Department Seminar

The Department of Mathematics hosts the Department Seminar Series, which brings invited speakers as well as members of the department to present talks across a broad spectrum of mathematical areas. The series highlights current research and fosters interaction within the department. Below is a year-wise list of seminars and speakers.

2026

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Feb 28	Prof. A. K. Nandakumaran	IISc Bangalore	Various Convergences in Lᵖ(Ω) and Applications to Homogenization
Feb 24	Prof. Wilfried Imrich	Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria	The Semi-Strong Product of Graphs
Feb 09	Prof. Bill Mance	Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland	Normal Numbers
Jan 30	Prof. Sachin Kumar	University of Delhi	Advanced Analytical Methods for Solitons and Rogue Wave Solutions of Higher-Order Nonlinear Evolution Equations

2025

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Dec 05	Prof. B V Rajarama Bhat	Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore	Unitary Orthonormal Bases for Finite Dimensional Inclusions
Nov 06	Dr. Tiju C. John	BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus	Optimal Quantum Alert Systems: Detecting Sudden Changes in Infinite-Dimensional Systems
Sep 30	Dr. Prabuddha Gupta	Amity University, Kolkata	Quantitative Perspectives on Leprosy: Steps Towards Eradication
Aug 29	Dr. Shreyashi Basak	BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus	Adaptive Inference Procedures for the Mean Directions of Several Fisher von-Mises Langevin Populations
Apr 24	Mr. Kaustabh Mondal	IISER Pune	Representation Equivalence and Isospectrality of Locally Symmetric Spaces
Apr 17	Prof. Tarkeshwar Singh	BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus	Local Distance Antimagic Graph Coloring of Graphs
Apr 08	Prof. Danumjaya Palla	BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus	Solving Fourth-Order Semilinear Parabolic Problems Using PINNs
Mar 20	Prof. Carsten Carstensen	Humboldt University of Berlin	Computation of Plates
Mar 19	Prof. Dilip Patil	GITAM University, Bangalore	The Number of Real Zeros of Real Polynomials
Mar 13	Prof. Monojit Bhattacharjee	BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus	Commutant Lifting in Several Variables
Mar 12	Mr. Omatharv B. Vaidya	University of Texas, Austin	Transitioning from Undergraduate Education to Research
Feb 28	Dr. Divyang Bhimani	IISER Pune	Low-Regularity Global Solution of Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
Feb 25	Prof. Biswa Nath Datta	Northern Illinois University, USA	Numerical Linear Algebra in Machine Learning
Jan 23	Prof. Vaibhav Mehandiratta	BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus	Markov Approximation of Gaussian Whittle-Matérn Fields on Metric Graphs
Jan 28	Prof. Laurence Grammont	University of Saint-Étienne, France	Integral Equations of the Second Kind

2024

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Dec 03	Prof. S. Thangavelu	IISc Bangalore	Bargmann and Fock Meet Hardy: An Uncertainty Principle for Operators
Nov 26	Dr. Surjit Kumar	IIT Madras	𝒰(d)-Homogeneous d-Tuple of Bounded Linear Operators
Nov 23	Mr. Rasagy Sharma	Capital One	From Pi to Pie Charts: How I Discovered My Love for Design & Technology
Nov 23	Mr. Ankit Nassa	eSentire	Taking 0s and 1s to Infinity
Nov 22	Dr. Tiju Cherian John	University of Arizona	Quantum Central Limit Theorem and Monotonicity Conjectures Related to Entropy
Oct 15	Dr. Priyamvada	IIT Indore	Some Complexity Results for a Graph Coloring Problem
Sep 17	Prof. Abhishek Methuku	UIUC	On Some Old Problems of Erdős
Sep 17	Prof. Sandeep Kunnath	TIFR CAM, Bangalore	Semilinear Elliptic Equations with Critical Nonlinearity
Sep 03	Prof. Devika S.	BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus	Virtual Element Method for the von Kármán Equations
Aug 26	Prof. Mukesh Kumar Nagar	BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus	Laplacian Immanants of Trees
Aug 20	Prof. Sameer Chavan	IIT Kanpur	Szego Kernels and Proper Holomorphic Mappings
Mar 26	Dr. Sukhendu Ghosh	IIT Jodhpur	Linear Stability Analysis of Some Complex Flows
Mar 22	Prof. Asha Rao	RMIT University, Australia	Social Media: Being Aware and Cyber Safe
Feb 21–23	Prof. Dilip Patil	GITAM University	Galois Theory (Lecture Series)
Feb 16	Prof. Gadadhar Mishra	IIT Gandhinagar / ISI Bangalore	Mackey Imprimitivity and Commuting d-Tuples of Homogeneous Normal Operators
Feb 06	Dr. Saikatul Haque	HRI Allahabad	Well-Posedness of the Hardy-Hénon Parabolic Equation
Jan 01	Dr. Subhankar Mondal	TIFR CAM, Bangalore	Regularization of Ill-Posed Inverse Problems and Source Identification in PDEs

2023

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
Sep 22	Prof. Ashok Kumar	IIT Palakkad	Probability and Statistics in Some Real Life Settings
Sep 8	Prof. Shanta Laishram	Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi	Squares in Arithmetic Progression
Aug 28	Dr. Bapan Ghosh	IIT Indore	Paradoxical Harvesting Results in Some Population Models
Jul 7	Dr. Giuseppe Negro	Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon	Global Solutions with Asymptotic Self-Similar Behaviour for the Cubic Wave Equation
Apr 18	Prof. Krishnan Sivasubramanian	IIT Bombay	Linear Algebraic Methods in Combinatorics
Mar 1	Dr. Kiran R. Bhutani	Catholic University of America, USA	A Study of Parameters in Evolving Networks
Feb 28	Prof. S. Kesavan	Chennai Mathematical Institute	On a Degenerate Algebraic Riccati Equation
Feb 24	Dr. Bishnu Prasad Lamichhane	University of Newcastle, Australia	Mathematics and Music
Feb 21	Prof. Arindama Singh	IIT Madras	Defining Trigonometric Functions
Feb 7	Prof. Snehanshu Saha	BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus	Optimization: A Critical Tool of Sustainable AI
Jan 31	Prof. Gadadhar Misra	Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore	Conway's Soldiers