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Suvrat Raju

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]

Suvrat Raju
Suvrat at IIT Gandhinagar in 2024
Alma materHarvard University
Scientific career
ThesisSupersymmetric partition functions in the AdS/CFT conjecture (2008)
Doctoral advisorShiraz Minwalla

Research

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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]

Career

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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]

Awards and honours

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Selected publications

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  • Raju, Suvrat (12 January 2022). "Lessons from the information paradox". Physics Reports. 943: 1–80. arXiv:2012.05770. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2021.10.001. ISSN 0370-1573. S2CID 228083488.
  • Papadodimas, Kyriakos; Raju, Suvrat (October 2013). "An infalling observer in AdS/CFT". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2013 (10): 212. arXiv:1211.6767. Bibcode:2013JHEP...10..212P. doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2013)212. S2CID 53650802.
  • Fitzpatrick, A. Liam; Kaplan, Jared; Penedones, Joao; Raju, Suvrat; van Rees, Balt C. (November 2011). "A Natural Language for AdS/CFT Correlators". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2011 (11): 95. arXiv:1107.1499. doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2011)095. ISSN 1029-8479. S2CID 15959358.
  • Kinney, Justin; Maldacena, Juan; Minwalla, Shiraz; Raju, Suvrat (8 August 2007). "An Index for 4 dimensional Super Conformal Theories". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 275 (1): 209–254. arXiv:hep-th/0510251. doi:10.1007/s00220-007-0258-7. ISSN 0010-3616. S2CID 14349615.

Public Advocacy

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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]

References

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  1. ^ Navarro, Kami (14 August 2020). "Asia's Rising Scientists: Suvrat Raju". Asian Scientist Magazine.
  2. ^ a b "ICTP - ICTP Prize Winners 2019". ICTP Prize Winners. International Centre for Theoretical Physics.
  3. ^ "Suvrat Raju awarded the ICTP Prize". International Centre for Theoretical Sciences. 1 November 2019.
  4. ^ "ICTP - Awarding Physics Excellence". www.ictp.it. International Centre for Theoretical Physics. 24 October 2019.
  5. ^ a b "The 2022 (the tenth) Nishina Asia Award is awarded" (in Japanese). Nishina Memorial Foundation.
  6. ^ "Suvrat Raju received Nishina Asia award".
  7. ^ Kajuri, Nirmalya (13 November 2022). "Of Islands, Holograms and Saving Quantum Physics From a Black Hole Paradox; The Wire Science". The Wire.
  8. ^ Musser, George (September 2022). "How Physicists Cracked a Black Hole Paradox". Scientific American.
  9. ^ Ghosh, Pallab (17 March 2022). "Scientists claim hairy black holes explain Hawking paradox". BBC News.
  10. ^ Carroll, Sean (5 June 2013). "Firewalls, Burning Brightly". Preposterous Universe.
  11. ^ Karch, Andreas (21 October 2013). "What's Inside a Black Hole's Horizon?". Physics. 6. American Physical Society: 115. Bibcode:2013PhyOJ...6..115K. doi:10.1103/Physics.6.115. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  12. ^ Fitzpatrick, A. Liam; Kaplan, Jared; Penedones, Joao; Raju, Suvrat; van Rees, Balt C. (November 2011). "A Natural Language for AdS/CFT Correlators". Journal of High Energy Physics. 2011 (11): 95. arXiv:1107.1499. doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2011)095. ISSN 1029-8479. S2CID 15959358.
  13. ^ Kinney, Justin; Maldacena, Juan; Minwalla, Shiraz; Raju, Suvrat (8 August 2007). "An Index for 4 dimensional Super Conformal Theories". Communications in Mathematical Physics. 275 (1): 209–254. arXiv:hep-th/0510251. doi:10.1007/s00220-007-0258-7. ISSN 0010-3616. S2CID 14349615.
  14. ^ "Harvard PhD Theses in Physics, 2001-". www.physics.harvard.edu.
  15. ^ "The Prize Winner of the 2022 (the tenth) Nishina Asia Award" (PDF). Nishina Memorial Foundation.
  16. ^ "People: Faculty: Suvrat Raju". International Centre for Theoretical Sciences.
  17. ^ "The Asian Scientist 100". Asian Scientist Magazine. the Asian Scientist 100 list celebrates the success of the region's best and brightest, highlighting their achievements across a range of scientific disciplines.
  18. ^ "Suvrat Raju Awarded The Prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship To Advance The Research On "Information Paradox"". ICTS.
  19. ^ "List of Awardees- SwarnaJayanti Fellowships Scheme 2016-2017" (PDF). Department of Science and Technology.
  20. ^ "Swarnajayanti Fellowships Scheme". Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. a selected number of young scientists, with proven track record, are provided special assistance and support to enable them to pursue basic research in frontier areas of science and technology.
  21. ^ "Endowment Awards". www.tifr.res.in. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. awarded to a member of TIFR - visiting, regular or otherwise - for his/her contribution to an outstanding paper in any field published in the three years prior to the award.
  22. ^ "INSA :: AWARDS RECIPIENTS". Indian National Science Academy. The INSA Young Scientists Award, considered to be the highest recognition of promise, creativity and excellence in a young scientist, is made annually to those distinguished for these attributes as evidenced by their research work carried out in India.
  23. ^ "Nasi-Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Awards In The Field Of Biological/ Physical/Chemical Sciences". www.nasi.nic.in. National Academy of Sciences of India.
  24. ^ Raju, Suvrat; Ramana, M. V. (15 October 2013). "The Impasse Over Liability Clause in Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal". India Ink.
  25. ^ Raju, Suvrat; Ramana, M. V. (20 August 2010). "Moral hazard of indemnifying suppliers". The Hindu.
  26. ^ Raju, Suvrat (20 June 2013). "Repeating Enron in Jaitapur". The Hindu.
  27. ^ Ramana, M. V.; Raju, Suvrat (2 March 2020). "Pushing the wrong energy buttons". The Hindu.
  28. ^ Chowdhury, Shreya Roy (3 February 2017). "How scientists in elite research centres became interested in social justice on campuses". Scroll.in. Scroll.
  29. ^ Network, Times News (4 January 2017). "Rohith Vemula row: Report nails VC for muzzling dissent". The Times of India. Times of India.
  30. ^ Masih, Archana. "'Protests have forced government on the backfoot'". Rediff.
  31. ^ Raju, Suvrat. "Scientists Weigh In on India's Citizenship Debate". Scientific American.
  32. ^ Network, Times News (17 December 2019). "CAB Bill Latest News: IISc researchers protest; IIMB students, faculty write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi". The Times of India.
  33. ^ Mudur, G. S. (19 December 2019). "Civil society voices grow against Citizenship Bill". Telegraph India.
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