Sarada G. Rajeev

Biographical Sketch: Prof. Rajeev received his B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India (1979), and his Ph.D. in Physics from Syracuse University (1984). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1984-87) before joining the University as an Assistant Professor of Physics in 1987. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1993 and to Professor in 2000. Prof. Rajeev has held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1991), the Research Institute for Theoretical Physics, Helsinki (1991), and the Mittag-Leffler Institute, Stockholm (1998).

Research: Prof. Rajeev works on various problems in theoretical physics arising from High-Energy Physics, as well as other fields such as string theory, nonlinear optics, hydrodynamics and quantum information theory. The focus of most recent work has been on non-commutative geometry and probability theory, which has applications to understanding Yang-Mills fields as well as to string theory and even classical problems in hydrodynamics. Solitons in field theories of High Energy Physics and nonlinear optics is another theme of research.