Muthusamy Lakshmanan
Muthusamy Lakshmanan (born 25 March 1946) is an Indian theoretical physicist currently working as Professor of Eminence at the Department of Nonlinear Dynamics of Bharathidasan University.
[1][note 1] Muthusamy Lakshmanan was born on 25 March 1946 in Pollachi, in the Coimbatore district of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
[3] Simultaneously, he pursued his doctoral studies, supervised by P. M. Mathews,[4] to secure a PhD in nonlinear dynamics in 1974.
[9] One of the first Indian theoretical physicists to use differential geometrical methods such as Painlevé transcendents and Lie theory for studying the integrability of chaotic systems, he demonstrated unsuspected transformations and proposed variables for exposing hidden nonlinear structures.
[22] His work has drawn citations from other scientists[23][24][25][26][27] and he has mentored over 25 doctoral and many master's scholars,[28] which has helped develop a school of research on nonlinear dynamics.
He has been involved in the organization of the international conferences, workshops and winter schools and is a member of the organizing committee of the 3rd International Conference on Symmetries, Differential Equations and Applications (SDEA-III) scheduled to be held at Istanbul Technical University in August 2017.
[31] He delivered the keynote address as the chief guest at the workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and its Applications organized by Indian Academy of Sciences and Bharathidasan University in 2003[32] and was the session chair of the Physics and Applied Mathematics Researchers' Meet (PAAMRM-2015) held at Indian Statistical Institute in March 2015.
[8] He was selected as a Distinguished Scientist by the Indian Science Congress Association in 2004 and Kurukshetra University awarded him the Goyal Prize in Physics the next year.
[15][42] The year 2009 brought him another honor by way of honoris causa degree of Doctor of Science from University of Burdwan.
[45] An article was published in Chaos Solitons and Fractals in 1998 in honor of Lakshmanan on the occasion of his 50th birthday,[46] written by K. Porsezian, one of his co-authors.
