Welcome to the Official page of the Institute of Mathematics and Applications (IMA), located in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, in India, is an academic institution that was established by the Government of Odisha under the Department of Science and Technology in 1999. The Institute has been registered on 28th March 2000 under the provision of Registration of Societies Act 1860 with Registration No. 20851 /187 of 1999-2000. The Institute began functioning in 1999 inside a room of the Pathani Samanta Planetarium in Bhubaneswar. In July 2008, IMA acquired its own residential campus, built by Tata Steel in Bhubaneswar city, when it was established as a full-fledged, degree-granting academic institution. Its dual purposes are to conduct advanced research in pure and applied mathematics and to provide postgraduate education leading to Masters and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics, computation, computational finance, and data science. The institute also runs training programs in schools aimed at increasing mathematics awareness and leading to competitions such as the Mathematics Olympiads. It is affiliated with Utkal University which is one of the largest affiliating universities. In the last several years since its inception, consistent with its aims and objectives, it has been active in searching and nurturing talents in mathematics by organizing training and interactive camps for successful students in various mathematical Olympiad tests.