Chennai Mathematical Institute

Seminars




Seminars for the year 2016
  • 28-12-16
    3:30 pm, Seminar Hall
    Lacunary series in duals of compact groups and generalizations(Abstract)
    Gilles Pisier
    Texas A&M University/University of Paris VI.

  • 02-12-16
    3:30 pm, Lecture Hall 801
    Parabolic bundles, parahoric torsors and Bruhat-Tits groups schemes(Abstract)
    V. Balaji
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 02-12-16
    11:45 am, Seminar Hall
    Invariant representations of images for better supervised learning(Abstract)
    Muthuvelmurugan I
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 01-12-16
    3:30 pm, Lecture Hall 801
    Parabolic bundles, parahoric torsors and Bruhat-Tits groups schemes(Abstract)
    V. Balaji
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 01-12-16
    11.00 AM, Seminar Hall
    Finding quadratic non-residue over finite fields(Abstract)
    Rajat Mittal
    IIT Kanpur.

  • 30-11-16
    3:30 pm, Lecture Hall 801
    Parabolic bundles, parahoric torsors and Bruhat-Tits groups schemes(Abstract)
    V. Balaji
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 24-11-16
    11.30 am, Lecture Hall 1
    Algebraic Quantum Physics
    A. P. Balachandran
    Joel Dorman Steele Emeritus Professor, Syracuse Univ. U.S.A.

  • 23-11-16
    11.30 am, Lecture Hall 1
    Algebraic Quantum Physics
    A. P. Balachandran
    Joel Dorman Steele Emeritus Professor, Syracuse Univ. U.S.A.

  • 22-11-16
    11.30 am, Lecture Hall 1
    Algebraic Quantum Physics
    A. P. Balachandran
    Joel Dorman Steele Emeritus Professor, Syracuse Univ. U.S.A.

  • 18-11-16
    3.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m., Seminar Hall
    K. Madhava Sarma Memorial Distinguished Lecture
    Noncommutative arithmetic circuits: lower bounds and polynomial identity testing(Abstract)
    V. Arvind
    Director, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.

  • 14-11-16
    3:30 pm, Seminar Hall
    L^1 full groups for measure-preserving transformations(Abstract)
    Francois Le Maitre
    University of Paris VII.

  • 11-11-16
    Math MSc/PhD Research Seminar on Nov 7,8,9,11
    3.30 pm, Lecture Hall 801
    Multi-point Seshadri constants on ruled surfaces(Abstract)
    Alapan Mukhopadhyay
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 11-11-16
    Math MSc/PhD Research Seminar on Nov 7,8,9,11
    10.30 am, Seminar Hall
    Monodromies for branched coverings(Abstract)
    Diptaishik Choudhury
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 10-11-16
    3:30 pm, Seminar Hall
    Rationality of moduli space of torsion-free sheaves over a chain-like curve(Abstract)
    Suhas BN
    IIT Madras.

  • 09-11-16
    Math MSc/PhD Research Seminar on Nov 7,8,9,11
    3.30 pm, Seminar Hall
    Maximal existence time for K\"{a}hler-Ricci flow(Abstract)
    Akashdeep Dey
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 08-11-16
    Math MSc/PhD Research Seminar on Nov 7,8,9,11
    11.50 am, Seminar Hall
    Bott Periodicity for K-theory of C*-algebras(Abstract)
    Prakash Kumar Singh
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 07-11-16
    Math MSc/PhD Research Seminar on Nov 7,8,9,11
    2.00 pm, Seminar Hall
    Moduli spaces of polygons in the Euclidean plane(Abstract)
    Nachiketa Adhikari
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 20-10-16
    3:30 pm, Seminar Hall
    Poetry reading(Abstract)
    Anne Tannam
    Irish poet.

  • 19-10-16
    3:30 pm, Seminar hall
    Archiving and collecting - Meaning and method; purpose and uses(Abstract)
    S.L. Narasimhan
    Freelancer.

  • 05-10-16
    3:30 pm, Seminar hall
    Domains of holomorphy for irreducible admissible Banach representations(Abstract)
    Aprameyan Parthasarathy
    University of Paderborn, Germany.

  • 04-10-16
    12.00, Seminar Hall
    Parametrised complexity of concurrent shared memory systems(Abstract)
    Prakash Saivasan
    Univ. of Kaiserlautern, Germany.

  • 30-09-16
    1:30 pm, Seminar Hall
    Construction of Keel Mori moduli space
    Amit Hogadi
    IISER Pune.

