Qaiser Mushtaq
| Qaiser Mushtaq | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 February 1954 Sheikhupura, Pakistan |
| Residence | Islamabad, Pakistan |
| Citizenship | Pakistan |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
Quaid-e-Azam University (Qau) Oxford University Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Southampton University Institute for Basic Research (IBR) The Islamia University of Bahawalpur |
| Alma mater |
University of the Punjab Quaid-i-Azam University University of Oxford. |
| Doctoral advisor | Graham Higman |
| Other academic advisors | Gian-Carlo Rota |
| Known for | His work on the Coset diagrams, Group theory (mathematics) LA-semigroups |
| Notable awards | Chowla Medal (1977) Abdus Salam Award (1987) Mathematician of the Year (1987) Gold Medal of Honour (US) (1987) Mathematician of the Year (Pakistan) (1990) M. Raziuddin Siddiqi Gold Medal (Pakistan) (1991) 5th Khwarizmi Award (1992) Young Scientist of the South Award (TWAS, Italy) (1993) 5th National Education Award (1999) Gold Medal in Mathematics (Pakistan) (2000) |
Qaiser Mushtaq (born 28 February 1954), (D.Phil.(Oxon), ASA, KIA), is a Pakistani mathematician and academic who has made numerous contributions in the field of Group theory and Semigroup. He is vice-chancellor of The Islamia University Bahawalpur. Mushtaq is one of the leading mathematicians and educationists in Pakistan. Through his research and writings, he has exercised a profound influence on mathematics in Pakistan. Mushtaq is an honorary full professor at the Mathematics Division of the Institute for Basic Research, Florida, US.
His research contributions in the fields of group theory and LA-semigroup theory have won him recognition at both national and international levels. In Graham Higman's words, "he has laid the foundation of coset diagrams for the modular group", to study the actions of groups on various spaces and projective lines over Galois fields. This work has been cited in the Encyclopedia of Design Theory.
Qaiser Mushtaq was born in Sheikhupura, Pakistan to Pir Mushtaq Ali and Begum Saghira Akhter, and belongs to the Qureshi family of Gujranwala. He is a descendant of Shah Jamal Nuri. Mushtaq married Aileen Qaiser, a senior journalist educated from the National University of Singapore and Wolfson College, Oxford. They have two daughters, Shayyan Qaiser and Zara Qaiser.
He received primary education from the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Sialkot, and secondary education from Government Pilot Secondary School, Sialkot. Mushtaq studied for a certain period at Murray College till his family moved to Rawalpindi, where he studied at Gordon College. He did his MSc and M.Phil. from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He then joined Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, as a lecturer for a period of one year before returning to Quaid-i-Azam University in 1979. Later, in 1980, he received the Royal Scholarship to do his D.Phil. at Wolfson College, Oxford. He was a doctoral student of Graham Higman and was awarded a doctorate in 1983 for a thesis entitled Coset Diagrams for the Modular Group. In 1990 he was at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, as a visiting mathematician. He also worked as an associate professor at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam from 1993 to 1999, after which he returned to Pakistan.
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