Amritanshu Prasad is a Professor of Mathematics at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai. Before joining IMSc in 2003, he was a CRM-CICMA fellow at the Centre de Recherche Mathematiques, a Canadian centre for research in the fundamental sciences located at the Universite de Montreal. He has held visiting positions at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn and the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in Bur-sur-Yvette, near Paris. He has been an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2005 2010) and is a winner of the Young Scientist Medal of the Indian Natio...