Trivandrum Ramakrishnan "T. R." Ramadas (born 30 March 1955) is an Indian

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who specializes in algebraic and differential geometry, and mathematical physics. 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 science, applied or Fundamenta ...

in 1998, the highest science award in

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, in the mathematical sciences category. He studied engineering in

IIT 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 ...

then joined

TIFR Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is a public deemed research university located in Mumbai, India that is dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the De ...

as a graduate student in physics finally changing to mathematics after his interactions with

M S Narasimhan Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan (7 June 1932 – 15 May 2021) was an Indian mathematician. His focus areas included number theory, algebraic geometry, representation theory, and partial differential equations. He was a pioneer in the study of m ...

. He is currently a professor at

Chennai Mathematical Institute Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) is a higher education and research institute in Chennai, India. It was founded in 1989 by the SPIC Science Foundation, and offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in physics, mathematics and compute ...

, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Selected publications

*"The "Harder-Narasimhan Trace" and Unitarity of the KZ/Hitchin Connection: genus 0", Ann. of Math. 169, 1–39 (2009). *(With V.B. Mehta) "Moduli of vector bundles, Frobenius splitting, and invariant theory", Ann. of Math. 144, 269–313 (1996). *"Factorisation of generalised theta functions II", Topology 35, 641–654 (1996). *(With

M.S. Narasimhan Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan (7 June 1932 – 15 May 2021) was an Indian mathematician. His focus areas included number theory, algebraic geometry, representation theory, and partial differential equations. He was a pioneer in the study of m ...

) "Factorisation of generalised theta functions I", Invent. Math. 114, 565–624 (1993). *(With I.M. Singer and J. Weitsman) "Some comments on Chern Simons gauge theory", Commun. Math. Phys. 126, 409–420 (1989). *(With P.K. Mitter) "The two-dimensional O(N) nonlinear =E5 model: renormalisation and effective actions", Commun. Math. Phys. 122, 575–596 (1989). *(With

) "Geometry of SU(2) gauge fields", Commun. Math. Phys. 67, 121–136 (1979).

References

1955 births Living people Scientists from Thiruvananthapuram Algebraists Mathematical physicists 20th-century Indian mathematicians Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science {{India-scientist-stub