IMS Memorial Award Lectures :

There are Five memorial award lectures each of one hour duration which are delivered as a part of the Academic Programme during the Annual Conferences of the Society,

P.L.Bhatnagar Memorial Award Lecture:

A memorial lecture to be delivered by a distinguished mathematician at the Annual Conferences of the Society was instituted in 1987 in the memory of late Professor P.L. Bhatnagar







The details of the Lectures organized so far are as follows:

Sr. No. Year The Speaker Topic
1 1987 N. Mukunda Mathematics and Physics of Quantum Mechanics.
2 1988 J. V. Narlikar
(Pune)
Applied Mathematics : A No Man's Land ?
3 1989 V. Laxmikanthan. -
4 1990 J. N. Kapur
(IIT Kanpur, Kanpur)
Maximum Entropy Principle.
5 1991 H. C. Khare
(Allahabad University, Allahabad)
Thermosolutal Instability of Magnetohydrodynamic Flow through Porous Medium.
6 1992 D. K. Sinha
(Jadavpur University, Kolkata)
Some Aspects of Theoretical Scenario in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
7 1993 P. C. Vaidya
(Gujarat University, Ahmedabad).
Concept of Time.
8 1994 Karmeshu
(JNU, Delhi)
Stochastic Models of Innovation Diffusion and Technology Substitution.
9 1995 A. S. Gupta
(IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur)
Thermoconvective Waves.
10 1996 R. K. Jain Integrated Mathematics.
11 1997 Mihir Banerjee A Mathematical Investigation of Experimental Observations.
12 1998 S. K. Malik Patterns and Chaos in Mathematics.
13 1999 A. C. Srivastava. Historical Development of Fluid Dynamics and Mass Diffusions.
14 2000 Sarva Jit Singh
(Rohtak)
Deformation of a Stratified Half-Space by Surface Loads and Buried Sources.
15 2001 Piyush Chandra
(IIT Kanpur, Kanpur)
Peristaltic Transport : A Review of Analytical Study.
16 2002 R. C. Srivastava. Converging Shock in the Welfare of Mankind.
17 2003 B. D. Bandopadhyaya -
18 2004 Renuka Ravindran
(IISc Bangalore)
Computation of Solutions of Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations.
19 2005 P. L. Sachdeva
(IISc Bangalore)
Nonlinear Science - An Overview
20 2006 Phoolan Prasad
(IISc Bangalore)
P L Bhatnagar and BGK Model
21 2007 T. M. Karade
(Nagpur).
Relativistic Consideration for Modified
Newtonian Dynamics (MOND)
22 2008 G. S. Srivastava
(IIT Roorkee, Roorkee).
Entire Function Extensions of Continuous Functions
- a Brief Survey
23 2009 Girija Jayraman
(IIT Delhi, Delhi).
Mathematical Challanges in Modelling the Cardiovascular
Flows and associated Clinical Proceedures
24 2010 Shiva Sankar
(CMI, Chennai).
Fourier Series, Arithmetic and Control Theory.

V. Ramaswamy Aiyer Memorial Award Lecture:

A memorial lecture to be delivered by a distinguished mathematician at the Annual Conferences of the Society was instituted in 1990 in the memory of Society's founder father late Shri V. Ramaswamy Aiyer







The details of the lectures organized so far are as follows:

