Nachiketa Adhikari

I am a mathematics PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), working in algebraic geometry. I expect to graduate in August 2024. My advisor is Sheldon Katz.

Email: na17 [at] illinois [dot] edu.

Research

My research is in (complex) enumerative geometry. I am currently thinking about moduli spaces of sheaves on Calabi-Yau manifolds and computations of motivic Donaldson-Thomas invariants. Relatedly, I am also interested in derived moduli problems and shifted symplectic structures.

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Teaching

I have been a Teaching Assistant at UIUC for:

and have been on the List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by their Students seven times. I have also taught in the Merit program.