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Topic: "An interactive session for the students on upcoming career opportunities at the RBI (Reserve Bank of India). "
Speaker: Mr. Pratik Mitra, Alumnus of Department of Mathematics Currently designated as (Graduated in 1992)
Director (GM, Grade 'E')
International Banking Division
Department of Statistics and Information Managemant, Reserve Bank of India.
Venue: Department of Mathematics, Baker Building, Presidency University.
Date: 06/11/2025
Topic: " RECENT TRENDS IN CYBER CRIME INCLUDING CRYPTOCURRENCY"
Speaker: Bidit Mondal, DySP, Cybercrime Wing, West Bengal
Venue: PLT1
Date: 31/10/2025
"Symmetry '25: A Mathematics Festival at Presidency University "
Presidency University, Kolkata, successfully hosted its annual mathematics festival, Symmetry '25, on September 19, 2025. This flagship event drew nearly 260 participants (students, faculty, and scholars) for a vibrant celebration of mathematics, creativity, and collaboration.
Key Highlights:
Key Highlights:
The festival commenced with an inspiring inaugural address by Professor Avishek Adhikari, emphasizing that a strong foundation in Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science is essential for excelling in the age of AI and technology.
Distinguished Lectures:
Symmetry '25 bridged theory and application with lectures from eminent scholars:
Pure Math: Professor Neena Gupta (ISI Kolkata), renowned for her work on the Zariski Cancellation Problem, spoke on the beauty and intellectual rigor of abstract mathematical structures.
Applied Math: Professor Koel Das (IISER Kolkata) demonstrated the practical relevance of mathematical concepts in computational sciences and real-world systems.
Competitions and Collaboration:
Competitions and Collaboration:
The festival featured a diverse mix of events that tested logic, creativity, and teamwork:
Online Events: Included Meme-otopy (humor and math), Symmetry of Shadows (photography), and the creative writing contest, Math-o-Quill.
Offline Events: Featured logic puzzles like Crack the Grid, the intellectually charged Inquisition quiz (won by an ISI team), and the Paper Presentation, which showcased young research aptitude.
The event's success was a testament to the seamless collaboration and organizational skills of the faculty and student volunteers. Symmetry '25 concluded as a memorable collective achievement, reinforcing the university's legacy of nurturing curiosity, innovation, and community in mathematics.
Topic: " STATE OF THE ART ISSUES IN QUANTUM AND POST QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY"
Speaker: Prof. Subhamoy Maitra, Indian Statistical Institute
Venue: PCM, AUDITORIUM
Date: 22/08/2025
Topic: "CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY FIELDS INCLUDING AI, ROBOTICS, AND DIGITAL MANUFACTURING AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR GOVERNMENT POLICY, TRADE AND INVESTMENT, AND STRATEGIC COMPETITION WITH COUNTRIES SUCH AS CHINA"
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Ezell, author of "INNOVATION ECONOMICS: THE RACE FOR GLOBAL ADVANTAGE"
Organizers: Department of Mathematics ,Department of Economics, Department of Statistics,Presidency University, Kolkata
Venue: PRASANTA CHANDRA MAHALANOBIS AUDITORIUM
Date: 07/08/2025
"PROJECT PINK ALERT
Awareness Today. life Tomorrow"
Project Initiator: Prof. Kanad Basu, Data Science Leader and Business School Professor
Project Coordinator: Prof. Avishek Adhikari, Professor at Presidency University
Special Guest: Sanjoy Chatterjee, Chairman, NASSCOM Regional Council-East Co-Founder, Entiovi Technologies
Speaker(s):
Dr. Soumen Das, Director, Institute of Breast Disease, NCRI Hospital, Kolkata
Dr. Tanmoy Mandal, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Manipal Hospital, Dhakuria
Title: CANCER AWARENESS SEMINAR
Venue: PCM, AUDITORIUM
Date: 14/05/2025
Topic: "Defense Seminar"
Speaker: Ms. Sucharita Biswas
Title: ON AUTOMORPHISM GROUPS OF SOME FAMILIES OF GRAPHS
Venue: MLT 1, Department of Mathematics
Date: 16/04/2025
Topic: "Is Relativity Theory a different form of Newtonian mechanics/Euclidean geometry?"
