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Riddhi Shah

Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

School of Physical Sciences

Room No

114

Off. Phone

011-26738801

rshah@jnu.ac.in

Personal Webpage

https://jnu.ac.in

Qualifications

Ph.D.(Mathematics), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai (1991) M.Sc. (Pure Mathematics), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (1986)
B.Sc. (Mathematics), St. Xavier's College, Gujarat University (1984)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Mathematics:
- Dynamics of Group Actions (Distal and Ergodic Actions),
- Probabilities on Groups (Infinitely Divisible Measures, Central Limit Problem,
Concentration Functions, Spectrum of Convolution Operators, Selfdecomposability)
- Structure of Groups (Property T, Relative Property T, Haagerup Property)

Experience

Professor of Mathematics, SPS, JNU, New Delhi, July 2007 onward
Associate Professor, School of Mathematics, TIFR, Mumbai, (2004-2007)
Reader, School of Mathematics, TIFR, Mumbai, (1998-2004)
Fellow, School of Mathematics, TIFR, Mumbai, (1993-1998)
Research Associate, School of Mathematics, TIFR, Mumbai, (1990-1993)

Awards & Honours

Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (2022)

JSPS Fellowship for Senior Scientists (2004)

Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship (1997-1998)

INSA Young Scientist Award (1995)
Awarded two Gold Medals for First Rank in B.Sc. in Gujarat University (1984)

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Riddhi Shah, Orbits of distal actions on locally compact groups.
Journal of Lie Theory 22 (2012), 587-599.

S.G. Dani, Y. Guivarc'h and Riddhi Shah, On the embeddability of certain innitely divisible probability measures on Lie groups.
Mathematische Zeitschrift Mathematische Zeitschrift 272 (2012), 361-379.

C.R.E. Raja and Riddhi Shah, Distal actions and shifted convolution property,
Israel Journal of Mathematics 177 (2010), 391-412.

Yves Guivarc'h and Riddhi Shah, Asymptotic properties of convolution operators and limits of triangular arrays on Lie groups.
Transactions of American Mathematical Society 357 (2005), 3683-3723.

Riddhi Shah, Infinitely divisible measures on p-adic groups.
Journal of Theoretical Probability 4 (1991), 391-405.