Chennai Mathematical Institute

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Seminars for the year 2012

28-12-12
3.30 p.m.
Invariants for E_0-semigroups on II_1 factors(Abstract)
Oliver Margetts
Lancaster University.
20-12-12
3:45 - 4:45 p.m.
UNITY IN MATHEMATICS LECTURE: The Spectrum of the Laplacian
S. Kesavan
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.
13-12-12
3.30-4:30 p.m.
Introduction to Option Pricing
Rajeeva Karandikar
Chennai Mathematical Institute.
13-12-12
10.30 a.m.
Counter-Example Guided Fence Insertion under TSO(Abstract)
Mohamed Faouzi Atig
Uppsala University, Sweden.
11-12-12
10.30 a.m.
Two classes of network structures that enable efficient information transmission(Abstract)
Prof. Sanming Zhou
University of Melbourne, Australia.
07-12-12
3.30 p.m.
Unity In Mathematics (AFS-I)
Additive Combinatorics
R. Balasubramanian
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.
05-12-12
2.00 p.m.
Unity in Mathematics (AFS-I)
From Fourier series to Fourier transforms and beyond
Alladi Sitaram
Emeritus Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.
05-12-12
11.00 a.m.
Geometry of polarised light(Abstract)
Rajaram Nityananda
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune.
04-12-12
11.00 a.m.
Adjoint Variational Principles for Regularized Conservative Systems
A. Thyagaraja
Bristol University.
04-12-12
11:30 a.m.
Orbits of tuples and subgroups in abelian groups(Abstract)
Amritanshu Prasad
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.
06-11-12
2.00 p.m.
Constructing Holography for Flat Spacetimes(Abstract)
Arjun Bagchi
U. Edinburgh.
01-11-12
November 1, 6 & 8
3:30 p.m.
Overview of Physics (Lecture Series)(Abstract)
G Rajasekaran
Chennai Mathematical Institute and Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.
25-10-12
3:45 p.m.
Global Optimization Techniques in Solving Practical Engineering Problems(Abstract)
Dr V K Viswanathan
Retired Scientist, NASA and Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S.A.
24-10-12
3:30 p.m.
Harmonic Tension(Abstract)
Prof David Claman
25-10-12
2.00 p.m.
Dynamics of Fundamental Flavours and Holographic Duals of Large N Gauge Theories(Abstract)
Arnab Kundu
U. Texas, Austin.
17-10-12
3.45 p.m.
Where did Rock Music come from?(Abstract)
David Claman
15-10-12
3.30 p.m.
Higher Chow cycles on Abelian surfaces(Abstract)
Ramesh Sreekantan
ISI Bangalore.
10-10-12
3.00 p.m.
Convex cocompact subgroups of Mapping Class Groups(Abstract)
Abhijit Pal
Chennai Mathematical Institute.
27-09-12
3.00 p.m.
K. Madhava Sarma Memorial Distinguished Lecture:
Cryptology, Statistics & Combinatorics(Abstract)
Bimal Roy
Director, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
27-09-12
2.00 p.m.
Greedy Matchings(Abstract)
Kavitha Telikepalli
TIFR, Mumbai.
26-09-12
2.00 p.m.
Small Stretch Pairwise Spanners(Abstract)
Kavitha Telikepalli
TIFR, Mumbai.
13-09-12
2.00 p.m.
Life at the Edge: Novel Bound States on Manifolds with Boundary(Abstract)
T.R. Govindarajan
Chennai Mathematical Institute.
05-09-12
3.30 p.m
Minimization of Tree Transducers(Abstract)
Helmut Seidl
Technical University of Munich, Germany.
31-08-12
3.30 p.m
Wildlife conservation in India(Abstract)
Shekar Dattatri
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12-09-12
3.45 p.m.
Readings(Abstract)
K Srilata
IIT Madras and Chennai Mathematical Institute.
11-09-12
2.00 p.m.
