• Served as a member of the subcommittee for recommending the ICIAM ( International Congress on Industrial and
  Applied Mathematics) 2023 Su Buchin Prize.:
  Lois Curfman McInnes (Argonne National Laboratory, US), Chair.
  Tanniemola Liverpool (University of Bristol, UK).
  Amiya Kumar Pani (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India).
  Precious Sibanda (University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa).
  Pingwen Zhang (Peking University, China).
  This prestigious prize was awarded to Jose Mario Martinez Perez (University of Campinas, Brazil)
  in ICIAM 2023 in Tokyo.

• Institute Committees:
    *Convenor of the Committee for Best Thesis Award, BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus.
    * Chairman of the Committee for designing and developing New four year B.E. programme on Mathematics and Computing, which was approved by Senate in December, 2023.

• Fellowships of Academies (Names, year).
  • Fellow of National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), Allahabad: 2002.
  • Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences ( FASc), Bangalore : 2012.
  • Fellow of ISMMACS ( Indian Society for Mathematical Modeling and Computer
  Simulation): 2021
• Research Based Awards.
  • Professor S.C. Bhattacharya Award for Excellence in Pure Sciences-2016 from IIT
  Bombay.
  • Felicitated and awarded a trophy with a citation by Honorable Rajnath Singh, Home
  Minister of Govt. of India for outstanding contributions in industrial and applied mathematics
  during the silver jubilee conference of the Indian Society for industrial and applied mathematics
  (ISIAM) held at Sharda University, Greater Noida, during 29-31 January, 2016, see for more
  details: http://www.math.iitb.ac.in/akp award.pdf
  • Institute Chair Professor, IIT Bombay for a period of three years during April 2011- March
  2014, the second term during May 2014- May 2017, and the third term during May, 2017- May,
  2020.
  • IRCC, IIT Bombay Best Research Paper Award from IIT Bombay for the year 2010.
  • C. L. Chandana Award for distinguished and outstanding contributions to Mathematics re-
  search and teaching in India (2002).
  • Awarded Best Young Mathematician by the Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Math-
  ematics for outstanding contributions in Numerical Analysis, Partial Differential Equations and
  Industrial Mathematics. (2000).
  • Nominated ICTP Senior Associate of the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical
  Physics from January 2003 until 31st December 2008.
• Other (specify).
  – Member of the subcommittee for the 2023 ICIAM (International Congress of Industrial and
  Applied Mathematicians) Su Buchin Prize Prize.
  see, https://iciam.org/2023-iciam-prizes-recipients-and-committees
  – Member of the subcommittee for the 2015 ICIAM (International Congress of Industrial and
  Applied Mathematicians) Maxwell Prize.
  see, http://www.iciam2015.cn/ICIAM%20Announces%202015%20ICIAM%20Prizes.html

