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Programmes organized by the Department of Mathematics, Christ University, Bangalore, during the year2012-2013

1. International Conference on “Emerging Trends in Fluid Mechanics and Graph Theory”, August 16 – 18,2012

In view of the increase in applications of Mathematics in diverse fields, Department of Mathematics organized,an International Conference on “FLUID MECHANICS and GRAPH THEORY” during August 16 – 18, 2012 toexplore the developments in the respective fields.

Convener: Prof. T. V. JosephHead, Department of Mathematics

Secretary: Dr. S. PraneshCoordinator, Postgraduate Programme in Mathematics

Fourteen (International – 3 and National – 11) eminent personalities in the field of fluid mechanics and graph theorydelivered invited talk on their specialized topics. The details of the resource persons are given below:

Sl. No. Speaker Topic1. Dr. Akira Nakayama

Department of Mechanical Engineering,Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan

Applications of the volume averaging theory tomomentum and heat transfer within complexfluid flow systems

2. Dr. Norihan Md. ArfinDepartment of Mathematics & Institute forMathematical Research, Universiti Putra Malaysia,43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Marangoni boundary layer flow – Recentresults

3. Dr. Mahesha NarayanaSchool of Mathematics, Statistics and ComputerScience, University of Kwazulu-NatalPrivate Bag X01, Scottsville 3209,Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Utility of SLM to convective stability problems

4. Dr. P.G. SiddheshwarDepartment of Mathematics, Bangalore

UniversityCentral College Campus, Bangalore, Karnataka,India

You too can do CFD now!!

5. Dr. Mayil VagananDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Statistics,Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Cole-Hopf transformations for Burgersequations in higher dimensions

6. Dr. M. SubbiahDepartment of Mathematics, PondicherryUniversity, Pondicherry, India

On the nonlinear stability of inviscidhomogeneous shear flows in sea straits ofarbitrary cross sections

7. Dr. R.N. Pralhad KulkarniDepartment of Applied Mathematics, DIAT, Pune,India

Applications of hydrodynamic theory inarmaments engineering

8. Dr. S. SaravananDepartment of Mathematics, BharathiarUniversity,Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Nonlinear convection in enclosures in thepresence of surface radiation

9. Dr. M. SankarDepartment of Mathematics,East Point College of Engineering and Technology,Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Effect of size and location of a thin fin onnatural convection in avertical annular enclosure

10. Dr. S. ManjunathDepartment of Mathematics, BNM Institute ofTechnology, Bangalore 560 070, India

Mathematical modelling of dispersion:State-of-the-art

11. Prof. G. RavindraFormer Director, NCERT

Perfect graphs

12. Dr. B. SooryanarayanaDepartment of Mathematics,Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology,Bangalore-560 056, India

Verities of resolvable sets and dimensions ingraphs

13. Dr. R. ChandrasekharProfessor & Head,Department of MCA,PESIT, Bangalore-85, India

Applications of graph theory in engineering

14. Dr. Deepa SinhaDepartment of Applied Mathematics, DelhiTechnological University, Delhi-110 042, India

Unitary Cayley signed graphs

Number of Papers Presented:

(i) Fluid Mechanics – 66

(ii) Graph Theory – 25

Number of Participants ( Not presented the papers) – 34

Publication:

Twenty research articles presented in the conference are published in the special issue of MAPANA after reviewedby expert panel.

2. CONVERGENCE – 2012

The Intercollegiate fest of the Department of Mathematics for the year 2012 “Convergence 2012” was held onSeptember 5, 2012.Coordinators: Dr. Mayamma Joseph and Dr. HariBaskar R.Invited Talk : Dr. VittalRao

Details of Institutions Participated:Sl. No. Name of the Institutions Number of participants

1 CHRIST UNIVERSITY 12(+60 for Open Events)2 JYOTHI NIVAS COLLEGE 22

3 VIJAYA COLLEGE 144 MES DEGREE COLLEGE 175 BMS COLLEGE FOR WOMEN 126 MOUNT CARMEL COLLEGE 457 KLE’S NIJALINGAPPA COLLEGE 128 KRISTU JAYANTI COLLEGE 119 THE OXFORD COLLEGE OF SCIENCE 2210 CENTRAL COLLEGE 411 SURANA COLLEGE 512 INDIAN ACADEMY DEGREE COLLEGE 1413 St. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE 1214 MAHARANI LAKSHMI AMMANNI COLLEGE 12

Events : Debate, Quiz, Group Discussion, Lecture Contest, Mathematical Modelling, Puzzles

and Crosswords, Dumb Charades.