  • 28-09-16
    3:30 pm, Seminar hall
    Generalities on algebraic stacks
    Amit Hogadi
    IISER Pune.

  • 19-09-16
    11 AM, Lecture Hall 1
    Classical three body problem(Abstract)
    Govind Krishnaswami
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 14-09-16
    3:30 pm, Seminar Hall
    Abelian varieties and Hilbert polynomials(Abstract)
    Pramathanath Sastry
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 08-09-16
    2:00 pm, Seminar hall
    Random walks on random symmetric groups(Abstract)
    Andrzej Zuk
    University of Paris VII.

  • 07-09-16
    3:30 pm, Seminar Hall
    Abelian varieties and Hilbert polynomials(Abstract)
    Pramathanath Sastry
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 02-09-16
    2.00 pm, Seminar Hall
    Counterexample guided Skolem Function Synthesis from Factored Specifications(Abstract)
    Supratik Chakraborty
    IIT Bombay.

  • 31-08-16
    3:30 pm, Seminar Hall
    Abelian varieties and Hilbert polynomials
    Pramathanath Sastry
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 26-08-16
    2.00 pm, Seminar Hall
    Tensor categories and vertex operator algebras(Abstract)
    Shashank Kanade
    University of Alberta, Canada.

  • 25-08-16
    3.15 pm, Seminar Hall
    Cotangent Bundle to the Partial Flag Variety(Abstract)
    Rahul Singh
    Northeastern University, USA.

  • 24-08-16
    2.00 pm, Seminar Hall
    Kac-Moody Algebras and Groups(Abstract)
    Rahul Singh
    Northeastern University, USA.

  • 17-08-16
    3.30 p.m., Seminar Hall
    Kempf-Laksov-Damon determinant formula in K-theory(Abstract)
    Takeshi Ikeda
    Okayama University of Science, Japan.

  • 11-08-16
    12.00 noon, Seminar Hall
    Quantum Black Holes and Gravity from the Lattice(Abstract)
    Anosh Joseph
    DAMTP, Cambridge University, U.K.

  • 10-08-16
    3.30 p.m., Seminar Hall
    Forbidden Induced Subgraph Characterizations(Abstract)
    Vaidyanathan Sivaraman
    SUNY Binghamton, U.S.A.

  • 09-08-16
    12.00 noon, Seminar Hall
    Spin Dynamics in General Relativity(Abstract)
    Satish Kumar Saravanan
    Lorentz Institute, Leiden University and National Institute for Subatomic Physics, The Netherlands.

  • 05-08-16
    10:45 am; Seminar Hall
    Distributed Computation of Large-scale Graph Problems(Abstract)
    Gopal Pandurangan
    University of Houston, USA.

  • 04-08-16
    12.00 noon, Seminar Hall
    Strong coupling limit of scalar field theory
    S.G. Rajeev
    University of Rochester.

  • 03-08-16
    3.30 p.m., Seminar Hall
    Graphical models for analysis and control of infrastructure networks(Abstract)
    Dvijotham Krishnamurthy
    Center for Mathematics of Information, Caltech, USA.

  • 21-07-16
    3:30 pm, Lecture Hall 5
    Topology of hyperplane arrangements and invariant theory(Abstract)
    Swarnava Mukhopadhyay
    University of Maryland, USA.

  • 21-07-16
    2.00 pm, Lecture Hall 5
    The global nilpotent cone and parahoric torsors
    Rohith Varma
    TIFR, Mumbai.

  • 21-07-16
    PUBLIC VIVA-VOCE NOTIFICATION
    11.30 am, Seminar Hall
    Succinct Numbers, Skew Circuits and Bounded Treewidth Graphs: Algorithms and Complexity(Abstract)
    Nikhil Balaji


  • 20-07-16
    3:30 pm, Lecture Hall 5
    Rost invariant over function fields of p-adic curves(Abstract)
    V Suresh
    Emory University, Atlanta, USA.

  • 20-07-16
    2:00 pm, Lecture Hall 5
    Heuristics for the distribution of the ranks and Selmer-ranks of elliptic curves(Abstract)
    Arul Shankar
    Harvard University, USA.

  • 19-07-16
    3:30 pm, Lecture Hall 5
    Entanglement in Gauge Theories(Abstract)
    Ronak M. Soni
    TIFR, Mumbai.

  • 19-07-16
    2.00 pm, Lecture Hall 5
    Homological Algebra of Bipartite Graphs(Abstract)
    Arindam Banerjee
    Purdue University, USA.