– One of the Panel member representing South Asia in the Round Table discussion on ‘Devel-
oping Mathematics in the Developing World’ held on 19th July, 2007 in the 6th International
Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 07) held in Zurich during July 16-
20,07.
(see, https://www2.math.ethz.ch/iciam07/scientific program/round tables )
– One hour invited talk on Particle Size Distribution in Emulsion Polymerizations : Some
Computational Issues, in the session on Applied Analysis and Industrial Mathematics in the
Third World Congress on Nonlinear Analysts 2000, held in Univ. Catania (Italy), during 19-
26th July’2000.
– Plenary talk on ‘Discontinuous Galerkin Method: An old Wine in a New Bottle’ in the inter-
national conference on Recent development in Applied and Computational Mathematics held in
Chiangmai Univ. during January 4-7, 2011.
– Plenary Talk in the International Conference on ‘Computational Methods in Applied Mathe-
matics (CMAM-5)’ held in Humboldt University, Berlin during July 30 - August 3, 2012.
– One hour Invited Bama Charan Das Memorial talk on ‘Industrial Mathematics : Key to
Key Technologies and its Impact on Research and Education in Mathematics’ in the National
Conference on ‘Recent Trends in Mathematics & Computing’ and 27th Annual Conference of
Orissa Mathematical Society (March 11-12th ’2000), held in Utkal University, Bhubaneswar.
– Key Note Address on Role of Mathematics in Engineering and Technology in the 30th
Orissa Mathematical Society and National Conference on Role of Mathematics in Engineering
and Technology (Orissa) during 22nd to 23rd February’ 03.
– Professor Rama Nath Mohanty Memorial Lecture entitled ‘Navier-Stokes Equations: A
Million Dollar Open Problem’ in the 30th Orissa Mathematical Society and National Conference
on Role of Mathematics in Engineering and Technology (Orissa) during 22nd to 23rd February’
03.
– Professor Sankar Prasad Mishra Memorial Lecture on ‘How to Compute a Fair Price
for an Option Derivative in Financial Market: A Case Study and Its Mathematical
Implications’ in the 31st OMS Conference held in the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar during
7th to 8th February’ 04.
– Inaugurated the UGC sponsored Conference on ‘Surprises in Mathematics and Their
Applications’ held in Vivekanand College, Chembur during January 17, 2005 and September, 06.
– B. C. Das Memorial Invited Talk on ‘Can Mathemaicians help to extract more oil from the
oil field’ in OMS Conference held in Vyasanagar College, Jajpur Road during January 26-29,07.
– Inaugurated the workshop and gave 14th Professor P.D. Sharma Memorial Lecture
entitled ‘Navier-Stokes Equations: A Million Dollar Open Problem’ in the workshop on Fluid
Dynamics helpd in Jaipur University, Jaipur during August 07-08,2011.
– 45 minutes invited talk on ‘Semigroup theoretic approach to partial differential equations’ in
the Indian Science Congress held in Baroda (3-8 January’92).
– One hour invited talk on Particle Size Distribution in Emulsion Polymerizations : Some
Computational Issues, in the session on Applied Analysis and Industrial Mathematics in the
Third World Congress on Nonlinear Analysts 2000, held in Univ. Catania (Italy), during 19-
26th July’2000.
– Invited as a Resource person in the International Workshop on ‘Analysis and Applications’,
held during 15-17th May’2000 in the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Chiangmai
University, Chiangmai (Thailand).
– Invited as a Resource person and gave 10 hour lectures on ‘Scientific Computing’ in the
National Training Programme and Workshop on Industrial Mathematics at Kelaniya University,
Colombo ( Sri Lanka) during 26–30th December’01.

– 45 minutes invited talk on ‘Finite Element Analysis of PDEs: A Bird’s Eye View’in the
Symposium on ‘PDE, Scientific Computing and Applications’ in the 75th Annual Conference
of Indian Mathematical Society held in Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil during ec. 27-
30,2009.
– Plenary Talk in the International Conference on ‘Computational Methods in Applied Mathe-
matics (CMAM-5)’ held in Humboldt University, Berlin during July 30 - August 3, 2012.
– One of the Conveners of four workshops for industry participants; three Industry-IIT Meets;
seven study group meetings on industrial problems out of which three are in collaboration with
Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (OCIAM); five study group meetings
on industrial problems under NPDE-TCA programme; seven international workshops (one in
University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka in 2001, one in Chiangmai University, Chiangmai ( Thailand),
one with Brunel Univ. (UK),4th with Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany) and recent one
called Indo-German Advanced Workshop in IMA, Bhubaneswar during Feb 22-March 02, 2013).
three advanced level instructional schools on modern PDEs, four international conferences in
IITB and another two international conferences : one in MS University, Vadodara and other in
IIT Kanpur, etc.
– One of the members of organising committees of several international conferences in India and
abroad with more recent one is in UFPR, Curitiba(Brazil) during December 4-10,2010 and other
in Chiangmai University, Chiangmai ( Thailand) during January 06-07, 2011, and etc.
– In honor of my 60th birthday, a conference on Recent Advances in PDE: Theory, Computa-
tions and Applications was organized from June 8–10, 2017 at the IIT Bombay to acknowledge
his outstanding contribution for the growth of applied mathematics in India. The conference
brought together national and international experts in the area and paved a way for discussion
on theoretical as well as computational aspects of PDEs with emphasis on challenging scientific
and industrial applications.
– In honor of my 65th Birthday and 60th Birthday of Professor Carsten Carstensen an International
Conference on Computational Partial Differential Equations and Applications (ICCPDEA-2022)
was organised in BML Munjal University, Noida during September 6-8,2022.