptotic Structure of the Gravitational Field at Spatial Infinity") and held several appointments at Oxford, Paris, Syracuse before settling at Penn State.
He married Christine Clarke in 1986 and the two have a son, Neil Ashtekar.
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