Chennai Mathematical Institute

Dr. F.C. Kohli Centre of Excellence


The Dr. F.C. Kohli Centre of Excellence was set up at CMI in December 2020. The Centre aims to promote research and innovation through a strong visitors' programme, built around regular thematic events.

Activities

BIRS-CMI workshops

The Banff International Research Station (BIRS) for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery is an independent research institute for the mathematical sciences, based in Canada. BIRS hosts research workshops on various themes throughout the year. In September 2022 CMI joined BIRS as an international affiliate. Through this partnership, CMI will host BIRS-CMI workshops from 2024.

Workshop proposals are solicited two years in advance. The call for proposals for workshops in 2026 will open around June, 2024.

BIRS-CMI workshops, 2024

  • 24w4002: New Directions in Rational Points
    Martin Bright, Efthymios Sofos, Sujatha Ramdorai, Pankaj Vishe
    January 7–12, 2024

  • 24w4006: Frontiers of Quantum Information and Computation
    Anurag Anshu, Ankit Garg, Prabha Mandayam
    December 8–13, 2024

  • 24w4004: Mathematical Foundations of Network Models and their Applications
    Siva Athreya, Shankar Bhamidi, Serte Donderwinkel, Soumik Pal
    December 15–20, 2024

BIRS-CMI workshops, 2025

  • 25w5389: Machine Learning and Statistics: From Theory to Practice
    Muni Sreenivas Pydi, Sunita Sarawagi, Ambedkar Dukkipati, Lalitha Sankar, Varun Jog
    January 12–17, 2025

  • 25w5482: Game-theoretic statistical inference: Optional sampling, universal inference, and multiple testing based on e-values
    Ruodu Wang, Johanna Ziegel, Aaditya Ramdas, Peter Grunwald
    June 29–July 4, 2025

  • 25w5449: Mathematical and computational foundations of climate modeling: from low-dimensional dynamics to earth system models
    Amit Apte, Vishal Vasan, Sreekar Vadlamani, Sanjeeva Balasuriya, Nisha Chandramoorthy
    August 17–22, 2025

  • 25w5386: Quantum Gravity and Information Theory: Modern Developments
    Saurya Das, Arpan Bhattacharyya
    November 9–14, 2025

  • 25w5354: Quivers in representation theory
    Amit Kuber, Apoorva Khare, Thomas Brustle, Shraddha Srivastava
    November 30–December 5, 2025

  • 25w5329: Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification in Large Models
    Subhashis Ghoshal, Igor Pruenster, Marta Catalano, Yanxun Xu, Fengnan Gao
    December 7–12, 2025