About Speakers

Anil Karn is an Associate professor from NISER Bhuboneswar. He joined NISER on August, 2011 as a Reader-F. His area of interest is ordered Functional Analysis, Operator spaces

Gadadhar Misra completed his PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Georgia and the University of California. Started his career in Indian Statistical Institute and moved to the IISc on 2008. He was selected for the J C Bose Fellowship in the year of 2008, awarded the presgious S. S. Bhatnagar Prize (CSIR) in 2001 and Biju Patnaik Award for his Scientific Excellence from the Odisha Bigyan Academy in 2013. His research is mostly related to operator theory which involves finding curvature inequalities for operators in the Cowen-Douglas class, describing homogeneous vector bundles and study of Hilbert modules.

M. N. N. Namboodiri was a professor of CUSAT, retired on 2014. He taught at IIT Palkad for a semester and joined CUSAT as an Emeritus Professor. Currently he is an Emeritus Scientist at CUSAT. His area of specialization is Functional Analysis and work on problems related to spectral analysis of operators, Chebyshev subspaces of operator algebras, Korovkin and Fellertype limit theorems in operator algebras.

Amin Sofi is an Adjunct Faculty at the Central University of Kashmir, Srinagar. Earlier he completed his term as Emeritus Professor at Kashmir University, Srinagar. He was awarded Ramanujan Prize in 2009. His research interests is Functional Analysis, in particular, Finite dimensionality phenomena, Embeddings theorems, Extendability of maps in Banach spaces

T. S. S. R. K. Rao is a Visiting Professor from Ashoka University. He is a former Head of ISI Bangalore and Professor in Charge of ISI. Prof. Rao is one of the eminent Functional Analyst in India. He worked in various domain in it like Approximation Theory, Analysis on Banach spaces and their geometry, Choquet Theory Optimization techniques etc

Tirthankar Bhattacharyya is a professor in the Dept. of Mathematics of IISc. His area of research includes Hilbert space and Operator theory. His research has been widely appreciated all over the world and he has many collaborators in India and abroad. He is passionate in his teaching and has consistently been rated as an excellent teacher by the students of IISc as well as students in many summer courses and short term courses which he has participated in elsewhere.

Tanmoy Paul is an Assistant Professor from IIT Hyderabad. He completed his PhD from ISI Kolkata, his PhD work is related to Functional Analysis, Analysis on Banach spaces. His current area of interest is Functional Analysis, Banach space theory, Convex analysis and Geometric measure theory.