Chennai Mathematical Institute

Seminars




Forthcoming Seminars
  • 22-04-24
    Physics Seminar
    Speaker: Dimple, CMI
    Date: Monday, 22 April 2024
    Time: 1:45 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 2
    A Data-Driven Approach to Gamma Ray Burst Classification: Unveiling Diversity with Machine Learning(Abstract)
    Dimple
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 23-04-24
    Computer Science Seminar
    Speaker: Somnath Chakraborty, Ruhr Universitat
    Date: Tuesday, 23 April 2024
    Time: 11:45 AM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Learning mixture of Gaussians: a noisy coupon collector's problem(Abstract)
    Somnath Chakraborty
    Ruhr Universitat.

  • 26-04-24
    Public viva-voce Notification
    Speaker: Jagadish Pine
    Date: 26 April 2024
    Time: 11:45 AM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    A universal moduli space of stable parabolic vector bundles over the marked stable curves.(Abstract)
    Jagadish Pine
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 03-05-24
    Mathematics Seminar
    Speaker: Srijan Sarkar, IISc
    Date: Friday, 3 May 2024
    Time: 2 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 2
    Analytic model for contractions on Hilbert spaces and Toeplitz operators(Abstract)
    Srijan Sarkar
    IISc.

Past Seminars (this year)
  • 18-04-24
    M.Sc. Thesis Defence
    Speaker: Atharva Raje, CMI
    Date: Thursday, 18 April 2024
    Time: 9:20 AM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Ribet’s converse to Herbrand’s Theorem(Abstract)
    Atharva Raje
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 18-04-24
    Seminar Announcement
    Speaker: Dhruv Ranganathan, University of Cambridge
    Date: Thursday, 18 April 2024
    Time: 3:30 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hal
    Gromov-Witten theory via degenerations(Abstract)
    Dhruv Ranganathan
    University of Cambridge.

  • 17-04-24
    Mathematics Colloquium
    Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2024
    Time: 2:00 - 3:30 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Stiefel-Whitney Classes of Representations(Abstract)
    Steven Spallone
    IISER Pune.

  • 17-04-24
    Computer Science Seminar
    Speaker: Vaibhav Krishnan, IIT Bombay
    Date: Wednesday, 17 April 2024
    Time: 3.30 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 2
    New Lower Bounds for Symmetric Boolean Functions(Abstract)
    Vaibhav Krishnan
    IIT Bombay.

  • 16-04-24
    MSc Thesis Defense
    Speaker: Bhavesh Padwal, CMI
    Date: Tuesday, 16 April 2024
    Time: 3:30-4.30 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    A short introduction to the Hauptvermutung of geometric topology(Abstract)
    Bhavesh Padwal
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 16-04-24
    Physics Seminar
    Speaker: Soumya Adhikari, IISER TVM
    Date: Tuesday, 16th April 2024
    Time: 1.45 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 801
    N=2 conformal supergravity in five dimensions(Abstract)
    Soumya Adhikari
    IISER Thiruvananthapuram.

  • 15-04-24
    Research Methodology Seminar
    Speaker: Harsh Vardhan Nahata
    Date: Monday, 15 April 2024
    Time: 3:00 PM
    Venue: LH 3
    On the theory of Cyclotomic Fields
    Harsh Vardhan Nahata
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 15-04-24
    Research Methodology Seminar
    Speaker: Pranoy Sarkar
    Date: Monday, 15 April 2024
    Time: 12.00 PM
    Venue: LH 3
    On the homology of the Hilbert scheme of points in the plane
    Pranoy Sarkar
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 15-04-24
    Research Methodology Seminar
    Speaker Name: Rutuja Vilas Sawant
    Date: Monday, 15 April 2024
    Time: 2:00 PM
    Venue: LH 3
    Shellable flag simplicial complexes via chordal graphs
    Rutuja Vilas Sawant
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 15-04-24
    Research Methodology Seminar
    Speaker Name: Rajesh Manna, CMI
    Date: Monday, 15 April 2024
    Time: 11.00 AM
    Venue: LH3
    On smoothness of Hilbert scheme on a smooth surface
    Rajesh Manna
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 12-04-24
    MSc Computer Science Thesis Talk
    Speaker: Rishi Garg, CMI
    Date: Friday, 12 April 2024
    Time: 10:30 to 11:30 AM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, CMI
    Bayesian Portfolio Optimization for Option Writers(Abstract)
    Rishi Garg
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 12-04-24
    Data Science Seminar
    Date: Friday, 12 April 2024
    Time: 2:00 PM
    Venue: NKN Hall
    Statistics and Machine Learning in Protein Design(Abstract)
    Maunish Baravila and Anirudh Bhashyam
    PopVax, Hyderabad.

