Mini Courses

The lectures will be delivered on Zoom and YouTube on November 8 and 9, 2025:

• Lecture 1: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Nov 8, Saturday) 
• Lecture 2: 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM (Nov 8, Saturday) 
• Lecture 3: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Nov 9, Sunday) 
• Lecture 4: 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM (Nov 9, Sunday) 

If you are unable to join on Zoom, you can watch on YouTube using the following links:

• November 8
• November 9

Open till Midnight, October 24.

This intensive two-day course is suitable for second year Master's students, Ph.D. students, and Faculty members interested in Mathematics.

The course will have two general lectures, one on shapes of surfaces, that is, surface topology; and one on the geometry of surfaces, describing a polyhedral version of the Gauss Bonnet theorem.

The formal structure behind surface topology is the notion of quotient spaces and quotient topology. During the course we will also develop the idea of quotient spaces.

Anisa Chorwadwala, IISER Pune, and Pooja Singla, IIT Kanpur.

Email: minicourseiwm@gmail.com

4 online lectures by Professor Tanvi Jain, ISI Delhi, on January 11 and 12, 2025.  

• Lecture 1:  Slides for lectures 1&2  YouTube
• Lecture 2:  YouTube
• Lecture 3:  Slides for lectures 3&4  YouTube
• Lecture 4:  YouTube

4 online lectures by Professor Mythily Ramaswamy, ICTS-TIFR, on November 30 and December 1, 2024.  The following links are to the lecture slides:

• Lecture 1
• Lecture 2
• Lecture 3
• Lecture 4

Lecture videos on YouTube

4 online lectures by Professor Manjunath Krishnapur, Indian Institute of Science, on November 9 and 10, 2024. 

Lecture videos on YouTube

2 online lectures by Professor M. Ram Murty, Queen's University, Canada, on October 19, 2024. 

• The Art and Science of Research (PDF)
• Habits of Research (PDF)

Lecture videos on YouTube

4 online lectures by Professor Neela Nataraj, IIT Bombay, during July 29-30, 2023. 

Lecture Slides (PDF)

4 online lectures by Professor Gurmeet Bakshi, Panjab University, during February 18-19, 2023. Links to recordings:

1. Lecture 1
2. Lecture 2
3. Lecture 3
4. Lecture 4

4 online lectures by Professor Rajeeva Karandikar, Chennai Mathematical Institute, during January 28-29, 2023. Links to recordings:

1. Lecture 1
2. Lecture 2
3. Lecture 3
4. Lecture 4

4 online lectures by Professor Balmohan V. Limaye, IIT Bombay, during November 20-21, 2021:

1. Lecture 1
2. Lecture 2
3. Lecture 3
4. Lecture 4

3 lectures by Professor Eknath Ghate, TIFR, Mumbai, during the IWM Annual Conference at IIT Bombay, June 10-11, 2019.

3 lectures by Professor Rama Mishra, IISER Pune, during the IWM Annual Conference at Shiv Nadar University, June 21-23, 2018.

3 lectures by Professor B.V. Rajaram Bhat, IISER Pune, during the IWM Annual Conference at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, July 14-15, 2017.

2 lectures by Professor K. Sandeep, TIFR CAM, Bangalore, during the IWM Annual Conference at University of Hyderabad, July 1, 2016.

2 lectures by Professor Girija Jayaraman, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, during the IWM Conference at IISER Pune, July 26 & 27, 2013.

2 lectures by Professor Uma Iyer, City University of New York, during the IWM Conference at IISER Pune, July 27 & 28, 2013.