Fall 2016 Colloquia Posters
Nov 02,
16:00-17:00 		K.-I. Watanabe,
Nihon University, Japan		 Core of certain integrally closed ideals in a 2-dimensional local ring and a new characterization of rational singularities
Oct 13,
16:00-17:00 		Victoria Hoskins,
Freie University Berlin		 Stratifications in moduli theory
October 05,
16:00-17:00 		Tony Puthenpurakal,
IIT Bombay, 		Brauer-Thrall Conjectures and Commutative Algebra
August 31,
16:00-17:00 		Parthanil Roy,
Indian Statistical Institute		 Extreme value theory for stable random fields indexed by finitely generated free groups
August 17,
16:00-17:00 		Bruce Hajek,
University of Urbana-Champaigne		 Bounds Implied by Drift and Applications
July 28,
16:00-17:00 		R. V. Gurjar,
Iowa State University		 Glivenko Cantelli theorems
July 21,
16:00-17:00 		R. V. Gurjar,
IIT Bombay		 Reductive Group Actions on Affine and Local Rings
July 13,
16:00-17:00 		Avinash Sathaye,
Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington		 Sub-principle Planes
July 05,
16:00-17:00 		Markus Brodmann,
Institut für Mathematik, Universität Zürich 		Bounding cohomology of coherent sheaves over projective schemes
Spring 2016 Colloquia Posters
May 11,
16:00-17:00 		Maneesh Thankur,
Stat-Math Unit, ISI Delhi		 R-triviality of some (exceptional) algebraic groups
April 27,
16:00-17:00 		Souvik Goswami,
School of Mathematics, TIFR Mumbai		 Algebraic cycles
April 21,
11:30-12:30 		Omprokash Das,
School of Mathematics, TIFR Mumbai		 Mori Program or Minimal Model Program (MMP) in Higher Dimension.
April 13,
16:00-17:00 		Jon Aronson,
Tel Aviv University		 Distributional limits of positive, ergodic stationary processes and infinite ergodic transformations
April 06,
16:00-17:00 		Dipendra Prasad,
School of Mathematics, TIFR Mumbai		 Arithmetically equivalent number fields, and its refinement
March 30,
14:15-15:15 		Jaydeb Sarkar,
Stat-Math Unit, ISI Bangalore		 Module Approach to Operator Theory.
March 23,
16:00-17:00 		N.S.N. Sastry,
Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore		 Ovoids in projective 3-space
March 16,
16:00-17:00 		Jasbir S Chahal,
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah		 Two applications of the arithmetic of elliptic curves
March 09,
16:00-17:00 		M.S. Raghunathan,
IIT Bombay		 Morphisms of affine curves into homogeneous spaces
March 02,
16:00-17:00 		T.E.S Raghavan,
University of Illinois at Chicago		 Perron-Frobenius Theorem and a theorem of M.G. Krein on Positive Operators via Game Theory
February 24,
14:30-15:30 		Nitin Nitsure,
TIFR, Mumbai		 The Narasimhan-Seshadri Theorem revisited
February 24,
11:30-12:30 		C.S. Dalawat,
HRI		 Tame ramification and group cohomology
February 22,
11:30-12:30 		Manjunath Krishnapur,
IISc, Bangalore		 Zeros of random analytic functions
February 17,
16:00-17:00 		Martin Kreuzer,
Univ. of Passau, Germany		 Linear Algebra 1.5
February 3,
16:00-17:00 		Bhalchandra Thatte,
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil		 The maximum agreement subtree problem
January 27,
16:00-17:00 		Peter Beelen,
Technical University of Denmark		 Affine Grassmann codes
January 20,
16:00-17:00 		Sudhir Kulkarni,
IIT Madras		 The Nullity Theorem, its Generalization and Applications
January 13,
16:00-17:00 		Manas Rachh,
Yale University		 Quadrature by Expansion
January 6,
16:00-17:00 		M. Ram Murty,
Queens University		 New directions in Sieve Theory
Fall 2015 Colloquia Posters
November 18
15:00-16:00 		T N Venkataramana,
TIFR Mumbai		 Monodromy of certain cyclic covers of the projective line
November 4
16:00-17:00 		Indranil Biswas,
TIFR Mumbai		 A construction of a universal connection
October 28
15:00-16:00 		K. V. Subrahmanyam,
CMI Chennai		 Invariants of several matrices under SL(n) \times SL(n)-action
October 14
16:00-17:00 		Sandeep Juneja,
