Biography:Mythily Ramaswamy

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Short description: Indian mathematician

Mythily Ramaswamy
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Ramaswamy speaks at CNRS in 2020
Born (1954-06-06) 6 June 1954 (age 69)
NationalityIndian
Alma materPierre and Marie Curie University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsTIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics
Doctoral advisorHenri Berestycki[1]

Mythily Ramaswamy (born 6 June 1954)[2] is an Indian mathematician and professor in the Department of Mathematics at the TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bangalore.[3] Her research involves functional analysis and controllability of partial differential equations.[2]

Education

Ramaswamy was born near Mumbai , to a banking family, but moved often to other parts of India as a child.[4] She obtained her doctorate in 1990 from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris. Her dissertation, Sur des questions de symetrie dans des problemes elliptiques [On questions of symmetry in elliptic problems] was supervised by Henri Berestycki.[1][5]

Recognition

Ramaswamy was the 2004 winner of the Kalpana Chawla Award of the Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology, "given to a young woman scientist for achievements in the field of science and technology".[6] She was elected to the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2007.[2] She became a Fulbright Scholar for 2016–2017, funding her to visit Michael Renardy at Virginia Tech.[7]

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