Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) is a research centre located at Chennai, India. The institute is also known as Matscience.
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), founded by Alladi Ramakrishnan in 1962, is a national institution for fundamental research in the mathematical and physical sciences. It went through a phase of expansion in the 1980s when E. C. G. Sudarshan worked as the Director. The present Director of the institute is R. Balasubramanian.
The Institute has an active graduate research program to which a select group of students are admitted each year to work towards a Ph.D. degree. IMSc hosts a large number of scientists at the post-doctoral level and supports a visiting scientist program.
IMSc has an outstanding scientific library, a computing facility which contains the fastest academic computer in India (as of mid 2004) and a dedicated high-speed network. The Institute hosts several national and international scientific meetings every year.
Located in South Chennai, in the Adyar-Taramani area, the Institute is on the verdant Central Institutes of Technology (CIT) campus. The Institute also maintains a student hostel, flatlets for long-term visitors, married students and post-doctoral fellows, and the Institute guest house. IMSc has its own faculty housing in Tiruvanmiyur near the seashore.
IMSc is a national institute for fundamental research in frontier disciplines of the mathematical and physical sciences: theoretical computer science, mathematics, and theoretical physics. In these areas it is among the best institutions in India. It is funded mainly by the Department of Atomic Energy.
