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Dr. Geetha Venkataraman
Senior Fellow
Mathematical Sciences Foundation
Delhi
Reader
Department of Mathematics
St. Stephen's College
University of Delhi
Delhi

geetha_venkat@ststephens.edu
Educational Qualifications
1987 - B.Sc. (H) Mathematics - St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi

1990 - M.A. Mathematics - St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford

1993 - D. Phil. in Mathematics - Oriel College, University of Oxford
 
Research Interests
Finite Group Theory: My main interest is in Enumeration of the finite groups with special emphasis on the class of soluble groups whose Sylow subgroups are abelian.
Polynomial Invariants of Finite Groups.
 
Details of recent publications
  Book
   
Enumeration of Finite Groups, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, 173, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2007.(Coauthored with Simon Blackburn and Peter M Neumann.)
   
  Papers in Refereed Journals
   
On finite groups whose every proper normal subgroup is a union of a given number of conjugacy classes, Proceedings Indian Academy of Sciences (Math. Sci.), Vol. 114, No. 3,(2004), 1-8. (Coauthored with Ali Reza Ashrafi.)
Enumeration of Finite Soluble Groups with abelian Sylow subgroups, Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, Oxford (2), 48 (1997), 107-125.
   
  Other Articles
   
Revitalising Undergraduate Education, Seminar, 581, January 2008, 79-82.
Teaching Students to Think, Economic and Political weekly, August 25, 2007, 3449-3451.
 
Important posts held
   
Member, Council of Editors, Resonance: Journal of Science Education for three years
Senior Fellow, ICICI Centre for Mathematical Sciences, St. Stephen's College, Delhi
Joint Treasurer, MSF, St. Stephen's College, Delhi
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