Sg Dani

Biography

Shrikrishna Gopalrao Dani obtained his BSc and MSc degrees from the University of Mumbai. He then joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai (1969) to work under the guidance of MS Raghunathan for his PhD degree, awarded by the University of Mumbai. He continued to be with TIFR and held visiting positions at various institutions including the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1976-77 and 1983-84); Yale University, New Haven (1977-78); University of California, Berkeley (1982); Sonderfoschungsbereich-170, Goettingen (1990-91); University of Chicago (1992); Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge (2000); and so on. In recent years, he has been a frequent visitor to the University of Rennes-1, and University of the Mediterranean, Marseille.

Research Interest

Ergodic Theory, Lie Groups, Probability measures on groups