Departmental Profile
In 1968 Shivaji Mahavidyalaya, was established with Mathematics as one of the leading departments. Prof. L. B. Thakur was the first principal of Shivaji Mahavidyalaya, Udgir and also he took the charge of Mathematics Department. Prof.S.M.Shinde from Department of Mathematics contributed in the service as Vice-Principal and in-charge principal. After Prof. S. M. Shinde, Prof. M. G. Jadhav took the charge of the department. After Prof. M. G. Jadhav, Dr.S.V. Jagtap joined the department on 25th January 2005. Since I was the lone person in the department, I was given the charge of head of the department from the first day itself. Now I am given extra responsibility of administration, since 10 years I am working as vice-principal. Also I worked as In-charge principal for 10 months.
From last 5 years we are having the examination centre of ‘Madhava Mathematics Competition’ which is sponsored by National Board Of higher Mathematics organized by Department of Mathematics, S.P. College, Pune and Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR Mumbai.
The department has 2 C.H.B. faculties to meet the needs of the students. All the faculty members strive hard to bring the department up to date and fulfill all the requirement of the students.
We motivate the students and guide to participate in seminar competition, poster Presentation, Avishkar research competition etc. We are Intense about creating new knowledge in mathematics and communicating this knowledge to our students.
Last year we had conducted a one day regional workshop for the students. Dr. J. N. Salunke ex-chairman of school of mathematics from S.R.T.M.U. Nanded was the resource person and Dr. B. D. Karande, Maharashtra Udaygiri Mahavidyalaya, Udgir was the chief guest for that work shop.
We motivate students to participate in training program in mathematics so that they could enrich their mathematics knowledge .One student of B.Sc.T.Y. Kote Kapil and Minkikar Shashikant from our department had successfully completed Mathematics Training and talent search programme funded by National board for higher Mathematics ,Government of India (MTT&S ).
We celebrate 22 December as Mathematics Day. This programme is carried out in collaboration with Marathi Vidnyan Parishad, Udgir Vibhag. We had conducted 18th annual seminar competition for students which is jointly organized by Marathwada mathematical society, Aurangabad.
Our department has Mathematics laboratory with 25 computers, Two printer, One scanner.
Dr. Sharadkumar.V. Jagtap
Department of Mathematics