  • 19-07-16
    PUBLIC VIVA-VOCE NOTIFICATION
    11.30 am, Seminar Hall
    On a relative Mumford-Newstead Theorem(Abstract)
    Suratno Basu
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 11-07-16
    12 noon, Lecture Hall 5
    Idealizations and Connected sums(Abstract)
    Ananthnarayan Hariharan
    IIT Bombay.

  • 08-07-16
    11:45; Lecture Hall 5
    MSc Thesis Viva
    Exponential bounds for the determinantal complexity of the permanent - an approach by Landsberg and Ressayre(Abstract)
    Arpan Pal
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 24-06-16
    11:45 am, Lecture Hall 5
    MSc Thesis Presentation
    People detection - An SVD-SVM Approach(Abstract)
    Ashutosh Kumar
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 17-06-16
    11.30 AM, Lecture Hall 5
    Understanding the Photons
    R. Rajaraman
    JNU, New Delhi.

  • 15-06-16
    2.45 p.m., Lecture Hall 5
    Linear matrices and their applications to semi-invariants of quivers(Abstract)
    Vishwambara Makam
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbour, USA.

  • 15-06-16
    10:30 am to 11:30 am, Lecture Hall 5
    MSc. Thesis Defence
    Sylvester-Gallai and subsequent strengthenings(Abstract)
    Rajit Datta (MSc. Computer Science)
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 09-06-16
    10:30 am, Lecture Hall 5
    Symmetric Random Walks on Tetrahedra and Octahedra(Abstract)
    Jyoti Sarkar
    Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

  • 13-05-16
    PUBLIC VIVA-VOCE NOTIFICATION
    11.30 am, Seminar Hall
    Analysis of Automata-theoretic Models of Concurrent Recursive Programs(Abstract)
    Prakash Saivasan
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 03-05-16
    M.Sc. Thesis Defence
    11:30 am-12:30 pm, Lecture Hall 5
    Sets with Positive Reach(Abstract)
    Gautam Aishwarya
    M.Sc. Mathematics, Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 29-04-16
    11.30 AM, Lecture Hall 2
    Conservative regularization compressible flows(Abstract)
    Govind Krishnaswami
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 27-04-16
    2.00 pm, Lecture Hall 2
    PUBLIC VIVA-VOCE NOTIFICATION
    Torus quotients and Automorphism group of a Bott-Samelson variety(Abstract)
    B. Narasimha Chary
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 27-04-16
    11.30 AM, Lecture Hall 2
    Non-GR approaches to Gravitational Radiation(Abstract)
    N.D. Hari Dass
    TIFR-TCIS Hyderabad.

  • 27-04-16
    MSc. Thesis Defence
    9:30 - 10:15 AM, Lecture Hall 2
    Games(Abstract)
    Miheer Dewaskar (M.Sc CS)
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 22-04-16
    3.30 pm, Lecture Hall 5
    Secant Bundles on Symmetric Powers of Curves(Abstract)
    Krishanu Dan
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 21-04-16
    3.30 pm, Seminar Hall
    M.Sc. Thesis Defense
    A cellular model for configuration space of points on a graph(Abstract)
    Abhishek Khetan
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 20-04-16
    3.30 pm, Seminar Hall
    Hilbert-Kunz Density Function and Hilbert-Kunz Multiplicity(Abstract)
    Vijaylaxmi Trivedi
    TIFR, Mumbai.

  • 19-04-16
    2:00 pm, Lecture Hall 5
    A proof of Narasimhan-Seshadri theorem
    M.S. Raghunathan
    NCM, IIT Bombay.

  • 12-04-16
    3.30 p.m., Seminar Hall
    Harder-Narasimhan schemes and stacks(Abstract)
    Nitin Nitsure
    TIFR, Mumbai.

  • 11-04-16
    2.30 pm, Seminar Hall
    Symmetric Key Encryption from Affine Spaces(Abstract)
    P. Vanchinathan
    VIT Chennai.

  • 11-04-16
    11:45 am, Seminar Hall
    Covering arrays and Generalizations(Abstract)
    Yasmeen Akhtar
    IISER, Pune.

  • 07-04-16
    10.30 am, Seminar Hall
    On the volumes of geodesics on surfaces(Abstract)
    Tali Pinsky
    TIFR, Mumbai.

  • 06-04-16
    2.00 pm, Seminar Hall
    On the modular template and continued fractions(Abstract)
    Tali Pinsky
    TIFR, Mumbai.

  • 28-03-16
    11:45, Seminar Hall
    Some Lower Bound Results for Set-Multilinear Arithmetic Computations(Abstract)
    S. Raja
    Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.

