THE MSF-HOUSTON PROGRAMME

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE UNIVERSITY, THE FACULTY, AND THE LIVES & ACHIEVEMENTS OF OUR STUDENTS

Mathematics in today’s world is changing

very fast.

It is increasingly blending with, contributing to &

is enriched by

Engineering

Medical Science

Computer Science

etc.

The old ways of doing and thinking

mathematics are changing rapidly in the USA

and in Europe.

The line between the so called Pure and Applied

Mathematics – or between Mathematics and

disciplines like Physics, Computer Science, and

Medicine – is no longer distinct.

One of the pioneering universities that advocate

this new approach and encourage students to

think on their own is the University of Houston

(at Houston in Texas, USA).

University of Houston Campus

The Department of Mathematics at University of Houston

The department is well funded, has excellent computing resources and has a large group of research students and faculty.

It is currently engaged in front rank research in various areas of mathematics – both pure and applied. It has collaborations with NASA, the medical centre, the petrochemical and aerospace industries.

Some of the faculty members of the department are

Member of the French Academy of Sciences

Director of Center for Advanced Scientific Computation

Roland Glowinski

Immediate Past President of SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; the world's largest society for applied mathematicians)

Director of Mathematical Biosciences Institute

Martin Golubitsky

Former Director of the Fields Institute(The Fields Institute is a center for mathematical researchactivity – a place where mathematicians from Canada andabroad, from business, industry and financial institutions, cometogether to carry out research and formulate problems ofmutual interest.)

President-elect, International Council on Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Barbara Lee Keyfitz

Member of The National Academy of Sciences

Member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Neal Amundson

William Fitzgibbon

Dean of the College of Technology, University of Houston

Some other renowned mathematicians at Houston are

Vern Paulsen & David Blecher

after whom is named the Blecher –Paulsen – Ruan Theory in C*

Algebras

Min Ru

- Differential Geometry

Sunica Canic

-Differential Equations & Modeling

Mike Fields

-Dynamical systems

The mathematical research done at

Houston is comparable to the best in the

world.

The faculty is very supportive and

encourage and nurture graduate

students.

The atmosphere is very friendly - much

more than some of the institutes in

India.

The Department of Physics at University of Houston

The Department of Physics at University of Houston has

Faculty members that have been recognised on the

national and international level. They include

A member of the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Recipients of awards such as the National Medal of Science, the Freedoms Foundation Award, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award, and others.

Five of the top fifty cited physicists in the world are at University of Houston.

The Department of Physics at University of Houston

Students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty interact to create a research-intensive atmosphere.

Collaborations are common with faculty in other departments, the UH Cullen College of Engineering, and outside the university with agencies such as NASA, and many U.S .and foreign universities.

The Department of Computer Scienceat University of Houston

The Department of Computer Science at University of Houston is engaged in front rank research in some of the highly challenging areas of both theoretical and applied research.

It has highly recognised and valued collaborative programmes with medical and other centers all over the USA .

The Department of Computer Scienceat University of HoustonThe department's teaching and research fields include

The department maintains state of the art computer equipment and students have access to over 100 workstations and to high performance computing facilities

artificial intelligence computer networks

computer graphics and vision

databases

high-performance computing

software engineering

scientific computing and visualization

biocomputing and bioinformatics

Jobs in the corporate world or the academic world are

becoming much easier if you have a PhD from a university like

Houston. All those who have graduated from the MSF

programme are doing very well:

1. Mrinal Raghupathi is working as an Assistant Professor at

Vanderbilt University, Nashville.

2. Deepti Kalra is working as a Corporate Portfolio Risk

Analyst at MetLife, New York.

3. Aditya Agarwal is working as a Senior Financial Analyst

at Google, San Francisco Bay Area.

4. Ishaan Kapoor is working for Exelon Corp. – one of the

largest power generating and supplying companies in the

USA – as Principal Structuring Analyst.

5. Harbir Antil is a postdoctoral fellow in the

Department of Computational and Applied

Mathematics, Rice University.

6. Upasana Kashyap is a Lecturer at University of

Houston.

7. Swabhimita Patel works as on Options Trade Quant

for Shell Trading, London.

8. Ila Gupta is a Quantitative Analyst - Trading and

Risk Management at Tesoro, San Antonio, Texas.

The MSF Students are doing research in diverse fields like:

1. Saurabh Jain (Mathematics) has just completed a PhD in

applications of Harmonic & Wavelet Analysis to medical

and seismic data.