Sr. No. Year The Awardee Topic
1 1990 M. K. SINGAL
(Meerut University, Meerut).
Excitement and Relevance of Mathematics.
2 1991 R. S. MISHRA
(BHU, Varanasi).
The Unidirectional Thought Process of Mathematicians.
3 1992 R. P. AGARWAL
(Lucknow University, Lucknow).
Ramanujan's Generalized Hypergeometric Series.
4 1993 K. R. PARTHASARATHY
(ISI Delhi, Delhi).
Classical Markov Processes from a Quantum probabilistic Point of view.
5 1994 V. KRISHNAMURTHY
(BITS, Pilani).
Cultural Aspects of Mathematics Teaching.
6 1995 (Mrs.) ASHA RANI SINGAL
(Meerut University, Meerut).
Mathematics : An unexpected Pleasure.
7 1996 (Miss) S. P. ARYA
(Maitreyi College, Delhi).
Trends in Topology.
8 1997 GOVIND SWARUP Puzzles of the Universe.
9 1998 V. M. SHAH
(The M. S. University, Vadodara).
A Peep in to the Grass Roots of all Mathematical Education.
10 1999 SUNDAR LAL
(BRA University, Agra).
The Mathematics of Sharing Secrets.
11 2000 USHA BHOSLE
(TIFR, Mumbai).
Vector Bundles and Principal Bundles.
12 2001 S. P. SINGH Fixed Points Theorems and its Applications to Approximation Theorems.
13 2002 V. G. TIKEKAR Some Small Pearls in Mathematical Works.
14 2003 B. K. Lahiri
(Kalyani University, Kalyani)
Uniformly Normed Structures.
15 2004 V. K. Balchandran
(Madras University, Chennai).
Algebraic Topology : Some Historic Perspectives.
16 2005 S. Parvathi
(Madras University, Chennai).
"Schur-Weyl Duality" for a Larger Class of Algebras.
17 2006 S. S. Bhooshnurmath
(Karnatak University, Dharwad).
Birth and Development of Hyperbolic Metric
and its impact on 21st Century Mathematics
18 2007 Dinesh Singh
(Delhi University, Delhi)
Harmonic Analysis on the Unit Circle :
A Personal Perspective.
19 2008 S. Arumugam
(Kalaslingam University, TN)
Domination and coloring in graphs.
20 2009 M. S. Chaudhary
(Shivaji University, Kolhapur)
Transform Analysis on some Distribution Spaces
21 2010 A. Ojha
(DPMIIIT, Jabalpur)
Certain applications of mathematics in path planning.

Srinivas Ramanujan Memorial Award Lecture:

A memorial lecture to be delivered by a distinguished mathematician at the Annual Conferences of the Society was instituted in 1990 in the memory of the mathematical genious Shrinivasa Ramanujan.







The details of the lectures organised so far are as follows:

Sr. No. Year The Awardee Topic
1 1990 R. P. Agarwal
(Lucknow University, Lucknow).
Ramanujan's Last Gift.
2 1991 M. S. Raghunathan
(TIFR, Mumbai).
On the Congruence Subgroup Problem.
3 1992 S. Bhargava
(Mysore University, Mysore).
On Ramanujan's Remarkable Summation Formula.
4 1993 R. P. Bambah
(Punjab University, Chandigarh).
The Conjectures of Minkowski, Watson and others.
5 1994 V. Kannan
(University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad).
Some Selection Theorems.
6 1995 B. V. Limaye
(IIT Bombay, Mumbai).
Spectral Approximation.
7 1996 N. K. Thakare
(Pune University, Pune).
Sperner Theory.
8 1997 V. S. Sunder
(ISI Bangalore, Bangalore).
Commuting Squares.
9 1998 A. K. Agarwal
(Punjab University, Chandigarh).
The Legacy of Ramanujan.
10 1999 Deependra Prasad
(TIFR, Mumbai).
On the Shimura - Taniyama - Weyl Conjecture : Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
11 2000 V. Srinivasa. On Diophantine Equations.
12 2001 R. Balasubramaniam
(IMSc, Chennai).
Elliptic Curve Cryptology.
13 2002 C. Adiga
(Mysore University, Mysore).
Sums of Squares and Sums of Triangular Numbers and Their Relationship.
14 2003 M. A. Pathan
(AMU, Aligarh).
Some extensions of Ramanujan's Theorems.
15 2004 S. K. Nimbhorkar
(Dr. B A M University,Aurangabad).
Bear*-rings, Lattice Theory, Graph Theory and their interrelationship
16 2005 V. C. Dhumir
(Punjab University, Chandigarh).
View Obetruction problems and their generalizations.
17 2006 P K Banerjee
(JNV University, Jodhpur).
Unfolding the concepts of Boehmians
and their applications.
18 2007 J. Radhakrishnan
(TIFR, Mumbai).
The list decoding radius of Reed-Solomon codes.
19 2008 Dr. (Mrs.) Padmavathamma
(Mysore University, Mysore).
Generalized Frobenius Partitions
(couldn't be delivered during the Conference)
20 2009 Ravi Kulkarni
(IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai).
Spaces of Geometric Objects and Parametriation Problems.
21 2010 Mahan Maharaj
(Ramkrishna Mission Vivekanand University, Belur Math, Howrah).
Geometry and Dynamics of Kleinian groups.

