School of Technology and Computer Science

Past events

Synthesizing POMDP Policies: Sampling Meets Model-checking via Learning
Speaker:
Anirban Majumdar (TIFR)
Organiser:
Raghuvansh Saxena
Date:
Tuesday, 2 Jun 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Seminar

Adversarial Hypothesis Testing: Channel Estimation, Sequentiality and Robustness
Speaker:
Eeshan Modak (TIFR)
Organiser:
Vinod M. Prabhakaran
Date:
Friday, 29 May 2026, 10:30 to 11:30
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
Ph.D. Thesis Defense

Polynomial Time Local Decision Revisited
Speaker:
Soumyadeep Paul (TIFR)
Organiser:
Spandan Poddar
Date:
Wednesday, 27 May 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Student Seminar

FPT-Approximation via Random Walks
Speaker:
Tanmay Inamdar (IIT Jodhpur)
Organiser:
Raghuvansh Saxena
Date:
Tuesday, 26 May 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Seminar

The Power of the Score Sequence of a Tournament
Speaker:
Prantar Ghosh (Tennessee Tech University)
Organiser:
Arkadev Chattopadhyay
Date:
Monday, 25 May 2026, 11:30 to 12:30
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Seminar

Towards Provable Leakage-Resilience of Additive and Inner-Product Masking under Hamming-weight Model
Speaker:
Jihun Hwang (Jimmy) (Purdue University)
Organiser:
Soumyajit Pyne
Date:
Friday, 22 May 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
via Zoom in A201
Category:
STCS Student Seminar

Exponential Sums and Weil Bounds: A Survey of Elementary Methods and Decoding Applications
Speaker:
Soham Chatterjee (TIFR)
Organiser:
Mrinal Kumar
Date:
Friday, 22 May 2026, 11:00 to 12:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
Masters' Project Seminar

Markov Chains with Rewinding
Speaker:
Madhu Sudan (Harvard University)
Organiser:
Mrinal Kumar
Date:
Tuesday, 19 May 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A201
Category:
STCS Seminar

Deterministic list decoding of Reed-Solomon codes
Speaker:
Soham Chatterjee (TIFR)
Organiser:
Santanu Das
Date:
Friday, 15 May 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Student Seminar

Rare Events in Stochastic Multi-Armed Bandits
Speaker:
Anirban Bhattacharjee (TIFR)
Organiser:
Hariharan Narayanan
Date:
Thursday, 14 May 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 and Zoom
Category:
Ph.D. Thesis Defense