The I, II and III places were bagged by the Christ University, MES college and Mount CarmelCollege(MCC) respectively. Being the host institution the winner trophy was given to MES and runners – up trophy toMCC.

3. Magnificence of Mathematics Celebration of National Year of Mathematics

December 3-4, 2012

The Mathematics fraternity of Christ University organized a two day campus-wide celebration in connection withthe national year of mathematics that marked the 125th birth anniversary of Sri.Srinivasa Ramanujan, the greatIndian Mathematician, on the 3rd and 4th of December,2012. It had an array of events/competitions such as Creativewriting, photography, poster making along with puzzles, crosswords, Sudoku, fun with numbers, flash mob, treasurehunt and various other math tricks and games!

Faculty Coordinators- Prof. Mayamma Joseph, Prof. Maruthamanikandan,

Dr. Fr. Joseph Varghese.

4. Sequence- An intra collegiate Mathematics fest, December 15, 2012

The event was inaugurated by Dr. Anil Joseph Pinto, Registrar, Christ University.The events like Icebreaker + Mathematical Jingle, PotPuri, Maze, Word Building, Mental Math, Pictionary,Pencil Sketching of Mathematicians were held.

All the events were highly appreciated by students, PCM combination won the overall Trophy of outstandingcombination.

5. IV National Conference on “Emerging Trends In Graph Theory”, February 15-16, 2013

The department of Mathematics, Christ University, Bangalore organized the IV National Conference on

Emerging Trends in Graph Theory on 2013 February 15 and 16.

Organizing Secretary: Dr. Mayamma JosephChief guest : Prof. Choudam, Professor emeritus, IIT Chennai

The total number of participants were 43 and among them 13 people presented their research work. The authors and

the titles of the papers are:

1. K.A. Vidya, Domination in Fullerene Graphs

2. P. Sumathi and G. Alarmelu Mangai, A note on Locating Equitable Domination Number of a Graph

3. Julie Andrews and Jolly Andrews, On some results in join of graphs

4. H.P. Patil and K. Pranavan, On the Minimally Non-Outerplanarity of Generalized Middleand Total Graphs.

5. Mary U., Arockiaraj P.S. and James Albert, A Study on Wiener Polynomial for Steiner n-distance of some

graphs.

6. H.P. Patil and R. Pandiya Raj, Solutions of Graph Equations involving line, middle and Mycielski graphs.

7. D. Anotony Xavier, Deeni C. J and Rosary M., Preclusion for Radix Triangular Mesh

8. Julie Andrews and Jasintha Quadras, On Graceful Labelings

9. D. Paul Dhayabaran and P.Shalini, Skolem Even Graceful Digraphs on Double Cycle and Double Path.

10. V. Sriram and G. Narasimhan, Square Sum Labeling.

11. Gerard Rozario J and Lawrence Rozario Raj P., Further Results on Sum Labeling of Split Graphs.

12. R. Sampathkumar, G. Narasimhan and R. Chandrasekhar, On Cubic Sum Labeling of Graphs.

13. R. Sampathkumar, G. Narasimhan and R. Chandrasekhar, Contra Harmonic Mean Labeling of Graphs.

Apart from these paper presentations there were 4 talks by experts in domination, coloring and fuzzy graphs.

Sl. No. Speaker Title of the talk

1. Dr. I Sahul Hamid, The Madura College,Madurai

Graph Coloring through Domination

2. Dr. Davis M.A., Faculty of Engineering,Christ University

Fuzzy Graph: Fundamentals

3. Dr. H.P. Patil, Pondicherry University Graph Theory and its applications

4. Dr. L. Sunil Chandran, Indian Institute ofScience

Rainbow Connection Number ofGraphs

6. Two day special PG Workshop on “Current Topics in Mathematics” March 1-2, 2013

A two day PG Special workshop on “Current Topics in Mathematics” was organized exclusively for postgraduate students to motivate the students to take up research in their specialized topics, during March 1-2, 2013 inassociation with Karnataka Science and Technology Academy. Post graduate students of Mathematics fromChrist University, Mount Carmel College, Oxford College, Government Science College, MES College and CentralCollege are participated in this workshop. 93 students ( 61 from Christ and 32 from other colleges) are attended theworkshop. Seven eminent personalities from various institutes are invited as resource persons. The workshop wasinaugurated by Dr. H. S. Nagaraj, Member KSTA, and Director of BASE. He highlighted the importance ofcreativity, self learning and research orientation while doing PG programme.

