Seminars during 1996

• Prof. M.S. Narasimhan,
  International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.
  Gave a talk on "Hermitian-Einstein metrics on parabolic stable bundles" (January 1996).

• Prof. T. Shiota,
  RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan.
  Gave a talk on "Random Matrices and Soliton Equations" (January 1996).

• Prof. M. Waldschmidt,
  University of Paris VI, France.
  Gave a talk on "An application of Clifford algebras to transcendental number theory" (January 1996).

• Prof. Daniel Bertrand,
  University of Paris VI, France.
  Gave a talk on "An arithmetic analogue of Matsusaka's inequality" (January 1996).

• Prof. V. Lakshmibai,
  Northeastern University, Boston,
  U.S.A. Gave a series of lectures on "Toric Varieties, Frobenius Splitting, and Gröbner Bases" (January 1996).

• Dr. Niels Lauritzen,
  Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
  Gave a talk on "Frobenius Splitting and Hyperplane sections of Flag Manifolds" (March 1996).

• Prof. K. Varadarajan,
  University of Calgary, Calgary,
  Canada.
  Gave talks on "Geometric methods in group theory" and "On semi local rings" (May-June 1996).

• Dr. Gopala Krishna Srinivasan.
  Gave a talk on "Non-linear Fuchsian equations" (June 1996).

• Prof. T.R. Ramadas,
  Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
  Gave a talk on "Projectively flat connections" (August 1996).

• Dr. Reuben Rabi,
  King's College, London.
  Gave a talk on "Hodge theory on pi_1" (August 1996).

• Prof. M.P. Murthy,
  University of Chicago, U.S.A.
  Gave talks on "Projective modules over affine algebras" (September 1996),
  "Cancellation of projective modules over affine algebras"
  and "Grothendieck's theorem on parafactorial rings" (January 1997).

• Prof. J.H. Coates,
  Cambridge University, U.K.
  Gave a talk on "Mysterious class of P-adic fields" (September 1996).

• Dr. Indranil Biswas,
  Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
  Gave a talk on "Parabolic bundles" (September 1996).

• Prof. R. Wisbauer,
  University of Dusseldorff, Germany.
  Gave a talk on "On coalgebras and comodules" (September 1996).

• Prof. D.N. Verma,
  Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
  Gave talks on "The highest-weight approach to the Schur-Weyl problem" (October 1996), "Zero-weight-spaces & some elementary algebraic geometry" and "A variation on the theme of quantum groups" (February 1997).

• Prof. Balwant Singh,
  Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
  Gave a talk on "On subintegrality" (October 1996).

• Dr. C.S. Rajan,
  Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
  Gave a talk on "Strong multiplicity one for L-adic representations" (November 1996).

• Prof. Robert V. Moody,
  University of Alberta, Canada.
  Gave a talk on "Mathematical Quasicrystals: non-crystallographic root systems, self similarity and diffraction" (December 1996).

• Dr. C.S. Aravinda,
  Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.
  Gave a talk on "Topological rigidity & exotic smooth structures" (December 1996).

• Prof. C. Procesi,
  University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy.
  (visited under the agreement for Direct Cultural and Scientific Cooperation between the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and the SPIC Mathematical Institute).
  Gave two talks on "From conical singularities to normal crossings" and a talk on "Vassiliev invariants" (December 1996).

• Prof. Wilberd van der Kallen,
  Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  Gave a talk on "Space of triangles & Schur modules" (December 1996).

• Prof. Dines Bjorner,
  United Nations
  University/International Institute for Software Technology, Macau.
  Gave a talk on "Software support for infrastructure systems" (April 1996).