TIFR Mumbai		 Large deviations, selecting the best population and multi-armed bandit methods
October 7,
16:00-17:00 		Radhika Ganapathy,
TIFR Mumbai		 Applications of the Deligne-Kazhdan philosophy to the Langlands correspondence for split classical groups
September 30,
16:00-17:00 		M. Vanninathan,
TIFR CAM, Bangalore		 The G-closure Problem
September 23,
16:00-17:00 		Pralay Chatterjee,
IMSc Chennai		 Abstract homomorphisms of linear algebraic groups
September 16,
16:00-17:00 		Ritwik Mukherjee,
TIFR Mumbai		 Enumerative Geometry of rational cuspidal curves on del-Pezzo surfaces
September 9,
16:00-17:00 		Rahul Roy,
ISI Delhi		 The Brownian web
September 2,
16:00-17:00 		Sivaguru Ravisankar,
TIFR Mumbai		 Boundary Geometry and Function Theory in $\mathbb{C}^n$
August 26,
16:00-17:00 		R. Parimala,
Emory University		 Local-global principles for homogeneous spaces over function fields of p-adic curves
August 19,
16:00-17:00 		Krishna B. Athreya,
Iowa State University		 Asymptotics of sums of powers of binomial coefficients
August 12,
16:00-17:00 		Anand Sawant,
Ludwig Maximilians Universität		 Rationality questions for algebraic groups and homotopy theory of algebraic varieties
August 5,
16:00-17:00 		Abhijit Champanerkar,
College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY		 Density spectra for knots
July 29,
16:00-17:00 		Jayadev Athreya,
University of Illinois		 The Erdos-Szusz-Turan distribution for equivariant point processes
July 1,
16:00-17:00 		M. Ram Murty,
Queens University		 Consecutive squarefull numbers
Spring 2015 Colloquia Posters
April 15,
16:00-17:00 		C. S. Rajan,
TIFR Mumbai		 Groups via Conjugacy Classes
April 01,
15:00-16:00 		A. Raghuram,
IISER Pune		 Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups
March 25,
14:30-15:30 		R. Sridharan,
CMI		 Otto Hölder - A Multifaceted Mathematician
March 18,
15:00-16:00 		Murali Srinivasan,
IIT Bombay		 Counting Using Commutation Relations
March 04,
15:00-16:00 		Vidar Thomée,
Chalmers University of Technology		 On Positivity Preservation in Finite Element Methods for the Heat Equation
February 25,
16:00-17:00 		Carsten Carstensen,
Humboldt University		 Axioms of Adaptivity
February 18,
16:00-17:00 		V. Kumar Murty,
University of Toronto		 Rational Points on Elliptic Curves
February 11,
16:00-17:00 		Shilpa Gondhali,
University of Haifa		 Modular Class of a Lie algebroid with a Nambu Structure
February 04,
16:00-17:00 		Krishna Athreya,
Iowa State University		 Estimation of an integral on R using Brownian Motion and its local times
January 29,
17:15-18:30 		Nitin Nitsure,
TIFR Mumbai		 Euclidean Geometry, Analysis and Physics
January 28,
16:00-17:00 		Mario Ahues,
Université Jean Monnet		 On Condition Numbers of Bases
January 21,
16:00-17:00 		Peter Beelen,
Technical University of Denmark		 Curves with many rational points: the latest on Ihara's constant
January 14,
16:00-17:00 		Manoj Gopalkrishnan,
TIFR Mumbai		 The Geometry of Reaction Networks
January 07,
16:00-17:00 		S. M. Srivastava,
ISI Kolkota		 Ultraproduct of models and an application to algebra
December 31,
16:00-17:00 		Mahan Mj,
RKM Vivekananda University		 3-manifolds and (quasi) projective varieties
Fall 2014 Colloquia Posters
November 26,
17:15-18:30		Michel Waldschmidt,
Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu		 Multiple Zeta Values: a Survey
November 19,
16:00-17:00 		Alex Gorodnik,
University of Bristol		 Diophantine approximation by orbits
November 12,
16:00-17:00 		Patrice Philippon,
Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu		 Algebraic independence theory, an overview
November 05,
16:00-17:00 		Sarang Sane,
IIT Madras		 On an equivalence of derived categories
October 29,
16:00-17:00 		Nutan Limaye,
IIT Bombay		 Proof complexity and proof systems
October 07,
16:00-17:00 		Madhu Sudan,
MSR-NE		 Limits of local algorithms over sparse random graphs
