Aspects of Mathematics
A two-day mathematics programme
#Date and time: Monday and Tuesday, 30th June and 01st July 2014, 09:00--17:30 hrs
Venue: Ramanujan Auditorium, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Timetable PDF (speakers and chairs) | Titles and abstracts PDF | Poster PDF
Playlist for videos of all the lectures
The programme featured eight lectures on various aspects of mathematics by experts engaged in research: the listing below is by alphabetical order of last name as is customary in mathematics literature. Click on the title for the abstract, and on "slides" for slides or on "notes" for notes, as the case may be.
Arvind Ayyer (IISc) Down the rabbit hole of Alternating Sign Matrices TXT
11:30 am Tuesday 1st July, chair: Krishna Maddaly notes PDFSinnou David (University of Paris VII) A journey with Diophantus TXT
9:45 am Monday 30th June, chair: R BalasubramanianSuresh Govindarajan (IIT Madras) Partitions of integers and their higher dimensional generalisations TXT
9:45 am Tuesday 1st July, chair: Rajesh Ravindran slides PDFPrabha Mandayam (CMI) Mutually Unbiased Bases: complementary observables in finite dimensional Hilbert spaces TXT
2:00 pm Tuesday 1st July, chair: Sibasish Ghosh slides PDFRitabrata Munshi (TIFR) L-functions in the theory of numbers TXT
11:30 am Monday 30th June, chair: K SrinivasAjay Ramadoss (Indiana University) Quivers and their representations: an introduction TXT
2:00 pm Monday 30th June, chair: Amritanshu PrasadS Sundar (CMI) Finite dimensional C*-algebras TXT
3:45 pm Tuesday 1st July, chair: V S Sunder notes PDFR Venkatesh (Montreal University / TIFR) Unique factorization of symmetric functions TXT
3:45 pm Monday 30th June, chair: Sankaran Viswanath slides PDF