Eknath Prabhakar Ghate

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Eknath Prabhakar Ghate
Alma mater
AwardsShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
Scientific career
InstitutionsTata Institute of Fundamental Research
Doctoral advisorHaruzo Hida

Eknath Prabhakar Ghate is a mathematician specialising in number theory and working at the School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology, the highest science award in India, for the year 2013 in the mathematical sciences category.[1]

Early life and education[edit]

Ghate was schooled at Mayo College, Ajmer and at the International School Manila. He studied at St. Stephen's College, Delhi and obtained his Bachelors degree from the College of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania in 1991.[2] He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1996;[3] his doctoral advisor was Haruzo Hida.[4]

Career[edit]

Ghate is a Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. In number theory, Ghate is mostly interested in problems connected to automorphic forms, Galois representations, and the special values of L-functions.

Awards[edit]

Ghate was awarded the Bhatnagar Award in 2013. Ghate was elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2014. Ghate was awarded the JTM Gibson Award for Excellence by Mayo College in 2019. He was elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 2021.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Dr. Samir K. Bramhachari Announces Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2013". Press Information Bureau, Government of India. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
  2. ↑ "Eknath Ghate, C'91, Awarded the 2013 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize". Retrieved 30 December 2013.
  3. ↑ Jyotishmaan Gogoi. "Eknath Ghate wins the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2013". Gonit Sora. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
  4. ↑ Eknath Prabhakar Ghate at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

External links[edit]

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