Correctness of Closed Nesting in Software Transactional Memory Systems(Abstract)
Sathya Peri
IIT Patna.
28-08-12
3.30 p.m.
When are Gorenstein ideals determinantal?
Hema Srinivasan
University of Missouri, U.S.A.
22-08-12
3.30 p.m.
An Exact Expression for a Flat Connection on the Complement of a Trefoil Knot(Abstract)
V.V. Sreedhar
Chennai Mathematical Institute.
16-08-12
2.00 p.m.
Standard Model, Higgs boson and what next?(Abstract)
G. Rajasekaran
Chennai Mathematical Institute and Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.
13-08-12
3.30 p.m.
Ball separation properties in Banach spaces(Abstract)
Sudeshna Basu
George Washington Univeristy, U.S.A.
13-08-12
2.00 p.m.
Going to Hell or Being Low-Born?: An Inter-Disciplinary Analysis of the origin of Untouchability in South India(Abstract)
S Palaniappan
South Asia Research and Information Institute.
08-08-12
3.30 p.m.
Splitting ramification of Brauer classes on arithmetic surfaces(Abstract)
R. Parimala
Emory University, U.S.A.
07-08-12
3.30 p.m.
Supersymmetry, shape invariance and the Legendre equations(Abstract)
Ashok Das
University of Rochester, U.S.A.
27-06-12
2.00 p.m.
On Weyl's character formula(Abstract)
Arpan Dutta
Chennai Mathematical Institute.
08-06-12
Part 1 : Friday, 8 June, 2.00 p.m.
Part 2 : Monday, 11 June, 2.00 p.m.
A functorial approach to construction of moduli of sheaves(Abstract)
Umesh Dubey
Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad.
08-06-12
3:30 p.m.
Automorphism groups of Codes associated to the Grassmannian and its Schubert divisor(Abstract)
Krishna V. Kaipa
IIT, Mumbai.
25-04-12
3:30 p.m.
Mod p reduction of certain p-adic Galois representations(Abstract)
Abhik Ganguli
18-04-12
3:30 p.m.
Liouvillian extensions and the Galois theory of linear differential equations(Abstract)
Varadharaj Srinivasan
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20-04-12
3.30 p.m.
Introduction to topological rigidity(Abstract)
Tom Farrell
Binghamton University.
10-04-12
3.30 p.m.
Automated verification of cryptographic protocols(Abstract)
Rohit Chadha
INRIA and LSV, ENS Cachan, France.
05-04-12
2.00 p.m.
Gravity and Yang-Mills theory(Abstract)
Sudarshan Ananth
IISER, Pune.
04-04-12
3.30 p.m.
The trouble with gravity(Abstract)
Sudarshan Ananth
IISER, Pune.
28-03-12
3.30 p.m.
Is there a science behind opinion polls?(Abstract)
Rajeeva L. Karandikar
Chennai Mathematical Institute.
20-03-12
3.30 p.m.
Sections of families of hypersurfaces of large degree(Abstract)
Christophe Mourougane
University of Rennes, France.
16-03-12
2.00 p.m.
Prime ideals in Noetherian rings(Abstract)
Sylvia Wiegand
University of Nebraska.
13-03-12
10:30 a.m.
Self-healing distributed networks and data structures: Forgiving Graph and Xheal(Abstract)
Amitabh Trehan
Industrial Engineering at Technion, Haifa, Israel.
06-03-12
3.30 p.m.
Symmetry Breaking in Local Model Building(Abstract)
Anshuman Maharana
Cambridge, U.K.
06-03-12
10:30 a.m.
Pricing vs Auctions(Abstract)
Tanmoy Chakraborty
Harvard University.
05-03-12
3:30 p.m.
Introduction to Mechanism Design(Abstract)
Tanmoy Chakraborty
Harvard University.
28-02-12
2.00 p.m.
Atom Interferometry and Gravitational Redshift
J. Samuel
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore.
23-02-12
3.45 p.m.
