Past seminar colloquium

Abstract:  Hardy - Littlewood maximal function is one of the most fundamental operators in real analysis with many applications in different areas. In the seminar we will discuss about the Hardy- Littlewood function on sphere and its properties. Also the maximal function on sphere for weighted integral in case of Dunkl operator will be discussed.

Abstract: I will introduce to the basics of the machinery of motivic homotopy theory and explain some of the foundational aspects of the theory in the study of algebraic varieties.

Randomly evolving systems with components that interact with each other have been of great interest in research. In particular, in this talk, we will discuss interacting urn processes with reinforcement. We consider N interacting two-colour Friedman urns and discuss the synchronization limit and fluctuation theorems. Theinteraction model considered is such that the reinforcement of each urn depends on the fraction of balls of a particular colour in that urn as well as the overall fractionof balls of that colour in all urns combined. Further extensions and applications to understanding opinion dynamics on networks etc. will also be discussed.

An automorphism T of a locally compact group is said to be distal if the closure of the T-orbit of any nontrivial element stays away from the identity. We discuss some properties of distal actions on groups. We will also relate any distal group with the behaviour of convolution powers of probability measures on it. (This would be a survey talk and most of it would be accessible to most people.)

For simple versus simple hypothesis testing, the famous Neyman-Pearson lemma (1933) provides the best fixed sample size test procedure that has minimum type II error among all the tests that control type I error at some prescribed level. However, it is well-known that even such a best test cannot guarantee control of type II error while retaining the type I error control as long as the sample size is fixed. Abraham Wald (1943) extended the Neyman-Pearson lemma for sequentially observed data by introducing the Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPRT) that simultaneously controls type I and type II error probabilities at some prefixed levels. In this talk, I will be discussing this test procedure along with boundary conditions, average sample size, the optimality property of SPRT and truncated SPRT. If time permits, I will discuss how to extend this idea for testing k (>2) simple-vs-simple hypotheses with the goal of selecting the correct hypothesis. This problem is known as Multi-hypothesis sequential probability ratio test (MSPRT).

In this talk, we study the configuration of systoles (minimum length geodesics) on closed hyperbolic surfaces. The set of all systoles forms a graph on the surface, in fact a so-called fat graph, which we call the systolic graph. We study which fat graphs are systolic graphs for some surfaces, we call these admissible. There is a natural necessary condition on such graphs, which we call combinatorial admissibility. Our first result characterizes admissibility. It follows that a sub-graph of an admissible graph is admissible. Our second major result is that there are infinitely many minimal non-admissible fat graphs (in contrast, to the classical result that there are only two minimal non-planar graphs).

In the second talk, I will describe some recent developments in and around the question of “effectivity”.

This talk broadly has two parts. The first one is about the signs of Hecke eigenvalues of modular forms and the second is about some results on the magnitude of Hecke eigenvalues of modular forms, especially some Omega results.

Abstract: I shall talk about the Gelfand-Naimark-Segal construction and prove that any general C*-algebra is isometrically ∗-isomorphic to a norm closed subalgebra of B(H) for some Hilbert space H.

 Abstract: The theory of coloring of random graphs has now been studied for  several years  and there are several very exciting results in this  area. We shall see some of the known results in this area, before turning  to a variant on graph coloring (distinguishing coloring) and discuss  results on the distinguishing chromatic number of random cayley graphs.

The aim of this talk is to describe some conjectures which are part of the Langlands program.The talk is aimed at non-experts and should be accessible to a broad audience. 

Functional Data Analysis is one of the frontline areas of research in statistics. The field has grown considerably mainly due to the plethora of data types that cannot be handled and analyzed by using conventional multivariate statistical techniques. Such data are very common in areas of meteorology, chemometrics, biomedical sciences, linguistics, finance etc .The lecture series will primarily aim at introducing the field of functional data analysis. Since functional data analysis is broadly defined as the statistical analysis of data, which are in the form of curves or functions, we will start with probability distributions and random elements in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces, concepts of mean and covariance kernel/operator, the associated Karhunen-Loeve expansion and some standard limit theorems in Hilbert spaces. We will then discuss some selected statistical inference problems involving functional data like inference for mean and covariance operators, functional principal component analysis, functional linear models, classification problem with functional data, robust inference techniques for functional data etc. We will recall some results from functional analysis as and when required during the lectures.

The Schur multiplier of a finite group is the second cohomology group with complex coefficients. It was introduced in the beginning of 20th century by Issai Schur in his work on projective representations. Since then they have been proved to be a powerful tool in group theory. To determine the Schur multiplier of a given finite group is often a difficult task. Therefore it is of interest to provide bounds for the numerical qualities such as the order, exponent and the rank of the Schur multiplier. In this talk we shall provide sharp lower and upper bounds for the order of some special p-groups and classify their covering groups.

Abstract: We shall begin with the homotopy invariance property of K-theory.After reviewing monoids and monoid algebras, we present some results which aremonoid version of the homotopy invariance property in K-theory. This answers a question ofGubeladze. Next, we will discuss the monoid version of Weibel's vanishing conjectureand some results in this direction. Finally, we will talk about the homology stability for groups.Here we present a result which improves homology stability for symplectic groups.If the time permits, some application of the homology stability will be given to the hermitian K-theory.  

A partition of a square matrix A is said to be equitable if all the block of the partitioned matrix have constant row sums and each of the diagonal block is of square order. A quotient matrix Q of a square matrix A corresponding to an equitable partition is a matrix whose entries are the constat row sums of the corresponding blocks of A. A quotient matrix is an useful tool to find some eigenvalues of the matrix A. I will discuss some matrices whose eigenvalues are the eigenvalues of A and which are not the eigenvalues of a quotient matrix. Using this result we find eigenvalue localization theorems for matrices having an equitable partition. Finally, I will discuss some problems related to distance regular graph, Gersgorin disk theorem and distance matrix of graphs.

The study of projective representations has a long history starting with the pioneering work of Schur for finite groups (1904). It involves understanding the homomorphisms from a group into the projective general linear groups. Two essential ingredients to study the group’s projective representations are describing its Schur multiplier and representation group. In the first half of my talk, l shall start with a brief introduction to this topic. Then we shall discuss about the Schur multiplier of p-groups and give a characterization of non-abelian p-groups having Schur multiplier of maximum order. In the second half, we shall study the projective representations of discrete Heisenberg groups by describing its Schur multiplier and representation group. I shall finish my talk by discussing some future problems in this direction.

To any strongly continuous orthogonal representation of real line R on a real Hilbert space H , Hiai constructed q-deformed Araki-Woods von Neumann algebras for −1 < q <1, which are von Neumann algebras arising from non tracial representations of the q-commutation relations, the latter yielding an interpolation between Bosonic and Fermionic statistics. We settle that these von Neumann algebras are factors whenever dim(H ) ≥ 3 and completely determine their type.  In the process we obtain and discuss ‘generator masas’ in these factors and establish that they are strongly mixing.

Let M be a compact manifold without boundary. One can define a smooth real valued function of the space of Riemannian metrics of M by taking Lp-norm of Riemannian curvature for p ≥ 2. Compact irreducible locally symmetric spaces are critical metrics for this functional. I will show that rank 1 symmetric spaces are local minima for this functional by studying stability of the same at those metrics. I will also exhibit examples of symmetric metrics which are not local minima for it. In the 2nd part of my talk I will talk about Wilking’s criterion for Ricci Flow. B Wilking has recently shown that one can associate a Ricci flow invariant cone of curvature operators C(S), which are nonnegative in a suitable sense, to every AdSO(n,C) invariant subset S ⊂ so(n,C). We show that if S is an AdSO(n,C) invariant subset of so(n, C) such that S ∪ {0} is closed and C+(S) ⊂ C(S) denotes the cone of curvature operators which are positive in the appropriate sense then one of the two possibilities holds: (a) The connected sum of any two Riemannian manifolds with curvature operators in C+(S) also admits a metric with curvature operator in C+(S) (b) The normalized Ricci flow on any compact Riemannian manifold M with curvature operator in C+(S) converges to a metric of constant positive sectional curvature.

Local Index formula is at the heart of the so called hard Riemannian aspects of Noncommutative Geometry. We will try to see why thisis so important. However so far we have only one computation of the local index formula. We will discuss two more computations. 

We formalize a simple minded notion of ``punctual gluing'' of t-structures which is nevertheless powerful enough to streamline or improve several relative motivic constructions in the literature. Examples include that of relative Artin motive, relative Picard motive, relative analogue of Bondarko's weight structure or the relative motivic t-structure on (compact) 1-motives.As a completely novel construction, we recover analogue of certain S.Morel's weight truncations in the motivic setting. As an application we can construct the analogue of an intersection complex for an arbitrary threefold in (Voevodsky's) triangulated category of mixed motives. Even more strongly, for several Shimura varieties (including all Shimura threefolds, most Shimura fourfolds, the Siegel six fold) we can construct the intersection motive in the category of relative Chow motives.

 We study the limiting behavior of the solutions of Euler equations of one-dimensional compressible fluid flow as the pressure like term vanishes. This system can be thought of as an approximation for the one dimensional model for large scale structure formation of universe. We show that the solutions of former equation converges to the solution of later in the sense of distribution and agrees with the vanishing viscosity limit when the initial data is of Riemann type. 

C*-tensor categories are important descriptors of generalized symmetries appearing in non-commutative analysis and mathematical physics. An important algebra associated to a rigid semisimple C*-tensor category $ \mathcal{C} $ is the tube algebra $ \mathcal{A}\mathcal{C} $. The tube algebra admits a universal C*-algebra, hence has a well behaved representation category. Further, this representation category provides a useful way to describe the analytic properties of initial C*-tensor categories, such as amenability, the Haagerup property, and property (T).With a brief motivation from different directions, in this talk, I will move on to describing the annular algebra $\mathcal{A}\Lambda$ associated to a rigid C*-tensor category $ \mathcal{C} $. The annular representation category of $ \mathcal{C} $ is the category of $*$-representations of the annular algebra $\mathcal{A}\Lambda$. I will then present a description of the annular representation category of free product of two categories with an application to the Fuss-Catalan subfactor planar algebra.We then move onto oriented extensions of subfactor planar algebras (or equivalently singly generated C*-2-categories), which are a class of singly generated C*-tensor categories (or equivalently oriented factor planar algebras). I will end the talk with few problems which could extend this work. 

We consider the problem of offline changepoint estimation in a network-valued time series where the entire series is observed beforehand. We analyze a CUSUM statistic for this problem, and obtain, under minimal conditions, the rate of convergence of the resulting changepoint estimator in terms of three relevant parameters: (i) the (common) network size, (ii) the (common) network sparsity, and (iii) the total number of networks in the series. We also discuss some applications. This is based on on- going joint work with Peter Bickel, Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya, and Shirshendu Chatterjee.

