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{{short description|Indian-American mathematician}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=November 2018}}
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|birth_place = Madras, India
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|field = scientist
|work_institution = [[Clark University]], [[University of Illinois]], [[University of Essen]], [[Sydney University]], [[Science University of Tokyo]]
|alma_mater = [[University of Madras]], [[University of Manchester]], [[University of British Columbia]]
|doctoral_advisor = [[Sandy Green (mathematician)|J. A. Green]]
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|known_for = Pure mathematical research
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'''Bhama Srinivasan''' (born 22 April 1935<ref name="noether" />) is a mathematician known for her work in the [[representation theory of finite groups]]. Her contributions were honored with the 1990 [[Noether Lecture]]. She served as President of the [[Association for Women in Mathematics]] from 1981 to 1983. She earned her Ph.D. in physics in 1959 with her dissertation ''Problems on Modular Representations of Finite Groups'' under [[Sandy Green (mathematician)|J. A. Green]] at the [[University of Manchester]]. She currently is a professor at the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]]. She has had five doctoral students. She has co-authored a number of papers with Paul Fong in [[modular representation theory]] and [[Deligne–Lusztig theory]].

==Early life and education==
Srinivasan was born in Madras, India. She attended the [[University of Madras]], where she earned her bachelor of arts degree in 1954 and her master of science degree in 1955. She traveled to England for her doctoral study. She remained in England to commence her professional academic career as a lecturer in mathematics at the [[University of Keele]] from 1960 through 1964. She then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the [[University of British Columbia]] through the National research Council of Canada from 1965 through 1966.She returned home to India to teach at the Ramanujan Institute of Mathematics of her Alma mater, the [[University of Madras]], from 1966 though 1970.<ref name="noether">{{cite web|title=1990 Lecturer: Bhama Srinivasan|url=https://awm-math.org/awards/noether-lectures/noether-lectures-1990/|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref>

==Career==
Srinivasan then immigrated to the United States, where she taught for the next decade at [[Clark University]] in Worcester, Massachusetts, as an associate professor. In 1977, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States. That year, she was a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. In 1980, she commenced her longstanding tenure at the [[University of Illinois]] as a professor of mathematics at the Chicago Circle campus.<ref name="noether" />

Srinivasan has distinguished herself in her field throughout her career. In January 1979, she delivered an [[American Mathematical Society]] (AMS) Invited Address "Representations of classical groups" at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Biloxi, Mississippi.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Program for the 85th Annual Meeting |journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society |date=January 1979 |volume=26 |issue=1 |page=2 |url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/197901/197901FullIssue.pdf |access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref> She has also been invited to fill visiting professorships internationally at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, the [[University of Essen]] in Germany, [[Sydney University]], and the [[Science University of Tokyo]] in Japan. She has served as an editor for several journals in her field: ''Proceedings of the AMS'' (from 1983 through 1987); ''Communications in Algebra'' (from 1978 through 1984); ''Mathematical Surveys and Monographs'' (from 1991 through 1993). From 1991 through 1994, she served on the Editorial Boards Committee of the AMS.

Srinivasan collaborated with Paul Fong on finite groups of the Lie type, and this work has been linked to Lusztig's research on quantum groups, thus crossing over between mathematics and physics. Although Srinivasan generally advocates pure mathematical research, resisting the temptation to find a practical application for all mathematics, she nevertheless got excited by the application of her research to physics.<ref>{{cite book|last=Oakes|first=Elizabeth H.|title=International encyclopedia of women scientists|date=2002|publisher=Facts on File|location=New York, NY|isbn=0816043817|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/internationalenc00oake}}</ref>

==Awards and honors==
In 2012 she became a fellow of the [[American Mathematical Society]].<ref>[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2013-07-26.</ref> In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the [[Association for Women in Mathematics]] in the inaugural class.<ref>{{cite web|title=2018 Inaugural Class of AWM Fellows |url=https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/2018-awm-fellows|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref>

==Selected works==
* {{Citation | last1=Srinivasan | first1=Bhama | author1-link=Bhama Srinivasan | title=The characters of the finite symplectic group Sp(4,q) | doi=10.2307/1994960 | mr=0220845 | year=1968 | journal=[[Transactions of the American Mathematical Society]] | issn=0002-9947 | volume=131 | issue=2 | pages=488–525| jstor=1994960 }}
*{{Citation | last1=Srinivasan | first1=Bhama | author1-link=Bhama Srinivasan | title=Representations of finite Chevalley groups. A survey. | publisher=[[Springer-Verlag]] | location=Berlin, New York | series=Lecture Notes in Mathematics | isbn=978-3-540-09716-7 | year=1979 | volume=764}}<ref>{{cite journal|author=Steinberg, Robert|authorlink=Robert Steinberg|title=Review: ''Representations of finite Chevalley groups'', by Bhama Srinivasan|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.)|year=1981|volume=5|issue=1|pages=79–83|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1981-05-01/S0273-0979-1981-14928-4/S0273-0979-1981-14928-4.pdf|doi=10.1090/s0273-0979-1981-14928-4|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* {{Citation | last1=Fong | first1=Paul | last2=Srinivasan | first2=Bhama | author2-link=Bhama Srinivasan | title=The blocks of finite general linear and unitary groups | doi=10.1007/BF01389188 | mr=671655 | year=1982 | journal=[[Inventiones Mathematicae]] | issn=0020-9910 | volume=69 | issue=1 | pages=109–153| s2cid=122517052 }}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{MathGenealogy|id=42683}}
* Bhama Srinivasan's [https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/search/author.html?mrauthid=202404 author profile] on MathSciNet
* [https://awm-math.org/awards/noether-lectures/noether-lectures-1990/ Noether Lecture series short biography]
* [http://www.math.uic.edu/~srinivas/ Official homepage]

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