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Indian Statistical InstituteDirectors Report

3rd Meeting of the Council (2018-2020)

February 26, 2019(edited)

Updates

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53rd Convocation 2019

January 10, 2019

Prof. Meghnad Jagdish Chandra Desai was the Convocation Speaker

Updates – Commemorative Coins

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Updates

Anjana Dewanji

Sandip Mitra

Kishor Satpathy

Amita Majumder

Subhamoy Maitra

Debashish Goswami

Mohan Delampady

BS Dayasagar

Debasis Misra

Malay Bhattacharyya

Debapriyo Majumder

Swagatam Das

Raghunath Chatterjee

Biswabrata Pradhan

Anjan Mukherjee

Amitava Mukherjee

Dean

Associate Deans

NIRF Data has been submitted!!

Earnest thanks to the NIRF Team

Recognitions/Achievements

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• Prof. Partha P. Majumder, Emeritus Professor, to serve as President, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru

• Dr. Sujata Ghosh, CSU, ISI Chennai elected a Jury member of E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize, 2019 • awarded by The Association for Logic, Language and Information

2. delivered a series of lectures on Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Department of Mathematics, IISER Bhopal, January 21-24, 2019 (https://maths.iiserb.ac.in/past_event.php)

• Prof. Kumar Sankar Ray appointed as Research Advisor of Nan Yang Academy of Sciences (Singapore), from 22nd October, 2018.

Important Contributions For the entire Himalayan Mountain Belt

significant spatial correlation observed between tectonic feature (blue line) and monsoonal precipitation (computed from TRMM data)

Suggests that, for the last 15 million years, the large-scale morphology of this mountain belt is not controlled by tectonic processes.

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Important Contributions/Publications Cryptography, Mridul Nandi

Three papers in CRYPTO, 2018 and one in EUROCRYPT, 2018

co-designer of COLM which is awarded second winner (standard) in Defense in depth (i.e. high security) category.

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Important Contributions/Publications Sumitra Purkayastha

Ghosh, Jayanta Kumar

Article for Wiley StatsRef-Statistics Reference Online

Jointly by with Subhashis Ghosal and R. V. Ramamoorthi

Holendra Singh Chugkham, ISINE

Socioeconomic differences in healthy and disease-free life expectancy between ages 50 and 75: a multi-cohort study.

European Journal of Public Health, Oxford University Press

Implications on retirement age in European countries

England, Finland, France and Sweden

reducing socioeconomic inequalities is important for extending healthy life expectancy and disease-free life expectancy.

Kumar Shankar Ray

DNA Computing

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Funded Projects

Shiladri Shekar Das, ISIK

DST-SERB project titled, “Systematics, Palaeobiogeography and change in diversity of Tertiary Gastropoda of Kutch, Gujarat”

Mridul Nandi, ISIK

Indo-Israel DST Project starting from 2018, for three years

Amitava Banerjee & Sumitra Purkayasthha

ISI-QCI Collaborative Project

First phase of six months duration over – worked on

Implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission in UP

Quality Improvement in New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) schools

Quality Assessment of rural electrification under DDUGJY scheme

Testing and Analysis of Coal

Engagement to be extended for another year

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Conference/Workshops

Young Statisticians' Meet : Data Science in action

January 4-5 2019, 120 PhD and masters students in Statistics

focussing on data driven statistical problems

potential platform for germinating collaborations between young scientists and students

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Conference/Workshops

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Recent Advances in Operator Theory and Operator Algebras

ISI Bangalore during December 13-19, 2018.

