Vaikalathur Shankar Sunder

Vaikalathur Shankar Sunder
Born	6 April 1952
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	IIT Madras, Indiana University Bloomington
Awards	Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
Scientific career
Fields	Subfactors, operator algebras, functional analysis
Institutions	Indian Statistical Institute, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Doctoral advisor	Paul Halmos

Vaikalathur Shankar Sunder (born 6 April 1952) is an Indian mathematician who specialises in subfactors, operator algebras and functional analysis in general.

In 1996, he was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the mathematical sciences category.

Sunder is one of the first Indian operator algebraists. In addition to publishing about sixty papers, he has written six books including at least three monographs at the graduate level or higher on von Neumann algebras. One of the books was co-authored with Vaughan Jones, an operator algebraist, who has received the Fields Medal.^[1]^[2]

He received a Doctor of Philosophy from Indiana University Bloomington in 1977.

References

^ Sukumar Mallick; Saguna Dewan; S C Dhawan (1999). Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners (1958–1998) (PDF). New Delhi: Human Rsource Development Group, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research. p. 118.
^ Professor Sunder at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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v t e Recipients of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Mathematical Science
1950s–70s	K. S. Chandrasekharan & C. R. Rao (1959) K. G. Ramanathan (1965) A. S. Gupta & C. S. Seshadri (1972) P. C. Jain & M. S. Narasimhan (1975) K. R. Parthasarathy & S. K. Trehan (1976) M. S. Raghunathan (1977) E. M. V. Krishnamurthy (1978) S. Raghavan & S. Ramanan (1979)
1980s	R. Sridharan (1980) J. K. Ghosh (1981) B. L. S. Prakasa Rao & J. B. Shukla (1982) I. B. S. Passi & Phoolan Prasad (1983) S. K. Malik & R. Parthasarathy (1985) T. Parthasarathy & U. B. Tewari (1986) Raman Parimala & T. N. Shorey (1987) M. B. Banerjee & K. B. Sinha (1988) Gopal Prasad (1989)
1990s	R. Balasubramanian & S. G. Dani (1990) V. B. Mehta & A. Ramanathan (1991) Maithili Sharan (1992) Karmeshu & Navin M. Singhi (1993) N. Mohan Kumar (1994) Rajendra Bhatia (1995) V. S. Sunder (1996) Subhashis Nag & T. R. Ramadas (1998) Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar (1999)
2000s	Rahul Mukerjee (2000) Gadadhar Misra & T. N. Venkataramana (2001) Dipendra Prasad & S. Thangavelu (2002) Manindra Agrawal & V. Srinivas (2003) Arup Bose & Sujatha Ramdorai (2004) Probal Chaudhuri & K. H. Paranjape (2005) Vikraman Balaji & Indranil Biswas (2006) B. V. Rajarama Bhat (2007) Rama Govindarajan (2007) Jaikumar Radhakrishnan (2008) Suresh Venapally (2009)
2010s	Mahan Mitra & Palash Sarkar (2011) Siva Athreya & Debashish Goswami (2012) Eknath Prabhakar Ghate (2013) Kaushal Kumar Verma (2014) K Sandeep & Ritabrata Munshi (2015) Amalendu Krishna (2016) Naveen Garg (2016) (Not awarded) (2017) Amit Kumar & Nitin Saxena (2018) Neena Gupta & Dishant Mayurbhai Pancholi (2019)
2020s	Rajat Subhra Hazra (2020) U. K. Anandavardhanan (2020) Anish Ghosh (2021) Saket Saurabh (2021) Apoorva Khare (2022) Neeraj Kayal (2022)

v t e Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Laureates of Tamil Nadu
Biological Sciences	Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan M. S. Swaminathan C. V. Subramanian T. C. Anand Kumar M. K. Chandrashekaran Ramamirtha Jayaraman Govindarajan Padmanaban Thavamani Jegajothivel Pandian Kuppamuthu Dharmalingam Jayaraman Gowrishankar Narayanaswamy Srinivasan Rajan Sankaranarayanan
Chemical Sciences	T. R. Govindachari Kuppuswamy Nagarajan Dorairajan Balasubramanian Paramasivam Natarajan Srinivasan Chandrasekaran Narayanasami Sathyamurthy Thirumalachari Ramasami Mariappan Periasamy Narayanan Chandrakumar Murali Sastry Narayanaswamy Jayaraman Govindasamy Mugesh
Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences	Kunchithapadam Gopalan Rengaswamy Ramesh
Engineering Sciences	Tanjore Ramachandra Anantharaman Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman Paul Ratnasamy Ramarathnam Narasimhan Viswanathan Kumaran B. S. Murty G. K. Ananthasuresh Shanthi Pavan
Mathematical Sciences	C. S. Seshadri Kalyanapuram Rangachari Parthasarathy E. M. V. Krishnamurthy Sundararaman Ramanan Srinivasacharya Raghavan Ramaiyengar Sridharan Rajagopalan Parthasarathy Thiruvenkatachari Parthasarathy Raman Parimala Ramachandran Balasubramanian Annamalai Ramanathan Vaikalathur Shankar Sunder Trivandrum Ramakrishnan Ramadas Subhashis Nag Sundaram Thangavelu Vikraman Balaji
Medical Sciences	Subramanian Kalyanaraman Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath
Physical Sciences	Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan G. N. Ramachandran Sivaraj Ramaseshan Ramanuja Vijayaraghavan E. S. Raja Gopal N. S. Satya Murthy Ramanujan Srinivasan Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan Muthusamy Lakshmanan Ganapathy Baskaran Rajiah Simon E. V. Sampathkumaran Vijay Balakrishna Shenoy
(*)By birth - (#)By ethnicity - (!)By domicile

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