Dr Rolf Jeltsch, a Swiss mathematician and Professor visits Sharda University, Greater Noida
Delivers lecture on the latest innovations in mathematics, Swiss higher education practices and possible collaborations with Sharda
Tweet-- Sharda University, Greater Noida played host to Dr Rolf Jeltsch, a renowned Swiss mathematician and professor today.
Dr. Jeltsch was welcomed at Sharda University by the Chancellor Mr. P.K. Gupta and was introduced to the students and faculty by Dr. R. P. Singh, Vice Chancellor of Sharda University where he delivered a lecture on the latest innovations in mathematics and Swiss higher education practices to the students. He also interacted with students and answered their queries during the lecture session.
"India has proven potential for scientific and technological development and mathematics is an important and sought after subject in India. Both Switzerland and India have tremendous opportunities in Science and Education and I believe the best way to tap into this is through motivating the youth. As, they say catch them young! Young minds are still open to information and learning, experimenting and discovering, adapting and applying. My interaction with the students at Sharda University has been exhilarating and I look forward to further collaborating with students and faculty of Sharda." said Dr Rolf Jeltsch, during his visit to the University in Greater Noida.
In the course of his visit Dr. Jeltsch's also held discussions for possible collaborations with a team led by Dr R P Singh, Vice Chancellor Sharda University and Professors A.H. Siddiqi and R.C. Singh senior members of the faculty from the Department of Physics, School of Engineering & Technology.
Dr Singh while welcoming the Swiss professor to the Sharda University campus said: "It's very fortunate for teachers and students of Sharda University to have Professor Jeltsch here on the campus. All the students, especially mathematics students can get the advantage of his experience and knowledge first hand."
The visit of Dr Jeltsch, who is on a visit to India visit has been planned under the auspices of the Embassy of Switzerland in New Delhi to commemorate 2009 as the year of "Science and Education of Switzerland in India". The objective of this project is to conduct presentations and interaction, under diverse topics, with students of higher educational institutions (either specialized or general) and teachers.
About Dr Jeltsch:
Dr. Jeltsch received his Ph.D. in mathematics at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1972. He was a Killiam Postdoctoral Fellow at Dahlhousie University in Halifax, Canada, from 1972 to 1973; assistant professor at UCLA, California, from 1973 to 1975; and assistant professor at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, from 1975 to 1976. In 1976, he became docent at the Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, and associate professor in 1977. From 1979 to 1989, Dr. Jeltsch was full professor and director of the Institute for Geometry and Practical Mathematics at the RWTH, Aachen, Germany. Since 1989, he has been full professor at ETH in Switzerland; and, from 1997 - 2008, he has been the study director for the newly created curriculum in computational science and engineering.
Dr. Jeltsch is a fellow of the National Mathematical Centre, Abuja, Nigeria, and a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. He received an honorary degree from the North University of Baia Mare, Romania, in 2000 and of the Helsinki University of Technology in 2008. From 1997 to 1999, he was president of the Leonhard Euler Center, which is the Swiss Pilot Center of the organization European Community on Flow Turbulance and Combustion (ERCOFTAC). He was president of the European Mathematical Society 1999 to 2002 and the Swiss Mathematical Society 2002 to 2003. He is Vice-President of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, GAMM, since 2008. He was president of GAMM, 2005 to 2007. He chaired the Scientific Council of the Banach Center from 2002 to 2005 and is advisor to several research institutes in Europe. He is President of the organization ICIAM, International Council on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, since October 2007. He was the Congress Director of the congress ICIAM 2007, held in Zurich 2007. He is chair of the panel for mathematics and foundations of the European Research Council advanced grants in the years 2009, 2011 and 2013.
Dr. Jeltsch's major research interests are in numerical analysis. In the 1970s, his work was focused on ordinary differential equations. Since the 1980s, Dr. Jeltsch has concentrated on hyperbolic partial differential equations, especially systems of conservation laws with applications. In addition, he conducts large-scale computing in scientific and engineering applications.
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About Indo-Swiss collaborations
The vibrant Indo-Swiss collaboration over the years has already yielded several joint ventures. Formal Indo-Swiss cooperation in Science and Technology (S&T) was initiated in 1966. Later, collaboration in biotechnology was agreed upon by India and Switzerland in 1974, and in 2006 the two governments further demonstrated their commitment to bilateral scientific research by signing the Indo-Swiss Executive Programme of Cooperation in the field of S&T. In the wake of growing collaborations, a Scientific Counsellor and Director of Swissnex (www.swissnex.org) for India have been appointed at the Swiss Embassy in New Delhi.
About Sharda University:
Sharda University in Greater Noida, established under the aegis of Sharda Group of Institutions (SGI), and enacted by Act 14 of year 2009 Govt. of U.P is North India's largest education group. SGI was set up by Sharda Education Trust in 1995 and offers over 75 programmes at its 14 colleges across 4 campuses. The institutions run maximum NBA Accredited Courses taught by full time foreign and Indian faculty. Degrees are offered in all disciplines including Engineering, Management, Commerce, Economics, Mass Communication and Journalism, Medical, Dental, Nursing etc.rsity's The unive campus, spread over 63 acres has one of the most vibrant and stimulating academic, co-curricular and student friendly infrastructure in the NCR. It also has a 500-bedded super specialty hospital on site attached with a proposed medical college.
Sharda University in Greater Noida is the only one in India to offer a fully flexible credit based system. Its philosophy is based upon 'process-driven' & 'knowledge based' education to prepare the student to stand out in today's competitive world with confidence and calibre. The University believes in basic education delivery through "Application Based learning" by utilizing modern practices.