Hyderabad Professor honoured again.

Prof C R Rao, eminent statistician and mathematician, is currently emeritus Professor at Hyderabad Ubiversity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calyampudi_Radhakrishna_Rao.
In addition to many awards and honours he has earned, he was recently honoured with he Royal Statistical Society’s Guy Gold medal.

Prof. C.R. Rao, is the first Asian to receive the Royal Statistical Society’s (TRSS) Guy Gold medal, the highest honour in statistics in the United Kingdom. TRRS ::

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Statistical_Society

Prof. Rao is the prime mover for CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (aka AIMSCS), located at the University of Hyderabad.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CR_Rao_Advanced_Institute_of_
Mathematics,_Statistics_and_Computer_Science


Congrats to you Sir. We are blessed to have you with us.

partha

Tamil+LaTeX+Linux

I am struggling to get these three to work together :: Tamil + LaTeX + Linux

Is there anybody in or around Hyderabad who can help me/guide me ? Please get in touch with

drpartha AT gmail DOT com

Sometimes, even Professors need to learn things.

partha

Another memorable learning experience

I visited IIIT-H yesterday for their "R and D Showcase" (a 2-day open-house event). It was thrilling to see all the ideas they have, and the enthusiasm of the students. The sad part was the poor time-management, and chaos, which is part of all events organised by us Indians. When will we learn simple and essential skills ? Am I expecting too much ?


partha

Poland and India

As a fallout of my visit to Krakow, a possiblity exists for AGH Univ, Krakow to collaborate with an Indian University. My first choice was IIIT Hyderabad. I went to meet Prof. Rajeev sangal, Director of IIITH, yesterday. Apparently IIITH is already on the radar of AGH Univ. I am sure something exciting will come up, as a result of these developments. Insha-allah.

partha

Mega event in Hyderabad

A mega-giga-tera event of mathematics will be held shortly in Hyderabad. The International Congress of Mathematicians will be held from 19-27 Aug. 2010, in our own Hyderabad.

For more details, visit their website: http://www.icm2010.org.in/

This is the event when the greatest mathematicians of the world will be given the greatest awards for their contributions to mathematics :: The Fields medal, the Nevanlinna Prize, the Gauss Prize, and the Chern Medal (new). Be there, to see these great giants of mathematics being honoured. The Registration fee is of course rather steep, but it may well be worth it for this once-in-a-lifetime event.

The website of the International Mathematical Union is at :
http://www.mathunion.org/

If you can't attend the event, at least visit their websites marked above.

partha

PS: This retired Professor, invites kind hearted organisations and individuals to sponsor him or at least subsidise a part of the registration fee. I have no corporate or institutional support.




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Practising what you preach....

We teach our students the importance of punctuality and of being professional. Yet, we, educationists dont know or don't care about these virtues, ourselves. This morning I had an appointment with GITAM University at 08:00 AM. The meeting time was fixed by GITAM. And yet, till 09:30 there was no one at the appointed place. And nobody had a clue of when the meeting would start. And when the meeting did actually take place, a good 90 minutes after the scheduled time, instead of admitting one's lapse, a learned member had the cheek to state that it was a usual practise to call candidates an hour in advance and make them wait two hours after the scheduled time. What a shame ! Is'nt this what we call "adding insult to injury" ? What right do these so-called institutions have, to expel students when they are late for exams ? What moral right do these so-called institutions have, to talk about punctuality and professional behaviour ? When will we learn some basic rules of decency and civilised behaviour ? Is this the example we are setting for our students ? Have we no shame ?

partha