Optimizing Pathwise Student Seminar Speaker: Ankush Agarwal, TIFR Organisers: Shishir PandeyTime: Friday, 2 November 2012, 15:00 to 16:30 Venue: A-212 (STCS Seminar Room) Webpage: http://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~ankush/ Read more about Optimizing Pathwise
Five-Coloring Plane Graphs Student Seminar Speaker: Shishir Pandey, TIFR Organisers: Girish VarmaTime: Friday, 19 October 2012, 15:00 to 16:30 Venue: A-212 (STCS Seminar Room) Webpage: http://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~shishir/ Read more about Five-Coloring Plane Graphs
The Random Threshold Graph Model Seminar Speaker: Rahul RoyOrganisers: Jaikumar RadhakrishnanTime: Friday, 19 October 2012, 10:00 to 11:00 Venue: A-212 (STCS Seminar Room) Webpage: http://www.isid.ac.in/~statmath/oldweb/homepagerahul/index.html Read more about The Random Threshold Graph Model
Proof Transformations for Verification Seminar Speaker: Ashutosh K. GuptaTime: Friday, 12 October 2012, 15:30 to 16:30 Venue: A-212 (STCS Seminar Room) Webpage: http://pub.ist.ac.at/~agupta/ Read more about Proof Transformations for Verification
Pseudorandomness and Unpredictability Student Seminar Speaker: Swagato Sanyal, TIFR Organisers: Girish VarmaTime: Friday, 12 October 2012, 14:00 to 15:00 Venue: A-212 (STCS Seminar Room) Webpage: https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/people/swagato-sanyal This talk will be an introduction to pseudorandomness. We will motivate it's study and connect it to 'unpredictability' through a theorem by Yao. Read more about Pseudorandomness and Unpredictability
Balanced Information Inequalities Seminar Speaker: Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi, TIFR Organisers: Naqueeb Ahmad WarsiTime: Tuesday, 9 October 2012, 15:30 to 16:30 Venue: A-212 (STCS Seminar Room) Read more about Balanced Information Inequalities
Multilevel Monte Carlo Path Simulation Student Seminar Speaker: Ankush Agarwal, TIFR Organisers: Gugan ThoppeTime: Friday, 5 October 2012, 15:00 to 16:30 Venue: A-212 (STCS Seminar Room) Webpage: http://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~ankush/ Read more about Multilevel Monte Carlo Path Simulation
Quadratic Dynamical Systems Student Seminar Speaker: Pritam Bhattacharya, TIFR Organisers: Gugan ThoppeTime: Friday, 28 September 2012, 15:00 to 16:30 Venue: A-212 (STCS Seminar Room) Webpage: https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/people/pritam-bhattacharya The main purpose of this talk will be to promote the study of computational aspects, primarily the convergence rate, of non-linear dynamical systems from a combinatorial perspective. Read more about Quadratic Dynamical Systems
Non i.i.d. Information Theory Student Seminar Speaker: Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi, TIFR Organisers: Nithin M. VarmaTime: Friday, 21 September 2012, 14:30 to 16:00 Venue: A-212 (STCS Seminar Room) Read more about Non i.i.d. Information Theory
Electrical Networks and Spanning Trees Seminar Speaker: Girish Varma, TIFR Organisers: Nithin M. VarmaTime: Friday, 14 September 2012, 15:00 to 16:30 Venue: A-212 (STCS Seminar Room) Webpage: http://geevi.in/ We will go through some connections between current flow in an electrical network and the number of spanning trees in the underlying graph. Read more about Electrical Networks and Spanning Trees