MathematiX Club
MathematiX was NISER’s mathematics club, for the students, by the students. The 3 club activities focused on introducing students to new topics/ideas. These activities were:
- Short Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar (SUMS) : These weekly seminars were started in the year 2009. The motive was to give bird's eye view of various topics in mathematics.
102. Signal Processing and Fourier Analysis - Apratim Choudhury (B18) - Friday, 22 March 2019
101. Global Positioning System - Santosh Sourav Sahoo (B18) - Friday, 15 March 2019
100. Elliptic-curve cryptography - Anagha C (B17) - Friday, 8 February 2019
99. Knots - Praneet Nandan (B17) - 1 February 2019
98. Google & PageRank - Ashwin Ayilliath Kutteri (B18) - Friday, 25 Jan 2019
97. Golden Ratio in Nature - Diprupa Saha (B18) - Friday, 18 January 2019
96. Crystals and Symmetries - Richa Rashmi (B16) - Friday,11 January 2019
95. Cantor’s Continuum and Transfinite Realm - Nisarg Vyas (B17)- Friday, 20 April 2018
94. Ancient Maximum and Minimum Problems - Jyotirmaya Shivottam (B17)- Friday, 13 April 2018
93. Wallpatterns - Himanshu Bimal (B17) - Friday, 23 March 2018
92. Geometric Inequalities - Somil Agarwal (B16) - Friday, 16 March 2018
91. Introduction to Inequalities - Archisman Bhattacharjee (B17) - Friday, 09 March 2018
90. Partitions of Integers - Paresh Singh Arora (B16) - Friday, 09 February 2018
89. 2-adic numbers - Ayush Singh (B17) - Friday, 02 February 2018
88. Pascal’s Triangle - Tanikella Padma Ragaleena (B16) - Friday, 19 January 2018
87. Dividing line segment in given ratio - Khwahish Kushwah (B16) - Friday, 12 January 2018
86. Geometry of Equations - Rutuja Attal (B17) - Friday, 03 November 2017
85. Chebyshev Polynomials - Yathukishore Gv (B16) - Friday, 27 October 2017
84. How many roots does a polynomial have? - Sarada Anoushka (B17) - Friday, 20 October 2017
83. Polynomials of degree 5 - Karan (B17) - Friday, 13 October 2017
82. Polynomials of degree 3 and 4 - Hirkani Abbas Hasnain (B17) - Friday, 06 October 2017
81. Surreal Numbers - Sabyasachi Das (B16) - Friday, 01 September 2017
80. Dots and Boxes - Deepak Kumar (B16) - Friday, 25 August 2017
79. Hex - Sai Satyam Samal (B16) - Friday, 18 August 2017
78. Magic Squares - Srilakshmi Kalathil (B16) - Friday, 11 August 2017
77. Scissors-Congruent Polygons and Polyhedra - Awanish Kumar (B15) - Saturday, 15 April 2017
76. Birth of the notion of Area - Gaurav Swansi (B16) - Saturday, 01 April 2017
75. The Story of Manifolds - Hitesh Kumar (B15) - Saturday, 25 March 2017
74. Elliptic Adventures of a Mathematician in Prison - Gaurish Korpal (B14) - Saturday, 18 March 2017
73. Elliptic Functions - Telikicherla Sai Parthasarathy (B15) - Saturday, 11 March 2017
72. The Legacy of Trigonometric Functions - Singh Sagar (B16) - Saturday, 11 February 2017
71. The story of Dimension - Swaroop Hegde (B15) - Saturday, 04 February 2017
70. Curvature of a Surface - Tanikella Padma Ragaleena (B16) - Saturday, 28 January 2017
69. Vortices Created by Winds - Swati Snigdha Priyadarsini (B16) - Saturday, 21 January 2017
68. The Euler Characteristic - Simran Chourasia (B16) - Saturday, 14 January 2017
67. Hyperreal Numbers - Pritam Laskar (B15) - Saturday, 12 November 2016
66. Permutation Puzzles - Awanish Kumar (B15) - Saturday, 05 November 2016
65. When Life is Linear - Singh Sagar (B16) - Saturday, 29 October 2016
64. Passwords and Hashing - Abhinav Raj (B15) - Saturday, 22 October 2016
63. Monte-Carlo Method - Kumar Sannidhya Shukla (B16) - Saturday, 15 October 2016
62. Game Theory and Strategy - Gaurav Swansi (B16) - Saturday, 08 October 2016
61. Fibonacci Numbers and Recurrence Relations - Abhinav Raj (B15) - Wednesday, 27 April 2016
60. Do non maximal prime ideals exist in the ring of continuous functions? - Vaibhav Pandey (B11) - Tuesday, 22 March 2016
59. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems - Swaroop S Hegde (B15) - Friday, 20 November 2015
58. Post’s Machine - Abhinav Raj (B15) - Friday, 13 November 2015
57. Method of Successive Approximation - Awanish Kumar (B15) - Friday, 6 November 2015
56. Conformal Mapping - Hitesh Kumar (B15) - Friday, 30 October 2015
55. Stereographic Projection - Pritam Laskar (B15) - Monday, 26 October 2015
54. Continued Fractions in Disguise - Gaurish Korpal (B14) - Friday, 16 October 2015
53. Theorem of Friends and Strangers - Dibyajyoti Dhananjay Jena (B14) - Friday, 18 September 2015
52. Graphs and Colourings - Rajula Srivastava (B12) - Friday, 11 September 2015
51. Liouville Numbers - Jyotiraditya Singh (B12) - Friday, 4 September 2015
50. Magic and Mathematics - Sagar Shrivastava (B11) - Friday, 28 August 2015
49. Flexagons - Sagar Shrivastava (B11) - Friday, March 20, 2015
48. A brief history of analysis (through the lens of differential equations) - Amudhan K.U. (B10) - Friday, February 6, 2015
47. Mathematics behind Rubix Cube - Palash Dubey (PhD Physics) - Friday, January 23, 2015
46. Celebrating 110th birthday of D. R. Kaprekar - Gaurish Korpal (B14) - Thursday, January 15, 2015
45. The Singular Value Decomposition of a Linear Operator - Aasaimani T (B11) - Monday, August 5, 2013
44. Space filling curves - Sagar Shrivastava (B11) - Tuesday, July 30,2013
43. The linear algebra behind Google’s PageRank - Amudhan K U (B10) - March 18,2013
42. A Cube as (Almost) a Sum of Two Cubes - Sagar Shrivastava (B11) - October 30, 2012
41. Equivalent Formulations of Axiom of Choice - Prajakta Bedekar (B10) - October 16, 2012
40. $\sum_{i=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{i^{2}} = \frac{\pi^{2}}{6}$ - Aasaimani T. (B11) - October 9, 2012
39. Schroeder Bernstein Theorem - Sagar Shrivastava (B11) - September 11, 2012
38. The Davenport constant and Zero sum problem - Amudhan K U (B10) - September 4, 2012
37. A Continuous Bijection from l^2 to a subset of l^2 whose inverse is nowhere continuous - Vishal (B09) - Tuesday, November 22, 2011
36. Classifying Integrable Functions - Amudhan K U (B10) - Tuesday, August 23, 2011
35. Abelian forcing subsets of integers - Vishal (B09) - Wednesday, March 23, 2011
34. Convex Functions from R to R - Jitendra Prakash (B08) - Wednesday, 5 January, 2011
33. Special Unitary Group (SU2) - Ankush Goswami (B08) - Wednesday, 27 October, 2010
32. A tour to NonEuclidean Geometry - Jitendra Prakash (B08) - Wednesday, 20 October, 2010
31. Baire Category Theorem - Sneha Chaubey (B07) - Wednesday, 13 October, 2010
30. Maximal Ideals of the continuous functions from the closed unit interval to reals - Ashish Pandey (B07) - Wednesday, 6 October, 2010
29. Rational points on Elliptic Curves - Ankush Goswami (B08) - Wednesday, 1 September, 2010
28. The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra and its topological Proof - Debanshu Ratha (B08) - Wednesday, 25 August, 2010
27. Turing Machines - Jitendra Prakash (B08) - Wednesday, 11 August, 2010
26. Norm of Integer Matrices and Jones Theorem - Issan Patri (Invited Talk) - Wednesday, 28 April, 2010
25. Wedderburn’s Theorem - Rishabh Sareen (B08) - Wednesday, 21 April, 2010
24. On Sum of two squares and four squares - Ankush Goswami (B08) - Wednesday, 7 April, 2010
23. Bernstein Polynomials - Sneha Chaubey (B07) - Wednesday, 31 March, 2010
22. Stone-Weierstrass Approximation Theorem - Jitendra Prakash (B08) - Wednesday, 24 March, 2010
21. Evolution of Integration - Kunda Chowdaiah (Phd Mathematics) - Wednesday, 24 February, 2010
20. The constant ‘e’ - Debanshu Ratha (B08) - Wednesday, 17 February, 2010
19. What is a Real number? - Jitendra Prakash (B08) - Wednesday, 10 February, 2010
18. LUB Axiom of Real Numbers and Its Applications - Ashish K. Pandey (B07) - Wednesday, 03 February, 2010
