About The Seminar
This seminar takes place usually on Fridays, at a suitable time and is meant for talks by early career Indian mathematicians (PhD Students, Postdocs, and young faculty members). By Indian, we mean anyone residing/working in India now or residing/working in India in the past.
You can register to be on the mailing list by filling in this form. Alternatively, you can also email me ([email protected]) or Parama Dutta ([email protected]).
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All the talks will be over Zoom. To join a talk please use the following information: Meeting ID 926 1140 2828 and the Passcode is 1729.
Next Talk
A Stroll Through Davenport Constant
Eshita Mazumdar (Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru)
21 May 2021 (7 pm IST)
Abstract: For a finite abelian group G, the Davenport Constant D(G) is defined to be the least positive integer k such that any sequence S with length k over G has a non-trivial zerosum subsequence. The original motivation for introducing Davenport Constant was to study the problem of non-unique factorization domain over number fields. The precise value of this group invariant for any finite abelian group is still unknown. In my talk I am going to present my most recent research works related to Davenport Constant. In first half of my talk, I will present an Extremal Problem related to Weighted Davenport Constant, where we introduce and discuss several exciting combinatorial results for finite abelian group. In second half of my talk, I will talk about my current project, where my main aim is to discuss the perfect power of a polynomial $f(x)\in \mathbb{Z}[x]$ for integral values of x: While doing so we developed a new group invariant whichis a natural generalization of Davenport Constant.
Upcoming Talks
- 28 May, 2021: Extended higher Herglotz functions I. Functional equations (Rahul Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar)
Past Talks
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- What is the Probability that an automorphism fixes a group element? (Parama Dutta: 26 June 2020)
- Hypergeometric Series over Finite Fields (Arjun Singh Chetry: 10 July 2020)
- Families of Congruences for Fractional Partition Functions Modulo Powers of Primes (Hirakjyoti Das: 17 July 2020)
- Combinatorics of Stammering Tableaux (Bishal Deb: 31 July 2020)
- An approach to construct Mathematical model through system of ordinary differential equation (Munmi Saikia: 07 August 2020)
- Some aspects of $\Gamma_2$ graph over some of the finite commutative rings (Anurag Baruah: 14 August 2020)
- Application of the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction to partition functions (Nilufar Mana Begum: 21 August 2020)
- Certain types of primitive and normal elements over finite fields (Himangshu Hazarika: 28 August 2020)
- Hard and Easy Instances of L-Tromino Tilings (Manjil Saikia: 04 September 2020)
- Extremal inverse eigenvalue problems for matrices with a prescribed graph (Debashish Sharma: 18 September 2020)
- Solution Concepts in Transferable Utility Games (Parishmita Baruah: 02 October 2020)
- Distance Pareto eigenvalue of a graph (Deepak Sarma: 09 October 2020)
- Congruences for $\ell$-Regular OverPartition for $\ell\in {5, 6, 8}$ (Chayanika Boruah: 16 October 2020)
- Primes with restricted digits in arithmetic progressions (Kunjakanan Nath: 30 October 2020)
- On Congruent Numbers and Their Generalizations over Number Fields (Shamik Das: 06 November 2020)
- Introduction to the mapping class groups (Soumya Dey: 20 November 2020)
- An introduction to combinatorial representation theory (Manjil Saikia: 27 November 2020)
- $\mu$-Statistically Convergent Multiple Sequences in Probabilistic Normed Spaces (Rupam Haloi: 04 December 2020)
- On the parity of Andrews’ Singular overpartition function (Ajit Singh: 11 December 2020)
- The Stable Marriage Problem: Marriages made by algorithms, Guaranteed with stability! (Souvik Parial: 18 December 2020)
- Generalization of five $q$-series identities of Ramanujan and unexplored weighted partition identities (Bibekananda Maji: 08 January 2021)
- Interconnected sequences: A generalization of Fibonacci sequence and some identities (Neeraj Kumar Paul: 22 January 2021)
- Tessellation by Equilateral Polygons (Anirban Roy: 29 January 2021)
- Enumeration of matrices and splitting subspaces over finite fields (Divya Aggarwal: 12 February 2021)
- Voting Rules: An Introduction (Ritu Dutta: 19 February 2021)
- Combinatorial proof of a beautiful Euler-type Identity (Gauranga K. Baishya: 26 February 2021)
- Gromov’s compactness theorem for (pseudo)holomorphic curves (Mohan Swaminathan: 05 March 2021)
- Parametrized Families of Quadratic Fields with Large n-rank (Azizul Hoque: 12 March 2021)
- Finite Groups with Exactly Two Conjugacy Class Size and the Analogous Study in Lie Algebra (Tushar Kanta Naik: 19 March 2021)
- Translation surfaces with poles and meromorphic differentials (Gianluca Faraco: 26 March 2021)
- On some properties of consecutive Lehmer numbers modulo a prime (Bidisha Roy: 09 April 2021)
- Commuting Tuples and Commuting Probability (Uday Bhaskar Sharma: 30 April 2021)
- Orbits of zipping maps of surfaces of infinite type (Soumya Dey: 07 May 2021)
- Simultaneous divisibility and indivisibility properties of class numbers of quadratic fields (Jaitra Chattopadhyay: 14 May 2021)
FAQs
When does the seminar take place?
Usually on Fridays, the times change depending on the availability of the speaker.
Who can attend?
Everyone is welcome to attend. You can register to be on the mailing list by filling in this form.
Who can give a talk?
At the moment we are encouraging only PhD students, postdocs and young faculty members to give talks. If you are interested in giving a talk, please send an email to [email protected] or [email protected]
Are the talks meant for a general audience?
Yes, but this is a research seminar. We ask the speakers to spend at least 30% of their time on introduction and motivation of the topic which should be understandable for someone with a Masters level education in mathematics.
How long is a talk?
The talks are between 45-60 minutes, followed by discussions. We leave the discussions open ended and usually spend about 60 minutes after the talk just chatting with each other about various topics related to mathematics.
Why was this series started?
The primary aim was to know the different type of work being done by young mathematicians and to also look for oppurtunities for collaborative work.
Will there be any certificate for attending?
No.
Are there recordings of the talks?
No. Only the speaker has access to recordings of their own talks. The speakers can decide to make them public if they wish to.