
Dr. Manmohan Vashisth
Assistant Professor
- Department of Mathematics
- Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
- Rupnagar, Punjab - 140001, India
- Office: C-M11, Mezzanine Floor, SAB building
- Email : manmohanvashisth@iitrpr.ac.in
I am a faculty member in the department of mathematics (Maths) at Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar (IIT-RPR), India.
My research interests are:
- Inverse problems related to PDEs
- Geometric inverse problems
- Integral geometry
- Inverse scattering problems
- Partial differential equations
- August 2015 to July 2018 : Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Mathematics from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Centre for Applicable Mathematics (CAM) Bangalore, India
- Advisor : Professor Venkateswaran P. Krishnan
- Thesis Title : Some inverse problems in hyperbolic partial differential equations, defended on July 13, 2018
- August 2014 to July 2015 : Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Mathematics from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Centre for Applicable Mathematics (CAM) Bangalore, India
- Advisor : Professor Venkateswaran P. Krishnan
- Thesis Title : Inverse problems related to hyperbolic partial differential equations and hybrid imaging.
- July 2012 to July 2014 : Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Mathematics from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Centre for Applicable Mathematics (CAM) Bangalore, India Courses studied.
- July 2009 to July 2012 : Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) honours in Mathematics from Pt. Neki Ram Sharma (NRS) Govt. College, Rohtak, affiliated to Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU), Rohtak, Haryana, India Courses studied.
- June, 2023 to present : Assistant Professor in the department of mathematics (Maths) at Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar (IIT-RPR), India.
- September, 2020 to June, 2023 : Assistant Professor in the department of mathematics (Maths) at Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu (IIT-JMU) India.
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December 2018 to June, 2020 : Post-doctoral fellow in the division of Applied and Computational Mathematics (ACM) of Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing.
Mentor : Professor Guang-Hui Hu -
August-November, 2018 : Post-doctoral fellow at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Centre for Applicable Mathematics (CAM) Bangalore, India
Mentor : Professor Venkateswaran P. Krishnan
Research Articles
- Nitesh Kumar, Tanmay Sarkar and Manmohan Vashisth; Boundary determination of coefficients appearing in a perturbed weighted p-Laplace equation, Submitted (arXiv).
- Rohit Kumar Mishra and Manmohan Vashisth; Inverse problem for a time-dependent Convection-diffusion equation in admissible geometries, Submitted (arXiv).
- Maarten V. de Hoop, Takashi Furuya, Ching-Lung Lin, Gen Nakamura and Manmohan Vashisth; Local recovery of a piecewise constant anisotropic conductivity in EIT on domains with exposed corners, Inverse Problems, 39 (2023), no. 2, Paper No. 025005, 26 pp. (IP-2023). PDF
- Gen Nakamura, Tanmay Sarkar and Manmohan Vashisth; Reconstruction for the time-dependent coefficients of a quasilinear dynamical Schroedinger equation, Preprint (arXiv).
- Soumen Senapati and Manmohan Vashisth; Stability estimate for a partial data inverse problem for the convection-diffusion equation, Evolution Equations and Control Theory, Vol. 11, No. 5, October 2022, pp. 1681–1699. (EECT-2021) PDF
- Manmohan Vashisth; Unique determination of the damping coefficient in the wave equation using point source and receiver data, Submitted (arXiv).
