IISER Mohali
IIT Bombay
University of Delhi
Swagata Sarkar
UM-DAE CEBS, Mumbai
Currently at IISER Mohali since 2009. Was in IMSc, Chennai from 1996 to 2009; in ISI, Bangalore in 1995-96, in TIFR Centre, Bangalore in 1994-95. Started research in TIFR, Mumbai in 1982 and stayed there until 1994. Did 5-year integrated MSc from IIT, Kanpur after completing high school from Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, Delhi.
Was elected Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore in 1997; won Birla Young Scientist award in 1999; Fellow in National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad in 2003; won CSIR Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award in 2005; elected Fellow of Indian National Science Academy in 2010; awarded JC Bose National Fellowship in 2010; elected Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2018.
I am an assistant Professor in IISER-Pune since Aug, 2014. INSA Young Scientist awardee, 2018. Below are the details of my PhD and postdoc affiliation:
PhD from TIFR, Bangalore, Aug. 2011 (supervisor: Prof. K. Sandeep)
Visiting scientist in ICTP Sep, 2011--Nov-2011
Postdoc: in Technion, Israel, Nov. 2011--July 2013
Postdoc in University of New England, NSW, Australia, Sep 2013--May, 2014
I am an algebraic geometer, specializing in the theory of vector bundles and related objects, and their moduli spaces. I have a construction of the moduli spaces for Hitchin pairs, logarithmic connections and D modules, and recently also for rank 2 unstable bundles on curves. I have proved results about the topology of these spaces, and also on the topology of conic and quadric bundles and related characteristic classes. Besides algebraic geometry and topology, I am interested in mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics, as well as in mathematical physics. I have a special interest in mathematics education at the higher level. Currently, I am a Member of the National Board for Higher Mathematics of the Government of India.
Dr Sachi Srivastava is currently an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Delhi. After obtaining her Bachelors and Masters degrees from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi she moved to the University of Oxford, UK in 1998 to study for a DPhil in Mathematics on a Commonwealth Scholarship. After doing her post-doctoral work at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a teaching stint at Lady Shri Ram College she joined the University of Delhi as a faculty member in 2007.
Dr Srivastava’s research interests fall under the general umbrella of operator theory and Operator algebras, with a focus on Operator semigroups and abstract Cauchy problems. She has co-authored a book ”Theory of Semigroups and Applications” and has several peer reviewed journal articles to her name. She currently has six doctoral students and has supervised six M Phil thesis in different areas of operator theory at the University of Delhi. She is actively involved in IWM activities and serves on the executive committee of this NBHM sponsored initiative. She was awarded a grant from the London Mathematical Society under Scheme 2 to visit the UK, June 2015 and was a recipient of the Commonwealth Research Award Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK, 1998.
Rajani Joshi is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics at IIT Bombay and is also an associated faculty with the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering at IIT Mumbai. Her PhD is from IIT Mumbai and she also has a Doctorat from Université de Technologie Compiègne, France. She has been a faculty of IIT Bombay since 1985. Her research interests include Statistical Datamining in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology, and Machine Learning; Bio-molecular statistics, Statistical Modeling and Analysis of Ancient System of Modeling. She has over 60 research papers in reputed international journals and peer reviewed proceedings; 02 Chapters in research monographs/books. She has several awards and has also been awarded a French Government Fellowship for higher scientific research. She is a reviewer for several noted international journals in her research area of expertise and is a Member of the National Task Force in Bioinformatics, DBT, India.
My interest in mathematics was first kindled by puzzles, when I was primary school. I later went on to do my Bachelors’ and Masters’ in mathematics from Delhi University, and my Ph.D. from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. At present, I am affiliated to the UM-DAE CEBS, Mumbai.
Riddhi Shah is Professor of Mathematics at the School of Physical Sciences (SPS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She is the Chairperson of the Executive Committee of Indian Women and Mathematics (IWM) initiative. Her research interests include dynamics of group actions and probabilities on groups. Riddhi Shah studied at St Xavier's College, Gujarat University for a BSc degree in Mathematics. After receiving an MSc degree in Mathematics from IIT Bombay, she joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai for her doctoral studies and completed a doctorate in 1991. She was a faculty member at TIFR, Mumbai from 1990 until 2007, when she joined SPS, JNU. She has visited several institutions abroad with post-doctoral fellowships. Riddhi Shah was a gold medallist during her undergraduate degree in Gujarat University. She has many publications in reputed international journals. She was awarded the Indian National Science Academy’s medal for young scientists in 1995, the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 1997, CNRS fellowship in 2003 and an Invitation Fellowship in 2004 from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS).
