Prof. Ravindra B. Bapat

R B Bapat is a Professor in Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, India. The main areas of his research interest are matrices and graphs, non negative matrices, matrix inequalities and generalized inverses.

Topics for discussion:

• Adjacency matrices of graphs: Eigenvalues of some graphs, Harray’s determinant formula, Sachs coefficient theorem, Inverses of trees, Bounds for the eigenvalues, Wilf’s theorem, Hoffman’s ratio bound, Cvetkovic’s inertia bounds.