Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 27: The 84th annual conference of Indian Mathematical Society (IMS) was inaugurated today at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU), Katra.
Vice-Chancellor, University of Jammu, Prof. Manoj Dhar graced the event as chief guest.
Speaking on the occasion Dr. A.K Das, Organising Secretary of the Conference, said that IMS was the oldest and largest mathematical society of the country, established in 1907 and this time it organised its annual meet at SMVDU.
Prof. Sanjeev Jain, Vice-Chancellor, SMVDU spoke about the importance of Mathematics while stressing upon the fact that mathematical methods are not only used in science and engineering but are to be used extensively in economics, medicine, agriculture, architecture, arts and all other fields of modern knowledge.
Prof V.K Bhat, Dean, Faculty of Sciences, asked the young participants to interact with experts from and outside the country.
Prof Sudhir Ghorpade, President of IMS spoke on the role of history in learning and teaching mathematics. Prof N.K Thakare, General Secretary of the Conference gave information about the society and announced various awards for 2018.
Prof. Peeyush Chandra, Academic Secretary of the Conference, informed about the academic programmes of the conference.
During the four days of the Conference many speakers from different institutions of India will deliver their talks.
Six symposia are to be organized which will be conducted during the conference.
Participants from all over the country and abroad are going to present their research papers in the conference. The inaugural session ended with the vote of thanks by Dr. Surender Singh.
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