Attended Mathematics Academic Committee meetings on 21st July 2025 (participated in discussions on pass/fail rules for new MSc students), 2nd August 2025 (for interaction with new MSc and PhD students), 12th August 2025 (particpated in discussions on extending postdoc joining dates), 25th August 2025 (meeting with MSc students for receiving feedbacks), 1st September 2025 (meeting with postdoctoral fellows regarding their feedbacks).
Attended Mathematics Faculty meeting on 23rd July 2025 (to discuss the selection of new postdoctoral fellows for the June 2025 session and also prepared the minutes of this meeting), 29th August 2025 (discussion on recent OM from DAE regarding 60% cap on intake of number of postdocs and research fellows) .
I was present in the interview panel for Number theory postdoc applications (12 candidates in total) during their talks on 9th and 10th July 2025.
In June 2025, I sorted out postdoc applications and recommendation letters of 96 applicants for the July 2025 round in dropbox according to subject areas.
On June 22, 2025, along with other faculties I participated in correcting MSc exam copies.
Attended Academic Infrastructure Committe meeting on 26th May 2025 and Mathematics Faculty meetings on 5th August 2024, 29th July 2024, 19th September 2024, 17th January 2025, 25th February 2025, 8th April 2025, 15th May 2025 and 23rd June 2025.
In May 2025, with inputs from mathfac at HRI, I compiled a summary of academic report for research activities at HRI in mathematics for the year 2024-2025. This is to be sent from HRI to the Parliament.
Member of the Mathematics Academic Committee, Academic Infrastructure Committe and HRI Public Welfare Trust since 1st May 2025.
Member of the Interview committee for the PhD selection process at HRI (21st, 22nd, 23rd April and 8th May 2025).
Jointly with Bhamidi Sreedhar, I prepared slides for the Director of HRI as a part of his presentation for obtaining PRIS for the department on 4th April 2025.
Was a part of Research Methodology Module C exam on 21/02/2025.
Gave a slide presentation of my research theme to Dr. Ajit Kumar Mohanty (Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy & Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission) during his visit to HRI on 9th February 2025. Slides are here.
Was present for the 12 faculty recruitment talks out of 14 talks (and sharing my views verbally with mathfac) to be held at HRI during January-March 2025. Duties include:
1. listening to the 1 hour talks and asking relevant questions perternating to the candidate's research.
2. Asking basic questions to check the candidate's fundamentals.
3. Giving opinions to mathfac after the talk and participating in subsequent discussions and making comparison with the other candidates.
Total hours spent: 2 and a half hours for each candidate times 12 candidates = 30 hours.
Prepared slides (jointly with Aprameyo Pal) on our research and activity; participated in the events related to the peer review of HRI during October 20-22, 2024. Slides are here.
Member of the Doctoral Committee of Mr. Susanta Mondal (supervisor: Manoj Kumar Yadav).
Member of the Postdoctoral Fellow Selection committee at HRI from 18th April 2024.
My duties include:
Organizing all the applications received with recommendation letters and presenting them to mathfac for shorlisting candidates.
Taking selection interviews close to my research area.
Preparing minutes of postdoc related meetings.
Keeping records of all postdocs at HRI.
Answering questions on any postdoc related matters.
Attending postdoc joining and extension talks of postdocs with close research interests as mine.
Dates: In the July 2024 round, the shortlisting for interview was done on 18th July and the final selection was done on 29th July.
Member of the Interview committee for the PhD selection process at HRI (9th, 10th and 12th April 2024).
Served as a member of the postdoc selection interview held on 15th March at HRI.
Served as a member of the postdoc selection meeting held on 5th March 2024 at HRI.
Served as a member of the postdoc selection interview held on 27th and 29th December 2023 at HRI.
Served as a member of "Chintan" committee at HRI; this committee is responsible for providing a roadmap for future developments, vision 2047.
Served as a member of the postdoc selection meeting held on 13th December 2023 at HRI.
Served as a member of the Oral General Comprehensive Examination for math students at HRI on 29th and 30th of September 2023.
Conducted Research Methodology, Publication and research Ethics exam on 28/04/2023.
Served as a member of the postdoc selection meeting held on 28th July 2023 at HRI.
Served as a member of the postdoc selection meeting held on 22nd March 2023 at HRI.
Served as a member of the Oral General Comprehensive Examination for math students at HRI on 27th, 28th of March and 29th May 2023.
Regularly attend HRI colloquiums and FGC-HRI-IPM Number Theory Seminar (virtual), 2023.
Member of the Academic Infrastructure committee at HRI from June 2023.
Member of the Doctoral Committee of Ms. Sudipa Das (supervisor: Professor R Thangadurai) and Mr. Muskan Bansal (supervisor: Professor Aprameyo Pal) at HRI.
Member of the Interview committee for the PhD selection process at HRI (14th-17th June 2023).
Designed course curriculum for 3 courses as a part of starting MSc program in mathematics at HRI.
Invited speakers for HRI Mathematics Seminar.
Nasit Darshan (student of Professor A. Raghuram and Professor Chandrasheel Bhagwat at IISER Pune) gave a seminar talk on 6th March 2025.
Title: Cuspidal cohomology for GL(N) over a number field.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2407.10859v1
Priyadip Mondal (postdoc at Ben Gurion University, Israel) gave a seminar talk on 20th March 2025.
Title: Hidden symmetries of hyperbolic knot complements.
Sujatha Ramdorai (Professor at the University of British Columbia) gave a HRI Girdharilal Mehta Lecture on 26th March 2025.
Title: The Unreasonable Ubiquity of Math (quoting Wigner).