The Lodha Mathematical Sciences Institute celebrated its official launch with a landmark Inaugural Symposium from August 17th to 19th, 2025. This distinguished event convened leading scientists and mathematicians from around the globe to share cutting-edge research.

 

Hosted at Lodha World Towers, the symposium featured insightful talks from world-renowned academics affiliated with prestigious institutions such as Princeton University, Stanford University, and the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences. The three-day programme concluded with a tour of the new institute at Lodha Supremus and a celebratory dinner at Lodha Oakwood School.

Sunday 17th Aug 2025

2.00 PM - 2.10 PM

Opening Ceremony

2.10 PM - 2.30 PM

Welcome Address

Shri Abhishek Lodha, Trustee, Lodha Foundation

2.30 PM - 2.50 PM

Keynote Address 1

Shri Ashish Singh, Chief Mentor, Lodha Foundation

2.50 PM - 3.10 PM

Keynote Address 2

Dr. V Kumar Murty, Director, Lodha Mathematical Sciences Institute

3.10 PM - 3.30 PM

Guest of Honour's Address

Shri Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Trustee, Lodha Foundation

3.30 PM - 3.40 PM

Vote of Thanks

Shri. Irfan Kazi, COO, Lodha Foundation

3.40 PM - 4.00 PM

High Tea

4.00 PM - 4.30 PM

Reflections on the Computer and the Human Brain

Dr. V Kumar Murty, Director, Lodha Mathematical Sciences Institute

4.30 PM - 5.00 PM

A Magical Number Everyone Should Know!

Dr. Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University

5:15 PM - 6:15 PM

Commute from Lodha World Towers to Lodha Supremus, NCP

6.15 PM - 7:00 PM

Institute Tour

Venue: Lodha Supremus, Lodha NCP

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Dinner

Venue: Lodha Oakwood School, Lodha NCP
Monday 18th Aug 2025

10.00 AM - 10.45 AM

From Calculus to Number Theory via Cohomology

Dr. A. Raghuram, Fordham University

10.45 AM - 11.15 AM

Coffee Break

11.15 AM - 12.00 PM

Black Holes and Siegel Modular Forms

Dr. Ashoke Sen, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences

12.00 PM - 12.45 PM

A Mathematician Looks at Correlation

Dr. Sourav Chatterjee, Stanford University

12.45 PM - 2.45 PM

Lunch

2.45 PM - 3.30 PM

Hasse Principle over Two Dimensional Fields

Dr. Raman Parimala, Emory University

3.30 PM - 4.15 PM

High Tea

4.15 PM - 5.00 PM

Teichmüller Theory and Anosov Representations

Dr. Francois Labourie, Universite Cote d’Azur
Wednesday 19th Aug 2025

10.00 AM - 10.45 AM

A Probabilistic Approach to the Geometry of p-Schatten Balls

Dr. Kavita Ramanan, Brown University

10.45 AM - 11.15 AM

Coffee Break

11.15 AM - 12.00 PM

Commensurations

Dr. Mahan Mj, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

12.00 PM - 12.45 PM

Differential Geometry and the Complexity of Robust Optimization of Smooth Functions

Dr. Ramarathnam Venkatesan, Microsoft Research

12.45 PM - 2.45 PM

Lunch

2.45 PM - 3.30 PM

Bruhat-Tits Theory over Higher Dimensional Bases

Dr. Vikraman Balaji, Chennai Mathematical Institute

3.30 PM - 4.15 PM

High Tea

4.15 PM - 5.00 PM

Statistical Behaviour of the Dimension of Irreducible Representations

Dr. Dipendra Prasad, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay