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{{short description|Indian–American mathematician}}
'''Vyjayanthi Chari''' (born 1958)<ref>Birth year from [http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000115646013 ISNI authority control file], accessed 2018-11-26.</ref> is an Indian–American professor of mathematics at the [[University of California, Riverside]], known for her research in [[representation theory]] and [[quantum algebra]].<ref name="profile">{{citation|url=http://mathdept.ucr.edu/faculty/chari.html|title=Faculty profile|publisher=Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside|access-date=2015-11-17}}.</ref> In 2015 she was elected as a [[fellow]] of the [[American Mathematical Society]].<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/new-fellows|title=2016 Class of the Fellows of the AMS|publisher=[[American Mathematical Society]]|access-date=2015-11-17}}.</ref>

== Education ==
Chari has a bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree from the [[University of Mumbai]].<ref name="profile" /> Chari received her Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai under the supervision of [[Rajagopalan Parthasarathy]].<ref name=":0">{{mathgenealogy|id=49988}}</ref>

== 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.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/32891|title=Mathematician Named Fellow of American Mathematical Society|last=October 30|first=Iqbal Pittalwala on|last2=2015|website=UCR Today|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-17}}</ref>

She is also the editor of the ''Pacific Journal of Mathematics'' and the Editor in Chief of ''Algebras and Representation Theory''.

With Andrew N. Pressley, she is the author of the book ''A Guide to Quantum Groups'' (Cambridge University Press, 1994).<ref>Review of ''A Guide to Quantum Groups'' by Tomasz Brzeziński (1995), {{MR|1300632}}.</ref>

== Honors ==

* The Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentor Award from the UCR Academic Senate.<ref name=":1" />
* American Mathematical Society 2016 Class of Fellows.
* Simons Fellow 2019-2020.
*Infosys Visiting Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Science, 2019-2023.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{google scholar id|HvJueWMAAAAJ}}

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