Suneeta

Suneeta Vardarajan

Professor,

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune,
Dr. Homi Bhabha (Pashan NCL) Road,
Pune 411008, Maharashtra, INDIA.
E-mail: suneeta_AT_iiserpune.ac.in

If one proves the equality of two numbers a and b by showing first that "a is less than or equal to b" and then "a is greater than or equal to b", it is unfair, one should instead show that they are really equal by disclosing the inner ground for their equality.

Emmy Noether

Education:

Ph.D, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India.
M.Sc Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras .
B.Sc (Hons.) Physics, St. Stephen's College , University of Delhi.

Past Positions:

Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Math Department, University of Alberta.
Research fellow, Relativity group, University of New Brunswick .
Pacific Institute for Math Sciences Fellow , University of Alberta, with Don Page .
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow , Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich in Lehrstuhl Mukhanov.

I am a member of the Physics group at IISER Pune.

Research :

LiGO has given us strong observational evidence of black holes. It has also offered us a window into black holes. I work on classical and quantum properties of black holes. I am particularly interested in the following topics:

Classical signatures of black holes in gravitational wave detectors, particularly quasinormal modes, tidal perturbations and nonlinear ringdown, excited by violent black hole merger events.
We do not know if there are corrections to Einstein gravity in the strong gravity regime from higher curvature terms. I am interested in observational signatures and causal properties of higher curvature gravity theories.
I am interested in studying instabilities of black holes and black branes, like the Gregory-Laflamme instability and the Aretakis instability. I have also worked in the past on the instability of anti-de Sitter spacetime, its end-point, and the necessary conditions for such an instability to occur in an asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetime.
The evidence for black holes makes it imperative for us to understand their strange quantum properties, especially black hole thermodynamics and the information loss paradox. I am interested in the application of von Neumann algebras to prove results in semiclassical gravity. In particular, I have worked on the proof the Generalized second law in Einstein and higher curvature gravity theories.
I am interested in the gravitational path integral, both formal aspects, and the path integral for near-extremal black holes.

Miscellaneous:

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Advances in Black Holes Theory