Digital signature is a fundamental cryptographic primitive. It enables an entity to validate the authenticity and integrity of a digital document. In this talk, I will be discussing Group signature, Nominative Signature and Multi-signature. Group signature scheme enables any group member to produce a signature anonymously on behalf of the group and in case of misbehavior, the signer can be traced out. In a nominative signature scheme, a nominator and a nominee jointly produce a signature such that only the nominee can verify the signature. Multisignature is a powerful cryptographic primitive that helps to reduce the bandwidth taken by N signatures from O(N ) to O(1). It provides a group of signers the ability to sign collaboratively a common message in such a way that the size of the multisignature remains the same as that of a single signature and the verifier gets convinced that the message has been signed by all the signers.

In this talk, we discuss our attempts to solve an important open problem regarding Terrain Guarding: is the state-of-the-art polynomial-time approximation scheme for the problem [Gibson2014], a simple local search construct, optimal? In this regard, we first sketch a proof of a recent advancement in this domain by Mustafa and Jartoux [Jartoux2018]. This work proves, for geometric hitting set problems which give rise to arbitrarily large grid-like exchange graphs, that the local search algorithm is indeed optimal. In light of this result, we question if the Terrain Guarding problem can give rise to such grids. We will conclude the talk by laying out a possible plan for future work on this problem.

Abstract: In this talk, using the basics of the Arithmetic that was learned in school, some of the elementary theorems of Number theory will be proven and also a flavor of RSA encryption will be given using the theory discussed.

The prerequisite to attend this talk is just to have a basic high school (till 10th) background in Mathematics.

All are cordially invited 

Classical distribution theory in higher dimensions is largely focused on the Gaussian distribution. However, for the Gaussian distribution it is well known that every marginal distribution, every conditional distribution and all linear transformations are also Gaussian. Besides, it is also obvious that these properties chosen individually are not sufficient conditions to characterize the Gaussian distribution. There are many non-Gaussian distributions which share some of these features with the Gaussian distribution. In the present talk we introduce couple of new theorems which characterizes the Gaussian distribution. Besides, one of the extensive application of the Gaussian distribution will be in classical classification theory. In the current note we also discusses the extensions of classical classification results to the theory of extreme value analysis. Problem in action: Let P and Q be a two sets of probability measures defined on the same sigma field. Let T be a transformation which maps every measure from P to one and only measure in Q. Now, given Q and T can we characterize the set P ? 

In this talk we demonstrate some relations in degenerate Bernoulli polynomials , which may be expressed as a general convolution identity. We also show some properties of hypergeometric degenerate Bernoulli polynomials and numbers.  

The notion of linear Hahn-Banach extension operator was first studied in detail by Heinrich and Mankiewicz (1982). Previously, J. Lindenstrauss (1966) studied similar versions of this notion in the context of non separable reflexive Banach spaces. Subsequently, Sims and Yost (1989) proved the existence of linear Hahn-Banach extension operators via interspersing subspaces in a purely Banach space theoretic set up. In this paper, we study similar questions in the context of Banach modules and module homomorphisms, in particular, Banach algebras of operators on Banach spaces. Based on Dales, Kania, Kochanek, Kozmider and Laustsen(2013), and also Kania and Laustsen (2017), we give complete answers for reflexive Banach spaces and the non-reflexive space constructed by Kania and Laustsen from the celebrated Argyros-Haydon's space with few operators.

Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss some arithmetic and distribution type results on various partition functions, namely, Andrews’ singular overpartitions, cubic and overcubic partition pairs, and Andrews’ integer partitions with even parts below odd parts. We use some dissection formulas of Ramanujan’s theta functions, and arithmetic properties of modular forms and eta-quotients to study the distributions and to find some infinite family congruences of these partition functions. Also, using Radu’s algorithm on modular forms, we prove a conjecture on cubic partition pairs.

The critical group of a graph is an interesting isomorphic invariant. It is a finite abelian group whose order is equal to the number of spanning forests in the graph. The Smith normal form of the graph's Laplacian determines the structure of its critical group. In this presentation, we will consider a family of strongly regular graphs. We will apply representation theory of groups of automorphisms to determine the critical groups of graphs in this family.

Abstract: Employing solution of heat equation, we prove Taylor's theorem with Peano form of the remainder. In addition, we derive the Taylor series of an infinitely differentiable function under the additional assumption that the n'th derivative does not grow faster than the n'th power of some fixed positive constant.

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Abstract: WSNs finds wide applications in both military and civilian arenas of life. They consists of numerous low cost wireless devices, called sensors or nodes that deals with a lot of sensitive data. Due to resource constraints in these sensors, symmetric key systems are preferred over a public key setup in such networks; hence, both the sender and the receiver need to possess the same key prior to message exchange. This can be achieved by various techniques; the most preferred being Key Pre–distribution Schemes (KPS) for resource constraint WSNs. Such schemes involves pre–loading the symmetric cryptographic keys before deployment followed by establishing afterwards. They are refreshed periodically during successive deployment operations. My Ph.D. thesis is directed towards the analysis of existing these KPSs related to the security of WSN. This led to the observation of two major weaknesses in several KPS, namely the 'selective node attack' and the 'lack of full and direct inter-nodal communication' between nodes.  For the first time in the literature of WSNs, we propose the idea of treating communication and connectivity as two separate aspects of any WSN. One may model these two aspects independently and then secure them using two different cryptographic frameworks in order to prevent the prevailing problem of 'selective node attack'. Though the connectivity design is hierarchical, our research outlined its application to distributed networks. Further, this is the first hierarchical WSN structure with the provision for (unlimited) addition and/or replacement of Cluster Heads (CH) , which results in significant improvement in network scalability. This automatically addressed the problems of jamming or capture of CH (or GN). Application of this generic idea to any deterministic KPS yields improvement in resiliency (a standard measure of network security), scalability and communication probability of the combined network.  To address the issue of 'lack of full and direct inter–nodal communication' between nodes in some prominent existing designs, we proposed three unique deterministic merging techniques for those WSNs. The techniques are design­ specific and each assures full communication in the merged network. Critical analysis and comparative study establishes the strength of the designs.  Some of the standard weaknesses present in most existing KPSs motivated us to investigate for systems that have small key ring, and yet are capable of supporting large number of nodes with appreciable resiliency, scalability and communication probability. Our research in this direction led to the proposal of a new KPS based on Unique Factorization of Polynomial Rings over Finite Fields. Barring the resiliency issue, this KPS satisfies all the above properties; and a combination of this KPS with the generic design is well equipped to meet all the desired results.

In this talk, I will discuss an infinite family of numbers involving Briggs-Euler- Lehmer constants, Euler’s constant and linear forms of logarithms of non-zero algebraic numbers. I will show that these infinite family of numbers are transcendental with at most one exception. This result generalizes a recent result of Murty and Zaytseva.

In this lectures, we would discuss probabilistic model of primes leading to heuristics about their distribution. We would see many surprising irregularities popping up alongside expected results. A survey of several recent and important results would be presented in a way accessible to non-experts.

Abstract: In the first part of the talk we discuss a different formulation for describing maximal surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski space $ \mathbb{L}^3:=(\mathbb{R}^3, dx^2+dy^2-dz^2) $ using the identification of $ \mathbb{R}^3 $ with $ \mathbb{C}\times \mathbb{R} $. This description of maximal surfaces help us to give a different proof of the singular Bj\"orling problem for the case of closed real analytic null curve. As an application, we show the existence of maximal surfaces which contain a given closed real analytic spacelike curve and has a special singularity. In the next part we make an observation that the maximal surface equation and Born-Infeld equation (which arises in physics in the context of nonlinear electrodynamics) are related by a Wick rotation. We shall also show that a Born-Infeld soliton can be realised either as a spacelike minimal graph or timelike minimal graph over a timelike plane or a combination of both away from singular points. Finally in the last part of the talk we show the connection of maximal surfaces to analytic number theory through certain Ramanujan’s identities.

Abstract: This talk concerns M. P. Murthy's conjecture on the number of generators of an ideal in the polynomialring over a field. The progress on this conjecture has been quite slow. We shall give an exposition of the partialsolutions obtained so far, which includes a very recent result. 

Recent decades have witnessed significant growth and progress in spatial statistics, with applications in agriculture, epidemiology, geology, image analysis and other areas of environmental science. In recent years, new perspectives have emerged in connecting Gaussian Markov random fields with geostatistical models, and in advancing vast statistical computations. This series of lectures will focus on basic theory and computations of spatial statistics. Topics will include conditional and intrinsic autoregressions, connections between Markov random fields and geostatistics, variogram calculations, h-likelihood methods and matrix-free computations. Applications from agricultural variety trials, environmental sciences and geographical epidemiology will be discussed.

Abstract:Starting with the problem of heat equation witha potential and using Lie-Trotter product formula, Feynmanhas a heuristic way of explaining Brownian Motion.We shall discuss this. If time permits we shall discussWiener and Ito integrals.

In this talk we will briefly talk about the resonance method and some recent progress in the theory of the Riemann zeta function. We will also see some new results on Hardy's Z function, Argument of the Riemann Zeta function, Dirichlet L- functions, Divisor problem and Circle problem as applications of the resonance method. These results have appeared (and some works are under progress) in different manuscripts due to the speaker and coauthors. 

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Abstract: Tensor is a multidimensional array (for example matrix is a tensor of order 2). Tensors often arises from the discretizations of multidimensional functions that are involved in the numerical treatment of complex problems in many different areas of natural, financial or social sciences. The direct numerical treatment of these arrays leads to serious problems like memory requirements and the complexity of basic operations (they grow exponentially in d). In the last decade the approximation of multidimensional arrays has become a central issue in approximation theory and numerial analysis. The main idea of the approximation of a tensor is decomposing the given tensor as sums of outer products of vectors. In the language of functions, it is an approximation of multivariable functions by sums of products of univariate functions. Tensor decompositions has lot of applications in image processing, quantum chemistry, data mining, machine learning stochastic partial differential equations etc.In the matrix case (i.e tensor of order 2), the singular value decomposition (SVD) represents a matrix as sum of outer product of vectors. SVD algorithm requires O(n3) arithmeticoperations (if the matrix is of size n × n). So it is very expensive when the matrix dimensions are large. Various inexpensive techniques of low rank approximation based on skeleton/cross approximation are available in the literature. SVD and its applications, other low rank approximation techniques like RRQR, Interpolative decomposition, randomized algorithms, skeleton/cross approximation techniques will be discussed in the talk. Canonical,Tucker, Tensor Chain and Tensor Train formats for higher order tensors will be introduced.

