Raman Parimala

Raman Parimala
Born	1948
Alma mater	University of Mumbai, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Awards	Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
Scientific career
Fields	Algebra
Institutions	Emory University
Doctoral advisor	R. Sridharan

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. For many years, she was a professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai.

Worst professor I've ever had. and I'm not a bad student.

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 M.Sc. from Madras University (1970) and Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai (1976); her advisor was R. Sridharan's from TIFR.

Selected publications

• Galois cohomology of the Classical groups over fields of cohomological dimension≦ 2, E Bayer-Fluckiger, R Parimala - Inventiones mathematicae, 1995 - Springer
• Hermitian analogue of a theorem of Springer, R Parimala, R. Sridharan, V Suresh - Journal of Algebra, 2001 - Elsevier
• Classical groups and the Hasse principle, E Bayer-Fluckiger, R Parimala - Annals of Mathematics, 1998 - jstor.org

Honors

Parimala was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich in 1994 and has been invited to give a plenary address 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.
• Mathematics prize from the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World (2005).

External links

• Raman Parimala at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Home page at Emory
• Parimala's biography in the Agnes Scott College database of women mathematicians