THE INDIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
76th Annual Conference (December 27-30, 2010), Saradar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat - 395 007, Gujarat, India.
Tentative Daily Academic Programme:
(The details of Symposia appear at the end of the programme).

MONDAY, DECEMBER 27 , 2010.

Time Programme Speakers / Organizers Venue
9.00 to 10.15 Registration - Main Hall
10.30 to 12.00 Inauguration Chief Guest :
Prof. M. S. Narasimhan.
Main Hall
12.00 to 12.15 HIGH - TEA. - Near Main Hall.
12.15 to 13.15 Presidential Address
(Technical)
R. Sridharan.
(CMI, Chennai)
Chair : V M Shah.
Main Hall
13.15 p.m. to 14.30 LUNCH-BREAK - Staff-Club.
14.30 p.m. to 15.25 Plenary Lecture M. S. Narasimhan.
(IISc, Bangalore)
Chair : N. K. Thakare.
Main Hall
15.30 to 16.25 24th P. L. Bhatnagar Memorial Award Lecture.
Fourier Series, Arithmetic and Control Theory
Shiv Shankar.
(CMI, Chennai)
Chair : R. Sridharan.
Main Hall.
16.30 to 16.45 TEA - BREAK. - Near Main Hall.
16.45 to 20.00 Presentations of Papers for Prizes:
IMS (6 Prizes), VMS (1 Prize), AMU (1 Prize).

Judges : Main Hall.
20.00 DINNER. - Staff Club

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2010.

VENUES :
Main Hall: Conference Hall near Canteen,
EL: Electrical Seminar hall,
LT-2: Lecture Theater-2,
LT-1: Lecture Theater-1
AMD: Applied Mechanics Seminar Hall

Time Programme Speaker(s) / Organizer(s) Venue
09.00 to 09.55 One hour invited talks in parallel sessions.
V. D. Sharma.
(I I T Bombay, Powai, Mumbai)
Hyperbolic systems of PDEs and the associated wave phenomena
Chair : Girija Jayaraman.

S. K. Khanduja.
(Panjab University, Chandigarh)
Eisenstein and Schonemann Irreducibility criteria: Some Applications and Generalizations
Chair : Mahan Mj.
EL





Main Hall
10.00 to 10.55 21st Srinivasa Ramanujan Memorial Award Lecture
Geometry and dynamics of Kleinian groups
Mahan Mj.
(Ramkrishna Mission Vivekanand University, Belur)
Chair : Satya Deo
Main Hall
11.00 to 11.15 TEA-BREAK. - Near Main Hall
11.15 to 13.45 Symposia
(Two Parallel Sessions)

Convener : Huzoor Khan
(Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh)
Summability Operators and their Applications

Convener : Girija Jayaraman
(IIT Delhi, Delhi)
Modelling in Environmental Fluid Mechanics,



Main Hall



EL
13.45 to 14.30 LUNCH-BREAK. - Staff Club
14.30 to 17.00 Symposia
(Two parallel Sessions)

Convener : T. B. Singh
(Delhi University, Delhi)
Cohomology of transformation groups

Convener : G. N. Prasanna
(IIIT Bangalore)
Mathematics and Information Technology



Main Hall



EL
17.00 to 17.15 TEA-BREAK. - Near Main Hall
17.15 to 17.45 Half an hour invited Talks
(Two Parallel Sessions)

C. S. Rajan
(TIFR, Mumbai)
Chair: Peeyush Chandra

Anupam Singh
(IISER, Pune)
Real and Strongly Real Classes in PGL_n(q) and PSL_n(q)
Chair: Mahan Mj

Main Hall




EL
17.45 to 19.00 Presentations of contributed papers
in 4 parallel sessions.

Sections A, B ;
Chair : M. M. Shikare

Sections C ;
Chair :

Sections D ;
Chair : V.S.Kharat

Sections K, L ;
Chair : P. K. Jain
Main Hall


LT-2


EL


LT-1
19.00 to 20.30 Cultural Programme. - Main Hall
20.30 Conference Dinner. - Staff Club

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29 , 2010.

Time Programme Speakers / Organizers Venue
09.00 to 09.55 21st V. Ramaswamy Aiyer Memorial Award Lecture.
Certain applications of mathematics in path planning
A. Ojha.
(PDPM I I I T, Jabalpur).
Chair : Prof. N. K. Thakare.
Main Hall
10.00 to 12.30 Symposia in Two parallel Sessions.
Convener : Manjul Gupta
(I I T Kanpur, Kanpur)


Convener : K. C. Prasad
(University of Ranchi, Ranchi)
Around Continued Fractions



Main Hall



EL
12.30 to 12.45 TEA-BREAK. - Near Main Hall
12.45 to 13.45 One hour invited talks in parallel sessions.
V. Suresh
(University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad)
Chair : Manjul Gupta.

