C. S. Seshadri

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Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri
Citizenship	India
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Chennai Mathematical Institute
Notable awards	Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award

C.S.Seshadri is an eminent Indian mathematician. He is currently director of the Chennai Mathematical Institute and is known for his work in algebraic geometry. The Seshadri constant is named after him.

Contents 1 Curriculum vitae 1.1 Degrees and posts held 1.2 Visiting professorships 1.3 Awards and felicitations 2 Research Work 3 Contributions 4 References

[edit] Curriculum vitae

[edit] Degrees and posts held

He received his B.A. (Hons.) degree in Mathematics from Madras University in 1953 and his Ph.D. from Bombay University in 1958.

He worked in the School of Mathematics at TIFR in Bombay from 1953 to 1984 starting as a Research Scholar and rising to a senior professor. From 1984 to 1989, he worked in IMSc in Chennai.

Since 1989, he has been working as the founding director of the Chennai Mathematical Institute.

[edit] Visiting professorships

• University of Paris, France
• Harvard University, Cambridge
• UCLA
• Brandeis University
• University of Bonn, Bonn
• Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

He has also given invited talks at the ICM.

[edit] Awards and felicitations

Awards:

• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
• Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal from the Indian Academy of Sciences
• Honorary D.Sc. from Banaras Hindu University
• TWAS Science Award

Seshadri is a fellow of IAS, INSA and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society.

[edit] Research Work

Seshadri's main work is in algebraic geometry. His work with Prof M S Narasimhan on unitary vector bundles has influenced the field a lot. His work on Geometric Invariant Theory and on Schubert varieties is widely recognized.

[edit] Contributions

Apart from the great amount of research done by him, Seshadri's contribution includes the inception of Chennai Mathematical Institute, which is one of the leading institutes for undergraduate study in mathematics in India.

[edit] References

• Narasimhan, M. S.; Seshadri, C. S. (1965). "Stable and unitary vector bundles on a compact Riemann surface" (^{[dead link]}). Annals of Mathematics 82: 540–567. doi:10.2307/1970710. MR0184252. 
• TWAS, Illycafe Announce Trieste Science Prize Winners.
• C.S. Seshadri's official profile an Chennai Mathematical Institute.

v • d • e Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Mathematical Science K. Chandrasekharan & C. R. Rao (1959) • K. G. Ramanathan (1965) • A.S. Gupta & C. S. Seshadri (1972) • P.C. Jain & M. S. Narasimhan (1975) • K. R. Parthasarathy & S. K. Trehan (1976) • M. S. Raghunathan (1977) • E. M. V. Krishnamurthy (1978) • S. Raghavan & S. Ramanan (1979) • R. Sridharan (1980) • J. K. Ghosh (1981) • B.L. Prakasa Rao & J. B. Shukla (1982) • I.B.S. Passi & Phoolan Prasad (1983) • S.K. Malik & R. Parthasarathy (1985) • T. Parthasarathy & U. B. Tewari (1986) • Raman Parimala & T. N. Shorey (1987) • M. B. Banerjee & K. B. Sinha (1988) • Gopal Prasad (1989) • R. Balasubramanian & S. G. Dani (1990) • V. B. Mehta & Annamalai Ramanathan (1991) • Maithili Sharan (1992) • Karmeshu & N. M. Singhi (1993) • N. Mohan Kumar (1994) • Rajendra Bhatia (1995) • V. S. Sunder (1996) • Subhashis Nag & T. R. Ramadas (1998) • Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar (1999) • Rahul Mukerjee (2000) • Gadadhar Misra & T. N. Venkataramana (2001) • Dipendra Prasad & S. Thangavelu (2002) • Manindra Agrawal & V. Srinivas (2003) • Arup Bose & Sujatha Ramdorai (2004) • Probal Chaudhuri & K. H. Paranjape (2005) • Vikraman Balaji & Indranil Biswas (2006) • B. V. Rajarama Bhat (2007) All the branches Biological Science | Chemical Science | Engineering Science | Mathematical Science | Medical Science | Physical Science | Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean & Planetary Sciences