Chennai Mathematical Institute
Seminars




Forthcoming Seminars
  • 16-01-26
    Seminar Announcement
    Date: Friday, 16 January 2026
    Time: 11.45 a.m
    Venue: Lecture Hall 1
    A new characterization of VNP via Colored Determinant
    Prasad Chaugule
    IIT Delhi.

  • 16-01-26
    Seminar Announcement
    Date: Friday, 16 January 2026
    Time: 11.45 a.m.
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Class groups of Kummer extensions associated to CM Elliptic curves
    Arindam Bhattacharya
    University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

  • 16-01-26
    Lecture series announcement
    The dates of his lectures are:
    Lectures 1 and 2 will be on January 16 at 3:30 p.m. Both talks will be 45 minutes long, with a short break.
    Lectures 3 and 4 will be on January 27 and 29 from 3:30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
    Lectures 5 and 6 will be on February 2 and 3 from 3:30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
    Venue: Seminar Hall, CMI (hybrid mode)
    Actions of finite group schemes
    Michel Brion
    Institut Fourier at the UniversitE Grenoble Alpes, France.

  • 16-01-26
    Data Science Seminar
    Date: Friday, 16 January 2026
    Time: 2:00 p.m.
    Venue: NKN Hall
    Small Language Models: Design, Fine-Tuning and Deployment
    Sudhir Kumar
    Coriolis Technologies.

  • 27-01-26
    Lecture series announcement
    Dates: 27, 28, 30 January and 2 & 4 February 2026
    Time: 3.45 to 4.45 PM
    Venue: NKN Hall (hybrid mode)
    Mock modularity of Calabi-Yau threefolds and BPS black holes
    Sergey Alexandrov
    Laboratoire Charles Coulomb and University of Montpellier, CNRS, France.

  • 28-01-26
    Seminar Announcement
    Date: Wednesday, 28 January 2026
    Time: 3.30 to 4.30 p.m.
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Some early Ramsey type theorems and some applications
    S. D. Adhikari
    RKMVERI.

Past Seminars (this year)
  • 13-01-26
    Seminar Announcement
    Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2026
    Time: 12:00 p.m
    Venue: Lecture Hall 4
    On the relative power of reduction notions in different characteristics
    Prasad Chaugule
    IIT Delhi.

  • 13-01-26
    Physics Seminar
    Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2026
    Time: 3:45 p.m.
    Venue: Lecture Hall 6
    Mock Modular forms and Vafa Witten Theory
    Aradhita Chattopadhyaya
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 12-01-26
    Physics Seminar
    Date: Monday, 12 January 2026
    Time: 3:45 p.m.
    Venue: Lecture Hall 6
    Mock Modular forms and Vafa Witten Theory
    Aradhita Chattopadhyaya
    Chennai Mathematical Institute.

  • 12-01-26
    Physics Seminar
    Date: Monday, 12 January 2026
    Venue: Lecture Hall 6
    Time: 11.00 am to 1.00 p.m.
    Boundary Energy-Momentum Tensors for Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes
    Vijay Nenmeli
    University of Edinburgh.

  • 09-01-26
    Computer Science Seminar
    Date: Friday, 9 January 2026
    Time: 2.00 - 3.15 p.m.
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    The complexity of the factors of polynomials
    Somnath Bhattacharjee
    University of Toronto.

  • 07-01-26
    Lecture Announcement
    Date: Wednesday, 7 January 2026
    Time: 4:00 pm - 4:30 p.m.
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    A Torelli type theorem for elliptic curves
    Tomasz Szemberg
    University of the National Education Commission, Krakow, Poland.

  • 07-01-26
    Lecture Announcement
    Date: Wednesday, 7 January 2026
    Time: 3:30 - 4:00 p.m.
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Configurations of points in projective space and their projections
    Justyna Szpond
    University of the National Education Commission, Krakow, Poland.

  • 06-01-26
    Seminar Announcement
    Date: Tuesday, 6 January 2026
    Time: 2.00 to 3.30 p.m.
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Redundancy is all you need (for CSP sparsification)
    Venkatesan Guruswami
    UC Berkeley and Simons Institute.

  • 05-01-26
    Seminar Announcement
    Date: Monday, 5 January 2026
    Time: 2.00 to 3.30 p.m.
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    Optimal Proximity Gaps for Subspace-Design Codes and (Random) Reed-Solomon Code\ s
    Rohan Goyal
    MIT.

  • 05-01-26
    Mathematics Seminar
    Date: Monday, 5 January 2026
    Time: 3.30 to 4.30 p.m.
    Venue: Seminar Hall
    The inverse system of Gorenstein points
    Maria Evelina Rossi
    University of Genoa.