  • 10-04-24
    Physics Seminar
    Date : Wednesday, 10th April 2024
    Time : 1:45 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 4
    Discovery of a ‘lower mass gap’ black hole by LIGO(Abstract)
    Parthapratim Mahapatra
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 10-04-24
    Lecture Announcement
    Speaker: Pritthijit Biswas, CMI.
    Date: Wednesday, 10 April 2024
    Time: 3:45 PM.
    Venue: Lecture Hall 2
    A Reconstruction theorem of Bondal and Orlov(Abstract)
    Pritthijit Biswas
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 10-04-24
    CMI Arts Initiative Talk
    Date: Wednesday, 10 April 2024
    Time: 3:30 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Carnatic Music — where next?(Abstract)
    Sriram V
    Editor, Madras Musings.

  • 09-04-24
    Data Science Seminar
    Speaker: Arjun Beri, Wells Fargo
    Date: Tuesday, 9 April 2024
    Time: 3:30 to 4:30 PM
    Venue: NKN hall
    Introduction to Counterparty Credit Risk Modelling and the Challenges(Abstract)
    Arjun Beri
    Wells Fargo.

  • 08-04-24
    K. Lakshmanan Memorial Distinguished Lecture
    Date: Monday, 8 April 2024
    Time: 3:30 - 4:30 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall]
    The complexity of computation, of communication, and of proofs(Abstract)
    Meena Mahajan
    Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.

  • 08-04-24
    R.K. Rubugunday Distinguished Lecture
    Date: Monday, 8 April 2024
    Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Evolution of a blast in a cold gas: From Newton to Euler and Navier-Stokes-Fourier(Abstract)
    Abhishek Dhar
    ICTS, Bangalore.

  • 08-04-24
    Computer Science Seminar
    Speaker: Gunjan Kumar, NUS Singapore
    Date: Monday, 8 April 2024
    Time: 12:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Distribution Testing in the Small Sample Regime(Abstract)
    Gunjan Kumar
    NUS, Singapore.

  • 05-04-24
    Seminar Announcement
    Speaker: Bhargav C S, IIT Kanpur
    Date: Friday, 05 April 2024
    Time: 11:00 AM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Learning the coefficients: A presentable version of border complexity and applications to circuit factoring(Abstract)
    Bhargav C S
    IIT Kanpur.

  • 03-04-24
    Mathematics Seminar
    Date: Wednesday, 3 April 2024
    Time: 3:40 to 4:30 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 202
    Some recent results related to Bott-Samelson-Demazure-Hansen varieties.(Abstract)
    Senthamarai Kannan
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 03-04-24
    Mathematics Seminar
    Date: Wednesday, 3 April 2024
    Time: 2:30 to 3:20 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 202
    Picard groups of some compact complex manifolds.(Abstract)
    Pritthijit Biswas
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 03-04-24
    CMI Arts Initiative Talk
    Date: Wednesday, 3 April 2024
    Time: 3:30 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall, CMI.
    Dravidian Islamic Architecture(Abstract)
    Kombai S Anwar
    Freelance Journalist.

  • 03-04-24
    Computer Science Seminar
    Date: Wednesday, 3 April 2024
    Time: 3:30 to 4:30 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 2
    On the Monadic Second-Order Theory of Arithmetic Predicates(Abstract)
    Mihir Vahanwala
    MPI-SWS, Saarbrücken, Germany.

