Odisha HRD

Institute of Mathematics Bhubaneswar students doing very well

August 4th, 2010

Following is an excerpt from a report in tathya.in.

Meet Kamalakshya Mahatab, the genius and product of the IMA has B.Sc(Hons) in Mathematics & Computing programme which is designed to orient students to pursue mathematics as a research career. 

He completed the B.SC.(Hons) in 2010 at IMA and see the results of his.

Appeared in IIT JAM and stood first to qualify for Indian Statistical Institute. 

Faced the All India Examination for Integrated Ph.D program at TIFR Centre Bangalore and stood first. 

He qualified join the integrated Ph.D Program of Indian Institute of Science, Banglore. 

Again he has qualified for the integrated Ph.D programme of Institute Mathematical Sciences Chennai. 

He also qualified to join the integrated Ph.D programme TIFR, Mumbai. 

Out of these six options he is opting join the TIFR, Mumbai.

From the first batch in the year 2009, eight students took admission in this batch. 

02 qualified in the IIT JAM, 02 qualified for Central University Hyderabad, 03 joined Utkal University . 

One of the boys who qualified in the IIT JAM joined as integrated Ph.D Programme.

… The Student who was second in 2003, RMTS, Himalaya N. Senapati, went on to represent India in Astronomy Olympiad at Semiz, Crimea, Ukraine and earned a silver medal. 

Professor Pattanayak has mentored nearly 60 plus scholars of various background, who are doing Ph.Ds in various IITs, Math institutes of India at this time. 

… Interestingly nearly 15 of Ph.D students are SC/ST students – who are supposed to be weak in Math. 

… One of his mentored student, Abhilash Mishra of Sambalpur is now a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, who has come back to support the program both financially and physically, by teaching students. 

The other of the 08 students of 2009 batch is Deepak Kumar Sahu, who is from Nuapada district, is actually in a job in Pune which pays him 9.5 lakhs per annum. 

He has personally mentored many math Olympiad students since 1988 and Somani Pattnayak last year was selected directly by MIT, USA.

Interestingly she spents most of her winter vacation last year in Math Camps in IMA … 

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Related pointers from the past:

• IMA may be the only institute in India offering M.Sc in Computational Finance.
• Ad for admission to IMA Bhubaneswar.
• Shortage of Math Ph.D’s in India.
• IMA advertises for 5 faculty positions.
• IMA does a great job.
• New campus for IMA inaugurated.

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