Fellow
Prasad Dipendra
Professor of Mathematics
Current nationality
India
Current country of residence
India
Affiliation / Institution
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Biodata
Prasad (PhD, Harvard University, 1989) has been chair professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, since November 2018. He was distinguished professor (till April 2020) and dean, School of Mathematics (2011–2013), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai; president, Commission on Developing Countries of International Mathematical Union (2018–22); and president, Indian Mathematical Society (2022). He is an elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Science (1995), and Indian National Science Academy (2003). He was awarded: Swarnajayanti Fellowship for Mathematics (1998–2003); JC Bose Fellowship (2010–2015 and 2015–2020); and Mega Grant, St. Petersburg, Russia (2018–2021). Prasad received the S.S. Bhatnagar Award for Mathematical Sciences (2002), and the TWAS Award in Mathematics (2019). Among his professional recognitions are: membership, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1992–93, 2006–07); research professorship, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, USA (2014); Chaire Jean Morlet, Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, Marseille, France (2016). He was an Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018.
Sustainable Development Goals
Keywords
Representations of finite, real and p-adic groups; automorphic representations; Langlands program; the Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture; distinguished representations; L-functions and epsilon-factors
ELECTED
2023
Place of birth
Ghazipur
Country of birth
India
DATE OF BIRTH
22
March
1960
Section
07. Mathematical Sciences
TWAS Awards
TWAS Award in Mathematics (2020)
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Country where living and working for the majority of the last 10 years
India
Public contact information
ADDRESS
Department Of Mathematics,, Iit Bombay, Powai
Last updated on 12/07/2023