Raman Parimala
| Raman Parimala | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | 1948 |
| Residence | United States |
| Fields | Algebra |
| Institutions | Emory University |
| Alma mater | University of Mumbai, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| Doctoral advisor | R. Sridharan |
| Doctoral students |
Sujatha Ramdorai Suresh Venapally |
| Notable awards | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (1987) |
Raman Parimala (born 21 November 1948)[1] is an Indian mathematician known for her contributions to algebra. She is the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of mathematics at Emory University.[2] For many years, she was a professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai.
Background
Parimala was born and raised in Tamil Nadu, India.[3] She studied in Saradha Vidyalaya Girls' High School and Stella Maris College at Chennai. She received her M.Sc. from Madras University (1970) and Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai (1976); her advisor was R. Sridharan from TIFR.[4]
Selected publications
- Failure of a quadratic analogue of Serre's conjecture, Bulletin AMS, vol. 82, 1976, pp. 962–964 MR 0419427
- Quadratic spaces over polynomial extensions of regular rings of dimension 2, Mathematische Annalen, vol. 261, 1982, pp. 287–292 doi:10.1007/BF01455449
- Galois cohomology of the Classical groups over fields of cohomological dimension≦2, E Bayer-Fluckiger, R Parimala - Inventiones mathematicae, 1995 - Springer doi:10.1007/BF01231443
- Hermitian analogue of a theorem of Springer, R Parimala, R. Sridharan, V Suresh - Journal of Algebra, 2001 - Elsevier doi:10.1006/jabr.2001.8830
- Classical groups and the Hasse principle, E Bayer-Fluckiger, R Parimala - Annals of Mathematics, 1998 - jstor.org[5] doi:10.2307/120961
Honors
Parimala was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich in 1994 and gave a talk Study of quadratic forms — some connections with geometry. She gave a plenary address Arithmetic of linear algebraic groups over two dimensional fields at the Congress in Hyderabad in 2010.
- Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences[1]
- Fellow of Indian National Science Academy[1]
- Bhatnagar Award in 1987[1]
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne in 1999[1]
- Srinivasa Ramanujan Birth Centenary Award in 2003.[1]
- Mathematics prize from the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World (2005).[1]
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012)[6]
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Riddle, Larry. "Raman Parimala". Biographies of Young Women Mathematicians. Agnes Scott College. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ↑ "Math/CS". www.mathcs.emory.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ↑ "Biographies of Candidates 2015" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. American Mathematical Society. 62 (8): 940. September 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ↑ "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Raman Parimala". www.genealogy.ams.org. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ↑ Google scholar
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-05-05.
External links
- Raman Parimala at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Home page at Emory
- Parimala's biography in the Agnes Scott College database of women mathematicians