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INDIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY INDIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY (Founded in 1907; Reg. No. S-550, Delhi) Registered Office: Department of Mathematics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune-411007 http://www.indianmathsociety.org.in NEWSLETTER NO. 45 MARCH-APRIL ∑ 2021 π α Ώ Facsimile of the Commemorative Postage Stamp on the 'Indian Mathematical Society' issued by the Department of Posts (Philately Division, Government of India, to mark the completion of hundred years of the Society. Released on the Inaugural day of the Platinum Jubilee 75th Annual th Conference of the Society on 27 December 2009. CONTENTS 1. A Brief Report of the 86th Annual Conference of the 1 Indian Mathematical Society 2. Minutes of the 86th Annual General Body meeting of the 4 Society 3. Call for Applications for the IMS Awards 11 4. Call for Applications for the IMS Prizes 13 5. Periodicals published by the Society 14 6. Membership of the Society 15 7. Guidelines for acceptance of Donations by the Society 17 8. An Appeal to all members of the IMS 18 9. Abstracts of the Plenary Talks, IMS Memorial Award 19 Lectures and Invited lectures, Talks in Symposia, delivered at the 86th Annual conference of IMS held at The Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India during December 17-20, 2020 10. Abstracts of the papers received for prizes and for 42 presentation at the 86th Annual conference of IMS held at The Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore- 632 014. Tamil Nadu, India during December 17-20, 2020 11. Council for the session 2021-22 110 1 A BRIEF REPORT OF THE 86th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INDIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY The 86th Annual Conference of the Indian Mathematical Society- An international Meet was held online under the auspices of The Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore (Tamil Nadu) during December 17-20, 2020 under the presidentship of Prof. B. Sury, I.S.I. Bangalore. The Conference was attended by more than 200 delegates, Two presi- dential addresses (General and Technical). Two plenary talks, one by Prof. M. S. Raghu- nathan, Chairman, National Centre of Mathematics, IIT, Bombay, and another by Harald Upmeie, University of Marburg, Germany, Four Memorial Award lectures, Four IMS Award lectures and Seven invited lectures were delivered in the conference. Also, six symposia were organized during the conference and thirty one invited speakers gave talks in the symposia. Moreover, in all 224 research papers were accepted for presentation at the Conference including 19 research papers for the paper presentation competition for various prizes. The Conference was inaugurated by Prof. M.S. Raghunathan, FRS, Chairman, National Centre of Mathematics, IIT, Bombay. The function was presided over by Prof. B. Sury, ISI Bangalore, the President of the IMS. Dr. A. Mary Saral Dean, SAS, VIT, welcomed the delegates. The General Secretary of IMS, Prof. Satya Deo spoke about the Indian Mathematical Society and on behalf of the Society expressed his sincere and profuse thanks to the host for organizing the Conference. Announcements of IMS prizes and awards were also made by the General Secretary. Prof. Peeyush Chandra, the Academic Secretary of the IMS, reported the academic program of the Conference. The function ended with a vote of thanks by Dr. B. Rushi Kumar, Organizing Secretary, IMS- 2020. The first Plenary Talk was given by Prof. M. S. Raghunathan, FRS, Chairman, National Centre of Mathematics, IIT Bombay, on \Some Major Indian Contributions to Mathematics in the 20th Century". Second Plenary Talk was given by Harald Upmeier, University of Marburg, Germany, on \The Toeplitz Operators and Hilbert Modules on Bounded Symmetric Domains" The 34th P. L. Bhatnagar Memorial Award Lecture was delivered by Prof. Neela Nataraj, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, on \Lower-order Nonstandard Finite Element Methods for Biharmonic Plates". The 31st V. Ramaswami Aiyar Memorial Award Lecture was delivered by Prof. Sanoli Gun, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, on \On bounds of Fourier- coefficients of Half-integer Weight Cusp Forms". The 31st Srinivasa Ramanujan Memorial Award Lecture was delivered by Prof. Anish Ghosh, School of Mathematics, TIFR Bombay, Mumbai on \The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Ergodic Theory in Number Theory ". The 31st Hansraj Gupta Memorial Award Lecture was delivered by Prof. Dinesh Khurana, Department of Mathematics, Panjab University, Chandigarh on \Some Glimpses into Noncommutative Ring Theory". Satish Bhatnagar Award Lecture was delivered by Prof. M. D. Srinivas, Centre for Policy Studies, Chennai on \Pandiagonal Magic Squares: From N¯ag¯arjunaTo N¯ar¯ayan. a Pan. d. ita To Vijayaraghavan". A. K. Agarwal Award Lecture was given by Jagmohan Tanti, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India on \Euler's Criterion for lth Power non residues 2 with l a Prime". A. M. Mathai Award Lecture was given by P. Prakash, Dept. of