Faculty at School of Natural Sciences

Kapil Hari Paranjape

Kapil Hari Paranjape

Distinguished Professor

School of Natural Sciences


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    Kapil Hari Paranjape carries out research primarily in Algebraic Geometry, Algebraic Topology and Algebraic Number Theory, as also in related areas such as Differential Geometry and Category Theory.

    In addition, there are areas of Mathematical Sciences about which he has written expository articles and given lecture courses such as Computer Programming, Theory of Computation, Cryptology, Comptuer Algebra and Number Theory.

    • Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.
    • Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad.
    • Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.
    • Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
    • B. M. Birla Award for Young Scientists, 1999.
    • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, 2005.
    • J. C. Bose National Fellowship, 2010–2019.
    • Debian Developer, 2007–2009.

    • Ramanujan Mathematical Society
    • Mathematics Teachers Association (India)

    • Paranjape, K. H., and S. Ramanan. "On the Canonical Ring of a Curve."Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, Vol. 2, pp. 503–516.
    • Paranjape, K. H. "Abelian Varieties Associated to Certain K3 Surfaces."Compositio Mathematica, 68(1), pp. 11–22.
    • Paranjape, K. H., and V. Srinivas. "Self Maps of Homogeneous Spaces."Inventiones Mathematicae, 98(2), pp. 425–444.
    • Paranjape, K. H. "Cohomological and Cycle-Theoretic Connectivity."Annals of Mathematics, 139(3), pp. 641–660.
    • Paranjape, K. H., and V. Pati. "Seiberg-Witten Invariants — an Expository Account."Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences – Mathematical Sciences, 109(3), pp. 257–270.
    • Green, M., P. A. Griffiths, and K. H. Paranjape. "Cycles over Fields of Transcendence Degree 1."Michigan Mathematical Journal, 52(1), pp. 181–187.
    • Paranjape, K. H., and D. Ramakrishnan. "Modular Forms and Calabi-Yau Varieties."Arithmetic and Geometry, Vol. 420, Cambridge University Press, p. 351.

    Editorial Board:

    • Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Associate Editor
    • Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Mathematical Sciences) Advisory Board.