Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit

Past Seminars and Colloquia
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STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Use and abuse of knowledge
Speaker : Madhav Gadgil (National Centre for Cell Science)
Time : January 16, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

BANGALORE PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Title : Statistical analysis of associated data using U-statistics
Speaker : Mansi Garg (Indian Statistical Institute)
Time : January 22, 2018 (Monday), 02:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

BANGALORE PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Title : Holder exponents for Loewner traces
Speaker : Atul Shekhar (KTH Stochholm)
Time : January 22, 2018 (Monday), 03:30 PM
Venue : Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : The contradictions of neoliberalism - Interpreting India's banking crisis
Speaker : C P Chandrasekhar (Center For Economic Studies and Planning JNU)
Time : January 23, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Translation Invariant Diffusions
Speaker : B. Rajeev (ISI Bangalore)
Time : January 25, 2018 (Thursday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Extremals of inequalities and their uniqueness
Speaker : K. Sandeep (TIFR-CAM Bangalore)
Time : February 1, 2018 (Thursday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Substance Use & Abuse: Consequences and Risks
Speaker : B N Sharada (Counsellor - Parivarthan)
Time : February 6, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Disappearing coefficients and lacunae for hyperbolic polynomials
Speaker : Yuliy Baryshnikov (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA)
Time : February 8, 2018 (Thursday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Pair correlation for Hecke eigenvalues
Speaker : Kaneenika Sinha (IISER Pune)
Time : February 12, 2018 (Monday), 02:00 PM
Venue : Auditorium

BANGALORE PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Title : Constrainted Determinantal Point Processes
Speaker : Amit Deshpande (Microsoft Research)
Time : February 12, 2018 (Monday), 02:15 PM
Venue : SSIU Seminar Hall

BANGALORE PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Title : A probabilistic approach to Voronin's universality theorem.
Speaker : Bhaskar Bagchi (Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore)
Time : February 12, 2018 (Monday), 03:30 PM
Venue : Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :An invariance principle for sums and record times of regularly varying stationary sequences
Speaker : Philippe Soulier (University Paris Nanterre)
Time : February 15, 2018 (Thursday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

BANGALORE PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Title : Stochastic PDEs in S' for SDEs driven by Levy noise
Speaker : Suprio Bhar (TIFR-CAM)
Time : February 19, 2018 (Monday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Away from the Average: The Physics of Fluctuations
Speaker : Mustansir Barma (TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences - Hyderabad)
Time : February 23, 2018 (Friday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Algorithmic Construction of Representations of Finite Solvable Groups
Speaker : Soham Swadhin Pradhan (ISI Bangalore)
Time : February 27, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:30 PM
Venue : G25

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Identity politics in school curricula: post-modernism and the problem of academic knowledge
Speaker : Amman Madan (Azim Premji University - Bangalore)
Time : March 6, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Erdos-Renyi random graphs + forest fires = self-organised criticality
Speaker : Balint Toth (Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics - Budapest)
Time : March 13, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Isocrystals associated to arithmetic jet spaces of abelian schemes
Speaker : Arnab Saha (Australian National University - Canberra)
Time : March 14, 2018 (Wednesday), 03:30 PM
Venue : Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Martingale problem in Quantum Probability
Speaker : Kalyan B. Sinha (JNCASR - Bangalore)
Time : March 15, 2018 (Thursday), 03:30 PM
Venue : Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : The Pfaffian of a matrix and unimodular rows.
Speaker : Sarang Sane (IIT Madras)
Time : March 20, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Specialization closed subsets; thick subcategories and Cohen-Macaulay rings
Speaker : Sarang Sane (IIT-Madras)
Time : March 22, 2018 (Thursday), 03:30 PM
Venue : Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Exciting Physics Inspired by Nature: Flocking and Bacterial Heat Engine
Speaker : Ajay K Sood (President - Indian National Science Academy; Indian Institute of Science)
Time : March 27, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Platinum Jubliee Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : My Shallow Understanding of Deep Learning
Speaker : Siva Athreya (Indian Statistical Institute)
Time : April 3, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :On (2;3)-generated groups
Speaker : Maxim A. Vsemirnov (St.Petersburg Department of Mathematics of Steklov Institute - Russia)
Time : April 5, 2018 (Thursday), 03:30 PM
Venue : Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :On (2;3)-generated groups (contd.)
Speaker : Maxim A. Vsemirnov (St.Petersburg Department of Mathematics of Steklov Institute - Russia)
Time : April 6, 2018 (Friday), 03:30 PM
Venue : Auditorium

