12 Facts About Gadadhar Misra

Gadadhar Misra was born on 1 March 1956 and is an Indian mathematician who specializes in operator theory.

Gadadhar Misra was born at Bhubaneswar in the state of Odisha to Prof Chakrapani Mishra and Smt Arunabala Mishra.

Gadadhar Misra studied at DM School, BJB College, Sambalpur University and State University of New York in USA.

Gadadhar Misra taught at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and Bengaluru before joining the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru where he is currently engaged in teaching and research.

Gadadhar Misra was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2001, the highest science award in India, in the mathematical sciences category.

Gadadhar Misra was awarded the Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence by Odisha Bigyan Academy in 2013.

Gadadhar Misra gave an explicit description of the class of completely non-unitary contractions whose characteristic function is constant.

Gadadhar Misra obtained a canonical model as well as complete invariants for a class of quotient Hilbert modules, and introduced the notion of quasi-free Hilbert modules to generalize parts of the Sz-Nagy-Foias model theory in the context of multi-variate operator theory.

Gadadhar Misra obtained a classification of scalar homogeneous shifts and calculated the joint Taylor spectrum of a class of multiplication operators on the "twisted" Bergman space.

Gadadhar Misra described the holomorphic Hermitian vector bundles over the unit disc, which are homogeneous under the action of SL.

Gadadhar Misra has carried out a complete classification of all irreducible homogeneous operators in the Cowen-Douglas class.

Gadadhar Misra is married to Tanuja Misra and their daughter Neeldhara Mishra is an assistant professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at IIT, Gandhi Nagar.