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» May-29-30, 2026. A two day National level lecture series on Differential Geometry was organized by the Mathematical Sciences Institute Belagavi.
The lecture series was held in hybrid mode, with local students and faculty participating in offline mode. Prof. T. E. Venkata Balaji the resource person for this lecture series traveled to MSIB, from IIT Madras and delivered four lectures in all.



The key note address was delivered by Dr. J. V. Ramana Raju after which Prof. T. E. Venkata Balaji introduced the topic of plane curves and space curves. Before this Prof. T Venkatesh Director MSI, Belagavi welcome the gathering and introduced the speaker. In the technical sessions differential geometry was discussed via curves , i.e Differentiable curves in the plane are functions mapping an interval of real numbers into R2. Also surfaces and higher dimensional generalizations were mentioned. In the case of parametrized differentiable curves in the plane the idea of curvature was emphasized as a very important parameter to describe the nature of curves. Further the normal field also was discussed. Applied aspects were also mentioned.
In physics, differential geometry underpins general relativity, where spacetime itself is modeled as a curved manifold. In engineering, curvature analysis helps in designing roads, bridges, and aerodynamic surfaces. In computer graphics, parametrized curves and surfaces are used to model smooth shapes and animations.
On day two, the speaker continued the technicalities of space curves where tangent normal and binormal were described to form the Frenet - Serret frames a corner stone of modern Differential Geometry. After describing high points of this theory, the speaker went on to describe some salient features of the theory of smooth oriented surfaces. Also some interesting facts about triangles embedded on curved surfaces were described. The event concluded with a discussion of career for young students and certificate distribution.

» April-29, 2026. Talk delivered by T. Venkatesh, MSI-Director. Title: Linear Algebra and Applications in Computer Science, at GIT, Belagavi. Hosts: Sudhir Jog, Dept of Mathematics, GIT.



» March-28, 2026. Talk delivered by T. Venkatesh, MSI-Director. Title: Number theory connections to Geometry and Cosmology via Pell Equations, at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. Hosts: P. K. Sahoo, Dept of Mathematics, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus.



» March-01, 2026. Inaugural of Book Reading Session of MSI - Belagavi happened in online mode, in collaboration Aleph-Naught Club, School of Sciences Jain University.

» 19-December, 2025. Professor Ken Ono of University of Virginia delivered the NMD(National Mathematics Day) special lecture of the Mathematical Sciences Institute Belagavi, His lecture was entitled The Man Who Knew Infinity: His Mathematical Legacy.

» 21-November, 2025. Professor Manjunath Krishnapur delivered Unity of Mathematics lecture entitled: In praise of Determinants.

» 25-August, 2025. The Unity of Mathematics Lecture was delivered by Prof. S. A. Katre in online mode. He spoke on Chinese Remainder Theorem and Interpolation formulae.

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» Prof. Ken Ono delivered - Special Lecture entitled
'Remembering Ramanujan - Gems of Ramanujan and Their Lasting Impact on Mathematics' on 09th January 2023 - To celebrate Ramanujan Birth Anniversary.

» Prof. T. Venkatesh delivered - Special Lecture on 23rd December 2022 at GFGC Hubli - To celebrate National Mathematics Day

» MSI awards Mr. Mallikarjun Mulimani a fellowship towards Science Communication.

» Media Coverage: Mathematical Sciences Institute was covered in The Hindu dated:
5th September 2022, on the special occasion of Teachers Day Celebrations of India.

» MSI collaborates with Jain-deemed-to be University & TMC-Pune to organize FDP on Algebra, Geometry & Combinatorics.
Speakers: Prof. Pranav Pandit ICTS - Bangalore. Prof. Tulsi Srinivasan, Prof. T. Venkatesh, Prof. Apoorva Khare, Prof. Arvind Ayyer.

» Prof. Gautham Bharali delivers the 2nd lecture in the series Geometry, Topology & Combinatorics on 20th October 2022.

» Prof. Harish Seshadri delivers the Inaugural lecture of the year long thematic Lecture Series on Geometry, Topology and Combinatorics on 18th August 2022.

» The Mathematical Sciences Institute Belagavi observes National Mathematics Day 2021, 22nd December 2021.

» The Mathematical Sciences Institute Belagavi organises the next History of Mathematics Lecture-IV, Resource person, Prof. Ambika Natarajan University of Mumbai (2021).

» MSI announces Lecture series on Random Graphs :Resource person Prof T.Venkatesh , Director MSIB.

» The Mathematical Sciences Institute Belagavi announces Work-Shop on Ramsey Theory for UnderGraduate Students will be organized by MSI, Belgaum. Dates of the event: 3rd week of August. 2020.

» MSI will be Conducting Instructional Conference on Mathematical Finance - July 2020, Expected speakers Anindya Goswami IISER, Pune, J V Ramana Raju, JGI Bengaluru.

» MSI launches the PU Math lecture series July 2020-October 2021.

» MSI announces UGC-CSIR NET/SET Intensive Training, For Mathematics Aspirants, May 2020.

» MSI announces seminar On Number Theory and Computing 26 and 27, April 2020 from 3.00 - 5.00 PM. Speaker Prof. T.Venkatesh, Director MSIB

» The Mathematical Sciences Institute Belagavi organises the History of Mathematics Lecture-III February 2020, Speaker: Prof, C. S. Rajan, TIFR, Mumbai.