P. L. Bhatnagar Memorial Prize



To encourage the participants at Mathematical Olympiads , The Society instituted in 1987 an annual prize in the memory of the late Professor P. L. Bhatnagar, who did pioneering work in organizing Olympiads in the country, out of an endowment made by the P. L. Bhatnagar Memorial Fund Committee . The Prize is awarded every year during the annual conference of the Indian Mathematical Society to the top scorer of the Indian Team for IMO provided he/she wins a medal. ( From 1987 to 1990 the Prize was awarded to the top scorer at the INMO). The Prize consists of a Cash Award of Rs. 1000/- and a Certificate.

The details of the awardees so are as follows :

Sr. No. Year The Awardee Place
1 1987 Amol Shreerang Dighe. Mumbai.
2 1988 R. Muralidhar. Mumbai.
3 1989 Archisman Rudra and
R. Venkatraman
Kolkata and
Mumbai.
4 1990 Rudra Shyam Bandhu. Kolkata.
5 1991 Moses Samon Charikar. Mumbai.
6 1992 Kaustubh Namjoshi. Pune.
7 1993 Kaustubh Namj Pune.
8 1994 Arvind Sankar. Mumbai.
9 1995 Subhash Ajit Khot. Ichalkaranji.
10 1996 Ajai C. Ramadoss. Bangalore.
11 1997 Rishi Raj. Ranchi.
12 1998 Abhinav Kumar. Jamshedpur.
13 1999 Vaibhav Vaish. Lucknow.
14 2000 Vaibhav Vaish,
Samik Basu and
Swarnendu Datta.
Lucknow,
Kolkata and
Kolkata.
15 2001 Abhay Kumar Jha. Kolkata.
16 2002 Nikhil A. Savale. Pune.
17 2003 Vipul Naik. Delhi.
18 2004 Anand Deopurkar and
Vipul Naik.
Pune and
Delhi.
19 2005 Abhishek H. Dang. Pune.
20 2006 Apurva K. Nakade. Nagpur.
21 2007 Abhishek H. Dang. Pune.
22 2008 Anirudh Gurjale and
Utkarsh Tripathi.
Hyderabad and
Kanpur.
23 2009 Sameer Wagh. Pune.