1980 - Annual Report

Abstract

Eighteenth Anniversary: The Eighteenth Anniversary of the Institute was celebrated on the 21st January 1980. His Excellency Sri Prabhudas Patwari, Governor of Tamil Nadu inaugurated the anniversary symposium and unveiled the portraits of Abdus Salam, David Hilbert and Isaac Newton.

Conference on “Mathematics in Economics, Engineering and Life Sciences”: The Institute conducted a conference on Mathematics in Economics, Engineering and Life Sciences at Mysore during 19th to 23rd February 1980. InauguratihgSthe conference Dr. B. Ramamurthy, the eminent neurosurgeon explained the complicated structure and functions of the human brain and outlined the advance made so far in understanding the mysteries of the brain. About thirty scientists from all over the country took part in this conference.

Second Conference on “Number Theory”: Matscience conducted the second conference on “Number Theory” from 3rd to 7th August 1980 at the Hindustan Photo Films Guest House, Ooty. The conference was inaugurated by Mr. P. R. S. Rao, Managing Director, Hindustan Photo Films Ltd- Professor K. Ramachandra from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay and Dr. Krishnaswami Alladi, Hildebrandt Research Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA) were the principal speakers at the conference besides twenty five number theorists from all over India who presented their original contributions relating to the theme of the conference.

Conference on “Stochastic Processes and Applications”: The Institute conducted a conference on “Stochastic Processes and Applications’, at the Hindustan Photo Films Guest House, Ooty from 11th to 14th Dec. 1980. Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan who inaugurated the conference also gave a series of lectures on some significant developments in !he field, especially the recent concepts like ‘activity’, ‘discrepancy’ and ‘duality’ which deal with the ‘direction’ of a stochastic process, The conference focussed its attention on the development of stochastic processes in recent years strengthened by the work of Australian and Californian schools based on the theory of Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan. Twenty five scientists and mathematicians from, several research institutes and Universities! all over India participated in the conference.