Raman Sundrum (born 1964) is an Indian-American theoretical

particle physicist Particle physics or high energy physics is the study of Elementary particle, fundamental particles and fundamental interaction, forces that constitute matter and radiation. The fundamental particles in the universe are classified in the Standa ...

. He contributed to the field with a class of models called the

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s, first published in 1999 with

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. Sundrum is a Distinguished University Professor at the

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and the director of

Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics The Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics (MCFP) is a research institute at the University of Maryland, College Park focused on theoretical physics. About The MCFP was founded in 2007 and is currently directed by Raman Sundrum. It is a subd ...

Biography

Sundrum did his undergraduate studies at

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in Australia and received his

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from

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in 1990. He was one of two Alumni Centennial Professors in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

. He was elected a

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in 2003 "for his discoveries in supergravity and in theories of extra dimensions, and for applications to testable models of fundamental physics". 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 In physics, spacetime is a mathematical model that combines the three dimensions of space and one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional manifold. Spacetime diagrams can be used to visualize relativistic effects, such as why differen ...

dimensions,

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, and strongly coupled dynamics. According to

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,
The Beauty of Branes
', Scientific American, October 2005. he was considering leaving

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

for

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, when he called collaborator

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 and RS-2.

Honors and awards

* 2019: J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics from the

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'' "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."''

References

External links

Professor Sundrum's
website a
Department of Physics

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1964 births Living people Yale University alumni 21st-century American physicists American people of Indian descent Johns Hopkins University faculty Indian particle physicists American string theorists University of Sydney alumni University of Maryland, College Park faculty 20th-century Indian physicists Fellows of the American Physical Society J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipients {{US-physicist-stub