### List of Seminars. Latest seminars first.

 Date Speaker Title Dec 20, 2019 Sujatha Ramdorai (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) On congruences in Iwasawa theory Dec 19, 2019 Sunil Chhita (Durham University, UK) Local geometry of the rough-smooth interface in the two-periodic Aztec diamond Dec 18, 2019 Ken Ono (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA) The Riemann Hypothesis: History and Recent Work Dec 11, 2019 Sunil Chandran (IISc CSA) Oriented and Colorful Variants of Gyárfás–Sumner Conjecture Dec 05, 2019 Hassain M. (IISc Mathematics) Representations of Special Compact Linear Groups of Order Two: Construction, Representation Growth, Group Algebras, and Branching Laws Dec 05, 2019 Harald Upmeier (Universität Marburg, Germany; InfoSys Chair Professor, IISc) Automorphic Forms in Several Complex Variables Dec 04, 2019 Luz Roncal (BCAM – Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Spain) Fourier analysis on the infinite-dimensional torus Dec 03, 2019 John Meakin (University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA) Some remarks on Leavitt path algebras Nov 27, 2019 Indranath Sengupta (IIT, Gandhinagar) Ideals generated by quadrics defined by determinantal conditions Nov 22, 2019 Pavol Hell (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Graphs with possible loops Nov 20, 2019 Harald Upmeier (Universität Marburg, Germany; InfoSys Chair Professor, IISc) Automorphic Forms in Several Complex Variables Nov 18, 2019 Swarnava Mukhopadhyay (TIFR, Mumbai) Comparisons of non-abelian theta functions Nov 14, 2019 Bernhard Heim (German University of Technology, Oman) The G.-C. Rota approach and the Lehmer conjecture Nov 13, 2019 Harald Upmeier (Universität Marburg, Germany; InfoSys Chair Professor, IISc) Automorphic Forms in Several Complex Variables Nov 11, 2019 Anwoy Maitra (IISc Mathematics) On the Kobayashi geometry of domains Nov 08, 2019 Abhinav Kumar (Stony Brook University, USA) Recent breakthroughs in sphere packing Nov 06, 2019 Klas Pettersson (UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Narvik, Norway) Dirichlet spectral problem in a thin domain with a periodically oscillating boundary Nov 06, 2019 Chandrasheel Bhagwat (IISER, Pune) Special Values of L-functions and period relations for motives Nov 04, 2019 Tathagata Basak (Iowa State University, Ames, USA) Fundamental group of a complex ball quotient Nov 04, 2019 Pramath Anamby (IISc Mathematics) Fourier coefficients of modular forms and mass of pullbacks of Saito--Kurokawa lifts Nov 04, 2019 Apratim Chakraborty (ISI Bangalore) Invariants of annular links, cobordisms and transverse links from combinatorial link Floer complex Oct 30, 2019 Ramesh Manna (TIFR-CAM, Bengaluru) On some local smoothing estimate of Fourier integral operators and Hermite functions Oct 30, 2019 Bhaskar Bagchi (ISI, Bangalore, retd.) A product formula for homogeneous characteristic functions Oct 28, 2019 Sorin Dumitrescu (Universite Cote d'Azur, Nice) Rational parallelisms and generalized Cartan geometries on complex manifolds Oct 21, 2019 Sugata Mondal (TIFR, Mumbai) Hot spots conjecture for Euclidean domains Oct 14, 2019 Aswin Balasubramanian (Rutgers University) Deformations of the Hitchin Integrable System and Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories Oct 11, 2019 Atul Dixit (IIT, Gandhinagar) Superimposing theta structure on a generalized modular relation Oct 09, 2019 Atul Dixit (IIT, Gandhinagar) Recent developments in the theory of the restricted partition function $p(n,N)$ Oct 07, 2019 Gianluca Faraco (TIFR, Mumbai) Geometries of representations Oct 04, 2019 Somnath Pradhan (IISc Mathematics) Risk-Sensitive