Suvrat Raju | |
|---|---|
 Suvrat at IIT Gandhinagar in 2024 | |
| Alma mater | St Stephen's College, Delhi Delhi University Harvard University |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Supersymmetric partition functions in the AdS/CFT conjecture (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Shiraz Minwalla |
Suvrat Raju is an Indian physicist. He is known for his work on black holes. [1] He was awarded the 2019 ICTP Prize [2] [3] [4] and the 2022 Nishina Asia award. [5] [6]
Raju advanced a potential resolution of the black hole information paradox, [7] which is based on the idea that "all the information inside a black hole can be recovered from outside" in quantum gravity. [8] [9] Together with Kyriakos Papadodimas, Raju formulated the Papadodimas-Raju proposal for black holes [10] [11] Raju was part of a collaboration that proposed the utility of the Mellin transform in AdS/CFT arguing that it provided a "natural language" for correlation functions. [12] Raju was part of a collaboration that developed an "index" for quantum field theories with super-conformal symmetry. [13]
Raju studied physics at St. Stephen's College in Delhi University from 1999 to 2002. He earned his PhD at Harvard University in 2008. [14] He is currently a professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. [15] [16]
Raju criticized aspects of the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal arguing, with M. V. Ramana, that the Indian nuclear liability bill favored foreign nuclear corporations [24] [25] and that the nuclear reactors that the Indian government was planning to import were expensive. [26] [27] Raju was part of a team of scientists that released a report on the protests at Hyderabad central University in 2016 that was critical of the actions of the university administration. [28] [29] Raju was part of a group of scientists who argued that the 2019 Indian Citizenship (Amendment) Act was discriminatory. [30] [31] [32] [33]
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