Raman Parimala (born 21 November 1948) is an Indian

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known for her contributions to

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. She is the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of

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. For many years, she was a professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR),

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. She has been on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2019 and is on the

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selection Committee 2021/2022.

Background

Parimala was born and raised in

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, India. She studied in Saradha Vidyalaya Girls' High School and Stella Maris College at

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. She received her M.Sc. from

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(1970) and Ph.D. from the

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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

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in 2020,

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, Minister, Women and Child Development,

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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

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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

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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

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in 1999 *

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Birth Centenary Award in 2003. *

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for Mathematics (2005). * Fellow of the

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(2012)List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-05-05.

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External links

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Home page at Emory

in the

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