  • 26-03-24
    CMI-IMSc Number Theory Seminar
    Date: Tuesday, 26 March 2024
    Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 803, CMI
    Nonexistence and Finiteness Theorems for Certain Abelian Varieties(Abstract)
    Plawan Das
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 25-03-24
    Data Science Seminar
    Date: Monday, 25 March 2024
    Time: 3:30 PM
    Venue: NKN Hall
    Range of correlation between two random quantities(Abstract)
    N. Rao Chaganty
    Old Dominion University.

  • 27-03-24
    Lecture Series Announcement
    Date: 25, 27 and 28 March 2024
    Time: 2:00 to 3:15 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 202
    An introduction to mapping class groups(Abstract)
    Kashyap Rajeevsarathy
    IISER Bhopal.

  • 21-03-24
    CMI Arts Initiative Talk
    Date: Thursday, 21 March 2024.
    Time: 3:30 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    The life and times of BP Koirala(Abstract)
    Dinesh Kafle
    Kathmandu University.

  • 20-03-24
    Physics Seminar
    Date: Wednesday, 20th March 2024
    Time: 2:00 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 2
    Testing general theory of relativity with gravitational waves from binary black holes in eccentric orbits(Abstract)
    Pankaj Saini
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 20-03-24
    Seminar Announcement
    Date: Wednesday, 20 March 2024
    Time: 3:30 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    A Survey of Percolation Theory(Abstract)
    Aniruddhan Ganesaraman
    ISI Kolkata.

  • 19-03-24
    Seminar Announcement
    Date: Tuesday, 19 March 2024
    Time: 3:30 to 4:30 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Ricci flow and positive curvature(Abstract)
    Anusha Krishnan
    University of Muenster.

  • 18-03-24
    Physics Seminar
    Date: Monday, 18 March 2024
    Time: 1.45 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 3
    Influence Phase of a de Sitter Observer(Abstract)
    Omkar Sanjay Shetye
    ICTS.

  • 15-03-24
    Mathematics Seminar
    Date: Friday, 15 March 2024
    Time: 11.50 AM to 12:50 PMs
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Types and Hecke algebras(Abstract)
    Manish Mishra
    IISER Pune.

  • 15-03-24
    Data Science Seminar
    Date: Friday, 15 March 2024
    Time: 2:00 PM
    Venue: NKN Hall
    Derivative pricing from a quants perspective(Abstract)
    Govind Narayanan
    HSBC, Bengaluru.

  • 15-03-24
    Mathematics Seminar
    Date: Friday, 15 March 2024
    Time: 10:30 AM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Khovanov homology of positive links(Abstract)
    Naageswaran Manikandan
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

  • 11-03-24
    Physics Seminar
    Date: Monday, 11th March 2024
    Time: 01:45 PM
    Venue: Lectute Hall 02
    $AdS_2/CFT_1$ holography at finite charge density(Abstract)
    Hemant Rathi
    IIT Roorkee.

  • 06-03-24
    Computer Science Seminar
    Date: Wednesday, 6 March 2024
    Time: 3:30 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 5
    Using a Geometric Lens to find k Disjoint Shortest Paths(Abstract)
    Matthias Bentert
    University of Bergen.

  • 06-03-24
    Mathematics Seminar
    Date: Wednesday, 06 March 2024
    Time: 03:30 - 04:20 PM
    Venue: Seminar hall
    Development of moduli of principal bundles and representation theory(Abstract)
    V. Balaji
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 06-03-24
    Mathematics Seminar
    Date: Wednesday, 06 March 2024
    Time: 02:30 - 03:20 PM
    Venue: Seminar hall
    Geometric realization of perverse filtration(Abstract)
    Ankit Rai
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 05-03-24
    Computer Science Seminar
    Date: Tuesday, 5 March 2024
    Time: 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Bidding Games on Graphs - In theory and in practice(Abstract)
    Suman Sadhukhan
    Haifa University, Israel.

  • 27-02-24
    Mathematics Seminar
    Date: Tuesday, 27 February 2024
    Time: 10.30 AM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 4
    Coefficientwise Hankel-total positivity of the Schett polynomials(Abstract)
    Bishal Deb
    Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Paris.

  • 23-02-24
    CMI Arts Initiative
    Date: Friday, 23 February 2024
    Time: 6.30 PM
    Venue: Virtual Mode
    The Sacred Feminine: Women Who Wear Only Themselves(Abstract)
    Arundhathi Subramaniam
    Chennai Mathematical Institute Arts Initiative.