  • 24-03-16
    2:30 pm, Seminar hall
    His research work at the Madras Medical Mission for over 20 years(Abstract)
    Dr Mullasari Ajit S.
    Director, Cardiology, Madras Medical Mission.

  • 17-03-16
    3.30 pm, Seminar Hall
    General hyperplane restriction theorems(Abstract)
    Giulio Caviglia
    Purdue University, U.S.A.

  • 16-03-16
    3.30 pm, Seminar Hall
    The Prime number Theorem(Abstract)
    M.S. Raghunathan
    NCM, IIT Bombay.

  • 15-03-16
    3.30 pm, Seminar Hall
    General hyperplane restriction theorems(Abstract)
    Giulio Caviglia
    Purdue University, U.S.A.

  • 11-03-16
    Mini-Course of Lectures
    2:00 to 3:15 pm, Seminar Hall
    Virtual fundamental classes and Gromov-Witten invariants(Abstract)
    Barbara Fantechi
    SISSA, Tireste.

  • 10-03-16
    PUBLIC VIVA-VOCE NOTIFICATION
    3:30 pm, Seminar Hall
    Higgs Bundles on Elliptic Surfaces(Abstract)
    Rohith Varma


  • 08-03-16
    Mini-Course of Lectures
    2:00 to 3:15 pm, Seminar Hall
    Virtual fundamental classes and Gromov-Witten invariants(Abstract)
    Barbara Fantechi
    SISSA, Tireste.

  • 04-03-16
    Mini-Course of Lectures
    2:00 to 3:15 pm, Seminar Hall
    Virtual fundamental classes and Gromov-Witten invariants(Abstract)
    Barbara Fantechi
    SISSA, Tireste.

  • 03-03-16
    3.30-4.30, Seminar Hall
    Cotangent Bundles of the Flag, Grassmannian & Cominuscule Grassmannian Varieties(Abstract)
    V. Lakshmibai
    Northeastern University, Boston, U.S.A.

  • 02-03-16
    3.30 pm, Seminar Hall
    The Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Observation of Gravitational Waves from the merger of two black holes(Abstract)
    K.G. Arun
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 01-03-16
    Mini-Course of Lectures
    2:00 to 3:15 pm, Seminar Hall
    Virtual fundamental classes and Gromov-Witten invariants(Abstract)
    Barbara Fantechi
    SISSA, Tireste.

  • 29-02-16
    3:30 pm, Seminar Hall
    The life and work of a globetrotting writer(Abstract)
    Leonora Christina Skov
    Writer in Residence, 2016, Chennai Mathematical Institute Arts Initiative.

  • 26-02-16
    Mini-Course of Lectures
    3:30 pm, Seminar Hall
    Virtual fundamental classes and Gromov-Witten invariants(Abstract)
    Barbara Fantechi
    SISSA, Tireste.

  • 25-02-16
    3.30 pm, Lecture Hall 2
    Semisimplicity of tensor products of representations and the Etale slice theorem in positive characteristics(Abstract)
    V. Balaji
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 25-02-16
    2.00 to 3.15, Lecture Hall 1
    Lecture Series on the Separation Problem(Abstract)
    Pascal Weil
    CNRS and Universite de Bordeaux, France.

  • 25-02-16
    11:45 am, Lecture Hall 2
    Constructing cryptography for the cloud(Abstract)
    Shweta Agrawal
    Inspire Fellow, IIT Delhi.

  • 24-02-16
    3.30 p.m. - 4.30 p.m., Seminar Hall
    K. Madhava Sarma Memorial Distinguished Lecture
    From a letter of Leonhard Euler to modern researches at the crossroad of algebra, geometry, combinatorics and physics(Abstract)
    Xavier Viennot
    CNRS Emeritus Research Director, LaBRI, Bordeaux, France & Adjunct Professor, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India.

  • 24-02-16
    2.15-3.15, Lecture Hall 2
    Semisimplicity of tensor products of representations and the Etale slice theorem in positive characteristics(Abstract)
    V. Balaji
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 24-02-16
    2.00 to 3.15, Lecture Hall 1
    Lecture Series on the Separation Problem(Abstract)
    Pascal Weil
    CNRS and Universite de Bordeaux, France.

  • 22-02-16
    9.30 to 10.45, Lecture Hall 1
    Lecture Series on the Separation Problem(Abstract)
    Pascal Weil
    CNRS and Universite de Bordeaux, France.

