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Department of Mathematics · Siksha-Bhavana · Visva-Bharati

Seminars & Conferences

Departmental seminars, invited talks and mathematics education lectures — bringing mathematical ideas into discussion.

Lecture announcement

Announced lecture ·

Quantum circuit model for continuous time quantum walk on a Random Graph

Prof. Sonjoy Majumder · IIT Kharagpur

15 October 2026 · 3:00 p.m. · Seminar Hall 1, Department of Mathematics

The announced lecture examines quantum-circuit implementations of continuous-time quantum walks on random graphs, including a Laplacian partitioning algorithm for efficient and scalable circuit construction.

Seminar archive · 2026

Recorded events · most recent first

Departmental seminar records, listed with the most recent first.
DateSeminar and speakerRecord
12:30 p.m.

Convergence of sequences from Metric Spaces to Topological Spaces

Prof. G. N. Prakash

Post Graduate and Research Department of Mathematics, Maharaja’s College, Ernakulum, Kerala.

Venue: M.Sc.-I Room, Department of Mathematics, Visva-Bharati.

Organiser: Centre for Mathematics Education, Visva-Bharati.

3:30 p.m.

Semigroups and Normal Categories

Prof. A. R. Rajan

Institute of Mathematics Research and Training, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Venue: Seminar Room, Department of Mathematics, Visva-Bharati.

2:30 p.m.

Electrokinetic Transport of Colloidal Particles: From Fundamentals to Applications

Dr. Partha Pratim Gopmandal

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Durgapur

An Overview of the Indian Contribution to Logic

Prof. Binayak S. Choudhury

Professor, Department of Mathematics, IIEST Shibpur

The Basel problem

Prof. Stephan Baier

A Dravidian decipherment of Indus Script

Prof. S. K. Venkatesan

CQRL Bits, Chennai

Seminar archive · 2025

Departmental seminar records, listed with the most recent first.
DateSeminar and speaker

The special linear group and its elementary subgroup: The problem of bounded generation

Prof. Mrinal Kanti Das

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Modelling and simulation of biofilm growth in a counter-diffusion system, coupled with biozone formation in the aqueous phase by chemotactic bacteria

Rachna Mandal

Ph.D. student, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph

Mordell-Lang conjecture for curves

Dr. Sudip Pandit

King’s College, London

Hyperbolic plane: A model for non-Euclidean geometry

Prof. Mahuya Datta

Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Set additions and zero-sum theorems

Prof. Sukumar Das Adhikary

Department of Mathematics, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational Research Institute, West Bengal

Mathematics education lectures

2026

Lectures organised by the Centre for Mathematics Education, Department of Mathematics, Siksha-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati.

Lectures organised by the Centre for Mathematics Education.
DateLecture and speaker

On 3 C’s: Concurrence, Collinearity and Concyclicity

Dr. Jaitra Chattopadhyay

Venue: Department of Mathematics, Siksha-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati

Some aspects of combinatorial problems

Dr. Jaitra Chattopadhyay

Venue: Patha-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati

Seminar photographs

2026