Kapil Hari Paranjape is an Indian

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specializing in

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. He is a Professor of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali.

Biography

He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra near the Kabootar Khana in Dadar but grew up in

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. He completed his schooling from

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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,

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as was awarded his PhD in Mathematics in 1992. Paranjape is also involved in the promotion of

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and

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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

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and

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. He was appointed as Professor at the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit of the

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, Bangalore. He moved to

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in 1996. Between 2001 and 2009 he has held visiting positions at

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. Since 2009 he is a professor of Mathematics at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali. He was Clark Way Harrison Visiting Professor in

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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 or fundamental, in biology, ...

in 2005, the highest science award in

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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

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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

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, New Delhi, 2009 *J C Bose National Fellowship, 2010 *Fellowship of The World Academy of Sciences ( TWAS), 2019

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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 {{India-scientist-stub