IIT Madras professor selected to receive Alumni Ambassador of the City of Kaiserslautern, Germany

Updated on: Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Prof.S.Sundar, Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras has been selected to receive "Alumni Ambassador of the City of Kaiserslautern, Germany".

He is one among the four recipients, including the President of Google, Europe, and the only Indian to receive this award.

Awardees have been selected by a high level committee comprising members from Technical University of Kaiserslautern and other technological Institutes of Kaiserslautern city.

The official communication received by Prof.Sundar from the Lord Mayor of Kaiserslautern says that "During the selection, it was of the utmost importance to us to gain internationally renowned representatives as Alumni Ambassadors".

Prof.Sundar will be receiving this award on December 7th, 2012 at the City of Kaiserslautern where in there will be Technical Presentation, Panel Discussion and the Award Ceremony.

Prof.Sundar was also a recipient of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship. He was a post doctoral fellow at the Department of Industrial Mathematics, TU Kaiserslautern after his Ph.D. from IIT Madras in the year 1989. Since then he has been intensively collaborating with Industrial Mathematics group of TU Kaiserslautern.

Prof.Sundar works in the area of Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation.

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