Various Prizes for Research Paper Presentation. In order to encourage and inspire the young and budding research workers, the Society holds, during its Annual Conferences, a Special Session of Paper Presentation Competition for various Prizes to be awarded to the best research papers presented. This Special Session is held as a part of the Academic Programme with no other parallel session. Following are the areas and the grouping for these prizes :

1. IMS Prize-group-1: Discrete Mathematics (Combinato- rics, Graph Theory, Posets), Lattice Theory, Set Theory, Logic, Number Theory and related areas.
2. IMS Prize-group-2 : Algebraic Geometry, Geometry, Topology, Algebraic Topology, and related areas.
3. IMS Prize-group-3 :. Measure Theory, Probability Theory, Stochastic Processes, and related areas.
4. IMS Prize-group-4 : Differential / Integral / Functional equations and inequalities, Special Functions , Numerical Analysis and related areas.

5. IMS Prize-group-5 : Solid Mechanics, Fluid Mechan- ics, Electromagnetic Theory, Magneto- Hydrodynamics, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Relativity and related areas.

6. IMS Prize-group-6 : Operations Research, Optimizati- On, Computational Mathematics, Information Technology, Biomathematics, History of Mathematics and related areas.

AMU Prize: Algebra, Differential Geometry and Functional Analysis.
V M Shah Prize: Real Analysis, Complex Analysis, Fourier Analysis, Harmonic Analysis, Approximation Theory and related areas.

Three / Four judges are appointed by the Council for the “Paper Presentation Competition” for deciding the award of various Prizes. Each of these eight prizes listed above carries a Certificate and a cash amount of Rs. 1000/-.

Following conditions apply:

1. Only the Members of the Society are eligible for participation in the Competition.

2. The upper age limit of a candidate for participation in the Competition is 40 years as on December 31 of the respective year.

3. (a) The paper to be presented for the competition has to be under single authorship.
(b) Independent work at the post-doctoral level is preferred.
(c) The work must have been carried out in India.
(d) Stress will be on both, quality of research as well as performance during the presentation.

4. Two copies of the full paper with the abstract in triplicate (not exceeding 250 words) prepared as per the details mentioned in the above as well as its electronic version in .pdf format should reach Prof. A. K. Srivastava at the address given earlier not later than October 31, 2013. Candidates should also submit their latest CV and the proof of their age ( high school certificate will do) along with the papers.

An E-mail address must be mentioned in the address of the author in the paper. Note : One who is already awarded a prize in a certain area in the past is not expected to participate in the competition for the prize in the same area.

An appeal : All the Heads of the Departments / Institutions and the Research Supervisors are requested to encourage their research students for participation in this Competition.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING ABSTRACT.
The following instructions should be followed carefully to ensure smooth editing and printing of the abstract:
(1) Computer print out of the Abstract is required.
(2) The use of Formulae and symbols should be minimized.
(3) List of references should not form part of the abstract.
(4) Classification of the abstract is a must.
(5) Full address is not allowed, E-mail address is a must.
(6) The word “abstract” should not be written.
(7) Abstract must begin with the title of the paper.
(8) Coma should be inserted at the end of the title and the name(s) of the author(s) be written on the same line.
(9) The name of the author?s town should be written in brackets after the name; in case of two (or more) authors from the same town, the town be mentioned only after the last author?s name.
The abstract is likely to be rejected if any of these instructions (particularly (1), (2), (5) and (7)) is violated. The abstract and its electronic version in .pdf format should be sent to Professor A. K. Srivastava at the address given earlier so as to reach him not later than October 31, 2013 (after which date no paper will be accepted).
FORMAT FOR ABSTRACT
INDIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
Name of the Author(s) :
Institution(s) :
Name of the Presenter :
Address for Correspondence :
ABSTRACT : The abstract must be accommodated in the space as in the box below in strict accordance with instructions given above. The word “abstract” must not be written in the box.
SECTION: The Section (A, B, C, etc.) should be carefully chosen and entered here. Refer the classification codes given earlier.