Dr. Manmohan Singh, Former Prime Minister of India has declared 22nd

December as the National

Mathematics Day during 125th birth anniversary celebration of Srinivasa Ramanujan held at

Madras University .

The Department of Mathematics, MVJ College of Engineering celebrated 130th

birth anniversary

of Sir Srinivasa Ramanujan on 22.12.2017 between 9.30 am to 12.30 pm at Seminar Hall – 4 in

the presence of Vice Principal Prof. M.Brindha and Principal Dr.N. Gunasekaran . There were a

total of 90 participants from various departments.

The chief guest of the day was Dr. T. N.Shanmugam, Former Professor and Director CIPR,

Department of Mathematics , Anna University, Chennai , Tamil Nadu. And the Guest of Honor

was Dr. Krushna Chandra Gouda, Senior Scientist, CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute Bangalore,

Karnataka , who got selected for the CSIR Raman research Fellowship Award from Council of

Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi for the year 2017, was received by the HOD Mrs

A.Sonia at 9.15 AM.

The program started at 9.45 AM with an invocation song (Ms.Sneha, 2nd

year IS branch) and the

master of ceremony was given by Mrs. G. Sangeetha and Mrs.Leera Dezlin Rebello, Assistant

Professors, Department of Mathematics. Dr. NidhiVaishnaw, AP, Department of Mathematics gave

the welcome speech and Mrs. A.Sonia, HOD, Department of Mathematics introduced the Chief

guest Dr T.N.Shanmugam.

NATIONAL MATHEMATICS DAY -

ORGANIZED BY DEPARTMENT OF

MATHEMATICS

NATIONAL MATHEMATICS DAY –GANIT (130th Birthday of Sir Srinivasa Ramanujan )

Session:1

Dr. T.N.Shanmugam gave a wide talk about the life history of Sir Srinivasa Ramanujan and the

magic square introduced by him attracted the audience. He also gave a thought-provoking talk

about Ramanujam’s involvement in Number Theroy.

The first session ended at 11.30 AM and after a short break the second session started at 11.40 AM

with the introduction of guest of Honor Dr. Krushna Chandra Gouda by Mrs. A.Sonia.

Session 2:

Dr. Krushna Chandra Gouda gave the talk on Mathematical modeling for weather and climate

forecasting and analysis, CLOUD Computing, Big data analytics. It was an interesting talk and very

informative.

The event ended by 12.45 PM with the vote of thanks given by Dr. M. Saradha, followed by the

National Anthem.

Participants for the day: HOD’s and Faculties from all Departments

Areas covered in the lecture:

Number Theory

Life History of the Great Mathematician Sir Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Cloud Computing

Big Data

Mathematical modeling for weather and climate forecasting and analysis

Outcomes :

1. Faculties got a knowledge about applications of number theory in various fields from

Dr .T.N.Shanmugam’s talk .

2. Dr. Krushna Chandra Gouda motivated the faculties and invited the students from all the

departments to start the research on Mathematical modeling, Cloud Computing and Big Data .