Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. (JAM)

• List of Selected Candidates for admission to M.Sc. Programme

• Sample Offer Letter

The Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (hereafter IITGN) was founded in the year 2008. It is currently located in Chandkheda, which is about a 15-minute drive from Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Ahmedabad is one of the oldest living cities in India, known both for a rich cultural past as well as state-of-the-art infrastructure, thriving industries, and many modern amenities. It is also the hub of prestigious academic and research institutes such as the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and the National Institute of Design. Gujarat’s long standing mercantile and business tradition encourages excellence and entrepreneurship.

IITGN is in the process of building its permanent campus in Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat, a city that expresses the state’s vision of modernity. Despite operating from a temporary campus at the Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Chandkheda, IITGN has excellent facilities in terms of classrooms, laboratory spaces, faculty offices, etc. IIT Gandhinagar currently offers 4-year B. Tech. programmes in Chemical, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and M. Tech. programmes in Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering and in Materials Science and Engineering. In addition, the Institute offers the students the option to do a Minor in Computer Science or Management along with their B. Tech. degrees. It also offers Ph.D. progammes in several disciplines in Engineering (Chemical, Civil, Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, and in Materials Science and Engineering), Sciences (Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics) and Humanities & Social Sciences (Cognitive Science, English, Philosophy, Sociology and others).
IITGN goes many steps beyond the call and definition of a technology Institute, it aims to create excellence in science, technology as well as the Humanities and Social Sciences and thereby create rounded and nuanced minds.

Chemistry Discipline
Chemistry at Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar has an emphasis on pure sciences with potential application areas in the area of green chemistry, biopolymers, sensing, electrochemistry and other optical applications. The goals of the research encompasses the disciplines of chemistry and biology involving synthesis of natural product analogues, modified nucleic acids for development of bioanalytical assays and sensor systems, isolation and characterization of chromophores from natural sources, synthesis and functionalization of nanomaterials, synthesis of macrocyclic systems such as porphyrnoids for sensing applications, photophysical and photochemical studies of synthesized organic solutes  in ionic liquid media, electron transfer, development of natural food coloring agents, enzymology of redox processes and in the research involving electrochemistry, materials and catalysis. The research is funded by major funding agencies (DST, CSIR) and supported by institute. Faculty is also actively involved in teaching a number of core courses pertaining to both undergraduate and graduate students.

IIT Gandhinagar has acquired and/ placed orders for state-of-the-art research equipment such as Mass Spectrometer (Waters, Synpat G2S), 500 MHz NMR Instrument (Bruker); Powder XRD (Bruker), Multimode 8 Atomic Force Microscope, (Bruker), Scanning Electron Microscope (JEOL) for sample characterization and analysis. The NMR instrument is solid state ready and equipped for a wide range of nuclei. Other major facilities include UV-Vis spectrophotometer, Thermofisher is 10 FTIR spectrometer, Horiba Jobin Yvon Spectrofluorimeter and High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (Agilent). Chemistry has 24-hour access to Scifinder and online subscription to many journal publications.

Mathematics Discipline
Faculty members in the discipline are actively engaged in teaching and research in some of the frontline areas in mathematics. Although the Institute is relatively young, it envisions:

• creation of one of the excellent groups on mathematics in the country devoted to both the fundamentals as well as the applications aspects of mathematics;
• attainment of world class in terms of excellence in research and teaching of mathematics.

The faculty is presently active in the areas of analysis, differential equations, numerical analysis – particularly as applied to partial differential equations, and optimization theory.  Currently, the discipline has faculty strength of 5 members, which is likely to grow in the near future. At present the research interests of faculty members in the discipline comprise non-smooth optimization theory, variational inequalities and  variational relations with applications, nonlinear functional analysis,  elliptic partial differential equations, hp/spectral element methods, tensor decompositions, and numerical solutions of partial differential equations.  Faculty members are actively involved in collaborating with members of other disciplines in the Institute in their joint research endeavors.  Ph.D. programme has already been initiated and research scholars are working for their Ph.D.

M.Sc. programme in Mathematics, which is intended to be initiated in July, 2013, aside from exposing students to the fundamentals of domains of traditional mathematics such as algebra, topology and analysis will have many attractive novel features such as:

• emphasis on strong foundations
• versatility of available electives with interdisciplinary flavor
• emphasis on computational skills
• training in pedagogy of research with provision of  two semester project.

Financial Assistance
Merit-cum-means scholarship of Rs. 1000/- p.m. plus free tuition is available for up to 25% of the students.

25% of students enrolled in each batch may be awarded MCM scholarships provided they satisfy the selection criteria. The MCM scholarship entitles the award of Rs. 1000/- per month for ten months and tuition fee waiver.

Students belonging to the SC/ST category would be given Free Basic Mess facility and a pocket allowance of Rs. 250/- per month in addition to the tuition fee waiver subject to the parental income limit of Rs. 4.5 lakhs per annum.

CONCESSION TO SC/ST/OBC CANDIDATES FOR 2013-14 SESSION
The seats are reserved for SC/ST and OBC (non creamy layer) category candidates as per the norms. Such candidates must also satisfy the minimum prescribed qualifications. SC/ST candidates are provided concession/waiver in tuition fee as per the norms.

Application invited for admission to post-BSc programmes at IITGN (namely MSc in Mathematics and Chemistry), 2013