Abstract: Modular forms are important objects in number theory and it has a wide range of applications in all other branches of Mathematics as well as in Physics. A modular for has Fourier expansion and the Fourier coefficients determine the modular form. Dirichlet series (e.g.,Riemann Zeta function) are important objects in number theory, used to study the distribution and properties of primes. Certain special values of Dirichlet series appears as Fourier coefficients of modular form. Kohnen [1991] constructed certain cusp forms whose Fourier coefficients involve special values of certain Dirichlet series of Rankin type by computing the adjoint map w.r.t. the Petersson scalar product of the product map by a fixed cusp form. Using differential operators one can define certain bilinear operators called the Rankin-Cohen brackets which is generalization of product. Recently the work of Kohnen has been generalized by Herrero [2015], where the author computed the adjoint of the map constructed using Rankin-Cohen brackets instead of product by a fixed cusp form. Fourier coefficients of the image of a cusp form under the adjoint map involves special values of certain Dirichlet series of Rankin-Selberg type similar to the one which appeared in the product case with certain twisting arising from binomial coefficients appearing in the Rankin-Cohen bracket. The work of Kohnen has been generalised to other automorphic forms (e.g., Jacobi forms, Siegel modular forms, Hilbert modular forms etc.,). Rankin-Cohen brackets for Jacobi forms and Siegel modular forms of genus two were studied by Choie explicitly using certain differential operators. Therefore it is natural to ask, how one can extend the work of Herrero to the case of Jacobi forms and Siegel modular forms of genus 2. A part of the thesis discuss about these generalizations. We shall also discuss the similar generaliza- tion for the case of half integral weight modular forms developed by Shimura [1973] and as a consequence, we get non-vanishing of certain Rankin- Selberg type Dirichlet series associated with modular forms. We shall also see how our method can be used to give a different proof of Rankin’s method in case of certain automorphic forms. 

NB: This is a Thesis Colloquium/Open Seminar, School of Mathematical Sciences, NISER-Bhubaneswar.

In my presentation, I will give some brief introduction to biharmonic submanifold. Also, I will introduce the Chen's conjecture of biharmonic submanifold and present some recent developments of conjecture. 

We will discuss some methods to compute the De-Rham Cohomology of smooth manifolds. We will discuss how to apply Mayer-Vietoris (which is the analogue of Van-Kampen Theorem for (co)homology). 

The Riemann-Roch Theorem is the foundation of the theory of algebraic curves. It gives a precise answer for the dimension of the space L(D) for a divisor D of an algebraic curve. The qualitative information that a Riemann surface is an algebraic curve is seen to be equivalent to more quantitative statement of Riemann-Roch.As an application of Riemann-Roch Theorem, it can be shown that any Algebraic curve can be holomorphically embedded into projective space. Any genus zero algebraic curve is isomorphic to the Riemann Sphere(C∞). Any non-degenerate smooth projective curve X in Pn of minimal degree n is a rational normal curve.

Abstract: In this talk, our focus will be on certain classical results due to Ingham, Levinson and Paley-Wiener which find optimal decay of the Fourier transform of nonzero functions vanishing on `large sets'. We will talk about these theorems in details and their generalizations on the $n$- dimensional Euclidean space, the $n$-dimensional torus and certain non-commutative Lie groups. 

TBA

Potts Model is a model of interacting spins on a crystalline lattice. In this talk we try to define the notion of Quantum Symmetry for Potts Model and try to explore the relations between Quantum Symmetry on Potts Model and Quantum Symmetry of the underlying graph structure. This is based On Joint work with Prof. Debashish Goswami.

Abstract: Enumerative geometry of curves in the complex projective plane is very classical. In this talk, we consider two generalisations of classical enumerative geometric problems of curves in the plane. We consider curves in  that lie inside a  in ; such curves are called planar curves. We discuss the enumeration of degree  planar curves in  having  nodes and another singularity of codimension , and that intersect  generic lines and pass through  generic points in , where  with . We also count the number of elliptic () curves of degree  in a del Pezzo surface  that pass through  generic points of .

Abstract: Lattice points contained in regions of the plane, and higher dimensional Euclidean spaces, have been a topic of much study, going back at least to the century-old work of Minkowski. In recent decades there have been many developments in the general area, with many new insights brought in. The talk will aim at giving a flavour of the ideas involved, at a rudimentary level.

Tea: 3.30 p.m

Centerless Lie tori play an important role in explicitly constructing the extended affine Lie algebras; they play similar role as derived algebras modulo center play in the realization of affine Kac-Moody algebras. In this talk we consider the universal central extension of a centerless Lie torus and classify its irreducible integrable modules when the center acts non-trivially. They turn out to be highest weight modules for the direct sum of finitely many affine Lie algebras upto an automorphism.

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This talk basically consists of two parts. First is, attacks on the stream cipher 'Sprout' and the second is, constructions of T-function, which carries good cryptographic properties.The design Specification of Sprout was proposed at FSE, 2015. Firstly, I will discuss about fault attack on Sprout then I will talk about the weak key-IV pairs of the same cipher. The second part of my talk deals with a new and interesting cryptographic primitive known as 'T-function', which was introduced by Klimov and Shamir in 2003. I will discuss its construction along with its various properties.

This will be the second lecture of a series of five on Finite Fields.

This is a Short Lecture Series in Mathematics (SLSM) consisting of 4 lectures of 90 minutes each. This is the second lecture in this series.

Abstract: The first half of the mini course will be an introducing to the two classical models of random graphs (a.k.a. Erdős-Rényi random graphs) and discuss the phenomenon of phase transition. We will also discuss thresholds for monotonic properties with examples including connectivity threshold and sub-graph containment threshold.

In the second half of the course we will consider other kind of random graphs. In particular, we will discuss various models for complex networks, including Albert-Barabási preferential attachment models. We will discuss "scale-freeness", asymptotic degree distribution and "small-world phenomenon". Properties of super and sub-linear preferential attachment models and some recent developments in de-preferential attachment models will also be discussed.

If time permits we will also introduce the random geometric graphs and discuss asymptotic of the connectivity threshold.

In 1931 Plancherel and Polya observed the following amusing fact: If the averages of a locally integrable function on \mathbb R over balls of radius R with center x converges to f(x) for all x as R goes to infinity then f(x)=ax+b for some real numbers a and b. They went on to show that in higher dimension the limit of ball averages is a harmonic function. We shall talk about a generalization of this result for Riemannian symmetric spaces of noncompact type with rank one.

Abstract: Let $p$ be a prime number. The two-dimensional crystalline representations of the local Galois group $\mathrm{Gal}(\bar\Q_p|\Q_p)$ are parametrized by the pairs $(k,a)$ up to twists, where $k\geq 2$ is an integer and $a\in m_{\bar\Z_p}$, the maximal ideal in the ring of integers of $\bar\Q_p$. We are interested in studying the map$(k,a)\mapsto \bar V_{k,a}$, where $\bar V_{k,a}$ denotes the semisimplified mod $p$ reduction of a typical crystalline representation $V_{k,a}$. These reductions have been computed when $k\leq 2p+1$ or when $a$ has a small $p$-adic valuation. Using the theory of Wach modules, Laurent Berger has also shown that the map displayed above is locally constant with respect to both the variables and found an explicit bound on the radius of local constancy when %$k$ is fixed and$a$ varies (2012). However, if $a$ is fixed and $k$ varies, nothing more than the existence is known about the radius of local constancy. So we ask the following simple question: for any given $p$-adic integer $a$, how close do $k$ and $k'$ need to be in the weight space to ensure that $\bar V_{k,a}\cong\bar V_{k',a}$? We give a partial answer to this question using some explicit computations in the automorphic side of the $p$-adic and mod $p$ Local Langlands Correspondences for $\GL_2(\Q_p)$. 

Let $\Gamma\subset \overline{\mathbb Q}^{\times}$ be a  
finitely generated multiplicative group of algebraic numbers.  Let  
$\delta, \beta\in\overline{\mathbb Q}^\times$  be  algebraic numbers  
with $\beta$ irrational.  In this talk,  I will prove  that  there  
exist only finitely many triples $(u, q,  p)\in\Gamma\times\mathbb{Z}^2$
with $d = [\mathbb{Q}(u):\mathbb{Q}]$  such that
$$
0<|\delta qu+\beta-p|<\frac{1}{H^\varepsilon(u)q^{d+\varepsilon}},
$$
where $H(u)$ denotes  the absolute Weil height.  As an application of  
this result, we also prove a transcendence result, which states as  
follows:  Let $\alpha>1$ be a real number. Let $\beta$ be an algebraic  
irrational and  $\lambda$ be a non-zero real algebraic number.   For a  
given real number $\varepsilon >0$, if there are infinitely many  
natural numbers $n$ for which  $||\lambda\alpha^n+\beta|| < 2^{-  
\varepsilon n}$ holds true, then  $\alpha$ is transcendental, where  
$||x||$ denotes the distance from its nearest integer.

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Abstract: In this talk, we will prove a fundamental theorem on differential geometry, namely the embedding theorem due to Hassler Whitney, which shows that every smooth manifold can be embedded into a Euclidean space.

Multiple zeta values are the real numbers defined by the convergent series $\displaystyle\zeta(a_1,\ldots,a_r):=\sum_{n_1>n_2>\cdots>n_r\geq1}\frac{1}{n_1^{a_1}\ldots n_r^{a_r}}$, where $a_1,\ldots,a_r$ are positive integers with $a_1>1.$ They are generalization of classical Riemann zeta values to more variables. In this talk, we shall classify all the convergent sequences of multiple zeta values which do not converge to $0.$Using this classification, we will completely describe the iterated derived sets of the set of multiple zeta values in $\mathbb{R}.$Our results will imply that the set of multiple zeta values, ordered by $\geq,$ is a well-ordered set.We will also determine its type of order, which is $\omega^3,$ where $\omega$ is the order type of the set $\mathbb{N}$ of positive integers. Finally, using these results we shall show that there are only finitely many multiple zeta values which all represent the same value. It is in fact expected that there are at most two multiple zeta values that represents the same value!

Lecture series abstract: We will survey the von Neumann algebraic approach to locally compact quantum groups in the sense of Kustermans and Vaes, roughly following the treatment by Van Daele. We will begin with an intro to the theory of weights of von Neumann algebras. We will then proceed to describe locally compact quantum groups. If there is any time left, we will present some recent progress in the field. The prerequisite for attending the talks is some basic knowledge of C*-algebras (and perhaps also von Neumann algebras, depending on the audience).

Abstract: Stream cipher plays an important role in cryptography. The basic component of stream cipher is Linear Feedback Shift Registrar. Here we will discuss about the general construction of a LFSR based stream cipher and the cryptanalysis of stream cipher.

I will discuss the distribution of some arithmetic and geometric objects and describe the basic tools used to study questions of equidistribution.

Abstract: Horrocks' Theorem is an indispensable tool to prove Quillen-Suslin Theorem, which gives a sufficient condition for finitely generated projective modules to be free. In this talk, we will talk about a version of Horrocks' Theorem which uses concepts of completable unimodular rows over a ring. First, we will prove the theorem for local rings, then generalize it using the Local-Global Principle. 

Abstract: In this talk we will describe Random Graph through two models, 'Binomial Random Graph' and 'Erdos-Rényi' random graph. We will describe some of their properties and the relation between them. Further we will discuss threshold function of a graph property and how graph properties vary as the number of edges of a random graph increases. 

