Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. It is

the key to success in life and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their

students. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The department of Mathematics adopts the philosophy of inclusive approach in

teaching methods that serves as a foundation for different sciences and development

of society. The department continues to maintain seven solid intellectual staff

capable of delivering the expected results. The students are mentored academically

under able personal monitory by the teaching staff. The faculty provide all sorts of

assistance and develop confidence in the students to cope up with the rapid change in

state of art of technology and reach the Zenith in all their endeavors.

The lectures and motivational talks organized by the department gives an insight into

the subject in different dimensions and helps the students by enhancing their

understanding.

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(DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS)

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

MASTREAT PRIZE

WINNERS

2

NATIONAL MATH-

EMATICS DAY

2

WORKSHOP 3

STUDENTS’

ACHIEVEMENTS

3

READER’S

CORNER

4

A Bi– Annual Publication 2018-2019

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The department of mathematics organized an Inter-collegiate event Mastreat-2K18 under Mathoholic

forum on 15th December 2018 . Around twenty colleges actively participated in different events. Dr.Uma

Maheswari ,Head & Associated Professor was invited as the guest of honour.

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M A S T R E A T P R I Z E W I N N E R S

N A T I O N A L M A T H E M A T I C S D A Y

The department of mathematics celebrated National Mathematics Day as a tribute to the legend Srinvasa Ramanujan, a

great indian mathematician on 22nd December 2018. Quiz and Poster designing were conducted for other department

students. The purpose of this celebration is to create awareness among the students about his contributions to the field of

mathematics.

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P A G E — 3

S T U D E N T S ’ A C H I E V E M E N T S

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W O R K S H O P O N G A M E T H E O R Y A N D I T S A P P L I A T I O N S

A work shop was organized by the department of Mathematics on “Game theory and its Applications” on 16.02.19. Dr. M. P. Jeyaraman, Assistant Professor, L N Government College, Ponneri was the chief guest.

S.NO NAME OF THE STUDENT

CLASS ACHIEVEMENT PRIZE

1. DHARSHINI G.K III YEAR SAMYAT 2K19 ANAND INSTITUTE OF HIGHER TECHNOLOGY

I Prize

2. RAMYASHRI B

3. T DARSHINI I YEAR KABADI, SRM POTHERI I PRIZE

KABADI, JBAS COLLEGE FOR WOMEN II PRIZE

4. T POOJA I YEAR BASKET BALL, CHELLAMMAL COLLEGE FOR WOM-EN

III PRIZE

5. A PAVITHRA I YEAR VOLLEY BALL, SRI KRISHNASWAMY COLLEGE I PRIZE

VOLLEY BALL, SRM COLLEGE III PRIZE

VOLLEY BALL, CHELLAMMAL COLLEGE FOR WOM-EN

II PRIZE

VOLLEY BALL, YMCA III PRIZE

6. M.MEIYARASI I YEAR RECEIVED SAIL CLUB ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

A group of researchers from Tokyo’s Keio University set out to use an amoeba to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem, a famous problem in computer science. The problem is: “Given a set of cities and distance between every pair of cities, the problem is to find the shortest possible route that visits every city exactly once and returns to the starting point”.

There’s no simple mathematical formula to find the most efficient route for our salesman. This makes the traveling salesman problem one of a broad class of problems computer scientists call ‘NP hard.’

Keio University's solution is different from the typical algorithmic solutions produced by other researchers, because the scientists used an amoeba. Specifically, the Physarum polycephalum slime mold. Physarum polycephalum is a very simple organism that does two things: it moves toward food and it moves away from light.

The Keio University researchers used this efficiency to build a device to solve the traveling salesman problem. They set the amoeba in a special chamber filled with channels, and at the end of each channel the researchers placed some food. Instinctively, the amoeba would extend tendrils into the channels to try and get the food. When it does that, however, it triggers lights to go off in other channels.

In this particular case, each channel represents a city on our hypothetical salesman’s route, along with the order that city should be visited. When the amoeba extends into a channel representing a city, it affects the likelihood that a light will go off in channels representing the next cities on the route. The farther away that city is, the more frequently the light will go off in that channel.

This might seem like a roundabout way of calculating the solution to the traveling salesman problem, but the advantage is that the amoeba doesn’t have to calculate every individual path like most computer algorithms do. Instead, the amoeba just reacts passively to the conditions and figures out the best possible arrangement by itself. What this means is that for the amoeba, adding more cities doesn’t increase the amount of time it takes to solve the problem.

“The mechanism by which the amoeba maintains the quality of the approximate solution, that is, the short route length, remains a mystery,” says lead study author Masashi Aono in a press release.

If the researchers can figure out just how the amoeba works, they can use this trick and speed up our ability to solve all kinds of difficult computational problems and change the way we approach security.

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