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Prof. Suresh Govindarajan

Faculty - School of Engg. & Science

suresh@iitmz.ac.in

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Educational Qualifications

M.S. & PhD 1991

Theoretical Physics

University of Pennsylvania PA, USA.

B.Tech 1986

Electronics Engineering

IIT Madras, India

Awards

  • Best Teacher Award, for Excellence in Teaching for the year 2022

    IIT Madras, India

  • CERN Asia Fellowship, 2005 and CERN Associateship, 2006

    Visited the theoretical physics group of CERN, Geneva during 2005-2006

  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 1996

    Visited the Physikalisches Institut at the University of Bonn in 1997

  • John Stewart Bell Fellowship in Quantum Physics 1995-96

    Tenable at the Theory Division, CERN, Geneva. (was unable to accept) World Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland.

  • Research Fellow, Department of Physics

    Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 1988 - 1991

  • Dean’s Fellow, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

    Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 1987

  • National Talent Scholar, 1980-86

    National Council for Educational Research and Training, New Delhi

Research Interests

My interest areas include Theoretical High Energy Physics – Quantum Field Theory and String Theory; Statistical Physics; Combinatorics and Number Theory and their applications in Physics; Mathematical Physics.

Selected Papers

2023

decomposition of denominator formulae of some BKM Lie superalgebras - II

Suresh Govindarajan

Mohammad Shabbir

Nucl.Phys.B 989

2023

Positivity of discrete information for CHL black holes

Suresh Govindarajan

Sutapa Samanta

P. Shanmugapriya

Amitabh Virmani

Nucl.Phys.B 987

2021

decomposition of denominator formulae of some BKM Lie superalgebras

Suresh Govindarajan

Mohammad Shabbir

Sankaran Viswanath

Nucl.Phys.B 973

2021

Mathieu Moonshine and Siegel Modular Forms

Suresh Govindarajan

S. Samanta

JHEP 03

2021

Black hole hair removal for N = 4 CHL models

S. Chakrabarti

Suresh Govindarajan

P. Shanmugapriya

Y. K. Srivastava

A. Virmani

JHEP 02

2021

The Brylinski filtration for affine Kac-Moody algebras and representations of W-algebras

S. Govindarajan

S. S. Sharma

S. Viswanath

Algebras and Representation Theory, October 2021, pp 1-22

2019

BKM Lie superalgebras from counting twisted CHL dyons – II

S. Govindarajan

S. Samanta

Nucl. Phys. B 948

2019

On a square-ice analogue of plane partitions

Suresh Govindarajan

Anthony J. Guttmann

Varsha Subramanyan

Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré Comb. Phys. Interact. 6 (2019), no. 1, pp. 123–154

2019

Two moonshines for L2(11) but none for M12

Suresh Govindarajan

S. Samanta

Nucl. Phys. B 939, 566

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