Seminars - Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Kolkata

Past Seminars

Speaker: David Wright, Department of Mathematics, Washington University, St. Louis
New conjectures related to the Jacobian Conjecture
Date: 16-08-2010

Speaker: Gautami Bhowmik, Universite de Lille 1, France
Zero sum sequences of groups
Date: 09-08-2010

Speaker: Anilesh Mohari, Inst. of Math. Sciences, Chennai
G. Birkhoff's problem in irreversible quantum dynamics
Date: 26-07-2010

Speaker: Adityanand Guntuboyina, Yale University, USA
Minimax Lower bounds
Date: 21-07-2010

Speaker: Subhajit Dutta, ISI, Stat-Math, Kolkata
Statistical Discriminant Analysis in Finite and Infinite Dimensional Spaces
Date: 16-07-2010

Speaker: B. V. Rao, Chennai Mathematical Institute
S L E
Date: 13-07-2010

Speaker: Radhendushka Srivastava, Stat-Math, ISI, Kolkata
Spectrum estimation with uniformly and non-uniformly sampled data: some challenges and strategies
Date: 12-07-2010

Speaker: Rajat Subhra Hazra, Stat-Math, ISI, Kolkata
Free subexponentiality and regular variation
Date: 08-07-2010

Speaker: Ratan Dasgupta, Stat-Math, ISI, Kolkata
Bootstrap of Deviation Probabilities with Applications
Date: 28-06-2010

Speaker: Soumen Sarkar, Stat-Math, ISI, Kolkata
Cobordism class of quasitoric manifolds
Date: 25-06-2010

Speaker: Satyaki Mazumder, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
Improving the Robustness of the Sample Spatial Outlyingness Functions through Spatial Trimming
Date: 07-06-2010

Speaker: Arijit Chakrabarty, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Large deviations for truncated heavy-tailed random variables
Date: 01-06-2010

Speaker: Parvati Shastri, University of Bombay
Euclidean Algorithm in Algebraic Number Fields
Date: 26-03-2010

Speaker: Jayaram Sethuraman, Florida State University
Distributions of patterns in occurrences and non-occurrences of special events
Date: 11-03-2010

Speaker: Antar Bandopadhyay, Stat-Math unit,Delhi and Kolkata, ISI
On the One Dimensional Critical "Learning from Neighbors" Model
Date: 01-03-2010

Speaker: Satadal Ganguly, School of Mathematics, TIFR, Mumbai
A higher degree large sieve inequality
Date: 08-02-2010

Speaker: Partha Sarathi Dey, University of California, Barkeley
Central Limit Theorem for First-Passage Percolation across thin cylinders
Date: 04-02-2010

Speaker: Shirshendu Chatterjee, Cornell University
Contact process on power-law random graphs
Date: 28-01-2010

Speaker: Swagata Sarkar, ISI, Kolkata
Degrees of Maps between Complex (Quaternionic) Grassmann Manifolds
Date: 22-01-2010

Speaker: Somnath Basu, SUNY, Stony Brook
An introduction to string topology
Date: 18-01-2010

Speaker: Santanu Dutta, Tezpur University
Application of bootstrap in estimation of some measures of accuracy and bandwidth selection of a product kernel density estimator
Date: 13-01-2010

Speaker: Arijit Dey, ISI, Kolkata
Derived category of toric varieties with Picard number three
Date: 11-01-2010

Speaker: BIMAN CHAKRABORTY, School of Mathematics,University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, U.K.
ON A MULTIVARIATE SCALE-SCALE PLOT
Date: 04-01-2010

Speaker: A.C. Naolekar, IISER, Pune
Realizing Cohomology Classes as Euler Classes
Date: 30-12-2009

Speaker: Satyaki Mazumder, Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Texas at Dallas
Exponential Inequality and Bahadur Representations for the MAD, and Applications
Date: 21-12-2009

Speaker: A. R. Shastriy, IIT Bombay
Mapping degree and a proof of Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. (FTA)
Date: 18-12-2009

Speaker: Onkar Dabeer, TIFR
Threshold Results for Collaborative Filters
Date: 10-12-2009

Speaker: M. Ram Murty, Queen
The Riemann Hypothesis Today
Date: 09-12-2009

Speaker: Rajat Subhra Hazra, ISI, Kolkata
Products under Conditional Extreme Value Model
Date: 15-10-2009

