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Mathematics Faculty at SPS

 

 

Amala Bhave
Assistant Professor
Room No : 106
Email : abhave@mail.jnu.ac.in
Homepage: JNU official webpage
Ph.D., Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, 2007
Areas of Interest: 
Algebra, Number Theory, Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms                                                                                   

Ved Prakash Gupta
Assistant Professor                                         
Room No : 108
Email : vedgupta@mail.jnu.ac.in,     ved.math@gmail.com
Homepage: https://jnu.ac.in/content/vedgupta
Personal webpage: http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/vedgupta

Ph.D., The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, 2008
Areas of Interest: 
Operator Algebras: Planar algebras, Subfactors, Operator Spaces, Operator Systems                                        
Riddhi Shah
Professor 
Room No : 114
Email : rshah@mail.jnu.ac.in
Homepage: JNU official webpage
Ph.D., Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, 1992

Areas of Interest: 
Lie Groups and Probability (Real and p-adic Lie Groups, Infinitely Divisible Measures, Embedding Problem, Uniqueness of Embedding, Central Limit Problem, Semistability, Concentration Functions, Self-Decomposability, Contractible Measures), Fourier Analysis on Non-Commutative Groups, Algebraic Groups over Local Fields, Dynamical Systems, Distal Groups and Ergodic Theory
Manoj Verma
Assistant Professor 
Room No 100A
Email:m.infinite@gmail.com 
Homepage: JNU official webpage
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, USA, May 2013
Areas of Interest: 
Analytic Number Theory
 
Visiting Faculty

Gaurav Bhatnagar 
Visiting Faculty;
Room No : 216
Email : bhatnagarg@gmail.com
Home Page : https://www.gbhatnagar.com
Special Functions and Number Theory Seminar: https://sf-and-nt.blogspot.com   

PhD, The Ohio State University, USA, 1995
Areas of Interest: 
Special functions, continued fractions, elementary number theory
 
Former faculty in Mathematics

Vijay Patankar
Associate Professor, 2014- 2019 
Room No : 216
Email : vmpatankar@mail.jnu.ac.in,    vijaypatankar@gmail.com 
JNU official webpage
Personal webpage: www.vijaympatankar.weebly.com   

Ph.D., University of Toronto, Toronto, 2005
Areas of Interest: 
Number Theory: Iwasawa Theory, Galois Representations, Abelian Varieties, Certain aspects of Algebraic Complexity Theory, Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Stephan Baier

Professor, 2016 - 2017
Areas of Interest: Analytic Number Theory
Somnath Jha
Assistant Professor, 2014 - 2015
Areas of Interest: Number Theory

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.