Vyjayanthi Chari
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Vyjayanthi Chari | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | Professor, Mathematician |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Mumbai (BSc, MSc, PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Rajagopalan Parthasarathy |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Sub-discipline | Representation theory, quantum algebra |
| Institutions | University of California, Riverside |
Vyjayanthi Chari (born 1958)[1] is an Indian–American Distinguished Professor and the F. Burton Jones Endowed Chair for Pure Mathematics at the University of California, Riverside, known for her research in representation theory and quantum algebra.[2] In 2015 she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
Chari has a bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree from the University of Mumbai.[2] Chari received her Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai under the supervision of Rajagopalan Parthasarathy.[4]
Professional career
Following her Ph.D., she became a fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. In 1991, she joined the University of California, Riverside (UCR) where she is now a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. During her career, she has had several visiting positions. They were: invited senior participant at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, Sweden; an invited professor at the University of Cologne, Germany; an invited professor at Paris 7, France; an invited research fellow at Brown University, RI; and an invited senior participant at Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany; and visiting professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.[5]
She is also the editor of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics and the Editor in Chief of Algebras and Representation Theory.[6]
With Andrew N. Pressley, she is the author of the book A Guide to Quantum Groups (Cambridge University Press, 1994).[7]
