2004 - Annual Report

Abstract

The Institute conducted the “Fifth SERC School on the Physics of Disordered Systems”; a two day meeting on “Operator Algebras” and the “third IMSc Update Meeting: Automata and Verification”. The Institute co-sponsored the conference on “Geometry Inspired by Physics”; the “Conference in Analytic Number Theory”; the fifth “International Conference on General Relativity and Cosmology” held at Cochin and the discussion meeting on “Field-theoretic aspects of gravity-IV” held at Pelling, Sikkim. The Institute faculty participated in full strength in the AMS conference in Bangalore. The NBHM Nurture Programme, The Subhashis Nag Memorial Lecture and The Institute Seminar Week have become an annual feature. This year’s Nag Memorial Lecture was delivered by Prof. Ashoke Sen from the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad. The Institute has also participated in several national and international collaborative projects: the project on “Automata and concurrency: Syntactic methods for verification”, the joint project of IMSc, C-DAC and DST to bring out CD-ROMS on “The life and works of Srinivasa Ramanujan”, the X th plan project “Indian Lattice Gauge Theory Initiative (ILGTI)”, the “India-based neutrino observatory” project, the DRDO project on “Novel materials for applications in molecular electronics and energy storage devices” the DFG-INSA project on “The spectral theory of Schrödinger operators”, and the Indo-US project on “Studies in quantum statistics”. The cluster computer being built under the ILGTI project has already reached a performance of 539 GFlops with only 81 nodes and is expected to compete for a slot in the top 500 supercomputers in the world. The full cluster posted a performance of 959 GFlops getting a world rank of 257 in June 2004. 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. The photographs have been contributed by administration and Drs. Rahul Basu, N. D. Hari Dass, Gautam Menon, M. V. N. Murthy.