Basant Lal Sharma

Department level:

ME Budget committee member 2022-23
DPGC member 2015-16
DUGC member 2009-10, 2015-16
Acting DUGC convener April 29 to May 15, 2010
Condemnation committee convener 2014-15
Nominee to Institute International Relations Committee (IIRC) 2019-20
Ph. D. Comprehensive Exam Committee 2020-21
Ph. D. Admissions Exam Committee 2020-21
Others: M.Tech. interview/written examinations, QIP MTech interview committees, PhD. exami- nation & interview committees, Junior technician examination committees

Institute level:

SLC member 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17,
Acting SLC convener 24/5/2017 to 25/6/2017
SLC generalia committee Dec 2015, May 2016, August 2017
Cadence medal committee May 2007
GATE/ME question setters committee (Mathematics and Solid Mechanics) GATE/XE question setters committee (Mathematics)
Others: JEE representative, JEE counselling, GATE representative

Other committees outside department:

M.Tech. interviews (external): Computer Science and Engineering PhD. interviews (external): Mathematics & Statistics
PhD. defense/examination committee: Mathematics & Statistics, Physics
Other PhD. examination committees: Mathematics & Statistics, Electrical Engineering,
M.Tech defense/examination committees (external): Aerospace Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Man- agement Programme, Nuclear Engineering and Technology

(1) Oct’25: Invited short course (weeklong series of lectures) “Towards understanding wave scat- tering on ¿ lattices: direct and inverse problems”. at Department of Mathematics,IIT Ropar, India. 

(2) Mar ’25: Invited short course (12 lectures of 1 hr 15 min each) ‘Applications of local bifurcation theory in mechanics’ during the period 21 March-28 March 2025 at Mechanical Engineering, IIT Gandhi Nagar, India. 

(3) May’19: Invited weeklong series of lectures “Waves on lattices: case of scattering due to crack on square lattice”. Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland.

• (1)  Oct ’25: Plenary talk “Some applications of bifurcation analysis in elasticity and mechanics” in the 11th international conference “Quasilinear Equations, Inverse Problems and their Ap- plications” (QIPA2023) taking place in the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology from October 6 to October 10, 2023
• (2)  Feb ’25: Invited Institute seminar ‘A glimpse of some researches in engineering and physics with a strong role of mathematics: tackling questions with tools besides rigorous general- purpose computation’ on 17 February at IIITA, Prayagraj, India, during the period of visit 12 February-18 February 2025.
• (3)  Feb ’25: Invited talk ‘a toy application of analysis to waves’ on 14 February the Department of Applied Sciences at IIITA, Prayagraj, India, during the period of visit 12 February-18 February 2025.
• (4)  Nov ’24: Invited seminar ‘Some solvable questions in lattice dynamics: chasing the contin- uum, handling simple things by complex tools’ on 19 November in Centre de math ́ematiques appliqu ́ees (CMAP seminar) at the Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, during the period of visit 5 Nov 2024-3 Jan 2025.
• (5)  Aug ’24: Invited seminar ‘On applications of nonlinear theories of thin-wall structures: in- stabilities and analysis’ during the period of visit 11-18 Aug 2024 to the King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), 126 Pracha Uthit Rd., Bangkok, Thung Khru, 10140, Thailand.
• (6)  Jul ’24: Invited seminar ‘Some solvable questions in lattice dynamics: chasing the continuum, handling simple things by complex tools’ on 19 July 2024 (4pm) in AR Auditorium, Depart- ment of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India, during the period of visit 15-20 July 2024 to the IISc.
• (7)  Jul ’24: Invited seminar ‘On mathematical analysis of biomembrane structures’ on 19 July 2024 (10.30am) in STC Seminar Hall (first floor), Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India, during the period of visit 15-20 July 2024 to the IISc.
• (8)  Jul ’24: ‘Stability of lipid membranes with embedded particles’, Contributed talk (Paper 46) on 14th July in the 6th Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM 2024), held in NIT Warangal during July 12-14, 2024.
• (9)  Jul ’24: ‘Mechanics of randomly perturbed lattice models and inverse problems’, Contributed talk (Paper 59) on 12th July in the 6th Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM 2024), held in NIT Warangal during July 12-14, 2024.
• (10)  Jul ’24: ‘Interaction of in-plane waves with line defects in two-dimensional lattices’, Con- tributed talk (Paper 42) on 12th July in the 6th Indian Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM 2024), held in NIT Warangal during July 12-14, 2024.
• (11)  Jul ’24: Invited seminar ‘Some aspects of the classical calculus of variations and differential geometry in mechanics: re-visits and re-discoveries, and few illustrations of instabilities in slender structures’ in the department of mechanical engineering during the period of visit 8-11 July 2024 to the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Kandi, Sangareddy, Telangana, India.
• (12)  Plenary talk in the ninth international conference “Quasilinear Equations, Inverse Problems and their Applications” (QIPA2023) taking place in the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology from December 4 to December 6, 2023
• (13)  Apr ’23: Invited to give a lecture ‘On scalar waves in lattices with defects and interfaces on surfaces’ on 11 April 2023 at the Applied Mathematics seminar during visit to the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Univeristy of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZL, England, UK on 10-12 April 2023. The visit is funded by Univeristy of Liverpool.
• (14)  Feb ’23: Invited to give a lecture ‘Some illustrative problems in the discrete scattering theory’ on 20 February 2023 at the Asymptotics, Operators, and Functionals (AOF) Seminar during visit to the Department of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Bath, Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK, on 20-21 February 2023. The visit was jointly funded by University of Bath and Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
• (15)  Feb ’23: Invited to give a talk on 6 February 2023 in workshop on Canonical Scattering Prob- lems (https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/mwsw01/) from the 6th to the 10th of February 2023 as a subset of “Mathematical theory and applications of multiple wave scattering”, tak- ing place from January to June 2023, in Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
• (16)  Jan ’23: Invited to give a talk ‘Some illustrative problems in discrete scattering theory: lessons from classical problems for novel lattice materials’ on 20 January 2023 (online) in the Discipline of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Gandhi Nagar, India.
• (17)  Jan ’23: Invited to give a seminar ‘Surface waves in lattice models’ in the School of Computer Science and Mathematics at Keele University on 18th January 2023, Keele, Staffordshire, UK, ST5 5NH during visit to the same venue on 17-19 January 2023. The visit was jointly funded by Keele University and Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
• (18)  Jan ’22: “Some problems in discrete scattering and lattice mechanics” — Invited “guest lecture” in the Workshop on Functional Analysis and its Applications (January 14–16, 2022), Department of Applied Sciences, IIIT Allahabad, U. P., India
• (19)  Jan ’20: “An example from discrete scattering theory” — Invited talk in Analysis Seminar of Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, U. P., India
• (20)  Aug’19: “Wiener-Hopf factorisation on the unit circle: some examples of discrete scattering problems” — Invited talk in “Factorisation of matrix functions: New techniques and appli- cations [WHTW01]”, https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/whtw01/, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
• (21)  May’19: “On the discrete scattering effects due to edges in certain simple structures” — Invited talk at the institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics in the Foundation of Research and Technology, Crete, Greece.