BANGALORE PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Title : The dynamical Allen-Cahn equation from a random initial datum
Speaker : Khoa Le (Imperial College - London)
Time : April 9, 2018 (Monday), 02:00 PM
Venue : Auditorium

BANGALORE PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Title : Convergence of Markov processes to the invariant measure with applications to SPDEs and stochastic delay equations
Speaker : Oleg Butkovsky (T.U. - Berlin)
Time : April 9, 2018 (Monday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Robin Chapmans evil determinant problem
Speaker : Maxim A Vsemirnov (St.Petersburg Department of Mathematics of Steklov Institute - Russia)
Time : April 9, 2018 (Monday), 04:30 PM
Venue : Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Deconstructing Carnatic Music
Speaker : Arundhati Krishnan (Indian Statistical Institute - Bangalore)
Time : April 10, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Platinum Jubliee Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Hilberts Tenth Problem and Diophantine Equations
Speaker : Maxim A Vsemirnov (St.Petersburg Department of Mathematics of Steklov Institute - Russia)
Time : April 10, 2018 (Tuesday), 04:45 PM
Venue : Platinum Jubliee Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Higher education and research opportunities in France: All you wanted to know.
Speaker : Jerome Bove and Srini Kaveri (Scientific and academic attached French Embassy - Bangalore and Director CNRS Office in India)
Time : April 17, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Smooth structures on quaternionic projective spaces
Speaker : Ramesh Kasilingam (Indian Statistical Institute - Bangalore)
Time : April 19, 2018 (Thursday), 03:30 PM
Venue : Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :On the Yang-Mills functional in Noncommutative Geometry
Speaker : Satyajit Guin (IISER Mohali)
Time : April 20, 2018 (Friday), 03:30 PM
Venue : Auditorium

BANGALORE PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Title : A relative anti-concentration inequality
Speaker : Manjunath Krishnapur (IISc - Bangalore)
Time : April 23, 2018 (Monday), 01:45 PM
Venue : Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Sequence Computation In The Brain Through Subcellular Mechanisms
Speaker : Upinder S Bhalla (National Centre for Biological Sciences - Bangalore)
Time : April 23, 2018 (Monday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Platinum Jubliee Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : The Langlands Program - Pedigree and Progression of Ideas
Speaker : B Sury (ISI - Bangalore)
Time : April 24, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Groups with norms: a PolyMath adventure
Speaker : Apoorva Khare (Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore)
Time : May 10, 2018 (Thursday), 03:30 PM
Venue : Auditorium

ALGEBRA SEMINAR

Title : Seminar series on $p$-adic Hodge theory
Speaker : Arnab Saha (Indian Statistical Institute - Bangalore)
Time : June 6, 2018 (Wednesday), 11:30 AM
Venue : Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Rank Identities and Finite von Neumann Algebras
Speaker : Soumyashant Nayak (University of Pennsylvania - USA)
Time : June 28, 2018 (Thursday), 11:30 AM
Venue : Auditorium

BANGALORE PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Title : Limit shapes for groves
Speaker : Terrence George (Brown Univ)
Time : July 23, 2018 (Monday), 02:00 PM
Venue : Auditorium

BANGALORE PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Title : A hitting question for stochastic flows
Speaker : Carl Mueller (Univ Rochester)
Time : July 23, 2018 (Monday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Automating Mathematics
Speaker : Siddhartha Gadgil (Dept. of Mathematics IISc Bangalore)
Time : July 31, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Platinum Jubliee Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Homotopy type theory
Speaker : Siddhartha Gadgil (IISc.-Bangalore)
Time : August 2, 2018 (Thursday), 03:30 PM
Venue : Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Is there a difference between chemicals and biochemicals
Speaker : Shachi Gosavi (NCBS - Bangalore)
Time : August 7, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:15 PM
Venue : G25

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Equivariant Serre problem for principal bundles
Speaker : Mainak Poddar (Middle East Technical University - Turkey)
Time : August 9, 2018 (Thursday), 03:30 PM
Venue : Auditorium

