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TAA - HARISH-CHANDRA MEMORIAL AWARD 2000-2001 
CITATION
Dr. A. Raghuram is selected for the TAA- Harish-Chandra Memorial Award for Mathematics and Computer Science for his Ph.D. thesis titled "Some Topics in Algebraic Groups".

Representation theory of Lie Groups, a deep and central area of Mathematics is essentially the creation of Harish-Chandra. Dr. Raghuram's Ph.D. thesis is an excellent recent contribution to this theory. Dr. Raghuram's thesis takes the first steps towards our understanding of representations of the p-adic group GL(2,D), where D is a finite dimensional central division algebra over a p-adic field. The central theme is the development of a Kirillov theory for these groups along the lines of Jaquet and Langlands for GL (2) over the p-adic field.

The thesis contains many interesting new results and ideas and the back-ground information used is very impressive. Many of the results in the thesis have recently appeared in the prestigious Duke Mathematics Journal in a joint paper with D. Prasad.

   PROFILE
A Raghuram (b: 1971): Obtained B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from I.I.T. Kanpur in 1992. Had earlier secured 5th rank in Indian National Mathematics Olympiad (1987) and 2nd rank in All India IIT-JEE (1988). Joined School of Mathematics, TIFR in August, 1992 and worked for his Ph.D. thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dipendra Prasad and Prof. M.S. Raghunathan. Spent two years (July 1999 to July 2001) on a post-doctoral assignment at University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Since August, 2001, a Visiting Fellow in School of Mathematics, TIFR.