Abstract: "First presented in 1936, the Fields Medal quickly became one of mathematicians' most prestigious, famous, and in some cases notorious […]

Abstract: In this talk I will talk about a few concepts I learned in group theory during my study at Ashoka. […]

Abstract: Given a finitely generated group G and a finite subset S of its generators, the Cayley graph Γ(G, S) associates […]

Abstract: This will be an extempore talk on how to measure information.

Abstract: This is the second of a two-part introduction to geometric group theory. This talk is on hyperbolic groups and their […]

Abstract: In this simple and heuristic talk using Huffman and Arithmetic compression, we will give a motivation as to why Shannon’s […]

Abstract: Terence Tao posted on his blog a question of Apoorva Khare, asking whether the free group on two generators has […]

Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss a recent theorem proved on multiplicity of spectrum of random operators. In the […]

Abstract: The Banach-Tarski paradox is one of the most striking phenomena in all of mathematics. It is actually a mathematical fact, […]

Abstract: You can ignore all the jargon mentioned in the title. In the first part of the talk, we will discuss […]

Abstract: In 1916, Ramanujan came up with a series of conjectures about the coefficients of the $undefinedtau$-function, a function that appears […]

Abstract: This talk is intended for a general audience. Here we demonstrate by way of several examples, whereby techniques from the […]