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Rahul Pandharipande

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Rahul Pandharipande
Rahul Pandharipande (2021)
Born1969 (age 54–55)
Amravati, Maharashtra, India
NationalityIndian, Portuguese
Alma materPrinceton University
Harvard University
AwardsClay Research Award (2013)
Infosys Prize (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsETH Zurich
Princeton University
Caltech
University of Chicago
Doctoral advisorJoe Harris
Doctoral studentsAaron Pixton

Rahul Pandharipande (born 1969[citation needed]) is a Portuguese mathematician of Indian descent who is currently a professor of mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH) working in algebraic geometry. His particular interests concern moduli spaces, enumerative invariants associated to moduli spaces, such as Gromov–Witten invariants and Donaldson–Thomas invariants, and the cohomology of the moduli space of curves.[1][2] His father Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande was a renowned theoretical physicist who worked in the area of nuclear physics.

Educational and professional history

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He received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1990 and his PhD from Harvard University in 1994 with a thesis entitled `A Compactification over the Moduli Space of Stable Curves of the Universal Moduli Space of Slope-Semistable Vector Bundles'. His thesis advisor at Harvard was Joe Harris. After teaching at the University of Chicago and the California Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty as Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University in 2002. In 2011, he accepted a Professorship at ETH Zürich. In 2022, he was awarded an honorary degree - Doctor of Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Rahul Pandharipande". Clay Mathematics Institute. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Infosys Prize - Laureates - Mathematical Sciences, 2013 Prof. Rahul Pandharipande". Infosys Science Foundation. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Honorary Degree Recipients – Illinois Commencement".
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