Ramaiyengar Sridharan

Ramaiyengar Sridharan
R. Sridharan in 1990
Born	Cuddalore
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	TIFR
Alma mater	Columbia University
Doctoral advisor	Samuel Eilenberg
Doctoral students	Raman Parimala
Notable awards	Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award

Ramaiyengar Sridharan is a mathematician at Chennai Mathematical Institute, formerly at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). He was born in Cuddalore in the year 1935 [1] and he obtained his Ph. D. from Columbia under the guidance of Samuel Eilenberg in Filtered algebras and Representations of Lie Algebras.

Sridharan was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB prize) in Mathematical Science in 1980. Another SSB Prize awardee, Raman Parimala was his Ph.D. student at TIFR.