Madabusi S. Raghunathan

    Address:

    School of Mathematics
    Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
    Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba
    Bombay 400 005

    Fax: (91) 22 218 8654 or 215 2110.
    E-mail: msr@math.tifr.res.in

    Born:

    11th August 1941, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh

    Education:

    1960 B.A. (Hons.), Madras University
    1966 Ph.D., Bombay University

    Positions:

    1997- present Professor of Eminence, Tata Inst. of Fund. Research
    1987 - present Chairman, National Board for Higher Mathematics
    1987 - present Chairman, Governing Council, Mehta Research Institute of Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, Allahabad

    Selected Publications:

    1. Cohomology of arithmetic subgroups of algebraic groups II, Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 87 (1968) pp.279-304.
    2. Discrete groups and Q-structures on semisimple groups, proceedings of the International Colloquium on discrete subgroups of Lie groups and applications to moduli, pp.225-321, Oxford 1975, Bombay.
    3. (with J. Millson) Geometric construction of homology for arithmetic groups I, UNit groups of anisotropic quadratic forms, Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Mathematical Sciences), Vol. 90 (2)d, 1981, pp.103-123. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Mathematical Sciences), 93 (1984), 137-145.
    4. (with Gopal Prasad) Central Extensions of rational points of Groups on Local Fields, Annals of Mathematics 119 (1984), 143-268.
    5. On the congruence subgroup problem, II, Inventiones Mathematicae 85 (1986), 73-117.
    6. (with Gopal Prasad) Topological Central extension of SL1 (D), Inventiones Mathematicae, 92 (1988), 645-689.
    7. (with T.N. Venkataramana) The first Betti Number of Arithmetic groups and the congruence subgroup problem, Linear Algebraic Groups and their Representations, (Conference UCLA, 1992), Contemporary Mathematics, 153 (1993), 95-107.
    8. Principal bundles admitting arational section, Inventiones Mathematucae 116 (1994), 409-423.
    9. (with A.Lubotzky and S. Mozes) The word and Riemannian metrics on lattices in semisimple Lie groups, to appear in Publications Mathematiques, IHES, Paris.

    Book:

    Discrete subgroups of Lie groups, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1972