Mathematics and Information Technology will be key courses of new Ramanujan College (Morning) of Delhi University. Read the rest of this entry »
IIT, TIFR to set up National Centre for Mathematics
Two premier institutes of India — the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) — have joined hands to set up the National Centre for Mathematics (NCM) in the city. Read the rest of this entry »
President Pratibha Patil Thursday inaugurated the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2010) here with a call to promote mathematics amongst the younger generation. She said study of mathematics inculcates the habit of rational thought and promotes scientific temper. Read the rest of this entry »
Chandan Sharma
This is a kind of great Indian rope-trick in which magicians in the past time used to do a magic by throwing a rope in the sky without any base or knot and try to ride on it. Exactly this is happening in Delhi University, at least in front of semester system at the undergraduate level.
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Delhi University Students Union (DUSU), who had applied to the court to become third party in DU vs DUTA case, today pleaded before the High Court of Delhi to defer the implementation of semester based science courses which have been hastily brought in during the vacation without adequate debate and discussion. Even the courses have not been duly approved by the statutory bodies of the University. It also said that Students should not be made victims, even for a transitory phase of unprepared, hasty and ill conceived experiments.
“The illegal denial by the Vice-Chancellor the right of students to be represented in the Academic Council though the Statutes provide for such representation is malafide. The malafide is also evident in the fact that the University administration has not bothered to organize proper academic discussion and answer various questions that students have on the matter”, DUSU’s counsel said in the court. Read the rest of this entry »
It is Chess Grandmaster versus mathematicians. Mathematicians, who love to play with numbers or play chess will have unique opportunity this year. World Chess Grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand will play Chess against 40 mathematicians in August during International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). Vishwanathan Anand has keen interest in Mathematics and Science and he uses Mathematical formulas to play and win Chess.
According to Ministry of Science and Technology on the sidelines of the Congress, another attractive event will be the opportunity offered to delegates to play against the World Chess Grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand. Anand will play Chess against 40 opponents to be chosen from among the delegates to the ICM at Hyderabad.
It is notable that ICM is being organized in India for the first time. President Pratibha Devisingh Patil will inaugurate the 9-day ICM at Hyderabad on 19th August. President will give away the Fields Medal, the most prestigious global award for mathematical achievement, which is traditionally announced and given away at the ICMs. The Fields medal, named after J.M Fields, a Canadian mathematician, is awarded to promising young mathematicians under the age of 40. Winners of three other prestigious awards – Nevanlinna Prize, The Gauss prize and The Chern Prize will also receive their awards from the President of India.
Madras School of Economics (MSE) and IGNOU have jointly offered full time post graduate programme in Actuarial Economics, Applied Quantitative Finance and Environmental Economics.
Eligiblity for all the three programmes is graduation in any subject with strong Mathematical/Statistical background. The aspiring students must have had Mathematics at 10+2 level.
The admissions are based on common entrance test, which will be held simultaneously at Chennai, New Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai on July 14th ,2010. Interested candidates may visit IGNOU campus or website for more detail.