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44 Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter the field of sustainability, climate, mathematics, and several other areas. Norway and India share a close relationship in terms of intellectual knowledge. A recent white paper identifies India as one of Norway’s prioritised partners for research cooperation.” The agreement on research and technology cooperation between India and Norway was signed in 2006. It encompasses the exchange of researchers, information and documentation, grants for young researchers to participate in exchanges, bilateral seminars and courses, cooperation on identifying research areas and projects of mutual interest, and organising conferences on research and technology. In order to strengthen bilateral research cooperation between India and Norway, the Norwegian Programme for Research Cooperation with India (INDNOR), managed by the Norwegian Research Council, has been established as an initiative on research funding cooperation as part of this effort. The results are starting to show in the Embassy and Research Council’s cooperation with India. Number of joint publications in peer reviewed research publications has increased from 16 in 2000 to 156 in 2010. Scientific subjects are well represented, for instance in condense matter physics, nuclear physics, applied mathematics, computer sciences and artificial intelligence. One of the goals for the INDNOR programme is to lay the foundation for increased cooperation with India in all thematic areas and scientific fields, and encompassing basic research, applied research and innovation. Efforts will be made to ensure the involvement of trade and industry, universities and university colleges, as well as research institutes in both countries. India and France to Set Up Virtual Institute on Mathematics India and France have decided to set up a virtual institute for applied mathematics to take up joint research projects in the area. An agreement to set up the virtual institute was signed on January 12, 2012 between the Department of Science and Technology and the National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS) of France. The new initiative will have participation from six institutes from India led by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. The University of Toulouse will be the lead institute from France. Besides the April 2012, Volume 2 No 2 initiative in mathematics, the two sides also signed agreements to renew cooperation in the field of immunology and informatics. The three projects will be funded equally by Paris-based CNRS and the Departments of Science and Technology, and Biotechnology. “We have signed agreements with the Indian counterparts to set up a joint unit in mathematics in Bangalore and two international associated labs in informatics and immunology to strengthen scientific collaboration between the two countries,” CNRS Director–General Joel Bertrand said. “Each side will contribute Rs five crore (or 50 million rupees, approximately US$ 100,000) towards the initiative,” said Thirumalachari Ramasami, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology. He also said the funds would be spent over the next four years on joint research projects in mathematical sciences and exchange visits. The top 30 Indian and 30 French mathematicians will jointly work on the research projects over the next four years at IISc in Bangalore and at CNRS centres in Paris and Toulouse in France. Besides the IISc, Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai and a couple of IITs will be involved in the mathematics initiative, said G Rangarajan, a professor of Mathematics at IISc and Indian coordinator for the project told. The 72-year-old CNRS is the state-funded organisation under the French ministry of research and higher education, with a budget of 3.3 billion euros in 2012. With about 1,100 research units, including joint research labs with universities and industries worldwide, CNRS employs 35,200 people, including 11,400 researchers and 15,200 engineers and technicians. Math Facebook: Teaching Tomorrow Chennai-based online mathematics education platform HeyMath is working on launching a new social networking site “Math Facebook” called “Teaching Tomorrow” within three months. HeyMath, which has former IMF chief economist Raghuram Rajan and entrepreneur Jerry Rao on its advisory board, is on course to unveil the social networking site for mathematics. Symbolically, it is happening in 2012 — the National Mathematics Year in India. “I am visualising 3,000 teachers coming together (from key HeyMath
markets such as the US, Singapore and India),” says Nirmala Sankaran, MD of HeyMath. “There is a case for bringing this community together. They would face similar problems as teachers.” According to Rao, the founder of the software company MphasiS, “An open platform such as this will help teachers resolve issues they face, and bring out creative ideas of teaching in an open environment.” The site is currently being designed. When completed, it would have incorporated popular social networking features such as “likes” and “recommendations”. Through this site, mathematics teachers will be available online to share mathematics problems with each other. News from Japan The MSJ Autumn Meetings 2012 The MSJ Autumn Meeting 2012 will be held at Ito Campus of Kyushu University, Fukuoka, during the period September 18–21, 2012. The chair of the organising committee is Dr Masaaki Yoshida at Kyushu University and the chair of the executive committee is Dr Hideki Kosaki at Kyushu University. The detail about the Meeting will be announced in the next issue of APMN and also on the main page of the meeting with URL http://mathsoc.jp/en/meeting/kyushu12sept/. MSJ–KMS Joint Meeting 2012 On September 17 prior to the Autumn Meeting, MSJ–KMS Joint Meeting 2012 is held. The Organising Committee of the Joint Meeting consists of: Yoichi Miyaoka (University of Tokyo), Miyuki Koiso (Kyushu University), Takayoshi Ogawa (Tohoku University) and Takashi Tsuboi (University of Tokyo) from Japan; Jong Hae Keum (KIAS) , Yong Jin Song (Inha University), Dohan Kim (Seoul National University) and Dongsu Kim (KAIST) from Korea. In the morning session, we have two plenary talks by Gen Nakamura (Hokkaido University) and Jun-Muk Hwang (KIAS). We have the following four parallel sessions in the afternoon: Algebra Session Shuji Saito (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Yukinobu Toda (University of Tokyo) Yongnam Lee (Sogang University) Changheon Kim (Hanyang University) Geometry and Topology session Shigeyuki Morita (University of Tokyo) Shin-ichi Ohta (Kyoto University) Jaigyoung Choe (KIAS) Sang-hyun Kim (KAIST) Analysis Session Yoshikazu Giga (University of Tokyo) Kenji Nakanishi (Kyoto University) Kang Tae Kim (POSTECH) Ki-Ahm Lee (SNU) Probability Theory and Applied Mathematics Session Takashi Kumagai (Kyoto University) Makiko Sasada (Keio University) Hyeong In Choi (SNU) Jung Hee Cheon (SNU) The detailed programme of the Joint Meeting will be announced on its main page with URL http://mathsoc.jp/en/meeting/MSJ-KMS2012/ and also in the next issue of APMN. Yoshinori Gongyo received the Second JSPS Ikushi Prize Yoshinori Gongyo is awarded the second JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Ikushi Prize by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Yoshinori Gongyo, a PhD student in the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo, is honoured for his work on “minimal models and abundance”. JSPS Ikushi Prize has been established since 2010 upon an imperial donation to encourage young researchers, especially PhD students. The Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS), Kyoto University The Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS) was founded at Kyoto University in April 1963 RIMS, Kyoto University Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter April 2012, Volume 2 No 2 45
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