Raman Sundrum | |
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| Born | 1964 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney Yale University |
| Known for | Randall–Sundrum model |
| Awards | Sakurai Prize (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Johns Hopkins University Stanford University Boston University Harvard University University of California, Berkeley University of Maryland |
Raman Sundrum (born 1964) is an Indian-American theoreticalparticle physicist. He contributed to the field with a class of models called theRandall–Sundrum models, first published in 1999 withLisa Randall.[2]Sundrum is a Distinguished University Professor at theUniversity of Maryland and the director ofMaryland Center for Fundamental Physics.[3]
Sundrum did his undergraduate studies atUniversity of Sydney in Australia and received hisPh.D. fromYale University in 1990. He was one of two Alumni Centennial Professors in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of theJohns Hopkins University. He was elected aFellow of the American Physical Society in 2003 "for his discoveries in supergravity and in theories of extra dimensions, and for applications to testable models of fundamental physics".[4]
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 extraspacetime dimensions,supersymmetry, and strongly coupled dynamics.[5]
According toScientific American,[6] he was considering leavingphysics forfinance, when his future collaboratorLisa Randall called 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]
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