IMS Prizes :

Award of Various Prizes for Research Paper Presentation

In order to encourage and inspire the young and budding research workers, the Society holds, during its Annual Conferences, a Special Session of Paper Presentation Competition for various Prizes to be awarded to the best research papers presented. This Special Session is held as a part of the Academic Programme with no other parallel session.

The Council of the Indian Mathematical Society, at its meeting held at the Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil – 626190 in December 2009, considered the inclusion of several other mathematical areas and regrouping of the same for the Six IMS prizes, AMU Prize and V M Shah Prize being awarded by the Society, and resolved that the following grouping of mathematical areas for these prizes be implemented with immediate effect. Thus, from now onwards, following will be the areas and the grouping for these prizes :

1. IMS Prize : Discrete Mathematics (Combinatorics, Graph Theory, Poset and related areas).

2. IMS Prize : Algebraic Geometry, Geometry, Topology, Algebraic Topology, Differential Geometry and related areas.

3. IMS Prize : Measure Theory, Probability Theory,Stochastic Processes,and related areas.

4. IMS Prize : Differential/Integral/Functional equations and inequalities, Numerical Analysis and related areas.

5. IMS Prize : Solid Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Electro magnetic Theory, Magneto-Hydrodynamics, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Relativity and related areas.

6. IMS Prize : Operations Research, Optimization, Computational Mathematics, Information Technology, Biomathematics, History of Mathematics and related areas.

AMU Prize : Algebra, Number Theory, Lattice Theory, Set Theory, Logic and related areas.

V.M. Shah Prize : Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, Functional Analysis, Harmonic Analysis, Approximation Theory, Special Functions and related areas.

Three / Four judges are appointed by the Council for “Paper Presentation Competition” for deciding the award of various Prizes. Each of these eight prizes listed above carries a Certificate and a cash amount of Rs.1000/-.

For the award of these prizes, FOLLOWING CONDITIONS APPLY:

1. The candidate must be a member of the Society for being eligible for the award of any of the above Prizes.

2. The upper age limit of a candidate for any of the above awards for a particular year is 40 years as on December 31 of that year.

3. (a) The paper to be presented for the competition has to be under single authorship.

(b) Independent work at the post-doctoral level is preferred.

(c) The work must have been carried out in India.

(d) Stress will be on both, quality of research as well as performance during the presentation.

Note : One who is already awarded a prize in a certain area in the past is not expected to participate in the competition for the prize in the same area .

• All the Heads of the Departments / Institutions and the Research Supervisors are requested to encourage their research workers for participation in this competition.

The Proceedure to participate :

Authors intending to present a paper for the award of any of the above eight prizes must

1. send TWO copies of full paper along with the abstract in triplicate (not exceeding 250 words) to

Professor Satya Deo,
Academic secretary,
Harischandra Research Institute
Chhatnag Road, Jhusi, Allahabad - 211 019 (UP).
Email : < vcseo@yahoo.com >


so as to reach there not later than 31st October of that year.

2. indicate the name of the prize as also the Area and the group in which the paper is intended to be presented at the top of each copy of the paper and the abstract.

3. append to the complete paper a copy of the biodata/c.v. including full name, address, research experience, list of publications, along with the date of birth ( duly supported by the attested copy of the High School Leaving Certificate).

For further information or clarification, write to :

Professor V.M. Shah
General Secretary, IMS,
Department of Mathematics,
Faculty of Science,
The M. S. University of Baroda,
Vadodara - 390 002 (Gujarat).