Raman Parimala

Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor, Emory University

Raman Parimala, Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor at Emory University, Atlanta received her Master's degree at Stella Maris College, Chennai and her Ph. D. degree in 1976, at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. She was a Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research before she moved to Emory Univeristy. She has held visiting positions at several institutions including the MSRI, Berkeley, EPFL, Lausanne, ETH, Zurich and Université Paris-Sud, Orsay.

Dr. Parimala has given a number of special addresses including the Coxeter lectures at the Fields Institute, Toronto in May 2013; Noether lecture of the AWM, at the joint AMS-MAA national meeting at San Diego, January 2013 and the Bernoulli Lecture at EPFL Lausanne, December, 2012. She also gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Hyderabad, 2010 and a sectional invited address at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Zurich, 1994.

Dr. Parimala is on the editorial boards of a number of Mathematics Journals and is currently the editor in chief of the Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society. Her research interests include quadratic forms, Brauer groups, algebraic groups and homogeneous spaces.

Scientific, Workshop
ABC Algebra Workshop
November 10–11, 2018
University of Washington
The "ABC algebra workshops" is a series of PIMS-sponsored research workshops on algebra and related topics. Originally designed to bring together researchers from the Universities of Alberta and British Columbia (thus the acronym ABC), these...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
PIMS/UBC Distinguished Colloquium: Raman Parimala
October 30, 2015
University of British Columbia
The classical theorem of Hasse-Minkowski asserts that a quadratic form over a number field represents zero nontrivially provided it represents zero nontrivially over its completions at all its places. We discuss analogous local global principles over...