Seminars during 1999

• Prof. Jens C. Jantzen,
  Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
  Gave a series of talks on ``Introduction to Quantum Groups'' (December 1998 - January 1999).

• Dr. Ashish Tiwari,
  SUNY at Stony Brook, U.S.A.
  Gave a talk on ``Grobner Bases for Polynomial Ideals over Commutative Noetherian Rings'' (January 1999).

• Prof. L. Merel,
  University of Paris VI, France.
  Gave a talk on ``Points of finite order of elliptic curves over cyclotomic fields'' (January 1999).

• Prof. Christoph Sorger,
  \'Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure, France.
  Gave a series of talks on ``Moduli of G-bundles'' and a talk on ``The linear algebra of conformal field theory'' (February 1999).

• Prof. Oded Maler,
  VERIMAG, Grenoble, France.
  Gave a talk on ``A unified approach to discrete and continuous dynamical systems'' (February 1999).

• Prof. W. Haboush,
  University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, U.S.A.
  Gave talks on ``On Localizing Greenberg Functors'' and ``The Schemes of {\it p}-adic lattices'' (February 1999).

• Dr. Sridhar Rajagopalan,
  IBM, Almaden Research Center, U.S.A.
  Gave a talk on ``Checking associativity - a randomized algorithm'' (February 1999).

• Dr. Abhik Roychoudhury,
  SUNY, Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.
  Gave a talk on ``Unfold/fold transformations of Logic Programs for Verification of Parametrized Systems'' (February 1999).

• Prof. Corrado De Concini,
  University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy.
  Gave talks on ``On Cohomology of Braid and Coxeter Groups'' (February 1999).

• Prof V. Lakshmibai,
  Northeastern University, Boston, U.S.A.
  Gave a talk on ``A criterion for singularity of Schubert varieties'' (February 1999).

• Prof. Rajiah Simon,
  Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.
  Gave a talk on ``K.S Krishnan's mathematical work and relationship to Shannon's sampling theorem'' (March 1999).

• Prof. Rajeeva L Karandikar,
  Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi.
  Gave talks on ``Option pricing and mathematical finance'' and ``Opinion polls and prediction'' (March 1999).