Department distinguished lecture on Lie groups

SRM University-AP augments its cause to edify students with extensive knowledge and vision in their field of interest. On this note, the Department of Mathematics is organising a Department Distinguished Lecture on the topic “Lie groups as a unifying theme in mathematics: from Algebra and Number theory to Geometry and Topology”, on November 05, 2022. Prof Dipendra Prasad, IIT Bombay is the keynote speaker of the session.

About the Speaker

Prof Dipendra Prasad is an eminent mathematician working in the area of Representation Theory. He was conferred with his PhD from Harvard University under the supervision of Prof Benedict Gross. Among many other accomplishments, Prof Prasad is celebrated for his famous conjecture Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture, which has attracted attention of several established mathematicians. In recognition of his contributions, the Government of India has awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Mathematical Sciences in 2002. Apart from that he holds the JC Bose fellowship awarded by the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi. He is also a recipient of the Swarna Jayanti Fellowship in the year 1999. He was the Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro in Section 7 (Lie Groups and Generalizations) with the talk ‘Ext-analogues of branching laws’.