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Math Olympiad from December 26

By Our Staff Reporter

THANJAVUR, DEC. 17. The Shanmugha Arts Science Technology and Research Academy (SASTRA) here is organising a National Level Maths Olympiad contest on December 26, 2004, a press release issued here by R. Sethuraman, Vice-Chancellor of SASTRA, said.

The Olympiad is for eleventh and twelfth standard students and is aimed at encouraging them to choose mathematics as a career option. A total of 3588 students are participating in the contest, which is being conducted at 15 centres situated at Chennai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Madurai, Vellore, Chidambaram, Neyveli, Tiruvannamalai, Tirunelveli, Erode, Thanjavur and Kumbakonam. The winner will be sent to the Department of Mathematics, University of Florida in the U.S. for four weeks. The second and third prize winners will be sent to a leading research laboratory in India, while students placed between the fourth and tenth places will be sent to the Srinivasa Ramanujan Centre of SASTRA at Kumbakonam. They will also receive a copy of the mathematical genius, Ramanujan's "Lost notebook."

Valuable experience

This entire experience for the students will be valuable as they will be in the company of great maths scholars and is an opportunity for them to get acquainted with the latest in the field of mathematics. This shall also create awareness about the various career options in Mathematics. The prizes are being funded by SASTRA.

The Srinivasa Ramanujan Centre of SASTRA at Kumbakonam is also organising an International conference on Number theory and Fourier techniques on December 20 and 21, 2004. Renowned research scholars from the U.S. , Switzerland and India shall participate in the conference. It will be attended by teachers, researchers and students from all over India.

Dr. Alladi Krishnaswamy, professor and chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, will inaugrate the conference and deliver Srinivasa Ramanujan's 118th birth anniversary commemorative lecture on December 22, 2004.

SASTRA has purchased the house of Ramanujan at Kumbakonam and has preserved it as a national monument. It has also established the House of Ramanujan Mathematics (a museum on Srinivasa Ramanujan). Research chairs established at the SASTRA centre at Kumbakonam — two by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and one by City Union Bank Ltd. — encourage research in the field of mathematics.

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