Summary
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. She has been on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2019[3] and is on the Abel prize selection Committee 2021/2022.[4]
Raman Parimala | |
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| Born | November 21, 1948 |
| Alma mater | University of Mumbai, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| Awards | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (1987) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Algebra |
| Institutions | Emory University |
| Doctoral advisor | R. Sridharan |
| Doctoral students | Sujatha Ramdorai Suresh Venapally |
Background edit
Parimala was born and raised in Tamil Nadu, India.[5] 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.[6]
In 1987, she won the highest science award in India: The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.[7]
She is a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (New Delhi).[7]
Selected publications edit
- Failure of a quadratic analogue of Serre's conjecture, Bulletin of the AMS, vol. 82, 1976, pp. 962–964 MR0419427
- 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[8] doi:10.2307/120961
Honors edit
On National Science Day in 2020, Smriti Irani, head of the Ministry of Women and Child Development of the Government of India, announced the establishment of chairs at institutes across India in the names of Raman Parimala and other ten Indian women scientists.[9] 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 Archived 3 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine. 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]
- TWAS Prize for Mathematics (2005).[1][10]
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012)[11]
Notes edit
- ^ a b c d e f g Riddle, Larry. "Raman Parimala". Biographies of Young Women Mathematicians. Agnes Scott College. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ^ "Math/CS". www.mathcs.emory.edu. Archived from the original on 25 November 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ^ "Infosys Prize - Jury 2020". www.infosys-science-foundation.com. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
- ^ The Abel Committee 2021/2022 Archived 19 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine The Abel prize
- ^ "Biographies of Candidates 2015" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 62 (8). American Mathematical Society: 940. September 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ^ "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Raman Parimala". www.genealogy.ams.org. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
- ^ a b Sci-Illustrate (12 January 2021). "Raman Parimala". Sci-Illustrate Stories. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ Google scholar
- ^ "Science Institutes to Have 11 Chairs in Women Scientists' Names - SheThePeople TV".
- ^ "Prizes and Awards". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-05-05.
External links edit
- Raman Parimala at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Home page at Emory Archived 14 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- Parimala's biography in the Agnes Scott College database of women mathematicians