Chennai Mathematical Institute
Seminars




Seminars for the year 2009
  • 31-12-09
    11.00 a.m.
    PUBLIC VIVA-VOCE NOTIFICATION: Design and Programming of Asynchronous Concurrent Systems: A Natural Verifiable Approach Prakash Chandrasekaran
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 23-12-09
    10.45 a.m.
    Logics with Matrix Rank Operators
    Anuj Dawar
    Cambridge University, UK.

  • 22-12-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Descriptive Polynomial-Time Complexity
    Anuj Dawar
    Cambridge University, UK.

  • 18-12-09
    12:00 noon
    Irreducibility of generalised Schur Polynomials
    Shanta Laishram


  • 03-12-09
    12:00 noon
    A Dolev-Yao model for Zero Knowledge
    A. Baskar
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 19-11-09
    12:00 noon
    Hecke $L$-functions and Transcendence
    M. Ram Murty
    Queen's University.

  • 05-11-09
    2:15 pm
    M2-branes on resolved C4/Z4 and Chern-Simons level Harvendra Singh
    Saha Institute (SINP), Kolkata.

  • 19-10-09
    2.00 p.m.
    Design Principles for an Extendable Verification Tool for HybridSystems.
    Rajarshi Ray
    Verimag, Grenoble.

  • 19-10-09
    12.00 noon
    Orderfield Property of Stochastic Games via Dependency Graphs.
    Nagarajan Krishnamurthy
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 15-10-09
    10.45 noon
    Communication Complexity of Stochastic Games.
    Nagarajan Krishnamurthy
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 14-10-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Brownian intersection local time and large deviations.
    Chiranjib Mukherjee
    Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Sciences, Leipzig.

  • 13-10-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Brownian motion: definition and some properties.
    Chiranjib Mukherjee
    Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Sciences, Leipzig.

  • 12-10-09
    12.00 noon
    Introduction to Stochastic Games.
    Nagarajan Krishnamurthy
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 07-10-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Emergence of Chennai as a Centre of Music.
    Mr.V.Sriram


  • 01-10-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Some numerical estimates on cosmological parameters, quintessence and inflation.
    Harikrishnan Ramani
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 30-09-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Mohiniyattom - The classical Dance form of Kerala
    Sujatha Ramachandran


  • 16-09-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Quantum Chaos : randomness and correlations Sudhir R. Jain
    BARC, Mumbai.

  • 11-09-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Evasiveness and the Music of Primes
    Raghav Kulkarni
    University of Chicago.

  • 17-09-09
    10.45 a.m.
    Lecture 2: A new model for multiclass boosting
    Indraneel Mukherjee
    Princeton University.

  • 16-09-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Lecture 1: What is machine learning?
    Indraneel Mukherjee
    Princeton University.

  • 09-09-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Temples of Chennai
    Chitra Madhavan


  • 02-09-09
    3.45 p.m.
    Towards the construction of quantum deformations of restrictions of GL(mn) module to GL(m) X GL(n).
    K.V. Subrahmanyam
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 25-08-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Annotations for Race-freedom
    Madhusudan Parthasarathy
    Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.

  • 26-08-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Mamallapuram/Mahabalipuram
    S. Swaminathan


  • 19-08-09
    First session: 12 Noon to 1.20pm
    Second session: 2.00pm to 3.20pm
    Third session: 3.40pm to 5pm.
    An afternoon of experimental physics seminars
    Third year BSc(P) students
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 19-08-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Colours in the fields: A walk in the garden of Ramsey-type theorems
    S.D. Adhikari
    Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad.

  • 17-08-09
    2.00 p.m.
    Energy Efficient Shortest Path Algorithms for Convergecast in Sensor Networks
    John Augustine
    Visiting scientist, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.

  • 12-08-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Homi Bhabha, Scientist and Institution Builder par Excellence
    G. Rajasekaran
    Chennai Mathematical Institute and Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.

  • 05-08-09
    3.30 p.m.
    LAYA VADYAS (Percussion Instruments) - THEIR ROLE IN A CARNATIC CONCERT
    'Ghatam' S. Karthick


  • 05-08-09
    2.00 p.m.
    Mathematics and Ancient Music
    Brigadier S. Nambirajan


  • 16-07-09
    12.15 p.m.
    Informal discussion on Flux compactifications Jnan Maharana
    IOP Bhubaneshwar.

  • 08-07-09
    11.30 a.m.
    Smallest enclosing circle centered on a query line segment
    Sasanka Roy
    IISc, Bangalore.

