Sudarshan Ananth

Sudarshan Ananth
Associate Professor of Physics
Indian Institute of Science Education
and Research (IISER) Pune
Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan,
Pune 411008
[email protected]
Profile
Sudarshan Ananth received his B.Sc. degree from Loyola
College and M.Sc. degree from the Indian Institute of
Technology Madras. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the
University of Florida in 2005. Dr. Ananth was subsequently a
Junior Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational
Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) for two years before
moving to IISER Pune in 2008. Since 2009 he also heads
the Max Planck Partner Group in Quantum Field Theory,
hosted at IISER.
Research Description
However we still lack a consistent quantum mechanical
description of the gravitational force.
Dr. Ananth’s research is aimed at understanding this
apparent incompatibility between general relativity and
quantum mechanics. Select themes of investigation
include:
1.Efficient methods to compute correlation functions
in conformal field theories.
2. Origin of divergences in quantum field theories.
3.
Perturbative relations between gravity and gauge
theory
4. Formulation and study of higher-spin gauge theories.
According to our current understanding, there are four
fundamental forces in Nature. Quantum Yang-Mills
theory provides a remarkably accurate description of
three of these four forces: the electromagnetic, weak and
strong forces. The fourth force, gravity, is classically well
understood thanks to the general theory of relativity.
Complete List of Publications as a
Ramanujan Fellow
1Spinor helicity structures in higher spin theories,
Sudarshan Ananth, Journal of High Energy Physics
(JHEP) 1211 (2012) 089.
2.Gauge-invariant correlation functions in light-cone
superspace, Sudarshan Ananth, Stefano Kovacs
and Sarthak Parikh, Journal of High Energy Physics
(JHEP) 1205 (2012) 096.
3.A manifestly MHV Lagrangian for N=4 Yang-Mills,
Sudarshan Ananth, Stefano Kovacs and Sarthak Parikh,
Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP) 1105(2011) 051.
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4.
Gravity and Yang-Mills, Sudarshan Ananth,
“Honorable Mention”, by the Gravity Research
Foundation, International Journal of Modern Physics
(IJMP) D19 (2010) 2379.
5.
LC(2) formulation of supergravity, Sudarshan
Ananth, Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP) 1002
(2010) 001.
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6.Gravity as the square of Yang-Mills: implications for
N=8 supergravity, Sudarshan Ananth, Fortschritte
der Physik, 57 (2009) 857.
7.The quintic interaction vertex in light-cone gravity,
Sudarshan Ananth, Physics Letters B 664 (2008) 219.

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