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Two students were awarded Ph.D., seven submitted their Ph.D. theses and eight students submitted master’s theses under the supervision of our faculty.
Sixteen conferences and workshops were organized at IMSc this year. These include IMSC golden Jubilee celebrations, 5th Indian conference in logic and applications, 14th conference on theoretical aspects of rationality and knowledge, Sunder Fest, ATM workshop on topology,
Panorama lectures by Joseph Osterle, Panorama lectures by Kumar Murthy, Workshop on subfactors and planar algebra, Defects and heterogeneities in fracture and flow, INCF workshop on neuroinformatics of sensory-motor integration: modeling and imaging from the worm to the human nervous system, Frontiers in HEP. The list of off-site conferences organized by IMSc faculty also continues to be impressive. This
academic year conferences organized outside were: Advanced school on graph algorithms,
Annual conference of the association of computing machinery, IMSC outreach three day workshop on algebra and its application, IMSC three day outreach workshop: introduction to field theory via geometry and number theory, Diversity and complexity: realm of today’s statistical physics, Pathways to Higgs boson, XX DAE-BRNS HEP symposium.
Prof.R Balasubramanian was awarded the Life time achievement award by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India. Prof.Partha Chakraborty was awarded fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India. Prof. Jaya Iyer was elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
Prof.Ronojoy Adhikari has been awarded the Google research award by Google Incorporation, USA. Prof.Saket Saurabh has received the European Research Council award.
This report was compiled through the efforts of an Annual Report Committee comprising of Drs. Purusattam Ray, R. Ramanujam, Anilesh Mohari, Paul Pandian and Usha Devi.