APRG Seminar:     2025–26 talks
(Current organizers: Muna Naik and Apoorva Khare)

(click on the title-hyperlinks for the abstracts)


The talks for this academic year will be online as well as offline.


Upcoming talks


December 8, 2025: T.E.S. Raghavan (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
4 pm, Lecture Hall LH-1
Title: On the applications of scaling the entries of a matrix

December 10, 2025: Rahul Sethi (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA)
4 pm, Lecture Hall LH-1
Title: A high-frequency uncertainty principle for the Fourier–Bessel transform

January 7, 2026: Salem Ben Said (United Arab Emirates University, Abu Dhabi)
4 pm, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: TBA

January 14, 2026: Dan Mangoubi (Einstein Institute, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)
4 pm, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: TBA

January 21, 2026: Serena Federico (Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
4 pm, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: TBA

January 28, 2026: Stéphanie Nivoche (Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France)
4 pm, Lecture Hall LH-1
Title: TBA

February 4, 2026: Marco Peloso (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
4 pm, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: Spaces of entire functions in several variables and the geometry of Siegel CR manifolds

February 25, 2026: Valentina Casarino (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy)
4 pm, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: TBA


Previous talks


November 19, 2025: Francesca Astengo (University of Genova, Genoa, Italy)
4 pm, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: Some results on irreducible representations of SL(2,\R)     [Video]

November 18, 2025: Trilochan Sahoo (IIT Kharagpur)
11 am, Lecture Hall LH-3
Title: Fourier methods in Hydroelasticity: from Arctic ice dynamics to very large floating structures

November 14, 2025: Malay Banerjee (IIT Kanpur)
10 am, Lecture Hall LH-1
Title: Routes to chaos and structural sensitivity in nonlinear dynamical systems

November 12, 2025: Mithun Bhowmik (IIT Kharagpur)
4 pm, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: Uniqueness results for quasi-analytic functions on compact Lie groups and homogeneous spaces     [Video]

November 11, 2025: Saikat Mazumdar (IIT Bombay)
4 pm, Lecture Hall LH-1
Title: Conformal powers of the Laplacian, Q-curvature, and the compactness problem

October 29, 2025: Vaibhav Kumar Jena (IISc Mathematics)
4 pm, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: Control of wave equations via geometric Carleman estimates     [Video]

October 24, 2025: Apoorva Khare (IISc Mathematics)
4 pm, Lecture Hall LH-1
Title: The history of majorization inequalities: from Newton to Macdonald polynomials
(Joint with the Algebra & Combinatorics Seminar)

October 22, 2025: Choiti Bandyopadhyay (SRM University AP, Amaravati)
4 pm, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: Topological amenability of (semi)-hypergroups     [Video]

October 15, 2025: Senthil Raani (IISER Berhampur)
4 pm, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: Large distances in sets of positive density     [Video]

October 8, 2025: Juyoung Lee (Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, South Korea)
11 am, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: Variational inequalities for two-parameter averages over tori     [Video]

September 24, 2025: Jaehyeon Ryu (Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, South Korea)
4 pm, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: Spherical maximal functions on two step nilpotent Lie groups     [Video]

September 22, 2025: Renu Shekhawat (ISI Bangalore)
3 pm, Lecture Hall LH-1
Title: A spatial form of Yamamoto's theorem for spectral operators

September 19, 2025: Tattwamasi Amrutam (IMPAN, Warsaw, Poland)
10 am, Lecture Hall LH-1
Title: Intermediate factor theorems: from dynamics to operator algebras

September 17, 2025: Amar Deep Sarkar (IIT Bhubaneswar)
3 pm, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: Bi-Hölder extensions of quasi-isometries with respect to invariant metrics

September 10, 2025: Debdip Ganguly (ISI Delhi)
4 pm, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: L^2-stability of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle on the hyperbolic space     [Video]

September 4, 2025: Milind Hegde (Columbia University, USA and NTU Singapore)
11:30 am, Lecture Hall LH-1
Title: A new member of the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang universality class

August 28, 2025: Prashanta Garain (IISER Berhampur)
4 pm, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: Regularity theory for mixed local and nonlocal $p$-Laplace equations     [Slides]     [Video]

August 22, 2025: Matteo Mucciconi (National University of Singapore)
11:30 am, Lecture Hall LH-1
Title: Asymptotic analysis of a multiplicative functional of the Poissonized Plancherel Measure: elliptic functions, phase transitions and applications
(Joint with the Algebra & Combinatorics Seminar)

August 20, 2025: Shyam Swarup Mondal (ISI Kolkata)
4 pm, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: Orthonormal Strichartz estimates on abstract measure spaces     [Video]

August 13, 2025: Hong-Wei Zhang (Universität Paderborn, Germany)
2 pm, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: Spectrum on locally symmetric spaces     [Video]

August 6, 2025: Job Kuit (Universität Paderborn, Germany)
4 pm, Microsoft Teams (online)
Title: On the Helgason conjecture     [Video]


Previous years:
2024–25
2023–24
2022–23
2021–22
2020–21
2019–20
2018–19
2017–18