Bhama Srinivasan

Bhama Srinivasan ( born April 22, 1935 in Madras ) is an Indian- American mathematician who deals with representation theory of groups.

Srinivasan graduated from the University of Madras and was established in 1960 by JA Green at the University of Manchester on the introduced by Richard Brauer modular representations doctorate ( Problems of modular representations of finite groups). After that, she was at the University of Keele, the University of British Columbia and at the Ramanujan Institute, University of Madras. 1970 to 1979 she taught at Clark University in the U.S. before it was in 1980 professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1977 she became a U.S. citizen.

She examined reducible representations of finite groups, in particular in connection to the circulation of the area ( using methods of algebraic geometry) in the 1970s by George Lusztig l - modular representations of finite classical groups. They also examined applications of the representation theory of finite groups in combinatorics as in symmetric functions. Some of them worked there with Paul Fong.

1981 to 1983 she was president of the Association of Woman Mathematicians. In 1990, she was Noether Lecturer. She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

• Representations of finite Chevalley groups. A survey, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Volume 764, Berlin, New York: Springer -Verlag, 1979
• With Paul Fong The blocks of finite general linear and unitary groups, Inventiones Mathematicae, Volume 69, 1982, p 109-115