1972 - Annual Report

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President’s visit: On 23rd December 1972, the Institute had the pleasure and privilage of welcoming His Excellency Shri V. V. Giri, the President of India, who inaugurated the Eleventh Anniversary Celebraions of the Institute. The President released the book " L-matrix theory or the Grammar of Dirac matrices ” by Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan. His Excellency Shri K. K. Shah, Governor of Tamil Nadu presided over the function. On this occasion Hon’ble Thiru V. R. Nedunchezhiyan, Minister for Education, Government of Tamil Nadu and Chairman, Board of Governors of the Institute unveiled the portraits of DIRAC and PAULI and Professor J. H. Williamson of University of York, England, delivered a speech.

Tenth Anniversary Symposium: The TENTH Anniversary Symposium of the Institute was held for a week starting from 8tb January 1972. The symposium entitled “Einstein- his contributions to physical, mathematical and philosophical thought ” was inaugurated by His Excellency K. K. Shah, Governor of Tamil Nadu. On this occasion Hon’ble Mr. V. R. Nedunchezhiyan Minister for Education, Tamil Nadu and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Institute unveiled the portrait of Einstein. Professor Gordon L. Shaw, University of California, Irvine U.S.A. delivered the inaugural address. Among the scientists who delivered lectures in the syposium were Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan, Drs. Eric A. Lord, N. R. Ranganathan, V. Radhakrishnan, K. H. Mariwalla, K. Srinivasa Rao, A. R. Prasanna, R. Sridhar and T. S. Shankara.

Twin Matscience Conferences: A twin MATSCIENCE Conference entitled “ Symposium on Matrix theory ” and “ Fifth seminar in analysis ” was inaugurated by Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan at Bangalore on 11th March 1972. Dr. McCrea Hazlett, Counsellor for cultural affairs, American Embassy, New Delhi released the Proceedings of the Conference on Clifford Algebra, its generalization and Applications ”. The conference on Matrix Theory was attended by lecturers and professors of the post-graduate departments of Mathematics and physics from various college in South India.