Educational Qualifications of T. S. S. R. K. Rao

B.Sc.	Mathematics Physics	Andhra University	1973	First Class
M.Sc.	Mathematics	Andhra University	1975	First Class
Ph.d.	Functional Analysis	Indian Statistical Institute	1982

Honours, Awards and Grants:

Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship 2011-12.

Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences.

A 2 month Fellowship from the European Commission, Erasmus Mundus External cooperation program, India4EU, during September and October 2010 at the University of Bologna .

Seneior Research Fellowship of the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bologna.

India4EU Fellowship extended to June 2011.

Awarded a Gold Medal and Professor S. Meenakshisundaram prize for the performance in the M.Sc final year examinations.

Indo-EEC Post-doctoral Fellowship - 1991.

A research grant from the CNRS of Italy and a travel grant from the IMU - 1995.

INSA-PAN nomination for an exchange visit- 1997.

Principal investigator, DST - NSF project"Banach Algebra techniques and the geometry of Banach spaces" - 2001 -2004. (K. Jarosz as US - PI and P. Bandyopadhyay as co - PI).

Principal investigator of the Indo-French project (IFCPAR) "Studies in geometry of Banach spaces" 2001 - 2004 (G.Godefroy as French PI and D. Li, P. Bandyopadhyay as co-PI's, adjudged as the Best Project by IFCPAR).

Co-PI of the DST-NSF project "Extremal structures in Banach spaces", 2004-07 (V. Indumathi and B.L. Lin as PI).

A travel grant from the IMU and a summer research grant from the NSF at S. I. U. E (jointly with K. Jarosz) during 2004.

A travel grant from the IMU and a summer research grant from the NSF at University of Iowa (jointly with B. L. Lin) during August 2007.

A travel grant from the D. S. T and support from the I. S. I to attend the 11th conference on Function theory on infinite dimensional spaces, Madrid, December 2009.

 

Title of the Ph.d. thesis :

The Alfsen-Effros Structure topology in the theory of complex L^1-preduals.

Thesis advisor : Professor A. K. Roy.