October 01,
16:00-17:00 		Ritabrata Munshi,
TIFR Mumbai		 Counting rational points on intersection of two quadrics
September 24,
16:00-17:00 		Muthu Krishnamurthy,
University of Iowa		 Converse Theorems
September 17,
16:00-17:00 		Baskar Balasubramanyam,
IISER Pune		 Special values of adjoint L-functions and congruences between automorphic forms
September 10,
16:00-17:00 		Samik Basu,
RKM Vivekananda University		 Homotopy Groups and Closed Geodesics on 4-manifolds
September 03,
16:00-17:00 		Ramesh K,
IIT Bombay		 Smooth Structures on Hyperbolic Manifolds
August 27,
16:00-17:00 		Gugan Thoppe,
TIFR Mumbai		 Topology of a Randomly Evolving Erdos Renyi Graph
August 20,
16:00-17:00 		Tony Puthenpurakal,
IIT Bombay		 Cohen-Macaulay rings of finite representation type
August 13,
16:00-17:00 		M. Ram Murty,
Queens University		 Ramanujan expansions and twin primes
August 06,
16:00-17:00 		Krishna B. Athreya,
Iowa State University		 Regenerative sequence Monte Carlo methods for improper target distributions
July 30,
16:00-17:00 		Dinesh Thakur,
University of Rochester		 Congruences, Derivatives and Euler constant
July 23,
16:30-17:30 		Vamsi Pingali,
Johns Hopkins University		 Computing Teichmüller maps between polygons
July 04,
16:00-17:00 		Hyman Bass,
University of Michigan		 Fewest Pieces of Cake, and Isoperimetric Square Tilings of Rectangles
Spring 2014 Colloquia Posters
April 17,
16:00-17:00 		S. G. Dani,
IIT Bombay		 Introducing Ya. G. Sinai
April 16,
17:05-18:05		Roger Wiegand,
University of Nebraska		 Non-uniqueness of direct-sum decompositions
April 09,
16:00-17:00		S. Ramanan,
Chennai Mathematical Institute		 Quadric Geometry and Vector Bundles on Curves
April 02,
16:00-17:00		Satadal Ganguly,
ISI Kolkota		 Oscillations in Arithmetic Sequences
March 26,
16:00-17:00		Nikhil Srivastava,
Microsoft Research		 The Solution of the Kadison-Singer Problem
March 19,
16:00-17:00		Graeme Fairweather,
Colorado School of Mines		 Alternating Direction Implicit Orthogonal Spline Collocation Methods for Time-Dependent Problems
March 12,
16:00-17:00		S. M. Bhatwadekar,
Bhaskaracharya Pratishthana		 Projective modules over the kernel of a locally nilpotent derivation on an affine space
March 05,
16:00-17:00		A. Raghuram,
IISER Pune		 From Calculus to Number Theory
February 26,
16:00-17:00		M. S. Raghunathan,
IIT Bombay		 Imbedding Harish-Chandra Modules in Principal Series
February 19,
16:00-17:00		E. K. Narayanan,
IISc Bangalore		 Bounded hypergeometric functions associated to root systems
February 13,
16:00-17:00 		Ravi Ramakrishna,
Cornell University		 Galois Representations
February 05,
16:00-17:00 		Krishna B. Athreya,
Iowa State University		 Statistical estimation of integrals w.r.t. infinite measures
January 29,
16:00-17:00 		Anish Ghosh,
TIFR Mumbai		 Effective Density of Lattice Orbits
January 15,
16:00-17:00 		N. Saradha,
TIFR Mumbai		 Number of representations of integers by binary forms
January 08,
17:15-18:30 		M. Ram Murty,
Queen's University		 Ramanujan and the Zeta Function
Fall 2013 Colloquia Posters
December 04,
16:00-17:00 		Athanase Papadopoulos,
Université de Strasbourg		 Mapping Class Groups of Surfaces
November 27,
16:00-17:00 		Yakov Eliashberg,
Stanford University		 From Holonomic Approximation to Convex Integration: Introduction to the h-Principle
November 21,
16:00-17:00 		M. Ram Murty,
Queen's University		 Special values of L-functions
November 20,
16:00-17:00 		S. G. Dani,
IIT Bombay		 Primitive Solutions for Khintchine-Groshev Type Metric Diophantine Problems
November 19,
16:00-17:00 		Régis Marchiano,
Université Pierre et Marie Curie		 Singular Nonlinear Acoustics
November 13,
16:00-17:00 		Eknath Ghate,
TIFR Mumbai		 Reductions of Galois Representations via the mod p LLC
September 09,
15:30-16:30 		Anandaswarup Gadde,
