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ITIHAS (IT Is Happening at SASTRA) ITIHAS (IT Is Happening At SASTRA) Newsletter from SASTRA University v Vol. 14 IV Quarter 2014 Message from the SASTRA-RAMANUJAN AWARD 2014 VICE - CHANCELLOR I share my happiness with all of you on The SASTRA-Ramanujan Award for 2014 was the successful completion of 30 academic presented to Prof. James Maynard, Oxford University, years of the institution ever since it England & University of Montreal, Canada on started in 1984 and now we march our entry into the institution’s 4th decade. The December 21, 2014 at the International Conference progress and the achievements we have on Number Theory held at Srinivasa Ramanujan made in the last 30 years is definitely Centre, SASTRA University, Kumbakonam. The satisfying to realise the fact that we started with three degree programmes SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was established in 2005 with a modest student strength of 90 and today stand tall to offer and is awarded annually for outstanding about 56 programmes besides Ph. D. programmes. Of course, the contributions by young mathematicians to areas current status of SASTRA would not have been achieved in such a short span of time without the exemplary performance of students influenced by the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. The and resounding faith placed by the parents, recruiters and other age limit for the prize has been set at 32 because stakeholders who are always part of our external ecosystem. Ramanujan had achieved so much in his brief life of 32 While, we rejoice our successes, it is also equally important to review our performance and place new benchmarks to reach newer years. heights. Hence, it has been decided to compile a vision document titled "SASTRA 2025. " The document will address the broad areas – The prestigious SASTRA-Ramanujan Award carries Teaching & Learning, Research, New Programmes, Collaborations, 10,000 USD and an impressive citation. The award of Infrastructure & Human Resource Development, Technology the 2014 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize to James Maynard Adoption, Social Interface, etc. The last quarter of 2014 witnessed a host of important events in the is a fitting recognition in the tenth year of its campus. The prestigious SASTRA – Ramanujan Award for 2014 was inception and in keeping with the tradition of presented to Prof. James Maynard of Oxford University, England & recognizing path-breaking work by young University of Montreal, Canada on December 21, 2014. The SASTRA-G.N.Ramachandran award has been instituted this year to mathematicians. honour outstanding research work in Physics, which carries Rs. 5 Dr. Mangalam Srinivasan, Former Advisory, Research lakh and a citation. The first award was presented to Prof. M. Vijayan of IISc, Bangalore on November 28, 2014. Prof. K.N. Ganesh, Director and Teaching appointee at the Faculty of Arts and IISER, Pune and Prof. V. Chandrasekhar, Director, NISER, Sciences, Special Advisor, Kennedy School of Bhubaneswar have been selected for the Second SASTRA-CNR Rao award 2015. Government and fellow of CFT, Harvard University The 11 Teraflop High Performance Computing Cluster with 30 presented the award to Prof. James Maynard. processors with 960 GB of RAM, connected to a 40 GBPS infiniband, Presenting the award, Dr. Mangalam highlighted the has been commissioned at SASTRA to provide high performance computing environment to the students and researchers. The Second Edition of 'Lawgical Connect' was organized in Chennai on Nov 1, 2014 in which a panel of legal luminaries discussed the 'Uniform Civil Code.' This major academic initiative by SASTRA was well received by an elite 1000 plus audience. It is a matter of pride that the Nani Palkhivala Memorial Trust has permitted the Law School of SASTRA to conduct the annual Nani Palkhivala Memorial National Tax Moot Court from this year onwards. The issue covers the awards and laurels won by faculty and students and many more. Wish you all a Happy New Year 2015! Prof. R. Sethuraman Prof. James Maynard receives the prestigious Vice - Chancellor SASTRA-Ramanujan award from Dr.Mangalam Srinivasan SASTRA UNIVERSITY ITIHAS VOL.14, IV QUARTER - 2014 value of Indian civilization in highly rated and sought after g e n e r a l a n d Tr i c h y a n d awards for Mathematics in the Thanjavur districts in particular. World. The delta districts of Trichy and He also recalled that the first Thanjavur are a perfect choice for recipient of this award in 2005 the UNESCO heritage status for Dr.Mangalam Srinivasan Prof. Manjul Bhargava from Prof. Krishnaswami Alladi culture and humanities. “The Princeton University went on to ease with which external cultures receive the Fields Medal in the year 2014, which is and habits plugged, symbolizes the two districts considered to be the Nobel for Mathematics. being a cradle of unity of