Raman Parimala (born 21 November 1948)
is an Indian
mathematician
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History
On ...
known for her contributions to
algebra
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Elementary a ...
. She is the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of
mathematics
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at
Emory University
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. For many years, she was a professor at
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR),
Mumbai
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. She has been on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the
Infosys Prize from 2019 and is on the
Abel prize
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selection Committee 2021/2022.
Background
Parimala was born and raised in
Tamil Nadu
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, India. She studied in Saradha Vidyalaya Girls' High School and Stella Maris College at
Chennai
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. She received her M.Sc. from
Madras University
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(1970) and Ph.D. from the
University of Mumbai
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(1976); her advisor was
R. Sridharan from TIFR.
Selected publications
* Failure of a quadratic analogue of Serre's conjecture, Bulletin of the AMS, vol. 82, 1976, pp. 962–964
* Quadratic spaces over polynomial extensions of regular rings of dimension 2, Mathematische Annalen, vol. 261, 1982, pp. 287–292
* Galois cohomology of the Classical groups over fields of cohomological dimension≦2, E Bayer-Fluckiger, R Parimala - Inventiones mathematicae, 1995 - Springer
* Hermitian analogue of a theorem of Springer, R Parimala,
R. Sridharan, V Suresh - Journal of Algebra, 2001 - Elsevier
* Classical groups and the Hasse principle, E Bayer-Fluckiger, R Parimala - Annals of Mathematics, 1998 - jstor.org
Honors
On
National Science Day
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in 2020,
Smriti Irani
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, Minister, Women and Child Development,
Government of India
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announced establishment of chair in name of Raman Parimala along with ten great Indian Women Scientists at Institutes across India.
Parimala was an
invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians
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in
Zurich in 1994 and gave a tal
''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
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in 2010.
* Fellow of the
Indian Academy of Sciences
* Fellow of
Indian National Science Academy
*
Bhatnagar Award in 1987
* Honorary doctorate from the
University of Lausanne
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in 1999
*
Srinivasa Ramanujan
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Birth Centenary Award in 2003.
*
TWAS Prize
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Summary
Agricultural Sciences
Biology
Chemistry
Earth Sciences
Engineering Sciences
Mathematics
Medical Sc ...
for Mathematics (2005).
* Fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
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(2012)
List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-05-05.
Notes
External links
*
Home page at Emory
in the Agnes Scott College
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database of women mathematicians
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Living people
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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research alumni
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University of Madras alumni
Indian women science writers
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TWAS laureates
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Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science