• (22)  May’19: “Discrete Sommerfeld problems and nanoscale transport: some lessons from elemen- tary mathematical techniques” — A part of three day series of lectures on theoretical results involving lattices. Invited talks at Faculty of engineering, Politecnico di Bari, Polignano a Mare - Bari, Italy.
• (23)  May’19: “Steady state kinetics of lattice defects: prototype models and energy balance” — A part of three day series of lectures on theoretical results involving lattices. Invited talks at Faculty of engineering, Politecnico di Bari, Polignano a Mare - Bari, Italy.
• (24)  May’19: “Discrete scattering by a crack” — A part of three day series of lectures on theoretical results involving lattices. Invited talks at Faculty of engineering, Politecnico di Bari, Polignano a Mare - Bari, Italy.
• (25)  Apr’19: “On analysis and applications of discrete scattering theory involving edges” — Invited talk at the Glasgow Computational Engineering Center, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
• (26)  Apr’19: “On the discrete scattering effects due to edges in certain simple structures” — Invited talk (ACM Research Seminar) at the School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, CF10 3AT, UK.
• (27)  Apr’19: “On the discrete scattering effects due to edges in certain simple structures” — Invited talk at the Department of Mathematics, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, UK, ST5 5NH.
• (28)  Apr’19: “Wave propagation in lattices and structured media” — Invited talk at the Center for Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Materials (CMSSM), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.
• (29)  Apr’19: “On the analysis and applications of discrete scattering theory in bifurcated lattice waveguides” — Invited talk at the Center for Materials, Paris Mines Tech, Evry, Paris, France.
• (30)  Apr’19: “On the analysis and applications of discrete scattering theory in bifurcated lattice waveguides” — Invited talk at the Center for Morphology of Materials, Paris Mines Tech, Fontainbleau, France.
• (31)  Mar’19: “On the discrete scattering effects due to edges in certain simple structures” — Invited talk at Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Chimica e dei Materiali, Universit ́a di Cagliari, Italy.
• (32)  Jan ’19: “On an elementary analysis and some applications of scattering theory involving edges in a discrete framework” — Invited talk at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Sharada Nagar, Chikkabommasandra, Bangalore 560065, India.
• (33)  Oct ’18: “On some examples of discrete scattering in simple structures and their applications in mechanics and physics” — Invited talk at the workshop ‘Dynamic phenomena in media with microstructure’ (supported by Israel Science Foundation), 07–12 of October 2018, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
• (34)  Jun ’17: “Some reflections on the discrete aspects of solid mechanics” — Invited talk at IITH Solid Mechanics Symposium, June 19-20, 2017, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
• (35)  Apr ’15: “Dislocation kinetics in lattice models” — Invited talk in Pravartana’15, April 25-27, 2015, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, U. P., India
• (36)  Apr ’15: “Scattering of waves by line defects on two dimensional lattices” — Invited talk in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, U. P., India
• (37)  Feb ’15: “Fourier Series” — Invited talk in “Mechanics School @ IITK” under the TEQIP program of the Technology Knowledge Incubation Cell, 20-24 February, 2015, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, U. P., India
• (38)  Oct ’14: “Discrete Sommerfeld Problems” — Invited talk in Mathematics Colloquium, De- partment of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, U. P., India
• (39)  Mar ’11: “Liouville-Arnold Theorem” — Invited Analysis Seminar of Department of Mathe- matics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, U. P., India
• (40)  Oct ’09:“On nonlinear elastostatics” — Invited Analysis Seminar in Department of Mathe- matics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, U. P., India
• (41)  Oct ’07:“On a hypothesis concerning slowly moving steps along a phase boundary” — Invited talk in Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi, India
• (42)  Mar ’07:“On Fracture in a Bar” — In workshop on Mechanics of Interaction, Impacts and Separation of Solids, 2nd-4th March 2007, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, U. P., India
• (43)  Nov ’06:“Fast Motion of Dislocation in a Lattice Model” — Invited talk in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, U. P., India
• (44)  Mar ’06:“Kinetics of a Dislocation: Discrete Models” — Invited talk in Laboratoire de M ́echanique des Solides, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
• (45)  Nov ’05:“Kinetics of a Dislocation: Continuum Models” — Invited talk in Laboratoire de M ́echanique des Solides, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
• (46)  Nov ’05:“On the motion of a Peierls’ Dislocation” — Invited talk in Department of Mathe- matical Sciences, Univeristy of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZL, England, UK
• (47)  Oct ’05:’Kinetics of a Dislocation in Peierls-Nabarro and Frenkel-Kontorowa Models” — In Theories of Microstructures and Defects, 8-10 October 2005, Society for Natural Philosophy Meeting, Politecnico di Bari, Polignano a Mare - Bari, Italy
• (48)  Sept ’05:’Dispersive Continuum and Peierls Dislocation” — In Successes and Failures of Continuous Models for Discrete Systems, 5-8 September 2005 at the University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK
• (49)  July ’05:“Dislocations and Plasticity” — Invited talk in Dynamical Problems in Mathematical Materials Science, July 17-23, 2005 at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, UK
• (50)  Oct ’04: “Unstable Solitary Waves in One Dimensional Lattice” — In the session on “Waves in Lattices and Arrays”; First SIAM Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, October 2-5, 2004 at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, USA
• (51)  May ’04: “Dispersion, Dissipation and the Kinetic Relation of a Dislocation” — In the min- isymposium on “Dynamics of Microstructure and Defects in Solids: Discrete and Continuum Models”; SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Material Science, May 23-26 2004, LA, USA

