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Sucharit Sarkar

Indian topologist and professor of mathematics

Princeton University (Ph.D.)
Indian Statistical Institute (Bachelor)

Scientific careerFieldsMathematicsInstitutionsUniversity of California, Los AngelesThesisTopics in Heegaard Floer homology (2009)Doctoral advisorZoltán Szabó Websitewww.math.ucla.edu/~sucharit/

Sucharit Sarkar (born 1983) is an Indian topologist and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles who works in low-dimensional topology.

Education and career

Sarkar attended secondary school at South Point High School in his hometown, Calcutta, India. In the International Mathematical Olympiads in 2001 and 2002, he received gold and silver medals respectively.^[1]^[2] He completed his Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore from 2002 to 2005.^[3]

Sarkar received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2009 under the guidance of Zoltán Szabó.^[4] He went on to postdoctoral fellowships at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and Columbia University, before becoming an assistant professor at Princeton University in 2012. In 2016 he moved to the University of California, Los Angeles.^[5]

Sarkar's research area is low-dimensional topology, with particular interests in knot theory, Heegaard Floer homology, and Khovanov homology.

Awards and honors

Sarkar was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro in 2018.^[6]
Sarkar was a Clay Research Fellow from 2009 until 2013.^[7]

References

^ "Official IMO Website". Archived from the original on 2011-08-23. Retrieved 2011-03-10.
^ "Keyboard still holds the key to success". The Times of India. 8 August 2002. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
^ "Sucharit Sarkar CV" (PDF). UCLA. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
^ Sucharit Sarkar at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ "Sucharit Sarkar's curriculum vita" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on August 9, 2017. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
^ "ICM 2018 List of Speakers". Archived from the original on February 21, 2020. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
^ "Past Clay Research Fellows". Archived from the original on September 24, 2019. Retrieved September 24, 2019.