Event

The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, in collaboration of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Department of Computing and Information Technology and the Faculty of Science and Technology, hosts a Symposium on Mathematics and its Applications (SMIA), on Tuesday June 17, 2014, at 9am, at the Institute of Critical Thinking, Centre for Language Learning. 

The symposium aims to promote and support understanding, teaching, research and applications of mathematics.

All interested staff and students are invited. 

There will be three parallel sessions: 

• - Mathematics and Statistics
• - Computing and information Technology
• - Secondary School Teachers

There will also be four presentations, three of which are by visiting professors: 

	Presenter	Title	Institution
Keynote address	Professor Gurmohan Kochhar		Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of the West Indies St. Augustine
Invited talk-1	Professor I.A. Eltayeb	Model 3 revisited: The stability of a hydromagnetic rotating diffusive fluid in   the presence of horizontal magnetic field and rotation	Department of Mathematics and Statistics Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Invited talk-2	Professor S.P. Anjali Devi	Mixed Convective boundary layer flow of Nanofluids	Department of Applied Mathematics Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India
Invited talk-3	Professor K. K. Viswanathan	Free vibration of anti-symmetric angle-ply laminated plates including shear deformation theory using spline approximation	UTM Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor bahru, Malaysia

 For more information, contact the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at 662-2002 ext. 82408 or 82409