Speaker Details of Dr. R Balakrishnan for the event ICLAA 2025
Dr. R Balakrishnan
Adjunct Professor
Department of Mathematics
Bharathidasan University
Tiruchirappalli–620 024
Tamilnadu, India
Email: mathrb13@gmail.com Research Interests: Algebraic Graph Theory, Decompositions of graphs, Spectral Graph Theory, Graph Coloring, Discrete Mathematics, Combinatorics
Achievements: Dr. R. Balakrishnan received his PhD in 1968 from the University of Maryland, USA. Since then he has authored thee books, co-edited six book on Modern Algebra, Graph theory, Discrete Mathematics etc. He has organized around twenty International Conferences focusing mainly on Discrete Mathematics and Graph Theory. He has guided ten research students towards their PhD. Balakrishnan has published 75 research articles. He has delivered 14 invited talks on his research area. He is one of the founders of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society which is now in its 35th year.
R Balakrishnan is presently involved in organizing an Outreach Program in Mathematics at the Ramanujan Mathematical Society Building, National College Campus at Tiruchirappalli for the benefit of M.Sc. M.Phil. and Ph.D. scholars in mathematics. These scholars are being taught the foundations of mathematics and the methods to solve problems so that they would be better placed to meet the National Entrance Tests like NET, SLET etc. with greater confidence. It is a continuing program which is being conducted for 3 days in a month and for a longer period during summer vacation. More details...