Arnab Dey Sarkar

Taught undergraduate and graduate students with great care.

• Taught complete courses like college algebra, precalculus, and calculus 1 and 2 with sole responsibility.
• Responsible for teaching, covering recitation, holding office hours, and grading.
• Graded advanced undergraduate courses like Numerical Analysis, Vector calculus linear algebra, ODE, PDE, and Discrete mathematics.

At least my pure math skills got used a bit.

• Taught olympiad-level courses to high school students
• Served as admin of college math group.

Founded by Hugh Henry Brackenridge as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787, the University of Pittsburgh is one of the few universities and colleges established in the 18th century in the United States. It is the oldest continuously chartered institution of learning in the U.S. west of the Allegheny Mountains. Now the 132-acre Pittsburgh campus includes various historic buildings that are part of the Schenley Farms Historic District, most notably its 42-story Gothic revival centerpiece, the Cathedral of Learning.

I have shifted my interest to applied math and started working on computational neuroscience as I wanted to contribute to a real-world problem. I have neurological diseases in my family which gave me the motivation to choose this path.

I spent a lot of my free time as a committee member of administrative clubs like Graduate student organizations and Graduate and Professional Student Government taking on roles such as GPSG representative, chair of diversity board, and Summer research funding committee.

Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) were created in 2006 through a proclamation of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, under the category of institutes of national importance, to promote quality education and research in basic sciences. Soon after the announcement, two of these institutes at Pune and Kolkata, respectively, were started in 2006. This was followed by institutes at Mohali (2007), Bhopal and Thiruvananthapuram (2008), Tirupati (2015) and Berhampur (2016). Each IISER is a degree granting autonomous institution with a prime focus to integrate science, education and research.

I have studied pure math while focusing on algebra and analysis. I got interested in numbers. All of my reading projects were on algebraic and analytic number theory, modular forms and elliptic curves. I met some really good teachers who were pure mathematicians.

I spent a lot of my free time as a social worker teaching village kids in a nearby villa named Bhauri.

Presented paper in Arithmetic Dynamics funded by BYMAT then visited Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics; Budapest to attend seminars on algebraic geometry.

In this paper we show a dichotomy for the Gelfand–Kirillov dimension of simple modules over certain simple rings of differential operators. We thus answer a question of J. C. McConnell in Representations of solvable Lie algebras

Worked for the good of grad students in the math department, helped the professors in a graduate open house to orientation, arranged social gatherings, released departmental statements for sensitive issues, had meetings with the graduate chair about students’ summer employment, etc.

Learning process from my side about bigger graduate student organizations. Chaired the diversity board and worked in the committee of summer research funding.

Elected in 03.2023. Being on the executive board, was on the selection board for the ASGSO summer research grant, and had meetings with the Graduate deans about the betterment of graduate student life like salary raise, health insurance benefits, etc.