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Manjil Saikia | Curriculum Vitae H (+91) 80119 02141 • B [email protected] Í http://www.manjilsaikia.in

Education The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Pre-PhD Diploma (Mathematics), CGPA – NA/4.00

Trieste, Italy 2014–2015

One of the 10 students selected from the UN members

Tezpur University (5 year Integrated) Master of Science (Mathematics), CGPA – 8.39/10.00

India 2009–2014

Member of Students’ Council for three consecutive terms University quizzing champion (2011 and 2013) Member of the best university debate team (2011) Only student member of the University Internal Quality Assurance Cell

Masters Thesis Title: A study of the crank function with special emphasis on Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook Supervisor: Professor Nayandeep Deka Baruah

Research Interests Number Theory, Discrete Mathematics, Additive Combinatorics, History of Mathematics

Publications Peer Reviewed Papers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A charecterization of a prime p from the binomial coefficient np : (with Alexandre Laugier) The Mathematics Student, 2014, 83 (1-4), 1-7 Cranks in Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook: Journal of the Assam Academy of Mathematics, 2013, 6, 59-63 A new proof of Lucas’ Theorem: (with Alexandre Laugier) Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, 2012, 18 (4), 1-6 Binomial Symbols and Prime Moduli: (with Jure Vogrinc) Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society, 2011, 79 (1-4), 137-143 (arXiv:1209.2374 [math.NT]) A simple number theoretic result: (with Jure Vogrinc) Journal of the Assam Academy of Mathematics, 2010, 3, 91-96 (arXiv:1207.6707 [math.NT])

Non Peer Reviewed Articles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gonit Sora: The two year Journey: (with Pankaj Jyoti Mahanta) Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter, October 2013, 3 (4), 25-27

Research Experience Summer Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Summer Research Fellow

June – July, 2012

The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India Project Title: A few results in additive combinatorics and analytic number theory Supervisor: Prof. Ramachandran Balasubramanian

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Summer Research Fellow

June – July, 2011

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, India Project Title: A study of Kummer’s proof of Fermat’s Last theorem for regular primes Supervisor: Prof. Kapil Hari Paranjape

Summer Fellow

June – July, 2010

Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India Project Title: On the irrationality of ζ(2) and ζ(3) Supervisor: Dr. Purusottam Rath

Reading Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Visiting Student

July 2013

Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India Project Title: Topics in group theory and galois theory Supervisor: Prof. Sujatha Ramadorai

Other Experience GonitSora.com

April 2011 – Present

Editor and Co-founder of the website gonitsora.com The website is a bilingual website devoted to mathematics education and teaching

Other Courses Coursera.org Online Course, Introduction to Mathematical Thinking

2012

Offered by Stanford University

Invited Talks Geometry: An Olympiad Approach Women’s College, Tinisukia, India, April 2013 Prime Numbers-Obsession, Mystery and Magic Cotton College, Guwahati, India, February 2013 Mathematics- Beyond the Classroom St. Mary’s College, Shillong, India, September 2010 Binomial Symbols and Prime Moduli ICM International Satellite Conference on Rings and Near Rings, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India, September 2010 On Some Simple Geometrical Applications Kaliabor College, India, September 2008

Conferences and Workshops Attended 5th Indian School of Logic and its Applications

January 2014

Tezpur University, Tezpur, India

Workshop on Probability

January 2014

Tezpur University, Tezpur, India

CIMPA International Research School and Conference on Fourier analysis of groups in Combinatorics Curriculum Vitae - Manjil Saikia

November 2013

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North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India

Advanced Instructional School on Analytic Number Theory

June 2013

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University, Bhubaneshwar, India

The Legacy of Srinivasa Ramanujan

December 2012

University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

Winter School on Galois Theory

December 2012

Tezpur University, Tezpur, India

Pan Asian Number Theory Conference

July 2012

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India

Advanced Instructional School on Number Theory (The Circle Method)

June 2012 – July 2012

The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India

History, Aspects and Prospects of Mathematics in India

June 2012

The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India

Workshop on Analysis

January 2012

Tezpur University, Tezpur, India

Winter School and Conference on Algebra and Number Theory

December 2011

Tezpur University, Tezpur, India

Special Number Theory Year

December 2010 – January 2011

The Institute of Mathematical Sciences,Chennai, India

ICM International Satellite Conference on Rings and Near Rings

September 2010

North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India

National Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and its Application

January 2010

North Lakhimpur Girls College, North Lakhimpur, India

Professional Duties Reviewer of 1 article for British Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science

Awards and Honours 2012: Summer Research Fellowship Awarded jointly by the three science academies of India to 101 students from the country 2011: Summer Research Fellowship Awarded jointly by the three science academies of India to 88 students from the country 2009 – 2014: INSPIRE Scholarship Awarded by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India to the top 1% students of the country 2008: Prof. Bapu Krishna Choudhury Memorial Prize Awarded by the Assam Academy of Mathematics 2007: Qualified the Regional Mathematical Olympiad - North Eastern Region of India 2007: Dr. Subratananda Dowerah Memorial Gold Medal Awarded by the Assam Academy of Mathematics for topping the mathematics Olympiad Curriculum Vitae - Manjil Saikia

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2007: Anundoram Barooah Award Awarded by the Government of Assam to first division holders in school leaving examination

Computer skills Basic: python, Matlab, php, css, MySQL, Mathematica Intermediate: C, html Advanced: LATEX, OpenOffice, Linux, Microsoft Windows

References Prof. Sujatha Ramadorai Research Professor Mathematics Department University of British Columbia Vancouver, V6T1Z2, Canada Email: [email protected]

Prof. Nayandeep Deka Baruah Dean and Professor School of Sciences Tezpur University, Napaam Sonitpur - 784028, India Email: [email protected]

Dr. Anupam Saikia Associate Professor Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati - 781039, India Email: [email protected]

Dr. Rupam Barman Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110016, India Email: [email protected]

Last updated on July 11, 2014

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