In collaboration with MatScience, the Mathematics Newsletter of the Ramanujan Mathematical society will henceforth feature a Problems and Solutions section in each issue. We invite you to submit original and interesting mathematical problems for solution by the readers of the Newsletter.

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The Chennai Mathematical Institute and The Institute of Mathematical Sciences plan to host a thematic summer program from 14 May to 1 June 2012. The program is aimed at final-year BSc students, but motivated students from BSc first and second year may also apply. Besides basic lectures on finite fields (such as existence, uniqueness and structure) there will be lectures on more specialized topics (cryptography, coding theory, combinatorics). In the last week students will be expected to write a short report on a topic which they will choose in consultation with the faculty conducting the program.

Details about selected candidates are available at the program’s web page.

Yesterday, Prof G Baskaran, one of IMSc’s most distinguished faculty members and currently a Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada, discussed the CERN announcement on recent results in the search for the Higgs boson, on BBC Tamil Osai. Click to listen.