• A Webinar on Artificial Intelligence was organized on 25th May 2020 in association with KVCH (KV Computer Home Private Limited) Institute, Noida. The speaker for the session was Mr. Maneesh Rana from KVCH.
• To bid farewell to the batch of 2017-20, the farewell party Adieu’20 was organized on the Zoom Platform on 25th September 2020.
• Curioso’20 This was a five week long (12 October - 14 November 2020) online Mathematics Quiz Competition in which 75 students from 40 different colleges/ institutions and 9 different cities actively participated. Each week, a new question was posted on our social media handles, and the participants had to submit their answers within the given time duration through the provided submission link. Weekly Top 3 Participants were declared and the overall winners of the five-week competition were provided certificates and cash prizes at the end of the event.
• LaTeXify: The Coding Competition of LaTeX (three-week): In order to help the students in exploring their subject knowledge and beauty of coding in LaTeX and to boost their concepts and creative skills, this inter-college competition was organized spanning three weeks. Question papers were released on each Thursday, namely 15, 22 and 29 October 2020 for the participants on the social media handles.
• Group Theory Battleground (GTBG) Competition (31 October and 1 November 2020): This inter-college competition was carried out in three rounds involving objective as well as descriptive questions based on the core paper: Group Theory taught in third and fifth semester.
• LaTeX: Beamer Presentation Competition (13 November 2020): This event was specifically organized for the students of B.Sc. (H) Mathematics, third semester. They were required to prepare a presentation using beamer document class on the topic “Institute of Mathematics (Higher Education) in India."
• Series Mindbend: An Online MCQ Competition (10th February 2021): In this inter-college competition, there were 75 MCQ based on the topic Series of the core paper: Real Analysis of second semester.
• Five-week inter-college Meme Making Competition was organized (16 October – 18 November 2020) in which students had to showcase their creative skills for making different memes based on specific themes for five consecutive weeks.
• Trivia Tuesday was an initiative by the society in which the famous facts/ figures about Mathematics were posted on social media handles of the society every Tuesday for seven consecutive weeks (13 October -14 November 2020). The posts were in both languages (English and Hindi) for greater reach.
• The Fresher’s Party “Aagaz’20” was organized to welcome the newly admitted students of Batch 2020-23 on 15th January 2021. The first-year students as well as their seniors gave scintillating performances in the online mode with great enthusiasm and energy.
• In collaboration with Teaching Learning Centre, Ramanujan College, the Department organized a two-week Refresher Course in Mathematics during 16-30 March 2021. Following the four-quadrant approach, the course was offered in a highly flexible format. The Programme was discipline specific and provided a forum to 1342 participants to keep themselves abreast of the latest advances in various areas of Mathematics with experienced and eminent resource persons from reputed institutions like Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), National Institute of Technology (NIT), Shiv Nadar University, University of Kashmir, University of Jammu, Delhi Technological University, South Asian University, TERI School of Advanced Studies and University of Delhi.
• Ansatz Reloaded was the annual Mathematics Quiz: Ansatz adopting to the online format.. The quiz had two rigorous rounds. With 297 registrations, the first round was organized on 20th March 2021 using the platform Dare2Compete. The second round was organized at 4:00 PM on 21st March 2021. The Quiz Master for this round was Amrit Kumar, an Alumni of the Department and currently pursuing his masters from IIT Hyderabad.
• Annual Departmental Fest “Projection’ 21” was a four-day online festival filled with great exuberance, excitement and enthusiasm. There were four main events in the fest which drew a huge participation from colleges and universities across India. The first event was a webinar (17th April 2021) on “How to crack job interviews” by Mrs. Richa Sharma, a seasoned training consultant which was attended by 200 students. The second event was “Parakh: Mathematical Reasoning Quiz” (20th April 2021) designed to check reasoning abilities, aptitude and mathematical awareness of the participants. The teams from Indian Maritime University Mumbai, University of Allahabad and IIT Patna emerged as winners. The third event was “Incendio: The Harry Potter Trivia” (22nd April 2021) based on the famous Harry Potter series of seven fantasy novels written by British author, J. K. Rowling. The participants from Hindu College, IIT Madras and IIT Delhi grabbed the top three positions. The last event was “Debatebots- The pursuit to dispute” (24th April 2021) on the topic “Should Government privatize the Public Sector to boost up the Indian Economy?” which was won by teams from NIT Warangal, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology and Hansraj College.