• (1)  Oct ’25: Visiting Professor during the period 29 September-8 October 2025 at at Department of Mathematics, IIT Ropar, India.
• (2)  Mar ’25: Visiting Professor during the period 21 March-28 March 2025 at Mechanical Engi- neering, IIT Gandhi Nagar, India.
• (3)  Mar ’25: Visiting Professor during the period of visit 12 February-18 February 2025 at IIITA, Prayagraj, India.
• (4)  Nov-Dec ’24: Visiting Professor during the period of visit 2 Nov 2024-3 Jan 2025 to Centre de math ́ematiques appliqu ́ees (CMAP) at the Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France.
• (5)  Nov-Dec ’24: Visiting researcher during the period of visit 2 Nov 2024-3 Jan 2025 to the Institut des Hautes E ́tudes Scientifiques (IHES), Bures sur Yvette, Paris, France.
• (6)  Oct ’24: Visiting Professor fellowship during the period of visit 18 October-2 November 2024 to the King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, 126 Pracha Uthit Rd., Bangkok, Thung Khru, 10140, Thailand.
• (7)  Aug ’24: Visiting Professor during the period of visit 11-18 Aug 2024 to the King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, 126 Pracha Uthit Rd., Bangkok, Thung Khru, 10140, Thailand.
• (8)  Apr ’23: Visiting the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Univeristy of Liverpool, Liver- pool, L69 7ZL, England, UK on 10-12 April 2023.
• (9)  Feb ’23: Visiting the Department of Mathematical Sciences of the University of Bath, Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK, on 20-21 February 2023.
• (10)  Jan ’23: Visiting the School of Computer Science and Mathematics at Keele University on 18th January 2023, Keele, Staffordshire, UK, ST5 5NH during visit to the same venue on 17-19 January 2023.
• (11)  Jan-June 2023: Invited to undertake research relevant to the programme on Mathemati- cal theory and applications of multiple wave scattering in the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University, UK. This visit is supported by the Simons Foundation Fellowship and the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University in addition to CPDA funds from IIT Kanpur.
• (12)  Jun’19: Visiting Department of Applied Mathematics in University of Crete 25 May-31 May 2019, Greece
• (13)  May’19: Visiting University of Bari 21 May-25 May 2019, Italy
• (14)  May’19: Visiting Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Tech- nology, Gdansk, 6 May-20 May 2019, Poland
• (15)  Apr-May’19: Visiting Glasgow Center of Computational Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow 30 Apr-5 May 2019, UK
• (16)  Apr’19: Visiting Department of Civil Engineering, University of Cardiff 28 Apr-29 Apr 2019, UK
• (17)  Apr’19: Visiting Department of Mathematics, University of Keele 25 Apr-27 Apr 2019, UK
• (18)  Apr’19: Visiting Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Univer- sity of Texas at Austin 10 Apr-24 Apr 2019, USA
• (19)  Apr’19: Visiting Department of Mathematics, University of Aberystwyth 3 Apr-10 Apr 2019, UK
• (20)  Mar’19: Visiting University of Cagliari 21 Mar-28 Mar 2019, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Chimica e dei Materiali, Universit ́a di Cagliari, Italy
• (21)  Dec’18-Jan ’19: Visiting Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Centre for Applicable Math- ematics, Sharada Nagar, Chikkabommasandra, Bangalore 560065, India
• (22)  June ’17: Visiting Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, IIT Hyderabad, Telan- gana, India
• (23)  Sept ’05: “Energy Landscape for Phase Boundaries and Step formation” — Poster presenta- tion in Multi-scale problems: modelling, analysis and applications, 12th-14th September 2005, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
• (24)  July-August ’05: Visiting Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Univeristy of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
• (25)  May-June ’05: Visiting Department of Mathematics, Univeristy of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• (26)  March ’05: Visiting Division of Applied Mathematics for a week, Brown Univeristy, Provi- dence, RI, USA
• (27)  March ’05: “Synchronization of Globally Coupled Oscillators without Symmetry in the Dis- tribution of Natural Frequencies” — Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, USA
• (28)  June-Aug ’04: Informal talks/discussion: Dislocations and other Defects in Crystals — Vis- iting Department of Applied Mathematics in Summer’04, Univeristy of Crete, Greece
• (29)  April ’04: “Discrete Model and the Kinetic Relation of a Dislocation” — Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, USA
• (30)  Dec ’03: “Unstable Solitary Waves in One Dimensional Lattice” — Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, USA
• (31)  Aug ’03: “Solitary Waves in One Dimensional Lattice: Continuum Models” — Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, USA