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The Lie groups were discovered by Sophus Lie around 1880 while searching for a framework to analyze the continuous symmetries of differential equations in much the same way as permutation groups are used in Galois theory for analylyzing the discrete symmetries of algebraic equations. One of the important idea in the theory of Lie groups is to replace the gobal object, the group, with its local or linearized version which Lie called its “infinitesimal group”, now known as its Lie algebra. Around 1940, after Elie Cartan’s beautiful classification of finite dimensional semisimple Lie algebras, Lie algebras emerged as an independent branch of Algebra. An important class of infinite dimensional Lie algebras generalizing the finite dimensional semisimple Lie algebras were discovered independently by Victor Kac and Robert Moody in 1968.  An important family of these infinite Lie algebras is known as affine Lie algebras. These Lie algebras have proved to be very important with interactions in many areas of mathematics and physics. One such interaction is with number theory, particularly combinatorial identities.  In this talk I will give an overview of some applications in this direction.

• Title: The sign of the Gauss sum  
• Abstract: One way to understand the connections between two different structures is to mix the two and to observe the resulting object! This is what Gauss did when he started his study of what is now called a Gauss sum. A Gauss sum is a mix of an additive map with a multiplicative map, where both the operations are done modulo a fixed prime number. It is not hard to see that the value of the most interesting case of the Gauss sum, appropriately normalized, is either $\pm 1$ or $\pm \imath$. However, Gauss proved in 1805, apparently it took four years for him to do this (!), that it is always $1$ or $\imath$. We'll discuss this result of Gauss and some of its generalizations.

There is a deep interplay between geometry and holomorphic function theory on domains in $\mathbb{C}^n$, $n>1$, which is quite unlike the situation in $\mathbb{C}$. This leads to striking new phenomena in higher dimensions that are absent in the one dimensional setting. We will begin by exploring classical results of this nature - Hartogs extension phenomenon and biholomorphic inequivalence of the ball and polydisc. We will then proceed to discuss more recent results concerning the tangential Lipschitz gain of holomorphic functions and a smoothing property of the Bergman projection.

The study of of degree d curves in $\mathbb{CP}^2$ is one of the interesting topic which arises in the context of Enumerative Geometry. The specific problem, which I will talk about, can be stated as follows:

Let $\mathbb{CP}^2$ be a compact complex surface and $L \rightarrow \mathbb{CP}^2$ a holomorphic line bundle that is sufficiently ample. Let $\mathcal{D} := \mathbb{P}^\frac{d(d+3)}{2}$ be the space of all degree d complex curves in $\mathbb{CP}^2$ - What is $\mathcal{N}(\mathfrak{X}_{k})$, the number of curves in $\mathbb{CP}^2$, passing through $\frac{d(d+3)}{2} -k$ generic points, having singularity of type $\mathfrak{X}_{k}$, where $k$ is the codimension of the singularity $\mathfrak{X}_{k}$?

In this talk we will describe what is a zero set of vector bundle over $\mathbb{CP}^2$ and then calculate $\mathcal{N}({A_1})$ for degree d complex curves in $\mathbb{CP}^2$. Here
$\mathcal{N}({A_1})$ represents number of degree d curves in $\mathbb{CP}^2$ passing through $\frac{d(d+3)}{2} -1$ points having $A_1$ singularity. 

Recent decades have witnessed significant growth and progress in spatial statistics, with applications in agriculture, epidemiology, geology, image analysis and other areas of environmental science. In recent years, new perspectives have emerged in connecting Gaussian Markov random fields with geostatistical models, and in advancing vast statistical computations. This series of lectures will focus on basic theory and computations of spatial statistics. Topics will include conditional and intrinsic autoregressions, connections between Markov random fields and geostatistics, variogram calculations, h-likelihood methods and matrix-free computations. Applications from agricultural variety trials, environmental sciences and geographical epidemiology will be discussed. 

Abstract: Gauge theories, which have their origin in physics, have had a profound effect on mathematics and nowhere is it more strikingly evident than in dimension four. Seiberg-Witten equations and Seiberg-Witten invariants have proven to be powerful instruments for the study of smooth structures on four-manifolds.

In my talk, I will introduce the equations and talk about a generalisation of the same. Almost all the well-known gauge theories on four-manifolds can be treated as special case of this generalisation. I will then discuss some of my latest results that show an interesting pattern, in which a class of such gauge theories on four-manifolds can be thought of as statements about de-generate metrics. I will then discuss some consequences of this observation and end the talk with some research directions I plan to pursue. 

In 1980s Goldman introduced various Lie algebra structures on the free vector space generated by the free homotopy classes of closed curves in any orientable surface F. Naturally the universal enveloping algebra and the symmetric algebra of these Lie algebras admit a Poisson algebra structure. In this talk I will define and discuss some properties of these Poisson algebras. I will briefly explain their connections with symplectic structure of moduli space and the skein algebras of $F\times [0,1]$. This is an ongoing work with Prof. Moira Chas.

A basis of the centralizer algebra for the action of the complex reflection group G(r, p, n) on the tensor product of its reflection representa- tion was given by Tanabe, and for p = 1, the corresponding partition algebra was studied by Orellana. In this talk, we first define the partition algebra for G(r, p, n) and call it Tanabe algebra. Along with the corresponding Schur–Weyl duality, using a confluence of ideas from Okounkov–Vershik approach, Clifford theory and higher Specht polynomials, we give a parametrization of the irreducible modules of Tanabe algebras and construct the Bratteli dia- gram. Furthermore, we give Jucys–Murphy elements and their actions on the canonical Gelfand–Tsetlin basis of irreducible modules of Tanabe algebras. In the process, we also obtain some new results in the representation theory of complex reflection groups. The results presented in this talk form a part of a joint work with Dr. Shraddha Srivastava.

 The Channel  Assignment problem(CAP)  is a general framework focused on point-to-point communication, e.g.  in radio  or mobile telephone networks.  One of its main  threads asks for an assignment of frequencies or frequency channels to transmitters while keeping interference at an acceptable level and  making  use of the available  channels  in an  efficient  way. Thus  the main  task  of the channels  assignment  problem  is to assign channels to the station in a way that avoids interference and uses spectrum as efficient as possible. Radio  k-colorings of graphs is a variation of channels  assignment problem. For  a  simple connected graph  G with  diameter  q, and  an integer  k, 1 6 k 6 q, a radio  k-coloring of G is an assignment f of non-negative integers  to the vertices  of G such that |f (u) − f (v)| > k + 1 − d(u, v) for each pair  of distinct  vertices  u and v of G, where d(u, v) is the distance between u and  v in G.  The  span  of a radio k-coloring f , rck (f ), is the maximum  integer assigned by it to some vertex of G.  The radio  k-chromatic number,  rck (G)  of G is min{rck (f )}, where the minimum  is taken over all possible radio k-colorings f of G.  For k = q and k = q − 1 the radio k-chromatic number  of G is termed as the radio  number  (rn(G)) and antipodal  number  (ac(G)) of G respectively.  Radio  k-chromatic number  is known for very limited  families of graphs  and specific values of k (e.g.  k = q, q − 1, q − 2).For this research talk only we discuss the results which are related to the radio number  of graphs. For an n-vertex graph  G, we shall discuss about a lower bound  of rn(G) which depends  on a parameter based on a Hamiltonian path in a metric closure Gc  (an  n-vertex complete weighted graph  where weight of an edge uv is dG (u, v)).   Using this  result  we show that how we can derive  lower bounds  of rn(Cn ), rn(Pm   Pn ), rn(Cm   Cn ),  rn(Cm   Pn ) and  rn(Km   Cn ).   For  any  tree  T  an  improved  lower bound  of radio  number depending  on maximum  weight Hamiltonian path of T have been shown.  Next we discuss about an upper bound  of rn(G) by giving a coloring scheme that works for general graph  and  depends  on the partition of the vertex  set  V (G)  into  two  partite sets  satisfying  some conditions.   We investigate  the radio  number  of power of cycles (C r ), Toroidal  Grids Tm,n.  We present an algorithm  which gives a radio coloring of a graph G.  For an n-vertex graph  the running  time of this algorithm  is O(n4 ). 

Hyperbolic systems of conservation laws appear in many different areain Physics and has a history of more than 200 years. It became part of the morderntheory of analysis of PDES just 65 years ago. Now this theory is a well developedbranch of Analysis. Aim of this talk is to tell this story. The first part of thetalk is concerned with the Lax- Glimm theory of classical shocks and wellposednessof initial value problem. The second part is on initial boundary value problemfor systems and different formulation based on entropy inequalities and boundarylayers. We touch up on the recent work in the subject with Anupam Pal Chaudhuryand P.G.LeFloch

Abstact: Radon-Nikodym theorem of measure theory was proved in 1930 and A. N. Kolmogorov laid the foundation of modern probability in 1933 where the formal played a crucial role. In this Short Lecture Series in Mathematics (SLSM), we discuss the conditioning of probability theory in the light of Radon-Nikodym theorem. Upon the interest of the audience, we may introduce the notion of martingals and their convergence theorems. We have scheduled these lectures in the F-slot of Thursday and planned to go in accordance with the pace of the audience. Basic understanding of measure theory and functional analysis will be the prerequisite.

Chirp signals are frequently used in different areas of science and engineering. MCMCbased Bayesian inference is done here for purpose of one step and multiple step prediction incase of one dimensional single chirp signal with i.i.d. error structure as well as dependenterror structure with exponentially decaying covariances. We use Gibbs sampling techniqueand random walk MCMC to update the parameters. We perform five simulationstudies for illustration purpose. We also do some real data analysis to show how the methodis working in practice.

Economic inequality arises due to the inequality in the distribution of income and assets among individuals or groups within a society, or region or even between countries. For continuous evaluation of different economic policies taken by the government, computation of Gini index periodically for the whole country or state or region is very important. But not all countries can afford or do not collect data from households in a relatively large scale periodically.In order to compute a confidence interval of Gini index for a particular country or a region at given time, there exist fixed-sample size methods. However, for achieving a level of accuracy of estimation within some pre-specified error bound i.e. for constructing a fixed-width confidence intervals for Gini Index, no fixed sample size methodology can be used. This problem falls in the domain of sequential methodology. To date there does not exist any multi-stage or sequential procedure for constructing fixed-width confidence intervals for Gini Index.In this presentation, a fixed-width confidence interval estimation procedure of Gini index will be presented under simple random sampling scenario along with several asymptotic properties like convergence results on final sample size and also the coverage probability which are proved without any specific distributional assumption.A discussion will be made on use of other sampling schemes as well. 

C*-tensor categories are important descriptors of generalized symmetries appearing in non-commutative analysis and mathematical physics. An important algebra associated to a rigid semisimple C*-tensor category $ \mathcal{C} $ is the tube algebra $ \mathcal{A}\mathcal{C} $. The tube algebra admits a universal C*-algebra, hence has a well behaved representation category. Further, this representation category provides a useful way to describe the analytic properties of initial C*-tensor categories, such as amenability, the Haagerup property, and property (T).With a brief motivation from different directions, in this talk, I will move on to describing the annular algebra $\mathcal{A}\Lambda$ associated to a rigid C*-tensor category $ \mathcal{C} $. The annular representation category of $ \mathcal{C} $ is the category of $*$-representations of the annular algebra $\mathcal{A}\Lambda$. I will then present a description of the annular representation category of free product of two categories with an application to the Fuss-Catalan subfactor planar algebra.We then move onto oriented extensions of subfactor planar algebras (or equivalently singly generated C*-2-categories), which are a class of singly generated C*-tensor categories (or equivalently oriented factor planar algebras). I will end the talk with few problems which could extend this work. 

