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Thursdays Colloquium

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May 23, 2013 Krishnaswami Alladi University of Florida A theorem of G\"ollnitz and its place in the theory of partitions
Apr. 18, 2013 Philbert Nang ENS, Gabon D-modules on a class of G-representations
Mar. 14, 2013 A.J. Parameswaran TIFR Holonomy group scheme of an integral curve
Feb. 28, 2013 Paul Baum University of Penn State, USA What is K-Theory and what is it good for?
Feb. 19, 2013 M. Tadic University of Zagreb ,Croatia Harmonic analysis on classical p-adic groups and L-packets
Feb. 14, 2013 Frits Beukers Utrecht University, Netherlands Algebraic hypergeometric functions
Feb. 7, 2013 W. Casselman University of British Columbia, Canada Cornelius Lanczos' mysterious formula for the Gamma function
Jan. 31, 2013 Sukhendu Mehrotra CMI, Chennai Hyperholomorphic sheaves and deformations of K3 surfaces
Jan. 17, 2013 Andrej Dujella Univ. of Zagreb, Croatia Elliptic curves with large rank
Jan. 10, 2013 Sarang Sane University of Kansas Euler class groups and Chow-Witt groups
Jan. 9, 2013 Benedict Gross Harvard University, U.S.A. Arithmetic Invariant Theory and rational points on Hyper-elliptic curves
Jan. 7, 2013 Ramin Takloo-Bighash Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA Bessel models and special values of $L$-functions
Jan. 3, 2013 Atul Dixit Tulane University, USA Two problems in the Theory of Partitions
Dec. 27, 2012 D.Q. Zhang National University of Singapore Automorphisms of positive entropy on compact Kahler or algebraic varieties
Dec. 13, 2012 Hung Yean Loke National University of Singapore Dual reductive pairs, and Exceptional Lie groups
Dec. 5, 2012 Mahan Maharaj Belur University, West Bengal Low Dimensional Projective Groups
Nov. 22, 2012 Kumar Balasubramanian IISER Bhopal Self-dual representations with vectors fixed under an Iwahori subgroup
Nov. 8, 2012 Amrita Muralidharan TIFR An analogue of Raynaud's theory in rigid analytic and formal geometry
Nov. 1, 2012 Yuichiro Taguchi Kyoto University, Japan Rational torsion points of abelian varieties over a large extension of a local field
Oct. 18, 2012 Sushmita Venugopalan TIFR Moment maps, Yang-Mills functional and vortices
Oct. 11, 2012 Milena Radnovic Mathematics Inst. SANU, Serbia Poncelet porism and elliptical billiards
Oct. 4, 2012 Chandrashekhar Khare University of California, Los Angeles, USA Ray class groups and generalised Jacobians
Sep. 27, 2012 Bernhard Heim German University of Technology, Oman On a hidden property of Borcherds products
Sep. 13, 2012 Vaibhav Vaish TIFR Weightless Cohomology of Algebraic Varieties
Sep. 6, 2012 Umesh K.V. Dubey TIFR Spectrum of tensor triangulated catgories
Aug. 30, 2012 Dinakar Ramakrishnan California Institute of Technology, USA Residual Albanese quotients of Picard modular surfaces, and rational points
Aug. 16, 2012 Dikran Karagueuzian Binghamton University, USA Finiteness for the Module Structure of a Group Action on a Polynomial Ring
Aug. 14, 2012 R. Parimala Emory University, USA Period-index problem for the Brauer group
Aug. 9, 2012 Jinhyun Park Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Algebraic cobordism and algebraic equivalence
Aug. 2, 2012 Chung Pang Mok McMaster University, Canada Introduction to Arthur's work on classification of automorphic representations on classical groups
Jul. 27, 2012 Anish Ghosh University of East Anglia, U.K. Diophantine approximation on varieties
Jul. 19, 2012 Neena Gupta On locally Laurent polynomial algebras
Jul. 12, 2012 Ralph Greenberg University of Washington, USA The $p$-adic $L$-functions of Kubota and Leopoldt
Jul. 5, 2012 Gautam Bharali Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore On the dynamics of holomorphic correspondences on the 2-sphere
Jul. 2, 2012 David Gabai Princeton University, USA Volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Jun. 28, 2012 T.N. Shorey Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai abc conjecture
Jun. 21, 2012 Arvind N. Nair TIFR Scissors congruence of polyhedra in Euclidean and Hyperbolic spaces
Jun. 14, 2012 Nitin Nitsure TIFR Algebraic Functions and Analytic Functions
May 31, 2012 Michael Hopkins Harvard University, USA Smooth and Hodge filtered cohomology theories
May 10, 2012 N. Mohan Kumar Washington University, USA Pfaffian representations of quintics
May 7, 2012 F.T. Farrell Binghamton University, USA Bundles with negatively curved fibers
May 3, 2012 Shrawan Kumar University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Equivariant $K$-theory of flag varieties
Apr. 26, 2012 S.E. Rao TIFR Integrable modules for a Lie Torus
Apr. 19, 2012 S.K. Ray Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Fourier restriction theorem on Riemannian symmetric spaces of noncompact type
Mar. 22, 2012 Amit Hogadi TIFR Fundamental group of varieties in positive characteristic
Mar. 15, 2012 Adrian Jenkins Iowa State University, USA Local Non-Archimedean Dynamical Systems in Two Variables
Mar. 7, 2012 C. Gasbarri University of Strasbourg, France On the canonical degree of curves on varieties of general type
Mar. 1, 2012 C.S. Rajan TIFR On the irreducibility of irreducible characters of simple Lie algebras
Feb. 16, 2012 Masanori Morishita Kyushu University, Japan Knots and Primes
Feb. 9, 2012 L. Lafforgue IHES, France Are there kernels of functoriality?
