Abstract:
This Conference, the 37th of a series of Conferences conducted by MATSCIENCE on various topics in mathematical sciences, was inaugurated by Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan. In the inaugural address Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan recalled his association with Professor H.J.Bhabha three decades
ago when they were engaged in research work in the theory of cosmic ray cascades. It was Bhabha who first realised that this stochastic problem involved a new feature, the random distribution of discrete number of particles in continuous energy space. After two years of effort Ramakrishnan was
able to formulate the theory of product densities and publish his results at Hanchester through famous English statisticians Bartlett and Kendall. This theory has now become a common
currency under the title of Point Processes with wide applications in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Operations
Research, Engineering etc.