I will present interactions among 2-dimensional conformal field theory, which is a kind of quantum field theory in physics, theory of operator algebras and the Moonshine conjecture which predicted mysterious relations between the finite simple group Monster and the elliptic modular function. I will emphasize representation theoretic aspects and do not assume anyknowledge of these theories. 

In this talk, we shall discuss the theta series associated with positive definite integral quadratic forms and some of its applications in getting formulas for the number of representations of positive integers by quadratic forms, using the theory of modular forms. The second part of this talk is about the construction of the Shimura and Shintani mappings between certain subspaces of modular forms of half-integral weights and integral weight respectively.

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Abstract: In this talk, first I will give a brief overview of my current research activities on topological data analysis, certified geometry, optimization and level set method with applications in visualization, graphics, image analysis and simulations.Then, I will present a recent work on multivariate (or multi­field) topology simplification. Topological simplification of scalar and vector fields is well-established as an effective method for analyzing and visualizing complex data sets. For multi­field data, topological analysis requires simultaneous advances both mathematically and computationally. Mathematically, weshow that the projection of the Jacobi Set of multivariate data into the Reeb Space produces a Jacobi Structure that separates the Reeb Space into components. We also show that the dual graph of these components gives rise to a Reeb Skeleton that has properties similar to the scalar contour tree and Reeb Graph, for topologically simple domains. Computationally, we show how to compute Jacobi Structure, Reeb Skeleton in an approximation of the Reeb Space, and that these can be used for visualization in a fashion similar to the contour tree and Reeb Graph.

Abstract: River basin geomorphology is a very old subject of study initiated by Horton (1945). Various statistical models of drainage networks have been proposed. Each such model is a random directed graph with its own nuances. In recent years physicists have been interested in these models because of the commonality of such branching networks in many areas of statistical physics (see Rodríguez-Iturbe  and Rinaldo (1997) for a detailed survey). We discuss the geometric features of one such model and also its scaling limit. The scaling limit of this model is the Brownian web, which has lately been the focus of extensive study among probabilists. Most of this talk will be accessible to a general audience.

The realization of the Total Character (or Gel’fand Character) τG of a finite group G, i.e. the sum of all ordinary irreducible characters of G is an old problem in character theory of finite groups. One possible approach is to try to realize τG as a polynomial in some irreducible character of G. In this vein, K. W. Johnson has asked whether it is possible to express the total character of G as a polynomial, with integer coefficients, in a single irreducible character of G. We study for several classes of finite nilpotent groups, the problem of existence of a polynomial f(x) ∈ Q[x] such that f(χ) = τG for some irreducible character χ of G. As a consequence, we completely determine the p-groups of order at most p5 (with p odd) which admit such a polynomial. Indeed, we prove that: If G is a non-abelian p-group of order p5, then G has such a polynomial if and only if Z(G) is cyclic and (G,Z(G)) is generalized Camina pair and, we conjecture that this holds good for p-groups of any order. In the talk, we also discuss about the nonlinear irreducible characters of p-groups of order at most p5.

We shall discuss covering spaces of graphs, leading to facts about subgroups of free groups.We shall then construct geometric models, inspired by these graphs,and analyze some concrete examples. 

I shall discuss on control problems governed by the partial differential equations-mainly compressible Navier-Stokes equations,visco-elastic flows. I shall mention some of the basic tools applicable to study the control problems. We mainly use spectral characterization of the operator associated to the linearized PDE and Fourier series techniques to prove controllability and stabilizability results. I shall also indicate how the hyperbolic and parabolic nature of equations affects their main controllability results. Then some of our recent results obtained in this direction will be discussed.  

Functional Data Analysis is one of the frontline areas of research in statistics. The field has grown considerably mainly due to the plethora of data types that cannot be handled and analyzed by using conventional multivariate statistical techniques. Such data are very common in areas of meteorology, chemometrics, biomedical sciences, linguistics, finance etc .The lecture series will primarily aim at introducing the field of functional data analysis. Since functional data analysis is broadly defined as the statistical analysis of data, which are in the form of curves or functions, we will start with probability distributions and random elements in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces, concepts of mean and covariance kernel/operator, the associated Karhunen-Loeve expansion and some standard limit theorems in Hilbert spaces. We will then discuss some selected statistical inference problems involving functional data like inference for mean and covariance operators, functional principal component analysis, functional linear models, classification problem with functional data, robust inference techniques for functional data etc. We will recall some results from functional analysis as and when required during the lectures. 

Abstract: Let P ⊂ R ^d be a closed convex cone. Assume that P is pointed, i.e. the intersectionP ∩ −P = {0} and P is spanning, i.e. P − P = R ^d . Denote the interior of P by Ω. Let Ebe a product system over Ω. We show that there exists an infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert space H and a semigroup α := {α _x }_ x∈P of unital normal ∗-endomorphisms ofB(H) such that E is isomorphic to the product system associated with α. 

In this talk we will first discuss about the non-commutative Lp spaces and recall the construction of the mixed q-deformed Araki-Woods von Neumann algebras.  Then we will define the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroups for this von Neumann algebra and study their ultracontractivity.

Abstract: Employing solution of heat equation, we prove Taylor's theorem with Peano form of the remainder. In addition, we derive the Taylor series of an infinitely differentiable function under the additional assumption that the n'th derivative does not grow faster than the n'th power of some fixed positive constant.

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Absract: In this talk, we will introduce Sobolev spaces and discuss some of their properties like approximations, extensions and existence of traces. 

Fractal Interpolation Function is a novel method to construct irregular functions frominterpolation data. The talk will begin with a brief introduction of Fractals and differentkinds of Fractal Interpolation Functions. Then, I will intro duce a special kind of FractalInterpolation Function called “Super Fractal Interpolation Function” (SFIF) for finersimulation of the objects of the nature or outcomes of scientific experiments that revealone or more structures embedded into another (i.e. hybrid structures). We will lookat construction of SFIF wherein, an Iterated Function System (IFS) is chosen from apool of several IFS at each level of iteration leading to implementation of the desiredrandomness and variability in fractal interpolation of the given data. Further, I willdiscuss properties of integrability and differentiability of an SFIF. Finally, I will showa result on convergence of a Cubic Spline SFIF.

The compact torus S1 × S1 has a structure of Riemann surfaceand therefore is a complex projective manifold. On product of odd dimensionalspheres S2p+1 × S2q+1 with p > 0 or q > 0, complex structures were obtainedby H. Hopf (1948) and Calabi-Eckmann (1953). These complex manifolds areone of the first examples of non-K¨ahler, and hence non-projective, compactcomplex manifolds.The aim of this talk is to describe a general construction of a class ofnon-K¨ahler compact complex manifolds. Let G be a complex linear algebriacgroup and let K be a maximal compact subgroup of G. Any holomorphicprincipal G-bundle EG over a complex manifold admits a smooth reduction ofthe structure group from G to K. We will show that the total space EK of thesmooth principal K-bundle, corresponding to this reduction, admits a complexstructure. In most cases, the complex manifold EK will be non-K¨ahler. Thistalk is based on a joint work with Mainak Poddar.

This talk will be in elementary level and first year Integrated MSc students should attained it.

Abstract:
Traditionally, Poisson process with constant rate have been extensively used to model arrival and potential service processes arising in queueing and queueing networks models under the Markov regime.
Generalization to non Markovian models, usually has taken the route of Renewal Processes for the arrival and the services schemes. This is neither natural nor realistic in the Modelling sense. In this talk, I will provide a brief history of queues and queueing networks, and emphasize the need for time variability in parameters, and hence the use of non Homogenous Poisson process as an alternative renewal process.

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Interpolation is an essential tool to approximate the unknown function from its samples. Many situations, when data arises from various complex phenomena, the data exhibits irregularity. Giving smooth approximation for these data may not be suitable. Fractal interpolation provides a non-smooth approximation for the interpolation data. Iterated function system is a basic tool to construct the fractal interpolation function and the graph of the fractal interpolation function is the attractor of the iterated function system. Data visualization is an essential subject because when data comes from scientific experiments or natural phenomena, the data may contains certain shape properties and preserving the shapes of these data are needed. Though traditional interpolation methods (polynomial, spline etc.) are good for shape preserving, these methods may not be good for irregular representation of the unknown functions. Fractal interpolation functions can be used both in shape preserving and irregular representation of the unknown functions. Also, fractal interpolation can be used to develop the numerical methods for the boundary-value problems of the ordinary differential equations. These numerical methods provide the multiple numerical solutions for the same boundary-value problem. 

Abstract: In the first half of the talk we define unimodular rows over a ring R and see some of its basic properties. The completability of such unimodular rows can be viewed in terms of some special multiplicative subgroups of the matrix ring over R. In the second half, we define projective modules. Free modules are projective. In 1976 Quillen-Suslin gave a sufficient condition under which the converse is true. The completability of unimodular rows over certain polynomial rings plays an important role to show the fact that finitely generated projective modules over such ring are free. 

Abstract: In the first part of the talk I will talk about nef cones of divisors and pseudo-effective cones of k-cycles on products of projective bundles over curves. In the 2nd part, I will present some results about the Seshadri constants of ample line bundles on various blow-ups of projective spaces.

Abstract: Normal distribution has been used quite extensively in different areas of science and technology both in theory and practice. Although, it has several desirable properties, it has its own limitations also. Recently, various non-normal distributions (both univariate as well as multivariate) have been proposed in the literature for data analysis purposes. In this talk, we will consider different non-normal distributions and discuss their properties and provide applications in different areas.

Abstract: An equivalent formulation of Ando's (generalization of Nagy's theorem) theorem providing a unitary dilation for a pair of commuting contractions is the statement: every contractive homomorphism of the bi-disc algebra is completely contractive. This is not true for any function algebra in three variables leaving the question of function algebras in two variables other than the bi-disc algebra open. The answer to this question for a large class will be discussed.  

Ricci flow and associated techniques have played pivotal roles in solving some long-standing open problems in Geometry and Topology in recent times.  In this talk we will discuss some properties of an ODE related to the evolution of curvature along the Ricci flow and my recent results in this context.

We will continue with the discussion on (co)tangent space and smooth maps. We will define what is the differential of a smooth map and state the implicit function theorem. We will also work out some concrete examples. 

Local Index formula is at the heart of the so called hard Riemannian aspects of Noncommutative Geometry. We will try to see why thisis so important. However so far we have only one computation of the local index formula. We will discuss two more computations. 