Feb. 2, 2012 Michel Brion Institute Fourier, France Counting points of homogeneous varieties over finite fields
Jan. 19, 2012 Spencer Bloch University of Chicago, USA Tree-terated integrals and motives related to the fundamental group
Jan. 13, 2012 Hung Yean Loke National University of Singapore Dual reductive pairs, and Exceptional Lie groups
Dec. 15, 2011 S.S. Abhyankar Purdue University, USA Curvettes and Jacobian Problem
Dec. 8, 2011 M. Ram Murty Queen's University, Canada The Mathematical Legacy of Srinivasa Ramanujan
Dec. 1, 2011 S. Ramanan Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai Higgs pairs and the Hitchin map
Nov. 17, 2011 Steven T. Spallone TIFR Residues of Intertwining Operators for Classical Groups
Nov. 3, 2011 Mihai-Marius Tibar University of Lille-1, France Betti bounds of polynomials
Oct. 20, 2011 Romie Banerjee TIFR Non-Abelian Grothendieck Duality and Stable Homotopy
Oct. 13, 2011 Mousumi Mandal TIFR On the Negativity of the first Hilbert coefficient
Sep. 29, 2011 Somnath Jha TIFR Fine Selmer group of Hida deformations
Sep. 22, 2011 Frank Neumann University of Leicester, U.K. Towards the rational homotopy type of moduli stacks of G-bundles on curves
Sep. 15, 2011 Girja Shanker Tripathi School of Mathematics, TIFR Representing hermitian K-theory by orthogonal Grassmannian in $A^1$-homotopy theory
Sep. 8, 2011 Mahuya Dutta I.S.I., Kolkata Lipschitz Isometric Maps for Pairs of Riemannian Metrics
Aug. 25, 2011 Mahesh Kakde University College, London, U.K. On main conjectures in non-commutative Iwasawa theory
Aug. 23, 2011 Roy Joshua Ohio State University, U.S.A. What is an Algebraic stack?
Aug. 18, 2011 S. Tariq Rizvi The Ohio State University, U.S.A. Baer rings: A module theoretic analogue and related notions
Aug. 11, 2011 Volker Heiermann University of Marseille, France Representations of p-adic groups and Hecke algebras
Aug. 4, 2011 Prakash Belkale University of North Carolina Unitarity of the KZ/Hitchin connection on conformal blocks in genus 0
Jul. 28, 2011 A. Raghuram Oklahoma State University, USA From Calculus to Number Theory: An introduction to the special values of L-functions
Jul. 21, 2011 Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury University of Texas-Pan American, USA Optimal points for a probability distribution on a Cantor set
Jul. 14, 2011 Chandrasheel R. Bhagwat TIFR On spectral analogues of strong multiplicity one theorem
Apr. 21, 2011 Partha Chakrabarty Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Around the local index formula
Apr. 7, 2011 S. D. Adhikari Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad Two classical results in Additive Combinatorics:Some related recent results
Mar. 31, 2011 Tony J. Puthenpurakal Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai On the intersection of annihilator of the Valabrega-valla module
Mar. 24, 2011 N. Onoda Fukui University, Japan Some results on finite generation of algebras of certain type
Mar. 17, 2011 T. Asanuma Toyama University, Japan On the Jacobian conjecture
Mar. 15, 2011 Philip Candelas Oxford University Periods of Calabi-Yau Manifolds in Physics and Number Theory
Mar. 10, 2011 Rudra Sarkar Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Characterization of eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on Riemannian symmetric spaces of noncompact typ
Mar. 7, 2011 P. Philippon University of Paris, France Approximation of algebraic numbers by algebraic numbers of given degree
Mar. 3, 2011 Urmie Ray University of Reims, France Weyl Character and super-character formulae for finite dimensional and affine Lie superalgebras wit
Feb. 10, 2011 Matthias Stemmler TIFR Stability and Hermitian-Einstein metrics for vector bundles on framed manifolds
Feb. 3, 2011 Jinhyun Park KAIST, Korea What can an algebraic geometer do for Euclidean geometry?
