Vs Sunder
Mathematics
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Vaiakalathur Shankar Sunder received a Masters from IIT Madras and PhD (1977) from Indiana University under the guidance of PR Halmos. During a post-doctoral year at Santa Barbara, he co-authored a book with Halmos on Integral Operators. Upon returning to India (1978), he taught for a year in Madras Christian College, and then worked as Visiting Fellow at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) for a couple of years. Subsequently, he joined the Faculty of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) and worked for more than a decade in its centres at Delhi and Bangalore. He finally moved to the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai in 1995 and continues to work there.
Research Interest
Subfactors, Operator Algebras, Functional Analysis
