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Vyjayanthi Chari
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Vyjayanthi Chari (born 1958)[1] is an Indian–American Distinguished Professor and the F. Burton Jones Endowed Chair for Pure Mathematics at the University of California, Riverside, known for her research in representation theory and quantum algebra.[2] In 2015 she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
Education
[edit]Chari has a bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree from the University of Mumbai.[2] Chari received her Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai under the supervision of Rajagopalan Parthasarathy.[4]
Professional career
[edit]Following her Ph.D., she became a fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. In 1991, she joined the University of California, Riverside (UCR) where she is now a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. During her career, she has had several visiting positions. They were: invited senior participant at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, Sweden; an invited professor at the University of Cologne, Germany; an invited professor at Paris 7, France; an invited research fellow at Brown University, RI; and an invited senior participant at Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany; and visiting professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.[5]
She is also the editor of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics and the Editor in Chief of Algebras and Representation Theory.[6]
With Andrew N. Pressley, she is the author of the book A Guide to Quantum Groups (Cambridge University Press, 1994).[7]
Honors
[edit]- The Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentor Award from the UCR Academic Senate.[5]
- American Mathematical Society 2016 Class of Fellows.
- Simons Fellow 2019–2020.
- Infosys Visiting Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Science, 2019–2023.
References
[edit]- ^ Birth year from ISNI authority control file, accessed 2018-11-26.
- ^ a b Faculty profile, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside, retrieved 2015-11-17.
- ^ 2016 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-11-17.
- ^ Vyjayanthi Chari at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b Pittalwala, Iqbal (30 October 2015). "Mathematician Named Fellow of American Mathematical Society". UCR Today. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
- ^ "UCR Profiles - Search & Browse". profiles.ucr.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-19.
- ^ Review of A Guide to Quantum Groups by Tomasz Brzeziński (1995), MR 1300632.
External links
[edit]- Vyjayanthi Chari publications indexed by Google Scholar
