Dr. M. S. Narasimhan
Honorary Fellow of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Dr. M. S. Narasimhan was Professor of Mathematics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and Head of the Mathematics section at ICTP, Trieste. Dr. Narasimhan is a pioneer of the study of moduli spaces of holomorphic vector bundles on projective varieties. He was co-winner of the King Faisal Prize in 2006. In 1975, he received the Bhatnagar Prize for Mathematics (1975), which is the most prestigious award in Mathematics in India. He also received the Third World Academy Award for Mathematics in 1987 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, London.