Kapil Hari Paranjape is an Indian
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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specializing in
algebraic geometry
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. He is a Professor of Mathematics at the
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali (IISER Mohali) is an autonomous public university established in 2006 at Mohali, Punjab, India. It is one of the seven Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), estab ...
.
Biography
He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra near the Kabootar Khana in Dadar but grew up in
New Delhi
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. He completed his schooling from
Sardar Patel Vidyalaya
Sardar Patel Vidyalaya (SPV) is an education school located in Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, India. The school is named after a leader of the Indian independence movement, and independent India's first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Sarda ...
in 1977. He then joined
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कानपुर) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was ...
where he pursued a five-years integrated Master’s programme in Mathematics and graduated in 1982. He was awarded the General Proficiency Prize for Mathematics from IIT Kanpur (1982).
He joined School of Mathematics,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is a public deemed research university located in Mumbai, India that is dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the D ...
as was awarded his PhD in Mathematics in 1992.
Paranjape is also involved in the promotion of
Linux
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and
GNU
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and writes a blog Mast Kalandar.
Career
He worked as a Reader at TIFR from 1993-1998. During this he also held various visiting positions at
University of Chicago
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,
University of Paris-Sud
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and
University of Warwick
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. He was appointed as Professor at the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit of the
Indian Statistical Institute
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, Bangalore. He moved to
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) (sometimes also referred to as ''Matscience'') is a research centre located in Chennai, India.R. Jagannathan, ''The Institute of Mathematical Sciences'', Resonance (January 1999) vol. 4, no. 1, pp. ...
in 1996. Between 2001 and 2009 he has held visiting positions at
California Institute of Technology
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. Since 2009 he is a professor of Mathematics at
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali (IISER Mohali) is an autonomous public university established in 2006 at Mohali, Punjab, India. It is one of the seven Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), estab ...
. He was Clark Way Harrison Visiting Professor in
Washington University
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in 2019.
Awards and honors
He was awarded the
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, Applied science, applied or Fundamenta ...
in 2005, the highest science award in
India
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, in the mathematical sciences category. His citation read "Dr Paranjape has made outstanding contributions in the field of algebraic geometry, especially the theory of algebraic cycles. He has made highly significant contributions in connecting Hodge Theory to the study of Chow Groups. He has also established deep relations between Calabi-Yau varieties and modular forms.".
He is also a recipient of various other honors, among them are
*Fellowship of
Indian Academy of Sciences
The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore was founded by Indian Physicist and Nobel Laureate C. V. Raman, and was registered as a society on 24 April 1934. Inaugurated on 31 July 1934, it began with 65 founding fellows. The first general meet ...
Bangalore, 1997
*Fellowship of National Academy of Sciences Allahabad, 1999
*Associate of the ICTP, Trieste, 1999-2001
*B. M. Birla award for young scientists, 1999
*DST Swarnajayanti Grant, 2001
*NBHM National Lecturer, India, 2004-2005
*Debian Developer, 2007
*Fellowship of
Indian National Science Academy
The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) is a national academy in New Delhi for Indian scientists in all branches of science and technology.
In August 2019, Dr. Chandrima Shaha was appointed as the president of Indian National Science Academ ...
, New Delhi, 2009
*J C Bose National Fellowship, 2010
*Fellowship of The World Academy of Sciences (
TWAS
The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) is a merit-based science academy established for developing countries, uniting 1,000 scientists in some 70 countries. Its principal aim is to promote scientific capacity and excellence for sustainable devel ...
), 2019
References
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People from Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar district
Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy
20th-century Indian mathematicians
IIT Kanpur alumni
21st-century Indian mathematicians
TWAS fellows
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science
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