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Sharad S Sane

Sharad S. Sane: Brief bio-data

  Sharad-Sane

  1. Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics since 1985.

  2. Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1978-79)

  3. Post-doctoral Commonwealth Fellow, Westfield College, London, (1979- 80)

  4. Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Florida and the Ohio State University (1980-82)

  5. Recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany

  6. Visiting Professor, Central Michigan University (1984-85 and 1989-90)

  7. Visiting Professor, Michigan Technological University (1999-2000)

  8. Held short term visiting positions at the University of Waterloo (three months), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (seven months) and the Mehta Research Institute, Allahabad (two months)

  9. Joint Research Monograph : Quasi-Symmetric Designs, published in the London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes (Number 164) by the Cambridge University Press (1991)

  10. “Combinatorial Techniques” text-book on Combinatorics (2010)

Specialization: Combinatorics, Design Theory, Graph Theory, Finite Group Theory, Coding Theory About 50 Research Publications in international journals including

  1. Journal of Combinatorial Theory

  2. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

  3. Designs, Codes and Cryptography

  4. Linear Algebra and its Applications

  5. Combinatorica 6. Geometriae Dedicata

  6. Journal of Geometry 8. Discrete Mathematics

  7. Graphs and Combinatorics

  8. Ars Combinatoria

  9. Utilitas Mathematica

  • Five Ph.D. students have finished their Ph.D. work under my supervision; two papers of my student (R.M.Pawale) are quoted in the book of Cameron and van Lint in the bibliography.

  • Twelve students have worked for their M.Phil degree dissertation under my supervision.

  • Referee for the International Mathematical Olympiad held at Bombay in 1996; I have been regularly involved in the Olympiad Training Camps for problem solving in Combinatorics for the past 20 years.

  • I have given more than sixty colloquium/seminar talks at various Universities in Indian and overseas. The recent ones include Colorado State University, Kansas State niversity, Temple University, Philadelphia and the Southern Illinois University, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

  • I have been an organizing committee member of several international con-ferences in India, the latest one being the Satellite conference of the ICM at Cochin University of Science and Technology in August, 2010.

 

Professional recognitions, awards, fellowships received

  1. Elected Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (January, 2010)

  2. Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship, Germany, 1985

  3. Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT (Indian Institute of Technology), Bombay 1996 his award is given by the premier technological institute only to less than dozen past students per year; website : www.alumni.iitb.ac.in

  4. National Coordinator of the Mathematics Olympiad Program activity; National Board for Higher Mathematics, (from August, 2009)

  5. Observer (sponsored by the National Board for Higher Mathematicsand accompanying the Indian Team) at the International Mathematics Olympiad held at Hanoi, Vietnam from July 19 to July 31, 2007

  6. Indian Delegate (sponsored by the National Board for Higher Mathematics, India) as a participant in the International Congress of Mathematics, Madrid, Spain 21 to 31 August, 2006

  7. Leader of the Indian Mathematics Olympiad Team to the International Mathematics Olympiad held at Merida, Mexico, from July 9 to July 19, 2005

  8. Research Professorship, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant,Michigan, 1984-85

  9. Commonwealth Post-doctoral position, 1979-80

  10. Invited Speaker at the R.C.Bose Memorial conference on Combinatorics at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (Calcutta), 1989

  11. Invited Speaker at the CRRao80 conference at the Indian StatisticalInstitute, Kolkata (Calcutta), 2001

  12. Elected Fellow, Maharashtra Science Academy, Maharashtra

  13. Best Past Student Award given by S.P.College, Pune (where I had my undergraduate education)

  14. Best Teacher Award by: the University of Mumbai (15 August,2003)

  15. Referee (Examiner) for the International Mathematics Olympiad held at Bombay hosted by India in 1996