Prof. Gopal Prasad
Raoul Bott Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan
Gopal Prasad's mathematical interests span the fields of Lie groups, their discrete subgroups, algebraic groups, arithmetic groups, geometry of locally symmetric spaces, and representation theory of reductive p-adic groups. He was with the School of Mathematics, TIFR for 12 years and thereafter with the University of Michigan for 9 years and counting. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize and made Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences and the Guggenheim Foundation. He also won the Humboldt Senior Research Award and was given the NSF-research grant.