
Percolation on Hyperbolic Groups
Abstract: We study first passage percolation (FPP) in a Gromov-hyperbolic group G with boundary equipped with the Patterson-Sullivan measure. We associate […]

Episodes in Indian Mathematics
Abstract: Mathematics had a rich history in ancient and medieval India. Indian mathematicians made original contributions to algebra, number theory, and […]

Tales of Our Forefathers.
Abstract: This is not a mathematics talk but it is a talk for mathematicians. Too often, we think of historical mathematicians […]

Ramanujan and $q$-continued fractions
Abstract: It is exactly a hundred years since Ramanujan died at an early age of 32 years, but his mathematical legacy […]

Informal series of interactions between prominent mathematicians and students
The Mathematics Department organized an informal series of interactions between prominent mathematicians and students Meet a Mathematician

Mathematics, Power and Democracy: A mathematical look at voting systems.
Abstract: In this talk, we present some methods and results from the mathematical theory of voting. These results can directly be […]

Some results on the geometry of curves and surfaces.
Abstract: We will see a proof of Pythagoras theorem on the plane and another on the sphere. Consider the paths traced […]

Mathematics and Society: Voting Systems
Abstract: For arriving at decisions in a democratic manner, it is common to take recourse to vote. In this talk, a […]

Philosophy Conference – Reformed Empiricism and Its Prospects
(This link takes you to the Amazon.in website of the book.) Anil Gupta will open the conference by presenting a precis […]

Some Min-Max formulas in Optimization
Abstract: An important technique in Optimization theory is to find formulas that equate the minimum of a class of objects with […]

Prime numbers and the Riemann zeta function
Abstract: Prime numbers are the building blocks for the whole numbers. Just by starting from the infinitude of primes and their […]

Two footnotes to Galois’s Memoirs
Abstract: We will review the history of the solvability of polynomial equations by radicals, concentrating on the two Memoirs of Evariste […]