Student Achievements

Academic Results

• In the OBE August 2020, Rishabh Jain, Namika Mangla and Prasanjeet Karmarkar topped in B.Sc. (H) Mathematics, 3rd year with the Grand CGPA of 9.635, 9.365 and 9.243 respectively. Twenty students achieved a Grand CGPA with more than 8 points.

Scholarships

• Seven students (Ankit Kumar, Deepak Kumar, Rugnath Vishnoi, Sanjay Singh Gariya, Saurav Yadav, Ajay Kumar, Prince Bharti) of Batch 2020-23 have received Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE) under INSPIRE-DST with a stipend of Rs. 80,000 per year for a duration of 5 years.

Competitive/ Entrance Exams Cleared

• Students of the Department appeared in JAM 2021 (Joint Admission Test) for M.Sc. at IITs and IISc. A total of 13186 students appeared in JAM from all over India. The following students cleared JAM with the following AIR (All India Rank):

Arpit Dawar (AIR 56) Rishabh Jain (AIR 173) Kapil Lohia (AIR 188) Piyal K. Ghosh (AIR 214)

Namika Mangla (AIR 400)

Uday Pratap Gangwar (AIR 865)

• Utsav Kejriwal (Batch 2018-21) cleared the Actuarial Examination CS2: Risk Modelling and Survival Analysis (September 2020) and CM2: Financial Engineering and Loss Reserving (April 2021) conducted by Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.
• Akshat Aggarwal (Batch 2019-22) cleared the Actuarial Examination CB1: Business Finance (March 2021) conducted by Institute of Actuaries in India.
• Shubham Khansili (Batch 2013-16) cleared The International English Language Test System (IELTS) on 15 March 2021 with Score 7.
• Naman Krishna Pandey (Batch 2013-16) cleared GATE-2020 with AIR 388.
• Drishti Rajput (Student of Batch 2013-16) cleared CSIR NET-June 2020 with AIR-46 and GATE-2020 with AIR-112
• Amrit Kumar (Batch 2017-20) secured AIR-1 in BHU PET-2000 (postgraduate entrance) test in Mathematics and Mathematics & Computing Category.
• Arpit Verma (Batch 2017-20) cleared CAT 2020 with percentile 91.
• Shantanu Sharma (Batch 2017-20) cleared CAT 2020 with percentile 90.1.
• Tarun Saini (Batch 2019-22) cleared all levels of NDA conducted by UPSC with AIR 21.

Progression into Higher Education

• Shubham Khansili (Batch 2013-16): University of Sheffield, UK (Ph.D., 2021)
• Naman Krishna Pandey (Batch 2013-16): IIT Ropar (Ph.D., 2020)
• Harshit Mittal (Batch 2013-16): Drexel University, USA (Masters of Science in Business Analytics, 2021)
• Arpit Verma (Batch 2016-19): IIM Kashipur (MBA, 2020)
• Shantanu Sharma (Batch 2017-20): IIM Indore (MBA, 2020)
• Rishabh Jain (Batch 2017-20): IIT Kanpur (M.Sc., 2021)
• Arpit Dawar (Batch 2018-21): IIT Delhi (M.Sc., 2021)
• Kapil Lohia (Batch 2018-21): IIT Roorkee (M.Sc., 2021)
• Meghna Matolia (Batch 2018-21): IIT Jodhpur (MBA, 2021)

Apart from the academics, our students are also actively involved in attending inter-college competitions, webinars, internships and workshops/ conferences/ seminars outside the institution. The details are as follows:

Sakshi Singh (Batch 2019-22)

