Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira  
Department of Mathematics | Dept. establishment date: 28/05/1960
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  • Programme Offered
Programme Level of study Cut-off marks at entry level in %
Ph.D. Mathematics Doctoral N.A.
M.Sc. PG N.A.
B.Sc. Mathematics (Honours). UG N.A.

Student Progression

  • Syllabus
  • Faculty Members
Name of the Teaching staff Designation Highest Qualification Specialisation Detail Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Subhankar Roy
 Associate Professor (HoD) M.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D. Elasticity and Plasticity
Dr. Swapan Kumar Ghosh
 Associate Professor M.Sc., Ph.D.  
Dr. Soumitra Kayal
 Assistant Professor M.Sc, Ph.D. Algebra
Dr. SAUGATA MITRA
 Assistant Professor M.Sc, Ph.D. Cosmology
Dr. Arnab Jyoti Dasgupta
 Assistant Professor M.Sc, Ph.D. Partial Differential Equations
Dr. Suvra Kanti Chakraborty
 Assistant Professor M.Sc, Ph.D. Numerical Optimization
Dr. Ratnadeep Acharya
 Assistant Professor M.Sc, Ph.D. Analytic Number Theory
  • Summer School

Since last 5 years, the Department has been conducting short term courses in summer for interested UG Mathematics (Hons.) students, from both inside and outside Vidyamandira. Here is a synopsis of the courses held in the previous years:

Year Topic Instructor Span No. of Students (Approx.)
2014 Topics in Metric Spaces & General Topology Sri Snehajit Mishra June 9, 12, 16, 19, 23, 26, 30 20
2015 Topics in Topology and Analysis Prof A. B. Raha & Sri Gourab Tripathi June 1, 4, 8, 11, 15, 18, 22, 25 25, 29 15
2016 Topics in Algebra and Analysis Sri Joydip Saha & Sri Bedanta Bose June 1, 2, 4, 6, 7,9, 10, 11, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28 10
2017 Elements of Analysis & Algebra Sri Gourab Tripathi & Sri Prateep Chakraborty May 30, 31; June 3, 6,7, 10, 17, 20, 21, 24, 27, 28. 15
2018 Elements of Analysis & Topology Prof. A.B. Raha May 30, June 1, 11, 15, 18, 22, 25, 29 15

  • Seminars

Seminar Details updated

  • SESSION 2016-17:
    Departmental Seminar
    Date Speaker Seminar Type Topic
    25.07.2016 Prof. Kallol Pal, Jadavpur University Half-day Seminar Continuity of Real-valued function: an insight
    25.07.2016 Prof. SubenoyChakraborty, Jadavpur University Half-day Seminar Mathematical Story behind the Theory of Relativity
    07.09.2016 Md. Ramiz Reza
    Senior Research Fellow,
    Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore     		Departmental Seminar Invariants and model in some
    equivalent class of
    matrices and operators
    18.11.2016 Prof. G. B. Shrestha,
    IIT, Guwahati     		Departmental Seminar An Analytical Approach to Panini’s
    Code of Sanskrit Grammar
    20.02.2017 Prof. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay,
    Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur     		Departmental Seminar Zero: An Eternal Enigma
    03.04.2017 Prof. Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay,
    Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur     		Departmental Seminar Invention of Zero:
    The Chronicle from Indian Perspective

  • SESSION 2015-16:
    Departmental Seminar
    Date Speaker Seminar Type Topic
    10.09.2015 Prof. GadadharMisra,
    Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore    		 Departmental Seminar Zeros of Polynomials

  • SESSION 2014-15:
    Departmental Seminar
    Date Speaker Seminar Type Topic
    22.08.2014 Prof. Rajat Subhra Hajra
    Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
    		 Extension Lecture On works of Fields medalists of 2014
    (with particular reference to
    the contribution of Prof. ManjulBhargava)
    29.08.2014 Sri Arindam Biswas
    Ecole Polytechnique, France     		Special Lecture Diameter of Cayley graph of Sn or An
    22.09.2014 Prof. S. K. Mapa,
    Former Reader,
    Presidency College, Kolkata     		Extension Lecture On Ideals of a Ring
    02.01.2015 Prof. Bimal Sinha
    Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
    University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA     		Special Seminar Lecture Some standard examples of statistical
    meta-analysis and non-standard
    examples of hypotheses testing.
    18.02.2015 Prof. ArnabChakraborty
    Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit,
    Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata     		2nd D. L. Dutta Memorial Lecture The Banach Tarski Paradox
    13.03.2015 Prof. RavindranathanThangadurai,
    Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
    		 Departmental Seminar Decimal expansion of real numbers
    and Artin’s Primitive root conjecture.
    29.04.2015 Prof. Amartya Kumar Dutta,
    Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit,
    Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata     		Departmental Seminar Bhavana from Brahmagupta to Bhargava

