About University
Sardar Patel University was established by an Act of the Legislative Assembly of the then Bombay Province in December 1955 and was recognised under 2f and 12b of the UGC Act in October 1968. The university has completed 75 golden years of a fruitful existence. The university is situated in pollution-free, clean and green town Vallabh Vidyanagar. The educational township of Vallabh Vidyanagar is close to the Milk City of India (Anand) in terms of its strategic geographical location. The university comprises of 27 Postgraduate Departments, a constituent college, and 148 colleges affiliated to it. There are more than 50 PG courses available in the affiliated colleges/institutions. The university has been re-accredited by NAAC in 2016 with A grade with CGPA 3.25; was included in DST-PURSE Program in 2010 based on its research performance. The university has a Center of Excellence in Applied Polymers.
About Department
The Department of Mathematics, established in 1958, offers M.Sc. and Ph.D. Programs in Mathematics; and has a total strength of 11 faculty and nearly 250 students. The Teaching Program is a blend of Pure, Applied and Applicable Mathematics comprising advanced courses in Analysis, Algebra, Topology, Geometry, Banach Algebras, Harmonic Analysis, Mathematical Methods, Differential Equations, Graph Theory, Operations Research, Classical Mechanics and Relativity. The innovative courses include Students Seminars, Problems and Exercises in Mathematics, Financial Mathematics, Probability Theory and Mathematics Education. The research areas pursued include Banach and Topological Algebras, Operator Theory and Operator Algebras, Function Algebras, Graph Theory, Harmonic Analysis on groups and semigroups with weights, Approximation theory, Special Functions, Relativity Theory, Number Theory and Financial Mathematics. NBHM Regional Library in Mathematics (Western Region) is housed in the Department. The Department has strong computational facility. Annual Problem Solving Workshops for Western Region is a regular feature of the Department. Nearly 100 students have cleared NET/NET-JRF/GATE/NBHM Tests. The faculty has lured laurels like Common Wealth Fellowships, DAAD, IASc Fellowship and awards for research papers adjudged best. The faculty has successfully developed National and International research collaborations.
About Gujarat Ganit Mandal
Gujarat Ganit Mandal (GGM) is a registered association (Regd. No. F-226) having permanent office at Department of Mathematics, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. The objective of GGM is to promote the cause of Mathematics in Gujarat. GGM was founded in the year 1963 by Late Prof. P. C. Vaidya (1918 - 2010), who was internationally renowned for his research work in the Theory of Relativity. Prof. U. N. Singh and Prof. A. R. Rao were also among the founder members of GGM. The chief activity of GGM is to hold its annual conference. The annual conferences of the Mandal are held in different parts of Gujarat, in big cities and small towns; sometimes even in a corner place in the state. The idea behind this is to create awareness about mathematics all over the state and to give the benefit of the activities of GGM to the people of all parts of Gujarat. So far 58 conferences have been held in more then 30 different places. In 1971, the GGM conference was held in Mumbai.
The three-day program of an annual conference of GGM is a variegated feast of interesting items like - technical, popular, invited as well as memorial lectures, symposia, seminars, problem solving evening - where challenging problems are given in advance whose solutions are given by members of the audience, exhibition of mathematical models and books, reading of mathematical news, discussions on current problems of mathematics education, presentation of research papers by research students etc. The annual conference of GGM provides a unique opportunity to the students and teachers from schools, colleges and university departments to intermingle freely and to exchange fruitful ideas. On an average about three hundred delegates attend the conference every year. Gujarat Ganit Mandal had also organized research seminars in past at various places of Gujarat which were attended by researchers from Gujarat.
