Infosys-ICTS Ramanujan Lectures
Srinivasa Ramanujan’s extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions are unparalleled. The Infosys-ICTS Ramanujan Lectures are delivered by renowned mathematicians on important developments in their area of speciality. The first lecture in the series is aimed at a general audience while the rest are for mathematicians.
Past Lectures
Locally symmetric spaces, and Galois representations
Peter Scholze (The University of Bonn, Germany)
25 March 2014, 11:30 to 12:30
AG 66, TIFR, Mumbai
One of the most studied objects in mathematics is the modular curve, given as the locally symmetric space which is the quotient of 2-dimensional hyperbolic space by congruence subgroups of SL_2(Z). In particular, it is naturally the home of modular forms. It also has an algebraic structure as the...more
Mathematical Perspectives on Clouds, Climate, and Tropical Meteorology
Andrew J. Majda (Morse Professor of Arts and Science Dept. of Maths and Courant Institute, New York University, USA)
22 January 2013, 16:00 to 17:00
ICTS-TIFR, IISc, Bangalore
Lecture 1: Climate Science, Waves, and PDE’s for the Tropics: Observations, Theory, and Numerics Abstract: Geophysical flows are a rich source of novel problems for applied mathematics and the contemporary theory of partial differential equations. The reason for this is that many physically...more
The Generalized Ramanujan Conjectures and Applications
Peter Sarnak (Princeton University, USA)
21 May 2012, 11:30 to 12:30
AG 66, TIFR, Mumbai
Lecture 1: The Generalized Ramanujan Conjectures Abstract: One of the central problems in the modern theory of automorphic forms is the Generalized Ramanujan Conjecture.We review the development and formulation of these conjectures as well as recent progress. While the general Conjecture is not...more

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