- Gen Nakamura, Manmohan Vashisth and Michiyuki Watanabe; Inverse Initial Boundary Value Problem for a Non-linear Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equation, Inverse Problems, Volume 37 (2020) no. 1, 015012. (IP-2020) PDF
- Guang-Hui Hu, Manmohan Vashisth and Jiaqing Yang; Inverse time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering from coated polyhedral scatterers with a single far-field pattern, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Volume 81, (2021) no. 1, 25–46.(SIAP-2020) PDF
- Ibtissem Ben Aïcha, Guang-Hui Hu, Manmohan Vashisth and Jun Zou; Uniqueness for time-dependent inverse problems with single dynamical data, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Volume 497, Issue 2, (2021), 124910. (JMAA-2020) PDF
- Guang-Hui Hu and Manmohan Vashisth; Uniqueness to inverse acoustic scattering from coated polygonal obstacles with a single incoming wave, Inverse Problems, Volume 36 (2020) no. 10, 105004. (IP-2020) PDF
- Venkateswaran P. Krishnan, Soumen Senapati and Manmohan Vashisth; A uniqueness result for light ray transform on symmetric 2-tensor fields, Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications Volume 26, 40 (2020). (JFAA-2020) PDF
- Rohit Kumar Mishra and Manmohan Vashisth; Determining the time dependent matrix potential appearing in a wave equation from partial boundary data, Applicable Analysis Volume 100 (2021) No. 16, 3492-3508. (AA-2020) PDF
- Cătălin I. Cârstea, Gen Nakamura and Manmohan Vashisth; Reconstruction for the coefficients of a quasilinear elliptic partial differential equation, Applied Mathematics Letters, Volume 98, December 2019, Pages 121-127. (AML-2019) PDF
- Suman Kumar Sahoo and Manmohan Vashisth; A partial data inverse problem for the convection-diffusion equation, Inverse Problems and Imaging, Volume 14, No. 1, Pages 53–75.(IPI-2020) PDF
- Manmohan Vashisth; An inverse problem for the wave equation with source and receiver at distinct points, Journal of Inverse and Ill-posed Problems, Volume 27, Issue 6, Pages 835–843.(JIIP-2019) PDF
- Venkateswaran P. Krishnan and Manmohan Vashisth; An inverse problem for the relativistic Schroedinger equation with partial boundary data, Applicable Analysis, Volume 99 (2020), No. 11, 1889-1909. (AA-2019)Â
Research Grants
- Startup Research Grant (SRG)Â of amount Rs. 13,01,344/-, funded by Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology (SERB-DST) India from December, 2021 to December, 2023.
Collaborators
- Ibtissem Ben Aïcha (Higher Institute of Preparatory Studies in Biology and Geology in Soukra, Tunisia)
- Cătălin I. Cârstea (Sichuan University, Sichuan, China)
- Takashi Furuya (Hokkaido University, Japan)
- Guang-Hui Hu (Nankai University, Tianjin, China)
- Maarten V. de Hoop (Rice University, USA)
- Venkateswaran P Krishnan (TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bengaluru, India)
- Ching-Lung Lin (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
- Rohit Kumar Mishra (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India)
- Gen Nakamura (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)
- Suman Kumar Sahoo (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
- Tanmay Sarkar (Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu, India)
- Soumen Senapati (TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bengaluru, India)
- Jiaqing Yang (Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China)
- Michiyuki Watanabe (Okayama University of Science, Japan)
- Jun Zou (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Research Visits
- Indian Institute Technology, Gandhinagar, India (IIT-GN) during November 28 – December 8, 2022, for a collaborative research with Dr. Rohit Kumar Mishra.
- Indian Institute Technology, Gandhinagar, India (IIT-GN) during April 4-21, 2022, for a collaborative research with Dr. Rohit Kumar Mishra.
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India (IISER-B) during March 5-31, 2020, for a collaborative research with Dr. Manas Kar.
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India (IISER-B) during February 17-24, 2020, for a collaborative research with Dr. Manas Kar.
- TIFR Centre Applicable Mathematics, Bengaluru, India (CAM) during February 9-16, 2020, for a collaborative research with Professor Venkateswaran P Krishnan.
- Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (HOKUDAI) during January 11-31, 2020, for a collaborative research with Professor Gen Nakamura (Emeritus Professor at Hokkaido University).
- Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (HOKUDAI) during April 30 – May 25, 2019, for a collaborative research with Professor Gen Nakamura (Emeritus Professor at Hokkaido University).
- Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (HOKUDAI) during March 10-31, 2018, for a collaborative research with Professor Gen Nakamura (Emeritus Professor at Hokkaido University).
- Beijing Computational Science Research Center (CSRC), Beijing, China during February 4-9, 2018.
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) during January 22-27, 2018, for participating in Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS-2018).
- Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (HOKUDAI) during June 3 – July 2, 2017, for a collaborative research with Professor Gen Nakamura (Emeritus Professor at Hokkaido University).
Talks and Conference Presentations
- Math Colloquium at IISER, Mohali, Punjab, India on November 15, 2023. (Talk title:Â Fundamental solutions to PDEs and inverse problems).
- Mathematics Colloquium at IIT, Jammu, J&K, India on May 26, 2023. (Talk title:Â Lagrange multiplier method and its applications in linear algebra).