Speaker: Anindya Goswami, University of Twente, Netherlands
Risk sensitive optimization of portfolio wealth in a semi-Markov modulated market
Date: 08-10-2009

Speaker: Rajendra Bhatia, ISI, Delhi
Calculus of Operator Functions
Date: 22-09-2009

Speaker: C. S. Aravinda, TIFR, Bangalore
Prescribing nonpositive curvature
Date: 15-09-2009

Speaker: J.K. Verma, Department of Mathematics, IIT, Bombay
Vanishing of the first Hilbert coefficient and Cohen-Macaulay property
Date: 11-09-2009

Speaker: Nobuharu Onoda, University of Fukui, Japan
Construction of algebras which are locally polynomial in codimension-one
Date: 11-09-2009

Speaker: Kingshook Biswas and Mahan Mj, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University
Pattern Rigidity I and II
Date: 07-09-2009

Speaker: Kingshook Biswas and Mahan Mj, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University
Pattern Rigidity I and II
Date: 31-08-2009

Speaker: S. Kuroda, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Shestakov-Umirbaev inequality and automorphisms of a polynomial ring
Date: 27-08-2009

Speaker: S. Kuroda, Tokyo Metropolitan University
A structure theorem for initial algebras and its application
Date: 25-08-2009

Speaker: Arijit Dey, TIFR, Mumbai
Cohomology of certain moduli spaces of vector bundles over a Riemann surface
Date: 25-08-2009

Speaker: Subhajit Dutta, ISI, SMU, Kolkata
Classification of Sequence Data Using Markov Models
Date: 24-08-2009

Speaker: Jaydeb Sarkar, Dept. of Maths, Texas A&M University, U.S.A.
Quotient Hilbert modules of the canonical Hilbert module
Date: 21-08-2009

Speaker: Parthanil Roy, Michigan State University, USA
Ergodic Properties of Stable Random Fields
Date: 20-08-2009

Speaker: Shigeru Kuroda, Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Shestakov-Umirbaev inequality and automorphisms of a polynomial ring
Date: 17-08-2009

Speaker: M. K. Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Nonlinear Filtering to Credit Risk
Date: 24-07-2009

Speaker: A. Bagchi, University of Twente, Netherland
Filtering and Identification of Affine Term Structures From Yield Curve Data
Date: 24-07-2009

Speaker: Santanu Dutta, Tezpur University
MISE of a kernel density estimator
Date: 22-07-2009

Speaker: Amitava Bhattacharya, School of Mathematics, TIFR
Some approaches to solve General (t,k) design existence problem and other related problems
Date: 13-07-2009

Speaker: S.M. Srivastava, ISI, Stat-Math, Kolkata
A model theoretic proof of Hilbert
Date: 29-06-2009

Speaker: Amitava Bhattacharya, School of Mathematics, TIFR
The polytope of degree partitions
Date: 29-06-2009

Speaker: Miguel Martin, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
The Daugavet property
Date: 23-06-2009

Speaker: Prosenjit Das, ISI, Stat-Math, Kolkata
Planes of the form b(X,Y)Zn-a(X,Y) over a DVR
Date: 22-06-2009

Speaker: Biswarup Das, Stat-Math Unit, ISI (Kolkata)
Quantum stochastic flows: dilation and Trotter-Kato product formula
Date: 16-06-2009

Speaker: V. Uma, IIT, Chennai
K-theory of torus manifolds
Date: 25-05-2009

Speaker: Krishnendu Gongopadhyay, School of Mathematics, TIFR
Algebraic Characterizations of the Isometries of the Hyperbolic Space
Date: 25-05-2009

Speaker: Louis H. Y. Chen, National University of Singapore
Zero Bias, Discretized Normal Approximation and Cramer-type Moderate Deviation
Date: 15-04-2009

Speaker: S.M. Bhatwadekar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Examples of non-isomorphic surfaces which are stably isomorphic
Date: 17-03-2009

Speaker: S.M. Bhatwadekar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Examples of non-isomorphic surfaces which are stably isomorphic
Date: 16-03-2009

Speaker: Sarang S. Sane, School of Mathematics, TIFR
Projective Modules and Euler Classes
Date: 04-03-2009

Speaker: Rajeeva L Karandikar, Cranes Software International Limited, Bangalore
Markov Chains with periodic transition probabilities
Date: 02-03-2009

