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{{Short description|Indian mathematician}}
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|alma_mater = [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]], [[University of Bombay]]
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'''Kapil Hari Paranjape''' is an Indian [[mathematician]] specializing in [[algebraic geometry]]. He is a Professor of Mathematics at the [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali]]. <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU8m9ngSNrM |title=RSTV Eureka}}</ref>

==Biography==
He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra near the Kabootar Khana in Dadar but grew up in [[New Delhi]]. He completed his schooling from [[Sardar Patel Vidyalaya]] in 1977. He then joined [[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur]] where he pursued a five-years integrated Master’s programme in Mathematics and graduated in 1982.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iitk.ac.in/dora/alumni-profile |title=Notable Alumni of IIT Kanpur}}</ref> He was awarded the General Proficiency Prize for Mathematics from IIT Kanpur (1982).

He joined School of Mathematics, [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]] as was awarded his PhD in Mathematics in 1992.

Paranjape is also involved in the promotion of [[Linux]] and [[GNU]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Kapil Hari Paranjape|url=http://www.iitk.ac.in/LDP/LDP/LGNET/authors/kapil.html|publisher=Linux Gazette|access-date=29 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227094459/http://www.iitk.ac.in/LDP/LDP/LGNET/authors/kapil.html|archive-date=27 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> and writes a blog Mast Kalandar.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mast Kalandar|url=http://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/blog/|publisher=Linux Gazette|access-date=21 Feb 2014}}</ref>

==Career==
He worked as a Reader at TIFR from 1993-1998. During this he also held various visiting positions at
[[University of Chicago]], [[University of Paris-Sud]] and [[University of Warwick]]. He was appointed as Professor at the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit of the [[Indian Statistical Institute]], Bangalore. He moved to [[Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai]] in 1996. Between 2001 and 2009 he has held visiting positions at [[California Institute of Technology]]. Since 2009 he is a professor of Mathematics at [[Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali]].

==Awards and honors==
He was awarded the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]] in 2005, the highest science award in [[India]], in the mathematical sciences category. His citation read "Dr Paranjape has made outstanding contributions in the field of algebraic geometry, especially the theory of algebraic cycles. He has made highly significant contributions in connecting Hodge Theory to the study of Chow Groups. He has also established deep relations between Calabi-Yau varieties and modular forms.".<ref name=INSA>{{cite web|title=Indian Fellow: Kapil Hari Pranjape|url=http://insaindia.org/detail.php?id=P10-1522|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226040247/http://insaindia.org/detail.php?id=P10-1522|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 February 2014|publisher=[[Indian National Science Academy]]|access-date=29 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards For Science And Technology 2005|url=http://www.dst.gov.in/awards/award05.htm|publisher=Department of Science & Technology, Govt of India|access-date=29 June 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914135958/http://www.dst.gov.in/awards/award05.htm|archive-date=14 September 2013}}</ref> He is also a recipient of various other honors, among them are

*Fellowship of [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] Bangalore, 1997
*Fellowship of National Academy of Sciences Allahabad, 1999
*Associate of the ICTP, Trieste, 1999-2001
*B. M. Birla award for young scientists, 1999
*DST Swarnajayanti Grant, 2001
*NBHM National Lecturer, India, 2004-2005
*Debian Developer, 2007
*Fellowship of [[Indian National Science Academy]], New Delhi, 2009
*J C Bose National Fellowship, 2010
*Fellowship of The World Academy of Sciences ([[TWAS]]), 2019

==References==
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==External links==
* {{MathGenealogy|id=95634|title=Kapil Hari Paranjape}}

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