Suresh Govindarajan

  Postal Address   Department of Physics
  Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  Chennai 600 036 INDIA
  Education   1986
  Bachelor of Technology
  Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  Indian Institute of Technology Madras

  1991
  Masters and Doctor of Philosophy
  Theoretical Physics
  Thesis Advisor: Prof. Burt A. Ovrut
  University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
  Work Experience   1991-1993
  Postdoctoral Fellow
  The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India

  1993-1995
  Visiting Fellow
  Theoretical Physics Group
  Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

  1997
  Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
  Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  Sept. 1995 - Jan. 2004
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Physics
  Indian Institute of Technology Madras

  Jan. 12, 2004 - March 2009
  Associate Professor
  Department of Physics
  Indian Institute of Technology Madras

  March 24, 2009 onwards
  Professor
  Department of Physics
  Indian Institute of Technology Madras

  Research Interests    Quantum Field Theory
  Superstring Theory (Compatifications; Superpotentials; the AdS-CFT correspondence)
  Conformal Field Theory
  Black holes (Entropy; counting black hole states)
  Mathematical Physics (Ricci-Flat metrics, BKM Lie algebras, Higher Dimensional Partitions)


Preprints and Publications since 2007:

  1. Notes on higher-dimensional partitions
    By Suresh Govindarajan.
    arXiv:1203.4419 [math.CO].
  2. A non-commuting twist in the partition function
    By Suresh Govindarajan, Karthik Inbasekar.
    arXiv:1201.1628 [hep-th].
  3. Unravelling Mathieu Moonshine
    By Suresh Govindarajan.
    arXiv:1106.5715 [hep-th].
    Nucl.Phys. B864 (2012) 823-839.
  4. BKM superalgebras from counting dyons in N=4 supersymmetric type II compactifications
    By Suresh Govindarajan, Dileep P. Jatkar, K. Gopala Krishna.
    arXiv:1106.1318 [hep-th]. Nucl.Phys. B859 (2012) 143-158.
  5. On the asymptotics of higher-dimensional partitions
    By Srivatsan Balakrishnan, Suresh Govindarajan, Naveen S. Prabhakar.
    arXiv:1105.6231 [cond-mat.stat-mech]. J.Phys. A45 (2012) 055001.
  6. Brewing Moonshine for Mathieu
    By Suresh Govindarajan.
    arXiv:1012.5732 [math.NT].
  7. BKM Lie superalgebras from counting twisted CHL dyons
    By Suresh Govindarajan.
    arXiv:1006.3472 [hep-th]. JHEP 1105 (2011) 089.
  8. BKM Lie superalgebras from dyon spectra in ZN CHL orbifolds for composite N
    By Suresh Govindarajan & K. Gopala Krishna
    arXiv:0907.1410 [hep-th]
  9. Generalized Kac-Moody Algebras from CHL dyons
    By Suresh Govindarajan & K. Gopala Krishna
    JHEP 0904 (2009) 032 arXiv:0807.4451 [hep-th]
  10. A note on perturbative aspects of the Leigh-Strassler deformed N=4 SYM theory
    By Kallingalthodi Madhu & Suresh Govindarajan
    arXiv:0710.5589 [hep-th]
  11. Toric Kahler metrics and AdS5 in ring-like co-ordinates.
    By Bobby S. Acharya, Suresh Govindarajan, Chethan N. Gowdigere
    JHEP 11 (2007) 060 [arXiv:hep-th/0612302]
  12. Symplectic potentials and resolved Ricci-flat ACG metrics.
    By Aswin K. Balasubramanian, Suresh Govindarajan, Chethan N. Gowdigere.
    Classical and Quantum Gravity 24 (2007) 6393-6415 [arXiv:0707.4306] [hep-th]
  13. A tale of two superpotentials
    By Suresh Govindarajan
    AIP Conf. Proc. 939 (2007) 156-164.
    [Proceedings of the International Workshop of Theoretical Physics (IWTHEP) held at IIT, Roorkee (March 2007)]
  14. Chiral primaries in the Leigh-Strassler deformed N=4 SYM - a perturbative study.
    By Kallingalthodi Madhu & Suresh Govindarajan
    JHEP 05 (2007) 038. [hep-th/0703020]

Last updated Thu Oct 25 16:10:43 IST 2012