  • SESSION 2013-14:
    Departmental Seminar
    Date Speaker Seminar Type Topic
    24.08.13 Kajal Das,
    Research Scholar,
    Ecole Polytechnic, France    		 International Discrete Groups from Measure Theoretic View Point
    07.09.13 Probal Chowdhury,
    Professor, ISI, Kolkata    		 Regional History of Mathematics
    02.09.13 Rudra Sarkar,
    Professor, ISI, Kolkata    		 Regional Wierstrass’ Approximation Theory
    03.05.14 A B Raha,
    ISI, Kolkata    		 Extension Lecture Cantor Bernstein Theorem

  • SESSION 2010-11:
    Departmental Seminar
    Date Speaker Institution & Dept. Topic
    21.02.11 Subinoy Chakraborty Jadavpur University Role of Geometry in Relativity Theory

  • SESSION 2009-10:
    Departmental Seminar
    Date Speaker Institution & Dept. Topic
    14.9.2009 Mr C. S. Aravinda TIFR, Bangalore (Centre for Applied Mathematics) Milestones in the evolution of geometry: from Euclid Pavelman

  • SESSION 2009-10:
    UGC Sponsered Seminar
    Date Speaker Institution & Dept. Topic
    23 & 24 February 2010
    • Aloke Goswami
    • Somesh Chandra Bagchi
    • Amartya Dutta
    • Gadadhar Mishra
    • Abhaypada Baishnab
    • Biswajit Mitra
    • Indranath Sengupta
    • Aloknath Sengupta
    • Mridul Kumar Sen
    • ISI, Kolkata
    • ISI, Kolkata
    • ISI, Kolkata
    • IISC, Bangalore
    • Former Prof., B.U.
    • Vivekanada Mahavidyalaya, B.U.
    • RKM Vivekanada University
    • Former Prof., IISC, Bangalore
    • Former Prof.,Calcutta University
    		 Lectures on Algebra, Analysis and their Applications

  • SESSION 2008-09:
    Departmental Seminar
    Date Speaker Institution & Dept. Topic
    14.8.2008 Mridul Kr. Sen Formerly of the Dept. of Pure Mathematics, C.U Group Isomorphism
    27.8.2008 Prof. S. Kumareshan Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Hyderabad, A.P. Fundamental Theorem of Algebra via Linear Algebra
    6.11.2008 Prof. V. S. Sunder Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai When is Knot not be unknot
    18.11.2008 Prof. Jiling Cao Auckland University of Technology, New Zeland Continuous Function and Its Applications

  • SESSION 2007-08:
    Departmental Seminar
    Date Speaker Institution & Dept. Topic
    12-14 June 2007 Prof. Michel Waldshmidt Vice-President, CIMP France Talks of Number Theory on
    • 12th - History and Conjecture
    • 13th - Elementary Number Theory
    • 14th - Analytical Number Theory
    17.8.2007 Dr. C.S. Aravinda   Classifying Low-Dimensional Manifiolds
    30.11.2007 N.V. Rao(U.S.A.)   Toeplitz Operation on the Bergman Space of the unit disk
    17.12.2007 Prof. Ram Murty FRS, Canada The Art of Research
    11.1.2008 Prof. Kumar Murty   Primes in Arithmetic Progression

  • SESSION 2006-07:
    Departmental Seminar
    Date Speaker Institution & Dept. Topic
    20.8.2006 Dr. T. Venkatramana TIFR, Mumbai Dirichlet's Theorem
    23.11.2006 Prof. Michel Waldschmidt Vice President of CIMPA, Institute of Mathematiques de Jussieu Narayana's Cows, Fibonacci Rabbits and Arithmetic Questions
    12.12.2006 Prof. EMO Welzl Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zurich Combinatorial Properties of CNF Formulas
    5.2.2007 Bor-Luh (Peter) Lin University of Iowa, USA On Von-Neumann iterating process for best approximation
    17.2.2007 Prof. S. D. Adhikari Harish Chandra Research Institute External Problem in Group Theory

