1977 - Annual Report

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Fifteenth Anniversary: The fifteenth anniversary of the institute was celebrated on the 24th January 1977. Shri R. V. Subrahmanian, Adviser to the Governor of Tamil Nadu presided over the celebration and the Director of the institute presented the annual report. Professor Malcolm S. Adiseshiah, Vice-Chancellor of the Madras University delivered the anniversary address in which he announced the formation of the Joint council of Matscience and Ramanujan Institute for pure and applied mathematics with Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan as Chairman. The fifteenth anniversary symposium was conducted for two days from 24th and 25th January, 1977. Professors T. Kailath (from Stanford University, U.S.A.) P. M. Mathews, V. Devanathan (both from the University of Madras), V. K. Thankappan (from University of Calicut) and S. Venkatraman (M.I.T. Midras) participated in the symposium besides the academic members of the institute. Professor J. Bardeen who has the unique honour of getting the Nobel prize twice, paid a visit to the institute during the symposium and had discussions with the members. Conference on “ Mathematics in Social, Economic and Life Sciences ": Matscience conducted a conference on Mathematics in Social, Economic and Life Sciences from the 4th to 7th March 1977 at Mysore. The conference was inaugurated by Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan. In his inaugural address the Director traced the development of queueing theory and observed that it may be necessary to modify the conceptual basis of probability theory in treating systems which are endowed with volition or free will. He also stressed the need for interdisciplinary seminars. About 35 participants from different parts of the country and from different research organisations presented their work at the conference. The proceedings of the conference has been published as Matscience Report. Conference on “ Mathematical Analysis and Applications ”: Matscience conducted a conference on “ Mathematical Analysis and Applications” for four days from the 7th to the 10th September, 1977 in Mysore. Inaugurating the conference Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan observed that such conferences foster the creative endeavours by young researchers. During his inaugural address he gave the new concept of exterior relative velocity in the special theory of relativity. More than forty original papers were presented by the participants from all over India. Dr. R. Jagannathan who worked for his Ph.D. degree under the guidance of Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan was awarded the gold medal for the best thesis submitted during 1976-77 in the University of Madras.