Somnath Bhattacharyya is Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Prof. Bhattacharyya did his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His research interests are Computational Fluid Dynamics, microfluidics and microscale transport, Partial Differential Equations and Scientific Computing. Prof. Bhattacharyya has received several prestigious fellowships for research collaboration abroad and was elected FNASC. He has published more than 200 papers, completed several sponsored research projects and offered online NPTEL courses. Prof. Bhattacharyya is recognized for his work in Applied Mathematics particularly his contributions to devising numerical methods for solving electrokinetic transport in microscale. His research focuses on mathematical modelling and numerical analysis incorporating inherently non-linear effects to analyse underlying physical mechanisms of several complicated transport phenomena. These studies establish the bridge between the theoretical understanding and experimentally observed phenomena. A significant part of his work focuses on the development of advanced numerical algorithms to compute nonlinear PDEs.
Hari Shankar Mahato is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Dr. Mahato did his PhD from the University of Bremen in 2013 on the homogenisation of a system of nonlinear diffusion-reaction equations in a porous medium. His research interests are Partial Differential Equations, Applied Analysis and Homogenisation Theory. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, TU Dortmund and at the University of Georgia. He has a decade-long experience in the fields of applied analysis and is an active researcher in this community.