Educational Qualification

• B.Sc., DRBCCC Hindu College, Madras, 1998.
• M.Sc., Pondicherry University, 2000.
• Ph.D., Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 2006.
  • Title of the Ph.D.Thesis:   Asymptotic Behaviour of some Optimal Control Problems (Advisor:    Prof. S. Kesavan )
• Fellowship Awarded:
  • FONDECYT-CONICYT, Chile, October 2008
  • Postdoctoral Scholarship, French Science Today, Scholarship programme by Embassy of France in India, January 2008.
  • Post Doctoral Fellow, National Board of Higher Mathematics, October 2006
  • Research Fellow, National Board of Higher Mathematics, July 2000 (Not Availed)
  • Lectureship (No.-2-44/2000(i)- EU II), CSIR-UGC (NET), in Mathematical Sciences, June 2000 (Not Availed)
• Society Memberships:
  • Ramanujan Mathematical Society (RMS) (Life Member)
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Visits

• Visiting Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratoire MIP, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, March 2008 to July 2008.
• Visiting Scholar, Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität-Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, November-December 2006.

Seminars/Talks

Post 2012

2012

• Invited talk titled Elliptic Equations with Measure data in the 27th Annual Conference of RMS at New Delhi,India (20--23 October 2012).
  
  

2010

• Invited talk titled Γ-lower limit for Energy Convergence with Weak Data in the ICM Satellite Conference On PDE and Related Topics at TIFR-CAM, Bangalore, India (13--17 August 2010).
  
  
• A set of three lectures on Γ-convergence and Homogenization in the workshop on Multi-Scale Analysis and Homogenization at Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (28 June-- 10 July, 2010).
  
  

2009

• Presented Open problems in the Open Sessions of Control Problems for PDE (26 August 2009) and Homogenization Problems-II (01 September 2009) during the summer school and workshop of Partial Differential equations, Optimal Design and Numerics at Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual, Benasque, Spain.
  
  
• Invited talk titled Asymptotic Analysis of Cheap Controls on 4th May 2009 at Departamento de Matematica, Universidad del Bio-Bio, Concepcion, Chile.
  
  

Prior 2009

• Delivered talk titled Derivation of `generalised' Darcy-law via Homogenization on 10th October 2008 at Department of Mathematics, IIT-Kanpur.
  
  
• A set of three lectures on Calculus of Variations, Optimal Control Problem and Linear regulator problem at TIFR-Center for Applicable Mathematics during Aug-Sep 2007.
  
  
• Invited colloquium talk titled Homogenization of an Optimal Control Problem governed by Navier-Stokes Equations on 18th September 2007 at TIFR-Center for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore.
  
  
• Talk titled Homogenization of some Low-Cost Control Problems on 3rd March 2007 in the In-House Symposium of Department of Mathematics, IISc.
  
  
• Tutorial for a course on Fourier Series (5 slots) in the third Annual Foundation School (part-I) of Advanced Training in Mathematics School (ATM) in December 2006.
• Talk titled Homogenization of a Low-Cost Control Problem on 28th November 2006 while visiting Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität-Erlangen-Nürnberg.
  
  
• Talk titled Homogenization on Perforated Domains on 4th March 2005 in the Institute Seminar Week (2005) of Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc.).
  
  
• An invited talk titled Homogenization of control problems via Γ-convergence in the Conference on Recent Trends in Nonlinear Analysis and its Application at IIT-Bombay during 11--13 December 2004.
  
  
• Talk titled Homogenization and Control Problems on 24th February 2004 in the Institute Seminar Week (2004) of IMSc.
  
  
• A seminar titled Value of π: A Different Approach in the XIV intercollegiate mathematics students' meet, 1997, Department of Mathematics, Anna University
  
  

Workshops/Conferences

• 27th Annual Conference Of RMS, 20--23 October, 2012 at New Delhi, India.
  
  
• International Congress Of Mathematicians, 19--27 August, 2010 at Hyderabad, India.
  
  
• ICM Satellite Conference on PDE and Related Topics, 13--17 August, 2010 at TIFR-CAM, Bangalore, India.
  
  
• Workshop on Multi-Scale Analysis and Homogenization, 28 June-- 10 July, 2010 at Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
  
  
• Summer School and Workshop on Partial Differential equations, Optimal Design and Numerics , 24 August--4 September, 2009 at Centro de Ciencias de Pedro Pascual, Benasque, Spain.
  
  
• The 4th Symposium on Analysis and PDE's, 26--29 May 2009 at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
  
  
• Control of Physical Systems and Partial Differential Equations, 16--20 June 2008 at Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France.
  
  
• Joint Indo-French workshop on Partial Differential Equations and Applications, Feb 7--Feb 12 2005 at the Department of Mathematics and TIFR Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  
  
• Workshop on Scientific Computation, Numerical Analysis and Applications, Jan 24--Feb 4 2005 at the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  
  
• Conference on Recent Trends in Nonlinear Analysis and its Application at IIT-Bombay, 11--13 December 2004
  
  
• Indo-UK Study Group Meeting on Industrial Problems 2004 at IIT-Bombay, 6--10 December 2004.
  
  
• Joint India-AMS Mathematics Meeting at Bangalore, 17--20 December 2003.
  
  
• Instructional workshop preceding the Joint India-AMS meet at ISI, Bangalore, 11--16 December 2003