School of Technology and Computer Science

Past events

Likes, Budgets, and Equilibria: Designing Contests for Socially Optimal Advertising
Speaker:
Swaprava Nath (IIT Bombay)
Organiser:
Raghuvansh Saxena
Date:
Tuesday, 5 May 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Seminar

Learning world models from doing and seeing: Causal representation learning and applications to robot pose estimation
Speaker:
Karthikeyan Shanmugam (Google Deepmind India (Bengaluru))
Organiser:
Raghuvansh Saxena
Date:
Tuesday, 28 Apr 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Seminar

Teaching Your Computer to Play Chess (Part 1): Markov Games and TD Learning
Speaker:
Aakash Ghosh (TIFR)
Organiser:
Nishant Das
Date:
Friday, 24 Apr 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A201
Category:
STCS Student Seminar

A Distribution Testing Approach to Clustering Distributions
Speaker:
Gunjan Kumar (IIT Kanpur)
Organiser:
Raghuvansh Saxena
Date:
Tuesday, 21 Apr 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Seminar

Quantum Classical Equivalence for AND Functions
Speaker:
Sreejata Kishor Bhattacharya (TIFR)
Organiser:
Malhar Ajit Managoli
Date:
Friday, 17 Apr 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Student Seminar

On Approximability of Satisfiable CSPs & Applications (extended version)
Speaker:
Amey Bhangale (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA)
Organiser:
Prahladh Harsha
Date:
Friday, 10 Apr 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A201
Category:
STCS Seminar

On Approximability of Satisfiable CSPs & Applications
Speaker:
Amey Bhangale (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA)
Organiser:
Prahladh Harsha
Date:
Thursday, 9 Apr 2026, 14:00 to 15:00
Venue:
A201
Category:
STCS Seminar

Saral AI: Democratising Scholarly Work by Transforming into Accessible, Multilingual Content
Speaker:
Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (IIIT Hyderabad)
Organiser:
Shibashis Guha
Date:
Tuesday, 7 Apr 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
Lecture Theatre (AG-66)
Category:
Joint STCS-DAA Seminar

Catalytic Graph Algorithms
Speaker:
Shubham Bhardwaj (TIFR)
Organiser:
Sourav Roy
Date:
Friday, 27 Mar 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Student Seminar

Optimal Two-Round Communication Lower bound for Graph Connectivity
Speaker:
Rakesh Venkat (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH))
Organiser:
Raghuvansh Saxena
Date:
Wednesday, 25 Mar 2026, 14:30 to 15:30
Venue:
A-201 Seminar Room
Category:
STCS Seminar