2015 - Annual Report

Abstract

IMSc has started a monograph series this year. We plan to publish at least one book every year. Six students were awarded Ph.D., five students have submitted their Ph.D. theses. One student was awarded M.Phil., degree. Five students were awarded M.Sc. by Research, and a student has submitted master’s thesis under the supervision of our faculty. 16 conferences and workshops were organized at IMSc during 2014-2015. These include Mock Modular Forms and Physics, Aspects of Mathematics, Dynamics Days Asia Pacific 08, Fracture: From Micro-Scale Processes to Macro-Scale Response, Sage Days workshop on combinatorics and representation theory, 18th workshop on elliptic curve cryptology, Master Class in Modular Theory of von Neumann algebras, Indo-UK Workshop on Computational Complexity Theory, Second Conference on Creative Mathematical Sciences Communication, to name but a few. There were 51 lectures/lecture series 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 12 conferences were organized outside including, Annual Foundational School–II, AIS on Schemes and Cohomology, OTOA 2014, FSTTCS, Workshop on New Developments in Exact Algorithms and Lower Bounds. We are proud to note the awards and honors bestowed on our faculty at the individual level. Prof. Partha Sarathi Chakraborty was awarded SwarnaJayanti Fellowship and NASI- SCOPUS Young Scientist Award-2014; Dr. Areejit Samal was awarded Ramanujan Fel- lowship of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), India, a Max Planck DST Mobility Grant for the period 2015-2018, and a Simons Associateship of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy for the period 2015-2020. Dr. C.M. Chandrashekar was awarded Ramanujan Fellowship for the year 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.