Women in Mathematics

AJIT IQBAL SINGH

Ajit Iqbal Singh (born 1943) is an Indian mathematician, specializing in functional analysis and harmonic analysis. Singh is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), India's apex body of scientists and technologists. She is also a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (India), based in Allahabad. Singh has worked on linear operators in locally convex spaces, topological algebra, spectral synthesis in hypergroups, multipliers and module homomorphisms, semigroup algebras, applications of harmonic analysis to differential equations and orthogonal polynomials, geometry of the range of a vector measure, and quotient rings of algebras of functions and operators.

APARNA HIGGINS

Aparna W. Higgins is a mathematician known for her encouragement of undergraduate mathematicians to participate in mathematical research. Higgins originally specialized in universal algebra, but her more recent research concerns graph theory, including graph pebbling and line graphs. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Dayton. Higgins is originally from Mumbai, India, and did her undergraduate studies at the University of Mumbai, graduating in 1978. She completed her Ph.D. in 1983 at the University of Notre Dame; her dissertation, Heterogeneous Algebras Associated with Non-Indexed Algebras, a Representation Theorem on Weak Automorphisms of Universal Algebras, was supervised by Abraham Goetz.

BHAMA SRINIVASAN

Bhama Srinivasan (born 22 April 1935) is a mathematician known for her work in the representation theory of finite groups. Her contributions were honored with the 1990 Noether Lecture. She served as President of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 1981 to 1983. She earned her Ph.D. in physics in 1959 with her dissertation Problems on Modular Representations of Finite Groups under J. A. Green at the University of Manchester. She currently is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has had five doctoral students. She has co-authored a number of papers with Paul Fong in modular representation theory and Deligne–Lusztig theory.

HEMA SRINIVASAN

Hema Srinivasan (born 1959) is a mathematician specializing in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. Originally from India, she is a professor of mathematics at the University of Missouri. Srinivasan was a National Science Talent Scholar in India beginning in 1975. She studied at Bombay University, where she won the Ghia Prize for mathematics in 1978, but graduated from Indiana University Bloomington in 1982. She completed her Ph.D. at Brandeis University in 1986.Her dissertation, supervised by David Buchsbaum, was Multiplicative Structures on Some Canonical Resolutions.

INDULATA SUKLA

Indulata L. Sukla (born March 7, 1944) is a former Professor of Mathematics, who served for more than three decades at Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha, India. She did her schooling from Maharani Prem Kumari Girls’ School and B.Sc. with Mathematics Honours from M.P.C. College, Baripada. She completed her M.Sc. in Mathematics from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack in 1966. She is the author of the textbook Number Theory and Its Applications to Cryptography (Cuttack: Kalyani Publishers, 2000). In her research, she worked with English mathematician Brian Kuttner on the Fourier Series. She is a Life Member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Indian Mathematical Society (IMS).

KAVITA RAMANAN

Kavita Ramanan is a probability theorist who works as a professor of applied mathematics at Brown University. Ramanan is the daughter of Indian algebraic geometer S. Ramanan. She earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1992. She completed her Ph.D. in applied mathematics at Brown University in 1996. Her dissertation, supervised by Paul Dupuis, was Construction and Large Deviation Analysis of Constrained Processes, with Applications to Communication Networks.

MANGALA NARLIKAR

Mangala Narlikar is an Indian mathematician who has done research in pure mathematics as well as written for a lay audience. After her degrees in mathematics, she initially worked at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai and later worked as a lecturer in the University of Bombay and Pune.Narlikar studied from the University of Bombay and received degrees of B. A. (Maths) in 1962 and M.A. (Maths) in 1964 with first rank and also won the Chancellor’s gold medal.

NAGAMBAL SHAH

Nagambal D. "Swarna" Shah is an American mathematician and statistician known for her mentorship of students at Spelman College. She is the founder of the annual StatFest of the American Statistical Association, a leader of the association's Diversity Mentoring Program, and the former chair of the association's Committee on Minorities in Statistics. Shah is originally from India, where she did her undergraduate studies in mathematics and earned a master's degree in statistics. She completed a Ph.D. in statistics in 1970 at the University of Windsor in Canada.

NEENA GUPTA

Neena Gupta is an associate professor at the Statistics and Mathematics Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. Her primary fields of interest are commutative algebra and affine algebraic geometry. Gupta was previously a visiting scientist at the ISI and a visiting fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). She has won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award in the category of mathematical sciences, the highest honour in India in the field of science and technology.

NILANJANA DATTA

Nilanjana Datta is an Indian-born British mathematician working in quantum information theory. She is a Reader in Quantum Information Theory in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Pembroke College. Born in the Indian state of West Bengal, Datta graduated from Jadavpur University with a Master of Science and did a Post-MSc at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics. After moving to Cambridge, Datta focused her research on the field of quantum information theory, contributing to topics such as quantum state transfer, memory effects in quantum information theory, and one-shot quantum information theory.

PALLAVI DANI

Pallavi Dani is an Indian-American mathematician and an associate professor of mathematics at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her research area is geometric group theory; in particular, she studies quasi-isometry invariants of groups. Dani received a B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Mumbai in Mumbai, India. She earned an M.S. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2001 and her Ph.D. in mathematics from Chicago in 2005. She is currently an associate professor of mathematics at LSU.

