V. V. Sreedhar

Welcome to my webpage. I have just started working on it.
Please look for updates from time to time. Have a nice day!
-- Sreedhar

First, a few words about myself: Sreedhar is my first name.
My surname is Vinnakota and my middle name is Venkata.
Following the general practice in the part of India in which
I grew up, I write my name as V. V. Sreedhar.

I am a Professor at the Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI).
Before joining CMI, I was a faculty member at the Indian
Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK). I have also had
post-doctoral stints at the Dublin Institute for Advanced
Studies (DIAS), Ireland, S. N. Bose National Centre for
Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS), Kolkata, and the Institute for
Theoretical Physics of Uppsala University, Sweden.

Photo taken by my friend Prof. Parongama Sen

Second, a few words about what I do: I am a theoretical physicist. My interests are fairly eclectic and secular.
At present I am working on Applied Knot Theory, but I keep going back to Quantum Theory, Fluid Dynamics,
and especially to problems that cut across these fields. I have provided links to some of my more important
papers below to give you a glimpse of my research activities.

Selected Publications

Please click on the following links to read my recent papers on

Knot Theory:

• The classical and quantum mechanics of a particle on a knot.
• An Exact Expression for a Flat Connection on the Complement of a Torus Knot
• A General Method for Deriving Vector Potentials Produced by Knotted Solenoids

Please click on the following link to read an earlier paper on

Quantum Entanglement:

• On the Topological Origin of Entanglement in Ising Spin Glasses

Please click on the following links to read my earlier papers on

Fluid Dynamics:

• The Maximal Kinematical Invariance Group of Fluid Dynamics and Explosion-Implosion Duality
• Symmetries of Discontinuous Flows and the Dual Rankine-Hugoniot Conditions in Fluid Dynamics

Please click on the following link to read an earlier paper in

Mathematical Physics:

• The Maximal Invariance Group of Newton's Equations for a Free Point Particle

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Conformal Field Theory:

• Duality in Quantum Liouville Theory
• Conformally Invariant Path Integral Formulation of the Wess-Zumino-Witten --> Liouville Reduction

Please click on the following links to read my earlier papers on

Spin and Statistics in Low Dimensions:

• Canonical Quantization and Gauge Invariant Anyon Operators in Chern-Simons Scalar Electrodynamics
• Perturbed Chern-Simons Theory, Fractional Statistics, and Yang-Baxter Algebra

Research Activity

Please click here to get the details of a research activity at CMI that I co-organised with Dr. A. Thyagaraja
(Bristol University, formerly at Culham Laboratories, Oxford, U.K.) comprising of a

• Lecture Series on Fluid Dynamics

Mentorship

Please click here to contact two persons I mentored during their undergraduate days -- the former at IITK and
the latter at CMI.

• Amitabh Virmani
• Pavithran Iyer

Outreach

Please click on the following link to read slides of the talk I gave to a select group of school students at the Indian
Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM), under the auspices of the Research Science Initiative, Chennai (RSI-C)
of the Padma Seshadri Group of Schools; and at CMI under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences,
India (NASI), Allahabad. I hope to convert this into an expository article on Knot Theory in due course.

• A Few Wrong Men in a Paradise for Mathematicians (With Apologies to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore)