Raman Parimala

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Institutions Emory University Name Raman Parimala Fields Algebra		Role Mathematician Parents Brahmarshi Subhash Patri

Alma mater University of Mumbai, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Doctoral students Sujatha RamdoraiSuresh Venapally Notable awards Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (1987) Education Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, University of Mumbai, University of Madras Similar People Ramaiyengar Sridharan, Sujatha Ramdorai, Brahmarshi Subhash Patri
Residence United States of America Doctoral advisor Ramaiyengar Sridharan

Raman Parimala (born 21 November 1948) is an Indian mathematician known for her contributions to algebra. She is the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of mathematics at Emory University. For many years, she was a professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai.

Background

Parimala was born and raised in Tamil Nadu, India. She studied in Saradha Vidyalaya Girls' High School and Stella Maris College at Chennai. She received her M.Sc. from Madras University (1970) and Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai (1976); her advisor was R. Sridharan from TIFR.

Selected publications

Failure of a quadratic analogue of Serre's conjecture, Bulletin AMS, vol. 82, 1976, pp. 962–964 MR0419427

Quadratic spaces over polynomial extensions of regular rings of dimension 2, Mathematische Annalen, vol. 261, 1982, pp. 287–292 doi:10.1007/BF01455449

Galois cohomology of the Classical groups over fields of cohomological dimension≦2, E Bayer-Fluckiger, R Parimala - Inventiones mathematicae, 1995 - Springer doi:10.1007/BF01231443

Hermitian analogue of a theorem of Springer, R Parimala, R. Sridharan, V Suresh - Journal of Algebra, 2001 - Elsevier doi:10.1006/jabr.2001.8830

Classical groups and the Hasse principle, E Bayer-Fluckiger, R Parimala - Annals of Mathematics, 1998 - jstor.org doi:10.2307/120961

Honors

Parimala was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich in 1994 and gave a talk 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 Hyderabad in 2010.

Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences

Fellow of Indian National Science Academy

Bhatnagar Award in 1987

Honorary doctorate from the University of Lausanne in 1999

Srinivasa Ramanujan Birth Centenary Award in 2003.

TWAS Prize for Mathematics (2005).

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012)

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Background

Selected publications

Honors

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