• Participated in International Webinar on “Mathematical Scopes in Evolutionary Neuroscience” organized by Department of Mathematics, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam on 8th August 2020.
• ·Attended a webinar on “Understanding doubling times and exponential growth: Tracking COVID-19 trajectories in India” organized by Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi on 22nd July 2020.
• ·Participated in the International Expert Lecture on “Linear Algebra Today” organized by Department of Mathematics in association with IQAC, Christ Nagar College, Maranalloor, Trivandrum, on 9th June 2021.
• ·Participated in the MTTS follow-up programme on “Gateway to Real Analysis: Real Number System and Sequences” held during 11 February-2 March 2021.
• ·Attended International webinar series on “Applications of Mathematics” organized by Department of Mathematics, Gurucharan College, Silchar, during 20-22 August 2020.
• ·Successfully completed six-month mentoring in the Youth for Education Mentoring program under Directorate of Education, Delhi during Jan-July 2021.
• ·Campus Ambassador, The Jurni Media, Global HQ in London, UK; Asia HQ in Delhi (from 15th November, 2020), Duration: 2 Weeks.
• Content Intern, Startup Hill, Work from Home (from 10th January 2020), Duration: 3 Months

Janhvi Singh (Batch 2019-22)

• Participated in the International Expert Lecture on “Linear Algebra Today” organized by Department of Mathematics in association with IQAC, Christ Nagar College, Maranalloor, Trivandrum, on 9th June 2021.

Ayush Kumar (Batch 2018-21)

• Completed three-week online certificate course on “Introduction to Computer Algebra System: Maxima (An Open-Source Software)” from 27 June 2020 to 18 July 2020 organized by Student Learning Centre, IQAC, Hansraj College, University of Delhi.
• ·Attended one-week online workshop on “Data Manipulation and Visualization through Statistical Software R” organized by Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi under the aegis of DBT-Star College Scheme, Govt. of India during 27-31 July 2020.
• Utsav Kejriwal (Batch 2018-21)
• Attended one-week online workshop on “Data Manipulation and Visualization through Statistical Software R” organized by Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi under the aegis of DBT-Star College Scheme, Govt. of India during 27-31 July 2020.
• Nikhil Kumar Sharma (Batch 2018-21)
• ·Participated in National Level Mathematics online quiz on “Quantitative Aptitude” organized by Department of Mathematics and IQAC, Vignana Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, during 27-28 June 2020, and secured a score of 95%.
• ·Passed the National Level Online Quiz on “quotes on Mathematics” organized by PG & Research Development of Mathematics in association with IQAC, The Madurai Diraviyam Thayumanavar Hindu College, Tirunelveli during 12-13 July 2021.
• Completed the mathematical “E-Quiz 4 of Big M2- Math Minds” conducted by Department of Mathematics with Computer Applications, Dwaraka Doss Goverdhan Doss Vaishnav College, Arumbakkam, Chennai, on 13th September 2020 and secured a score of 80%.

Rimjhim Chakraverty (Batch 2019-22)

• Served as Campus Ambassador, The Jurni Media, Global HQ in London, UK; Asia HQ in Delhi, Duration: 2 Weeks (20 October to 3 November 2020)
• ·Completed one-month Fundraising Internship for children catered by “Muskurahat Foundation” from 14 March to 17 April 2021.
• Participated in “Techno-digi,” a webinar on Business Development through Digital Marketing organized by Rotaract Club of New Delhi with Internet Moguls (26 July 2020)

SA Dzoukou Debbarma (Batch 2018-21)

• Participated in the International Expert Lecture on “Linear Algebra Today” organized by Department of Mathematics in association with IQAC, Christ Nagar College, Maranalloor, Trivandrum, on 9th June 2021.
• Akshat Aggarwal (Batch 2019-22)
• ·Participated in YouTube Live Session named BRATS TALKS organised by a startup named BRATS on 4th September 2020.
• ·Attended a webinar titled “Random Walk down the Data Street,” organized by Dimension-The Mathematics Society of Motilal Nehru College on 8th May 2020.
• ·Attended a webinar titled “The Art of Self Exploration,” organized by Dimension-The Mathematics Society of Motilal Nehru College during 13-14 July 2020.
• ·Attended a webinar on “Understanding doubling times and exponential growth: Tracking COVID-19 trajectories in India” organized by Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi on 22nd July 2020.
• Attended one-week online workshop on “Data Manipulation and Visualization through Statistical Software R” organized by Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi under the aegis of DBT-Star College Scheme, Govt. of India during 27-31 July 2020.