Abstract: In this talk, our focus will be on certain classical results due to Ingham, Levinson and Paley-Wiener which find optimal decay of the Fourier transform of nonzero functions vanishing on `large sets'. We will talk about these theorems in details and their generalizations on the $n$- dimensional Euclidean space, the $n$-dimensional torus and certain non-commutative Lie groups. 

Generalized Order Statistics(GOS) models and Non-homogeneous PoissonProcess (NHPP) models form a significant subclass of the many softwarereliability models proposed in the literature. First, we discuss themodels followed by some logical implications of NHPP models andestimability of the underlying parameters. We prove an importantlimitation of NHPP models for which the limit of the expected numberof failures $m(t)$ as the testing time $t\to\infty$ is finite.Specifically, the parameters of those models cannot be estimatedconsistently as the testing time approaches infinity. Then, we presenta nonparametric method for estimating $\nu$, the number of bugs present in acode, and investigate its properties. Our results show that theproposed estimator performs well in terms of bias and asymptoticnormality, while the MLE of $\nu$ derived assuming that the commonrenewal distribution is exponential may be seriously biased if thatassumption does not hold. We present a new parametric approach aswell.

Abstract : I shall discuss how Monte Carlo methods can be used to solve complex optimization problems. In particular, I shall discuss the simulated annealing algorithm.

Transport operators have a range of intervention options available to improve or enhance their networks. Such interventions are often made in the absence of sound evidence on resulting outcomes. Cycling superhighways were promoted as a sustainable and healthy travel mode, one of the aims of which was to reduce traffic congestion. Estimating the impacts that cycle superhighways have on congestion is complicated due to the non-random assignment of such intervention over the transport network. In this paper, we analyse the causal effect of cycle superhighways utilising pre-intervention and post-intervention information on traffic and road characteristics along with socio-economic factors. We propose a modeling framework based on the propensity score and outcome regression model. The method is also extended to the doubly robust set-up. Simulation results show the superiority of the performance of the proposed method over existing competitors. The method is applied to analyse a real dataset on the London transport network. The methodology proposed can assist in effective decision making to improve network performance.

Abstract  In the 18th century, while dealing with astronomical and geodesic measurements, the scientists were confronted with a statistical problem, which in those days was described as "the problem of combining inconsistent equations". People who worked on this problem and contributed towards its solutions include Euler,  Laplace, Gauss and Legendre among many others. I shall discuss the history of the problem and how it eventually led to the invention of the method of least squares.

This will be the third lecture of a series of five on Finite Fields.

This is a Short Lecture Series in Mathematics (SLSM) consisting of 4 lectures of 90 minutes each. This is the third lecture in this series.

Abstract: The first half of the mini course will be an introducing to the two classical models of random graphs (a.k.a. Erdős-Rényi random graphs) and discuss the phenomenon of phase transition. We will also discuss thresholds for monotonic properties with examples including connectivity threshold and sub-graph containment threshold.

In the second half of the course we will consider other kind of random graphs. In particular, we will discuss various models for complex networks, including Albert-Barabási preferential attachment models. We will discuss "scale-freeness", asymptotic degree distribution and "small-world phenomenon". Properties of super and sub-linear preferential attachment models and some recent developments in de-preferential attachment models will also be discussed.

If time permits we will also introduce the random geometric graphs and discuss asymptotic of the connectivity threshold.

Abstract:- There are various graphs (e.g., intersection graph, commuting graph, prime graph, etc.) constructed from groups to study various properties of groups via graphs and vice versa. The power graph of a group $G$ is a graph with vertex set $G$ and two distinct vertices are adjacent if one is a power of the other. We begin this talk with a study on connectivity of power graphs of groups. Using the concept of quotient power graphs, we first present some characterizations of minimal separating sets of power graphs. Then we obtain some minimal separating sets of power graphs of finite cyclic groups. Consequently, we determine two upper bounds of vertex connectivity of power graphs of finite cyclic groups along with their exact value for some orders. We further provide some structural properties of power graphs of $p$-groups. Then we determine minimum degree of power graphs of finite cyclic groups (partially), dihedral groups, dicyclic groups and abelian $p$-groups. Moreover, we ascertain the equality of minimum degree with edge connectivity for power graphs of all finite groups, and then characterize its equality with vertex connectivity for power graphs of aforementioned groups. Proceeding further, we investigate Laplacian spectra of power graphs of finite cyclic groups, dicyclic groups and $p$-groups. We supply some characterizations for the equality of vertex connectivity and algebraic connectivity of power graphs of the above groups. Finally, we conclude with some unsolved problems concerning power graphs for future research.

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Abstract: We will characterize Toeplitz operators on the Hardy space using Berezin transform and then we will derive the necessary and sufficient condition under which two Toeplitz operators commute.

Spatial heterogeneity in terms of trends or periodicity in blocks may affect the outcome of experiments, especially in agricultural experiments. The conventional randomized allocation of treatments to plots in a block may result in lesser precision. It has been commonly found that the experimental units which are neighbouring to each other within a block are correlated, or there may be existing significant trends even within small block. Use of some methods of local control, called spatial or nearest neighbour (NN) methods for analyzing the observations in the presence of significant trends in adjacent plots of field data, help in increasing precision. Other approaches to guard the effects from neighbouring plots in experimental designs leads to construction of useful optimal neighbour balanced block designs which are not only efficient under standard intra-block incomplete block design type analysis but also provide protection against the effects of correlated observations or potentially unknown trends which are highly correlated with plot positions within blocks (Keifer and Wynn, 1981, Cheng, 1983; Stroup and Mulitze, 1991; Jackroux, 1998 etc). Neighbour balanced designs are designs, wherein the allocation of treatments is such that every treatment occurs equally often with every other treatment as immediate neighbours. All Ordered Neighbour design (AONBD) are those designs where allocation of treatments is done such a way that neighbor balance is obtained at every order of neighbor, given immediate neighbor is first order.

This talk consists of two parts; the first one dealing with a study of certain positive curvatures under the Ricci flow and the second one dealing with a rigidity question in geodesic flows.In 2010 Buchard Wilking proved that for every Ad_SO(n;C)-invariant subset S of the Lie algebraso(n;C) one can attach a notion positive curvature, which we call positive S-curvature, which is preserved by the Ricci flow. We study the properties of positive S-curvatures in reference to the Ricci flow. This part of work is in collaboration with Harish Seshadri and Soma Maity. We shall also discuss a problem motivated by blow-up considerations coming from a conjecture of Richard Schoen.In the second part of the talk we will study a rigidity question in Riemannian geometry, viz, when isRiemannian manifold determined by its geodesic flow? After a brief overview of this problem, We will present our work on the rigidity of the at cylinder. This is a joint work with C. S. Aravinda.

In the first part of this talk, we present a formula for the coefficients of a weight 3/2Cohen-Eisenstein series of squarefree level N. This formula generalizes a result of Gross and it provesin particular a conjecture of Quattrini. In the second part, we explain the proof of this formula andas an application, we discuss the distribution of the order of the Tate-Shafarevich groups #ShD ofquadratic twists of elliptic curves.

We will explain what it means to integrate differential forms on a manifold and state Stokes Theorem. We will see how it generalizes the fundamental theorem of calculus and Green's theorem. 

Lecture series abstract: We will survey the von Neumann algebraic approach to locally compact quantum groups in the sense of Kustermans and Vaes, roughly following the treatment by Van Daele. We will begin with an intro to the theory of weights of von Neumann algebras. We will then proceed to describe locally compact quantum groups. If there is any time left, we will present some recent progress in the field. The prerequisite for attending the talks is some basic knowledge of C*-algebras (and perhaps also von Neumann algebras, depending on the audience).

We discuss factoriality and structural properties of the q-deformed algebras of Hiai. These are type III cousins of the free group factors, extremely complicated objects and even very basic questions about them remain open. Using maximal abelian subalgebras we demonstrate that they are factors except few cases - the problem being open since 2000.

We will discuss jet spaces and symmetries of partial differential equations.

A major theme of interest in mathematics is the study of Geometric structures on manifolds. Geometric structures are modelled on nice topological spaces with a group of automorphisms acting transitively on them. The spaces of negative curvature are widely studied from this viewpoint. A special class of these being real and complex hyperbolic spaces. In this talk, we will first focus on the geometry of complex hyperbolic spaces. In this pursuit, we will provide algebraic classification of the isometries of these spaces, and surface group representations into their isometry groups. This is achieved by means of algebraic data given by the traces of these isometries, and some other conjugacy invariants.In the second half of this talk, we will focus on hyperbolic structures on closed oriented surfaces of negative Euler characteristic. To this end, we enter into the realm of mapping class group which serves as a significant tool in connecting the geometry and topology of surfaces. In particular, we will give a method to decompose a periodic mapping class into irreducible components, and provide some interesting algebraic and geometric applications. We will conclude this talk by connecting the study of these mapping classes to the theory of “ribbon” graphs.

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Abstract: Plücker Formula gives the genus of a smooth projective plane curve in terms of its degree, specifically, a curve of degree d has genus (d-1)(d-2)/2. We will first prove Bezout's theorem and as an application look at Plücker formula.

Abstract: In this talk we will introduce graph colouring and chromatic number of a graph. We will discuss some application of graph colouring. Further we will present the proof of 'Perfect Graph Theorem' by Lovász.

We consider a weighted quasilinear eigenvalue problem in the exterior domain. We establish the existence of a positive principal eigenvalue and discuss the regularity and the asymptotic behaviour at infinity of the first eigenfunctions. A local and the global antimaximum principle is also presented.

• Title: Gaussian Elimination in classical groups
• Abstract: The classical row-column operations provide an efficient algorithm to solve word problem in the matrix group GL(n,k). We will see an analogues result for orthogonal and symplectic groups too.

A brief history of classical Hardy inequalities and related results will be presented. Further, we talk about Generalized Hardy-Sobolev inequalities and its applications.

We shall derive some bounds on the order of the Schur multiplier of finite p-groups. We shall also classify finite p-groups having Schur multiplier of maximum order. Finally we shall discuss the Schur multiplier and covering groups of special p-groups having derived subgroup of maximum order.

 For a number field K over Q, there is an associated invariant called the class number, which captures how far the ring of integers of K, is from being a principal ideal domain (PID). The study of class numbers is an important theme in algebraic number theory. In order to understand how the class number varies on varying the number field, Siegel showed that the class number times the regulator approaches infinity for a sequence of quadratic number fields. Later, Brauer extended this to a sequence of Galois extensions over Q, with some additional hypothesis. This is called the famous Brauer-Siegel Theorem. Recently, Tsfasman and Vladut conjectured a generalized Brauer-Siegel statement for sequence of number fields. In this talk, we prove the classical Brauer-Siegel and the generalized version in several unknown cases.

Recent decades have witnessed significant growth and progress in spatial statistics, with applications in agriculture, epidemiology, geology, image analysis and other areas of environmental science. In recent years, new perspectives have emerged in connecting Gaussian Markov random fields with geostatistical models, and in advancing vast statistical computations. This series of lectures will focus on basic theory and computations of spatial statistics. Topics will include conditional and intrinsic autoregressions, connections between Markov random fields and geostatistics, variogram calculations, h-likelihood methods and matrix-free computations. Applications from agricultural variety trials, environmental sciences and geographical epidemiology will be discussed.