Speaker: Krishna B. Athreya, Iowa State University & IISc Bangalore
Size biasing with applications to Markov chains and branching processes
Date: 26-02-2009

Speaker: Sanjay Parui, National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar
ANALYTICITY OF THE SCHRODINGER PROPAGATOR ON THE HEISENBERG GROUP
Date: 09-02-2009

Speaker: Teodor Banica, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Toulouse, France
Quantum permutations and complex Hadamard matrices
Date: 27-01-2009

Speaker: Wicher P. Bergsma, London School of Economics, UK
A new correlation coefficient, its orthogonal decomposition and associated tests of independence
Date: 19-01-2009

Speaker: Arnab Ganguly, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Error analysis of the simulation method for a Jump Type Markov Process
Date: 16-01-2009

Speaker: Samik Basu, Harvard University
Stable Homotopy Theory and Thom spectra
Date: 15-01-2009

Speaker: Bodhisattva Sen, Columbia University, USA
Detecting Streaming Motion in Leo I Using Threshold Models
Date: 12-01-2009

Speaker: B. Rajeev, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
Stochastic Integrals and Derivatives
Date: 09-01-2009

Speaker: Parthanil Roy, Michigan State University
Hill Estimator for Tempered Power Laws
Date: 07-01-2009

Speaker: Kaneenika Sinha, University of Alberta, CANADA
"Vertical" Sato-Tate Conjecture and Applications
Date: 19-12-2008

Speaker: S. G. Dani, TIFR, Mumbai
On some atypical large sets of real number numbers involved in Diophantine approximation and geometry
Date: 17-12-2008

Speaker: K. Ramasubramanian, Cell for Indian Science and Technology in Sanskrit Department of HSS, IIT Bombay
Calculus in Prose and Poetry: Contribution of the Kerala School
Date: 15-12-2008

Speaker: J. M. Deshouillers, University de Bordeaux, France
Harmonic analysis in the study of some inverse additive problems
Date: 11-12-2008

Speaker: Amartya Kumar Dutta, ISI, Kolkata
On algebras which are locally polynomial in codimension-one
Date: 08-12-2008

Speaker: C. S. Seshadri, Chennai Mathematical Institute
Moduli and Monodromy
Date: 05-12-2008

Speaker: Saroj Kumar Dash, nstitute of Mathematics and its Applications, Bhubaneswar
Convergence in mean of some random Fourier series
Date: 25-11-2008

Speaker: Bernardo Uribe, CINVESTAV, Mexico
Orbifold String topology
Date: 21-11-2008

Speaker: Antar Bandyopadhyay, ISI, Delhi and Kolkata
Cluster Size Distribution for Percolation on Some General Graphs
Date: 20-10-2008

Speaker: Krishanu Maulik, ISI, Kolkata
Strong Laws for Balanced Triangular Urns
Date: 29-09-2008

Speaker: Himadri Mukherjee, ISI, Kolkata
Tangent Cone Computation for Lattice Toric Varieties
Date: 24-09-2008

Speaker: Himadri Mukherjee, ISI, Kolkata
Singular Locus of Lattice Varieties
Date: 22-09-2008

Speaker: Arijit Chakraborty, Cornell University
Effect of truncation on heavy-tailed models
Date: 18-09-2008

Speaker: C. S. Dalawat, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
Congruent numbers
Date: 16-09-2008

Speaker: Moulinath Banerjee, University of Michigan, USA
Inconsistency of the Bootstrap in Problems Exhibiting Cube Root Asymptotics
Date: 18-08-2008

Speaker: Abhijnan rej, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
On K, L and M
Date: 12-08-2008

Speaker: Mohar Guha, University of Michigan, USA
Front Propagation in a Noisy, Nonsmooth, Excitable Medium
Date: 11-08-2008

Speaker: Sanjay Chaudhuri, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability National University of Singapore
Testing Equalilty of Covariance Matrices of Multivariate Normal Populations
Date: 08-08-2008

Speaker: Arusharka Sen, Concordia University, Canada
An eigenfunction problem and the multivariate Kaplan-Meier estimator
Date: 04-08-2008

Speaker: Abhijnan Rej, MPI for Maths, Bonn
Supergeometry and periods from parametrized Feynman integrals
Date: 14-07-2008

Speaker: Abhijnan Rej, MPI for Maths, Bonn
Algebraic geometry of Feynman graphs
Date: 07-07-2008