  • 21-02-24
    Seminar Announcement
    Date: Wednesday, 21 February 2024
    Time: 3:30 PM.
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    What Galois might have done had he lived a few years more.(Abstract)
    P. Vanchinathan
    VIT Chennai.

  • 19-02-24
    Computer Science Seminar
    Date: Monday, 19 February 2024
    Time: 2:00 to 3:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: Tools, Annotation and Knowledge Graphs(Abstract)
    Hrishikesh Terdalkar
    IIT Kanpur.

  • 19-02-24
    Physics Seminar
    Date: Monday, 19 February 2024
    Time : 1.45 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 05
    CFT analysis of N=4 Super Yang Mills at Strong Coupling
    Nika Sokolova
    Kings College, London.

  • 16-02-24
    Physics Seminar
    Date: Friday, 16 February 2024
    Time: 1.45 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 05
    Introduction to Quantum Spectral Curve
    Julius Julius
    HRI.

  • 14-02-24
    CMI Arts Initiative
    Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2024
    Time: 6.30 PM
    Venue: Virtual Mode
    Estuary: A Fictional Commentary on Educational Spaces(Abstract)
    Perumal Murugan and Nandini Krishnan
    Chennai Mathematical Institute Arts Initiative.

  • 14-02-24
    Mathematics Colloquium
    Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2024
    Time: 2.00 - 3.00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Delta geometry and the characteristic polynomial of the Frobenius(Abstract)
    Arnab Saha
    IIT Gandhinagar.

  • 21-02-24
    Prof. Michelle Gallo's Lecture Series
    Date: 12, 14, 19 and 21 February 2024 @ 11.50 AM ,20 February 2024 @ 3.30 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Tensor Data Analysis(Abstract)
    Michelle Gallo
    University of Naples, Italy.

  • 13-02-24
    CMI-IMSc Number Theory Seminar
    Date: Tuesday, 13 February 2024
    Time: 12.00 - 1.00 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 803
    Counting extensions of number fields(Abstract)
    Rajdeep Ghosh
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 09-02-24
    Data Science Seminar
    Date: Friday, 09 February 2024
    Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    Venue: NKN Hall
    PseudoGA: a pseudo time reconstruction method using single-cell RNA-seq data(Abstract)
    Indranil Mukhopadhyay
    ISI Kolkata.

  • 09-02-24
    Computer Science Seminar
    Date: Friday, 09 February 2024
    Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 5
    Cascade Decomposition of Asynchronous Automata(Abstract)
    Paul Gastin
    LMF, CNRS & ENS Paris-Saclay.

  • 08-02-24
    Physics Seminar
    Date: Thursday, 8 February 2024
    Time: 1:45 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 1
    Local Entropy Current on a Black-Hole Horizon and its Reparametrizations(Abstract)
    Shuvayu Roy
    NISER, Bhubaneswar.

  • 07-02-24
    Mathematics Colloquium
    Date: Wednesday, 7 February 2024
    Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Big Match(Abstract)
    TES Raghavan
    University of Illinois, Chicago.

  • 06-02-24
    Seminar Announcement
    Date: Tuesday, 6 February 2024
    Time: 3: 30 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Sparsification and Uncertainty: Through Geometric Lens(Abstract)
    Sujoy Bhore
    IIT Bombay.

  • 06-02-24
    Physics Seminar
    Date: Tuesday, 06 February 2024
    Time: 1:45 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 1
    An entropy current and the second law in higher derivative theories of gravity(Abstract)
    Prateksh Dhivakar
    IIT Kanpur.

  • 02-02-24
    Data Science Seminar
    Date: Friday, 2 February 2024
    Time: 2:00 PM
    Venue: NKN Hall
    When to use Linear Regression? Model assumptions, diagnostics, and robustness(Abstract)
    Miheer Dewaskar
    Duke University, USA.

  • 01-02-24
    Mathematics Seminar
    Date: Thursday, 1 February 2024
    Time: 3:30 PM
    Venue: NKN Hall
    Robustifying likelihoods by optimistically re-weighting data(Abstract)
    Miheer Dewaskar
    Duke University, USA.

