Room 113, School of Arts and Sciences
Central Campus
Srinivasa Ramanujan is generally considered to be the harbinger of India’s contribution to the world stage in Mathematics in the post-historic period. A pure mathematician of the first order, as G. H. Hardy put it, Ramanujan made monumental contributions in number theory and analysis, more specifically, in analytic number theory, special functions, q-series and theory of partitions. This talk is focused on some of the brilliant breakthroughs and the giant leaps of imagination that Ramanujan made resulting in the fabulous advancement of Mathematics. We will also discuss some aspects of his life as well as certain incidents which have had a profound impact on the contemporary mathematicians as well as those that came later.
Atul Dixit is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at IIT Gandhinagar. He did his Bachelors in Computer Engineering from University of Mumbai in 2004, Masters in Mathematics from Texas Tech University, USA, in 2006, followed by a PhD in Mathematics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, in 2012 under the supervision of Professor Bruce Berndt.
He was a postdoc at Tulane University, USA, from 2012-2015, after which he joined IIT Gandhinagar as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics. Atul's research interests are in Analytic Number Theory, Special Functions, Theory of Partitions, q-series and Modular Forms. He also likes to work in the mathematics field developed by Srinivasa Ramanujan. In the year 2021, Atul was awarded the prestigious Gábor Szegő prize by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), USA. In the same year, Atul also received the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the Government of India. This fellowship is awarded to him for 5 years to do research in Mathematics.
