of the classical and quantum (super) partition functions for the fermionic analogue of a harmonic oscillator with source term. In particular, they obtained a nice Gaussian shape representative of the Thom class in cohomology, which has a peak along the zero section. Its universal representative is obtained using the machinery of equivariant differential forms. Mathai was awarded the Australian Mathematical Society Medal in 2000. From August 2000 to August 2001, he was also a Clay Mathematics Institute Research Fellow and visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From March to June 2006, he was a senior research fellow at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute in Vienna. Selected publications Bouwknegt, Peter, Evslin, Jarah and Mathai, Varghese. (2004) "T-duality: Topology Change from H-flux". Communications in Mathematical Physics 249 (2), 383–415. Notes References Blau, Matthias "The Mathai-Quillen Formalism and Topological Field Theory", Infinite-dimensional geometry in physics (Karpacz, 1992). J. Geom. Phys. 11 (1993), no. 1-4, 95–127 Wu, Siye "Mathai-Quillen Formalism", J. Geom. Phys. 17 (1995), no. 4, 299–309 External links Mathai Varghese's research page at the University of Adelaide. 20th-century Indian mathematicians 21st-century Indian mathematicians Australian mathematicians Australian people of Malayali descent Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Illinois Institute of Technology alumni Scientists from Kerala University of Adelaide faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science