Algebraic Groups seminar
Tuesday, 1 August 2023, 4 pm
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Venue: Room 114
Host: Shripad Garge
Speaker: Dibyendu Biswas
Affiliation: IIT Bombay
Title: Commutative unipotent groups - II
Abstract: We continue our study of additive functions to understand commutative unipotent groups.
Mathematics Colloquium
Wednesday, 2 August at 4 pm
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Host: UK Anandavardhanan
Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Speaker: V Srinivas
Affiliation: IIT Bombay
Title: What is the Hodge Conjecture?
Abstract: The Hodge Conjecture is one of the famous unsolved problems in algebraic geometry over the complex number field. This talk will give an accessible introduction to this problem, meant for the non-expert. In the end, I will briefly discuss some related work of mine with A. Rosenschon.
Topology and Related Topics Seminar
Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 2.30 -3:45 pm
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Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Host: Rekha Santhanam
Speaker: Priyanka Magar
Affiliation: IIT Bombay
Title: Essential Categorical Terms for Stable Homotopy Theory
Abstract: In this talk, we will explore fundamental categorical terms necessary for understanding the stable homotopy theory. We'll begin by explaining the concept of a model category and its implications. Subsequently, we'll cover key terms like homotopy category and Quillen adjunction functors, etc
Commutative Algebra Seminar
Tuesday, August 8, 2023, 3:30 pm
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Venue: Room 215
Host: Tony Puthenpurakal
Speaker: Tony Puthenpurakal
Affiliation: IIT Bombay
Title: Triangulated and Derived Categories I
Abstract: We give an introduction to Triangulated categories.
Seminar on Optimal Transport
Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 03.45 pm
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Venue: Room 113, Department of Mathematics
Host: Harsha Hutridurga
Speaker: Saumyajit Das
Affiliation: IIT Bombay
Title: Introduction to Optimal Transport
Algebraic Groups seminar Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 4 pm ====================== Venue: Ramanujan Hall Host: Shripad Garge Speaker: Chayan Karmakar Affiliation: IIT Bombay Title: Derivations and Tangent Spaces - I Abstract: We begin the study of derivations with the aim of introducing Lie algebras for algebraic groups.
Lecture series in algebraic geometry Introduction to Hodge Theory --------------------------------------------- Wednesday, 9 August, 11.30--1.00 Thursday, 10 August, 11.30-1.00 ---------------------------------------------- Venue: Ramanujan Hall Host: Sudarshan Gurjar Abstract: This is the first lecture of a semester course of lectures on Hodge Theory
Mathematics Colloquium Wednesday, 9 Aug. 2023, 4 pm ======================= Host: Sudarshan Gurjar Venue: Ramanujan Hall Speaker: Pallav Goyal Affiliation: University of Chicago Title: Almost commuting variety and quantum Hamiltonian reduction Abstract: I'll be talking about the notions of commuting varieties and almost commuting varieties of Lie algebras in Types A and C. Then I'll quantize these notions and discuss their applications to the representation theory of rational Cherednik algebras via Hamiltonian reduction.
CACAAG Seminar
Wednesday, 9 August, 5.30 pm
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Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Host: Madhusudan Manjunath
Speaker: Madhusudan Manjunath, IIT Bombay
Title: The g-Conjecture for Simplicial Polytopes
Abstract: We will sketch a proof of this conjecture and discuss some possible topics for further study
Lecture series in algebraic geometry Introduction to Hodge Theory --------------------------------------------- Wednesday, 9 August, 11.30--1.00 Thursday, 10 August, 11.30-1.00 ---------------------------------------------- Venue: Ramanujan Hall Host: Sudarshan Gurjar Abstract: This is the first lecture of a semester course of lectures on Hodge Theory
Lecture series in algebraic geometry Algebraic Stacks Thursday, 10 August, 2.30-4.00 pm --------------------------------------------- Venue : Ramanujan Hall Host: Sudarshan Gurjar Speaker: Nitin Nitsure, TIFR, Mumbai (retd) Abstract: I deliver a course of lectures on Algebraic Stacks .The tentative plan is to cover the first 100 pages or so of `Champs Algebriques' by Laumon and Moret-Bailly, which is the standard reference for the subject. Examples, definitions, and statements of results will be discussed in detail, and proofs of the main theorems will be sketched, focusing on the key ideas.
