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Report
The 22nd Annual Conference of Ramanujan Mathematical Society held during June 6-8, 2007 in the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal was supported by the National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM), TEQIP of NITK, Surathkal and The Clay Mathematics Foundation of USA.
There were six Plenary Talks, four parallel symposia, a Public Lecture and Contributed Paper Presentation Sessions. The following was the schedule of the Plenary Talks:
| 1. |
M. S. Narasimhan |
TIFR Centre, IISc, Bangalore |
President’s Address: Arakelov bundles on arithmetic curves |
2. |
S. M. Bhatwadekar |
TIFR, Mumbai |
Prof. C. S. Venkatraman Memorial Endowment Lecture: Algebraic vector bundles over smooth real affine varieties |
3. |
Somenath Mukherjee |
NAL, Bangalore |
Prof. M.N. Gopalan Endowment Lecture: The Best-fit Paradigm of FEA; Shadows of the Exact |
4. |
S. Ramasubramanian |
ISI, Bangalore |
Large Deviations |
5. |
Sharad Sane |
University of Mumbai |
Prof. W.H. Abdi Memorial Endowment Lecture: Symmetric, Quasi-Symmetric Designs and Strongly Regular Graphs |
6. |
Harish Sheshadri |
I.I.Sc., Bangalore |
Prof. J. N. Kapur Endowment Lecture: The Poincare Conjecture |
There were four parallel symposia on the following topics on all the three days:
Symposium 1: Probability Theory chaired by Prof. Abhay Bhatt, ISI, New Delhi
Other Participants:
1. A. Krishnamoorthy, Cochin University of Science and Technology
2. Anindya Goswami, I.I.Sc., Bangalore
3. Bhupendra Gupta, I.I.T., Kanpur
4. Krishanu Maulik, I.S.I., Kolkata
5. Nabin Kumar Jana, Bijoy Krishna Girls’ College, West Bengal
6. S. Ravi, University of Mysore
7. Josep Lluis Sole, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
8. K. Suresh Kumar, IIT, Mumbai
9. Rahul Roy, ISI, New Delhi
Symposium 2: Complex Analysis and Teichmuller Theory chaired by Prof. Ravi S. Kulkarni, IIT, Bombay.
Other Participants:
1. A.P. Singh, University of Jammu
2. R. R. Simha, University of Mumbai (Retd.)
3. Indrajit Lahiri, University of Kalyani, W.Bengal
Symposium 3: Arithmetic and Geometry chaired by Prof. Kapil Paranjpe, I.M.Sc., Chennai
Other Participants:
1. Chandan S. Dalawat, HRI, Allahabad
2. Ramesh Srikantan, TIFR Centre, B’lore
3. Arvind Nair, TIFR, Mumbai
4. V. Suresh, University of Hyderabad
5. C. S. Rajan, TIFR 6. Suryaramana, HRI, Allahabad
Symposium 4: Teaching of Functional Analysis chaired by Prof. Subashbhai Bhatt, Sardar Patel University, Guj.
Other Participants:
1. TSSRK Rao, ISI, Bangalore
2. BV Rajarama Bhat, ISI, Bangalore
3. S.H.Kulkarni, IIT, Chennai
4. Pradipta Bandopadhyaya ISI, Kolkata
5. V. Muruganandam, University of Pondicherry
6. Kesavan, IMSc, Chennai
A special feature of this conference was a Public Talk on “Euler, the Master of us all” by Prof. R. Balasubramanian, Director, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai (one among the very few top-most Indian Mathematicians in the world). This talk was organized specially to mark the 300th Birth Anniversary of the famous Mathematician, Euler. This special lecture was attended by the delegates of the conference as well as many of the faculty and students of NITK. The talk was perceived by the audience as one of the very unique and informative talks.
There were two parallel sessions each of Contributed Paper Presentation on June 6 and June 7, 2007. A total of 35 papers were submitted for presentation; but due to some unexpected events, especially in the North India, some of them could not reach the conference venue. Finally, 16 papers were presented. Of the papers presented, four papers were given the Best Paper Award. These four papers were authored by Kuldeep Singh Charak, Vasudevrao Allu, Ms. Sanjeevani Gharge and P. Raghunath.
There were 80 delegates apart from the invited speakers and the executive committee members of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society. |