About 150 participants

Speakers

Joachim Cuntz (University of Munster, Germany)

Piotr Nowak (Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Stuart White (University of Glasgow, UK) .

https://www.isibang.ac.in/~jay/OTOA/OTOA18/otoa18.html

Conference/Workshops

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ISI Math Day, ISIBC January 19, 2019

A program to reach out 11th and 12 students

Over 200 hundred students participated with live-streaming

The highlight of the program was a beautiful short video on BMath program

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o_eaCjEgHk

Conference/Workshops

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Meeting on Operator theory, topology and combinatorics, ISIBC, Jan 29, 2019

Led by Parthanil Roy and D. Yogeshwaran

to celebrate the career of Professor Bhaskar Bagchi at ISI

Prof. Bagchi presented a curious conjecture in combinatorics he is currently working on

In a certain house, there are a number of cats and dogs. Any two of the cats have exactly

two common friends among the dogs, and any two of the dogs have exactly two common

friends among the cats. Question : what is the maximum possible number of dogs in this

house? It may sound like a silly puzzle, but I conjecture that there can be a maximum of 79

dogs here. I shall discuss the surprising mathematics into which I am led in trying to solve

this puzzle.

Conference/Workshops

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Workshop on Reliability Theory and Survival Analysis

SQC & OR Unit, ISIBC

28 - 30 November 2018

95 Research Scholars & Faculty members from various Institutes/ Universities participated

Conference/Workshops

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Six Sigma Case Study Contest - 2019 held at SQC & OR Unit, ISIBC

7 - 8 February 2019.

Forty teams from different organizations presented Six Sigma projects in the contest

Successful teams were awarded during the program.

Statistics in Environmental Data Analysis, ISID

4-6 February 2019

Funded by Central Pollution Control board, Ministry of Environment and Forests.

Conference/Workshops

Workshop Statistical Methods in Finance, ISI Chennai, Dec 15-20,2018

jointly organised with CMI

Led by Dr. Rituparna Sen

Student Paper Competition

Panel Discussion on How to Write Good Research Paper

Katherine Bennett Ensor , Rice University, USA

Nalini Ravishankar, University of Connecticut, USA

Rajeeva L Karandikar, Director, CMI, India

Panel discussion on Energy Markets

Katherine Bennett Ensor , Rice University, USA

Vinay Kumar P., MD and CEO India Renewables

Vivek Subramanian, Executive Director at Fourth Partner Energy

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Visitors to ISI Professor Terry Speed, Australia, delivered PCM Memorial lecture titled

Maps of variability in cell lineage trees' on Feb 12, 2019 in ISID and February 2019 in ISIBC

Professor Vladimir Bogachev, Moscow State University and Professor M. A. Vsemirnov, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg

Visited ISIBC under Vajra scheme

Professor Luigi Accardi, Centro Vito Volterra, Rome, Italy

Prof. Abhijit Basu, Indiana University, USA, Jan 02, 2019

Talk on provenance analysis in Bengali

Dr. Marta Prekopová and Prof. J. Janocko, both from the Institute of Geosciences, Technical University of Košice - Tuke, Slovakia, Jan 9, 2019

Talks on the geology of the Carpathians

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Talks Delivered by ISI Faculty Sumitra Purkayastha , ISIK

"Projection Matrices and Linear Models" (on Oct. 16 & 17, 2018) Department of Statistics, Ramanujan School of Mathematical Sciences, Pondicherry University

Dr. Rituparna Sen, ISIChennai

Ford Global Data Insights & Analytics India, Guest Lecturer, Feb 18, 2019

Statistical Problems of Big Data with some Applications in Finance

G. Ravindran, ISIChennai, invited speaker

International Conference on Advances in Statistical Methods, University of Madras, Dec 20-22, 2018

D. Sampangi Raman, ISIChennai, invited speaker in

Two day Workshop on Design of Experiments, Kottayam, Dec 7-8, 2018 (with S.K. Katttumanil)

Two day Workshop on Advanced Statistical Process Control, Confederation of Indian Industries, Pondicherry, Nov 23 - 24, 2018

S Bandyopadhyay

Infosys lectures in IIT Mandi, IISc and Anna University

Plenary Talk in ICACCP, SMIT

Keynote in ACM India Annual Event, Kochi, Feb 8, 2019

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New Initiatives

MoUs signed with

Geological Survey of India

University of Trieste

CSIR National Metallurgical Laboratory

Cancer Research Malaysia

One year PGDSMA and 6 month course on SQC –ISI Chennai

A certificate course is being planned in ISI Giridih on integrated rural management

Possible collaboration with NABARD, IIT Dhanbad

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