Mr. M.I.G. Suranga Sampath (a Sri Lankan national) who is a research scholar in Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, visited the School of Mathematics, SMVDU, Katra for one month in April, 2018. Mr. Sampath had come here to consult Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics. Dr. Kumar is a faculty of Operations Research and he is actively engaged in research work in the area of queuing theory. The Chinese scholar had fruitful discussions with Dr. Kumar. He worked on a queuing problem with heterogeneous servers, feedback and retention of impatient customers, and obtained some useful results in transient state. A joint research paper based on this work has been communicated for publication in a SCI indexed journal. The foreign scholar has expressed his gratitude towards SMVDU for providing him the boarding/lodging facilities along with excellent academic environment. He has expressed his desire to visit the University again.
