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Brief Biography of Dr. Rita Malhotra

A Mathematician by profession, Dr Rita Malhotra is also a poet , essayist and translator(French to English). She is currently a part of the Post Graduate Faculty at the Department of Mathematics, University of Delhi and “HOD Mathematics” at Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi. She is a PhD. in Mathematics from the same university and has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Mathematics at The University of Paris IX, Dauphine on a French Government Fellowship. She has published several research papers in India and abroad and has presented them at various International Conferences. Recently she was invited to participate at a Round Table on World Class Universities as part of a series of seminars on Higher Education. Poetry is a passionate avocation. Her concern for the girl child and her pain at the exploitation of woman are reflected in many of her creations.
Specialisation: Operations Research
Academic Qualification:
*Post Doctoral fellow at University OF Paris 1X
*Ph. D. Mathematics, University of Delhi.
*Two Year-Diploma in French, University of Delhi, 1st rank in University
*M. Sc. Mathematics University of Delhi, 2nd rank in University
*B.Sc. (Hons.) Mathematics, University of Delhi, 4th rank in University
*Completion of 3 levels of Intensive French at CLA (Language Institute) Besancon, France,
* Malhotra is a member of the Round Table Group called Café-Matinee at the FIRC,Embassy of France in New Delhi.
SCHOLARSHIPS / FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS/RECOGNITIONS
*Offered Post Doctoral Fellowship for one year at University of New Brunswick, Canada (1986)
*Post Doctoral French Government Fellowship during 1985-1986 at University of Paris (IX), France
*National Scholarship by the Ministry of Education India for pursuing Post Graduate Studies
*National Science Talent Scholarship for studies up to Ph. D. level awarded by NCERT Delhi.
SPECIAL MENTION
Dr. Malhotra’s algorithm on solving a Bi-criteria network problem (No. 7) has been included in the Bibliography of ‘ Algorithm / Software’ in ZENTRALBLATT FOR MATHEMATIK HARDENBERGSTRABE, BERLIN.
Dr. Malhotra is included in the ninth edition of “International Who’s Who of Professional & Business Women” by the American Biographical Institute.
She has authored the following books of Mathematics:
1. A first course in Lattice Theory and Boolean Algebra.
2. Chief editor of the research-level book “Combinatorial Optimization, Some Aspects.”
Malhotra is a life member of The Operational Research Society of India.
LITERARY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Dr. Malhotra was awarded the 2003 Michael Madhusudan Millennium award for poetry and education by The Michael Madhusudan Academy.
Twice recipient of the Editor’s Choice Award in the North American Open Poetry contest (1994,1999).
Her poems are widely published and are translated into Chinese, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Hindi, Bengali. Recently her peace-poems were selected for display at the Westminster Arts Council, New Westminster and the same is being sent as part of 50 poems to Iceland to be on display at The John Lennon Peace Tower there.
· Malhotra was an invited speaker at the Poetry Convention in Chennai, India in October 2008, jointly organized by World Poetry Society Intercontinental, The Soka Ikeda College ,Chennai, and the BSG Group in honour of Dr Daisaku Ikeda. She addressed the gathering with her paper on Ikeda’s poetry entitled “On the path to peace”
· She was one of the two Indian Invitee delegates at the International writers conference at Belgrade in September 2006 and September 2007.Her poems and an academic paper titled “From cry to prayers in poetry,” translated into Serbian were presented at the 2006 conference and her paper on “Women and poetry” was presented at the 2007 conference. The June 2007 issue of The Serbian literary newspaper Knjizevne Novine published a full column of her poems translated into Serbian. She was interviewed on Serbian television during the 2007 44th International conference of writers in Belgrade.
· Her translations from the French into English of the poems of Jean Pierre are published in Academos 2006 and 2007 and the July issue of the literary journal The Seventh Quarry. Wales.
·Dr Malhotra has translated the African-French poet Alain Mabanckou into English and was invited to read her translations with Poet Mabanckou at the FIRC (French Embassy) for a reading of the same in March 2008
· Her essay on “Tagore the Poet and beyond” has been translated into Serbian and published in the largest selling daily newspaper of Serbia “Vecernje Novosti in MAY 2008.It was also broadcast by the National Channel of All India Radio.
· Dr Malhotra was one of the ten Indian invitee-delegates at the World Poetry Conference in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in March 2005 and she is part of the Chinese-English Anthology of Indian poetry entitled A GOLDEN TREASURY OF MODERN INDIAN POETRY published in Taiwan.
·She was part of the Indian contingent at the 21st World congress of poets at Sydney in October’2000.Her poem called “child prostitute” got a special mention. The same poem was included by Swansea poet Peter Thabit Jones in a programme on Abolition of slavery at Wales in August 2007 together with American poet Maya Angelou and Raymond R. Patterson
· Invitee-Participant at The International Poetry Symposium, Washington D.C. 1994
· Dr. Malhotra was a member of the jury at The All India Poetry Competition 2005 held in Bangalore, organized by Poets International as also at the Inter-School poetry competition held in Delhi in 2006.
· Published poetry books include three individual selections of verse entitled ‘Reflections’ (1997), ‘Images of Love’ (2003), and ‘I am not your woman and other poems’ (2007), besides ‘In The Company of Poets’( with eight other poets from India ), ‘ Golden Treasury of Modern Indian Poetry’ a Chinese-English Anthology published in Taiwan,2005(11 Indian poets included with The President of India, Dr Abdul Kalam, former Prime Minister Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee and Shri Gulzar.)
· Life member of the Poetry Society of India and the Poetry Club of India. Former Executive member of the latter.