- One Day Conclave on National Mathematics Day, 2022, organised by the Department of Mathematics, Cluster University of Jammu, J&K, India, on December 22, 2022. (Talk title :Â Gamma function and its applications).
- Online seminar talk at Laboratoire de Modélisation Mathématique et Numérique dans les Sciences de l’Ingénieur (LAMSIN) Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunisia,on April 14, 2021. (Talk title : Inverse boudary value problems for nonlinear PDEs) (Video link).
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER-B) Bhopal, India, on March 6, 2020. (Talk title : A partial data inverse problem for the Convection-diffusion equation).
- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER-B) Bhopal, India, on February 24, 2020. (Talk title : Inverse problems related to pde and integral geometry).
- TIFR Centre Applicable Mathematics, (CAM) Bengaluru, India, on February 14, 2020. (Talk title : A partial data inverse problem for the Convection-diffusion equation).
- RIMS Workshop on “Analysis of inverse problems through partial differential equations and related topics” (RIMS-2020) during January 8-10, 2020, at Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan. (Talk title : Reconstruction for the coefficients of a quasilinear elliptic partial differential equation).
- Conference on Modern Challenges in Imaging, In the Footsteps of Allan MacLeod Cormack, On the Fortieth Anniversary of his Nobel Prize (Imaging-2019) during August 5-9, 2019, at Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA. (Talk title : A uniqueness result for a light ray transform of two tensor field).
- Annual International Conference “Days on Diffraction” (DD-2019) during June 3-7, 2019, at St. Petersburg Branch of the Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russia. (Talk title : Reconstruction for the coefficients of a quasilinear elliptic partial differential equation).
- A mini-workshop on inverse problems and PDEs, organised by Prof. Guang-Hui Hu at Beijing Computational Science Research Center (CSRC), Beijing, China, On December 10, 2018. (Talk title: Some inverse problems in hyperbolic partial differential equations).
- The 9th International Conference on Inverse Problems and Related Topics (ICIP-2018) during August 13-17,2018, Singapore, organised by National University of Singapore (NUS). (Talk title: Inverse boundary value problems for non-linear hyperbolic PDE).
- Beijing Computational Science Research Center (CSRC), Beijing, China on February 7, 2018. (Talk title : A partial data inverse problem for the Covection-diffucion equation).
- Conference on Recent Developments in Partial Differential Equations (CAM) during Aug 18-19, 2017, organised by TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics (TIFR-CAM), Bangalore, India on the Occasion of 10th year celebration of TIFR-CAM at Yelhanka Campus. (Talk title : Determination of time-dependent coefficients for a hyperbolic inverse problem from partial data).
- Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (HOKUDAI) on June 16, 2017. (Talk title : Determination of time-dependent coefficients for a hyperbolic inverse problem from partial data).
- The 9th International Conference on Applied Inverse Problems (AIP-2017) during May 29 – June 2, 2017, Hangzhou, China, organised by School of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China. (Talk title : Determination of time-dependent coefficients for a hyperbolic inverse problem from partial data).
- International Conference of The Indian Mathematics Consortium (TIMC) in cooperation with American Mathematical Society (AMS)Â (BHU-2016)Â during December 13-17, 2016, BHU-Varanasi, India. (Talk title :Â Determination of time-dependent coefficients for a hyperbolic inverse problem from partial data).
- International conference on Mathematical Analysis and its Applications (ICMAA-2016) during November 28 – December 2, 2016, IIT-Roorkee, India. (Talk Title : Inverse Problems for Wave Equation in 3-D with Under-determined Data).
- The 8th International Conference on Inverse problems: modeling and simulation (IPMS-2016) during May 23-28, 2016, Turkey, organised by Izmir University, Turkey. (Talk Title : Inverse problems for wave equation with under-determined data).
- Airbus project meeting talk in 2016, TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India. (Talk Title :Â Inverse problems for wave equation with source and receiver at distinct points).
- In-house symposium Talk on August 5, 2015 in TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India. (Talk Title : Inverse Problems in Hybrid Imaging).
