June 7, 2016, in the afternoon, invited by Management Science and Logistics Department, Professor Priti Kumar Roy, Jadavpur University, India came to the main building meeting room 429 and gave a talk entitled "Escalating Role of Mathematics for Biodiesel Production from Management Perspective ". The report was hosted by Management Science and Logistics Department Associate Professor Wang Jiancai. More than 20 people including Management Science and Logistics Department faculty as well as doctoral and graduate students in the field of management science and logistics direction attended the lecture.

Speaker Profile：

　　Dr. Priti Kumar Roy is a Professor of Jadavpur University in the Department of Mathematics. He is proficient in nonlinear system dynamics and an expert in mathematical modeling. He research mainly on infectious diseases like HIV, Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Filariasis and auto immune disease like Psoriasis. Apart from epidemiology, he also research on Industrial mathematics on production of biodiesel from Jatropha curcus plant and its oil production optimization. Furthermore, he also research on ecological modelling of some important ecological and environmental issues. He has published over 80 peer reviewed publications in International and national journals on his research topics. Prof. Roy edited one book “Insight and Control of Infectious Disease in Global Scenario” published by Intech Publishers and is the author of Springer entitled “Mathematical Models for therapeutic approaches to control HIV disease transmission” published this year. He had guided six Ph.D students and eight more scholars are working under his guidance. He also have a post doc fellow working with him. He is first person to supervise a thesis on mathematical models of Psoriasis. He is an eminent member in different National and International Societies like Biomathematical Society of India (BMSI), International Association of Engineers (IAENG), European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) and European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ESMTB). He has completed six research projects as Principal Investigator, sponsored by various Government of India. Prof. Roy was awarded the Best Paper Award in World Congress on Engineering 2010 held in London, UK. He was selected as an Indian Scientist under International Collaboration/Exchange Program 2011-2012 and again in 2016 awarded by INSA. He was also awarded with “Siksha Ratan” award in 2012. . Prof. Roy delivered invited lectures in more than 20 overseas Universities & Institutes across Europe, Asia, America and numerous lectures in Indian Universities.