Odds and ends
PhD Dissertations supervised
Undergraduate Thesis supervised
(In these projects students read papers and books to write in their own words a curated report, without any claim to originality)
- Megha Bhatt, Hyperbolic knot theory and Geometric Triangulations (based mainly on the book "Hyperbolic Geometry and Knot Theory", by Jessica Purcell and papers by Scull and Coward-Lackenby), Fall 2021-Spring 2022
- Sriram Raghunath, Hyperbolic knot theory (based mainly on the book "Hyperbolic Geometry and Knot Theory", by Jessica Purcell), Fall 2018-Spring 2019
- Chris John, Topology and Geometry of 2 and 3 dimensional manifolds (based mainly on the book "Automorphisms of surfaces after Nielsen and Thurston", by Casson and Bleiler and the paper Measured lamination spaces for surfaces from a topological viewpoint, by Hatcher), Spring 2017-Spring 2018
- Safeer K.M, A study of Riemannian Geometry (based mainly on the book "Riemannian Geometry", by Manfredo P. do Carmo), Fall 2015-Spring 2016
Reading projects supervised
(In these projects students read portions of a book or a paper and rewrite it in their own words, without any claim to originality)
- Pranjal Jain, Homology and Cohomology (based on the book "Algebraic Topology" by A. Hatcher), Spring 2024
- Pranjal Jain, An introduction to knot theory (based on the book "An introduction to knot theory" by W. R. Lickorish), Fall 2023
- Aniketh Sivakumar, Geometry of surfaces (based on the book "Geometry of surfaces" by John Stillwell), Spring 2023
- Ipsa Bezbarua, Introduction to 3-Manifolds (based on the some chapters of the book "An introduction to 3-manifolds" by Peter Scott), Spring 2022
- Ipsa Bezbarua, Introduction to Surfaces (based on the first few chapters of the book "An introduction to 3-manifolds" by Peter Scott), Fall 2021
- Megha Bhatt Hyperbolic Geometry and Knot Theory (based on the books "Lebtures on Hyperbolic Geometry" by Benedetti-Petronio, "Introduction to 3-manifolds" by Jennifer Schultens and "Hyperbolic Knot Theory" by Jessica Purcell), Spring 2021
- Kaustubh Mishra, Polytopes (based on the book "Lectures on Polytopes", by Zeigler), Fall 2019
- Sriram Raghunath, Hyperbolic Knot theory (based on the the book "Hyperbolic Geometry and Knot Theory", by Jessica Purcell), Spring 2019
- Vishwajeet Bhoite, Differential Geometry of curves and surfaces (based on the book "Differential Geometry of Curves and surfaces", by Do Carmo), Fall 2017
- Tanushree Shah, Low dimensional topology and geometry (based on the paper "Meashred lamination spaces from a topological viewpoint", by Hatcher), Spring 2017
- Tanushree Shah, Introduction to homology and cohomology (based on the book "Algebraic Topology" by Allen Hatcher), Fall 2016
- Chris John, Introduction to 3-manifolds (based on the book by the same name by Jennifer Schultens), Spring 2016
- Chris John, Introduction to knot theory (based on the book by the same name by W. B. R. Lickorish), Fall 2015
- Safeer K. M, Differential Topology (based on the book by the same name by Guillemin and Pollack), Fall 2014
Events organised
Random interesting links:
- Tips to succeed in math research by Pavel Etingof: Tips
- A beautifully written non-technical survey of recent results in 3-manifold topology by Erica Klarreich: Survey
- A suprisingly good list of foundational results and illustrative examples of 3-manifolds: Wiki entry
- Advice to young mathematicians from the veterans, in the Princeton Companion to Mathematics: Advice
- An enlightening article by Prof Dani on Vedic Mathematics
- Thurston's talk at the Clay Research Conference 2010, The Mystery of 3-manifolds