Prof. Kalyan Bidhan Sinha - Profile
Professor K.B. Sinha received his M.S. in Mathematics in 1963 from Delhi University. In 1969 he obtained his Ph.D in Mathematics from University of Rochester, New York, USA. He is a renowned mathematician who specialised in the area of mathematical theory of scattering, spectral theory of Schrödinger operators, and quantum stochastic processes.
He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his works and in 1988 he was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the mathematical sciences category.
Currently he is a SERB Distinguished Fellow and Honorary Professor from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India.
The following are among his past positions and honours:
July 1998-June 2006: Professor and Distinguished Scientist, Statistics-Mathematics Unit, Delhi Centre. Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi 110 016.
August 2000-July 2005: Director, Indian Statistical Institute. 1980: Ulam Chair Professor, Department of mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A.
During 1979-2007: has been visiting professor in Universities of Texas at Austin, Tennessee at Knoxville, Lousiana State University in USA; University of Lorvain-la-Neure, Belgium, of Sao Paulo, Brazil; RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan; was awarded C.V. Raman Gold Medal and S.S. Bhatnagar Prize in Mathematical Sciences. Professor Sinha is also the author of more than 40 mathematical works and co-author of several books in mathematical physics, spectral and scattering theory.
- Gold Medal of Calcutta University 1961
- J.C. Bose Science Talent Search Scholarship 1960-65
- Ulam Chair Professor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA in 1980
- S.S. Bhatnagar prize in Mathematical Sciences by CSIR, India in 1988
- C.V. Raman Gold Medal by Jagdish Bose National Science Talent Search Organization 1990
- Second Ganesh Prasad Memorial Award Lecturer of the Indian Mathematical Society at its annual meeting in Aligarh, 1995
- Platinum Jubilee lecturer in the Mathematics Section of the 83rd Session of the Indian Science Congress at Patiala 1996
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