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Dr. Ramamurti Rajaraman speaks about Science behind Global Warming and Nuclear Weapons in season 2 of Brains Trust

Dr. Ramamurti Rajaraman (born 11 March 1939) is an Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at the School of Physical Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

He is also currently the co-Chairman of the International Panel on Fissile Materials and a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists's Science and Security Board.

He has taught and conducted research in physics at the Indian Institute of Science, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and as a visiting professor at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and elsewhere.

He received his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1963 from Cornell University. In addition to his physics publications, he has written widely on topics including fissile material production in India and Pakistan and the radiological effects of nuclear weapon accidents.

He completed his B.Sc (Honours) from Delhi University in 1958 and his PhD in theoretical physics in 1963 from Cornell University with Prof. Hans Bethe as his supervisor.[3]After a brief postdoctoral stint at TIFR in 1963, he returned to Cornell to teach and continue research. In 1969, after spending two years at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton he returned to India, working first at Delhi University (1969–76), then Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore (1976–93), finally JNU (1994- ) where he is now Emeritus Professor. He spent long sabbaticals at the Harvard University, MIT, Stanford University, CERN, University of Illinois and Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Rajaraman evaluated the full three-body energy of nuclear matter non-perturbatively, unlike perturbative methods used till then. These developments, summarized in a review article with Hans Bethe in 1967, subsequently led to the hole-line expansion and Coupled Cluster method in Many Body theory. During the seventies, he shifted to high-energy physics, both phenomenology and Quantum Field Theory.

His work on quantum Solitons and his book, the first in the field, have been widely used by both particle physicists and condensed matter theorists around the world. With John Bell, he explained the status of the remarkable phenomenon of Fractional Charge, experimentally observed in polymers and in quantum Hall systems.

Later, with Jackiw, he solved exactly an anomalous gauge theory in 2 dimensions and in subsequent papers established the canonical structure of such anomalous theories, until then wrongly considered to be inconsistent.

He is the recipient of the 2014 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Physical Sciences in 1983 He was also recipient of 1989 Dr. G.P. Chatterjee Memorial Award and 1995 S.N.Bose Medal of the Indian National Science Academy.

The idea of Brains Trust was inspired by President Roosevelt's selection of two professors from Columbia University, to advise him on matters of importance, without bias and rhetoric, rooted in facts and insights. A New York Times reporter discovered this and called this group the President's Brains Trust.

For Brains Trust India, we are creating a confederacy of great minds who will build bridges with knowledge.

The British High Commission is a partner in this movement and speakers of eminence from India and the UK will participate.

The members of Brains Trust will present their ideas in an audiovisual capsule. This will be followed by an eight city tour every year to socialise the ideas through travel and outreach programs as well as by leveraging social media.

The subjects avoid current affairs and any controversial issues. It is envisaged that over the next 36 months this program will evolve from being an event, to a movement, rooted in knowledge appealing to a wide cross section of audiences.

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