17. Diagonalisation - Vishal (B09) - Wednesday, 13 January, 2010
16. Group of Motions and Symmetries - Muna Naik (B08) - Wednesday, 04 November, 2009
15. Brouwer’s Fixed point Theorem - Sneha Chaubey (B07) - Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
14. Locating Zeroes of Complex Polynomials - Ankush Goswami (B08) - Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
13. Complex Behaviour in Cellular Automata and similar systems - Palash Dubey (B09) - Wednesday, 16 September, 2009
12*. Categories and categorification - Dr Apoorva Khare, Yale University - Wednesday, 02 September , 2009
11. Euler’s Gem : The Polyhedron Formula - Debanshu Ratha (B08) - Wednesday, 26th August, 2009
10. Primes - Ashish Kumar Pandey (B07) - Wednesday, 19th August, 2009
9. The Mathematical Induction and Equivalent Principles - Jitendra Prakash (B08) - Wednesday, 12th August, 2009
8. Use of Tagged Partition in Elementary Real Analysis - Nischay Mandal (B08) - Wednesday, 29th April, 2009
7. Complex Numbers and Plane Geometry - Sonisilpa Mohapatra (B08) - Wednesday, 22th April, 2009
6. A Few Generalisations of the 2nd Fundamental Theorem of Calculus - G. G. Sharmila Dhevi (B08) - Wednesday, 15th April, 2009
5. The Isoperimetric Problem - Ashish Kumar Pandey (B07) - Wednesday, 8th April, 2009
4. A Game With n Numbers - Sneha Chaubey (B07) - Wednesday, 1st April, 2009
3. Understanding the Infinite (The Cardinal Way) - Debdipto Halder (B08) - Wednesday, 25th March, 2009
2. The “Impossible” Problems in Geometry - Jitendra Prakash (B08) - Friday, 18th February, 2009
1. On The Infinitude of Primes - Debanshu Ratha (B08) - Wednesday, 4th February, 2009
- Student Research Seminar (SRS) : These seminars were started in the year 2015. The motive was to share the excitement of the things learned during summer internships or personal investigations.
12. Rational Approximations -NKU Sarada Anoushka (B17) - Firday, 16 November 2018
11. Dissection problems - Archisman Bhattacharjee (B17) - Friday, 09 November 2018
10. Congruent Number Problem - Akash Kumar Prasad (B17) - Friday, 02 November 2018
9. The four numbers problem - K.Prahlad Narasimhan (B17) - Friday, 26 October 2018
8. Newcomb’s Paradox and Prisoner’s Dilemma – Prem Nigam Kar (B17) – Friday, 24 August 2018
7. Free presentation of groups - Saikat Bisai (B14) - Saturday, 10 September 2016
6. Creating $\mathbb{R}$ out of $\mathbb{Q}$ - Rajula Srivastava (B12) - Saturday, 03 September 2016
5. Irregular Graphs - Hitesh Kumar (B15) - Saturday, 27 August 2016
4. First Case of Fermat’s Last Theorem - Gaurish Korpal (B14) - Saturday, 20 August 2016
3. Celebrating Uncle Paul’s 103rd Birthday - Gaurish Korpal (B14) - Saturday, 26 March 2016
2. Interlacing Polynomials - Sagar Shrivastava (B11) - Thursday, 29 October 2015
1. Representing Traceless Matrices - Vaibhav Pandey (B11) - Thursday, 24 September 2015
- MathToys: These monthly sessions were started in the year 2016. In these sessions we learned to make a toy and discuss the mathematics it illustrates. There wasn't any blackboard-chalk monologues in a classroom, rather discussions among the participants was promoted.
9. Soma Cube - Nisarg Vyas (B17) - 12 October 2018
8. Klein Bottle from waste cloth - Ayush Singh (B17)- Saturday, 05 October 2018
7. Origami - Himanshu Bimal (B17)- Friday, 17 August 2018
6. Tower of Hanoi - Kumar Sannidhya Shukla (B16) - Saturday, 26th August 2017
5. Tangram - Gaurish Korpal (B14) - Sunday, 16th April 2017
4. Unknot, Figure-8 & Borromean Ring - Awanish Kumar (B15) - Sunday, 19th March 2017
3. Hexa-Tetra Flexagon - Satyam Chandra Mishra (B15) - Saturday, 4th February 2017
2. Tetra-Hexa Flexagon - Satyam Chandra Mishra (B15) - Friday, 27th January 2017
1. Weaire-Phelan Structure - Pankaj Kumar (B15) - Saturday, 19th November 2016