Madhavan Mukund.
(CMI, Chennai)
Chair :
Main Hall



EL
13.45 to 14.30 LUNCH-BREAK. - Staff Club
14.30 to 17.00 Symposia in Two parallel Sessions.
Convener : P. V. Jain
(R. D. Univedrsity, Jabalpur)
Methods of approximation

Convener : Arun Verma
(University of Ranchi, Ranchi)
special functions and their applications.



Main Hall



EL
17.00 to 17.15 TEA-BREAK. - Near Main Hall
17.15 to 17.45 Half an hour invited Talks
(Two Parallel Sessions)

M. M. Shikare
(University of Pune, Pune)
The element splitting operation for graphs, binary matroids and its applications
Chair: Subhash Bhatt

B. M. Pandeya
(IT, B H U, Varanasi)
Chair: P. K. Jain

Main Hall




EL
17.45 to 19.30 Presentations of contributed papers
in 4 parallel sessions.

Sections E, F, G ;
Chair :

Sections : H, J, K, L ;
Chair :

Sections : M, and remaining papers from sections A to D ;
Chair :

Sections : N, and remaining papers from other sections ;
Chair :
EL


Main Hall


LT-1


LT-2
19.30 DINNER. - Staff Club

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30 , 2010.

Time Programme Speakers / Organizers Venue
09.00 to 09.55 21st Hansraj Gupta Memorial Award Lecture.
C*-algebras, Uniform Banach algebras and a functional analytic meta theorem.
Subhash J. Bhatt.
(S. P. University, V. V. Nagar, Gujarat).
Chair : Prof. M. S. Narasimhan.
Main Hall
10.00 to 10.30 Half an hour invited Talks
(Three Parallel Sessions)

Mahadev Naika
(Central College, Bangalore University, Bangalore)
Recent works on modular equations and its applications
Chair:

R. D. Giri
( )
Chair:

V. K. Katiyar
(I I T Roorkee, Roorkee)
Modeling in Health Care Management Systems
Chair:

Main Hall




EL



LT-2
10.30 to 10.45 TEA-BREAK. - Near Main Hall
10.45 to 12.00 Presentations of Contributed papers
in parallel sessions.
Remaining papers of all sections Main Hall, EL-1 ; EL-2.
12.00 to 12.15 TEA - BREAK. - Near Main Hall.
12.15 to 13.30 IMS General Body Meeting All IMS Members. Main Hall
13.30 to 14.00
Valedictory Function
All deligates Main Hall
14.00 to 14.45 LUNCH-BREAK. - Staff Club


THE DETAILS OF SYMPOSIA.

1. Summability Operators and their Applications:

Speakers :

Huzoor Khan
Abdul Wafi
Shyam Lal
Vijay Gupta
Kalim Raza Kazmi
S. K. Upadhyay
Geetha S. Rao.


2. Modelling in Environmental Fluid Mechanics:

Speakers :

Girija Jayaraman
Swaroop Nandan Bora
S. Gorai
B. V. Rathish Kumar
O. P. Sharma

3. Cohomology of Transformation Groups :

Speakers :

T. B. Singh
Satya Deo
P. Sankaran
H. K. Mukherjee
S. K. Roushan

4. Mathematics and Information Technology:

Speakers :

G. N. Prasanna
Madhavan Mukund
Raja
Sakti Balan

5. Analysis and Operator Theory:

Speakers :

Manjul Gupta
P. K. Jain
M. A. Sofi
TSSRK Rao
M. T. Nair
S. Dutta.

6. Around Continued Fractions:

Speakers :

K. C. Prasad
S. Bhargava
B. B. Bhatachrya
S. P. Singh
S. K. Agarwal
R. K. Das
B. P. Verma.

7. Methods of Approximation :

Speakers :

P. V. Jain
M. Shrivastava
A. Ojha
S. S. Thakur
M. Dube
J. K. Maitra

8. Special Functions and their Applications:

Speakers :

Arun Verma
A. K. Agarwal
D. D. Somshekhar
Vivek Sahai
Mumtaj Ahmad
S. Bhargava
A. Shukla
S Ahmad Ali

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