Raman Parimala

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Raman Parimala (born 1948) is an Indian mathematician known for her contributions to algebra. She is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of mathematics at Emory University.

Background

Parimala was raised in Tamil Nadu, India. She studied in Saradha Vidyalaya Girls' High School and Stella Maris College at Chennai. She received her MSc from Madras University (1970) and PhD from Bombay University (1976) under R. Sridharan. For many years, she was a professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai.

Honors

She is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and Indian National Science Academy. She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich in 1994. Her research has been recognized with the Bhatnagar Award in 1987, an honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne in 1999, and the Srinivasa Ramanujan Birth Centenary Award in 2003. In 2005, she received the mathematics prize from the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World.

External links

*MathGenealogy |id=59460
* [http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/faculty-member.php?name=Raman-Parimala Home page at Emory]
* [http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/parimala.htm Parimala's biography] in the Agnes Scott College database of women mathematicians