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Vyjayanthi Chari (born 1958) is an Indian–American Distinguished Professor and the F. Burton Jones Endowed Chair for Pure Mathematics at the University of California, Riverside, known for her research in representation theory and
quantum algebra Quantum algebra is one of the top-level mathematics categories used by the arXiv. It is the study of noncommutative analogues and generalizations of commutative algebras, especially those arising in Lie theory. Subjects include: *Quantum groups ...
.. In 2015 she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.


Education

Chari has a bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree from the University of Mumbai. Chari received her Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai under the supervision of
Rajagopalan Parthasarathy Rajagopalan Parthasarathy is an Indian mathematician who specialised in representation theory of Lie groups and algebras. He was awarded in 1985 the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, ...
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Professional career

Following her Ph.D., she became a fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. In 1991, she joined the University of California, Riverside (UCR) where she is now a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. During her career, she has had several visiting positions. They were: invited senior participant at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, Sweden; an invited professor at the University of Cologne, Germany; an invited professor at Paris 7, France; an invited research fellow at Brown University, RI; and an invited senior participant at Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany;  and visiting professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. She is also the editor of the ''Pacific Journal of Mathematics'' and the Editor in Chief of ''Algebras and Representation Theory''. With Andrew N. Pressley, she is the author of the book ''A Guide to Quantum Groups'' (Cambridge University Press, 1994).Review of ''A Guide to Quantum Groups'' by Tomasz Brzeziński (1995), .


Honors

* The Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentor Award from the UCR Academic Senate. * American Mathematical Society 2016 Class of Fellows. * Simons Fellow 2019–2020. *Infosys Visiting Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Science, 2019–2023.


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