11th - 22nd December, 2023

Workshop on Spherical Varieties and Related Topics

at Indian Institute of Technology Madras

About : This is an two- weeks workshop on spherical varieties. There will be 2 lecture series on the following topics:

(i) Introduction to wonderful varieties,

(ii) Spherical homogeneous spaces.

Apart from this, there will be some talks by experts and early career researchers. Lectures will be held at the Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras as well as will be telecast in zoom.

We shall share the zoom links with the participants attending online two days before the workshop.

Some preparatory lectures will be arranged during the third and fourth week of November tentatively. The schedule and the online link for this will be put up by the end of October.

The student participants are highly encouraged to attend all the preparatory lectures.

Main Speakers

Prof. Stéphanie Cupit-Foutou

Department of Mathematics,

Ruhr-University Bochum,

Germany

Prof. Dmitry Timashev

Department of Higher Algebra,

Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

The Venue

Seminar Hall (NAC 522)

Department of Mathematics

New Academic Complex

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Organizing Committee :

Dr. Vikraman Uma (Associate Professor, IIT Madras, Email : vuma@iitm.ac.in)
Dr. Aprameyan P (Assistant Professor, IIT Madras, Email : aprameyan@iitm.ac.in)
Prof. S. Senthamarai Kannan ( Professor, CMI, Email: kannan@cmi.ac.in)
Dr. Narasimha Chary Bonala (Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur, Email : chary@iitk.ac.in)
Mr. Bidhan Paul (Research Scholar, IIT Madras, Email : bidhan@smail.iitm.ac.in)