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Govind Menon, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Physics Department
of Mathematics & Physics
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The black holes of nature
are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe:
the only elements in their construction are
our concepts of space and time.
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S. Chandrashekar
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Research Interest General Relativity, Astrophysical Applications of GR, Quantum Fields in curved Spacetime. General interest Archives |
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Current Research Project General Relativity (Black Hole
Astrophysics) The process
of energy extraction from a rotating Black Hole is being studied from an
analytical point of view. This is one of the central problems that the Gamma
Ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) will provide data to solve (which with any luck can be
compared to the analytical solution). Major subsystems of GLAST are being
developed in the High Energy Space Environment Branch at the Naval Research
Laboratory. This Collaborative research with Dr. Charles
Dermer should lead to insights that
will further motivate research in GLAST science. Quantum Fields in Black Hole
Spacetimes Using a global time
formalism for causal fields in Kerr Geometry, I hope to find analytical
solutions to free field equations in Kerr Spacetime. Following this, I hope
to develop the quantum theory of fields in a Kerr Spacetime in an explicit
manner. Only then is it possible to
place astro-particle physics of Black Holes in a strong theoretical footing. |