  • 03-07-09
    2.15 p.m.
    Aspects of Unparticles Arvind Rajaraman
    UC Irvine.

  • 22-06-09
    Course of Lectures: 22-06-09 to 25-06-09, 2.00 p.m.
    Resolution of singularities on curves and surfaces H. Krishna Chaitanya
    Kansas University at Lawrence, U.S.A.

  • 05-06-09
    2.00 p.m.
    Nonvanishing of L-functions Ritabrata Munshi
    Rutgers University.

  • 20-05-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Irreducibility of polynomials via Newton Polygons
    N. Saradha
    TIFR, Mumbai.

  • 06-05-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Higgs Bundles and Triality Alvaro Anton
    ICMAT (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.

  • 29-04-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Locally compact abelian groups with symplectic self-duality
    Amritanshu Prasad
    Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.

  • 16-04-09
    2.15 p.m.
    Quantum Tunneling with the DBI Action
    Saswat Sarangi
    Columbia University, USA.

  • 01-04-09
    2.30 p.m.
    KRS Bases for rings of invariants and endomorphisms of irreducible modules
    Preena Samuel
    Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.

  • 17-03-09
    3.30 p.m.
    On Segre classes Raja Sridharan
    TIFR, Mumbai.

  • 13-03-09
    12.00 noon
    Astrophysical accretion as an analogue gravity phenomena
    Tapas Kumar Das
    Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad.

  • 13-03-09
    12.00 noon
    Combinatorics of polynomials Piotr Pragacz
    Polish Academy of Science, Poland.

  • 10-03-09
    2.00 p.m.
    Black Holes in your Bathtub
    Tapas Kumar Das
    Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad.

  • 06-03-09
    2.00 p.m.
    Level fluctuations, quantum chaos and 1/f noise
    M.S. Santhanam
    IISER, Pune.

  • 06-03-09
    3.30 p.m.
    PUBLIC VIVA-VOCE NOTIFICATION
    A Formal Approach to Testing Asynchronous Distributed Systems Puneet Bhateja
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 24-02-09
    2.00 p.m.
    Quantum Theory of Electron Lenses R. Jagannathan
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 16-02-09
    3.45 p.m.
    Noncommutative Identity Testing, Isolation Lemma and Lower Bounds
    Partha Mukhopadhyay
    Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.

  • 29-01-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Cocompact Arithmetic Groups M.S. Raghunathan
    TIFR, Mumbai.

  • 28-01-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Black Holes in Yang-Mills Theory
    Shiraz Minwalla
    Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai.

  • 23-01-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Hall algebras and the geometry of quivers V. Lakshmibai
    Northeastern University, U.S.A.

  • 23-01-09
    2.30 p.m.
    Diagnosis from Scenarios
    Loic Helout
    INRIA Rennes, France.

  • 23-01-09
    2.00 p.m.
    Advanced talk: 50 years of integral geometry
    Simon Gindikin
    Rutgers University, U.S.A.

  • 22-01-09
    2.00 p.m.
    Elementary talk: Complex background of real geometry
    Simon Gindikin
    Rutgers University, U.S.A.

  • 21-01-09
    3.30 p.m.
    R.K. Rubugunday Distinguished Lecture:
    On a Saraband theme of circles and some variations
    R. Sridharan
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 21-01-09
    2.00 p.m.
    K. Lakshmanan Memorial Distinguished Lecture:
    Integration and Topology
    M.S. Narasimhan
    TIFR Bangalore Centre.

  • 19-01-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Hats off to theoretical computer science
    Nutan Limaye
    Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.

  • 19-01-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Hall algebras and the geometry of quivers V. Lakshmibai
    Northeastern University, U.S.A.

  • 16-01-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Toroidalization Krishna Chaitanya
    University of Kansas, U.S.A.

  • 13-01-09
    2.30 p.m. - 3.15.p.m. and 3.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
    Quantum Gravity and Noncommutative Spacetimes
    A. P. Balachandran
    Syracuse University, U.S.A.

  • 12-01-09
    3.00 p.m.
    An Ergodic Theorem for Rotations in Infinite Dimensions Daniel Stroock
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.

  • 09-01-09
    2.00 p.m.
    Fishing gravitational wave chirps with a multi-detector network
    Archana Pai
    Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Germany.

  • 07-01-09
    12.00 noon
    Homogeneous operators on Hilbert spaces Adam Koranyi
    CUNY, U.S.A.

  • 06-01-09
    3.00 p.m.
    The Orbit of a Radiating Charged Particle
    S.G. Rajeev
    University of Rochester, U.S.A.