Vasudevan Srinivas (born 6 June 1958) is an Indian

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who specialises in

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. He is a Senior Professor in the School of Mathematics of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,

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. Srinivas received the BSc degree from Bangalore University and did his MS (1978) and PhD (1982) degrees at the

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was his research supervisor. He began his academic career at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,

as a visiting fellow in 1983. Srinivas has worked mainly in

specialising in the study of algebraic cycles on singular algebraic varieties. He has also worked on the interface with commutative algebra: on projective modules, divisor class groups, unique factorization domains, and Hilbert functions and multiplicity. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2003, the highest science award in

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, in the mathematical sciences category. He is married to the mathematician V. Trivedi.

Other awards/honours

* Indian National Science Academy Medal for Young Scientists, 1987 * B.M. Birla Science Prize in Mathematics for the year 1995 * Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi *

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(2008) * Fellow of the

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, 2012List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-07-26.

References

1958 births Living people 20th-century Indian mathematicians Bangalore University alumni University of Chicago alumni Academic staff of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Fellows of the American Mathematical Society TWAS laureates Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science {{India-scientist-stub