Bhama Srinivasan

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Bhama Srinivasan
Born (1935-04-22) 22 April 1935 (age 89)
Madras, India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Science University of Tokyo
Doctoral advisorJ. A. Green

Bhama Srinivasan (born 22 April 1935[1]) is a mathematician known for her work in the representation theory of finite groups. Her contributions were honored with the 1990 Noether Lecture. She served as president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 1981 to 1983.

Srinivasan earned her Ph.D. in 1959 with her dissertation Problems on Modular Representations of Finite Groups under

University of Illinois at Chicago. She has had five doctoral students. She has co-authored a number of papers with Paul Fong in modular representation theory and Deligne–Lusztig theory
.

Early life and education

Srinivasan was born in Madras, India. She attended the

University of Keele from 1960 through 1964. She then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia through the National research Council of Canada from 1965 through 1966.She returned home to India to teach at the Ramanujan Institute of Mathematics of her Alma mater, the University of Madras, from 1966 though 1970.[1]

Career

Srinivasan then immigrated to the United States, where she taught for the next decade at

University of Illinois as a professor of mathematics at the Chicago Circle campus.[1]

Srinivasan has distinguished herself in her field throughout her career. In January 1979, she delivered an

Science University of Tokyo
in Japan. She has served as an editor for several journals in her field: Proceedings of the AMS (from 1983 through 1987); Communications in Algebra (from 1978 through 1984); Mathematical Surveys and Monographs (from 1991 through 1993). From 1991 through 1994, she served on the Editorial Boards Committee of the AMS.

Srinivasan collaborated with Paul Fong on finite groups of the Lie type, and this work has been linked to Lusztig's research on quantum groups, thus crossing over between mathematics and physics. Although Srinivasan generally advocates pure mathematical research, resisting the temptation to find a practical application for all mathematics, she nevertheless got excited by the application of her research to physics.[3]

Awards and honors

In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4] In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.[5] She is included in a deck of playing cards featuring notable women mathematicians published by the

Association of Women in Mathematics.[6]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ a b c "1990 Lecturer: Bhama Srinivasan". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Program for the 85th Annual Meeting" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 26 (1): 2. January 1979. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  3. ISBN 0816043817
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  4. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-07-26.
  5. ^ "2018 Inaugural Class of AWM Fellows". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Mathematicians of EvenQuads Deck 1". awm-math.org. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  7. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1981-14928-4
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