Upcoming Lectures
Minhyong Kim (University of Edinburgh, UK)
03 September 2024 to 06 September 2024
Feynman Lecture Hall
In the 1960’s Barry Mazur called attention to an ‘analogy between knots and primes’, in terms of which he conceptualised the Main Conjecture of Iwasawa Theory relating p-adic L-functions and ideal class groups. This analogy led his research away from topology and into number theory, after which he...more
Past Lectures
Madabusi Raghunathan (Distinguished Professor, UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences & Honorary Fellow, TIFR)
24 July 2024 to 02 August 2024
Madhava Lecture Hall
In these lectures I will outline a proof of the Atiyah-Singer Index theorem. I will begin with the definition of the symbol $\sigma_l$ of a linear differential operator $L$ and the notion of ellipticity of $L$. I go on to define the analytic index $i_a(L)$ of a linear elliptic differential operator...more
Anna-Maria Pippich (University of Konstanz, Germany), Jurg Kramer (Humboldt University, Berlin) and Anilatmaja Aryasomayajula (IISER Tirupati)
13 March 2024, 10:30 to 15 March 2024, 17:00
Madhava Lecture Hall and Online
Lecture -01: Introduction to modular forms and modular curves Speaker: Anna-Maria Pippich (University of Konstanz, Germany) Date & Time: 13th March 2024 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM (IST) Abstract: In the first lecture, we will give an introduction to the classical theory of modular forms for the...more
Prof. T N Venkataramana (ICTS-TIFR)
15 January 2024, 14:00 to 27 March 2024, 15:30
Feynman Lecture Hall
Course Description: This is a semester course on compact groups with special emphasis on compact connected Lie groups, their structure theory and the theory of representations of such groups. We first prove general results like complete reducibility , Schur's lemma , and orthogonality relations. We...more
Siva Athreya (ICTS-TIFR)
25 April 2023, 14:45 to 18:30
Online
On the occasion of A.N. Kolmogorov’s 120th Birthday the symposium will feature talks by leading researchers in the fields where Kolmogorov had an impact on in its early stages. Zoom link: https://icts-res-in.zoom.us/j/84556101498?pwd=ZU9HU0YzcnhZR1ZqcU9EWC81Vm9rUT09 Meeting ID: 845 5610 1498...more
Sunil Mukhi (Adjunct Professor, ICTS-TIFR)
20 March 2023 to 28 April 2023
Online
ICTS is pleased to announce a special lecture series by Prof. Sunil Mukhi as a centennial tribute to Prof. Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri. Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (14 Sep 1923 – 18 June 2005) was an Indian physicist, known for his pioneering work in general relativity and cosmology. His most significant...more
Prof. Ashoke Sen (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore)
22 February 2022 to 31 May 2022
Online
In these informal lectures, I shall try to describe the procedure for computing perturbative amplitudes in superstring theory. This can be regarded as a crash course on the subject, primarily for advanced graduate students and post-docs, where I shall skip many derivations but will try to explain...more