I am using this page to list out (kind of like a journal for academics) the activites which I do both during the academic semesters and over the breaks.
2025#
Academic Semester IV#
- Registered, with friends Shankha Suvra Dam and Anoushka Mandal, in a Hackathon named “Hackhazards” by the Namespace Community to be held from 11th- 20th April.
- Gave a talk on Fuzzy Set Theory. Refer here under Math Club, ISI Bangalore.
- Made my personal website.
- Appeared for Madhava Mathematics Competition.
- Started Internship as math researcher for Research Commons. More details under “Research Commons”.
- Got selected for Jane Street prelims.
- Completed CS50P: Introduction to Python Programming from Harvard Online (through edX). Certificate and more details here under CS50P.
- Started 4th Semester with subjects: Topology, Rings & Modules, Ordinary Differential Equations, Linear Regression Models and Electrodynamics.
- Talks/ Seminars Attended:
- “In Search of ‘Language X’: Reconstruction of an Indus Valley Language” by Prof. Peggy Mohan (Ashoka University, Delhi) on 24th March at IISC Bangalore.
- “History of Time” by Prof. Spenta Wadia (ICTS Bangalore) on 23rd February at JN Planetarium Bangalore.
- “On The Trace Reconstruction Problem” by Prof. Navin Kashyap (IISc.) on 3rd February at ISI Bangalore.
- “On Fisher Information, Cramer- Rao bound in Quantum Probability” by Prof. K B Sinha on 15th January at ISI Bangalore.
2024#
Winter#
- Started Causal Diagrams: Draw your assumptions before your conclusions from Harvard Online (through edX)
- Started CS50P: Introduction to Python Programming from Harvard Online (through edX).
- Started a project on the topic “Inventory Management” under Dr. Kartick M. under the guidance of Prof. Anita Pal. More details under “Study Project”.
- Received result of 3rd Semester.
- Was part of group of mentors of “Undergraduate Directed Group Reading Project” organised by Math Club, ISI Bangalore on the topic of “Knot Theory” along with my friend, Suryansh Shirbhate. Notes are available here. Mentioned under “UDGRP Winter”.
Academic Semester III#
- Appeared for Simmon Marais Mathematical Competition 2024 in pair (with my friend Suryansh Shirbhate) [Scored 23].
- Started 3rd Semester with subjects: Multivariable Analysis, Group Theory, Discrete Mathematics, Intoduction to Statistical Inference and Classical Mechanics.
- Talks/ Seminars Attended:
- “Phase Transition for Elephant Random Walks with Two Memory Channels” by Parthanil Roy (ISI) on 18th November at ISI Bangalore.
- “The Friendship Paradox for Social Networks” by Frank den Hollander (Leiden Univ., Netherlands) on 23rd September at ICTS Bangalore.
- “The SIR epidemic on a dynamic Erdős-Rényi random graph” by Adrian Roellin (NUS, Singapore) on 23rd September at ICTS Bangalore.
Summer#
- Took Polymath Jr. 2024, a collaborative REU, by National Science Foundation, America. More details.
- Started (& Completed) Mathematical Thinking from Stanford Online (through Coursera). Certificate and more details here under Mathematical Thinking.
Academic Semester II#
- Visited “Open Day” at IISC Bangalore and saw numerous projects and experiments conducted there, on different feilds.
- Started 2nd Semester with subjects: Probability II, Linear Algebra II, Real Analysis II, Introduction to Statistics & Data Computation and Numerical Computing.
2023#
Winter#
- Attended “Undergraduate Directed Group Reading Project” organised by Math Club, ISI Bangalore on the topics of “Combinatorial Game Theory”, “Commutative Algebra”. Mentioned under “UDGRP Winter”.
Academic Semester I#
- Appeared for Simmon Marais Mathematical Competition 2023 (with my friend Samadrita Bhattacharya).
- Started 1st Semester with subjects: Probability I, Linear Algebra I, Real Analysis I, Number Theory and Programming with C.