Parameswaran Sankaran

Welcome to my home page. I am in the mathematics faculty of IMSc

My research interests are in the areas of topology, algebraic groups, and representation theory.

List of people with whom I have collaborated: C.S. Aravinda, V. V. Awasthi, Nelza Barufatti, Indranil Biswas, G. Date, Satya Deo, Siddhartha Gadgil , T.R. Govindarajan, Derek Hacon, J. Korbas, V. Lakshmibai, Kee Yuen Lam, Kalyan Mukherjea, Goutam Mukherjee, Subhashis Nag, Aniruddha C. Naolekar, Vimala Ramani, K.N. Raghavan, Swagata Sarkar, R. Shankar, Pradeep Shukla, V. Uma, P.Vanchinathan, K. Varadarajan, P. Zvengrowski

Here are some lecture notes: These are mostly informal notes and it is possible that there are some (hopefully only minor) errors.

Notes on toric varieties based on lectures given at ISI Calcutta in December 1998 during the Winter School on Transformation Groups. (55 pages, PS file.)

Combinatorial group theory based on lectures given at Harish-Chandra Research Institute in December 2000 during the conference on Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry. (10 pages, PS file.)

Monodromy of the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations and quantum groups notes of lectures given at the workshop on Quantum Groups held at Ramanujan Institute, Chennai, during March 2001. (8 pages, PS file.)

Hyperbolic groups based on lectures given at the XIV Brazilian Topology Meet, Campinas, in July 2004. (20 pages, PS file.)

Division algebras, Hopf invariant, and vector fields , notes of lectures given at the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society, Kozhikodu, in July 2005. (14 pages, PS file.)

Characteristic classes , notes prepared for the Advanced Instructional School in Algebraic Topology and Differential Topology held at ISI Kolkata in December 2005. (49 pages, PS file.)

Poincar\'e Conjecture , based on two lectures given at Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, in September 2006. (11 pages, PDF file)

K-theory of toric manifolds and related spaces , notes of lectures given at IIT Madras in December 2008-January 2009.

Workshop on topological methods in group theory, Chennai, July 2002:

Click here for details about the Workshop on topological methods in group theory held at IMSc during 15-27 July, 2002.

Lecture notes based on talks given at the workshop.

List of participants in the Workshop is given here.

Nag Memorial Lectures

Office Address:
Institute of Mathematical Sciences
CIT Campus, Taramani
Chennai 600 113
INDIA
Email: sankaran AT imsc dot res dot in

Phone: 2254-3211
Fax: 2254-1586