Raman Parimala (born 21 November 1948) is an Indian

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known for her contributions to

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. She is the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of

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. For many years, she was a professor at

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(TIFR),

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. She was on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the

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2019—2022 and was on the Abel prize selection Committee 2021–2023.

Background

Parimala was born and raised in

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, India. She studied in Saradha Vidyalaya Girls' High School and Stella Maris College at

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. She received her M.Sc. from

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(1970) and Ph.D. from the

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(1976); her advisor was R. Sridharan from TIFR. In 1987, she won the highest science award in India: The

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. She is a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (New Delhi).

Selected publications

* 2021: "Local triviality for G-torsors", Gille, P.; Parimala, R.; Suresh, V., Math. Ann. 380, no. 1-2, 539–567. * 2018: "Local-global principle for reduced norms over function fields of p-adic curves", Parimala, R.; Preeti, R.; Suresh, V., Compos. Math. 154, no. 2, 410–458. * 2014: "Period-index and u-invariant questions for function fields over complete discretely valued fields", Parimala, R.; Suresh, V., Invent. Math. 197, no. 1, 215–235. * 2001: "Hermitian analogue of a theorem of Springer", R Parimala, R. Sridharan, V Suresh - Journal of Algebra, - Elsevier * 1998: "Classical groups and the Hasse principle", E Bayer-Fluckiger, R Parimala - Annals of Mathematics, jstor.org * 1995: "Galois cohomology of the classical groups over fields of cohomological dimension ≤2", Bayer-Fluckiger, E.; Parimala, R., Invent. Math. 122, no. 2, 195–229. * 1990: "Real components of algebraic varieties and étale cohomology", Colliot-Thélène, J.-L.; Parimala, R., Invent. Math. 101, no. 1, 81–99. * 1982: "Quadratic spaces over polynomial extensions of regular rings of dimension 2", Mathematische Annalen, vol. 261, pp. 287–292 * 1976: "Failure of a quadratic analogue of Serre's conjecture", Bulletin of the AMS, vol. 82, pp. 962–964, Colliot-Thélène, J.-L.; Parimala, R., Invent. Math. 101, no. 1, 81–99.

Honors

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in 2020,

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, head of the Ministry of Women and Child Development of the

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, announced the establishment of chairs at institutes across India in the names of Raman Parimala and other ten Indian women scientists. Parimala was an

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in 1994 and gave a tal
''Study of quadratic forms — some connections with geometry''
. She gave a plenary address ''Arithmetic of linear algebraic groups over two dimensional fields'' at the Congress in

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in 2010. * Fellow of the

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* Fellow of

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* Bhatnagar Award in 1987 * Honorary Membership of the

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in 2024Dr. Parimala Raman Elected to Honorary Membership of the London Mathematical Society
Emory Math News Aug 4, 2024 * Honorary doctorate from the

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in 1999 *

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Birth Centenary Award in 2003. *

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for Mathematics (2005). * Fellow of the

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(2012)List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-05-05.

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