Biographical Sketch

Phoolan Prasad joined the  Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as 
a Research Fellow on  9 April, 1965.  He held a  distinguished chair 
of MSIL Professorship during 1993 - 96 in the Mathematics Department 
of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, was also the Chairman 
of the Department during1996-2000 and  Professor in super-time-scale. 
Presently he is Honorary Professor and DAE  Raja Ramanna Fellow.  He 
was born in a small village Khejuri, Ballia, U.P., India.  His wife, 
Mandra  and  he have a daughter  Deepika and son  Amritanshu.   As a 
student of B.Sc.(Hons.)and M.Sc., he won many medals for proficiency 
in  mathematics from  Calcutta  University during 1962 - 64. For his 
research  contribution  in  nonlinear  waves,  he  was  awarded S.S.
Bhatnagar Prize in 1983 by the Government of India.  He is Fellow of 
all three science academies in India:  National Academy of Sciences, 
Indian Academy of Sciences  and  Indian National Science Academy. He 
visited a large number of universities in Europe and USA as Visiting 
Professor  (including  the  university  of  Combridge)  and was also 
Alexender von-Humbold Fellow.

He has  played in  India a very important role in the development of 
quality education in  mathematics from school education to research.  
He  organised  the  training  camps  for  International Mathematical 
Olympiad and worked for the Indian participation to IMO which became 
a reality since 1989.  He edited a book  "Nonlinear Dispersive Waves 
in One-dimensional Dispersive Systems" by his teacher P.L. Bhatnagar 
in Oxford Mathematical Monographer Series(1979) and authored jointly 
with  Prof. (Mrs.) Renuka Ravindran  a  book  "Partial  Differential 
Equations"  published in 1985 by John Wiley and Wiley Eastern.  Most 
of the material of his third book "Propagation of a curved shock and 
Nonlinear Ray Theory"  by Longman Higher Education (1993), and forth 
book  "Nonlinear  Hyperbolic  Waves in Multi-dimensions", Chapman \& 
Hall/CRC,  2001,  is  based on the research work of his group at the 
Indian  Institute  of  Science,  Bangalore.  He was a  member of the 
National Board for Higher Mathematics, Government of India from 1986 
- 1996 and Vice President of Ramanujan Mathematical Society  (1999 - 
2001) and then President (2002 - 2003) of the Society.