Recognition of Achievements by Awards/Honors

• Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc) (2012).



• Institute Chair Professor,IIT Bombay for a period of three years starting from April,2011.



• IRCC,IIT Bombay Best Research Paper Award for the year 2011.



• Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc) (2002).



• C. L. Chandana A ward for distinguished and outstanding contributions to Mathematicsresearch and teaching in India (2002).




• Prof. A. K. Pani was awarded the Best Young Mathematician for his outstanding contributions to Numerical Analysis, Partial Differential Equations and Industrial Mathematics by the Indian Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics



• Nominated ICTP Senior Associate of the Abdus Salam International Centerer for Theoretical Physics from January 2003 until 31st December 2008.



• Member of Editorial Board of six National and International Journal.



• One of the Panel member representing South Asia in the Round Table discussion on‘Developing Mathematics in the Developing World’ held on 19th July, 2007 in the 6th Inter-national Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 07) held in Zurich duringJuly 16-20,07.



• One hour Invited Bama Charan Das Memorial talk on 'Industrial Mathematics : Key to Key Technologies and its Impact on Research and Education in Mathematics' in the National Conference on 'Recent Trends in Mathematics & Computing' and 27th Annual Conference of Orissa Mathematical Society (March 11-12th '2000), held in Utkal University, Bhubaneswar.



• Key Note Address on Role of Mathematics in Engineering and Technology in the 30th Orissa Mathematical Society and National Conference on Role of Mathematics in Engineering and Technology (Orissa) during 22nd to23rd February’03.



• Professor Rama Nath Mohanty Memorial Lecture entitled 'Navier-Stokes Equations: A Million Dollar Open Problem' in the 30th Orissa Mathematical Society and National Conference on Role of Mathematics in Engineering and Technology (Orissa) during 22nd to 23rd February' 03.



• Professor Sankar Prasad Mishra Memorial Lecture on 'How to Compute a Fair Price for an Option Derivative in Financial Market: A Case Study and Its Mathematical Implications' in the 31st OMS Conference held in the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar during 7th to 8th February' 04.



• Inaugurated the UGC sponsored Conference on 'Surprises in Mathematics and Their Applications' held in Vivekanand College, Chembur during January 17, 2005 and March 2006.



• B.C Das Memorial invited talks on 'Can Mathematician help to extract more oil from the oil field' in OMS conference held in Vyasanagar College, Jaipur during January 28-29, 2007



• Inaugurated the workshop and gave 14th Professor P.D. Sharma Memorial Lecture entitled ‘Navier-Stokes Equations: A Million Dollar Open Problem’ in the workshop on FluidDynamics helpd in Jaipur University, Jaipur during August 07-08,2011



• 45 minutes invited talk on ' Semigroup theoretic approach to partial differential equations',in the Indian Science Congress held in Baroda (3-8 January'92).



• One hour invited talk on Particle Size Distribution in Emulsion Polymerizations :Some Computational Issues,in the session on Applied Analysis and Industrial Mathematics in the Third World Congress on Nonlinear Analysts 2000, held in Univ. Catania (Italy), during 19-26th July'2000.



• Plenary talk on ‘Discontinuous Galerkin Method: : An old Wine in a New Bottle’ in the international conference on Recent development in Applied and Computational Mathematics held in Chiangmai Univ. during January 4-7, 2011.



• Invited as a Resource person in the International Workshop on 'Analysis and Applications', held during 15-17th May'2000 in the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Chiangmai University, Chiangmai (Thailand).



• Invited as a Resource person and gave 10 hour lectures on ' Scientific Computing' in the National Training Programme and Workshop on Industrial Mathematics at Kelaniya University Colombo during 26--30th December'01.



• 45 minutes invited talk on ‘Finite Element Analysis of PDEs: A Bird’s Eye View’ in the Symposium on ‘PDE, Scienti?c Computing and Applications’ in the 75th Annaual Conference of Indian Mathematical Society held in Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil during ec. 27-30,2009.



• Plenary Talk in the International Conference on ‘Computational Methods in Applied Math-ematics (CMAM-5)’ held in Humboldt University, Berlin during July 30 - August 3, 2012.