Speakers & Panelists

The purpose of this panel discussion is to inform the bachelors, masters and doctoral students about job opportunities in academia and industries. The panelists will make short presentations about these matters and these will be followed by a question-answer session. The panelists are academicians and industry professionals and some with a mix of both. Sometime during the master’s degree, most students make up their minds whether they wish to go for higher studies or for a job in the industry. Mathematicians are nowadays preferred by many industries such as insurance, government, banking, finance and software. A large number of IITs, IISERs, and universities have been opened during the last decade which has created a huge number of vacancies in academics. The panelists will speak about the skills which the students must acquire to prepare them for the path they wish to tread after they graduate with a masters degree.

Undergraduate instructors in different mathematics programmes across the country face some common questions and difficulties. What are the expectations with which students join maths programmes in college, and how do these differ from the demands of our programmes? How can the transition from school to college be eased? How does one ensure learning in large classes? What practices inside and outside the classroom are effective when working with a group of students from different social and academic backgrounds? What types of curricula and course materials help expose students to and prepare them for different career options?

The panelists are Prof. V. V. Acharya, Prof. Amber Habib, Prof. Geetha Venkataraman, and Prof. Fozia Qazi. They bring their rich and varied experiences from within undergraduate classrooms, as well as insights from designing programmes and curricula, and writing and speaking extensively on mathematics education.

Mathematics as a discipline essentially concerns itself with abstractions, which may or may not be directly inspired by 'real life applications'. Yet the process of doing mathematics is a very social practice and is deeply embedded in society. In this panel discussion, we foreground some of the ways in which mathematics interacts with society: Why is public understanding of mathematics relevant, especially in the context of COVID-19? What does it mean to 'do mathematics' in our social context? How do we understand various concerns about representation and gender in the mathematics community? Can we make mathematics socially relevant, given India's social context? And can mathematics shed any insights on society and social processes?

The panelists are Prof. Om Damani, Prof. Neeraja Sahasrabuddhe, Prof. Anand Sahasranaman, and Prof. Tathagata Sengupta. They bring valuable insights from their varied rich experience in multiple distinct aspects of the broad theme on mathematics and society.

Symposium on Algebra & Number Theory :

1. Jaitra Chattopadhyay (HRI, Prayagraj)

2. Dishari Chaudhuri (IISER Mohali)

3. Jyoti Dasgupta (IISER Pune)

4. Jyotirmoy Ganguly (IMSc, Chennai)

5. Kriti Goel (IIT Bombay)

6. Sumana Hatui (IISc, Bangalore)

7. Abhash Kumar Jha (IIT (BHU), Varanasi)

8. Gurleen Kaur (Panjab University)

9. Bivas Khan (IISER Pune)

10. Pasupulati Sunil Kumar (IISER Thiruvananthapuram)

11. Rahul Kumar (IIT Gandhinagar)

12. Ashish Mishra (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil)

13. Snehajit Misra (TIFR, Mumbai)

14. Rimpa Nandi (IIT Kharagpur)

15. Sridhar P. Narayanan (IMSc, Chennai)

16. Digjoy Paul (IMSc, Chennai)

17. Puspendu Pradhan (NISER, Bhubaneswar)

18. Rakhi Pratihar (IIT Bombay)

19. Samarpita Ray (IISER Pune)

20. Sudeshna Roy (Chennai Mathematical Institute)

21. Bidisha Roy (HRI, Prayagraj)

22. Abinash Sarma (IISER Thiruvananthapuram)

23. Mihir Sheth (TIFR, Mumbai)

24. Tania Sidana (IIIT Delhi)

25. Anoop Singh (HRI, Prayagraj)

26. Sujeet Kumar Singh

27. Lalit Vaishya (HRI, Prayagraj)

28. Ravitheja Vangala

Symposium on Analysis & PDE :

1. Animesh Bhandari (Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore)

2. Sudhakar Chaudhary (Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management, Ahmedabad, Gujarat)

3. Ratan Kumar Giri (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)

4. Sarika Goyal (Bennett University, Greater Noida)

5. Prashant Goyal (IIT Delhi)

6. Amudhan Krishnaswamy-Usha (Texas A&M University, USA)

7. Vishvesh Kumar (Ghent University, Belgium)

8. Anwoy Maitra (IISc, Bangalore)

9. Sruthy Murali (IMSc, Chennai)

10. Anshu Nirbhay (IISER Bhopal)

11. Diptesh Kumar Saha (NISER, Bhubaneswar)

12. Saurav Samantaray (IISER Thiruvananthapuram)

13. Abhishek Sarkar (IIT Jodhpur)

14. Amar Deep Sarkar (HRI, Prayagraj)

15. Abhrojyoti Sen (NISER, Bhubaneswar)

16. Navneet Lal Sharma (Amity University, Gurugram)

17. Pradeep Kumar Sharma (Aligarh Muslim University)

18. Veer Singh (Shiv Nadar University, Gautam Buddha Nagar)

19. Aasaimani Thamizhazhagan (University of Waterloo, Canada)

20. Prateek Kumar Vishwakarma (IISc, Bangalore)

Symposium on Topology, Geometry & Dynamics :

1. Pooja Bansal (Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi)

2. Haritha C (IISER Bhopal)

3. Neeraj Kumar Dhanwani (IISER Bhopal)

4. Shubham Dwivedi (University of Waterloo, Canada)

5. Gianluca Faraco (IISc, Bangalore)

6. Prashant Kumar (The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur )

7. Chandan Maity (IISER Mohali)

8. Arunava Mandal (Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore)

9. Abhishek Mukherjee (Kalna College, University of Burdwan)

10. Manoj Prajapati (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)

11. Kuldeep Saha (IISER Bhopal)

12. Munmi Saikia (The Assam Royal Global University, Guwahati)

13. Shrey Sanadhya (University of Iowa, USA)

14. Koushik Sarkar (University of North Bengal)

15. Anurag Singh (Chennai Mathematical Institute)

16. Sharvari Neetin Tikekar (IISER Thiruvananthapuram)

17. Anita Tomar (Government Degree College Thatyur, Sri Dev Suman Uttarakhand University)

18. Sheela Verma (TIFR CAM, Bangalore)