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(Abstract)
    Anuj Dawar
    Cambridge University, UK.

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

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


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

  • 19-11-09
    12:00 noon
    Hecke $L$-functions and Transcendence(Abstract)
    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.(Abstract)
    Rajarshi Ray
    Verimag, Grenoble.

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

  • 30-09-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Mohiniyattom - The classical Dance form of Kerala(Abstract)
    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(Abstract)
    Raghav Kulkarni
    University of Chicago.

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

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

  • 09-09-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Temples of Chennai(Abstract)
    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).(Abstract)
    K.V. Subrahmanyam
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

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

  • 26-08-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Mamallapuram/Mahabalipuram(Abstract)
    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(Abstract)
    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(Abstract)
    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(Abstract)
    John Augustine
    Visiting scientist, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.

  • 12-08-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Homi Bhabha, Scientist and Institution Builder par Excellence(Abstract)
    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(Abstract)
    'Ghatam' S. Karthick


  • 05-08-09
    2.00 p.m.
    Mathematics and Ancient Music(Abstract)
    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(Abstract)
    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(Abstract)
    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(Abstract)
    Amritanshu Prasad
    Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.

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

  • 01-04-09
    2.30 p.m.
    KRS Bases for rings of invariants and endomorphisms of irreducible modules(Abstract)
    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(Abstract)
    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(Abstract)
    Tapas Kumar Das
    Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad.

  • 06-03-09
    2.00 p.m.
    Level fluctuations, quantum chaos and 1/f noise(Abstract)
    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(Abstract)
    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(Abstract)
    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(Abstract)
    Loic Helout
    INRIA Rennes, France.

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

  • 22-01-09
    2.00 p.m.
    Elementary talk: Complex background of real geometry(Abstract)
    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(Abstract)
    R. Sridharan
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

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

  • 19-01-09
    3.30 p.m.
    Hats off to theoretical computer science(Abstract)
    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(Abstract)
    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(Abstract)
    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(Abstract)
    S.G. Rajeev
    University of Rochester, U.S.A.