Department of Mathematics

About the Department

The Department of Mathematics started functioning since the inception of the college on August 11, 1947.  In 1979, the post graduate course was started. In 2007, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) of the Government of India supported the department under their FIST program. In 2013, department was again funded by DST under their FIST program for the colleges as a whole. Also KSCSTE is supporting the department under their SARD program from 2014 onwards. National Board for Higher Mathematics of Department of Atomic Energy supports the department under their Library Support.

The department was recognized as a Research Department under University of Calicut in 2015.  Currently the department has 6 research supervisors and 12 research scholars.  In 2019, M. Phil. programme started in the department.

Courses Offered:

B.Sc. Mathematics, M.Sc. Mathematics, M.Phil Mathematics and Ph.D

 Recent Projects

The major highlights of the department are

• First among the DST- FIST supported Mathematics department in the colleges of Kerala.
• Many of the students are in teaching profession in the field of higher education.
• Many students have also got jobs in various banks and other Govt. services.
• The Mathematics Alumni Association president, Dr. Ambat Vijayakumar is the former head of the Department of Mathematics, CUSAT. Our alumni Dr. Ali Akbar K and Dr. Manikandan R are working as Assistant Professors in the Central University of Kerala.
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Other remarkable facts about the department

• Department has altogether 44 publications in various national and international journals till date.
• Conducted 3 Higher Secondary School Teacher Transformation Programme in collaboration with Department of Higher Secondary Education under the auspicious of Department of Collegiate education Kerala.
• More than 25 students have qualified the UGC-CSIR NET examination, GATE examination.
• 2 students qualified for NBHM fellowship. Sruthi Murali completed her Ph.D from IMSc Chennai and Sneha B is recently selected for Ph.D at ISI Bangalore.
• Department conduct ARP Endowment talk every year in memory of Sri. A R Parameswaran, a faculty of Mathematics who passed away in 1998.
• Also conduct Madhaveeyam Lecture series using experts from various fields of Mathematics

List of eminent academicians and scientists / visitors to the department

COLLABORATING INSTITUTIONS:

Instituto de Matem ́atica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,

University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA

Max Plank Institute, Leipzig, Germany

Dept. of Computer Science and Interdisciplinary centre for Bioinformatics, University of

Leipzig,Germany

Universities of Ljubljana and Maribor, Slovenia

Dept. of Mathematica Aplicada- University of Politecana,Catalunya,Spain

Econometric Institut, Netherlands

Dept. of Mathematics, IIT,Madras

Dept. of Computer Applications, Cochin University of Science and Technology

Department of Mathematics and Futures Studies, University of Kerala