civilizations, encouraging contrarian thoughts in all fields – music, arts, science, The International Panel of experts, who formed the engineering, literature and philosophy,” she said. She 2014 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize committee were called mathematics a 'heritage talent' and remarked Professors: Krishnaswami Alladi – Chair (University that while in mathematics, parallel lines do not meet, of Florida), Roger Heath – Brown (Oxford parallels of all sorts had converged without creating University), Winnie Li (The Pennsylvania State any divisiveness in these two districts. University), David Masser (University of Basel), Barry Mazur (Harvard University), Peter Paule Prof. Krishnaswamy Alladi of the Department of (Johannes Kepler University of Linz), and Michael Mathematics at the University of Florida, USA and the Rapoport (University of Bonn). The committee Chairperson of the Awards Committee read out the unanimously selected Prof. James Maynard for the citation. He recalled the genesis of this award in award. 2005 and how this award is currently amongst the Our Vice Chancellor presenting a memento to Dr. Mangalam Srinivasan The dignitaries at the bust of Srinivasa Ramanujan at SASTRA Campus From left: Dr. S. Vaidhyasubramaniam, Prof. James Maynard, Dr. Mangalam Srinivasan, Prof. R. Sethuraman, Prof. Krishnaswami Alladi and Prof. K.G. Raghunathan 2 ITIHAS VOL.14, IV QUARTER - 2014 The prize was in recognition of his revolutionary contributions to prime number theory, for making the strongest advances thus far on various long standing problems on primes, and for the ingenious techniques he has introduced which will influence future research in the field. The prize also recognizes his fundamental doctoral thesis at Oxford University and his sensational post – doctoral work at the University of Montreal. In his acceptance speech, Prof. Maynard said that the SASTRA Ramanujan Award was his first major award recognising his Dr. Mangalam Srinivasan lighting the traditional lamp work and that he was humbly thrilled to receive the award. 4. Prof. J. Sethuraman, Florida State University, USA Prof. R.Sethuraman, Vice Chancellor, SASTRA Title:Bayesian analysis in a complex model for failures in an epoxy/ fiber composite University honoured the Chief Guest with a memento and made an announcement that the student 5. Prof. Kagan Kursungoz, Sabanci University, Turkey participants from the schools will be given Title: Andrews and Bressoud Style Identities for mathematics books worth rupees thousand each Partitions and Overpartitions and the schools will be provided with Rs. 10,000/- for 6. Prof. Srinivasan Balaji, George Washington the development of the school library. Earlier University, USA Dr.S.Vaidhyasubramaniam, Dean – Planning & Title: On a unified conjecture about prime gaps Development, SASTRA University welcomed the 7. Prof. Jesse Thorner, Emory University, USA gathering. Title: Bounded gaps between primes in Chebotarev INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NUMBER THEORY sets 8. Prof. Ken Ono, Emory University, USA An International Conference on 'Number Theory' was Title: Ramanujan's Legacy: Mathematics and Film held at Srinivasa Ramanujan Centre, SASTRA University Kumbakonam on December 21 & 22, 2014. SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN Dr. Mangalam Srinivasan of the Harvard University, USA COMMEMORATIVE LECTURE inaugurated the conference. Prof. James Maynard, after The following renowned mathematicians from the USA, receiving the award, delivered Canada, Turkey & India deliberated on the legacy of the Srinivasa Ramanujan Srinivasa Ramanujan and his work on Number Theory Birthday Commemorative during the conference. Lecture on December 22, 2014 on 'Small gaps between 1. Prof. Krishnaswami Alladi, University of Florida primes.' The speaker said that Gainesville, USA there should be infinitely many Title: "Partitions with non-repeating odd parts - q- pairs of primes which differ by hypergeometric and combinatorial identities" 2; this is the famous twin prime conjecture. More 2. Prof. Ali BulentEkin, University of Ankara, Turkey generally, it is believed that for every positive integer m there should be infinitely many sets of m Title: The Components of the partition function primes, with each set contained in an interval of size p(n), Modulo 13 roughly. Although proving these conjectures seems 3. Mr. Michael Griffin, Emory University, USA to be beyond our current techniques, recent Title: Weierstrass mock modular forms and elliptic progress has enabled us to obtain some partial curves results. 3 ITIHAS VOL.14, IV QUARTER - 2014 Previous winners of SASTRA- Ramanujan Prize in universities through policy decisions that identify performing institutions and provide support to such 1. Manjul Bhargava (Princeton) & Kannan institutions, both public and private, he said.
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