DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT

              Initially started in 1967-68, as Allied paper to support the then -PUC(pre-university class). Mathematics as a Major degree wasstarted in 1970,under the dynamic headship ofDr.C.P.Parvathy, Ph.D, who steered the department to dazzling heights in a short span of time, with the department proclaiming itself to be the only one to offer maximum number of allied courses, for Physics, Chemistry,Computer Science and Statistics multaneously. Success was proved again subsequently,through  the    establiment of the degree programme under self financing category in 1991 to  cater the extraordinary demand for the course. Emergence of a post graduate programme was initiated and was started in 2004. The odyssey of the department of mathematics still continues awaiting to scale new peaks. At present there are totally 181 students in Aided stream and 203 students in Self-Supporting stream.

 

                Name

 

Qualification

 

Designation

Years of service

 

Specialization

Mrs. R.Vijaya

M.Sc., M.Phil.

(Ph.D.)

AssociateProfessor & Head

24

Complex Analysis

Dr.T.Vijayalakshmi

M.Sc., M.Phil.

PGDOR, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

24

Stochastic Processes

Dr.S.Hemalatha

 

M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

13

Formal Languages

Dr.P.Vidhya

M.Sc. M.Phil.,

PGDCA, Ph.D

Assistant Professor

13

Graph Theory

Dr.V.G.Shanthi

M.Sc. M.Phil. Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

19

Complex Analysis

Conferences / Seminars/Workshops

Ø  Staff and Students of Mathematics Department released a Magazine on 22nd August 2011.

Ø  National Conference on Applications of Mathematics and Computer Science (NCAMCS) held on 10th February 2012. Conference proceedings published by Bonfring Publications which comprised of 44 research papers.

Ø  In commemoration of 125th birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan a workshop on Learning Mathematical Concepts Through Models held for school students on 21stNovember 2012. Mr.Sivaraman, Founder trustee, Pie Mathematics Association was the chief guest for the day.

Ø  Dr.K.G.Subramanian, Visiting professor, Department of Computer Science, University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia delivered a special lecture on Patterns in Mathematics on 13thAugust 2013.

Ø  One day seminar held on 18th February 2014, Prof. Youvaraj, Associate Professor, Ramanujan Institute for Advanced study in Mathematics delivered a special lecture on Uniform Convergence .Dr. Kalpana Mahalingam, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics; IIT Madras gave a lecture on Combinatory on Words.

YEAR

Number of students placed

2011-2012

6

2012-2013

27

2013-2014

32

2014-2015

20

2015-2016

16

                                                  

Highlights of the curriculum:

Ø  Introduction of Formal Languages and Automata Theory enables the students to pursue research in the field of Theoretical computer science

Ø  Students are also offered computer language C Programming