Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit Seminar

The regular schedule for the seminar is on Wednesdays from 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM at the Seminar Room - 2, New Building.
The seminar series speakers will typically give two talks during the week of their visit. One talk will be scheduled on regular time. The time and venue for the other talk will be posted in advance.
Always the default time is 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM and the venue is Seminar Room - 2, New Building.
Unless otherwise mentioned, tea, coffee, and cake/snacks will be served in the lobby from half-and-hour before a talk starts.

Autumn 2010 Schedule

Upcoming Seminars:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)

Past Seminars:

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title (click for abstract)
July 21	Anirban Bose	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	Structure Theory of Algebraic Groups
July 28	Arindam Chatterjee	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	Asymptotic Properties of Lasso Estimators
August 4	Maneesh Thakur	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	A Theorem of Frobenius and an Isomorphism in Lie Theory
August 11	No Seminar	No Seminar	Cancelled because of ICM 2010
August 18	No Seminar	No Seminar	Cancelled because of ICM 2010
August 25	No Seminar	No Seminar	Cancelled because of ICM 2010
September 1	Arijit Chakrabarty	IISc, Bangalore	Hill Estimator for Truncated Data
September 8	Shanta Laishram	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	Stolarsky's Conjecture and sum of binary digits of $n$ and $n^2$
September 15	Rahul Roy	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	The Travelling Salesman Problem and Its Variants
September 22	Priyanka Grover	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	Derivatives Their Norms and Perturbation Bounds for Some Functions of Matrices
September 29	Abhay G. Bhatt	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	An Introduction to Schramm Loewner Evolutions
October 6	Deepayan Sarkar	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	The R Environment: An Overview
October 13	R. B. Bapat	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	The Lure of the Distance Matrix of a Tree
October 20 Venue: Seminar Room - 1	Aloke Dey	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	Nested Orthogonal Arrays
October 27	Ram Tiwari	Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA, USA	A New Method for Signal Detection with Application to AERS Data
November 3	Anish Sarkar	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	Percolation in Poisson Boolean Model
November 10	Cristian Coletti	Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Sãu Paulo, Brasil	New Ergodicity Conditions for a Class of Discrete Time Stochastic System with Many Components
November 17	No Seminar	No Seminar	No Seminar (Holiday)
November 24	Amites Dasgupta	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Kolkata	A Measure on the Space of Lipschitz Isometric Maps of a Compact 1-Manifold
December 1	Debleena Thacker	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	Non-Uniform Random Geometric Graphs with Location Dependent Radii
December 8	K. R. Parthasarathy	Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Delhi	What is a Gaussian State ?
December 14 Day: Tuesday	Rajeeva L. Karandikar	Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai	Copulas, Tail Dependence and Value at Risk
December 15	Rajeeva L. Karandikar	Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai	Role of Randomness in Design and Analysis of Block Ciphers

The Autumn 2010 Series will end on December 15, 2010 unless otherwise notified.
The Spring 2011 Series will tentatively start from the second week of January 2011.
Please contact Antar Bandyopadhyay if you are interested to give a talk on topics from mathematics and Deepayan Sarkar if you want to talk on topics from statistics.
Click here for the official web-page for the seminars.
Click here for the past and future seminars.
Click here for the direction to reach ISI, Delhi Centre.

Last modified December 15, 2010