Hansaraj Gupta Memorial Award Lecture:

A memorial lecture to be delivered by a distinguished mathematician at the Annual Conferences of the Society was instituted in 1990 in the memory of Professor Hansaraj Gupta.







The details of the lectures organised so far are as follows:

Sr. No. Year The Awardee Topic
1 1990 A.M. Vaidya
(Gujarat University, Ahmedabad).
Hansaraj Gupta - Man and Mathematician.
2 1991 K. Ramachandra
(IISc, Bangalore).
A New Approach to the Zeros of zeta (s).
3 1992 H. P. Dixit
(RD University, Jabalpur).
Wavelets and Multiresolution Analysis.
4 1993 Satya Deo
(RD University, Jabalpur).
Projective Dimension of the Module of Piecewise Polynomials over Manifolds.
5 1994 Arun Verma Rogers-Ramanujan type Identities and their Applications.
6 1995 U. B. Tewari
(IIT Kanpur, Kanpur).
The Multiplier Problem.
7 1996 I. B. S. Passi
(Punjab University, Chandigarh).
Trace Function Methods in Group Rings.
8 1997 R. Parimala
(TIFR, Mumbai).
Classification of Hermitian Forms via Classical Invariants.
9 1998 T. Parthasarathy
(Osmania university, Hyderabad).
An Old Prolem of Samualson and Jacobian Conjecture.
10 1999 R. S. Pathak
(BHU, Varanasi).
Analytic Functions and Distributions.
11 2000 Rajendra Bhatia
(ISI, Delhi).
Linear Algebra to Quantum Homology - The Study of Horn's Inequalities.
12 2001 M. M. Pant e-Learning : Prospects and Applications in the Indian Context.
13 2002 S. G. Deo Trigonometric Like Operators in Banach Spaces.
14 2003 S. Sribala
(Madras University, Chennai).
Jordan Algebras.
15 2004 A. P. Singh
(Jammu University, Jammu).
Advances in the Dynamics of Entire and Meromorphic functions.
16 2005 R. K. Singh
(Jammu University, Jammu).
Invariant Subspace Problem and Development of Mathematics around it.
(couldn't be delivered during conference)
17 2006 R. J. Hans-Gill
(Punjab University, Chandigarh).
A Conjecture of Minkowski
18 2007 R. Sujatha
(TIFR, Mumbai).
- (couldn't be delivered during conference)
19 2008 S. D. Adhikari
(HRI, Allahabad).
The relation between two combinatorial group invariants
- history and ramifications
20 2009 A. M. Mathai
(Center for Mathematical Sciences, Pala).
Random Geometrical Configurations and Random Volumes
21 2010 Subhash J. Bhatt
(Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidya Nagar, Anand, Gujarat).
C*-algebras, uniform Banach algebras and a functional analytic meta theorem

Ganesh Prasad Memorial Award Lecture:

A memorial lecture to be delivered by a distinguished mathematician once in two years at the Annual Conferences of the Society was instituted in 1993 out of the endowment fund created for the purpose in the memory of Professor Ganesh Prasad.







The details of the lectures organised so far are as follows:

Sr. No. Year The Awardee Topic
1 1993 P. K. Ghosh Generalized Functions.
2 1995 Kalyan B. Sinha
(ISI Delhi, Delhi).
Fock spaces and Their Operators.
3 1997 M. G. Nadkarni
(Bombay University, Mumbai)
Ergodic Theory and Set Theory.
4 1999 R. B. Bapat
(ISI Delhi, Delhi).
Resistance Distance in Graphs.
5 2001 J. R. Patadia
(The M. S. University, Vadodara).
Lacunary Series and Sidon Sets.
6 2003 Rajiv K. Srivastava
(BRA University, Agra).
Bicomplex Numbers - Analysis and Applications.
7 2005 Aloke Dey
(ISI Delhi, Delhi).
Orthogonal Arrays.
8 2007 Siddhartha Gadgil
(IISc, Bangalore).
Orders on Manifold and Surgery.
9 2009 A. K. Srivastava
(BHU, Varanasi).
The General Sobriety-Spatiality Equivalence.
(couldn't be delivered during the Conference)