Jayalal Sarma @ IITM : Talks

Reseach Talks

Some research talks I have given (list will be updated only rarely !).

On Saving Energy in Boolean Circuits via Negations - (Online) Conference Presentation at FCT 2025.
- Sep 16, 2025, 25th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory (FCT 2025) - Sep 15-17, 2025
Recent Surprises on Tree Evaluation Problem - This is a survey talk of the recent ideas on TEP problem.
- Jan 16, 2025, Advances in Modern Complexity Theory (Complexity Theory Update Meeting) - Jan 23-35, 2025
Depth Lower Bounds and Non-monotonicity - The Case of Sparsely Oriented Circuits
- May 24, 2016, Workshop on Low-depth Complexity,
  Organized as a part of A Special Semester on Computational and Proof Complexity
  Chebyshev Laboratory, St.Petersburg, Russia.
Weighting Schemes and NL vs UL Problem
- Jan 9, 2015, Indo-UK Workshop on Computational Complexity,
  Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India.

Arithmetic Circuit Lower bounds via (Polynomial) Partial Derivative Matrix
- Jun 28, 2013, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India.
Isomorphism Testing of Polynomials
- Aug 17, 2012, Workshop on Complexity and Logic Dept of CSE, IIT Kanpur
  (a three-day workshop on Computational Complexity to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of Somenath Biswas).
Matrix Rigidity and Complexity of Linear Transformations
- Mar 24, 2011, Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
Identity Testing of Pi-Ordered Branching Programs
- Dec 14, 2010, Conference Talk at FSTTCS 2010, Chennai, India.
Treewidth of Circuits
- Aug 4, 2010, Aarhus-Chennai Computational Complexity Workshop Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Two Algebraic Problems related to Circuit Lower Bounds
- May 17, 2010, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- Apr 25, 2011, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
Using Elimination Theory to Construct Rigid Matrices
- Dec 14, 2009 : Conference Talk at FSTTCS 2009, Dec 14-17,
  Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
Complexity of Matroid Isomorphism Problem
- Dec 14, 2008, Workshop in DM-TCS 2008, Dec 12-14
  Institute of Advanced Studies, NTU, Singapore.
- Mar 27, 2009: Workshop on Current Trends in
  Algorithms, Complexity Theory, and Cryptography
  Mar 22-27, 2009, ITCS, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
- Aug 22, 2009: Conference Talk at CSR 2009, Aug 18-23, 2009
  Sobolev Insititute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Complexity Theoretic Aspects of Rank, Rigidity and Circuit Evaluation
- Doctoral thesis defense talk.
  The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India.
Tradeoffs and Lower bounds in Circuit Complexity
- Nov 19, 2008 (Shorter version): Collaborator's workshop, Nov 19, 2008,
  Department of Electrical Engineering, NTU, Singapore.
- Apr 1, 2009 (Longer version): Joint workshop on Theoretical CS,
  iTcs and GSiS School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan.
Matrix Rigidity: Computation and (Algebraically) Explicit Constructions
- Sep 4, 2008 : Workshop on Algebraic Complexity Theory, Sep 3-5
  Dept. of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
An Algebraic Characterisation of Logspace Computation
- Jul 16, 2008, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
  National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India.
Matrix Rank, Rigidity and Complexity
- Mar 5, 2008 - Institute for Theoretical Computer Science(ITCS),
  Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Complexity of Changing Matrix Rank
- Workshop on Computational, Descriptive and Proof Complexity, and Algorithms
  WCDPCA 2007, French-Russian Poncelet Laboratory, Moscow, Russia, Aug 30, 2007
Complexity of Computing Matrix Rank and Rigidity
- IRISS 2007 - Jan 4, 2007 - IIIT, Hyderabad
- Techvista 2007 - Jan 23, 2007 - IISc/MSR, Bangalore. (poster)
- ISW 2007 - Mar 5, 2007 - IMSc, Chennai. (slides)
- CSR 2007 - Sep 4, 2007, Ekaterinburg, Russia. (slides)
- (survey talk) - August 24, 2006, IMSc Chennai.
Evaluating Monotone Circuits
- Feb 16, ISW 2006, IMSc Chennai, India.

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