Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan

Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan
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Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Trinity College, Cambridge, Harvard University
Notable awards	MacArthur Fellows Program

Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan is an Indian American mathematician and scientist, and currently the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Physics at Harvard University. His work centers around using mathematics to understand the organization of matter in space and time, i.e. how it is shaped and how it flows, particularly at the scale observable by the unaided senses.

Life

He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and then received an M.S from the University of Texas at Austin, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1995.

He started his independent career on the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996. In 2000, he was elected the inaugural Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and a Professorial Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, the first Indian to be appointed Professor to the Faculty of Mathematics there. He moved to Harvard in 2003.

Awards

• 2009 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2007 Ig Nobel Prize for physics
• 2006 George Ledlie Prize

External links

• "The Math of Folding Maps", All Things Considered, March 15, 2008
• "Recent Publications", The Applied Math Lab