Reading Group
Interested registered participants can now visit IISER Pune to attend the lectures in person!
Please review the visitation section below for more information and the visitation link.
Please Note:
About Reading Group
Members of the reading group would be the backbone and the main workforce of the program. The program is primarily planned and designed with two pillars, namely exposition, and collaboration. In order to enhance the effectiveness and value of the program, a "Reading Group" is planned in parallel. Membership of the group does not necessarily mean a year-long commitment. And we also encourage participants to join and contribute to the reading group on the trimester to trimester or even topic to topic basis.
"The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others. The question of who is the first person to ever set foot on some square meter of land is really secondary."
~ William Thurston on “What can one contribute to mathematics?”
Guidelines
We encourage members to read and work on the suggested references for every topic/talk and discuss among themselves before sharing their suggestions and doubts with us. We will convey their suggestions and doubts to the appropriate resource person. Suggestions need to be shared well in advance before a scheduled talk.
We encourage members to develop their computational/programming abilities in order to benefit more from our courses. We plan to have special sessions and projects for computational tools.
We encourage members to look for opportunities for collaborations and we plan to share, from time to time, open research problems/projects (related to our topics). If there would be any significant development on any project/problems between members of the group, we will request our eminent resource persons to recommend the project for grants or/and research visits.
Once in a while we also expect members to volunteer for the program by co-hosting the Zoom talks, contributing to our literature section (by preparing and sharing the fair/Tex notes of seminars), and some other technical help.
We also encourage members to prepare lucid presentations and collaborate on expository notes/articles meant for undergraduate and high school students. We will try to get them to publish in magazines and journals meant for exposition.
We plan to support and encourage (by various means) members of groups belonging to financially weak and underrepresented communities of society.
Visitation
We would like to invite the student participants to visit IISER Pune in person. Since accommodation on campus is limited, we are only able to invite upto 10 students at a time for a period of upto two weeks. Advanced undergraduate students, masters students and PhD students will be given preference. The program will cover the costs of lodging and food. At the moment, we do not have funds to support travel. However, some exceptions may be accommodated for these expenses as well depending on need.
If you are interested in visiting IISER Pune campus this year, please fill out the Google form.
The dates slots that are available for participants to visit.
16th - 24th October
25th October - 2nd November
27th November - 2nd December
25th - 31st December
List of student visitors
Ruhit Bardhan (Indian Institute of Teacher Education, Gandhinagar, Gujarat)
Mohd Saetaj (Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi)
Ritika Singhal (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
Prerna Gulia (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
Karishman Solanki (IITRM, Ahmedabad)
Manika Gupta (IMSc, Chennai)
Arvish Dabral (IIT Delhi)
Rahul Bhardwaj (IIT Delhi)
Saham Sill (IISc Bangalore)
Aditya Dwivedi (IIT Mumbai)
Abdul Aleem (CMI Chennai)
Kashyap G Rachchh (Govt Art and Science College, Gujrat)
Pradnya Bhivashe (NIT Calicut)
Codes
DOs: Keep us posted (on social apps such as Google, Telegram, Facebook and WhatsApp) about your reading, discussions, understanding and difficulties related to the course.
DON'Ts: Indecency and indiscipline will not be tolerated at any cost.
Note: We will keep updating our policies based on suggestions we receive from members and our resource persons.