Rajiv V. Gavai
Professor
Department of Theortical Physics
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
India
Biography
Rajiv V. Gavai earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Nagpur University and IIT Mumbai respectively. He then joined the Tata Insitute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, where he worked on Strong Interaction Phenomenology under the supervision of Prof. Durga Prasad Roy, FNA. After obtaining his Ph. D. degree from the Mumbai University in 1981 on Baryonium and related phenomenology, he went to Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow to work with Prof. H. Satz of University of Bielefeld in the area of quantum field theory on space-time lattices. He stayed on as a visiting professor in the Interdisciplinary Center for Research in Bielefeld up to 1984, and moved subsequently to Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York as a research associate. He came back to India in 1986 and joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, where he is currently a Senior Professor& Chair of the Theoretical Physics department.
Research Interest
Quark gluon plasma and Particle physics at the LHC - Early Universe.
Publications
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Gupta S, Irbäck A, Petersson B, Gavai R, Karsch F (1990) A 3-dimensional Z3 symmetric model: Correlation lengths at a first order phase transition Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl 17 pp: 199-203.
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Gavai R, Sharma S (2015) A simple idea for Lattice QCD at finite density 9th International Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement pp: 523-526.
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Gavai R (2016) The QCD critical point: an exciting Odyssey in the Femto-world Contemp.Phys 3 pp: 350-365.