Mathematics, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India, on \Invariant Subspaces and Exact Solutions of Nonlinear PDEs". A. Narasinga Rao Prize Lecture was given by R. B. Yadav, Dept. of Mathematics, Sikkim University entitled \On Some Categories of Riemannian Manifolds". Various prizes for the Paper Presentation Competition: For the IMS prizes 19 papers were received : two in Group 1, six in Group 4, two in group 5, two in group 6, two for AMU Prize and five for V. M. Shah Prize. No paper was received for Group 2 and 3. The papers were presented in the competition section. The following is the result for the award of these prizes. IMS Prize - Group-1: Two paper was presented in this group. The prize was awarded to Ranganatha Dasappa, Department of Mathematics, Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi-585367, Karnataka, India. IMS Prize - Group-2: No paper was received in this group IMS Prize - Group-3: No paper was received in this group. IMS Prize - Group-4: Six papers was received and presented. The prize was awarded to Manisha Chowdhury, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. IMS Prize - Group-5: Two papers were received in this group. The prize was awarded to P. K. Sahu Department of Mathematics, Government Shyama Prasad Mukharjee College, Sitapur -497 111, Chhattisgarh, India IMS Prize - Group-6: Two papers were received in this group. However, the prize was not awarded to anyone. A. M. U. Prize: Two papers were received in this group and the prize was awarded to Pranav Sharma, Department of Mathematics, Lovely Professional University, Punjab. V. M. Shah Prize: Five papers were received and presented. The prize was awarded to Rishikesh Yadav, Applied Mathematics and Humanities Department, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat. Invited Lectures delivered (1) Prof. S. P. Tiwari, IIT Dhanbad: Automata Theory Based on Residuated Lattices (2) Prof. Shakir Ali, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh: Jordan ∗-derivations and Related Maps in Rings (3) Prof. K. S. Charak, Jammu University, Jammu: Normal Families of Holomorphic Functions of Several Complex Variables (4) Dr. Pradip Majhi, Calcutta University, Kolkata: Cotton Solitons within the Framework of Almost Kenmotsu 3-h-Manifolds (5) Prof. Samares Pal, University of Kalyani, Kalyani: Catastrophic Changes in Coral Reef Dynamics under Macroalgal Toxicity, Overfishing and Invasion of Predators (6) Prof. S. Saravanan, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore: Sharp Nonlinear Stabil- ity Limits for Centrifugal Convection in Porous Media 3 Symposia organized Six symposia were organized and the details are as follows. (1) Chandrasekharan centenary symposium in Number theory Convener : Prof. K. Srinivas, IMSc, Chennai. (2) History of Indian Mathematics Conveners :Prof. M. S. Sriram, Prof. K. V. Sarma Research Foundation. (3) Industrial Mathematics: Modeling, Optimization, Simulation Convener : Prof. S. Sundar, IIT Madras. (4) Graph Theory and Combinatorics (in honour of S S Shrikhande) Convener : Prof. S Sane, CMI, Chennai. (5) Topology and Geometry Convener : Prof. Parameswaran Sankaran, CMI, Chennai. (6) Biomechanics Convener : Prof. B. V. Rathish Kumar, IIT Kanpur. 4 MINUTES OF THE 86th ANNUAL GENERAL BODY MEETING OF THE INDIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY -2020 The Annual General Body Meeting of the Indian Mathematical Society-2020 was held on Sunday, the 20th December, 2020 at 12 Noon in Online mode from VIT, Vellore using zoom meeting app. The meeting was presided by the President of the IMS Prof. B. Sury. At the beginning of the meeting the members of the General Body offered condolences for the following members of the IMS who passed away very recently: (a) Prof. A. M. Vaidya from Gujarat who served the Society as Editor of Math Student, (b) Prof. P. V. Arunachalam, who was the President of IMS during the year 2001-2002. Then the President of the IMS welcomed all the members present and the following business was transacted: Item No. 1: To confirm the Minutes of the General Body meeting held on November 25, 2019 at IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur. No comments or queries were received and so the Minutes of the General Body meeting held on November 25, 2019 at IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur were confirmed. Item No. 2: To Receive the Report of the General Secretary. The Report of the General Secretary. 1. The IMS newsletters No. 43 and No. 44 were published in April 2020 and in August 2020, respectively. These were also uploaded on the website of the Indian Mathematical Society. The soft copies of these newsletters have been sent by e-mails to all the life members of the Society. Letters to the newly elected IMS president and three council members whose terms start w.e.f. April 1, 2020 were sent to them and their acceptances were received. 2. The meeting of the Academic Planning Committee (APC) for the IMS Conference 2020 to be held at VIT, Vellore was held in online mode due to Covid-19 pandemic on Sunday, the 10th June 2020 from 11.00 A.M. The meeting was presided over by the President of the IMS Prof.