Chandrika Sadanand
Department of Mathematics,
Bowdoin College
233 Maine St.
Brunswick, Maine, 04011
I am an assistant professor at the math department at Bowdoin College. Previously I held postdoc positions at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, the Technion, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before this I was a graduate student at Stony Brook University, with Dennis Sullivan as my advisor.
Research
I study low dimensional topology and geometry. In particular, I am usually thinking about: curves on surfaces, hyperbolic geometry, billiards, translation surfaces and 3-manifolds. During the pandemic, I made some videos for the innovative Nearly Carbon Neutral Geometry and Topology Conferences. Here is a video I made about my work in polygonal billiards. Here is a video I made introducing the topic of translation surfaces of infinite type.
Preprints and Publications
M. Artigiani, A. Randecker, C. Sadanand, F. Valdez, G. Weitze-Schmithüsen, Realizing groups as symmetries of infinite translation surfaces, submitted, arXiv link.
C. Sadanand, E. Shinkle, Flip graph and arc complex finite rigidity, submitted, arXiv link.
C. Sadanand, Heegaard splittings and virtually special square complexes, submitted, arXiv link.
V. Erlandsson, C. Leininger, C. Sadanand, Hyperbolic cone metrics and billiards, Advances in Mathematics (2022), link .
M. Duchin, V. Erlandsson, C. Leininger, C. Sadanand, You can hear the shape of a billiard table: Symbolic dynamics and rigidity for flat surfaces, Comment. Math. Helv. (2021) arXiv link,
N. Ranade, C. Sadanand, D. Sullivan, Structure on the Top Homology and Related Algorithms, Topology and its Applications, (2021) arXiv link.
J. Kamnitzer and C. Sadanand, Modules with 1-dimensional socle and components of Lusztig quiver varieties in type A, Combinatorial Aspects of Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Abel Symposia, (2011). arXiv link.
Teaching
Spring 2023: Math 2020 Introduction to mathematical reasoning and Math 2404 Geometry.
Fall 2022: Math 2020 Introduction to mathematical reasoning and Math 3402 Toplology.
Spring 2022: I taught Math 2404 Geometry.
Fall 2021: I taught Math 2020 Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning and Math 3404 Advanced Geometry.
Spring 2021: I taught Math 403 Euclidean Geometry and Math 347 Fundamental Mathematics at UIUC.
Fall 2020: I mentored three undergraduate research projects on flat surfaces at the Illinois Geometry Lab.
Fall 2019 - Spring 2020: I taught Math 402 Non-Euclidean geometry as well as two classes of Math 403 Euclidean Geometry at UIUC.
In graduate school, I enjoyed lecturing at the annual Stony Brook Math Summer Camp and designing and teaching geometry/topology courses for the WISE program. I also was a mentor for undergraduate students in the annual summer geometry/topology topology workshop at Stony Brook University, and participated in many department outreach activities. At Stony Brook University, I have been a TA for the following types of courses (some of them many times):
precalculus
integral and differential calculus
mathematical thinking/social choice
analysis
masters courses for teachers: analysis, algebra and geometry
graduate topology
graduate algebraic topology
