21 Facts About Gopal Prasad

Gopal Prasad is the Raoul Bott Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Gopal Prasad became an associate professor at TIFR in 1979, and a professor in 1984.

Gopal Prasad's parents were Ram Krishna Prasad and Lakshmi Devi.

Ram Krishna Gopal Prasad was a social worker, philanthropist, and was jailed by the British for his participation in the Indian freedom struggle against British rule.

Gopal Prasad proved the "strong rigidity" of lattices in real semi-simple groups of rank 1 and of lattices in p-adic groups, see [1] and [2].

Gopal Prasad then tackled group-theoretic and arithmetic questions on semi-simple algebraic groups.

Gopal Prasad proved the "strong approximation" property for simply connected semi-simple groups over global function fields [3].

Later, together with Andrei Rapinchuk, Gopal Prasad gave a precise computation of the metaplectic kernel for all simply connected semi-simple groups, see [14].

In 1987, Gopal Prasad found a formula for the volume of S-arithmetic quotients of semi-simple groups, [4].

Gopal Prasad has worked on the representation theory of reductive p-adic groups with Allen Moy.

The filtrations of parahoric subgroups, referred to as the "Moy-Gopal Prasad filtration", is widely used in representation theory and harmonic analysis.

In collaboration with Andrei Rapinchuk, Gopal Prasad has studied Zariski-dense subgroups of semi-simple groups and proved the existence in such a subgroup of regular semi-simple elements with many desirable properties, [15], [16].

Together with Jiu-Kang Yu, Gopal Prasad has studied the fixed point set under the action of a finite group of automorphisms of a reductive p-adic group G on the Bruhat-Building of G, [24].

In collaboration with Brian Conrad and Ofer Gabber, Gopal Prasad has studied the structure of pseudo-reductive groups, and provided proofs of the conjugacy theorems for general smooth connected linear algebraic groups, announced without detailed proofs by Armand Borel and Jacques Tits; their research monograph [26] contains all this.

Gopal Prasad has developed new methods for unramified and tamely ramified descents in Bruhat-Tits theory [28][29].

Gopal Prasad has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Humboldt Senior Research Award, and the Raoul Bott Professorship at the University of Michigan.

Gopal Prasad was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize.

Gopal Prasad has received Fellowships in the Indian National Science Academy, the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Gopal Prasad gave an invited talk in the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Kyoto in 1990.

Gopal Prasad has served on the Mathematical Sciences jury of the Infosys Prize from 2011 to 2018.

Gopal Prasad was the Managing Editor of the Michigan Mathematical Journal for over a decade, an Associate Editor of the Annals of Mathematics for six years, and is an editor of the Asian Journal of Mathematics since its inception.