Kapil Hari Paranjape

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Kapil Hari Paranjape
Nationality	India
Fields	Algebraic geometry in mathematics
Institutions	Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, University of Bombay
Notable awards	Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology

Kapil Hari Paranjape (K.H. Paranjape) is an Indian mathematician specialising in algebraic geometry. He is a Professor of Mathematics in Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali.^[1]

Professor Paranjape obtained his M Sc degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and Ph D from University of Bombay. He worked as Reader in Tata Institute of Fundamental Research form 1993 to 1998, then as Professor in Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata for one year. He then joined Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, in 1996. Since 2009, he has been working as Professor in Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali.

He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2005, the highest science award in India, in the mathematical sciences category. ^[2]^[3]

Paranjape is also involved in the promotion of Linux and GNU^[4] and also writes a popular blog Mast Kalandar.^[5]

Other awards/honours

Fellowship of Indian Academy of Sciences Bangalore, 1997
Fellowship of National Academy of Sciences Allahabad, 1999
B. M. Birla award for young scientists, 1999
Debian Developer, 2007
Fellowship of Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, 2009

References

↑ "Kapil Paranjape". Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
↑ "Indian Fellow: Kapil Hari Pranjape". Indian National Science Academy. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
↑ "Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards For Science And Technology 2005". Department of Science & Technology, Govt of India. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
↑ "Kapil Hari Paranjape". Linux Gazette. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
↑ "Mast Kalandar".

v t e Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Mathematical Science

K. S. 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. S. 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 & A. Ramanathan (1991) Maithili Sharan (1992) Karmeshu & Navin 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) Jaikumar Radhakrishnan (2008) Suresh Venapally (2009) Mahan Mitra & Palash Sarkar (2011) Siva Athreya & Debashish Goswami (2012) Eknath Prabhakar Ghate (2013)

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