2006 - Annual Report

Abstract

The Institute members were honoured for their distinctive contributions. Prof. R. Balasubramanian was conferred the ‘Padma Shri’ by the Govt. of India, Prof. Kapil Paranjape received the ‘Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award’ for 2005 from the CSIR and Dr. Gautam Menon was awarded the ‘Swarna Jayanti Fellowship’ by the DST. This year the Institute organized and hosted “the 6th National Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry”, “Perspectives in Mathematics”, the month long “The IMSc Complex Systems School” and the “Indian Neutrino Observatory Interaction Meeting”. IMSc also co-sponsored “Indo-Israeli workshop on Condensed Matter Physics”, “25th Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FST&TCS)”, “International Workshop on Noncommutative Geometry and Quantum Physics” and “National Conference on Non-linear Systems and Dynamics”. The Subhashis Nag Memorial Lecture and The Institute Seminar Week are an annual feature of our activities. This year’s Nag Memorial Lecture was delivered by Prof. Bernard De Wit, Institute for Theoretical Physics and Spinoza Institute, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. The Institute has also participated in several national and international collaborative projects the details of which are given inside the report. This report has been compiled through the efforts of a committee consisting of Drs. G. Date, Gautam Menon, R. Rajesh, V. S. Sunder, C. R. Subramanian, and Dr. Paul Pandian (Librarian) together with secretarial assistance from Ms. Usha Devi. Mr. Manja (Registrar) assisted with the photographs.