Sundaram Thangavelu

S. Thangavelu (Sundaram Thangavelu) (born 1957) is an Indian mathematician who specialised in harmonic analysis. He is a professor in the Department of Mathematics of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.[1]

This article is about Professor S. Thangavelu. For S. Thangavelu, the politician, see S. Thangavelu.

S. Thangavelu
Born1957
NationalityIndia
Alma materMadras University, Princeton University
AwardsShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
Scientific career
FieldsHarmonic analysis
InstitutionsIndian Statistical Institute, Indian Institute of Science
Doctoral advisorElias M. Stein

After obtaining an MSc degree from Madras University in 1980, Thangavelu moved to Princeton University and obtained the PhD degree in 1987 from there under the supervision of Elias Stein. He returned to India and worked at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research until 1993 when he moved to Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore. In 2005, he shifted to Indian Institute of Science and continues there as Professor in the Department of Mathematics.

He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2002, the highest science award in India, in the mathematical sciences category. Thangavelu has made significant contributions to the field of harmonic analysis on Euclidean spaces, Heisenberg groups and symmetric spaces, and also authored three monographs in these areas. [2]

Monographs
  • Lectures on Hermite & Laguerre Expansions Mathematical Notes, 42. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1993.
  • Harmonic Analysis on the Heisenberg Group, Progress in Mathematics, 159. Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA, 1998.
  • An Introduction to the Uncertainty Principle: Hardy's Theorem on Lie Groups, Progress in Mathematics, 217. Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA, 2004.

Other awards/honours
  • Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
  • B.M. Birla Science Prize in Mathematics for the year 1996
  • Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi

References
  1. "Professor S Thangavelu". Indian Institute of Science. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
  2. "Indian Fellow: Professor S Thangavelu". Indian National Science Academy. Retrieved 29 June 2013.


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