Balwant Singh
Mathematics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Balwant Singh, after obtaining his BA from the University of Bombay (1965), joined TIFR as a research student. He obtained MSc (Thesis) (1969) and PhD (1970), both from Bombay University, under the supervision of R Sridharan and CS Seshadri, respectively. The topics of the two theses were regular local rings and unique factorization domains in the areas of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. He continued to work at TIFR till his retirement in 2000. After retirement, he joined IIT Bombay and worked there on a regular basis till 2005, and on a part time basis since then.
Research Interest
Algebraic Geometry & Commutative Algebra
