Neena Gupta (mathematician)

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Neena Gupta
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Gupta in 2022
Born1984 (age 39–40)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
EducationPh.D., M.Math., B.Sc. (Hons)
Alma materISI, Bethune College
Known forProviding a counter-example over a field of positive characteristic to the special Zariski Cancellation Problem
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, commutative algebra, affine algebraic geometry
Institutions ISI, TIFR
Thesis Some Results on Laurent Polynomial Fibrations and Quasi A* Algebras (2011)
Doctoral advisor Prof. Amartya Dutta

Neena Gupta (born in 1984) is a professor at the Statistics and Mathematics Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. [1] Her primary fields of interest are commutative algebra and affine algebraic geometry. [2]

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Life

Neena Gupta was previously a visiting scientist at the ISI and a visiting fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). She has won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (2019) in the category of mathematical sciences, the highest honor in India in the field of science and technology. [3] In 2022 she was awarded the ICTP Ramanujan award. She is the third woman from India who got this award (after Teacher-Student duo Raman Parimala (1987), Sujatha Ramdorai(2004)).

Neena Gupta received the Indian National Science Academy Young Scientist award in 2014. [4] She solved the Zariski Cancellation Problem. [5] [6] in positive characteristic. Her work has also earned her the inaugural Saraswathi Cowsik Medal in 2013, awarded by the TIFR Alumni Association. [7]

Education

Gupta graduated with honours in mathematics from Bethune College in 2006. She earned her post graduation in mathematics from the Indian Statistical Institute in 2008 [8] and subsequently, her Ph.D. degree in 2011 with commutative algebra as her specialization under the guidance of Amartya Kumar Dutta. The title of her dissertation was "Some results on Laurent polynomial fibrations and Quasi A*-algebras". [9]

Career

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