Analysis of Recursively Parallel Programs(Abstract)
Ahmed Bouajjaini
LIAFA, Univ. of Paris 7, France.
24-02-12
2.00 p.m.
The off-shell 4D/5D connection(Abstract)
Nabamita Banerjee
Utrecht, the Netherlands.
22-02-12
2.00 p.m.
e-Valuate: A Two-player Game on Arithmetic Expressions(Abstract)
Sarang Aravamuthan
Tata Consultancy Services.
22-02-12
2.00 p.m.
Almost contact 5-folds are contact(Abstract)
Francisco Presas Mata
ICMAT, Madrid, Spain.
16-02-12
11.00 a.m.
Compatibility of Data-Centric Web Services(Abstract)
Loic Helouet
IRISA, Rennes.
15-02-12
(Abstract)
K. Lakshmanan Memorial Distinguished Lecture: Complete Intersections - N. Mohan Kumar, Washington University, St Louis, U.S.A. (2.00-3.00 p.m.)
R.K. Rubugunday Distinguished Lecture: An invitation to free probability - Prof. V.S. Sunder, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai (3.30-4.30 p.m.)
Endowment Lectures at Chennai Mathematical Institute.
06-02-12
Quadratic algebras, combinatorial physics and planar automata(Abstract)
Xavier Viennot
LaBRI, Universite Bordeaux.
06-02-12
Schedule is available at: http://www.cmi.ac.in/~mkummini/research_talks_2011_12/feb2012.html
Series of talks
6-13 February 2012.
31-01-12
3.30 p.m.
Series of lectures on Tuesdays and Thursdays for four weeks
Small rank vector bundles on projective spaces(Abstract)
Mohan Kumar
Washington University, St Louis.
31-01-12
2.00 p.m.
Introduction to Langlands' functoriality principle
Laurent Lafforgue
IHES, Paris.
30-01-12
3.30 p.m.
Introduction to the Langlands' programme as related to arithmetic algebraic geometry
Laurent Lafforgue
IHES, Paris.
19-01-12
2.00 p.m.
The topology of Hamiltonian Loop Group spaces(Abstract)
Jonathan Weitsman
Northeastern University, U.S.A.
18-01-12
2.00 p.m.
The geometry of the intersection ring of the moduli space of flat connections and the conjectures of Newstead and Witten(Abstract)
Jonathan Weitsman
Northeastern University, U.S.A.
19-01-12
12.00 noon
Temporal Logics for Concurrent Recursive Programs: Satisfiability and Model Checking(Abstract)
Aiswarya Cyriac
LSV, ENS Cachan, France.
17-01-12, 19-01-12, 20-01-12
3.30 p.m., 3.30 p.m., 2.00 p.m.
Automata and Logics for Data Languages(Abstract)
Amaldev Manuel
13-01-12, 18-01-12
3.30-5 p.m.
Counting rational points on varieties, and applications(Abstract)
Y. Bilu
University of Bordeaux 1, France.
12-01-12
3.30 pm -- 5 pm.
What is hyperbolic geometry?
Mahan Mj
Ramakrishna-Vivekananda University, Kolkata.
12-01-12
12.00 hrs.
On the hardness of pricing Loss Leaders(Abstract)
Preyas Popat
New York University, U.S.A.
11-01-12
12.00 hrs.
Hardness of approximation and Unique games conjecture(Abstract)
Preyas Popat
New York University, U.S.A.
10-01-12, 12-01-12, 13-01-12
3.30 p.m., 3.30 p.m., 2.00 p.m.
The applications of Green's relations in the Algebraic Theory of Automata(Abstract)
Pascal Weil
LaBRI, CNRS and Univ of Bordeaux, Talence, France.
04-01-12
3.30 p.m.
Milnor-Wood inequalities and rigidity
Oscar Garcia Prada
ICMAT, Madrid, Spain.
02-01-12
12.00 noon
Chiral field theories (vertex algebras) and function theory
T.R. Ramadas
ICTP, Italy.