H R Krishnamurthy

Hulikal Ramaiengar Krishnamurthy (born 1951) is an Indian theoretical physicist He specializes in theoretical condensed matter physics, especially quantum manybody theory and statistical physics He is the chairman of the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science He is one of the research scholars who worked under Prof Kenneth G Wilson His main work was titled Renormalization Group Approach to the Anderson Model of Dilute Magnetic Alloys
Hulikal Ramaiengar Krishnamurthy obtained his BSc (Hons) in Physics (1970) from Bangalore University and MSc (Physics) (1972) from IIT, Kanpur He studied in Cornell University (197276) as IBM fellow, working with Kenneth G Wilson and John W Wilkins In his PhD thesis, he extended Wilsons numerical renormalization group solution for the Kondo problem to the symmetric Anderson impurity model The extension to the asymmetric case was completed during his postdoctoral tenure (197678) at the University of Illinois Krishnamurthy returned to India and joined the Department of Physics, IISc, Bangalore (1978) and became a Professor (1996) He has held sabbatical positions at Princeton University, Harvard University, Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati, UC Davis and Georgetown University