NAAC Reaccreditation - Evaluative Report School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS, STATISTICS & COMPUTER SCIENCE University of Madras 1 Name of the Department Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics 2 Year of establishment 1927 3 Is the Department part of a Part of School of Mathematics, School/Faculty of the university? Statistics and Computer Science 4 Names of programmes offered (UG, M.Sc., M.Phil, and Ph.D in PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters; Mathematics Integrated Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Litt., etc.) 5 Interdisciplinary programmes and Nil departments involved 6 Courses in collaboration with other Nil universities, industries, foreign institutions, etc. 7 Details of programmes discontinued, if Nil any, with reasons 8 Examination System: Semester/Choice Based Credit Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice System Based Credit System 9 Participation of the department in the Department offers elective papers courses offered by other departments for P.G.Courses offered by other departments. The papers Discrete Mathematics, Graph Theory and Calculus of Variations and Integral Equations are taken by P.G. Statistics and Computer Science students. Our P.G. students in turn take elective papers offered by other departments. 457 NAAC Reaccreditation - Evaluative Report School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics 10. Number of teaching posts sanctioned, filled and actual (Professors/Associate Professors/Asst. Professors/others) Sanctioned Filled Actual (including CAS & MPS) Professor 5 4 4 Associate Professors 5 1 1 Asst. Professors 11 2 2 Others - 11. Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, area of specialization, experience and research under guidance Name Qualification Designation Specialization No. of No. of Years of Ph.D./ Experience M.Phil. students guided PremalathaKumaresan Ph.D. Professor Potential 32 yrs M. Phil - 7 Theory - R.Sahadevan Ph.D. Professor Nonlinear 24 Yrs M. Phil-8 Differential Ph.D- 4 Equations and Mathematical Physics E.Thandapani Ph.D. Professor Differential 33 Yrs M. Phil- 8 Equations Ph.D- 7 S. Sudha Ph.D. Professor Fluid 29 Yrs M. Phil-2 Dynamics, Queuing Theory and Graph Theory G.P.Youvaraj Ph.D. Associate Pseudo- 18 Yrs M. Phil -5 Professor Analytic functions and Fourier Analysis Harmonic Mappings N.SushamaAgrawal Ph.D. Asst. Functional 12 Yrs M. Phil - Professor Analysis 10 and Operator Ph.D- 1 Theory Dr. M. Pitchaimani Ph.D. Asst. Population 5 yrs M. Phil -7 Professor Dynamics V. Thangaraj Ph.D. Professor Probability 27 Yrs M. Phil -5 (Retired on June Theory Ph.D- 6 2012) Stochastic Process 458 NAAC Reaccreditation - Evaluative Report School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics Name Qualification Designation Specialization No. of No. of Years of Ph.D./ Experience M.Phil. students guided K. Parthasarathy Ph.D Professor Harmonic 34 Yrs M.Phil -3 (Retired on June Analysis Ph.D-2 2011) Functional Analysis M. Loganathan Ph.D Professor Theory of M.Phil-4 (Retired on June Semi Groups 2011) 12 List of senior Visiting Fellows, adjunct faculty, Prof. Victor Anandam emeritus professors - Sesquicentennial Emeritus Professor 13 Percentage of classes taken by temporary faculty – M.Sc. and M. Phil - programme-wise information 30%, 14 Programme-wise Student Teacher Ratio M.Sc. - 80 Students - 8 teachers - 10:1 M. Phil - 10 students - 7 faculty + 2 Guest Lecturers - 10:9 15 Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff: S.O A.S.O Asst T.O A.T.O Attender Peon Sanctioned 1 1 0 2 0 2 1 Strength : Existing 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 Strength 16. Research thrust areas as recognized by major funding agencies Algebra, Analysis and Dynamical Systems 459 NAAC Reaccreditation - Evaluative Report School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics 17. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) national b) international funding agencies and c) Total grants received. Give the names of the funding agencies, project title and grants received project-wise. S. No Title of the Project Principal Funding Duration of Investigator Agency the Project 1. Aspects of Integrable& R. Sahadevan CSIR - Rs. 01.02.2007 chaotic discrete System 9,25,000 to 31.08.2010 2. Global behaviour of E.Thandapani UGC- Rs. 01.04.2007 Neutral Type Difference 5,62,100 to Equations, Applications 31.03.2010 To Physics and Mathematical Biology 3. Parameter Analysis of M. Pitchaimani DST - Rs. 11.01.2012 Gompertz Tumor 9,75,360, to Growth Model 10.01.2015 4. Aging concept in M.Pitchaimani DST - 09.12.2005 Population