In the academic session 2019-20, Department of Mathematics organized a series of programmes at National and International Level for the overall development of students and faculty members.

An Online Logo Competition was organized during 6-18 August 2019 in which the participants had to design a logo for our society “RamanuGen” based on a “mathematical theme.” A total of 32 teams participated in the competition.

The Fresher’s Party “Aagaz 2K19” was organized to welcome the newly admitted students on 9th August 2019. The first-year students as well as their seniors gave scintillating performances with great enthusiasm and energy. The office bearers for Session 2019-20 were also announced officially by the Principal of the college.

To pay homage to Srinivasa Ramanujan, a day-long event “Prastuti” was organized on 23rd August 2019. The first event under “Prastuti” was a talk on “SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN: A Mathobiography” by Prof. Geetha Venkataraman (Professor, School of Liberal Studies & Dean, Research and Consultancy, Ambedkar University, Delhi). The lecture shed some light on Ramanujan’s life in India and on the period in England during the tumultuous period of the first world war. The story of the lost notebook and its treasures were also considered. The lecture also dwelled on some of Ramanujan’s results that were accessible to the undergraduate students, namely, on his results on partitions and highly composite numbers. The second event of “Prastuti” was the Sketching Competition “Chitrakala.” The topic of the competition was “Still Life” and it saw the participation of 28 teams from various colleges of University of Delhi. The teams from Shivaji College, Meerabai Institute of Technology and Maharaja Agrasen College won the competition. The third event of “Prastuti” was the PPT Competition “Abhivyakti” with the topic “Recreational Mathematics” and involved 13 participants. The last event of “Prastuti” was the Film Screening “The Imitation Game.” The movie focused on the creation of the prototype of the modern computer by Alan Turing, for the purpose of decoding Enigma: the unbreakable Nazi code machine. The movie effectively portrayed a battlefield of numbers and the mind. The screening was followed by short quiz based on the film.

Since Facebook and Instagram have greater reach, the society presented “Trivia Tuesdays” in which the famous facts about Mathematics were posted on social media handles of the society every Tuesday for seven consecutive weeks in the Odd Semester 2019-20. This attempt turned out to be the easiest and effective way to enhance knowledge about the world of Mathematics better among the student community. Its second edition is being conducted during the quarantine period.

Curioso was an attempt by the Society to indulge students from all disciplines and various colleges in the fun of solving interesting and tricky Mathematics related questions. The questions were designed as such that anyone with the understanding of high school Mathematics can solve them. The questions were posted on our social media handles and pinned on the college notice boards at exactly 10 AM on every Monday starting from 2nd September and the response window was open till the coming Saturday. The competition lasted for 7 weeks and saw participation in high numbers from various colleges in Delhi University as well as various technical colleges. The competition was a huge success and received a participation upwards of 100 in most weeks. Weekly winners were announced every Sunday and the overall winners were announced on October 28, 2019 with teams from Ramanujan College, Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women and Motilal Nehru College emerging as winners.

The second edition of Annual Mathematics Quiz Competition – Ansatz 2.0 was organized on 17th September 2019. The event saw participation of 72 Teams with 24 Participating Colleges of University of Delhi and 4 other Participating Institutions of Delhi/ NCR: Manav Rachna University, KIET Group of Institutions, IPEM Group of Institutions and R.D. Engineering College. After fierce competition between 72 teams in Prelims Round, 8 teams proceeded to the finals out of which 3 teams from Deshbandhu College, St. Stephan’s College, Hindu College and Ramanujan College emerged triumphant.

A Competition of Making Presentation using Beamer Package in LaTeX for students of B.Sc. (H) Mathematics, 3rd Semester was organized on 23rd and 24th September 2019. The students were given 2 hours to make the presentation on the topic “The Department of Mathematics (Ramanujan College).”

A 6 days and 5 nights expedition was organized to one of the most blissful state, Himachal Pradesh with 37 students and 5 teachers from 1st October to 6th October 2019. The sightseeing included Chail, Kufri, Tattapani and Shimla. The trip turned out to be a stress buster from the hustle-bustle of this exhausting, tiring urban life and a treasure box of unforgettable memories, new friendships, life lessons and healthy brains recharged with self-love and care.