RADHA KESSAR

Radha Kessar is an Indian mathematician known for her research in the representation theory of finite groups. She is a professor of mathematics at City, University of London, and in 2009 won the Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society. Kessar graduated from Panjab University in 1991.She completed her Ph.D. in 1995 from Ohio State University; her dissertation, Blocks And Source Algebras For The Double Covers Of The Symmetric Groups, was supervised by Ronald Solomon.

RAMAN PARIMALA

Raman Parimala (born 21 November 1948) is an Indian mathematician known for her contributions to algebra. She is the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of mathematics at Emory University. For many years, she was a professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. She has been on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize from 2019.She gave a plenary address Arithmetic of linear algebraic groups over two dimensional fields at the Congress in Hyderabad in 2010.

RENU C. LASKAR

Renu Chakravarti Laskar (born 1932) is an Indian-born American mathematician, specializing in graph theory. She is Professor Emerita of Mathematical sciences at Clemson University. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1962.

Laskar has often contributed to the theory of domination number and circular arc graphs. She wrote four papers with Paul Erdős, giving her an Erdős number of 1.Laskar took full advantage of the opportunities she had and set new standards for women in mathematics. She ranks among the top women in discrete mathematics in the number of articles published.

RENUKA RAVINDRAN

Renuka Ravindran (née Rajagopalan) was the first woman to be the Dean of the Indian Institute of Science. She was a student at the Presentation Convent in Vepery in Chennai and later at the Women's Christian College in Chennai. She earned her PhD from Indian Institute of Science in Applied Mathematics and later Doktoringenieur from the Technische Hochschule Aachen in Aerodynamics in Germany. She joined the Indian Institute of Science in 1967 as a professor and the Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, and then became the Dean of Indian Institute of Science.

SEEMA NANDA

Seema Nanda is an Indian mathematician. In her research she applies mathematics to study problems in biology, engineering and finance. Her research interests are primarily in solving real world problems using mathematics and computations. Her education in mathematics was at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, where she obtained her Ph.D. in 1998. Her PhD thesis was in the area of probability theory and was supervised by Charles M. Newman. Prior to her current position as a faculty at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bangalore, she held cross-disciplinary academic positions at the University of Tennessee and at Harvey Mudd College.

SHAKUNTALA DEVI

Shakuntala Devi (4 November 1929 – 21 April 2013) was an Indian mathematician, writer and mental calculator, popularly known as the "Human Computer". Devi strove to simplify numerical calculations for students. Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records. However, the certificate for the record was given posthumously on 30 July 2020, despite Devi achieving her world record on 18 June 1980 at Imperial College, London. Devi was a precocious child and she demonstrated her arithmetic abilities at the University of Mysore without any formal education.

SUJATHA RAMDORAI

Sujatha Ramdorai (born 1962) is an algebraic number theorist known for her work on Iwasawa theory. She is a professor of mathematics and Canada Research Chair at University of British Columbia, Canada. She was previously a professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Dr. Ramdorai initially worked in the areas of algebraic theory of quadratic forms and arithmetic geometry of elliptic curves.She holds an adjunct professorship position at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.

T.A. SARASVATI AMMA

T. A. Sarasvati Amma was a scholar born in Cherpulassery, Palakkad District, Kerala, India. She has contributed to the fields of history of Mathematics and Sanskrit, through her work on Geometry of ancient and medieval India. Her book helps us understand the development of Indian geometry of the late Āryabhaṭa School (of south India) in which even algebraic results were geometrically demonstrated. The work challenges the theory that the Indian mathematical genius was predominantly computational, and that it eschewed proofs and rationales.

URMILA BALAWANT APTE

Urmila Balavant Apte is the Indian Founder of the BhartiyaStree Shakti organisation in 1988 which is dedicated to the empowerment of women. She received the Nari Shakti Puraskar from President Ram Nath Kovind in 2018 for her work.Apte is a mathematician who gained a master's degree from the University of Mumbai in mathematics. In 1969 she used her teaching qualification and master's degree to teach maths at various colleges in Mumbai.

USHADEVI BHOSLE

Dr. Ushadevi Narendra Bhosle is an Indian mathematician, educator and researcher. She specialises in Algebraic Geometry. She worked on the moduli spaces of bundles. She got a B.Sc. degree in 1969 and an M.Sc. degree in 1971 from University of Pune, Shivaji University, respectively. She started her career with being a Research Assistant at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research from 1971 to 1974. Then she became the Research Associate II in the same institute Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, from 1974 to 1977.

VANAJA IYENGAR

Vanaja Iyengar (died 2001) was an Indian mathematician, educationist and the founder vice-chancellor of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, Tirupati, in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. She was one of the founders of the Andhra Mahila Sabha School of Informatics. The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1987. During her tenure at Osmania, Iyengar secured a doctoral degree in Mathematics from the University of Delhi in 1958.

VENKATRAMAN LAKSHMIBAI

Venkatraman Lakshmibai is an Indian mathematician who is a professor emerita of mathematics at Northeastern University in Boston. Her research concerns algebraic geometry, the theory of algebraic groups, and representation theory, including in particular the theory of flag varieties and Schubert varieties. Lakshmibai earned her PhD in 1976 from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. With Sara Billey she is the co-author of the monograph Singular Loci of Schubert Varieties (Progress in Mathematics 182, Birkhäuser, 2000).

VYJAYANTHI CHARI

Vyjayanthi Chari (born 1958) is an Indian–American professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside, known for her research in representation theory and quantum algebra. In 2015 she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Chari has a bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree from the University of Mumbai. Chari received her Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai under the supervision of Rajagopalan Parthasarathy. Following her Ph.D., she became a fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

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