Stochastic Control and Differential Games Oct 04, 2019 Bikramaditya Sahu (IISc Mathematics) A characterization of the family of secant lines to a hyperbolic quadric in $PG(3,q)$, $q$ odd Sep 27, 2019 Rajeeva L. Karandikar (CMI, Chennai) Perron–Frobenius eigenfunctions of perturbed stochastic matrices Sep 25, 2019 Martin Kreuzer (Universität Passau, Germany) On the Numbers of the Form $x^2+11y^2$ Sep 23, 2019 Sushmita Venugopalan (IMSc, Chennai) Tropical curve counting Sep 20, 2019 Santosh Nadimpalli (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands) Linkage principle and Tame cyclic base change for $GL_n(F)$ Sep 20, 2019 Divyang Bhimani (TIFR-CAM, Bengaluru) Modulation Spaces and Applications to Hartree–Fock equations Sep 18, 2019 Kartick Adhikari (Technion, Haifa, Israel) The Spectrum of Dense Random Geometric Graphs Sep 16, 2019 Rekha Biswal (Max Planck Institut, Bonn, Germany) Macdonald polynomials and level two Demazure modules for affine $sl_{n+1}$ Sep 13, 2019 Prasad Tetali (Regents' Professor, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA; and Satish Dhawan Visiting Professor, IISc) Counting Independent Sets in Graphs and Hypergraphs and Spectral Stability Sep 11, 2019 Jean-Marie de Koninck (Université Laval, Quebec, Canada) Consecutive integers divisible by a power of their largest prime factor Sep 06, 2019 Chandan Dalawat (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad) Two footnotes to Galois's Memoirs Sep 04, 2019 Guhan Venkat (Université Laval, Quebec, Canada; and Morningside Center of Mathematics, Beijing, China) Stark-Heegner cycles for Bianchi modular forms Aug 30, 2019 Soumik Pal (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) Entropic relaxations of Monge–Kantorovich optimal transport Aug 28, 2019 Soumyashant Nayak (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) The Heisenberg commutation relation and operator algebras Aug 26, 2019 Mahan Mj (TIFR, Mumbai) Commensurators of thin groups Aug 23, 2019 Apoorva Khare (IISc Mathematics) Density: How Zariski helped Schur, Cayley, and Hamilton Aug 21, 2019 Srijan Sarkar (IISc Mathematics) Pairs of Commuting Contractions Aug 19, 2019 Aprameyo Pal (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) A central value formula of degree 6 complex L-series and arithmetic applications Aug 16, 2019 Nikhil Srivastava (UC Berkeley, USA) Quantitative Diagonalizability Aug 14, 2019 Piyush Srivastava (TIFR, Mumbai) Deterministic counting using complex zeros (with some help from probability) Aug 14, 2019 Hariharan Narayanan (TIFR, Mumbai) Reconstruction of a Riemannian manifold from noisy intrinsic distances Aug 13, 2019 Marc-Hubert Nicole (Université d'Aix-Marseille, France) Families of Drinfeld modular forms for GL(N) Aug 13, 2019 Akashdeep Dey (Princeton University, USA) Compactness of the space of singular, minimal hypersurfaces with bounded volume and Jacobi eigenvalue Aug 07, 2019 Terrence George (Brown University, USA) Dimers and the Beauville integrable system Aug 02, 2019 Rakesh (University of Delaware, Newark, USA) Inverse problems for the wave equation Jul 30, 2019 Swarnalipa Datta (IISc Mathematics) Category of $\mathfrak{g}$-modules and BGG reciprocity Jul 26, 2019 Subhajit Goswami (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France) Percolation theory: from classical to dependent models Jul 24, 2019 Samrat Sen (IISc Mathematics) Geometric Invariants For a Class of Submodules of Analytic Hilbert Modules Jul 22, 2019 Sanjoy Kumar Jhawar (IISc Mathematics) Phase Transition, Percolation at Criticality and Connectivity in Random Connection Models Jul 15, 2019 Hassain M. (IISc Mathematics) Representations of Special