​Dr Vivek Tewary presents at GANIT Symposium on Stochastic Processes and Related Topics 2025

​Dr Vivek Tewary, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, SIAS presented a research talk on Regularity theory for nonlocal p-Laplace equations at GANIT Symposium on Stochastic Processes and Related Topics 2025 held at IIT Gandhinagar from 13-15 September 2025.

About ​the talk: Brownian motion is related to the Laplace operator as jump Levy processes are related to the nonlocal Laplace operator. Similarly, the p-Laplace operator has a probabilistic interpretation in a tug-of-war game with noise and the nonlocal p-Laplace operator comes from a nonlocal version of this tug-of-war game. A recent turn is to study these operators using non-probabilistic methods. While the probabilistic interpretations are linked to non-divergence type operators, in this talk, we focus on one of their divergence type counterparts. In particular, we discuss the local boundedness and local Holder regularity of solutions of the parabolic divergence type nonlocal p-Laplace equation.

About the workshop: The aim of this meet is to bring together researchers in the country working on stochastic processes and related areas (such as partial differential equations, dynamical systems) for a series of stimulating lectures and discussions. It is hoped that this can be the first meet in an annual tradition and provide a forum for explorations of new ideas and forging of new collaborations.

Dr Lakshmi Narayanan’s proposal approved under ISRO RESPOND programme

A project by Dr ​​Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS has been approved under the prestigious ISRO RESPOND programme. The project proposal is titled ‘Large and small-scale ionospheric plasma irregularities using airglow imaging and GNSS TEC measurements’.This will be a two year project in collaboration with Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. The support is approximately Rs. 28,00,000/- and manpower at the level of Project Associate. In this project Dr Narayanan will develop a low cost instrument to study oxygen airglow at 630 nm wavelength emanating from 200 – 300 km above the surface of the earth. He will also develop software to efficiently analyse the voluminous datasets involving machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms.

Dr Lakshmi Narayanan bags the Krea Research Fellowships 2025-26

Dr ​​Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS has been awarded the Krea Research Fellowship 2025-26 for a project entitled ‘Multi-wavelength Airglow Imaging with Low-cost cameras (MAIL)’ with a support of Rs 3,50,000/-. The previous year Dr Narayanan developed low-cost cameras to observe a broad band of near infrared emissions known as OH airglow. This is a sequel to that project. In the present project, the team will try to measure individual airglow spectral lines (contrary to the broad band emissions) from the edge of space.

Krea faculty members attend IN-SPACe event

Krea faculty members, Dr Lakshmi Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS; Dr R S Sathya Saminadan, Associate Professor of Practice, Marketing, IFMR GSB; Professor Lakshmi Kumar, Dean, IFMR GSB,Dr Aishwarya Krishnaswamy, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Finance IFMR GSB and Professor Vijayalakshmi C, Professor, OB & HR participated and spoke at the event conducted by IN-SPACe in connection with LEAD at Krea University. The event was IN-SPACe Short-term Skill Development Course on “Entrepreneurship Development for the Space Sector”. IN-SPACe is the newly created authorising agency under privatisation drive of Space Sector for approving space sector activities in India including that of ISRO. The skill development programme was held from 31 August to 5 September 2025. Dr Lakshmi Narayanan was also invited to release the abstract book along with Shri Kiran Kumar, Former Chairman ISRO, Dr Vinod Kumar, Director of IN-SPACe and other dignitaries.

Dr Dipanjali Deka publishes in Hakara

An article titled Flow in The Living Tradition of Kabir in Malwa by ​Dr Dipanjali Deka has been published in the August Issue of Hakara bilingual online journal, centred on the theme of Flow. In the essay she examines flow, memory, and the question of “living” in the oral song tradition of Kabir, through the reading of a musical exchange between renowned folk singer Prahlad Singh Tipanya and his Guru, Chenaji Maru.
हाकारा । hākārā (ISSN 2581-9976), a peer-reviewed journal, is included in the University Grants Commission (UGC) CARE-LIST.

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