About Department of Mathematics
The Department of Mathematics, IIST is offering Ph.D. program and an M. Tech. program in Machine Learning and Computing. Apart from these, it caters to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students, and contributes both as a service department for engineering and other science branches and as a research centre in its own right. The department offers mathematics courses to the undergraduate students of branches like Aerospace Engineering, Avionics, and Engineering Physics. These include calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, etc. along with more advanced topics. A specialized postgraduate programme focusing on machine learning, computational methods, and their mathematical foundation is offered by the department. The department also offers PhD degrees, enabling advanced research in various areas of pure and applied mathematics. Presently, there are eleven faculty members in the department, working in the research areas: Mathematical Control Theory; Suspension Rheology; Partial Differential Equations; Differential Geometry and its Applications; Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes; Numerical Solutions to Fluid Dynamics; Computational Partial Differential Equations; Numerical Solutions to Partial Differential Equations; Commutative Algebra; Machine Learning Algorithms and Applications: Control and Inverse Problems.
Every year, starting from 2013, the department runs a Young Talent Nurture (YTN) programme (12 day workshop) for promising students (e.g. 3rd year B.Sc / integrated M.Sc) to deepen their understanding in advanced mathematics, logical reasoning and related area. IIST also conducts, the finishing school of MuMATS programme fof SCERT, Govt. of Keraka. There is a Mathematics Club, where talks, lectures and open discussions are organized at regular intervals.