· Former honorary poetry editor of the International Web Magazine called BanglaHaat.com
· Poems have been broadcast on The English Talk Programme of All India radio since the year 2000.She was interviewed on the National Channel of AIR in May 2006 for her work in the field of Mathematics and Poetry. Her poems were recorded in May 2007 for the General Overseas Service of AIR.
·Talk on Contributions of Indian Mathematicians in the English-Talk Programme of AIR broadcast in March’2004.
·On the occasion of woman’s day Dr Malhotra has been invited to give talks on the exploitation of woman, woman’s empowerment by The Lioness Club, Gurgaon
. Dr Malhotra’s talk on “Mathematics and Art” was broadcast on the National Channel of AIR in September 2007 and she spoke on “Tagore the poet and beyond” for the same channel in May 2008.
· Dr Malhotra interviewed senior eminent poet Rakshat Puri about his contribution to poetry on the National Channel of All India Radio in September2007.
.Literary compositions and other articles widely published in Literary journals and anthologies in India and abroad :To mention a few……Indian Literature (published by Sahitya Academy),Seventh Quarry(Wales), Poesis (Romania),Tonight(An Anthology of World Love Poetry, South Africa), Twilight Ending(USA),Crossing Borders(Australia),Best poems of 95(USA),Best Poems and Poets of 2001(USA),Dance on The Horizon(USA),The Chinese Poetry Intl Quarterly(China),Golden Treasury Of Modern Indian Poetry(Taiwan),Point Barre (Mauritius),Knjizevne Novine, Vecernje Novosti,(Serbia), Tonight (Anthology of world love poetry,South-Africa),Hudson View(USA), Muse of Murmur,The Indian Pen, Poets International, Journal of the Poetry Society of India, The Quest, The Eternity, Poet, Contemporary-Vibes,Verse-Universe, Day- Spring, Kavya Bharati, Sun, The Pioneer,Academos,Sampark Journal of global understanding (Serbia Issue).
· Dr Malhotra as Convenor of “Expressions” The Creative Writing Society,KNC, University of Delhi has initiated a programme called “Poetry Across Cultures” under the aegis of which she has organized programmes on Indian/Finnish poetry, Indian/Romanian Poetry ,Indian/American and Indian/Serbian poetry with support and encouragement from the respective Embassies in New Delhi. These programmes are a showcase of confluence of thoughts across cultures and are aimed at diminishing dichotomies between the East and the West and a global appreciation and understanding.
· Malhotra’s literary essays include: ON THE PATH TO PEACE(Ikeda's poetry), RABINDRANATH TAGORE THE POET AND BEYOND, WOMEN AND POETRY, ACROSS THE REALM OF SHORT VERSE, CRY TO PRAYERS:A POETIC JOURNEY, SERBIAN/INDIAN POETRY: SOME THOUGHTS, THE POETRY OF VASKO POPA.
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·Research Publications (Mathematics)
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS0. Sonia & Rita Malhotra: 2004 Two stage Interval time Minimization Transportation Problem, ASOR Bulletin, Vol 23 No.1,pp 2-14.(Australia)1.Sonia & Rita Malhotra: 2002 A Polynomial Algorithm for a Two-Stage Time Minimizing Transportation Problem, OpsearchVol.39, No 5 & 6 Pp 251-2662.Rita Malhotra & M.C. Puri: 2001 Multi-objective Network Flow Problem, International Conference on Mathematical Modeling, Tata Mc-Graw Hill Pub. Co. Ltd. Pp 297-3013.Renu Rani & Rita Malhotra: 1995 Multi-Criteria Integer Linear Fractional Prog. Problem, Optimization 1995 Vol 35 Pp 373- 389(Germany)4. Renu Rani & Rita Malhotra 1992 Multi-Criteria Integer Linear programming Problem, Cahiers du C.E.R.O. Volume 34 (Belgium)5.Bansal U. & Arora, S.R.1986 Cost Ranking in a Network Flow Problem, Systems Analysis and Policy Studies- Tata Mc Graw Hill Pp 35-426. Rita Malhotra 1982 Variants of the Assignment Problem Golden Jubilee conference on Quality Control, Reliability and Operations Research. Beligian Journal of OR.(Belgium)7.Rita Malhotra & H.L. Bhatia 1985 Variants of the three dimensional Bottleneck Assignment Problem.(Optimization), Mathematische Operations forschung and Statistik 16(2) Pp.245-256 (Germany)8.Rita Malhotra & M.C. Puri 1984 Bi-criteria Network Problem. Cahiers du C.E.R.O,26 95-102(Beligium)9.Rita Malhotra & H.L. Bhatia 1983 Time Minimizing Solid Assignment Problem. Sociedad Argentine de information E Investigation operative(Argentina)10.Rita Malhotra & H.L. Bhatia 1984 Variants of the Time Minimization Assignment Problem Trabajos de Estadistica vide Investigacion Operativa, Pp. 331-338(Spain)11. Rita Malhotra 1983 On Hammer’s Method of finding a least cost optimal solution to a Time Minimization Transportation Problem, Cahiers du C.E.R.O., 25, 75-80(Belgium)12.Rita Malhotra, H.L. Bhatia &M.C.Puri 1982 Bi-criteria Assignment Problem, Opsearch,19(2), 84-96(India)13. Rita Malhotra 1982 A note of Bi-criteria Transportationproblem, ZOR 26,Pp.254-261(Germany)14. Rita Malhotra & M.C. Puri 1981 Pricing of Bottlenecks at Optimal Time in aTransportation Problem. Scientific Management of Transport Systems, edited by N.K. Jaiswal, North Holland Publishing Company Pp.254-261

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