Topology and Related Topics Seminar
Thursday, 10 August 2023, 2.30 -3:45 pm
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Venue: Room 215
Host: Rekha Santhanam
Speaker: Sahin Mandal
Affiliation: IIT Bombay
Title: Vector Bundles and their Classification-1
Abstract: In this talk, we define vector bundles and discuss some examples. We then talk about Stiefel and Grassmanian manifolds and explain how to construct new vector bundles from the old ones. Later we will talk about the classification of vector bundles in which will see how homotopy maps behave and construct the universal vector bundle.
Ph. D. Defence seminar
Friday, 11 Aug,12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
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Host: Sudarshan Gurjar
Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Speaker: Poonam Pokale, IIT Bombay
Title: Topology of surfaces and Classification of affine curves
Seminar on Optimal Transport
Friday, 11 August 2023, 03.45 pm
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Venue: Room 113, Department of Mathematics
Host: Harsha Hutridurga
Speaker: Saumyajit Das
Affiliation: IIT Bombay
Title: Introduction to Optimal Transport
Algebraic Geometry seminars
Lecture series on algebraic stacks
Monday, 14th August, 11:30 am
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Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Host: Sudarshan Gurjar
Speaker : Nitin Nitsure
Title: Algebraic Stacks-I
Abstract: This will be the first lecture in a semester-long course on algebraic stacks.
Ph. D. Defence seminar
Monday, 14 Aug, 3.15 pm-- 4.15 pm
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Host: Shantanu Dey
Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Speaker: M. N. Reshami, IIT Bombay
Title: Multi-Analytic Operators, Colligations, and Functional Models
Algebraic Geometry seminars
Lecture series on Hodge Theory
Wed. Thu., 16, 17 August, 11.00 am
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Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Host: Sudarshan Gurjar
Title: Introduction to Hodge Theory-3,4
Speaker: V. Srinivas, IIT Bombay
Algebraic Geometry seminars
Lecture series on Hodge Theory
Wed. Thu., 16, 17 August, 11.00 am
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Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Host: Sudarshan Gurjar
Title: Introduction to Hodge Theory-3,4
Speaker: V. Srinivas, IIT Bombay
Topology and Related Topics Seminar
Thursday, 17 August 2023, 2.30 -3:45 pm
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Venue: Room 215
Host: Rekha Santhanam
Speaker: Sahin Mandal
Affiliation: IIT Bombay
Title: Vector Bundles and their Classification-2.
Abstract:
We will continue to talk about the classification of vector bundles in which will see how homotopy maps behave and construct the universal vector bundle. If time permits we will delve into topological K-theory.
Seminar on Optimal Transport
Friday, 18 August 2023, 03.45 pm
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Venue: Room 113, Department of Mathematics
Host: Harsha Hutridurga
Speaker: Saumyajit Das
Affiliation: IIT Bombay
Title: Introduction to Optimal Transport
Lecture series on algebraic stacks
Monday, 21 August, 11:30 am
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Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Host: Sudarshan Gurjar
Speaker : Nitin Nitsure
Affiliation: TIFR, Mumbai (retd)
Title: Algebraic Spaces
Abstract: In his talk `The Implicit Function Theorem in Algebraic Geometry', delivered in the legendary conference `Algebraic Geometry, Bombay-1968', Michael Artin expanded the category of spaces used in algebraic geometry by introducing `algebraic spaces', which was a step beyond the schemes of Grothendieck. In the 55 years that have passed since then, algebraic spaces have become an important part of Algebraic Geometry. In particular, the theory of algebraic stacks makes foundational use of them.
In this lecture, we will introduce algebraic spaces, just assuming that the audience is familiar with schemes at the level of the first few sections of Chapter 2 of Hartshorne's textbook Algebraic Geometry'. After giving some motivation and examples, some basic properties of algebraic spaces will be outlined.
This lecture is the beginning of a series of about 12 talks titled `An introduction to Algebraic Stacks'. The aim of this series is to cover the first half of the textbook `Champs Algebriques' by Laumon and Moret-Bailly. This knowledge is essential in order to follow a whole lot of modern research in both arithmetic and geometry.
