The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai organizes a two-week summer school, the Vigyan Vidushi program in Mathematics for Indian women students in mathematics. The aim of this program is to expose participants to some advanced core topics in mathematics and encourage them to consider research in mathematics as a career option. The selected students will get an opportunity to attend lecture courses on a variety of topics. There will also be special lectures and interaction sessions with women researchers.
The courses will focus on strengthening basic understanding of core mathematical concepts. Conveying the unique perspectives of active researchers will be an essential feature of this summer school.
Program:
Special Lectures: Colette Guillopé, Nitin Nitsure, Rekha Thomas
Short courses:
- Tanmay Deshpande: Modules over principal ideal domains and applications
- V. Srinivas: Topics in field theory
- Sandeep Varma: Introduction to multivariable calculus
- Sabyasachi Mukherjee: Introduction to complex analysis
- Sushmita Venugopalan: Introduction to fundamental groups
- Vivek Mohan Mallick: Quotient topology
- Anand Sawant: Covering spaces
- Srimathy Srinivasan: Quaternion algebra
- Preeti Raman: Local-global principles and classical groups
- Radhika Gupta: What is the geometry of the universe?
Vigyan Vidushi 2022
Dates: July 19-29, 2022
Application deadline: May 13, 2022
Students are required to register online.
For the online registration process, please keep the following ready :
a) Scanned photo (.jpg file of size not exceeding 200kb) of your passport size photograph.
b) Names, Affiliation, Designation, Contact address (both e-mail and physical address) and contact phone numbers of two referees who would be filling referee reports for you. They should be teachers or persons with whom you have interacted academically.
c) Consolidated mark sheets in pdf format.
The link for filling up the Referee Report Form online will be sent by email to both Referees after completing the registration process.
Travel Directions
Details on how to reach TIFR is given at this link.
Travel reimbursements and accommodation
This information will be sent to all participants.
For any queries or problems, mail to vvmath @ math.tifr.res.in.
Organising Committee: Vijaylaxmi Trivedi (Convenor), Anand Sawant, Srimathy Srinivasan.