An Outreach Programme “CEFA: Computer Education for All” was organized from 15th October 2019 to 14th November 2019 in association with NGO: Kind Beings. The main purpose of this outreach programme was to give basic idea and knowledge of Computers to 15 Slum/ under-privileged Children and make them aware of its advantages in day to day life. They were taught right from the very basics as to how to use mouse and keyboard to using WordPad, Paint, Calculator, MS office (Word/ Excel/PowerPoint), using browser to perform a google search and create an e-mail ID and sending an e-mail. The classes were being held from 4-5 PM from Monday to Friday in the Computer Lab 103 of the Ramanujan College. The classes were being taken by the students of Department of Mathematics. The one-month Outreach Programme concluded on Children’s Day, 14th November 2019 with the certificate distribution.

The first-ever National Workshop on “Real Analysis: From Elementary to Advanced” was organized on 25th October 2019 with Prof. S. Kumaresan and Prof. G. Santhanam as the distinguished speakers from IIT Kanpur. Both of them are legendary mathematicians with exemplary record in research and academics. The workshop aimed at igniting ideas and discussions around the mathematical notions of analysis among Undergraduate students, Postgraduate students and Research Scholars. The workshop saw tremendous response with a total of 86 participants attending the workshop with 37 UG students and 49 PG students, research scholars & faculty members. There were three talks in the workshop which emphasized on the important concepts and various techniques available in Real Analysis.

A “Public Lecture” was organized on “Chessboard Covering Problems” by Dr. S. Arumugam, Senior Professor (Research) & Director (n-CARDMATH), Kalasalingam University on October 30, 2019. In his lecture, he dealt mainly with three types of problems being studied on chess board and how they can be practically applied in real life situations. The speaker also explained about the unsolved problems in this field and how some of the results that are officially published in 19th Century in this field have their roots in Sanskrit poetries from 9th Century.

A special lecture was organized for the faculty members of Ramanujan College on the topic “How to make a Research Project Proposal?” which was delivered by Dr. S. Arumugam on 1st November 2019. He commenced his talk with the procedure of submitting a proposal under Matrics Scheme. Earlier, this scheme used to be restricted to only Sciences. However, the same has been extended to Commerce, Humanities and Social Sciences now. Then he explained the key ingredients in writing a good research project proposal: Objectives; Work Plan and Methodology (against each objective); Budget Viability etc. His talk was quite engaging and the faculty members cleared their doubts and queries regarding writing and submitting research proposals to the various funding agencies.

The first International conference on Applicable Mathematics (ICAM) with the theme Network Science was organized by the Department during 19-21 December 2019. This conference was not only a destination for faculty and scholars but a journey to enhance the knowledge and technical skills in Mathematics and allied fields. This was achieved by lectures of 13 experts working in different areas of applicable mathematics around the world:

Day-1 (19th December 2019):

• Prof. Arnfried Kemnitz (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
• Prof. Slamin (University of Jember, Indonesia)
• Prof. S.M. Hegde (NIT Karnataka)
• Prof. B.S. Panda (IIT Delhi)

Day-2 (20th December 2019):

• Prof. R. K. Sharma (IIT Delhi)
• Prof. S. Pirzada (University of Kashmir)
• Prof. Chia Gek Ling (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia)
• Prof. Purnima Gupta (Director, Central Board, State Bank of India)
• Prof. Manoj Kumar (Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad)
• Prof. Mukti Acharya (CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru)

Day-3 (21st December 2019):

• Prof. Gajendra Pratap Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
• Prof. S. Arumugam (Senior Professor (Research) and Director, n-CARDMATH, Kalasalingam University, Tamil Nadu)
• Prof. Deepa Sinha (South Asian University, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi)

Mostly the conferences are meant for faculty members and research scholars, but the Department of Mathematics gave an opportunity to the undergraduate and postgraduate students to benefit from the conference. The conference was sponsored by University Grants Commission (UGC) and Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB). The conference saw the participation of 125 delegates and more than 25 paper presenters.

Prof. Suresh M. Hegde visited our Department from 10-14 February 2020 for academic and research collaborations. Dr. S. M. Hegde is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computational Sciences (MACS) at National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) Surathkal, India. During his visit, he interacted with our faculty members and discussed the research problems with them on graph theory, one of the thrust areas of our department.