Topology and Related Topics Seminar
Tuesday, 22 August 2023, 2.15 -3:30 pm
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Venue: Ramanujan Hall, Department of Mathematics
Host: Rekha Santhanam
Speaker: Priyanka Magar
Affiliation: IIT Bombay
Title: A brief introduction to the stable homotopy category
Abstract:
The talk will begin with some stable phenomenon that guides us to the Spanier-Whitehead category, which has its own interesting properties. Next, we'll explore how the Brown representability theorem brings in the idea of Spectra and, as a consequence, gives rise to the stable homotopy category.
Commutative Algebra Seminar
Tuesday, August 22, 3:30 pm
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Venue : Room 215
Host: Tony Puthenpurakal
Speaker: Tony Puthenpurakal
Affiliation: IIT Bombay
Title: Triangulated and Derived Categories-2
Abstract: We continue our introduction to Triangulated categories
Algebraic Groups seminar
Tuesday, 22 August 2023, 4 pm
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Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Host: Shripad Garge
Speaker: Chayan Karmakar
Affiliation: IIT Bombay
Title: Derivations and Tangent Spaces - II
Abstract: We study derivations with the aim of introducing Lie algebras for algebraic groups.
Combinatorics, Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (CACAAG) Seminar
Wednesday, 23 August, 5:30 pm
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Host: Madhusudan Manjunath
Venue: Ramanujan Hall.
Speaker: Madhusudan Manjunath
Title: The Chow Ring of a simplicial toric variety.
Abstract: We will give a combinatorial presentation of the Chow ring of a simplicial toric variety and discuss its applications.
Annual progress seminar Date: 24th August, 2023 Time: 10:00 AM -- 11:00 AM Venue: Room 215 Host: Manoj Keshari Speaker: Sai Krishna Title: An algebraic characterization of the affine three space in arbitrary characteristic Abstract: We give an algebraic characterization of the affine three space over an algebraically closed field of arbitrary characteristic. We will look at a possible application of this characterization to reformulate the question of whether certain ring is isomorphic to the polynomial ring in three variables over an algebraically closed field of positive characteristic.
Annual Progress Seminar Time: 02:00 PM -- 02:35 PM Host: Sourav Pal Speaker: Priyanka Aroda Title: Contractions and their dilations Abstract: A contraction is an operator on a Hilbert space which has norm atmost 1. We study Sz.-Nagy's dilation theorem which models contractions as a part of nicer operators on larger spaces. We also discuss a more direct and explicit construction of a unitary dilation of a contraction, which is due to Schaffer. We study an analogue to Sz.-Nagy's dilation theorem, due to Ando, for a pair of commuting contractions.
Topology and Related Topics Seminar
Thursday, 24 August 2023, 2.30 -3:45 pm
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Venue: Room 215
Host: Rekha Santhanam
Speaker: Soumya Deb Samanta
Affiliation: IIT Bombay
Title: An Introduction to Riemannian Manifolds
Abstract: In this talk, I will give a brief introduction to the different aspects of Riemannian geometry: Riemannian metrics, affine connections, covariant derivatives, geodesics, curvature, Jacobi fields, and variation formulas. This talk will serve as a prelude to my next talk which will involve some topological aspects of Riemannian Manifolds.
Analysis Seminar Time: 02:40 PM -- 03:30 PM Host: Sourav Pal Speaker: Saikat Roy Title: Applications of Birkhoff-James orthogonality and its connection with dilation Abstract: Birkhoff-James orthogonality is a generalized notion of orthogonality that extends the inner product orthogonality to the setting of Banach spaces. In this talk, we present some of its applications in geometry of Banach spaces and its relation with norming properties of some subspaces of Banach space. We also consider operator orthogonality and its connection with the unitary and isometric dilations. We study the case when unitary (isometric) dilations of two contractions preserve the orthogonality relation between the basic contractions.