Jan. 27, 2011 Nikolai Vavilov St. Petersburg State University, Russia New results on subgroups of classical groups
Jan. 20, 2011 Ajneet S Dhillon University of Western Ontario Tamagawa numbers of algebraic groups and geometry
Jan. 13, 2011 Srilakshmi Krishnamoorthy TIFR Modular degrees of elliptic curves
Jan. 6, 2011 H'el`ene Esnault University of Essen, Germany Rational Points and Motivic Integration
Dec. 24, 2010 Sergey Yuzvinsky University of Oregon, USA Cohomology jumping loci of arrangement complements and beyond
Dec. 23, 2010 Pierrette Cassou-Nogues University of Bordeaux, France On polynomial maps from $C^2$ to $C$ and to $C^2$
Dec. 16, 2010 Amod Agashe University of Florida, USA Visibility and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for analytic rank one
Dec. 14, 2010 Mahan Maharaj Vivekananda University Geometry and dynamics of Kleinian groups
Dec. 2, 2010 V.G. Narasimha Kumar TIFR On Local Galois Representations attached to Automorphic Forms
Nov. 22, 2010 Kaushal Verma Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Two questions on holomorphic mappings between domains in C^n
Nov. 18, 2010 V. Srinivas TIFR Cycles on a generic complex abelian 3-fold
Nov. 11, 2010 Gerald Gotsbacher TIFR Eisenstein series in the cohomology of locally symmetric spaces
Nov. 4, 2010 Michael Lennox Wong TIFR Hecke Modifications, Wonderful Compactifications and Moduli of Principal Bundles
Oct. 28, 2010 Soumya Das TIFR Non vanishing of Jacobi Poincar\'e series and the structure of Hermitian Jacobi forms
Oct. 21, 2010 Sangjib Kim TIFR Polynomial representations of GL(n,C) and related combinatorics
Oct. 14, 2010 Viji Z. Thomas TIFR On the nonabelian tensor product and the box-tensor product of groups
Oct. 7, 2010 Frank Neumann University of Leicester, U.K. Weil conjectures for the moduli stack of vector bundles on algebraic curves
Sep. 30, 2010 Georg Schumacher University of Marburg, Germany Positivity of relative canonical bundles and applications
Sep. 23, 2010 W. Casselman University of British Columbia What is the Fundamental Lemma?
Sep. 17, 2010 Winfried Kohnen University of Heidelberg, Germany Generalised modular functions and their characters
Sep. 9, 2010 Debraj Chakrabarti Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai The Cauchy-Riemann Equations on a Product Domain
Sep. 3, 2010 Jean Fasel Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerl Grothendieck-Witt groups and projective modules
Apr. 22, 2010 Sudhir Ghorpade Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai Maximal linear sections of Grassmannians
Apr. 15, 2010 Alok K. Maharana TIFR Cyclic covers of A²
Mar. 18, 2010 S.K. Roushon TIFR The Isomorphism Conjecture for groups acting on trees
Mar. 11, 2010 Otmar Venjakob Universitat Heidelberg, Germany Are L-functions able to solve Diophantine equations?
Mar. 2, 2010 S. Lichtenbaum Brown University, USA Zeta-functions and Weil-etale cohomology of number rings
Feb. 25, 2010 Xavier Viennot University of Bordeaux, France At the crossroad of algebra, combinatorics and physics
Feb. 18, 2010 M.A. Sofi Kashmir University, Srinagar On certain curious aspects of finite-dimensionality phenomena arising in functional analysis
Feb. 11, 2010 Ludovic Marquis l'Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France Convex Projective Manifold of finite volume
Feb. 4, 2010 Lawrence Breen University of Paris-13, France Combinatorial differential forms'
Jan. 28, 2010 Chandrashekhar Khare UCLA, USA Modularity of Galois representations
Jan. 21, 2010 Marco Antei University of Lille, France Galois closure of essentially finite morphisms
Jan. 14, 2010 Arati Khairnar Cohomology theory for topological groups
Jan. 7, 2010 S.S. Abhyankar Purdue University, USA Dicritical divisors and Jacobian problem
Dec. 31, 2009 Gordan Savin University of Utah, Salt Lake, USA Geometry of binary hermitian forms
Dec. 17, 2009 Shmuel Friedland University of Illinois at Chicago On the eigenvalues of graphs: results and conjectures
Dec. 10, 2009 Anisa M.H. Chorwadwala TIFR Isoperimetric Inequalities in Mathematical Physics
Oct. 26, 2009 Sreekrishna Palaparthi TIFR Lengths of closed geodesics in a hyperbolic link complements in S3
Oct. 1, 2009 Supriya Pisolkar TIFR Norm Maps in Local fields and computation of zero cycles
Sep. 24, 2009 Sarang Sane TIFR Obstruction theory for projective modules
Sep. 3, 2009 Mitsuyasu Hashimoto Nagoya University, Japan Sheaves with group actions and invariant theory
Aug. 20, 2009 Laurent Clozel Universite Paris-Sud, France The Heisenberg principle and positivity
Aug. 6, 2009 Ritabrata Munshi Rutgers University, U.S.A. Non-vanishing of L-functions
Jul. 23, 2009 Manuel de Leon Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas(ICMAT), Spain Recent results in nonholonomic dynamics
Apr. 2, 2009 Harish Seshadri Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Sphere Theorems