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. Sundrum is a Distinguished University Professor at the

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and the director of Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics.

Biography

Sundrum did his undergraduate studies at

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in Australia and received his Ph.D. from

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

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. He was elected a Fellow 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". 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

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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

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for

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, when his future collaborator Lisa 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 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