Raman Sundrum
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University of Maryland |
Raman Sundrum (born 1964) is an Indian-American theoretical particle physicist. He contributed to the field with a class of models called the Randall–Sundrum models, first published in 1999 with Lisa Randall.[2] Sundrum is a Distinguished University Professor at the
Biography
Sundrum did his undergraduate studies at
In 2010, Sundrum left Johns Hopkins and moved to the University of Maryland. His research is in theoretical particle physics and focuses on theoretical mechanisms and observable implications of extra spacetime dimensions, supersymmetry, and strongly coupled dynamics.[5]
According to Scientific American,[6] he was considering leaving physics for finance, when he called collaborator Lisa Randall to propose working together on membranes, or "branes" as they are known. Branes are domains or swaths of several spatial dimensions within a higher-dimensional space. The fruits of that collaboration were papers known as RS-1[2] and RS-2.[6]
Honors and awards
- 2019: J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics from the American Physical Society "For creative contributions to physics beyond the Standard Model, in particular the discovery that warped extra dimensions of space can solve the hierarchy puzzle, which has had a tremendous impact on searches at the Large Hadron Collider."[7]
References
- ^ Paul Halpern, The great beyond, Wiley, 2004, p 280.
- ^ .
- ^ "Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics".
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
- ^ "Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics - Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics". mcfp.physics.umd.edu.
- ^ a b The Beauty of Branes, Scientific American, October 2005.
- ^ "2019 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Recipient". APS. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
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