Date & Time: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, at 11.30 a.m.

Venue: Ramanujan Hall

Title: Algebraic Geometry and Analysis

Speaker: Prof. M.S. NARASIMHAN, IISc and TIFR, Bangalore

Abstract:The talk will be concerned with applications of Analysis (both real and compex) to Algebraic Geometry, starting at least with the work of Riemann.Some more recent applications to the following topics will be discussed: topology of algebraic manifolds, deformations of complex structures, vanishing theorems and invariance of plurigenera