Plenary Lectures

The Plenary lectures to be delivered by distinguished mathematicians at the annual Conference of the Society were started from the Centenary Year 2007 of the foundation of the Society.

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

Sr. No. Year Topic, IMS Conference and The Speaker Photo
1 2007 Topic: HOMOGENIZATION

IMS Conference: The Centenary year 73rd IMS Conference,
University of Pune, Pune-411 007, Maharashtra, India

Speaker: Srinivasa Varadhan, Abel Prize Awardee
(Courant Institute, USA)
2 2007 Topic: THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF MATHEMATICS
IN CHINA AND INDIA

IMS Conference: The Centenary year 73rd IMS Conference,
University of Pune, Pune-411 007, Maharashtra, India

Speaker: S. T. Yau, Fields Medalist
(Harvard University, USA)
3 2007 Topic: SURGERED RICCI FLOW

IMS Conference: The Centenary year 73rd IMS Conference,
University of Pune, Pune-411 007, Maharashtra, India

Speaker: Richard Hamilton, Clay Award winner
(California University, California, USA)
4 2007 Topic: (LECTURE COULD NOT BE DELIVERED)

IMS Conference: The Centenary year 73rd IMS Conference,
University of Pune, Pune-411 007, Maharashtra, India

Speaker: M. S. Raghunathan, FRS.
(T I F R, Mumbai-400 005, Maharashtra, India)
5 2008 Topic: MODULI AND MONODROMY

IMS Conference: 74th IMS Conference, University of Allahabad,
Allahabad-211 002, Uttar Pradesh, India

Speaker C.S.Seshadri, FRS
(C M I, Chennai-603 103, Tamilnadu, India)
6 2008 Topic: TRANSCENDENTAL NUMBERS AND ZETA FUNCTIONS

IMS Conference: 74th IMS Conference, University of Allahabad,
Allahabad-211 002, Uttar Pradesh, India

Speaker: M. Ram Murthy, FRSC.
(Queens University, Canada)
7 2008 Topic: ON SOME LARGE SUBSETS OF EUCLIDIAN SPACES INVOLVED IN
GEOMETRY, DYNAMICS AND DIOPHANTINE APPROXIMATION

IMS Conference: 74th IMS Conference, University of Allahabad,
Allahabad-211 002, Uttar Pradesh, India

Speaker: S. G. Dani,
(T I F R, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)
8 2009 Topic: ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY AND ANALYSIS
(COULD NOT BE DELIVERED)

IMS Conference : 75th IMS Conference, Kalasalingam University, Anand Nagar,
Krishnankoil�626190, (Via) Srivilliputtur, Dist. Virudunagar, Tamilnadu, India

Speaker: M. S. Narasimhan, FRS, (T I F R, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)
9 2009 Topic: ADDITIVE COMBINATORICS

IMS Conference: 75th IMS Conference, Kalasalingam University, Anand Nagar,
Krishnankoil�626190, (Via) Srivilliputtur, Dist. Virudunagar. Tamilnadu, India

Speaker: R. Balasubramanian
(IMSc, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India)
10 2010 Topic: ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY AND ANALYSIS

IMS Conference: 76th IMS Conference, Saradar Vallabhbhai National
Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat-395 007, Gujarat, India

Speaker: M. S. Narasimhan, FRS,
(IISc, Bangalore-560 012, Karnataka, India)
11 2011 Topic: F - CONJUGACY

IMS Conference: 77th IMS Conference, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada
University (SRTM University), Vishnupuri, Nanded-431 606, Maharashtra, India

Speaker: Ravi Kulkarni
(I I T Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400 076, Maharashtra, India)
12 2011 Topic: TRACE FORMS

IMS Conference: 77th IMS Conference, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada
University (SRTM University), Vishnupuri, Nanded-431 606, Maharashtra, India

Speaker: Raman Parimala
(Emory University, USA)
13 2011 Topic: - (COULD NOT BE DELIVERED)

IMS Conference: 77th IMS Conference, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada
University (SRTM University), Vishnupuri, Nanded-431 606, Maharashtra, India

Speaker: Dinesh Singh
(Delhi University, New Delhi-110 007, India)
14 2012 Topic: APPLICATIONS OF NUMBER THEORY TO GEOMETRY

IMS Conference: 78th IMS Conference, Banaras Hindu University
(BHU), Varanasi-221 005, Uttar Pradesh, india

Speaker: Gopal Prasad
(University of Michigan, USA)
15 2012 Topic: THE BLOCH-BEILINSON CONJECTURES

IMS Conference: 78th IMS Conference, Banaras Hindu University
(BHU), Varanasi-221 005, Uttar Pradesh, India

Speaker: V. Srinivas
(TIFR, Mumbai-400 005, Maharashtra, India)
16 2013 Topic: RAMANUJAN AND THE ZETA FUNCTION

