School of Technology and Computer Science

Past events

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

Reconstruction of Depth 3 Arithmetic circuits with constant top fan-in
Speaker:
Devansh Shringi (University of Toronto)
Organiser:
Mrinal Kumar, Raghuvansh Saxena
Date:
Tuesday, 12 May 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Seminar

Teaching your computer to play chess (Part 2): Bandits, MCTS, and Approximate Policy Iteration
Speaker:
Aakash Ghosh (TIFR)
Organiser:
Soumyajit Pyne
Date:
Friday, 8 May 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Student Seminar

Deterministic Algorithms for Factors of Constant-Depth Arithmetic Circuits
Speaker:
Varun Ramanathan (TIFR)
Organiser:
Ramprasad Saptharishi
Date:
Thursday, 7 May 2026, 16:30 to 17:30
Venue:
A-201 and Zoom
Category:
Ph.D. Thesis Defense

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