Abstrat: We prove an h-principle for poisson structures on closed manifolds. Equivalently
we prove h-principle for symplectic foliation (singular) on closed manifolds. On open
manifolds however the singularities could be avoided and it is a known result by Fernandes
and Frejlich [1].

References
[1] Fernandes, Rui Loja; Frejlich, Pedro An h-principle for symplectic foliations. Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN
2012, no. 7, 1505–1518. (Reviewer: David Iglesias Ponte)
Presidency University, Kolkata, India., e-mail:mukherjeesauvik@yahoo.com,

In this talk I will discuss mixed multiplicities of (not necessarily Noetherian) filtrations of m-primary ideals in a Noetherian local ring (R, m). I will give the construction of a real polynomial whose coefficients give the mixed multiplicities generalizing the classical theory for m-primary ideals. As a consequence, I will show that a classical theorem due to Rees, holds true for (not necessarily Noetherian) filtrations. I will also discuss a result which deals with non m-primary and non-Noetherian filtrations of ideals and partially generalizes another theorem of Rees.

Typically an extremal problem deals with the problem of estimating the maximum or mini- mum possible cardinality of a collection of finite objects that satisfies certain requirements. In my talk I am going to present my most recent research works related to extremal problems. For a finite abelian group G and A ⊂ [1, exp(G) − 1], the A-weighted Davenport Constant DA(G) is defined to be the least positive integer k such that any sequence S with length k over G has a non-empty A-weighted zero-sum subsequence. The original motivation for introducing Daven- port Constant was to study the problem of non-unique factorization domain over number fields. The precise value of this invariant for any group and for any set A is still unknown. In first half of my talk, I will present an Extremal Problem related to Weighted Davenport Constant, which we introduced and discuss several exciting results for any finite abelian group. It is a joint work with Prof. Niranjan Balachandran. In second part of my talk, I will discuss how to improve the Plu ̈nnecke inequality for iterated sumsets over any abelian group G. While doing so we estab- lished a bridge between almost a century old Macaulay’s theorem in commutative algebra and iterated sumsets in additive combinatorics. This process leads us to define an extremal problem as well. This is a joint work with Prof. Shalom Eliahou.

Cartan subgroups of Lie groups play a crucial role in the study of the structure of Lie groups, the behavior of the power maps, and also in determining whether the exponential map is surjective or has a dense image. Here we present some recent progress on `the density/surjectivity of the power maps of Lie groups ', and `the structural aspects of Cartan subgroups' and its applications on the characterization of the density of the power map in Lie groups.

Abstract : I shall begin with the description of the lattice points counting problem in Euclidean spaces. Namely, establishing an (asymptotic) error estimate for the number of points that the lattice of integral points has in a Euclidean ball of large radius, as the radius goes to infinity. 
This problem has a very long history and vast literature is available in obtaining error estimates for Euclidean dilates of the unit ball as well as various other convex bodies. 
In the first half of the talk, I shall sketch the Fourier spectral method which originated with Minkowski for Euclidean balls. This classical method does not give the best possible error estimates for the balls, but it gives optimal error in the class of Euclidean dilates of convex bodies with surfaces having non-vanishing Gaussian curvature at all points.

In the last half of the talk, I shall discuss the lattice points counting problem in the context of the Heisenberg groups, for families of balls corresponding to certain radial and homogeneous norms, including the canonical Cygan-Koranyi norm. 

In the end, I shall briefly mention the scope of this method discussing more general nilpotent Lie groups. 

This talk is based on my joint work with Amos Nevo and Krystal Taylor which is available on arXiv. Most of this talk should be accessible to those who are familiar with basic functional analysis. 

Abstract: Enumerative geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with the following question: "How many geometric objects are there that satisfy certain constraints?" The simplest example of such a question is: "How many lines pass through two distinct points?'' A more interesting example is: "How many lines are there in three dimensional space that intersect four generic lines?'' In this talk we will describe a topological method to approach enumerative questions. We will use this method to count how many degree d curves are there in CP^2  that pass through certain number of generic points and have certain singularities.

Abstract: Queueing theory is vastly used to study service systems arising in management problems, where customers are considered to be indifferent in the sense that the decisions to control a system, are only made by the management and the users are impelled to follow the decisions. However, for a service system to be more realistic, it is essential to consider customers’ decisions about their actions (join or balk, wait or abandon, buy priority or not) which depends on the information provided to them at their arrival epochs. The study of queuing systems with strategic customers was initiated by Naor in 1969. After Naor’s work, an emerging tendency to study customers’ behavior imposing a reward-cost structure on the system took place. In this scenario, customers want to maximize their net benefit against others who have the same objective, which can be viewed as a symmetric game among them. When the system is empty, the server goes on vacation and returns after a random time to serve waiting customers if any.During the server’s vacation, customers continue to arrive at the system and if the present customers did not receive their service in due time, they became impatient and decide sequentially whether they will abandon the system or not upon the availability of a secondary transportation facility. In this presentation, the focus is to study customers’ equilibrium and socially optimal behavior in queuing systems with server vacation. Numerical experiments showing the dependence of performance measures on system parameters is demonstrated via several figures. Finally, a potential application of the model is suggested in managing a perishable inventory store.

This is the second lecture on this topic with the following:Abstact: Radon-Nikodym theorem of measure theory was proved in 1930 and A. N. Kolmogorov laid the foundation of modern probability in 1933 where the formal played a crucial role. In this Short Lecture Series in Mathematics (SLSM), we discuss the conditioning of probability theory in the light of Radon-Nikodym theorem. Upon the interest of the audience, we may introduce the notion of martingals and their convergence theorems. We have scheduled these lectures in the F-slot of Thursday and planned to go in accordance with the pace of the audience. Basic understanding of measure theory and functional analysis will be the prerequisite.

TBA

Let $Z(t):=\zeta\left(\half+it\right)\chi^{-\half}\left(\half+it\right)$ be Hardy's function,where the Riemann zeta function $\zeta(s)$ has the functional equation $\zeta(s)=\chi(s)\zeta(1-s)$.Hardy's function has been used to compute the zeros of $\zeta\left(\half+it\right)$ and plays a crucial role in the theory of the Riemann zeta function.In this talk we will compute the large values of $Z(t)$ and $-Z(t)$ using the resonance method. 

I will present interactions among 2-dimensional conformal field theory, which is a kind of quantum field theory in physics, theory of operator algebras and the Moonshine conjecture which predicted mysterious relations between the finite simple group Monster and the elliptic modular function. I will emphasize representation theoretic aspects and do not assume anyknowledge of these theories. 

Google Meet link: meet.google.com/bvx-swhw-epg

A rigidity conjecture by Goswami states that existence of a smooth and faithful action of a compact quantum group G on a compact connected Riemannian manifold M forces G to be compact group. In particular, whenever the action is isometric, or G is finite dimensional, Goswami and Joardar have proved that the conjecture is true. The first step in the investigation of a non-compact version of this rigidity conjecture demands a correct notion of faithful actions of locally compact quantum groups on classical spaces. In this talk, we show that bicrossed product construction for locally compact groups provides a large class of examples of non-Kac locally compact quantum groups acting faithfully and ergodically on classical (non-compact) spaces. However, none of these actions can be isometric, leading to the aforementioned rigidity conjecture may hold in the non-compact case as well. This is based on the joint work in progress with Debashish Goswami.

For a given nonempty subset L of the line set of the projective plane PG(2,q), a blocking set with respect to L (or simply, an L-blocking set) is a subset B of the point set of PG(2,q) such that every line of L contains at least one point of B. Let E (respectively; T, S) denote the set of all lines which are external (respectively; tangent, secant) to an irreducible conic in PG(2,q). We shall discuss minimum size L-blocking sets of PG(2,q) for L = E, S, T, SUT, EUT, SUE.

We will define what is a Laplacian on a smooth Riemannian Manifold. We will then define what are harmonic forms and state the Hodge Decomposition Theorem. In particular, we will explain how it implies Poincare Duality. We will then go on to define the notion of a weak solution and explain how elliptic regularity of the Laplacian, implies the Hodge Decomposition Theorem. We will review the basic notions of smooth manifolds and keep prerequisites to a minimum. Those who are interested in Analysis and PDE are encouraged to attend.  

Gini index (G), a scaled version of Gini’s mean difference (GMD), is a U-statistic of degree two. In this presentation, I will present a general approach to construct a new class of inequality measures called ad-hoc inequality measures (AIM) which are based on U-statistics of degree higher than two. The new AIMs satisfy anonymity, scale invariance, and population independence.We illustrate situations where delicate internal features with income disparities are more clearly explained and motivated from elementary economic persuasions of population dynamics, but those delicate features may be incorrectly missed by G. That is, one or more newly proposed AIMs are more apt to capture intricatefeatures than G in some instances. Without assuming any specific nature of the population distribution for the data, we have derived (i) the asymptotic mean square error of a general AIM; and also (ii) the asymptotic distribution of AIM: These results have provided useful inference methodologies which have beensupplemented with extensive sets of simulations and analyses of real economic data.

Functional Data Analysis is one of the frontline areas of research in statistics. The field has grown considerably mainly due to the plethora of data types that cannot be handled and analyzed by using conventional multivariate statistical techniques. Such data are very common in areas of meteorology, chemometrics, biomedical sciences, linguistics, finance etc .The lecture series will primarily aim at introducing the field of functional data analysis. Since functional data analysis is broadly defined as the statistical analysis of data, which are in the form of curves or functions, we will start with probability distributions and random elements in infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces, concepts of mean and covariance kernel/operator, the associated Karhunen-Loeve expansion and some standard limit theorems in Hilbert spaces. We will then discuss some selected statistical inference problems involving functional data like inference for mean and covariance operators, functional principal component analysis, functional linear models, classification problem with functional data, robust inference techniques for functional data etc. We will recall some results from functional analysis as and when required during the lectures. 

In this talk, we will prove Caporaso-Harris formula for counting plan curves of any genus. This formula gives the answer of the following problem:How many degree d curves are there in CP2 having δ nodes and passing through d(d+3)/2 − δ generic points?

Abstract: The theory of $M$-ideals in Banach spaces as well as in operator spaces is one of the important areas of research. It is well known from the literature that order structures and compact convex sets play a significant role in this area. Especially, the characterization of $M$-ideals in $A(K)$-spaces in terms of split face of the compact convex set $K$, established by Anderson and Alfsen, is a classical theorem of great importance.In this thesis, we have characterized $M$-ideal in order smooth $\infty$-normed spaces in terms of split faces of the quasi-state spaces. Also, we discuss the complete $M$-ideals in matricially order smooth $\infty$-normed spaces. For $p\neq \infty$, we introduce the notion of ideals, smooth $p$-order ideals to initiate the study of ideals in order smooth $p$-normedspaces.We introduce the notion of an $L^{1}$-matrix convex set in $*$-locally convex space. We show that $\{A_{0}(K_{n}, M_{n}(E))\}$(the `quantized functional space’) is a $\mathrm{C}^*$-ordered operator space. Conversely, every $\mathrm{C}^*$-ordered operator space is complete isometrically, completely isomorphic to $\{A_{0}(Q_{n}(V) M_{n}(V))\}$, where $Q_{n}(V)$ is the quasi-state space of $M_{n}(V)$ (in the matrix duality).