  • 31-01-24
    Mathematics Colloquium
    Date: Wednesday, 31 January 2024
    Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Power and Limitations of Opinion Polls(Abstract)
    Rajeeva Karandikar
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 31-01-24
    Seminar Announcement
    Date: Wednesday, 31 January 2024
    Time: 10:30 - 11:30 AM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 5
    Complexity Study of Reasoning about Knowledge and Public Observations(Abstract)
    Avijeet Ghosh
    ISI Kolkata.

  • 24-01-24
    Algebraic Methods in Algorithms, Complexity Theory and Combinatorics (AACC) Seminar Series
    Every Wednesday, from 12:00 to 1.15 PM
    Starts on 17 January 2024
    Venue: Lecture Hall 6
    AACC Seminar Series(Abstract)
    Rohit Gurjar, Sumanta Ghosh, Amit Sinhababu
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 22-01-24
    Seminar Announcement
    Speaker: Sourav Chakraborty, ISI Kolkata
    Date: Monday, 22 January 2024
    Time: 2:00 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 2
    Distinct Elements in Streams and the Klee's Measure Problem(Abstract)
    Sourav Chakraborty
    ISI Kolkata.

  • 22-01-24
    Physics Seminar
    Date: Monday, 22 January 2024
    Time: 12:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar hall
    Quantifying animal encounter and interactions: Lattice random walk approach(Abstract)
    Debraj Das
    ICTP, Trieste.

  • 19-01-24
    Data Science Seminar
    Date: Friday, 19 January 2024
    Time: 2:00 PM
    Venue: NKN Hall
    Model Risk: The perils of quantification(Abstract)
    Anirban Dutta
    DWS, Pune.

  • 18-01-24
    Physics Seminar
    Speaker : Sachin Grover, HRI, Allahabad
    Date: Thursday, 18 January 2024
    Time: 1.45 PM
    Duality defects in $D_n$ type Niemeier lattice CFTs
    Sachin Grover
    HRI, Allahabad.

  • 17-01-24
    Mathematics Seminar
    Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
    Time: 3:30 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Representation homology of spaces and the strong Macdonald conjectures(Abstract)
    Ajay Ramadoss
    Indiana University, Bloomington.

  • 17-01-24
    Seminar Announcement
    Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
    Time: 3:30 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 1
    Covering a graph using shortest paths(Abstract)
    Florent Foucaud
    Universitaire des Cézeaux, France.

  • 12-01-24
    Public viva-voce Notification
    Date: Friday, 12 January 2024
    Time: 11:00 AM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    On the structure of certain non-commutative $C^{\ast}$-algebras(Abstract)
    Malay Mandal
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 11-01-24
    Physics Seminar
    Date: Thursday, 11 January 2024
    Time: 12:15 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 06
    CSS codes and dualities via cluster state measurements(Abstract)
    Aswin P. M.
    Stony Brook University.

  • 10-01-24
    Seminar Announcement
    Date: Wednesday, 10 January 2024
    Time: 2:00 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 5
    Proof theory of formal languages(Abstract)
    Abhishek De
    Research Fellow in Proof Theory, University of Birmingham.

  • 24-01-24
    Lecture Series Announcement
    Date: 5, 9, 11, 16, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25 January 2024
    Time: 3:30 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall. The lectures will be given in hybrid mode.
    Lectures on SGA3(Abstract)
    Patrick Polo
    Institut de Mathématiques, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.

  • 08-01-24
    Mathematics Seminar
    Date: Monday, 8 January 2023
    Time: 2:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    SU(2) Representations of Three-Manifold groups(Abstract)
    Deepraj Bhat
    MIT, USA.

  • 05-01-24
    Seminar Announcement
    Date: Friday, 5 January 2024
    Time: 3.30 PM
    Venue: Lecture Hall 06
    Reachability in Continuous Pushdown VASS(Abstract)
    Ramanathan S Thinniyam
    Uppsala University.

  • 05-01-24
    Seminar Announcement
    Date: Friday, 5 January 2024
    Time: 2:00 PM
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    The Antiquity of the Arithmetic Mean(Abstract)
    Amartya Kumar Dutta
    ISI Kolkata.