Past events

Oral Qualifier

Speaker:
Spandan Poddar (TIFR)
Organiser:
Vinod M. Prabhakaran
Date:
Friday, 23 Jan 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 Seminar Room
Category:

Aggregating maximal cliques in real-world graphs

Speaker:
Sabyasachi Basu (Microsoft Research)
Organiser:
Piyush Srivastava
Date:
Friday, 23 Jan 2026, 14:00 to 15:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:

Oral Qualifier

Speaker:
Vivek Karunakaran (TIFR)
Organiser:
Umang Bhaskar
Date:
Wednesday, 21 Jan 2026, 14:00 to 15:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:

Old dog, Old tricks, New show: Fast preconditioned 1st order methods for training Kernel Machines

Speaker:
Parthe Pandit (IIT Bombay)
Organiser:
Raghuvansh Saxena
Date:
Tuesday, 20 Jan 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:

Oral Qualifier

Speaker:
Aakash Ghosh (TIFR)
Organiser:
Abhishek Sinha
Date:
Monday, 19 Jan 2026, 16:30 to 17:30
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:

Fast exact algorithms via the Matrix Tree Theorem

Speaker:
Organiser:
Pranab Panda
Date:
Friday, 16 Jan 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)

The Landscape of Exact Round Complexity in Secure Multi-Party Computation

Speaker:
Arpita Patra (IISC Bangalore)
Organiser:
Vinod M. Prabhakaran
Date:
Friday, 16 Jan 2026, 11:00 to 12:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:

Optimal Proximity Gaps for Subspace-Design Codes and (Random) Reed-Solomon Codes

Speaker:
Rohan Goyal (MIT)
Organiser:
Mrinal Kumar
Date:
Wednesday, 14 Jan 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:

Verified Programming Frameworks for Authenticated Data Structures

Speaker:
Chaitanya Agarwal (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University)
Organiser:
Shibashis Guha
Date:
Wednesday, 14 Jan 2026, 11:00 to 12:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:

Infinitely divisible privacy and beyond I: resolution of the s^2=2k conjecture

Speaker:
Aaradhya Pandey (Princeton University)
Organiser:
Raghuvansh Saxena
Date:
Tuesday, 13 Jan 2026, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
via Zoom in A201
Category: