Sandip Samanta pic taken at Munster, Germany

Hi, I’m Sandip 👋

I am a research scholar at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. It is my seventh year of the Integrated PhD program. I have been working under Dr. Somnath Basu. My broad area of research is Algebraic Topology, in paricular homological algebra and homotopy theory. I am also interested in Differential Geometry, Algebraic Geometry.

Education & Certifications
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    IISER Kolkata

    Department of Mathemetics and Statistics

  1. Equivalence Between Four Models of Associahedra
    Somnath Basu, and Sandip Samanta
    arXiv, 2022, To appear in Osaka Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 62, No. 1 (January 2025).
  2. On the James brace product: generalization, relation to $H$-splitting of loop space fibration & the $J$-homomorphism
    Somnath Basu, and Aritra Bhowmick, and Sandip Samanta
    arXiv, Preprint, 2024

  1. PMRF
    Selected under Prime Minister’s Research Fellows Scheme, May 2021 cycle
  2. Gold Medalist, B.Sc.(Hons.)
    Ranked first in order of merit among the successful candidates of B.Sc (Hons.) examination in Mathematics, Vidyasagar University.
  3. Sukumari Gupta Smriti Puraskar
    Awarded for securing highest marks amongst all successful candidates in all honours examination in Arts, Science & commerce (Vidyasagar University)

  1. Mathematics I (Teaching Assistant), August 2024 - December 2024, IISER Kolkata
    Conducting weekly Tutorial Sessions and graded the class test, Mid-Sem copies.
  2. Guide to prepare for IIT JAM (Mathematics), Kharagpur College, and Jagannath Kishore College (online), April 2024 - August 2024
    Conducting weekly problem solving sessions (online) on previous year IIT JAM Mathematics problems.
  3. NPTEL: GATE Mathematics Live session, August 2023 - February 2024, NPTEL
    Conducting weekly problem solving sessions (online) on previous year GATE Mathematics problems. All the pdfs of the notes are available here.
  4. NPTEL: Point Set Topology (Teaching Assistant), January 2023 - April 2023, NPTEL
    Conducting weekly problem solving sessions (online). Recorded videos are available in my youtube channel. All the pdfs of the notes can be found here.
  5. Mathematics I (Teaching Assistant), October 2022 - December 2022, IISER Kolkata
    Conducted weekly Tutorial Sessions and graded the class test, Mid-Sem and End-Sem copies.
  6. NPTEL: Linear Algebra (Teaching Assistant), July 2022 - October 2022, NPTEL
    Conducted weekly problem solving sessions (online). Recorded videos are available in Youtube and all the pdfs of the notes are available Here.
  7. Mathematics II (Teaching Assistant), May 2022 - July 2022, IISER Kolkata
    Conducted weekly Tutorial Sessions and prepare sample questions.
  8. NPTEL: Research Methodology (Teaching Assistant), January 2022 - May 2022, NPTEL
    Evaluted assignments.
  9. Probability I (Teaching Assistant), January 2022 - May 2022, IISER Kolkata
    Conducted weekly Tutorial Sessions, made question papers, evaluated Assignments, Mid-Sem, and End-Sem copies.
  10. Linear Algebra I (Teaching Assistant), August 2021 - December 2021, IISER Kolkata
    Conducted weekly Tutorial Sessions and evaluated Quiz.
  11. Analysis II (Teaching Assistant), January 2021 - May 2021, IISER Kolkata
    Conducted weekly Tutorial Sessions and evaluated Assignments.
  12. Analysis I (Teaching Assistant), August 2020 - December 2020, IISER Kolkata
    Conducted weekly Tutorial Sessions, made question papers, evaluated Assignments, Mid-Sem, and End-Sem copies.

  1. IPhD Projects
    1. Project I, Reeb's Theorem

      In this project, we studied the Morse Theory and use it to prove Reeb's theorem, which states that if If $M$ is a compact manifold and $f$ is a $C^2$-function on $M$ with only two critical points, both of which are non-degenerate, then $M$ is homeomorphic to a sphere. We followed the book Morse Theory by John Milnor.

    2. Project II, Morse Theory on Complex Grassmannian

      Complex Grassmannian $G_k(\mathbb{C}^n)$ consists of all $k$ dimensional complex subspace in $\mathbb{C}^n$. It is a smooth (complex) manifold of real dimension $2k(n-k)$. Using Morse theory, we studied the cell structure of complex Grassmannian by constructing an explicit Morse function on it.

    3. Project III, Cell Structure of Real and Complex Grassmannian

      Here, we again studied the cell structure of complex Grassmannian topologically i.e., without using any smooth structure of complex grassmannian. This process is equally applicable for real Grassmannian too. Finally, we compare this cell structure of complex Grassmannian with that of obtained using Morse theory in project II.

    4. Project IV, Cohomology Ring of Complex Grassmannian and Young Tableau

      Using the CW-structure of the complex Grassmannian, we first compute the cellular homology of it and then cohomology by Poincaré duality. Finally, compute the cohomology ring structute of it using Young Tableau.

    The combined project report can be found here.

  2. Semester project in PDE and Distribution Theory

    The two Trace Theorems in Sobolev spaces were studied. Detailed report can be found in the following link.

  3. Semester Project in Riemannian Geometry

    Studied the proof of the theorem that any closed oriented surface of genus $g\geq 2$ admits metrics of constant negative curvature. Detailed can be found in the report with following link.

  1. Morse Homology, Autumn 2024, with topology & geometry group IISER Kolkata

    Starting with basic Morse theory, we studied Morse homology and its applications. Notes can be found in the following link.

  2. Model Category, Autumn 2023, with topology & geometry group IISER Kolkata

    Starting with the basic category theory, we went to model category. Notes can be found in the following link.

  3. Hochschild Homology & Operads, Spring 2023, with topology & geometry group IISER Kolkata

    It was a semester (Spring 2023) long reading seminar happened weekly and alternate between the two mentioned topics. On one side, we studied Hochschild (co)homology, their relation with (co)homology of loop space of a simply connected space, the celebrated HKR (Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg) Theorem and bit of cyclic homology. The main references were ``Introduction to Homological Algebra" by Charles Weibel, ``An Introduction to Hochschild Cohomology" by Sarah Witherspoon, ``Cyclic Homology" by Jean-Louis Loday.
    On the other hand the basics of operads were studied and ended with the recognition principle.

  • Hedra Zoo (based on our arXiv preprint) DMS Symposium 2022, IISER Kolkata, February, 2022

  • Computer Skills
    1. Fluent in LATEX, Inkscape, and Geogebra software
    2. Have working knowledge of HTML and C/python-programming
  • Sports
    1. Love to play Cricket (batting all-rounder)
    2. Intermediate player in Lawn Tennis, Table Tennis, and Volleyball
    3. Selected to participate twice in Inter IISER NISER Sports Meet (IISM) 2019 and 2022 as a middle-distance runner (800 and 1600 meters), and Discuss thrower representing IISER Kolkata
  • Cultural
    1. Listen to all kinds (languages) of music a lot, play Guitar and Flute in leisure