Compact Linear Groups of Order Two: Construction, Representation Growth, Group Algebras, and Branching Laws Jul 05, 2019 Rakesh Kumar (IISc Mathematics) Hardy's inequalities for Grushin operator and Hermite multipliers on modulation spaces Jul 02, 2019 Ritwik Pal (IISc Mathematics) Signs of Hecke eigenvalues of modular forms and differential operators on Jacobi forms Jul 01, 2019 Shubham Sinha (UC San Diego, USA) Journey to the core of partitions Jun 27, 2019 Kalyan B. Sinha (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore) Formulae in Operator Theory - Story of Two Projections (Ramanujan Medal Award Lecture, INSA) Jun 27, 2019 Anwoy Maitra (IISc Mathematics) On the Kobayashi geometry of domains Jun 26, 2019 Sasmita Patnaik (IIT, Kanpur) Solvability of an operator equation in B(H)-semigroups Jun 25, 2019 Pramath Anamby (IISc Mathematics) Fourier coefficients of modular forms and mass of pullbacks of Saito--Kurokawa lifts Jun 10, 2019 Samarpita Ray (IISc Mathematics) Some results on spectral spaces and spectral sequences Jun 06, 2019 Siddhartha Sahi (Rutgers University, USA) Macdonald's conjecture on hypergeometric functions associated to Jack polynomials Jun 04, 2019 Siddhartha Sahi (Rutgers University, USA) Metaplectic Representations of Hecke algebras May 30, 2019 Somnath Pradhan (IISc Mathematics) Risk-Sensitive Stochastic Control and Differential Games May 21, 2019 Sudipto Chowdhury (IIT, Bombay) Problem governed by the von Kármán equations Morley finite element for a distributed optimal control May 08, 2019 Amritanshu Prasad (IMSc, Chennai) Alternating Schur Algebras and Koszul Duality May 07, 2019 Sankaran Viswanath (IMSc, Chennai) Path models for Kostant-Kumar submodules of a tensor product May 03, 2019 Sankaran Viswanath (IMSc, Chennai) The Brylinski filtration and W-algebras May 01, 2019 Vineeth Chintala (IIT, Bombay) Suslin Matrices vs Clifford Algebras Apr 30, 2019 Raghavendra Tripathi (IISc Mathematics) Determinantal processes and stochastic domination Apr 29, 2019 Indrava Roy (IMSc, Chennai) Coarse geometry, Baum-Connes conjecture, and metrics of positive scalar curvature on spin foliations Apr 22, 2019 Siegfried Bocherer (Universität Mannheim, Germany) On derivatives of Modular forms Apr 16, 2019 Jyotirmoy Ganguly (IISER Pune) Spinorial Representations of Symmetric Groups Apr 12, 2019 Gautam Bharali (IISc Mathematics) The Pick-Nevanlinna problem: from metric geometry to matrix positivity Apr 12, 2019 Apoorva Khare (IISc Mathematics) Schoenberg: from metric geometry to matrix positivity Apr 08, 2019 Sayan Chakraborty (ISI, Kolkata) Crossed products of noncommutative tori by cyclic groups Apr 08, 2019 Arun Maiti (IISc Mathematics) A chain model for the Goresky-Hingston product Apr 05, 2019 Sudip Bera (IISc Mathematics) Determinants, linear recurrences and some combinatorial identities Apr 01, 2019 Basudeb Datta (IISc Mathematics) Semi-regular tilings Mar 20, 2019 Soumya Bhattacharya (IISER Kolkata) Finiteness results on a certain class of modular forms and applications Mar 15, 2019 Ravi A. Rao (TIFR, Bombay) The study of projective modules over an affine algebra Mar 15, 2019 Agnid Banerjee (TIFR-CAM, Bengaluru) New monotonicity formulas for degenerate parabolic equations with applications to unique continuation and free boundary problems (part 2) Mar 13, 2019 Ravi A. Rao (TIFR, Bombay) Suslin completion and set-theoretic complete intersections Mar 11, 2019 Soma Maity (IISER Mohali) Stability of quadratic curvature functionals at product of Einstein manifolds Mar 08, 2019 Xavier Viennot (CNRS and LaBRI, France) Laguerre heaps of segments for the PASEP Mar 08, 2019 Agnid Banerjee (TIFR-CAM, Bengaluru) New