The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) (sometimes also referred to as ''Matscience'') is a

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located in

Chennai Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ...

, India.R. Jagannathan, ''The Institute of Mathematical Sciences'', Resonance (January 1999) vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 89-92
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It is a constituent institute of the

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. IMSc is a national institute for fundamental research in frontier disciplines of the mathematical and physical sciences:

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, and

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. It is funded mainly by the

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. The institute operates the Kabru supercomputer.

History

The institute was founded by Alladi Ramakrishnan in 1962 in Chennai. It is modelled after the

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, United States. It went through a phase of expansion when E. C. G. Sudarshan in the 1980s and R. Ramachandran in 1990s were the directors. The current director of the institute is V.Ravindran.

Academics

The institute has a graduate research program to which a group of students are admitted each year to work towards a Ph.D. degree. IMSc hosts scientists at the post-doctoral level and supports a visiting scientist program in areas of research in the institute.

Campus

Located in South Chennai, in the Adyar-Taramani area, the institute is on the Central Institutes of Technology (CIT) campus. The institute maintains a student hostel, flatlets for long-term visitors, married students and post-doctoral fellows, and the institute guest house. IMSc has its own faculty housing in Tiruvanmiyur near the seashore.

Notable people

* Ramachandran Balasubramanian, mathematician * Ganapathy Baskaran, physicist * Indumathi D., physicist *

Rajiah Simon Rajiah Simon is a professor of physics at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India. Simon received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 1993 for pioneering work in quantum optics. Simon and collaborators ...

, physicist * Radha Balakrishnan, physicist * C. S. Yogananda, mathematician

References

External links

Official website
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