Prof. Gopal Prasad
Raoul Bott Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan, USA
Professor Gopal Prasad's mathematical interests span the fields of Lie groups, their discrete subgroups, algebraic groups, arithmetic groups, geometry of locally symmetric spaces, Bruhat-Tits theory, and representation theory of reductive p-adic groups. He was with the School of Mathematics, TIFR, for 26 years and thereafter with the University of Michigan for over 25 years. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize and made Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, the Indian Academy of Sciences, and the American Mathematical Society. He was awarded a fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation. He also won the Humboldt Senior Research Award.