monotonicity formulas for degenerate parabolic equations with applications to unique continuation and free boundary problems Mar 07, 2019 Xavier Viennot (CNRS and LaBRI, France) A survey of the combinatorial theory of orthogonal polynomials and continued fractions Mar 01, 2019 Parthanil Roy (ISI, Bangalore) Continued fractions, Stein-Chen method and extreme value theory Feb 28, 2019 James Cann (University College London, UK) Counting nodal components of ‘boundary-adapted arithmetic random waves’ Feb 26, 2019 Klas Pettersson (University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway) Spectral asymptotics for a singularly perturbed periodic elliptic operator Feb 25, 2019 Harish Seshadri (IISc Mathematics) A compactness theorem for Einstein metrics on the four-sphere Feb 22, 2019 Samarpita Ray (IISc Mathematics) Cohomology of modules over H-categories and co-H-categories Feb 18, 2019 Vamsi Pingali (IISc Mathematics) A vector bundle version of the Monge-Ampere equation Feb 15, 2019 S. Thangavelu (IISc Mathematics) In Search of Inequalities (V.V. Narlikar Memorial Lecture, INSA) Feb 15, 2019 Subhajit Ghosh (IISc Mathematics) Total Variation Cutoff for the Transpose top-2 with random shuffle Feb 13, 2019 Nishad Kothari (University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil) Pfaffian Orientations and Conformal Minors Feb 13, 2019 Amar Deep Sarkar (IISc Mathematics) A study of some conformal metrics and conformal invariants on planar domains Feb 12, 2019 Nishant Chandgotia (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) Universal models in ergodic theory Feb 11, 2019 Arpan Kabiraj (CMI, Chennai) Conjugacy invariant norms on groups Feb 08, 2019 Mohan R. (ISI, Bangalore) Leavitt path algebras of weighted Cayley graphs $C_n(S,w)$ Feb 01, 2019 Ved Datar (IISc Mathematics) Positive mass theorem and the Yamabe problem Jan 30, 2019 Niranjan Balachandran (IIT, Bombay) Bisections and bicolorings of hypergraphs Jan 30, 2019 Niranjan Balachandran (IIT, Bombay) The Polynomial Method in Combinatorics – Two illustrative theorems Jan 25, 2019 Hiroshige Shiga (Tokyo Tech, Japan) Quasiconformal maps and open Riemann surfaces (continued) Jan 24, 2019 Hiroshige Shiga (Tokyo Tech, Japan) Quasiconformal maps and open Riemann surfaces Jan 23, 2019 Harald Upmeier (Universität Marburg, Germany; InfoSys Chair Professor, IISc) Hermitian Vector Bundles over Jordan Manifolds Jan 22, 2019 Harald Upmeier (Universität Marburg, Germany; InfoSys Chair Professor, IISc) Symmetric Spaces and Jordan Triples Jan 21, 2019 Pranav Pandit (ICTS, Bangalore) Holomorphic differentials and stability in Fukaya categories Jan 18, 2019 Sanjay Ramassamy (Ecole Normale Superiure, Paris, France) Extensions of partial cyclic orders, boustrophedons and polytopes Jan 18, 2019 Ramesh Gangolli (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) Some unpublished work of Harish-Chandra Jan 16, 2019 Dominique Guillot (University of Delaware, Newark, USA) Totally nonnegative GCD matrices and kernels Jan 11, 2019 Apoorva Khare (IISc Mathematics) From word games to a Polymath project Jan 07, 2019 Sabyasachi Mukherjee (State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA) Dynamics of Schwarz reflections: mating rational maps with groups Jan 04, 2019 TVH Prathamesh (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria) On elementary equivalence in Artin groups of finite type Jan 04, 2019 Hassain M. (IISc Mathematics) Representation growth of Special Compact Linear Groups of Order Two Jan 01, 2019 Prasad Tetali (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA) Discrete Curvature: a brief overview

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