CHENNAI: A two-day national conference on Recent Trends in Mathematics and its Application (NCRTMA’18’), organised by the Department of Mathematics, SRM-Vadapalani, concluded on Saturday.
About 150 research scholars participated, according to college staff. “We received 120 research papers of which we’ve short-listed 81 to be sent to the International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics,” he said. The conference was inaugurated by D Viswanathan, a former Vice-Chancellor of Anna University, Chennai, along with K Duraivelu, Dean (E&T), SRM University, Vadapalani and B Baskaran, Head of Department of Mathematics.
Nanjundan from Bangalore University and KC Sivakumar from IIT-Madras, spoke extensively on broader topic of ‘Introduction to Random walk in probability’ and ‘Almost skew-symmetric matrices’, concentrating on the nuances of each procedure and explaining the underlying disciplines of variational analysis and inequalities, functional analysis, differential and difference equations.
The conference’s objective was to create a forum for updating current research trends and rekindle exploration in the mathematical domain. APJMJ Sheikh Dawood, grand son of former President APJ Abdul Kalam, delivered the valedictory address.