1971 - Annual Report

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Ninth Anniversary Symposium The NINTH Anniversary Symposium of the Institute was held for a week starting from 12th January. The Symposium entitled “ Bhabha’s contribution to Modern Physics” was inaugurated by Hon’ble Mr. V. R. Nedunchezhiyan, Minister for Education, Tamil Nadu and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Institute. Dr. Malcolm S. Adiseshiah, formerly acting Director-General of UNESCO delivered the inaugural address on “ Science and National Development”. On this occasion, Dr. A, Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar, formerly Vice Chancellor of the University of Madras, unveiled the portrait of Professor H. J. Bhabha, F.R.S , Professor C. R. Rao, F.R.S, Indian Statistical Institute, released the MATSCIENCE REPORT No. 70 on “The Grammar of Dirac Matrices” by Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan. Among tbe scientists who delivered lectures in the symposium were Professors B. S. Madhava Rao, G. Abraham and Surya Prakash besides Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan, Dr. N. R. Ranganathan, Dr. T. S, Santhanam and Dr. K. K. Mariwalla. Fourth Seminar in Analysis: The Fourth Seminar in Analysis, conducted for a period of ten days at Ootacamund, from February 1, 1971 was inaugurated by Mr. M. A. S. Rajan, Managing Director, Hindustan Photo Films, Ooty. This Seminar was supported by a special grant from the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. The following three lecturers gave a series of lectures on advanced topics: Professor H. G. Gamier Liege University, Belgium; “Topological Vector Spaces-Bornological Spaces ”, Professor Ethienne Liege University, Belgium ! “ Functional Analysis and its Applications to Control Theory ”, Professor K. R. Unni MATSCIENCE, Madras: “On Multiplier Problem ” The participants also presented their original contributions.

Other Conferences: A two day symposium on “ Clifford Algebra, its Generalization and Applications ”, inaugurated by Mr. M. A. S. Rajan, i.a.s., Managing Director, Hindustan Photo Films, was held at Ooty on 30th and 31st of January 1971. Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan gave the inaugural lecture on “Simpli­city and Elegance of Complex and Hypercomplex Numbers ”. Among the participants were Professors T. Nono, Fukuoda University and K. Yamazaki, University of Tokyo, of Japan.

Two MATSCIENCE Symposia were held during the year.

The Symposium on “Cosmology, Gravitation and Applications to Particle Theory” was held in Bangalore during Nov. 5-9, 1971. Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan inaugurated the symposium and presented a paper on “instein as a Natural Completion of Newton ”. Participants from various universities and research institutions presented papers on their recent work. The Symposium on “ Fourier Optics, Lasers and Holography ” was held at the Institution of Engineers, Mysore between 11-15, Nov. 1971. It was the first symposium in coherent optics in the country. Twenty one participants from various universities and research institutions presented papers on their original work. Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan, inaugurated the symposium and presented a paper on “Light from Newton to Feynman ”. A one-day symposium on ‘ Fifty years of Mathematical Education in India’ was held at MATSCIENCE on 29th December, 1971. Dr. Malcom S. Adiseshiah inaugurated the seminar. This seminar was organised by Professor Alladi Ramakrishnan, at the suggestion of Professor S. R. Ranganathan, in collaboration with the Association of Mathematical Teachers of India (AMTI) to commemorate the birth centenary of Professor V. Ramaswamy Iyer, founder of the Indian Mathematical Society. Participants from several institutions and universities, besides member of Matscience, spoke on various aspects of Mathematics and its mode of teaching. Mastech Conferences: The THIRD of the series of conferences sponsored by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, entitled " Statistical Mechanics and its Applications to Science and Technology ” was held at National Aeronautical Laboratory.

Bangalore for a week from January 24, 1971. The following papers were adjudged to be the best papers presented at the conference : R. Sridhar (with R. Pratap); Body Instabilities in a Magnetoactive Plasma (Paper presented by R. Sridbar) Dipan K. Ghosh (with A.L.Davalos)A Functional Integral Approach Ising-Heisenberg Linear Chain (Paper presented by D. K. Ghosh) Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan, Director, MATSCIENCE and convener of the conference presented the MASTECH award to Mr. R. Sridhar of MATSCIENCE and Dr. D. K. Ghosh of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay. The FOURTH of the abjve series entitled ‘‘Functional Analysis and its Applications to Science and Technology ” was held at NAL, Bangalore for four days from 14th September 1971. The following papers were adjudged to be the best papers presented at the conference! K. C. Das : Extrema of the Rayleigh Quotient and Normal Behaviour of an Operator. M. R. Subrahmanya: On Simultaneous Chebyshev Approximation. Prof. Alladi Ramakrishnan, Director, MATSCIENCE and convener of the conference presented the award to Mr. M. R Subrahmanya of MATSCIENCE and Mr. K. C. Das of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.