2017 - Annual Report

Abstract

It is noted that an increasing number of students in the country are benefiting from our outreach programmes (for instance, ‘Enriching Collegiate Education’, ‘Teachers’ Enrichment Workshop’, ‘Enriching Mathematics Education’, ‘CSPathshala Teachers Workshop’, ‘Foldscope Workshop for TNSF’, ‘Mathematics and Craft Teachers Workshop’, “International Day of ‘Women and Girls in Science’ for School girls”, ‘VIGYANshaala’ and ‘Science at the Sabha’) and we are proud of the efforts of our faculty, both at an individual and at institutional level in this regard. IMSc has started a monograph series during the year 2014, with a plan to publish at least one book every year. A book entitled “Problems in the Theory of Modular Forms” as ‘IMSc Lecture Notes - 1’ was published by last year. This is followed by two more books during the year 2016, such as, “Integral points on algebraic varieties-An introduction to Diophantine Geometry by Pietro Corvaja”, and “Hilbert’s Seventh Problem: Solutions and Extensions by Robert Tubbs”, as IMSc Lecture Notes series 2 and 3 respectively.

Academic productivity of the members of the Institute has remained high. There were several significant publications reported in national and international journals and our faculty have authored a few books as well. Thirteen students were awarded Ph.D., and seven students have submitted their Ph.D. theses. Three students were awarded M.Sc. by Research, and two students have submitted their master’s theses under the supervision of our faculty.

Several conferences and workshops were organized by IMSc during 2016-2017. These in- clude, ‘Network Theory: Conceptual Advances and Practical Applications’, ‘Automatic Pre- sentations of Graphs and Numbers - A One day Workshop’, ‘Aspects of Gene and Cellular Regulation (AOGCR2016)’, ‘BioCS16: Mini-meeting on the Computer Science / Biology interface’, ‘2nd IMSc School on Quantum Information’, ‘Plasticity and Failure in Disordered Materials’ and ‘Workshop on Arithmetic Complexity’, to name but a few. There were 55 lectures (lecture courses) conducted at the Institute during the reporting period. In addition, 3 lecture courses were given at Chennai Mathematical Institute for their National Undergraduate Programme.

The list of off-site conferences organized by IMSc faculty also continues to be impressive. This academic year nine conferences were organized outside including, ‘Advanced Instructional School In Analytic Number Theory’, ‘A conference on Arithmetic Geometry and L- functions’, ‘Nurture 2016’, ‘Symposium on Algebraic Groups, TIMC-AMS Conference’, ‘Recent Advances in Operator Theory and Operator Algebras’, ‘Seshadri Constant’, ‘Academies’ Lecture Workshop series’, ‘9th Workshop on Methods for Modalities’. We are proud to note the awards and honors bestowed on our faculty at the individual level. Vijay Kodiyalam was awarded “Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences”, for 2017, by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. Gautam I. Menon was awarded “Outstanding Reviewer” Award - Reports on Progress in Physics (2016), for 2017, by the Institute of Physics, UK. D.S. Nagaraj was awarded “Fellow”, for 2017, by the “Indian National Science Academy”. K.N. Raghavan was awarded “Fellow”, for 2016, by the “National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad”. Samal, Areejit was awarded “Max Planck Partner Group”, for 2016, by the Max Planck Society (MPG). This report was compiled through the efforts of the IMSc Annual Report Committee com- prising of Drs. C. R. Subramanian, Shrihari Gopalakrishna, Pralay Chatterjee, Paul Pandian and Usha Devi.