D. Surya Ramana


Research Summary:

Continued work certain problems involving the application of exponential sums begun last academic year.

Publications :

  1. Adhikari, S. D. and Ramana, D. S. Siegel's theorem : finiteness of integral points, Elliptic curves, modular forms and cryptography (Allahabad, 2000), 139--149, Hindustan Book Agency, New Delhi, 2003.

Preprints :

  1. Suresh Nayak and D.S. Ramana, Tarski's Plank Problem for the Disc.

Conference/Workshops Attended:

  1. Presented a paper titled "Vinogradov's Method for Sums of Fractional Parts" at the Joint India-AMS conference at Bangalore in December, 2003.

  2. Presented a paper titled "A Remark on Some Exponential Sums" in the Conference in honour of Professor K. Ramachandra at Banglaore in December, 2003.

Visits to other Institutes:

  1. Visited the Department of Mathematics, Panjab University, Chandigarh in April - May, 2003 and delivered four lectures on Exponential Sums.

Academic recognition/Awards:

  1. Received the best thesis award for the period Jan 2001- March 2002 from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.

Other Activities:

  1. Gave a semester long course titled Analysis II for first year doctoral students at H.R.I.
  2. Organised the mathematics part of the annual science talent test conducted by H.R.I. for high school students from Allahabad.


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