2016 - Annual Report

Abstract

IMSc has started a monograph series last year, 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’ has been published this year 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. Five students were awarded Ph.D., and three students have submitted their Ph.D. theses. Four students were awarded M.Sc. by Research, and two students have submitted their master’s theses under the supervision of our faculty. 15 conferences and workshops were organized at IMSc during 2015-2016. These include, ‘Discussion Meeting on New Scientific Approaches to Understanding the Indus Valley Phe- nomenon’, ‘FACETS 2015’, ‘Enriching Mathematics Education’, ‘ATMW Analytic Number Theory’, ‘Teacher Enrichment Workshop on Engineering Mathematics’, ‘3rd Workshop and Conference on Modeling Infectious Diseases’, ‘A conference in Number Theory’, ‘3rd Indo- French conference in Mathematics’, ‘Nag Memorial Endowment Lecture-2016’, ‘Advanced Instructional School in Operator Theory/Algebras’, ‘School and Conference on Quantum Disordered Systems’, ‘Friction and Fracture: Bridging the Scales’, ‘Open Source Library Software (Koha) and RFID Integration for DAE Libraries’, ‘ATM Workshop on Probability and Representation Theory’, ‘Frontiers in High Energy Physics’, to name but a few. There were 51 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.

This academic year 11 conferences were organized outside including, ‘Advanced Foundational School II’ , ‘Advanced Instructional School In Analytic Number Theory’, ‘ Summer School on Quantum Correlation: Foundation, Information Processing and Various Applications ’, ‘To Be Announced! Synthesis of Epistemic Protocols’, ‘50 years of Narasimhan-Seshadri Theorem’, ‘Mathematical Aspects of Computer and Information Sciences’, ‘Complex Geom- etry and Operator Theory’, ‘XXVII IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics’, ‘Physics Training and Talent Search (PTTS) Workshop’, ‘Soft Matter Young Investigators Meet III’, and ‘Science at the Sabha’. We are proud to note the awards and honors bestowed on our faculty at the individual level. Shrihari Gopalakrishna was elected as a Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and The Kavli Foundation, USA, 2015; D.S. Nagaraj was awarded Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences, India, for the year 2015; Amritanshu Prasad was awarded Swarna- jayanti Fellowship, for 2016, by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India; V.S. Sunder was awarded Distinguished Faculty Award of HBNI on its completion of 10 years of existence, by the Homi Bhabha National Institute, during 2015. 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.