  • SESSION 2005-06:
    Departmental Seminar
    Date Speaker Institution & Dept. Topic
    5.12.2005 Prof. Subhas Roy University of Connecticut, USA Measuring Total Factor Productivity: Alternative Approaches with Indian Data
    7.12.2005 Prof. Amit Roy Ex-Prof.,TIFR, Mumbai and Adjunct Prof. Mumbai University Introduction to Higher Algebra
    13.12.2005 Prof. Kumar Maity University of Torento, USA Introduction to Number Theory
    17.2.2006 Dr. Lawrence Reeve University of Melbourne Introduction to Geometric Group Theory
    • Academic Excellence
    Under Graduate
    Year Appeared Success Rate 1st Class University Ranks (First 20) Highest Marks(%)
    2005 15 100% 11 1, 2, 7, 8 88.12%
    2006 11 100% 6 2, 3, 7, 8 78%
    2007 13 100% 8 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 (Jt) 84.88%
    2008 18 100% 11 1, 2, 3, 4(Jt), 5, 8, 11 (Jt), 13 (Jt), 18 90.13%
    2009 19 100% 16 4, 7, 13, 17 81.38%
    2010 14 100% 8 12(Jt), 19(Jt), 20 70%
    2011 18 100% 11 7, 9 80%
    2012 18 94.44% 14 1, 11, 14, 16, 17 84%
    2014 15 100% 8   85.13%
    2015 16 100% 9   75.12%
    2016 14 100% 9   75.25%

    Post Graduate
    Year Appeared 1st Class No of students selected in other tests for service and research
    2008 12 6 GRE-TOEFL-2, NET-5, GATE-2, NBHM-PhD- 3
    2009 1 0  
    2010 9 6 GATE-4, CSIR-JRF-1, NBHM-PhD-1, WBSSC-2
    2014 12 12 NET-2, GATE-2
    2015 10 8 NET-2, GATE-1, ISI-PhD Entrance-1, HRI-PhD Entrance-1
    2016 12 12 NET-2, GATE-1, ISI-PhD Entrance-1, HRI-PhD Entrance-1, TET(Last 4 years' students)-8

    All India Entrance Examinations after Undergraduate Course
    Year IIT-JAM Ranks (within 20) Students qualified for admission to other Institutes (Institution-Number)
    2005 2, 3 IIT-10, IISc-1, ISI-1
    2006 2, 4, 7 IIT-11, ISI-1
    2007 1, 8, 18 IIT-12, ISI-2
    2008 1 IISc-1, ISI-1, TIFR-2, IIT-13
    2009 1, 2 Ecole France-1, ISI-1, CMI-2, IMSc-2, TIFR-4, IISc-3, VU-5, IIT-11
    2010   IIT-2, ISI-1, IISER-1, HU-1
    2011 1, 6 TIFR-2, IISc-2, VU-2
    2012 1, 14 TIFR-5
    2013   VU-6, TIFR-5, IISC-1, CMI-2, IIT-5, HU-5, RKMV-3
    2014 14, 16 IIT-15, Vivekananda Univ.-5, TIFR,Bangalore-2, Hyderabad Univ.-7, ISI,Kolkata-1
    2015   RKMVU-1, ISI,Bangalore-2, IIT-JAM-16, University of Hyderabad-2, RKMV-5
    2016   IIT-JAM-8, TIFR-Mumbai-1, ISI,Kolkata-2, IISc,Bangalore-2, Hyderabad University-2, IISER,Pune-2, RKMV-5

    Academic Acheivements
    Year Student No./Name of the Achievement
    2006
    • Arindam Biswas, B.Sc. 3rd yr
    • Kishalay Saha
    • Awarded KVPY & JBNSTS for pursuing his UG and PG studies
    • Awarded JBNSTS for pursuing his UG and PG studies
    2009 Arindam Biswas, B.Sc. 3rd yr Attained full fellowship for Pursuing higher studies in Ecole Polytechnic
    2010
    • Soumitra Ghara, B.Sc. 3rd yr
    • Samir Ch. Mondal, B.Sc. 3rd yr
    		 Awarded NBHM Scholarship 2010
    • Avishek Mallik, B.Sc. 1st yr
    • Nilabja Chatterjee, B.Sc. 1st yr
    		 Awarded JBNSTS for pursuing UG and PG studies