Regional level research programmes, symposia, and workshops on mathematics should be organised frequently with a view to kindle interest in mathematics among students and to promote research in mathematics, said Ravi Kulkarni, president of Ramanujan Mathematical Society.
Speaking after inaugurating the registered office of the society at the National College here on Monday, Dr. Kulkarni said society was keen on organising regional programmes for imparting training to faculty members in colleges handling undergraduate courses and research scholars at post-graduate levels besides post-doctorates. The society had organised 20 programmes throughout the country.
He advised the management of the National College to emulate the example so that the registered office could act as a nucleus and prime centre for conducting similar programmes to benefit students and teachers of Tamil Nadu.
He said society’s library would be shifted from Bhaskaracharya Pratishthan in Pune to the registered office shortly. Referring to a plea by the management of the college, Dr. Kulkarni said the society would evolve an integrated post-graduate course in Mathematics within a year’s time so that it could be introduced in colleges and higher education institutions. The society would honour the fellows of society in recognition of their contributions to mathematics such as outstanding teaching, guiding undergraduate, and M. Phil or doctoral research students. Individual contribution to the growth of mathematical research would be recognised and honoured.
R. Balakrishnan, founder-secretary of society, said that although the society was founded at National College in 1985, adequate infrastructure, including building had now been provided to the registered office.
The status in the form of a registered office would enable society in organising annual conferences, invited lectures, symposia, workshops, and so on a more frequent basis. P. Bhattacharyya, former Vice-Chancellor, Tezpur University; K. Anbarasu, principal of the college; T.E.S. Raghavan, Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Chicago; spoke. K. Srinivas, secretary of society, presented a lecture and screened a film on “Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan”.
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