2009 - Annual Report

Abstract

The first ever review of our Institute activities was conducted by an International committee of experts representing the three main areas of activity of our Institute. The Institute members presented their work to the committee over a period of one week during which time they also had extensive interactions with the committee. This year continues to be academically productive for the members of our Institute. We organised several conferences and workshops this year. These include Entanglement in Quantum Condensed matter systems, RMS-SMF Indo-French conference on Mathematics, Non-Commutative geometry and Quantum Field theory, A workshop on Logic and social interaction, a workshop on von Neumann algebras ergodic theory and geometric group theory were organized in addition to the NBHM summer nurture programme. IMSc faculty continue to organize conferences off-site. Some of these include the “Beyond the Finite” at Schloss Dagstuhl, the DST-RFBR Indo-Russian workshop on algebra, combinatorics and complexity, perspectives on concurrencty theory a festschrift for Prof Thiyagarajan at CMI, Cipher Retreat II, workshop on cryptography, signalling the arrival of LHC era at ICTP, Indian String Meeting at Pondichery, workshop on concurrency, automata and timed systems, the national seminar on advances in Non-linear systems and Neutrinos in Particle physics and cosmology. The Subashish Nag Memorial lecture was given this year by Prof Rajesh Gopakumar of the Harish-Chandra Research Institute. This report was compiled through the efforts of a Annual Report Committee comprising of Drs Krishna Maddaly, V Arvind, Rahul Sinha, Paul Pandian, Mrs Usha Devi and Mr Parthiban.