Sunil Maharaj
Visiting Faculty
Department of Theoretical Physics
Center for Theoretical Physics
India
Biography
BSc 1982 University of Durban-Westville. BSc (Hons) 1983 University of Durban-Westville. MSc 1984 University of the Witwatersrand Dissertation – “Invariant distribution functions for collision-free gases in locally rotationally symmetric spacetimes” PhD 1987 University of the Witwatersrand. Thesis – “Collision-free gases in symmetric spacetimes”.
Research Interest
My research interests include relativistic kinetic theory; symmetries of the gravitational field, in particular conformal symmetries; exact solutions of the field equations, especially inhomogeneous cosmological models; highly compact stellar objects and radiating stars.
