Munish Chander Puri (15 August 1939 – 28 December 2005) was Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at IIT Delhi.
Addressing a condolence meeting at the institute, IIT Delhi Director D.P.Kothari said the staff and students "deeply mourn the tragic, sad and untimely demise of Prof Puri".
Puri was attending the International Conference on Operations Research in conjunction with the 38th Annual Convention of ORSI, which was organized by the Bangalore Chapter of ORSI from 27–29 December 2005 at J. N. Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
[citation needed] Mathematical Programming Group of Delhi and Department of Mathematics of Hans Raj College organised two day Symposium Recent Advances in Optimization Theory and Applications during 27–28 October 2006, at Delhi University in memory of Puri.
A commemorative volume containing selected papers of Puri entitled Combinatorial Optimization Some Aspects, edited by his students and colleagues, was also released during the symposium.
The 39th Annual Convention of ORSI was held at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata during 5–7 January 2007 in memory of Puri.