2014 - Annual Report

Abstract

Six students were awarded Ph.D., Four students have submitted their Ph.D. theses and two students were awarded M.Sc., by Research. Three students have submitted master’s theses under the supervision of our faculty. 19 conferences and workshops were organized at IMSc during 2013-2014. These include Discussion Meeting in Topology, Brainstorming Meeting on Econophysics: Science for the Economy, 13th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS13), One Per Cent: Mathematics workshop for students of classes XI and XII, joint IMSc-ISI workshop on Subfactors, Games of Imperfect Information via Automata and Logic, Discussion meeting on statistical physics of fracture, 1st IMSc School on Quantum Information, Advanced school on Parameterized and Kernelization (ASPAK)to name but a few. There were 58 lectures/lecture series conducted at the Institute during the reporting period. In addition, 4 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 9 conferences were organized outside namely, ‘Satellite Meeting on Quantum Correlation and its application in communication and cryptography, International Workshop on Optical Quantum Information, Advanced Instructional School in Number Theory, Round Table on Complex Systems, India-France Technology Summit, Winter School on Measure Theory and Functional Analysis, National Strings Meeting, Recent Advances in High Energy Physics (Sponsored by National Science Academies), Conference on Operator and spectral theory, and Operator algebras and non-commutative geometry’. The awards and honors bestowed on our faculty at the individual level. Prof. Sanoli Gun was awarded SERB Women excellence award for 2013, by the Science and Engineering Research Board, DST. This report was compiled through the efforts of an Annual Report Committee comprising of Drs. Purusattam Ray, C. R. Subramanian, Pralay Chatterjee, Paul Pandian and Usha Devi.