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Professor M.C.Puri did his B.Sc (Hons.) Mathematics in 1960, M.Sc. Mathematics in 1962 (first position) and Ph.D. in Operations Research in 1972 from Delhi University. He served at Hansraj College in Delhi University until 1984 and then served at IITD until 2004. He had supervised thirteen PhD thesis, nine M.Phil dissertations, six M.Tech projects and eleven M.Sc. projects. He had written many research articles in various journals of international repute. His area of specialization, included combinatorial optimization, fractional programming, linear programming and network flow problems. He had been in the editorial board of Opsearch, an official journal of ORSI.
He was one of the founder members of the “Mathematical Programming Group (MPG)” which was started by retired Prof. R.N.Kaul, Department of Mathematics, University of Delhi in 1972. This group of researchers from various colleges of Delhi University, IITD and Indian Institute of Science Bangalore meets every Wednesday from 3-4 p.m at Delhi University to attend the seminar by some invited speakers or one of the researchers of the group. Professor Puri was one of the members who attended this weekly seminar since its inception.
Puri published 78 papers during his lifetime — 25 in Indian journals and 53 abroad. He also supervised 13 doctoral students.
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