Speaker: Krishnendu Gongopadhyay, TIFR
z-Classes of Isometries of a quadratic space
Date: 30-06-2008

Speaker: Siva Athreya, ISI, Bangalore
Conditioned Super-Brownian Motion
Date: 30-06-2008

Speaker: Aloke Dey, ISI-Delhi
New Second Order Designs with Orthogonal Blocking
Date: 20-06-2008

Speaker: K.B.Athreya, IOWA State University
What happens to the unit ball in n dimensions as n gets large and some other interesting math problems
Date: 13-06-2008

Speaker: K.B.Athreya, IOWA State University
Scaling limits of branchng Markov processes
Date: 12-06-2008

Speaker: K.B. Athreya, IOWA State University
Growth Rates for Pure Berth Markov Chains and Preferential Attachment Random Graphs with General weight function
Date: 10-06-2008

Speaker: Adam Skalski, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Lancaster, U.K.
Discrete and continuous quantum stochastic evolutions on locally compact quantum groups
Date: 09-06-2008

Speaker: Govind Menon, Brown University
Burgers turbulence and stochastic coalescence
Date: 02-06-2008

Speaker: Debasis Sen, Stat-Math Unit, ISI, Kolkata
Quasitoric Manifolds & Small Cover
Date: 26-05-2008

Speaker: Arunangshu Biswas, ISI, Stat-Math, Kolkata
Optimal scaling of Random Walk Metropolis Hastings algorithm
Date: 28-04-2008

Speaker: Jyotishman Bhowmick, ISI, Stat-Math, Kolkata
Quantum Isometry Groups
Date: 16-04-2008

Speaker: Sanjay Parui, ISI, Stat-Math, Kolkata
Weighted Bergman Spaces and Gutzmer
Date: 07-04-2008

Speaker: Subhra Sankar Dhar, ISI, Stat-Math, Kolkata
On Robustness and Statistical efficiency of some location estimators
Date: 31-03-2008

Speaker: Nobuharu Onoda, University of Fukui, Japan
On codimension one A¹-fibrations over Noetherian normal domains
Date: 24-03-2008

Speaker: Rahul Roy, ISI, New Delhi
Random oriented trees and Brownian web
Date: 20-03-2008

Speaker: Tanmoy Paul, Stat-Math Unit, ISI, Kolkata
Densely ball remotal subspaces of C(K)
Date: 17-03-2008

Speaker: Nobuharu Onoda, University of Fukui, Japan
Which is easier: addition or multiplication?
Date: 14-03-2008

Speaker: Sanjoy Pusti, Stat Math, ISI
Schwartz´s invariant subspace problem on projective special linear group
Date: 10-03-2008

Speaker: Jadav Ganesh, Stat Math, ISI
The Uniform Mazur´s Intersecction Property
Date: 04-03-2008

Speaker: Peter Zvengrowski, Univ. of Calgary, Canada
Finite fundamental groups of 3-manifolds and their group cohomology
Date: 27-02-2008

Speaker: Peter Zvengrowski, Univ. of Calgary, Canada
Span of smooth manifolds
Date: 26-02-2008

Speaker: Peter Zvengrowski, Univ. of Calgary, Canada
Applications of homotopy theory to graph colourings
Date: 25-02-2008

Speaker: Ashis Mandal, Stat Math, ISI
Deformation of Leibniz algebra homomorphisms
Date: 18-02-2008

Speaker: Gouping Tang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
K-theory of forms
Date: 12-02-2008

Speaker: Abhijit Pal, ISI, Kolkata
Relative Hyperbolic Extensions of Groups
Date: 04-02-2008

Speaker: J. A. Thas, Gent University,Belgium
Finite Fields and Galois Geometries
Date: 28-01-2008

Speaker: Mahabir Prasad Jhanwar, ISI, Kolkata
Reducing Elliptic Curve Logarithms to Logarithms in a Finite Field
Date: 21-01-2008

Speaker: Prosnejit Das, ISI, Kolkata
Rings and fields of constants for derivations in characteristic zero
Date: 14-01-2008

Speaker: Bodhisattva Sen, Columbia University, USA
Detecting Streaming Motion in Leo I Using Threshold Models
Date: 12-01-2008

Speaker: S. M. Srivastava, ISI, Kolkata
FORCING---An Overview