| Authorised form of name | Seshadri; Conjeeveram Srirangachari (1932 - 2020) |
| Dates | 1932 - 2020 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Date of birth | 29/02/1932 |
| Place of death | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia |
| Date of death | 17/07/2020 |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Algebraic geometry |
| Activity | Education:
Madras University, BA in Mathematics (1953); Bombay University, PhD (1958)
Career:
School of Mathematics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay [Mumbai], Research Scholar (1953-1965), Professor (1965-1975), Senior Professor (1975-1984); Visiting Professor, University of paris ((1957-1960); Visiting Professor, Harvard University (1974-1975); Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University (1975-1976); Senior Professor, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Madras [Chennai] (1984-1989); Chennai Mathematical Institute, Founding Director (1989-2010), Emeritus Director (2010-2020)
Honours:
Padma Bhushan 2009
Memberships:
Indian Academy of Sciences (1971); IAS; INSA; United States National Academy of Sciences; American Mathematical Society (2012)
Medals/Awards:
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award; Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal from the Indian Academy of Sciences; TWAS Science Award
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1988 |
| Age at election | 56 |
| PublishedWorks | https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81030590/ |
| OtherInfo | Conjeeveram Seshadri was one of the most influential mathematicians working in the area of invariant theory and its application to the theory of moduli. He made fundamental contributions to classical invariant theory, to the construction of orbit spaces and to the theory of vector bundles. His discovery, jointly with Mudumbai Narashimhan, that, over compact Riemann surfaces, direct sums of stable holomorphic vector bundles were the bundles associated with unitary representations of pi1, and that these formed the points of a projective moduli space, was an important breakthrough which opened up a major area of investigation.
Professor Conjeeveram Seshadri FRS died on 17 July 2020. |
| Source | Sources:
Chennai Mathematical institute, https://www.cmi.ac.in/people/fac-profile.php?id=css (accessed 22 July 2020); Wikipedia |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/234043427 |
| Code | NA4038 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1988/33 | Seshadri, Conjeeveram Srirangachari: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1982 |