The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc),chennai

The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), sometimes referred to as Matscience, is a research centre located in Chennai, India, and a constituent institute of the Homi Bhabha National Institute. It serves as a national institute for fundamental research in frontier disciplines of the mathematical and physical sciences, including theoretical computer science, mathematics, theoretical physics, and computational biology. The institute is funded mainly by the Department of Atomic Energy and operates the Kabru supercomputer. It was founded by Alladi Ramakrishnan in 1962 in Chennai, modelled after the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. The institute expanded under directors E. C. G. Sudarshan in the 1980s and R. Ramachandran in the 1990s, and Amritanshu Prasad currently serves as director. IMSc runs a graduate research program leading to a Ph.D. degree, hosts post-doctoral scientists, and supports a visiting scientist program. The campus is located in South Chennai's Adyar-Tharamani area, on the Central Institutes of Technology (CIT) campus, and includes a student hostel, flatlets for long-term visitors and post-doctoral fellows, a guest house, and separate faculty housing in Thiruvanmiyur near the seashore. Notable people associated with the institute include mathematicians and physicists such as Ramachandran Balasubramanian, Ganapathy Baskaran, and Radha Balakrishnan.