The Department of mathematics, Assam University, Silchar, is one of those six departments with which Assam University started its journey in July, 1994. The department offers M.Sc., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Mathematics. Presently 8 faculty members and three non-teaching staff are working in the department. Prof. Samira Behera is the present Head of the Department. The Department of Mathematics, Assam University gratefully acknowledges the contribution of Dr. Anjan Kumar Chakrabarty who had been teaching in this department during 2004-2008. He motivated many students to qualify many competitive examinations and get berth in many good institutes of our country. A few of them are pursuing their PhD in many IITs also.

The faculty members working in the department are:
Prof. Samira Behera
Prof. Karabi Dutta Choudhury
Dr. Sanjib Sengupta
Dr. Nabendu Sen
Dr. Uday Shankar Chakraborty
Dr. N. Jiban Singh
Mr. Naba Kanta Sarma
Dr. Sumit Saha

The non-teaching members working in the department are:
Mr. Nilu Kanta Das
Mr. Gule Ahmed Laskar
Mr. Rathindra Chandra Deb

The students qualified NET from the department are:
Sampa Das (1999)
Saidur Rahman Barbhuiya (2000)
Uday Shankar Chakraborty (2005, 2015)
Purnendu Das (2009)
Jhuma Sengupta (2010)
Debashish Sharma (2010)
Nabajyoti Bhattacharjee (2013)
Th. Birkramjit Singha (2015, 2016)
Shomavo Chakraborty (2016)
N. Dhyanchand (2016)
H. Imomani Singha (2016)

Info courtesy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Mathematics,_Assam_University,_Silchar