Suvrat Raju
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Suvrat Raju | |
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 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]
Career
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
- 2022 Nishina Asia award[5] for "his original and influential insights into the resolution of the black hole information paradox and the principle of holography in quantum gravity."
- 2020 Asian Scientist 100[17]
- 2019 ICTP Prize[2] "for new insights into the holographic description of black-hole interiors, for clarifying the nature of subtle non-local effects in quantum gravity, and for contributions to the study of the AdS/CFT correspondence."
- 2017 Swarnajayanti Fellowship[18][19][20]
- 2015 Smt. Saraswathi Cowsik medal[21]
- 2013 Indian National Science Academy medal for young scientists[22]
- 2013 National Academy of Sciences of India young scientist award[23]