University of Melbourne		 Decompositions of groups and 3-manifolds
August 12,
14:30-15:30 		Devadatta Kulkarni,
General Motors, USA 		My journey with determinants: discriminating and counting
July 31,
15:30-16:30 		R. Parimala,
Emory University		 Quadratic forms and Galois cohomology
July 22,
15:00-16:00 		Vasudeva Murthy,
TIFR Bangalore		 Dispersion and dissipation with the Hilbert transform: a tale of numerics and analytics
Spring 2013
June 18,
11:00-12:00 		M. Ram Murty,
Queen's University		 The twin prime problem (after Yitang Zhang)
April 19,
17:30-18:30 		V. S. Sunder,
IMSc Chennai 		Continuous versions of eigenvalue inequalities
March 11,
17:00-18:00 		Ulrich Pinkall,
Technische Universität Berlin 		Decomposing smoke into smoke rings
March 08,
16:00-17:00 		Ulrich Pinkall,
Technische Universität Berlin 		Navigating the space of surfaces
March 06,
16:00-17:00 		Bill Casselman,
University of British Columbia		 Polish enigma
February 27,
16:00-17:00 		Shanta Laishram,
ISI Delhi 		Irreducibility of generalized Hermite-Laguerre Polynomials
February 19,
17:15-18:15 		Xavier G Viennot,
University of Bordeaux 		Trees in various sciences
February 13,
16:00-17:00 		Frits Beukers,
Universiteit Utrecht 		The art of irrationality proving
January 15,
15:00-16:00 		Andrej Dujella,
University of Zagreb 		Diophantine m-tuples and generalisations
Fall 2012
December 04,
16:00-17:00 		M. Ram Murty,
Queens University		 Automorphy and the Sato-Tate conjecture
July 04,
16:00-17:00 		David Gabai,
Princeton University 		Recent results in 3-manifold theory
Spring 2012
April 27,
11:00-12:00 		Maneesh Thakur,
ISI Delhi 		Genus number of algebraic groups
April 02,
16:00-17:00 		Prachi Mahajan,
IIT Bombay 		Some aspects of the Kobayashi and Caratheodory metrics on pseudoconvex domains in Cn
February 01,
15:30-17:00 		Vidar Thomee,
Chalmers Univ. of Technology		 On the lumped mass finite element method for parabolic problems
January 12,
15:30-17:00 		Neela Nataraj,
IIT Bombay 		A posteriori error estimation in finite element analysis
January 11,
15:30-17:00 		M. Ram Murty,
Queen's University 		The partition function revisited
January 02,
15:30-17:00 		S. S. Abhyankar,
Purdue University 		Curvetts and the Jacobian Problem
Fall 2011
November 28,
16:00-17:00 		Upendra Kulkarni,
Chennai Mathematics Institute 		Representations of the general linear and symmetric groups
November 09,
16:00-17:00 		Alexei Stepanov,
UIUC		 Multiple relative commutator formula
November 02,
16:00-17:00 		Manoj Kummini,
Chennai Mathematical Institute 		Vector bundles on projective spaces and modules over polynomial rings
October 24,
17:00-18:00 		M. K. Srinivasan,
IIT Bombay 		Explicit block diagonalization
September 14,
16:30-17:30 		Ravi Raghunathan,
IIT Bombay 		Subconvexity and quantum unique ergodicity
August 30,
16:30-17:30 		Kartik Prasanna,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 		Algebraic cycles and p-adic L-functions
August 17,
15:30-16:30 		Jayant Deshpande,
IIT Bombay 		Probability distributions for load sharing systems
Spring 2011
March 29,
11:30-12:30 		M. S. Narasimhan,
IISc Bangalore 		Algebraic geometry and analysis
March 10,
15:00-17:00. 		Boris Apanasov,
University of Oklahoma, Norman 		Real and complex hyperbolic geometry
January 28,
11:30-12:30 		Rajeeva Karandikar,
Chennai Mathematical Institute 		Markov chains with periodic transition probabilities
January 28
3:45-4:45 p.m 		Navin Singhi,
TIFR Mumbai 		Mathematics used in daily life
January 14
4:00-5:00 p.m 		Peter Beelen,
Technical University of Denmark 		An introduction to towers of function fields
Fall 2010
September 8,
15:30-16:30 		Alok Maharana,
TIFR Mumbai 		Cyclic multiple planes
August 17,
15:00-17:00 		Thomas Farrell,
University of Binghamton		 Exotic spheres and moduli of negative curvature Riemannian metrics on smooth manifolds.
