So last week I went to the International Conference on "Advances in Analysis and its Applications" & 53rd Annual Conference of OMS held at IMA. It was my second time at IMA (I once mentioned that that conference might have been useful after all, but on further checking the litreaure the links never materialised) , but people have already started to think that I did my BSc at IMA due to familiarity with the routes to and fro from NIESR to IMA as well as the inner workings of IMA.
The conference itself was lacklustre, many applied talks that were very, very relaxed about regounress. and the parallel sessions were ill thought out (they were not grouped by either Age or Topic, what criteria they came up with, or they were able to conjure up a true RNG machine after IISC is beyond me).
In short didn't actually learn much, for most talks were tangential to what I do. I did get to see my academic grandfather and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awardee Gadadhar Misra. His talk was interesting, on Grothendieck's constant. Last time at IMO de didn't present anything but were just some sort of chief guest or organiser. Neither time did I have the courage to introduce myself, but my seniors here too haven't done that yet. Time will come, surely. Sudarsan Nanda's talk was also intresting and it was also very rich with personal anecdotes with G Das.
G Das is apparently a titan of Odia mathematics and perhaps indirectly responsible for my own PhD. I had the fortune to see him at the last conference at IMA. I didn't really recognise that then, my main takeaway was a joke at the expense of his son's name (Epsilon Das). 'बंदर क्या जाने अदरक का स्वाद' and all that. Anyway, at OMS, they do seemto respect the elders a lot.
I do want to attend National Conference on Geometric Function Theory and Special Functions (NCGFTSF 2026), which is more aligned with my research area, but there seems to be some scheduling issue with my mid sem exams. I only hope it works out.
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