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 mater	Harvard University
Scientific career
Thesis	Supersymmetric partition functions in the AdS/CFT conjecture (2008)
Doctoral advisor	Shiraz Minwalla

Research

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]

Selected publications

• 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

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]}