Veni grant for Sharmila Gunasekaran

This grant will allow her to conduct independent research and develop her ideas for a period of three years. Her project is concerned with anti-de Sitter solutions. To understand physical theories, one often looks at the lowest energy state. The anti-de Sitter soliton is believed to be the lowest mass spacetime under certain boundary conditions. Normally, a state with the lowest energy is expected to be stable. Her project aims to develop mathematical methods to rigorously quantify the stability of the anti-de Sitter soliton.