Speaker: Prof. Subenoy Chakraborty, Jadavpur University (Retd.)
Venue: UG1, Department of Mathematics
Date: 04/04/2025
Topic: "Defense Seminar"
Speaker: Mr. Partha Sarathi Ghosh
Title: On some generalisations of amenability and related stability properties
Venue: MLT 1, Department of Mathematics
Date: 10/03/2025
Topic: "From Campus to Careers: How AI Will Reshape Your Future"
Speaker: Mr. Sandip Lahiri (A Distinguished Technologist, HPE GreenLake Cloud Services in Tampa, Florida, USA
Alumnus of Department of Mathematics Presidency College (1984-1987) )
Date: 28/02/2025
Venue: P. C. Mahalanobis Auditorium, 1st Floor, Baker Building, Presidency University
Topic: "Defense Seminar"
Speaker: Mr. Subhamoy Mondal
Title: On The Total Variation of Curves Under Chaos and Positive Topological Entropy
Venue: MLT 1, Department of Mathematics
Date: 20/02/2025
Topic: "Defense Seminar"
Speaker: Mr. Chandan Goswami
Title: Mathematical Aspects of Security and Privacy for Internet of Things (IoT)
Venue: MLT 1, Department of Mathematics
Date: 05/02/2025
Topic: "7th REGIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS 2025: MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, IT AND ITS APPLICATIONS AND STATISTICS"
The Presidency University Kolkata and the Department of Science and Technology and Biotechnology, Government of West Bengal jointly organized the 7th Regional Science and Technology Congress 2025 from on 17th and 18th January 2025 at the Presidency University campus, 86/1, College Street, Kolkata 73. The category of MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, IT AND ITS APPLICATIONS AND STATISTICS saw total 18 paper submissions of which 7 papers were presented on 17th and 7 on the 18th of January. The lectures were held in the room MLT1 of the Department of Mathematics in Presidency University, Kolkata. The event started with the lead lecture from Prof. Alok Goswami with the talk titled, “A Masterstroke of a Mathematical Genius”.
The 3 best papers were awarded Outstanding Paper Awards for presentation of their re- search work. The award carried a Certificate, Memento and cash prize. The awardees at Regional Science and Technology Congress will be invited for participation in the State Sci- ence and Technology Congress. Incidentally the recipients of Outstanding Paper Award were all from the host university. Mr. Sauvik Poddar with “On the Number of Isomorphism Classes of d-integral Circulant Graphs” along with Mr. Anubrato Bhattacharyya presented the paper titled “Topology of Basin components in Complexified DSM family” and Mr. Ujjal Karmakar “On Free wreath product construction arises as quantum symmetries of graph C*-algebras”, for three of them to bag all the Outstanding Paper Awards.
