About the Department

The PG and Research Department of Mathematics is one of the most promising departments in Kongunadu Arts and Science College. The B.Sc. Mathematics Degree course was started as an aided course during the academic year 1978-1979 with a sanctioned strength of 40 students and 35 batches have gone out so far. The present strength of the course for the I year is 60. M.Sc. Mathematics Degree course was started as an aided course during the academic year 1982-1983 and 33 batches have successfully gone out so far. The present strength of the course is 40. The research programmes leading to M.Phil and PhD in Mathematics were started as self-supportive programmes during 2000-2001. Our department comes under Fund for Improvement of Science & Technology (FIST) sponsorship scheme of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi.

The vision and mission of the department is to enrich the Mathematical and Analytical skills of the students as Mathematics is considered as the queen of all sciences.

The President of our college Dr. M. Aruchami is very particular about the development of the department from its inception and encourages the staff members to do research. The Secretary of our college Dr. C. A. Vasuki constantly motivating us to conduct more academic and research activities and bestows all the facilities to the department. The Principal of our College Dr. M. Lekeshmanaswamy supports all our endeavours.

Our department has a team of well qualified and dedicated teachers. Our department staff members have completed six minor research projects funded by University Grants Commission, New Delhi. At present 12 faculty members are guiding Ph.D scholars and 13 faculty members are guiding M.Phil students. Our faculty members have published more than 400 research articles in both National and International journals. Our staff members have done colloborative research works with foreign professors working in Fukuoka University, Japan, Yatsushiro College of Technology, Kumamoto, Japan, Kyushu Kyoritsu University, Kitakyushu, Japan, MyongJi University, Youngin, Korea, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan and Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil. Most of our staff members are having membership in renouned Academic and Scientific bodies.

Due to the sincere and dedicated efforts of the faculty members, the pass percentage in both UG and PG is always more than 95% since the inception of the courses.

So far, 180 candidates have completed their M.Phil programmes and 10 are pursuing their degree. 40 students have completed their Ph.D degree and 30 has registered. More than 40% of our Under Graduate students are placed in various software companies through the placement cell of our college. Most of the remaining students are pursuing higher studies (PG, M.Phil and Ph.D). More than 95% of M.Phil /Ph.D degree holders have been placed in various State and Central Universities, Engineering and Arts & Science Colleges as Assistant Professors and some of them are working as higher secondary teachers in various schools in India and abroad.

Intense research is being carried out in thrust areas such as Topology, Digital Topology, Graph Theory, Differential Equations, Operator Theory, Functional Analysis, Coding Theory - Cryptography, Fuzzy set and Fuzzy logic and Operations Research.

Every semester we conduct Mathematics Association meetings. Eminent mathematicians and industrialists have given valuable lectures for the benefit of students. We have conducted many seminars/conferences and workshops. The following is the recent notable activities of our Department.

In the year 2016, we have organized a National Level conference on "Current Scenario in Pure and applied Mathematics" on 22nd & 23rd December 2016 sponsored by Indian Science Congress Association, Coimbatore Chapter and Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology (TNSCST). The selected papers have been published in Vol. 9 in the journal “Journal of Informatics and Mathematical Sciences” which is indexed in ESCI (Web of Science). https://www.rgnpublications.com/journals/index.php/jims/issue/view/63

1st International Conference on Current Scenario in Pure and Applied Mathematics held during 14-16, February 2018 sponsored by Indian Science Congress Association, Coimbatore Chapter. The selected papers were published in the journal “Communications Faculty of Sciences University of Ankara Series A1 Mathematics and Statistics” which is indexed in ESCI (Web of Science). http://dergipark.gov.tr/cfsuasmas/page/4659

2^nd International Conference on Current Scenario in Pure and Applied Mathematics (ICCSPAM 2019) held on 03.01.2019 was sponsored by Indian Science Congress Association, Coimbatore Chapter. In this occasion, a special issue of the American International Journal of Research in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (UGC Approved Journal) containing 57 research articles submitted by the participants was released. The same was also released in online as an e-journal.

3^rd International Conference on Current Scenario In Pure And Applied Mathematics (ICCSPAM - 2020) was held between 30 and 31st January, 2020. The selected papers were published in reputed Scopus indexed Journals namely, Journal of Physics: Conference Series and Advances in Mathematics: Scientific Journal.

4^th International Conference on Current Scenario In Pure And Applied Mathematics (ICCSPAM - 2021) was held between 29 and 30th January, 2021 in Virtual Mode. The selected papers were published in Palestine Journal of Mathematics (Scopus Indexed) without any additional charges.

Our department has a very strong Alumni Association and many of our Alumni are serving in notable positions as renowned scientists, professors, software engineers, officers in Nationalized Banks and Government Organizations.

Recently, our Department has been recognized by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India under Star College Scheme.