APRG Seminar:     2019–20 talks
(Current organizer: Apoorva Khare)

(click on the title-hyperlinks for the abstracts)


All subsequent talks for this semester are cancelled on account of the Coronavirus pandemic.

March 10, 2020: Harald Upmeier (Universität Marburg, Germany; InfoSys Chair Professor, IISc)
3 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: Automorphic Forms in Analysis and Operator Theory (Lecture Series)

February 26, 2020: Akshaa Vatwani (IIT, Gandhinagar)
3 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: Joint extreme values of $L$-functions (Joint with the Algebra–Combinatorics Seminar)

February 5, 2020: Sudeep Bapat (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
2 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc (Skype talk)
Title: Purely sequential estimation of a negative binomial mean with applications in ecology

January 29 and February 5, 2020: Harald Upmeier (Universität Marburg, Germany; InfoSys Chair Professor, IISc)
3 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: Automorphic Forms in Analysis and Operator Theory (Lecture Series)

January 14 and 16, 2020: Harald Upmeier (Universität Marburg, Germany; InfoSys Chair Professor, IISc)
3 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: Automorphic Forms in Analysis and Operator Theory (Lecture Series)

January 13, 2020: Milind Hegde (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
2:15 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: Brownian structure in universal KPZ objects

December 19, 2019: Sunil Chhita (Durham University, UK)
3:30 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: Local geometry of the rough-smooth interface in the two-periodic Aztec diamond

December 5, 2019: Harald Upmeier (Universität Marburg, Germany; InfoSys Chair Professor, IISc)
2:30–3:30 pm and 3:45–4:45 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: Automorphic Forms in Several Complex Variables (Lecture Series)

December 4, 2019: Luz Roncal (BCAM – Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Spain)
11 am, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: Fourier analysis on the infinite-dimensional torus

November 13 and 20, 2019: Harald Upmeier (Universität Marburg, Germany; InfoSys Chair Professor, IISc)
2:30–3:30 pm and 4–5 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: Automorphic Forms in Several Complex Variables (Lecture Series)

November 6, 2019: Klas Pettersson (UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Narvik, Norway)
11 am, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: Dirichlet spectral problem in a thin domain with a periodically oscillating boundary

October 30, 2019: Ramesh Manna (TIFR-CAM, Bengaluru)
4 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: On some local smoothing estimate of Fourier integral operators and Hermite functions

October 30, 2019: Bhaskar Bagchi (ISI, Bangalore, retd.)
2:30 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: A product formula for homogeneous characteristic functions

September 20, 2019: Divyang Bhimani (TIFR-CAM, Bengaluru)
4:30 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: Modulation Spaces and Applications to Hartree–Fock equations

September 18, 2019: Kartick Adhikari (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
3 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: The Spectrum of Dense Random Geometric Graphs

August 28, 2019: Soumyashant Nayak (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
3:30 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: The Heisenberg commutation relation and operator algebras

August 21, 2019: Srijan Sarkar (IISc Mathematics)
3:30 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: Pairs of Commuting Contractions

August 14, 2019: Hariharan Narayanan (TIFR, Bombay)
4 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: Reconstruction of a Riemannian manifold from noisy intrinsic distances

August 14, 2019: Piyush Srivastava (TIFR, Bombay)
2:30 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: Deterministic counting using complex zeros (with some help from probability)

August 2, 2019: Prof. Rakesh (University of Delaware, Newark, USA)
2:30 pm, Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics, IISc
Title: Inverse problems for the wave equation


Previous years:
2018–19
2017–18