Gopal Prasad
Department of Mathematics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Gopal Prasad received BSc (Hons) (1963) from Magadh University, and MSc (1965) from Patna University. After joining Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in 1966, he completed his PhD (1974) under the supervision of MS Raghunathan. He continued to work at TIFR from where he retired in 1992. Thereafter, he has been Professor at the University of Michigan, where he later became the Raoul Bott Collegiate Professor of Mathematics. He has held long-term visiting positions at Yale University, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, IHES, France and ETH, Zurich.
Research Interest
Lie & Algebraic Groups
