Research
The department is active in research in most areas of pure and applied mathematics, including algebra and number theory, analysis, discrete mathematics, geometry/topology, mathematical finance, numerical analysis, partial differential equations, probability, representation theory, and time-series analysis.Teaching
The department has a Ph.D. programme as well as an integrated Ph.D. programme. The department participates in the undergraduate programme of IISc: undergraduate students can opt for mathematics as a major or a minor.- Courses
- Ph.D. programme for students with Masters degrees
- Integrated Ph.D. programme for students with Bachelor degrees
- Undergraduate programme
News & Announcements
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Ganit Ratna Award
Professor Vamsi Pritham Pingali has been awarded the Ganit Ratna Award for 2025-26.
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Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences
Dr. Arka Mallick has been inducted as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences for the period 2026-2029.
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Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
Prof. Vamsi Pritham Pingali has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
Seminars
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Speaker: Beth Romano (King's College London, UK)Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026Time: 11.30 amVenue: LH-1
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Speaker: Anurag Rao (Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, China)Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026Time: 11 amVenue: LH-1, Mathematics Department (Joint with the APRG Seminar)
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Title: Number Theory Seminar: Shapes of unit lattices of totally real orders form a dense set of latticesSpeaker: Nihar Gargava (Institut de Mathématiques d’Orsay, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France)Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026Time: 3:30 pmVenue: LH-1, Mathematics Department (Joint with the Algebra-Combinatorics Seminar)
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Title: APRG Seminar: On the well-posedness of the growth-coagulation models with singular coagulation kernelsSpeaker: Saroj Si (IIT Roorkee)Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026Time: 4 pmVenue: Microsoft Teams (online)
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Title: Eigenfunctions Seminar: TBASpeaker: Otmar Venjakob (Institute for Mathematics, Universität Heidelberg, Germany)Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2026Time: 3 – 5 pm (with a 15 minute break in between)Venue: LH-1, Mathematics Department