About Me

Sree Ram Valluri, PhD

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Adjunct Research Professor
Physics and Astronomy Building 271
Office No: (519) 661-3283
valluri@uwo.ca

Curiosity is an essential part of my being. The sense of awe, wonder and delight on the nature of things around me gives me plenty of energy to pursue the different trails that attract my attention. Being a physicist has given me an opportunity to pursue some practical interests - the mathematician in me gives free vent to the imagination - the philosopher in my being tries to rationalize and accept things as they are, instead of what they should be. I have tried to pursue, as much as possible, knowledge for its own sake.

I have the good luck of working and interacting with scholars, scientists, and students from a variety of disciplines, countries and backgrounds. I had my school and university in India and my second Master's (in Nuclear Physics) and Doctorate in Canada. My research took me to Italy, Turkey, Australia, Germany, UK and the US. I like the different kinds of people I meet. I am involved in the Study of the Detection of Gravitational Waves - a topic of enduring interest and fascination for me. In this context, I collaborate with members of the LIGO Group (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory initially started as a MIT - CalTech collaboration).

I have fun participating in the variety of sports I always enjoy - cricket, badminton, tennis and jogging, etc. I am a great admirer of Terry Fox and do the Run for Cancer Research Support every year. The practice of Yoga has given me some patience, flexibility and equanimity to face the occasional storms and turbulence of life. I try to live life to the fullest. I am fortunate to have an understanding and loving wife Raji. She is an excellent dancer. Dancing and physics can go very well together. We have two fine children - a son Chandrasekhar (Chandu) and daughter Silpa. We count ourselves fortunate!

Degrees and Institutions

  • PhD, University of Regina - Relativistic Astrophysics
  • MSc, University of Ottawa - Theoretical Nuclear Physics
  • MSc, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India - Physics
  • BSc, Osmania University, Hyderbad, India - Math, Physics & Chemistry

Recent Publications

  • Lankireddy, P., Jeevanandam, S., Choudhary, A., Deshmukh, P. C., Roberts, K., & Valluri, S. R. (2023). Solar Cells, Lambert W and the LogWright Functions. In 2023 International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Energy Technologies (ICECET). doi: 10.1109/ICECET58911.2023.10389599.
  • Patel, R., Sainani, P., Brar, M., Patel, R., Li, X., Drozd, J., Chishtie, F. A., Benterki, A., Scott, T. C., & Valluri, S. R. (2023). Modelling of COVID-19 Using Fractional Differential Equations. arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.16282. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.16282
  •  Upadhyaya, V., Li, X., Zhang, X., & Valluri, S. R. (2023). The Role of r-Modes in Pulsar Spindown, Pulsar Timing and Gravitational Waves. arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.11270. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.11270
  • Tot, J., Valluri, S. R., & Deshmukh, P. C. (2023). Great Inequality of Jupiter and Saturn I: The Planetary Three Body Problem, Heliocentric development by Lagrange multipliers, Perturbation Theory Formulation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.04810. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.04810

Notable Publications

  • Valluri, S. R., Corless, R. M., & Jeffrey, D. J. (2000). Some Applications of the Lambert W Function to Physics. Canadian J. Physics 78, 823-831
  • Valluri, S. R., Gil, M., Jeffrey, D. J., & Basu, Shantanu. (2009). The Lambert function and quantum statistics. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 50(10), 102103. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3230482
  • Papini, G. & Valluri, S. R. (1977) Gravitons in Minkowski Space-Time, Phys. Reports, 33C
  • Auddy, S., Basu, S., & Valluri, S. R. (2016). Analytic Models of Brown Dwarfs and The Substellar Mass Limit. Advances in Astronomy, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/5743272 
  • Jentschura, U.D., Gies, H., Valluri, S.R., Lamm, D.R., & Weniger, E.J. (2002). QED Effective Action Revisited. Canadian Journal of Physics 80 (3), 267-284