25/05/2023
Two-Day regional workshop of Indian Women and Mathematics funded by National Board of Higher Mathematics, India will be held on June 22–23, 2023 at Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, Kashmir. The workshop is open to mathematics graduate and post-graduate students, research fellows, college and university teachers and researchers from UT of Jammu & Kashmir, UT of Ladakh, Punjab, Himachal and also intended for neighboring regions. It will however, have a special focus on women participants. The aim of the workshop is to promote larger participation of women in mathematics education and encourage them to choose mathematics as a profession.
During the one-and-a-half day workshop, mathematicians from different parts of the country will deliver lectures on wide range of topics which will expose participants to glimpses of modern mathematics. The lectures will be expository in nature making them accessible to a wide audience. This event's main objective is to provide junior female mathematicians with the opportunity to communicate with their senior colleagues both individually and in small groups. There will be poster sessions in addition to the invited talks, facilitating contacts between junior students/researchers and experienced mathematicians.
The registration link is below:
https://forms.gle/Xh25gdCWbCf2zinG8
The Registration link will close at midnight on May 31, 2023.
For more information, see the web page link of the event: https://sites.google.com/view/two-day-regional-workshop/home
For any queries, write to us at: [email protected]
Registration form - IWM Regional Workshop at IUST (Application Deadline: May 31, 2023)
Two-Day regional workshop of Indian Women and Mathematics funded by National Board of Higher Mathematics, India will be held on June 22–23, 2023 at Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, Kashmir. The workshop is open to mathematics graduate and post-graduate students, research f...
14/03/2022
To learn about pi, we need to go back a few thousand years and learn about this elusive number. The value of pi was first calculated by Archimedes of Syracuse (287–212 BC), one of the greatest mathematicians of the ancient world.
However, it was first baptized with the Greek letter as its name when William Oughtred called it as such in his works dating back to 1647, later embraced by the scientific community when Leonhard Euler used the symbol in 1737.
But how did Pi Day end up in a country-wide phenomenon? For that, we need to travel to the Exploratorium in 1988 San Francisco, where it was thought up by physicist Larry Shaw.
Shaw linked March 14 with the first digits of pi (3.14) in order to organize a special day to bond the Exploratorium staff together, where he offered fruit pies and tea to everyone starting at 1:59 pm, the following three digits of the value. A few years later, after Larry’s daughter, Sara, remarked that the special date was also the birthday of Albert Einstein, they started celebrating the life of the world-famous scientist.
Pi Day became an annual Exploratorium tradition that still goes on today, and it didn’t take long for the idea to grow exponentially, hitting a peak on March 12, 2009, when the U.S Congress declared it a national holiday.
Now, celebrated by math geeks all around the circumference of the world, Pi Day became a pop culture phenomenon, with several places partaking in the activities, antics, observations and all the pie eating they can
05/03/2022
"Department of Mathematics"
Rayat Shikshan’s Santha’s KARMAVEER BHAURAO PATIL COLLEGE, VASHI
[Autonomous College]
Accredited by NAAC with Grade ‘A+’ (CGPA 3.53)| ISO 9001:2015 Certified Institute ‘Best College’ Award by the University of Mumbai. Celebrate
International Mathematics Day 2022 on 13 & 14 March 2022
(Two Days Program)
Program Schedule
Day 1: 13 March, 2022
Time: 11.00 AM to 12.00PM
IGNITE YOUR MIND: QUIZ
Who can participate for quiz and attend program
: UG/PG Mathematics baground students.
First Prize: Rs.1000, Second Prize: Rs. 700, Third Prize: Rs. 500
Day 2
Time 11.00AM
Talk by Chief Guest:
Professor. T. E.Venkata Balaji,IIT, Chennai
Topic:Geometries of the Line and the Plane
Link for registration: https://forms.gle/HHFq959avDPFHYyf7
Registration is free
Link for WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Jq7GKX3Lq17IgPKilwp0kq
Regards,
Mr.N.B.Nalawade, Coordinator & Assistant professor, Department of Mathematics
Dr. G. A. Dhanorkar, HoD Mathematics
Dr. A. M.Bhagwat Chairman, Navi Mumbai Science Foundation
Dr.Shubhada Nayak, Principal,KBP College,Vashi
01/03/2022
JRF advertisement @ Department of Mathematics, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
11/02/2022
Today is the 183rd birthday for American engineer, physicist & mathematician Josiah Willard Gibbs [1839-1903]. He was admitted to Yale College in 1854, at the age of 15, and remained at Yale until he received his PhD in engineering in 1863. His doctoral thesis was entitled "On the Form of the Teeth of Wheels in Spur Gearing", in which he used geometrical techniques to investigate the optimum design for gears. In 1861, Yale had become the first university in the USA to grant PhD degrees. Gibbs’ PhD was the first American doctoral degree in engineering, and only the 5th doctoral degree earned in America overall.
Despite his degree being in engineering, Gibbs made major & fundamental contributions to physics, especially mathematical physics & thermodynamics, and physical chemistry. He is arguably the most prominent & widely influential physical scientist America has ever produced, despite his relative obscurity outside the scientific community. Albert Einstein [1879-1955] called Gibbs "the greatest mind in American history”.
Following the lead of James Clerk Maxwell [1831-1879] & Ludwig Boltzmann [1844-1906], Gibbs made major advances in statistical thermodynamics, which he called "Statistical Mechanics", as we call it today. Gibbs essentially created the modern discipline of chemical thermodynamics, which is now littered with his name associated with numerous measured quantities, and equations. Gibbs also invented the mathematical discipline of vector calculus, independent from Oliver Heaviside [1850-1925], who made the same discoveries at about the same time. But the standard notation & terminology used today come from Gibbs.
I have a 1928 printing of the 2-volume set "Collected Works of J. Willard Gibbs”, originally copyrighted in 1902, in my library.
The photograph of Gibbs comes from the Yale Alumni Magazine, credited to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Willard_Gibbs
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gibbs/ (Mathematical biography)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Josiah_W._Gibbs (Things named after Gibbs)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_mechanics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_calculus
https://history.aip.org/exhibits/gap/Gibbs/Gibbs.html
https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/4496-josiah-willard-gibbs (Photo source)
https://www.aps.org/programs/outreach/history/historicsites/gibbs.cfm
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Scientific_Papers_of_Josiah_Willard_Gibbs,_Volume_1
https://www.gibbssociety.org/ (Gibbs Society of Biological Thermodynamics)
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