Ramdorai sujatha biography

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    • Sujatha Ramdorai

    Indian mathematician (born 1962)

    Sujatha Ramdorai (born 1962)[1] is an algebraic number theorist known for her work on Iwasawa theory. She is a professor of mathematics and Canada Research Chair at University of British Columbia, Canada.[2][3] She was previously a professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

    Education

    She completed her B.Sc. in 1982 at St. Joseph's college, Bangalore and then got her M.Sc. through correspondence from Annamalai University in 1985. After that she went for PhD at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and was awarded her PhD under supervision of Raman Parimala in 1992.[4] Her dissertation was "Witt Groups of Real Surfaces and Real Geometry".

    Career

    Dr. Ramdorai initially worked in the areas of algebraic theory of quadratic forms and arithmetic geometry of elliptic curves.[5] Together with Coates, Fukaya, Kato, and Venjakob she formulated a non-commuta