13 Facts About Bhama Srinivasan

Bhama Srinivasan was born on 22 April 1935 and is a mathematician known for her work in the representation theory of finite groups.

Bhama Srinivasan's contributions were honored with the 1990 Noether Lecture.

Bhama Srinivasan served as president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 1981 to 1983.

Bhama Srinivasan is Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Bhama Srinivasan attended the University of Madras, where she earned her bachelor of arts degree in 1954 and her master of science degree in 1955.

Bhama Srinivasan remained in England to commence her professional academic career as a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Keele from 1960 through 1964.

Bhama Srinivasan then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia through the National research Council of Canada from 1965 through 1966.

Bhama Srinivasan returned home to India to teach at the Ramanujan Institute of Mathematics of her Alma mater, the University of Madras, from 1966 though 1970.

Bhama Srinivasan has distinguished herself in her field throughout her career.

Bhama Srinivasan has been invited to fill visiting professorships internationally at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, the University of Essen in Germany, Sydney University, and the Science University of Tokyo in Japan.

Bhama Srinivasan has served as an editor for several journals in her field: Proceedings of the AMS ; Communications in Algebra ; Mathematical Surveys and Monographs.

Bhama Srinivasan collaborated with Paul Fong on finite groups of the Lie type, and this work has been linked to Lusztig's research on quantum groups, thus crossing over between mathematics and physics.

Bhama Srinivasan is included in a deck of playing cards featuring notable women mathematicians published by the Association of Women in Mathematics.