2. Yutheeka Gadhyan (Mathematics) is now pursuing research

in Stochastic Differential Equations with applications to

Finance and Medicine.

3. Avinash Wesley (Computer Science) is now pursuing

research in Observational Psychology and Affective

Science.

4. Soniya Devi Yambem (Physics) is working in Biophysics –

Physical Mechanisms of Biological Molecular Motors.

Aanchal Aggarwal is doing research in Large Deviation Theory.

Research Areas of Present Students

Aarti Jajoo is working on Adaptive finite element methods, her task

at the moment is to develop algorithms to solve some optimal

control systems.

Ajit Kumar’s research is linked to Mathematical Biology group.

The interaction of proteins and enzymes in a cell can be

modelled by a set of differential equations. Currently he is

trying to simplify this system.

Amrita Haldar is working on Solar Cells.

Anando Sen’s research is based on localizing the Radon

transform. In practical terms it amounts to carrying out the CT

scan in a particular portion of the organ rather than the whole

organ hence reducing exposure to radiations and the clarity of

the CT scans should be maintained.

Charu Hans is working in area of image processing.

Research Areas of Present Students

Joseph Mathew is working in area of image processing.

Meghna Mittal’s research area is function theory and operator

theory.

Pankaj Kumar Singh is about to finish a project related to missing

data and then will start working in the area of signal

processing or related area.

Natasha Sharma’s research area is to understand the behavior of

the solutions of Partial Differential Equations using Finite

Element Methods .

Pallavi Arora’s research area is Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Sneh Lata is working in operator theory which involves function

theory as well.

Feedback from former students

My thesis advisor at the University of Houston was very surprised to know that I did notreceive my undergraduate training in mathematics. Having learnt that I received almost all my training in mathematics in one year at the MSF, his words were, ‚that year did a miracle”

-Saurabh Jain

(Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Houston)

Research in developing image processing

algorithms for seismic and medical

imaging applications.

Feedback from former studentsI am working in the finance department of the search giantGoogle and I owe my success to MSF in ways more than one.

Some of my seniors have got a chance to work at big oil companies like Shell, Halliburton and Schlumberger and MSF efforts have played an important role in all these placements.

It was a great learning experience at MSF for one year. In fact, the amount I learned in just one year was, worth 2 years of hard work and dedication.

-Aditya Aggarwal

(Senior Financial Analyst, Google)Delhi University Topper of B.Sc.(H) Physics

Feedback from former students

I enjoyed each and every activity at MSF and found it the best place in my academic life so far. The environment is very conducive; teachers and staff are very supportive.

The assignments and questions in class were really challenging and interesting as most of them were unseen to us and were not from books. So there was no point in looking for solutions in books, rather we had to think and get the solutions.

-Pankaj Kumar Singh

(MSM, 2006-07 ; PhD student at Houston) Research in Signals Processing

Feedback from former studentsI had a life time experience at MSF. I developed real interest in Mathematics at MSF. I think it provides a very good platform for students in India to pursue higher studies in Mathematics, which is unique in its own. I was there just for a year and I have learned so much in that time. I think it's a great institute doing great job and I would really like to do something for this institute.

- Upasana Kashyap(MSM, 2003-04 ; PhD completed at Houston)

Publications in:•Journal of Functional Analysis

•Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra• Transactions of the

Feedback from former students

For the first time studying became enjoyable.For three years I’d been taught the ‘Delhi University way’. Despite having some very good teachers the course structure and the classroom environment prevented any mathematical thinking from the students. That was not the case at MSF.

- Anando Sen(MSM, 2006-07 ; PhD student at Houston)

Working on localizing the Radon Transform, with applications to CT scans with

reduced exposure to radiation.

Feedback from former students

I realize now, as a research student, that we did mathematics in MSF the way one does research.

-Mrinal Raghupathi(MSM, 2003-04 ; completed PhD at Houston)

Publications in:• Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society•Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

• Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Houston is a nice place to be if you want to do a good PhD.

There are scientists working in different fields and lots to choose from.

-Harbir Antil(Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University)

Publications in:

• Journal of Numerical Mathematics

• Control and Cybernetics

• Lecture Notes in Computer Science

• Lecture Notes in Computational Science

and Engineering

Feedback from former students

STUDENT LIFE IN HOUSTON!

STUDENT LIFE IN HOUSTON!

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