Lashi visits IIT-Madras, Sri Jayawardenepura, Peradeniya and Kelaniya

Lashi Bandara visited Aprameyan Parthasarathy at IIT-Madras on invitation from 6th to 10th October.

In the IIT-Madras Maths Colloquium, he gave a talk titled “Functional calculus, garnished with a little geometry”.

IIT-Madras maintains a beautiful tradition of keeping a collection of their colloquium talks hand-written by the speaker into a book.

Together with B. Sivashankar, Aprameyan’s PhD student, they discussed and began to collaborate on a project on understanding the stability of eigenvalues under rough metric convergence.

During his leave visiting extended family in Sri Lanka, Lashi was invited by Thanuja Paragoda from the University of Sri Jayawardenapura to give a talk to their undergraduate students. He gave a talk titled “Crushing Orange Peels and Drawing Maps: the story of Gaussian curvature”, organised by the Mathematics Society of USJ.

He was also invited by Ashwini Amarasinghe and Gayana Jayasinghe from the University of Peradeniya and to give talks to their undergraduate students. Peradeniya has two departments of mathematics - one in the Faculty of Science and the other in the Faculty of Enginnering. He gave the same talk as for USJ for the Science Faculty students at Peradeniya, who are focused more on pure mathematics, organised by the Mathematical Society of Peradeniya.

Lashi gave a chalkboard talk and he was very happy with the beautiful boards!

For the Engineering faculty students, he gave a talk titled “Chucking matrices into functions: why, when and how?”, organised by the Engineering Mathematics Society.

Lashi also gave an invited research colloquium talk at the University of Kelaniya on invitation by Shamon Almeida.