With the aim to equip the students with the basics of graph theory and its applications, the One-week Short-term Training Program on “An Insight into Applications of Graph Theory” during 10-14 February 2020 from 2-4 PM daily. A total of 28 students from various colleges of University of Delhi participated in the training programme and sessions were conducted by Prof. S. M. Hegde. The speaker pointed out that labelled graphs are becoming an increasingly useful family of Mathematical Models for a broad range of applications nowadays.

The second edition of Annual Online Mathematics Riddle Competition-Manthan 2.0 was organized from 17th February to 22nd February 2020. Taking into consideration the feedback from the participants of first edition of Manthan, the competition was made friendly to all disciplines. The competition was 5 days long and involved cracking the riddle that was posted each day on our social handles from 17th February within 24 hours. Manthan 2.0 was a huge success and saw unprecedented participation from as many as 98 students (86 on Instagram and 16 on Facebook) from colleges across India with the participants from Sri Venkateswara College, Vivekananda College and Ramjas College holding the winning positions.

A festival in a college is not only an expression for cultural activities, drama and fun but it is a medium to convey our knowledge and education in a playful way. With this aim, the Department of Mathematics in collaboration with Department of Environmental Studies and Tatva: Eco Club organised Annual Departmental Fests “Projection’20” and “Rangarang’20” on 2nd March 2020 in the college premises with great exuberance, excitement and enthusiasm. Both the fests amalgamated the ideas of mathematics, nature and environment on a single platform.

The bright sunny day of 2nd March was full of inter-college events that had participation from different Universities and colleges altogether. The “Integration Bee Competition” of Projection’20 was organized for the first time in University of Delhi, which required the participants to solve basic mathematical integrals. In the “Wallflora: The Wall Painting Competition,” teams expressed their emotions on the topic “Planet over Profit” through the universal language of Art. The “Wazir 2.0: The Chess Championship” filled the participants with innovation, resilience and fighting spirit while playing chess. The teams in the “Stencils: The Painting Competition” showcased their artistic skills on the topic “Nostalgia.” The “Mathematical Bingo Competition” engaged the students in solving simple mathematical questions and match with their bingo ticket. Giving a little twist to the mainstream debating norms, “The Devil’s Advocate: A Turncoat Debate Competition” provided a chance to the participants to fight a battle again themselves on the topic “British Colonization in India-A Needed Conspiracy.” The “Indradhanush: Rangoli Competition and “Scrapwrap: Best out of Waste Competition” of Rangarang’20 awaked the students with the current need to conserve our resources. Apart from these academic events, there was an Open Mic Competition in which more than 40 participants entertained the audience with Rapping, Singing, Beatboxing, Poetry, Shayari, Story-Telling and Stand-up comedy.

One could feel the vibrancy as the college ground was fully occupied by the variety of stalls put up. Apart from the delicious food stalls and exciting games stalls, there was a Pottery Stall depicting the live demonstration of making pottery products with hands-on experience. The students of the Tatva: Eco Club sold eco-friendly items in their stall. The stall of Canwinn Foundation (Cancer NGO), our Chief Sponsor and AADI: Action for Ability Development and Inclusion, a non-profit organization in New Delhi had been set-up in the fest. The former provided health awareness and various interesting games for students with exciting gifts, while the latter sold hand-made product which were being made by disabled persons. The fest came to its conclusion in the evening with the Rap Performances and the students groove on the dance floor with full energy, satisfaction and happiness on their faces celebrating the success of the day.

During the quarantine period, the society presented “ANALYTICA – An online Real Analysis Competition” for UG students during 13-19 April 2020. It was a one-week long competition consisting of three rounds and involved the participation of more than 80 students. In the competition, the participants had to answer the MCQ questions (and few descriptive questions as well) related to the core paper: Real Analysis of B.Sc. (H) Mathematics within a limited time frame. The teams from Shivaji College, Rajdhani College and Kalindi College grabbed the top three positions.

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Apart from these activities, the Department of Mathematics also organized a series of programmes at National and International Level for the overall development of students and faculty members. For more information, click here