Sl. No. Resource Persons Topic1. Prof. R. Vittal Rao

Centre for electronics design andTechonologies, Indian Institute of Sciences,Bangalore.

Singular value decomposition of matrix and itsapplications.

2. Prof. A. K. Nanda KumarDepartment of Mthematics,Indian Institute of Sciences,Basnglore.

Matrices and Determinants – What are they?

3. Dr. R. RangarajanDepartment of Mathematics, MysoreUniversity, Mysore.

Differential Equations and its Applications

4. Prof. G. RavindranFormer director, NCERT

Road to Perfect Graphs

5. Prof. G. D. Veerappa GowdaCentre for Applicable Mathematics,TIFR, Bangalore

Applications of some Partial Differential Equations.

6. K. V. NagarajDepartment of Mathematics,Amrith School of engineering, Bangalore.

Finite Element Methods

7. Dr. HamsapriyeDepartment of MathematicsR V College of Engineering,Bangalore.

Linear Algebra and its Applications.

At the end of the workshop multiple choice questions test was conducted on the topics covered in the workshop.The winners Mr. Taral D Shah and Ms. Femlin Pious from Christ University and Mr. Ramakrishna from Oxfordcollege are awarded with Rs. 5,000/-, Rs. 3000/- and Rs. 2000/- respectively. Certificates were issued for all theparticipants.

Other Activities:

Final year M Sc students participated two day workshop on “History and aspects of Mathematics”conducted by National Academy of Sciences in July 2012 at Indian Institute of science, Bangalore.

B Sc students participated in the workshop “Mathematics for planet Earth 2012” organized by theABACUS Club, Department of Mathematics, St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore in collaboration withTheoretical Sciences(ICTS)-TIFR, Bangalore on 25th August 2012.

I and II B Sc students participated in an Inter-Collegiate fest “Mathematics Day” during August 28, 2012.They won Second prize in Sudoku event.

“Soft Skill Training” programme was conducted to Second year MSc students during 16-17 November2012.

Two First year students secured the first place in Model Exhibition competition held on 7th December 2012conducted by Department of Mathematics, Mount Carmel College, Bangalore.

Mathematics students participated in a 5 day Science Academies’ Lecture workshop on Mathematicsconducted during 17-21 December 2012 by the ABACUS Club, Department of Mathematics, St. Joseph’sCollege, Bangalore.

Department of Mathematics participated in “Daksh” a career fair organized by Christ University Bangaloreon 23rd January, 2013.

Discrete Mathematics Forum (ADMA) meeting was held on 17th February 2013 in the University premises.

Mathematics project exhibition was conducted by Department of Mathematics for the Mathematicsstudents on 18th February, 2013 and selected teams participated in the Science Exhibition.

Guest Lectures were arranged throughout the year for B Sc and M Sc Students :

Class Resource Person Institution TopicI BSc(PCM,PME,CMS, CME)

Dr. Jyoti Kumar Department of Management studies,Christ University, Bangalore

Motivational Talk

III BSc(PCM,PME,CMS, CME)

Dr.Akira Nakayamma Department of MechanicalEngineering, Shizuoka University,Hamamatsu, Japan

“Applications of fluidMechanics”

I and II M Sc Dr.Akira Nakayamma Department of MechanicalEngineering, Shizuoka University,Hamamatsu, Japan

“Applications of fluidMechanics”

I and II M Sc Dr. B D Acharya Advisor (Retd. ) MathematicalSciences,DST, Technology Bhawan, New Delhi

“Applications ofGraph Theory”

I, II and III B Sc(PCM,PME,CMS, CME)

Dr. Vittal Rao Emeritus Scientist, Indian Institute ofScience, Bangalore

“Applications ofMathematics”

III-BSc(PCM,PME,CMS, CME)

Ms. Anupama Nayar Deaprtment of English, ChristUniversity, Bangalore

“CommunicationSkills forEmployability andFuture Studies”