August 11,
16:00-17:00 		Anish Ghosh,
University of East Anglia 		Spectral gap in ergodic theory and number theory
July 21,
16:00-17:00 		Sinnou David,
Université Pierre et Marie Curie		 On Lehmer's problem
July 13,
16:00-17:00 		Manoj Kummini,
Purdue University 		Arithmetic rank of ideals
Spring 2010
May 19
16:30-17:30 		M. S. Raghunathan,
TIFR Mumbai 		Construction of hyperbolic groups
April 21
16:00-17:00 		B.Sundar Rajan,
IISc Bangalore 		Algebraic space-time codes
April 07
16:00-17:00 		Jaydeep Chipalkatti,
University of Manitoba 		Three thousand two hundred and sixty four
February 11
16:00-17:00 		Amin Sofi,
University of Kashmir 		Nuclearity and Hilbert spaces
January 18,
17:00-18:00 		Rituparna Sen,
UC Davis 		Option pricing and hedging in the incomplete market
Fall 2009
November 23,
17:15-18:30 		Rolf Jeltsch,
ETH Zurich 		Leonhard Euler - his Life, personality, discoveries and their impact today
November 23,
11:30-12:30 		Rolf Jeltsch,
ETH Zurich 		CSE - 3rd approach and a new curriculum
October 21,
17:15-18:15 		M. Ram Murty,
Queen's University		 Summation of infinite series
October 20,
16:00-17:00 		M. Ram Murty,
Queen's University		 Special values of L-series
August 26,
16:00-17:00 		Chintapalli Sobhan Babu,
IIT Bombay		 Subdivisions of graphs: a generalization of paths and cycles
August 05,
16:00-17:00 		Manjul Bhargava,
Princeton University		 Class groups of number fields and the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics
Spring 2009
April 01,
16:00-17:00 		Harish Seshadri,
IISc Bangalore		 Ricci flow and sphere theorems
March 18,
14:30-15:30 		D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri,
Ohio State University		 Some thoughts on t-(v,k, λ) design and two prize problems
March 04,
16:00-17:00 		Jaideep Mulherkar,
University of California Davis		 Implementing quantum gates using the Heisenberg ferromagnetic quantum spin chain
February 11,
16:00-17:00 		S. R. S. Varadhan,
Courant Institute		 Scaling limit of large systems
February 11,
14:30-15:30 		S. R. S. Varadhan,
Courant Institute		 Homogenization
February 04,
16:00-17:00 		Henri Darmon,
McGill University		 Rational points on elliptic curves and cycles on modular varieties
February 04,
14:30-15:30 		Anthony Bak,
Universität Bielefeld 		A historical review of the development of the structure of the general linear group over commutative rings and its impact on mathematics in general
January 28,
15:00-16:00 		Hira L. Koul,
Michigan State University		 Model diagnostics via martingale transforms
January 21,
15:00-16:00 		Abhijnan Rej,
IIT Bombay		 Motivic geometry of Feynman amplitudes
January 14,
16:00-17:00 		Manjul Bhargava,
Princeton University		 Integer-valued polynomials and p-adic analysis
January 07,
16:00-17:00 		Anish Ghosh,
University of East Anglia		 Diophantine approximation on varieties
Fall 2008
December 03,
11:00-12:00 		Gennady Lyubeznik,
University of Minnesota		 Étale cohomology and topology of projective algebraic sets
December 01,
16:30-17:30 		Ravindra B. Bapat,
ISI New Delhi		 Sperner's lemma and bandwidth
November 26,
16:00-17:00 		Jaume Amorós,
UPC-Barcelona		 From the Calabi conjectures to the automorphism groups of complex manifolds
November 12,
16:00-17:00 		Harish Pillai,
IIT Bombay		 A look at the weight hierarchy of Grassmann codes and allied problems
October 15,
16:00-17:00 		Eric Wambach,
IIT Bombay		 Distinguished representations and geometry
October 08,
16:00-17:00 		Tobias Schmidt,
University of Münster		 Analytic character spaces and p-adic representations
September 19,
17:00-18:30 		Amartya K. Dutta,
ISI Kolkata		 History of ancient Indian mathematics: some thoughts
September 17,
16:30-17:30 		John Coates,
Cambridge University		 Number theory, ancient and modern
September 17,
15:00-16:00 		R. Alexandre,
Universit'e d'Evry Val d'Essonne		 Kinetic equations - short review
September 10,
17:00-18:00 		Kishore B. Marathe,
City University of New York		 Physical mathematics
August 20,
16:00-17:00 		Daniel Moskovich,
TIFR Mumbai		 Surgery Presentations of Coloured Knots and of their Covering Links
August 06,
16:00-17:00 		Manjul Bhargava,
Princeton University		 Sums of squares and the "290-Theorem"
July 30,
16:00-17:00 		Ravi. P. Rau,
Louisiana State University		 Possible links between physics problems in quantum computing and fibre bundles, projective geometry and coding/design theory
July 23,
16:00-17:00 		Nitu Kitchloo,
UC San Diego 		Topology of Kac-Moody groups