MSF is a registered non-profit educational society. The ICICI Bank is an institutional member of MSF. Our activities have been supported by ICICI Bank, NASSCOM, Tata Interactive Systems, National Board for Higher Mathematics, University of Houston, etc.
MSF faculty has studied and worked at leading institutions of the world, such as Oxford, Imperial College, Berkeley, Purdue, TIFR, IITs, Indian Statistical Institute, University of Delhi, University of Houston, Warwick, etc.
OFFICE BEARERS
Chairman: Shri. Naresh Chandra
Former Cabinet Secretary and Former Ambassador to the USA
Director: Dr. Dinesh Singh
Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi
Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Delhi
Adjunct Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston
RECENT ACTIVITIES
Undergraduate Level Courses: Mathematical Finance, Corporate Finance, Mathematical Simulation with Information Technology. Our Excel in Business Finance course is currently taught to about 2000 students at various business school campuses.
Nurture Programme for college students: Special reading seminars in diverse areas like Graph Theory, Game Theory, Group Actions, Econometrics, Optimization, Encryption, Image Recognition, etc. Students of this programme have done original research.
Work & Learn Programme: A summer programme in which undergraduate and graduate students learn computer and mathematical skills and employ them on diverse projects ranging from image processing to education technology.
Inviting All Young Minds: A month-long summer internship featuring high school and college students from all over India. The first programme, in 2009, was hosted at Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram, New Delhi, and was partly sponsored by the National Council for Science and Technology Communication.The 2010 edition was hosted at The Air Force School, Subroto Park, New Delhi and was sponsored by the Department of Science & Technology (Govt. of India), Mr Narayana Murthy and NIIT.
From A Life of Mathematics: MSF invites leading mathematicians of the world to Delhi to reside, lecture and interact with students and faculty. The invited speakers include Sir Michael Atiyah (Fields Medal, Abel Prize, Past President of Royal Society), M S Narasimhan (FRS), Henry Helson (Professor Emeritus, Berkeley), Marie-Francoise Roy (Past President, French Mathematical Society), Kenneth Ross (Past President, Mathematical Association of America), Martin Golubitsky (President SIAM), and Vitali Milman (Past President, Israeli Mathematical Union).
Postgraduate Level Courses: MSF offers masters level courses in mathematics, physics and computer science. Graduates are admitted to the University of Houston with full credit, financial aid, and a tuition waiver. 45 students have gone to Houston under this programme.
Research: The faculty and students associated with MSF are actively involved in research in mathematics and have published in leading journals.
International Research Conference: Mathematics in the Twentieth Century. In Commemoration of the Birth Centenary of Andre Weil. (January 2 to 5, 2006) Co-sponsored by the Embassy of France in collaboration with the French Mathematical Society.
School Student Level Workshops: MSF has conducted workshops for school students at various schools in Delhi and elsewhere. Students of schools that cater to the underprivileged sections of society were admitted free to these workshops.
School Teacher Training Workshops: These workshops have been conducted not only in Delhi but at places all over the country and also abroad. They range from a workshop for school teachers in remote parts of the coal mine areas of Bihar, to ones for CBSE schools in UAE.
Mathematics Help Line: MSF launched a FREE mathematics help line for students appearing for their board exams in 2004. We received over 1300 calls/emails from not only students but anxious parents and teachers. In 2005, the helpline was extended to television with the support of Doordarshan and NDTV and again received an overwhelming response.
MSFChallenge2006: An initiative to encourage school students to use computers for mathematical problem solving. The inaugural 2006 contest had 80 competing teams and was sponsored by NIIT. The first place teams were taken on an all expenses paid trip to meet active scientists and mathematicians at ISRO and IISc, Bangalore.
Development of school curriculum and lessons: With the support of NASSCOM, the MSF is engaged in a fifteen year project to redefine the school mathematics curriculum and develop e-lessons and testing methodologies. Several innovative tools for classes VI-X have already been created.
Interaction with the Corporate World: Corporate houses take active interest in the designing and teaching of the courses that MSF offers at various levels. Our students are placed as interns at corporate houses to gain hands-on experience on the usefulness of their course work.
Our efforts have received glowing tributes from students:
- “The most memorable month of my life.” (IAYM 2009)
- “I was there just for a year and I have learned so much in that time. I think it's a great institute doing a great job and I would really like to do something for this institute.” (Graduate Programme 2004)
- “The quality of teaching and reference material were amazing. Within limited time, a lot of syllabus was covered without hampering its quality.” (Mathematical Finance 2007)
- “The sense of direction and knowledge which this programme instills in the students who opt for it could surely not be obtained elsewhere.” (Simulations & IT 2004)
- “This workshop is one of the best things I have ever faced till now. Truly I think it has been very much able to curb my fear of the topic sets and functions.” (School Workshop 2003)