  • 17-02-16
    3.30 pm - 4.30 pm, Seminar Hall
    Probability and inference - A Bayesian peek(Abstract)
    R.V. Ramamoorthi
    Michigan State University, U.S.A. & Infosys Chair Professor, Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 17-02-16
    2.00 pm, Seminar Hall
    Localization in Quantum field theory(Abstract)
    A.P. Balachandran
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 16-02-16
    3:30 pm, Seminar Hall
    Walk the talk -- Between the lines and around the worlds A Spoken word Performance-lecture(Abstract)
    Claus Ankersen
    Writer in Residence, 2016, Chennai Mathematical Institute Arts Initiative.

  • 16-02-16
    2:15 - 4:30 (with a break from 3:15 to 3:30), Lecture Hall 4
    Introduction to Algebraic Stacks
    Tomas Gomez
    ICMAT, Madrid, Spain.

  • 10-02-16
    2.00 to 3:15 pm and 3:30 to 4:45 pm, Seminar Hall
    Homotopy type theory(Abstract)
    Siddhartha Gadgil
    Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

  • 05-02-16
    2:00 pm, NKN Hall
    Probabilistic Programming: Fun but Tricky(Abstract)
    Joost-Pieter Katoen
    RWTH-Aachen University, Germany.

  • 05-02-16
    1.45 pm, Seminar Hall
    Sudden quenches and semi classical theory of Non-equilibrium dynamics(Abstract)
    Uma Divakaran
    Centre for Basic Sciences, Mumbai.

  • 05-02-16
    12:00, Seminar Hall
    Zero-Defect Software in Space: A True Mission!(Abstract)
    Joost-Pieter Katoen
    RWTH-Aachen University, Germany.

  • 04-02-16
    2.00 pm, Seminar Hall
    Slow quenches in quantum systems(Abstract)
    Uma Divakaran
    Centre for Basic Sciences, Mumbai.

  • 03-02-16
    3:30 pm, Seminar Hall
    Power and Limitations of Opinion Polls(Abstract)
    Rajeeva L. Karandikar
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 28-01-16
    2.00 pm, Seminar Hall
    Invariants of several matrices under SL(n) x SL(n) action(Abstract)
    K V Subrahmanyam
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 20-01-16
    3.30-4.30 p.m., Seminar Hall
    R.K. Rubugunday Distinguished Lecture
    Automorphism groups in algebraic geometry(Abstract)
    Michel Brion
    Institut Fourier, Grenoble, France.

  • 20-01-16
    2.00-3.00 p.m., Seminar Hall
    K. Lakshmanan Memorial Distinguished Lecture
    Probability and Partial Differential Equations(Abstract)
    S.R.S. Varadhan
    Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, U.S.A.

  • 19-01-16
    2.00 pm, Seminar Hall
    Constrained Sampling and Counting: When Practice Drives Theory(Abstract)
    Kuldeep Meel
    Rice University, USA.

  • 14-01-16
    11.00 am, Seminar Hall
    UV-complete 6d theories from F-theory
    Lakshya Bharadwaj
    Perimeter Institute.

  • 12-01-16
    11.00 am, Seminar Hall
    Dots for Everyone(Abstract)
    R. Shankar
    Yale University, U.S.A.

  • 08-01-16
    2:00 pm, Seminar Hall
    Index formula for moduli of bundles(Abstract)
    Christopher T. Woodward
    Rutgers University, U.S.A.

  • 08-01-16
    10.45 am, Seminar Hall
    Compact Routing Messages in Compact Self-Healing Trees(Abstract)
    Amitabh Trehan
    Queens University, UK.

  • 07-01-16
    3:30 pm, Seminar Hall
    Graph Connectivity and Binomial Edge Ideal(Abstract)
    Arindam Banerjee
    Purdue University, USA.

  • 07-01-16
    2.00 pm, Seminar Hall
    Computational Plasma Physics (continued)(Abstract)
    A Thyagaraja
    Astrophysics Group, University of Bristol, U.K.

  • 06-01-16
    3:30 pm, Seminar Hall
    An invitation to Extremal Set Theory(Abstract)
    Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli
    University of California, Berkeley.

  • 06-01-16
    2.00 pm, Seminar Hall
    Computational Plasma Physics(Abstract)
    A Thyagaraja
    Astrophysics Group, University of Bristol, U.K.

  • 05-01-16
    12:00 noon, Seminar Hall
    Hardware Support for Shared-memory Concurrency: Reconciling Programmability with Performance(Abstract)
    Vijay Nagarajan
    University of Edinburgh, UK.