IMS Conference: 79th IMS Conference, Rajagiri School of Eng. and Tech. (RSET),
Rajagiri Valley, Rajagiri P. O., Kakkanad, Cochin�682 039, Kerala, India

Speaker: M. Ram Murty, FRSC,
(Queens University, Canada)
17 2014 Topic: THE REMARRIAGE OF MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS

IMS Conference: 80th IMS Conference, Indian School of Mines,
Dhanbad-826 004, Jharkhand, India

Speaker: Rajesh Gopakumar
(HRI, Chhatnag Road, Jhunsi, Prayagraj (Allahabad)-211 019 India)
18 2015 Topic: COMPLETE INTERSECTION POINTS ON
AFFINE VARIETIES AND 0-CYCLES

IMS Conference: 81st IMS Conference, Visvesvaraya National
Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur-440 010, Maharashtra, India

Speaker: V. Srinivas
(TIFR, Mumbai-400 005, Maharashtra, India)
19 2016 Topic: FOURIER SERIES: MYTHS, FACTS AND APPLICATIONS

IMS Conference: 82nd IMS Conference, University of Kalyani,
Kalyani-741 235, Dist. Nadia, West Bengal, India

Speaker: Hrushikesh Mhaskar
(Claremont Graduate, University, Claremont, USA)
20 2017 Topic: RANGES OF FUNCTORS IN ALGEBRA

IMS Conference: 83rd IMS Conference, Sri Venkateswara University,
Tirupati-517 502, Andhra Pradesh, India

Speaker: Friedrich Wehrung
(LMNO, CNRS UMR 6139, Dept. de Maths, BP 5186,
Universite de Caen, Campus 2, 14032 Caen cedex, France)
21 2018 Topic: CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS AND APPLICATIONS

IMS Conference: 84th IMS Conference, Sri Mata Vaishnodevi University,
Katra-182 320, J. & K., India

Speaker: M. Vanninathan
(Dept. of Mathematics, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400 076, Maharashtra, India)
22 2018 Topic: RESOLUTION OF SINGULARITIES AND LOCAL UNIFORMIZATION

IMS Conference: 84th IMS Conference, Sri Mata Vaishnodevi University,
Katra-182 320, J. & K., India

speaker: Steven Dale Cutkosky
(University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA)
23 2019 Topic: A PRODUCT FORMULA FOR HOMOGENEOUS
CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTIONS

IMS Conference: 85th IMS Conference, I I T Kharagpur,
Kharagpur-721 302, West Bengal, India.

speaker: Gadadhar Misra
(IISc. Bangalore, Bangaluru-560 012, India.)
24 2020 Topic: SOME MAJOR INDIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO MATHEMATICS
IN THE 2OTH CENTURY

IMS Conference: 86th IMS Conference, ,
Velloe-600 113, Tamil Nadu, India.

speaker: M. S. Raghunathan
(Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (CEBS), University Complex,
Annabhau Sathe Bhavan, CST Rd., Vidyanagari,
Mumbai-400m 098, Maharashtha, India).
25 2020 Topic: TOEPLITZ OPERATORS AND HILBERT MODULUS
ON BOUNDED SYMMETRIC DOMAINS

IMS Conference: 86th IMS Conference, V I T Vellore,
Velloe-600 113, Tamil Nadu, India.

speaker: Harald Upmeier
(University of Marbug, Germany).
26 2021 Topic: MULTIVARIATE LIDSTONE INTERPOLATION

IMS Conference: 87th IMS Conference, Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College, M G M University,
Aurangabad-431 003, Maharashtra, India.

speaker: Prof. Michel Waldschmidt,
(Sorbonne Universite, Paris, France).
27 2021 Topic: DEEP LEARNING OF PDEs

IMS Conference: 87th IMS Conference, Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College, M G M University,
Aurangabad-431 003, Maharashtra, India.

speaker: Prof. Siddhartha Mishra
(ETH AI Centre, Zurich, Switzerland).
28 2022 Topic: Presribing the spectra of locally uniform geometries

IMS Conference: 88th IMS Conference, The Birla Institute of Technology,
Meshra- 835 215, Ropar, Jharkhand, India.

speaker: Peter Sarnak
(Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, USA).
29 2022 Topic: Constructive and non-constructive combinatorics

IMS Conference: 88th IMS Conference, The Birla Institute of Technology,
Meshra- 835 215, Ropar, Jharkhand, India.

speaker: Noga Alon
(Princeton University, USA).
30 2022 Topic: SUTRA: A model for COVID 19 pandemic

IMS Conference: 88th IMS Conference, The Birla Institute of Technology,
Meshra- 835 215, Ropar, Jharkhand, India.

speaker: Prof. Manindra Agrawal
(IIT Kanpur-208 016, UP, India).