Topic: "Data Science and Social Justice"
Speaker: Dr. Ron Buckmire (Dean of the School of Computer Science and mathematics, Professor of Mathematics Marist College, Ney York, USA )
Date: 15/01/2025
Venue: MLT 1, Department of Mathematics
Topic: "Using simple ODE and AI models to understand questions in human and ecological systems: ideas and perspectives"
Speaker: Prof. Kevin Duffy (Durban University of Technology, South Africa )
Date: 12/11/2024
Venue: MLT 1, Department of Mathematics
Topic: "Mathematics for Data Science: Gradient Descent"
Speakers: (1) Mr. Krishanu Bera (Software Delivery Manager, IQVIA)
(2) Mr. Biswajit Pal (Director, Data Science, Kenvue)
Date: 08/11/2024
Through Google Meet
Topic: "The Common Solution Space of General Relativity and Modern Cosmology"
Speaker: Dr. Andronikos Paliathanasis (Durban University of Technology, South Africa )
Date: 21/10/2024
Venue: MLT 1, Department of Mathematics
Topic: "Mathematics for Data Science: Foundations and Applications"
Speakers: (1) Mr. Biswajit Pal (Principal Data Scientist, Kenvue)
(2) Mr. Suman Pal (AI/ML Comp. Sci. Manager, Accenture)
Date: 16/08/2024
Through Google Meet
Topic: "The Accelerating Expanding Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Einstein's Cosmological Constant"
Speaker: Prof. Bharat Ratra (Kansas State University, USA )
Date: 12/08/2024
Venue: A. K. Basak Auditorium, Main Building
Topic: "Introduction to Data Science and Machine Learning: The Age of AI"
Speaker: Ms. Aalekhya Mukhopadhyay ( CMI, Data Science )
Date: 02/08/2024
Venue: Department of Mathematics, MLT 2
"Defense Seminar"
Speaker: Mr. Alamgir Hossain
Title: New Aspects of Fractal on Higher Dimensions
Venue: MLT 2, Department of Mathematics
Date: 29/07/2024
"NCM workshop"
Speaker(s):
Kingshook Biswas, ISI Kolkata
Sudeb Mitra, City University of New York
Sabyasachi Mukherjee, TIFR Mumbai
Sushil Gorai, IISER Kolkata
Krishnendu Gongopadhyay, IISER Mohali
Title: Quasiconformal mappings and Holomorphic Dynamics
Venue: MLT 1
Date: From 29/07/2024 to 03/08/2024
This was the first NCM workshop in the Department of Mathematics, Presidency University Kolkata funded by National Centre for Mathematics (NCM). The workshop was aimed mainly at young researchers and PhD students. We had eminent speakers coming from various reputed institutions of India and USA. There were four mini-courses in this workshop where the participants learnt various advanced techniques of Complex Analysis which emerged in modern research of Mathematics in the 1960s and 1980s. The goal of this workshop was to promote research in modern Mathematics.
Topic: "On Property (T)"
Speaker: Mr. Aniket Chakroborty ( Research Scholar,TIFR, Mumbai)
Dates: 25/07/2024, 26/07/2024
Venue: Department of Mathematics
Topic: "ERGODIC THEOREMS, Fursteneberg’s proof of Szemeredi’s theorem "
Speaker: Dr. Arijit Ganguly , Faculty of Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IIT Kanpur
Dates: 20/06/2024, 25/06/2024, 27/06/2024, 01/07/2024, 04/07/2024, 10/07/2024
Venue: Department of Mathematics
Topic: "Mathematical Finance: Market Modelling and Data-Science-Driven Applications "
Speaker: Prof. Indranil Sengupta, Environmental Finance & Risk Management in the Institute of Environment and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Florida International University
Dates: 06/07/2024
Venue: MLT 1, Department of Mathematics
Two lectures on "The Black Holes in our Universe"
Speaker: Prof. Tapas K. Das, HRI
Dates: 16/04/2024, 18/04/2024
Venue: MLT 1, Department of Mathematics
Topic: "The Standard Model of Cosmology and Open Questions "
Speaker: Prof. Bharat Ratra (Kansas State University, USA )
Date: 11/03/2024
Venue: MLT 1, Department of Mathematics
A series of lectures on "PROBABILITY THEORY AND MARTINGALES"
Speaker: Prof. Alok Goswami, IACS Kolkata
Dates: 27/02/2024, 05/03/2024, 19/03/2024, 05/04/2024, 12/04/2024, 26/04/2024, 03/05/2024, 10/05/2024
Venue: MLT 1, Department of Mathematics
A series of lectures on "Holomorphic Motions and Related Topics" and "Schwarz-Pick Systems"
Speaker: Prof. Sudeb Mitra, City University of New York, USA
Dates: 15/01/2024, 16/01/2024, 17/01/2024, 18/01/2024,
Venue: UG 1, Department of Mathematics
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