In this talk, I shall discuss some basic definitions and examples of Finsler geometry. Afterthat I shall talk about some special Finsler metrics such as Kropina change of m-th rootmetrics, Finsler spaces with rational spray coeffiecients, the general (α, β) Finsler metricsand some of their non-Riemannian curvature properties.

 In Quantum Information Theory, quantum states and quantum channels are central objects of study. Mathematically, a quantum state is a positive semidefinite matrix of unit trace, and a quantum channel is formalized by a linear map which is completely positive and trace preserving (CPTP).  

In the first part of this talk, we describe a rank function, that we call the ``entanglement breaking rank", of a special class of quantum channels called ``entanglement breaking channels". We show how this rank parameter for a particular channel links to one of the most celebrated problems in frame theory, commonly referred to as Zauner's conjecture. This helps us present an analytic, perturbative approach to the conjecture rather than algebraic. This part of the talk is based on a joint work with Vern Paulsen, Jitendra Prakash (NISER alumnus), and Mizanur Rahaman.

In the second part of this talk, we discuss an ordering of quantum states referred to as ``quantum majorization'', which is a natural generalization of the concept of matrix majorization in the quantum mechanical setting. We shall briefly revisit the work by Gour et al. (Nature Communications, 2018); they established a characterization for majorization of quantum states in the finite-dimensional setting via the notion of conditional min-entropy. We then outline our work where we extend the characterization by Gour et al. to the context of semifinite von Neumann algebras. Our method relies on a connection between the conditional min-entropy and the operator space projective tensor norm for injective von Neumann algebras. This part of the talk is based on a joint work with Priyanga Ganesan (NISER alumnus), Li Gao, and Sarah Plosker.

Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss the existence of weak solutions for some elliptic boundary value problems. In particular, we will discuss the weak solutions corresponding to the Laplace operator and the Biharmonic operator.

Abstract : We discuss about the large values of the Riemann zeta-function on the line $1$ and it's consequence to the error term of the summatory function of $d^2(n)$ for $1 \le n \le x$ for large $x$ considered by Srinivasa Ramanujan where $d(n)$ denotes the sum of the positive divisors of the positive integer $n$.

In this talk we will see the well posedness results for the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the magnetic Laplacian on $\R^{2n}$, corresponding to constant magnetic field, namely the twisted Laplacian on $\C^n$ with power type nonlinearity $\lambda |u|^{\alpha} u$. We establish the well posedness in certain first order Sobolev spaces associated to the twisted Laplacian. The approach is via the spectral theory of the Schr\"{o}dinger propagator for the twisted Laplacian, and local existence is proved using Strichartz estimates established for the same.Using blowup analysis and conservation laws, we conclude global well posedness in the defocussing case (\lambda>0) with $0\leq \alpha< 2/(n-1)$ and also in the focussing case (\lambda<0) with $0\leq \alpha< 2/n$.We also prove finite time blow up in the focussing case (\lambda<0) with $2/n\leq \alpha< 2/(n-1)$. In this talk we also see a Hardy-Sobolev inequality for the twisted Laplacian on $\C^n$. We also show that the inequality is optimal in the sense that weight can not be improved.

This is a topic in classical algebraic K-Theory. I will recall definitions of elementary linear group, elementary symplectic group, linear transvection group, symplectic transvection group and symplectic group w.r.t. any alternating form. These groups have natural action on the set of unimodular elements. I will briefly discuss how bijections between orbit spaces of unimodular elements under different group actions are established. Finally, I will talk about an application of these results, namely improving injective stability bound for K1 group.

This talk will be in elementary level and first year Integrated MSc students should attained it.

Abstract:- Suppose $X$ is a minimal surface, which is a ramified double covering $\pi:X\to S$, of a rational surface $S$, with dim $|-K_S|\geq 1$. And suppose $L$ is a divisor on $S$, such that $L^2\geq 7$ and $L\cdot C\geq 3$ for any curve $C$ on $S$. Then the divisor $K_X+\pi^*L$ on $X$, is base-point free and the multiplication map in it's section ring : $Sym^r(H^0(K_X+\pi^*L))\to H^0(r(K_X+\pi^*L))$, is surjective for all $r\geq 1$. In particular this implies, when $S$ is also smooth and $L$ is an ample line bundle on $S$, that $K_X+n\pi^*L$ embeds $X$ as a projectively normal variety for all $n\geq 3$. In this talk we will present this result and various things associated to it.

Abstract: The analysis of incomplete contingency tables is an interesting problem, which is also of practical interest. In this talk, we propose various missing data models for analyzing arbitrary three-way and multidimensional incomplete tables, and study estimation and testing under them. We also explore the problem of boundary solutions in such tables, proposing their various forms, connections among them and establishing sufficient and necessary conditions for their occurrence (using only the observed cell counts), which prove useful for model selection. Finally, we suggest methods for assessment of the missing data mechanisms of variables in the above tables in terms of only the observed cell counts.

We will consider the basic material on the geometric approach to partial differential equations and symmetries, including an introductory part on the geometry of jet spaces.

Recent decades have witnessed significant growth and progress in spatial statistics, with applications in agriculture, epidemiology, geology, image analysis and other areas of environmental science. In recent years, new perspectives have emerged in connecting Gaussian Markov random fields with geostatistical models, and in advancing vast statistical computations. This series of lectures will focus on basic theory and computations of spatial statistics. Topics will include conditional and intrinsic autoregressions, connections between Markov random fields and geostatistics, variogram calculations, h-likelihood methods and matrix-free computations. Applications from agricultural variety trials, environmental sciences and geographical epidemiology will be discussed.

Abstract: We discuss approximate Birkhoff-James orthogonality of bounded linear operators defined between normed linear spaces X and Y. As an application of the results obtained, we characterize smoothness of a bounded linear operator T under the condition that K(X, Y), the space of compact linear operators is an M−ideal in L(X,Y), the space of bounded linear operators. 

Abstract: Given a holomorphic map between compact Riemann surfaces, Hurwitz's formula relates the genera of the domain and range with the degree and ramification of the map. We will see a short proof of this and some of its applications. Necessary definitions will be recalled.

We start with defining binary quadratic forms and discussing some properties of them.  Given an integer, we look for the forms representing that. We define a composition rule for forms and define the class group. Universal forms represent every integer. We present a theorem on the classification of universal binary quadratic forms. Finally, we discuss Ramanujan's universal quaternary diagonal quadratic forms and give formulas for the number of representations of an integer by some of those forms.

Abstract: We observe periodic phenomena everyday in our lives. The daily temperature of Delhi or the number of tourists visiting the famous Taj Mahal or the ECG data of a normal human being, clearly follow periodic nature. Sometimes, the observations may not be exactly periodic due to different reasons, but they may be nearly periodic. The received data is usually disturbed by various factors. Due to random nature of the data, statistical techniques play important roles in analyzing the data. Statistics is also used in the formulation of appropriate models to describe the behavior of the system, development of an appropriate technique for estimation of model parameters, and the assessment of model performances. In this talk we will discuss different techniques which have developed for the last twenty five years for analyzing periodic data, other than the standard Fourier analysis.

An asymptotic framework for optimal control of multi-class stochastic processing networks, using formal diffusion approximations under suitable temporal and spatial scaling, by Brownian control problems (BCP) and their equivalent workload formulations (EWF), has beendeveloped by Harrison (1988). This framework has been implemented in many works for constructing asymptotically optimal control policies for a broad range of stochastic network models.To date all asymptotic optimality results for such networks correspond to settings where the solution of the EWF is a reflected Brownian motion in the positive orthant with normal reflections.In this work we consider a well studied stochastic network which is perhaps the simplest example of a model with more than one dimensional workload process. In the regime considered here, the singular control problem corresponding to the EWF does not have a simple form explicit solution,however by considering an associated free boundary problem one can give a representation for an optimal controlled process as a two dimensional reflected Brownian motion in a Lipschitz domain whose boundary is determined by the solution of the free boundary problem. Using the form of the optimal solution we propose a sequence of control policies, given in terms of suitable thresholds, for the scaled stochastic network control problems and prove that this sequence of policies is asymptotically optimal. As suggested by the solution of the EWF, the policy we propose requires a server to idle under certain conditions which are specified in terms of the thresholds determined from the free boundary. This is a joint work with A. Budhiraja and X. Liu.

It is conjectured that all separable polynomials with integers coefficients, under some local conditions, take infinitely many (in fact positive density of) square free values on integer arguments. But not a single polynomial of degree greater than $3$ is proven to exhibit this property. We report on some progress towards showing that ``cyclotomic polynomial$\Phi_{\ell}(X)$ take square free values with positive proportion". 

 We give an explicit formula for the integral kernel of the twistedKoecher-Maass series associated to a degree two Siegel cusp form F, where the twist is realized by any Maass waveform whose eigenvalue is in the continuum spectrum. From such a kernel we deduce the analytic properties of those twisted Koecher-Maassseries, and show how the later can be expressed in terms of Dirichlet series associated to the Fourier-Jacobi coefficients of $F$. 

This is the third lecture on this topic with the following:

Abstact: Radon-Nikodym theorem of measure theory was proved in 1930 and A. N. Kolmogorov laid the foundation of modern probability in 1933 where the formal played a crucial role. In this Short Lecture Series in Mathematics (SLSM), we discuss the conditioning of probability theory in the light of Radon-Nikodym theorem. Upon the interest of the audience, we may introduce the notion of martingals and their convergence theorems. We have scheduled these lectures in the F-slot of Thursday and planned to go in accordance with the pace of the audience. Basic understanding of measure theory and functional analysis will be the prerequisite.

Given a Hopf algebra H in a braided category \mathcal{C} and a projection H\longrightarrow A to a Hopf subalgebra, one can construct a Hopf algebra r_{A}(H), called the partial dualization of H , with a projection to Hopf algebra dual to A​. A non-degenerate Hopf pairing \omega :A\otimes B \longrightarrow 1 induces a braided equivalence between the Yetter-Drinfeld modules over a Hopf algebra and its partial dualization. In this seminar, we shall discuss this procedure in the general setting of C*-Quantum groups.

Reference:

1. Alexander Barvels, Simon Lentner, Christoph Schweigert, Partially dualized Hopf algebras have equivalent Yetter–Drinfel’d modules, Journal of Algebra 430 (2015) 303–342

2. Ralf Meyer, Sutanu Roy, Stanislaw Lech Woronowicz, Quantum group-twisted tensor products of C*-algebras II, J. Noncommut. Geom., 10 (2016), no. 3, 859-888.