2005 - Annual Report

Abstract

This year saw an increase in the number of scientific meetings organized or co-sponsored by the Institute. The International conference, “Indocrypt-2004” was inaugurated by His excellency Dr. A. P. J. Kalam through video-conferencing. IMSc also held the “DAE Golden Jubilee Colloquium Series” to mark the 50 th anniversary of DAE. In addition, the Institute conducted a “Workshop on Cryptography”, “Perspectives in Nonlinear Dynamics” - a satellite meeting STATPHYS-22, “SERC Preparatory School on High Energy Physics”, the “24 th FSTTCS Conference”, “Workshop on The Economy as a Complex System” and a “School on Parallel Computing and Clusters”, an activity centered around the teraflop supercomputer, KABRU. The Institute co-sponsored the conference on “Operator theory, quantum probability and noncommutative geometry”, the “Symposium on Algebraic Groups in honour of Prof V. Lakshmibai” and the “Workshop on Theoretical High Energy Physics (THEP-I)”. 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. Clifford Earle from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. The Institute has also participated in several national and international collaborative projects the details of which are given inside the report. The Institute has become a part of Homi Bhabha National Institute. The Institute members have played a role as members of the Board of Studies in Mathematics and in Physics. The Institute members have also served as the members of the Sectional Committees of the Indian National Science Academy and the Fellowship Scrutinizing Committee of the National Academy of Sciences and Council Member of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Scientific Committee of Indo-French Institute of Mathematics. This report has been compiled through the efforts of a committee consisting of Drs. G. Date, Parameswaran Sankaran, C. R. Subramanian, and Mr. Paul Pandian (Librarian) together with secretarial assistance from Ms. Usha Devi. Mr. Manja (Registrar) assisted with the photographs as well as with the preparation of the summary version of this detailed report.