Dr. Soumya Bhattacharya
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
Mohanpur 741246
Dist. Nadia
West Bengal, India
email: soumya.bhattacharya at iiserkol.ac.in
My specialization is in Number Theory. I did my Ph.D from Bonn under the supervision of Prof. Don Zagier.
Publications
Finiteness of simple holomorphic eta quotients of a given weight, Advances in Mathematics,
Vol. 308 (2017), 879-895, MR 3600077, Zbl 06680466, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2016.12.010
Holomorpic eta quotients of weight 1/2, Advances in Mathematics,
Vol. 320 (2017), 1185-1200, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aim.2017.09.017
Finiteness of irreducible holomorphic eta quotients of a given level, The Ramanujan Journal,
Vol. 48, 423-443, (2019), dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11139-017-9982-6
Special factors of holomorphic eta quotients, Advances in Mathematics,
Vol. 392 (2021), dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aim2021.108019
The minimum of the levels of the proper factors of a holomorphic eta quotient,
Research in Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2021), dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40687-021-00267-2
The Probabilistic Pigeonhole Principle, The American Mathematical Monthly,
Vol. 130, No. 7, 678 (2023), dx.doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2023.2219174
Sum of Two Triangular Numbers, Resonance, Vol. 130, 857-861 (2024),
dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12045-024-0857-z
An upper bound on the divisor counting function, The American Mathematical Monthly, (2025), dx.doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2025.2543674
Theses
On Drinfeld's non-archimedean upper half-plane, Master Thesis, ALGANT, 2008.
Factorization of holomorphic eta quotients, Ph.D Thesis, Bonn University Library, 2014.
Teaching
In the current semester
Linear Algebra I
In earlier semesters
Analysis I, Probability I, Linear Algebra I, Commutative Algebra, Analytic Number Theory,
Elementary Number Theory
Short lecture series
GIAN Course on Zeros of L-functions at IISER Kolkata (June 2025)
CIMPA School on Automorphic L-functions at IIT Ropar (July 2025)
Scripts
Etalister.gp (Lists holomorphic eta quotients of level N and weight k)