Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Research centre located in Chennai, India
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The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) (sometimes also referred to as Matscience) is a research centre located in Chennai, India.[1][2] It is a constituent institute of the Homi Bhabha National Institute.[3]
12.994219°N 80.247075°E
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1962 |
| Director | Amritanshu Prasad (Director) |
| Location | , , 600113 , India 12.994219°N 80.247075°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.imsc.res.in |
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IMSc is a national institute for fundamental research in frontier disciplines of the mathematical and physical sciences: theoretical computer science, mathematics, theoretical physics, and computational biology. It is funded mainly by the Department of Atomic Energy.[4] The institute operates the Kabru supercomputer.[5]
History
The institute was founded by Alladi Ramakrishnan in 1962 in Chennai.[6] It is modelled after the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, United States. It went through a phase of expansion when E. C. G. Sudarshan in the 1980s and R. Ramachandran in 1990s were the directors. Amritanshu Prasad is currently the director of the institute[7].
Academics
The institute has a graduate research program to which a group of students are admitted each year to work towards a Ph.D. degree. IMSc hosts scientists at the post-doctoral level and supports a visiting scientist program in areas of research in the institute.[1]
Campus
Located in South Chennai, in the Adyar-Tharamani area, the institute is on the Central Institutes of Technology (CIT) campus.[8] The institute maintains a student hostel, flatlets for long-term visitors, married students and post-doctoral fellows, and the institute guest house.[8] IMSc has its own faculty housing in Thiruvanmiyur near the seashore.[8]
Notable people
- Ramachandran Balasubramanian, mathematician[9]
- Ganapathy Baskaran, physicist[10]
- Indumathi D., physicist[11]
- Rajiah Simon, physicist[12]
- Radha Balakrishnan, physicist
- C. S. Yogananda, mathematician[13]