M Thamban Nair

M. Thamban Nair is a Professor of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. Prof. Nair has been a research mathematician and teacher for over 30 years for postgraduate- and undergraduate-level mathematics courses. He won many awards including the C. L. Chandana Award for distinguished and outstanding contributions in mathematics research and teaching in India for the year 2003. He was also a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Grenoble (France) and Visiting...See more

M. Thamban Nair is a Professor of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. Prof. Nair has been a research mathematician and teacher for over 30 years for postgraduate- and undergraduate-level mathematics courses. He won many awards including the C. L. Chandana Award for distinguished and outstanding contributions in mathematics research and teaching in India for the year 2003. He was also a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Grenoble (France) and Visiting Professor at Australian National University, Australia, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, and University of Saint Etienne, France. He gave several invited talks at various conferences in India and abroad. Professor Nair has got over 80 journal publications and 5 books to his credit. The broad area of Prof. Nair's research is in applicable functional analysis, more specifically, spectral approximation, operator equations, and inverse and ill-posed problems. See less