Dynamics Rs.9,00,000 to 31.12.2008 5. Representations on N. UGC - Feb.2007 to GeneralisedKac -Moody Sthanumoorthy Rs.5,80,000 April 2009 algebras (Retired Professor) 6. Ternary Semigroups and S.Sribala UGC- 1.4.2008 to Associated structures (Retd. Director Rs.6,19,500 31.3.2011 & Head ) 7. Cellularity and S.Parvathi UGC - 1.4.2008 to Combinatorial (Retd. Director Rs.8,38,800 31.3.2011 Representations of a & Head ) class of Diagram algebras 8. BorcherdsKac- Moody N. UGC - 01.05.2009 Lie Super Algebras and Sthanumoorthy Rs.9,87,500 to some applications (Retired 30.04.2012 Professor) 9. Introduction to finite and N. DST - 16.04.2013 infinite dimensional Lie Sthanumoorthy Rs.9,66,000 to (Super) algebras (Retired 15.04.2015 Professor) 460 NAAC Reaccreditation - Evaluative Report School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics 18. Inter-institutional collaborative projects and associated grants received a) National collaboration - Nil b) International collaboration – Nil 19. Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC-SAP/CAS, DPE; DBT, ICSSR, AICTE, etc.; total grants received. UGC - SAP/CAS - 01.04.2009 to 31.03.2014 Sanctioned Rs.69.50 Lakhs 20. Research facility / centre with - International recognition · state recognition · national recognition · international recognition 21. Special research laboratories sponsored by / created by industry or corporate bodies – Nil 22. Publications: * Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national / international) National – 19 International – 145 * Monographs - Nil * Chapters in Books - Nil * Edited Books - 6 * Books with ISBN with details of publishers: Nil * Number listed in International Database (For e.g. Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database - International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.) – 145 * Citation Index – range / average - 150-200 * SNIP - * SJR - * Impact Factor – range / average - 1 to 1.5 h-index – 8 23. Details of patents and income generated - Nil 24. Areas of consultancy and income generated- Nil 461 NAAC Reaccreditation - Evaluative Report School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics 25. Faculty selected nationally / internationally to visit other laboratories /institutions / industries in India and abroad R. Sahadevan 1. Visited University of JCM, Madrid, Spain, during November 18- 25, 2012 2. Visited University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia during February 9 - March 2, 2013 26. Faculty serving in a) National committees b) International committees c) Editorial Boards d) any other (please specify) R.Sahadevan 1. Editorial Board Member, Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Hindwai Publishers, USA 2. Supervised Summer Research Fellow (one each for 2012 and 2013) Sponsored by Indian Science Academy, Bangalore 3. UGC External Expert for UGC-SAP, Department of Mathematics, M.S. University, Tirunelveli 4. UGC External expert for UGC –SAP, Department of Mathematics, Osmania University , Hyderabad, Andra Pradesh. 5. UGC External Expert for UGC-SAP, Department of Mathematics, Visva Bharathi University Santhiniketan, West Bengal. 6. Mentor, DST- Inspire Programme. E. Thandapani 1. Associate editor, Advances in Difference Equations, Springer verlag, Germany. 2. Associate editor, Far East Journal of Mathematical Sciences, India. 3. Associate editor, Malaya Journal of Mathematik, Singapore G. P. Youvaraj 1. Advisory Committee member, The Journal of the Indian Academy of Mathematics 2. Editorial Member, Mathematics News Letter published by Ramanujan Mathematical Society. 3. Treasurer, Forum D’ Analystes. 4. Mentor, Inspire Programme Department of Science & Technology. 5. Examination board member for 125th year Ramanujan Competition conducted by National Society for Technical Education. 462 NAAC Reaccreditation - Evaluative Report School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics 27. Faculty recharging strategies (UGC, ASC, Refresher / orientation programs, workshops, training programs and similar programs). The following Refresher courses were Conducted for faculty of Colleges 1. Refresher course in Mathematics on Functional Analysis, November 14 to December 4 , 2007, Coordinator: Dr.G.P.Youvaraj 2. Refresher Course in Mathematics on Real Analysis , November 5-25, 2008, Coordinator- Dr. E. Thandapani 3. Refresher Course in Mathematics on Algebra, November 5 to November 25, 2009, Coordinator: Dr. M. Logananthan 4. Refresher Course in Mathematics on Complex Analysis November 11 to December 1, 2010, Coordinator Dr. Premalatha Kumaresan 5. Refresher Course in Mathematics on Differential Equations November