Lecture series on algebraic stacks
Monday, 28 August, 11:30 am-1.00 pm
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Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Host: Sudarshan Gurjar
Speaker : Nitin Nitsure
Affiliation: TIFR, Mumbai (retd)
Title: Algebraic spaces-II
Abstract: In his talk `The Implicit Function Theorem in Algebraic Geometry', delivered at the legendary conference `Algebraic Geometry, Bombay-1968', Michael Artin expanded the category of spaces used in algebraic geometry by introducing `algebraic spaces', which was a step beyond the schemes of Grothendieck. In the 55 years that have passed since then, algebraic spaces have become an important part of Algebraic Geometry. In particular, the theory of algebraic stacks makes foundational use of them.
In this lecture, we will introduce algebraic spaces, just assuming that the audience is familiar with schemes at the level of the first few sections of Chapter 2 of Hartshorne's textbook Algebraic Geometry'. After giving some motivation and examples, some basic properties of algebraic spaces will be outlined.
This lecture is the beginning of a series of about 12 talks titled `An Introduction to Algebraic Stacks'. The aim of this series is to cover the first half of the textbook `Champs Algebriques' by Laumon and Moret-Bailly. This knowledge is essential in order to follow a whole lot of modern research in both arithmetic and geometry.
Commutative Algebra Seminar
Tuesday, August 29, 3:30 pm-4.30 pm
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Venue: Room 215
Host: Tony Puthenpurakal
Speaker: Tony Puthenpurakal, IIT Bombay
Title: Triangulated and Derived Categories 3
Abstract: We continue our introduction to Triangulated categories.
Algebraic Groups seminar
Tuesday, 29 August 2023, 4 pm
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Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Host: Shripad Garge
Speaker: Chayan Karmakar
Affiliation: IIT Bombay
Title: Derivations and Tangent Spaces - III
Abstract: We study derivations with the aim of introducing Lie algebras for algebraic groups.
Lecture series on Hodge Theory
Wednesday and Thursday
30 and 31 August, 11:30 am – 1.00 pm
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Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Host: Sudarshan Gurjar
Speaker: V. Srinivas
Affiliation: IIT Bombay
Title: Introduction to Hodge Theory
Abstract: These are part of an ongoing series of lectures on the basics of Hodge theory. The next two lectures will finish the proof of the de Rham theorem, via sheaf cohomology, and if time permits, a beginning will be made on some linear algebra needed for the Hodge theory, as in Chapter 1 of Huybrechts' book.
Mathematics Colloquium
Wednesday, 30 August at 4.00-5.00 pm
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Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Host: Saikat Mazumdar
Speaker: Adimurthi, IIT Kanpur and TIFR-CAM, Bengaluru
Title: Critical Fractional Laplacian
Abstract: Dyda obtained the embedding of the space of functions having finite Fractional Laplacian norm in his work. He has not covered the critical case and asked several questions. In this talk, I will explain his questions and how they can be handled. This is a joint work with Prosenjit, Purbita, and Vivek Sahu.
CACAAG Seminar
Wednesday, 30 August, 5:30 PM
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Venue: Ramanujan Hall.
Host: Madhusudan Manjunath
Speaker: Madhusudan Manjunath, IIT Bombay.
Title: The Chow Ring of a Simplicial Toric Variety II.
Abstract: We will continue our study of the Chow ring of a simplicial toric variety.
Lecture series on Hodge Theory
Wednesday and Thursday
30 and 31 August, 11:30 am – 1.00 pm
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Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Host: Sudarshan Gurjar
Speaker: V. Srinivas
Affiliation: IIT Bombay
Title: Introduction to Hodge Theory
Abstract: These are part of an ongoing series of lectures on the basics of Hodge theory. The next two lectures will finish the proof of the de Rham theorem, via sheaf cohomology, and if time permits, a beginning will be made on some linear algebra needed for the Hodge theory, as in Chapter 1 of Huybrechts' book.
Topology and Related Topics
Thursday, 31 August 2023, 2.30 pm
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Venue: Room 215
Host: Rekha Santhanam
Speaker: Soumyadeb Samanta
Affiliation: IIT Bombay
Title: An Introduction to Riemannian Manifolds (contd.)
Abstract: This talk will be in continuation with the previous one. I plan to cover the following: geodesics, curvature, Jacobi fields, and variation formulas.