BANGALORE PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Title : Quantum Markov Semigroups
Speaker : B. V. Rajarama Bhat (ISI Bangalore)
Time : August 20, 2018 (Monday), 02:00 PM
Venue : Auditorium

BANGALORE PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Title : Application of urn models in load balancing and opinion dynamics.
Speaker : Gursharn Kaur (ISI Bangalore)
Time : August 20, 2018 (Monday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : The Linear Algebra method in Combinatorics and Geometry
Speaker : Koushik Ramachandran (TIFR Bangalore)
Time : August 21, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:30 PM
Venue : G25

BANGALORE PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Title : RKHS Embedding of Probabilities & Measures of (In)dependence
Speaker : Bharath K Sriperumbudur (Penn State Univ USA)
Time : August 27, 2018 (Monday), 02:00 PM
Venue : Auditorium

BANGALORE PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Title : How to tell a tale of two tails?
Speaker : Parthanil Roy (ISI Bangalore)
Time : August 27, 2018 (Monday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Ensuring Right to Work: Field Experiences from Jharkhand
Speaker : Udvas Das (ISI Bangalore)
Time : August 28, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Platinum Jubliee Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Existence of self-dual cuspidal representations
Speaker : Manish Mishra (IISER Pune)
Time : September 3, 2018 (Monday), 03:30 PM
Venue : Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Infusing Statistical Ecology into Species Recovery : Tigers in India
Speaker : Ullas Karanth (Wildlife Conservation Society - Bangalore)
Time : September 4, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Platinum Jubliee Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Statistical physics and statistics in understanding dynamics of ecological systems
Speaker : Vishwesha Guttal (Center for Ecological Sciences IISC)
Time : September 18, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:00 PM
Venue : Platinum Jubliee Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Conformal field theory; vertex operator algebras and some problems
Speaker : Robin Hillier (Lancaster University)
Time : September 20, 2018 (Thursday), 03:30 PM
Venue : Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Beyond the walls of schooling
Speaker : Jane Sahi (Azim Premji University Bangalore)
Time : September 25, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Platinum Jubliee Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Vector-valued Tietze's extension theorem for compact domains-A geometric approach
Speaker : T.S.S.R.K. Rao (Indian Statistical Institute - Bangalore)
Time : September 27, 2018 (Thursday), 03:30 PM
Venue : G25

COLLOQUIUM

Title :On a sufficient condition for a Banach algebra to be commutative
Speaker : Geethika Sebastian (Indian Statistical Institute - Bangalore)
Time : October 4, 2018 (Thursday), 03:30 PM
Venue : Auditorium

BANGALORE PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Title : Simultaneous small noise limit for singularly perturbed slow-fast coupled diffusions
Speaker : Rajesh Sundaresan (Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore)
Time : October 8, 2018 (Monday), 02:00 PM
Venue : Auditorium

BANGALORE PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Title : Probability (measures) on semidirect product and affine group
Speaker : C.R.E. Raja (Indian Statistical Institute - Bangalore)
Time : October 8, 2018 (Monday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

STUDENT SEMINAR

Title : Fibonacci sequence
Speaker : Jaydeb Sarkar (ISI Bangalore)
Time : October 9, 2018 (Tuesday), 03:15 PM
Venue : Auditorium

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Documentary film on Prof. S.N. Bose
Speaker : Shila Datta (Kolkata)
Time : October 11, 2018 (Thursday), 03:30 PM
Venue : Platinum Jubliee Auditorium

BANGALORE PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Title : Spectra of Adjacency and Laplacian Matrices of inhomogeneous Erdos-Renyi Graphs
Speaker : Arijit Chakrabarty (ISI Kolkatta)
Time : November 12, 2018 (Monday), 02:00 PM
Venue : G23

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Multivariate Output Analysis for Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Speaker : Dootika Vats (University of Warwick)
Time : November 13, 2018 (Tuesday), 02:00 PM
Venue : EAU Seminar Hall

COLLOQUIUM

Title :Boundary behavior of optimal approximants
Speaker : Daniel Seco (ICMAT - Madrid)
Time : November 15, 2018 (Thursday), 03:30 PM
Venue : G23
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