Instructor (at IIT Ropar)
- Linear Algebra, Integral Transforms and Special Functions (MA102)Â (jointly with Dr. Tapas Chatterjee, Dr. Partha Sharathi Dutta and Dr. Santanu Sarkar) core course for B.Tech. 2nd semester (January-May, 2024)Â Course handout
- Advanced Partial Differential Equations (MA717)Â departmental elective for MSc and PhD stduents (January-May, 2024)Â Course handout
- Mathematical Methods (MA512)Â core course for M.Sc. 3rd semester (August-December, 2023)Â Course handout
- Applied Linear Algebra and Matrix Analysis (MA614)Â (Jointly with Dr. Sairam Kaliraj) departmental elective for B.Tech., MSc and PhD students (August-December, 2023)Course handout
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Instructor (at IIT Jammu)
- Linear Algebra and Differential Equations (jointly with Dr. Arvind Kumar), for B.Tech. second semester (March-July, 2023) Course handout
- Analysis on Manifolds, Graduate level course, January-May, 2023 Course handout
- Functional Analysis (jointly with Dr. Arvind Kumar), Graduate level course, January-May, 2023 Course handout
- Probability and Statistics for M.Tech. students, August-December, 2022 Course handout
- Introduction to Geometry and Geometric Analysis, Graduate level course, August-December, 2022 Course handout
- Inverse Problems for linear hyperbolic PDEs, in an “Advanced Instructional School (AIS-IP) on Inverse Problems” held at TIFR CAM, Bengaluru, India, during July 4-23, 2022.
- Linear Algebra and Applications, January-May, 2022 Course handout
- Basic PDEs (jointly with Dr. Tanmay Sarkar), Graduate level course (January-May, 2022) Course handout
- Functional Analysis and Applications, Graduate level course (September, 2021 to January, 2022) Course handout
- Advanced Analysis, Graduate level course (September, 2021 to January, 2022) Course handout
- Calculus (jointly with Dr. Rahul Kitture), for B.Tech. first semester (November, 2020 to March, 2021) Course handout
Teaching Assistant (at TIFR-CAM, Bangalore)
- Summer workout in Mathematics (SWIM) for undergraduate students, during June 21- July 15, 2018, organised by TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India (Teaching assistant).
- Advanced instructional school (AIS) in linear partial differential equations (ATM School) , during July 3-8, 2017, at TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India (Teaching assistant) (Video link) .
- Graduate course on functional analysis, during January-May, 2015 at TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India (Teaching assistant).
- Instructional School for Teachers (IST) on analysis and differential Equations (ATM School) , during December 7-19, 2015 at TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India (Teaching assistant).
- Graduate course on pde-2 (distribution theory and Sobolev spaces), during August-December, 2015, at TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India (Teaching assistant).
- Advanced Training in Mathematics School Workshop (ATMW) on partial differential equations of fractional order (ATM School) , during July 6-18, 2015 at TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India (Teaching assistant).
- Graduate course on differential geometry, during January-May, 2015 at TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India (Teaching assistant).
PhD Students
- Rahul Bhardwaj; joined in March, 2021.
- Mandeep Kumar; joined in September, 2021.
- Parveen Kumar; joined in January, 2023.
- Vinay Rana; joined in October, 2023.
- Rajat; joined in January, 2024.
Masters Students
- Nikhil Sharma, Cluster University of Jammu, India, August, 2022 to January, 2023. (Â Thesis title:Â Three Fundamental Theorems in Metric Spaces)
Teaching Assistant (at TIFR-CAM, Bangalore)
- Summer workout in Mathematics (SWIM) for undergraduate students, during June 21- July 15, 2018, organised by TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India (Teaching assistant).
- Advanced instructional school (AIS) in linear partial differential equations (ATM School) , during July 3-8, 2017, at TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India (Teaching assistant) (Video link) .
- Graduate course on functional analysis, during January-May, 2015 at TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India (Teaching assistant).
- Instructional School for Teachers (IST) on analysis and differential Equations (ATM School) , during December 7-19, 2015 at TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India (Teaching assistant).
- Graduate course on pde-2 (distribution theory and Sobolev spaces), during August-December, 2015, at TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India (Teaching assistant).
- Advanced Training in Mathematics School Workshop (ATMW) on partial differential equations of fractional order (ATM School) , during July 6-18, 2015 at TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India (Teaching assistant).
- Graduate course on differential geometry, during January-May, 2015 at TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore, India (Teaching assistant).