Bharathwaj Palvannan! bharathwaj@iisc.ac.in! pbharathwaj.github.io

Employment
2021- Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
2019-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan.
2016-2019 Hans Rademacher Instructor (postdoc), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

Education
2010-2016 PhD in Mathematics,

University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Advisor: Ralph Greenberg

2006-2010 B.Tech in Engineering Physics,

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.

Papers and Preprints
On computing the Newton polygons of plus and minus p-adic L-functions.
with Sai Sanjeev Balakrishnan and Antonio Lei, (2023)

An ergodic approach towards an equidistribution result of Ferrero–Washington.
with Jungwon Lee, submitted (2022)

Codimension two cycles in Iwasawa theory and tensor product of Hida families.
with Antonio Lei, Mathematische Annalen (2022)

Codimension two cycles in Iwasawa theory and elliptic curves with supersingular reduction.
with Antonio Lei, Forum of Mathematics, Sigma (2019)

On free resolutions of Iwasawa modules.

with Alexandra Nichifor, Documenta Mathematica (2019)

Height one specializations of Selmer groups.
Annales de l’Institut Fourier (2019)

On Selmer groups and factoring p-adic L-functions.
International Mathematics Research Notices (2018)

Conference organization
Nov 2022 An in-house postdoc+student symposium,with Gautam Bharali and Purvi Gupta.

IISc,

Nov 2020 L-values and Iwasawa theory,
with Ashay Burungale, Ming-Lun Hsieh and Sujatha Ramdorai.

online,Student supervision
Jan-Apr 2023 Suryansh Shrivastava,
Indian Institute of Science,
Undergradatuate thesis on Formalizing the proof of Stickelberger’s theorem on Lean.
Summer 2022 Niranjan Kumar from Chennai Mathematical Institute,
Indian Institute of Science,
Reading project on Caroline Series’ paper The modular surface and continued fractions.
March 2018 Arizona Winter School on Iwasawa Theory,
University of Arizona,
Study group guide for John Coates’s study group on the Weak Leopoldt conjecture.
Spring 2018 Weichen Zhou,
Summer 2017 Andrea Thevis,

University of Pennsylvania,
Masters thesis on Elliptic curves over C with complex multiplication.
University of Pennsylvania,
Masters thesis on Elliptic curves and cryptography .

Fall 2017 Yao-Rui Yeo,

University of Pennsylvania,Ind. Study on Galois representations.

Short term visits
May 2022 University of Warwick,visiting Jungwon Lee.

UK,Oct 2019 Oberwolfach Leibniz Fellowship at MFO Oberwolfach,Germany.

Aug 2018 Research in Pairs at MFO Oberwolfach,Germany.

with Marc Masdeu and Chris Williams

June 2018 Universität Duisburg-Essen,

Germany.

Mar 2018 Université Laval,

Canada.

visiting Andreas Nickel
visiting Antonio Lei

Teaching at the Indian Institute of Science
Jan-Apr 2023.
Aug-Dec 2022.

Math 224: Complex Analysis,
Math 313: Algebraic Number Theory,

Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania
Math 104: Calculus I,(Volumes of revolution, Integration techniques, Taylor series)

Fall 2018, Fall 2016.

Math 240: Calculus III ,(Introduction to Linear algebra and ODEs)

Fall 2018, Spring 2017.
Spring 2018.
Spring 2019.
Fall 2016.
Fall 2017.
Spring 2018.

Math 312: Linear Algebra,
Math 350: Undergraduate Number Theory,
Math 420: Ordinary diﬀerential equations,(graduate) Math 620: Algebraic Number Theory,(graduate) Math 621: Algebraic Number Theory (Good Teaching Award),

Teaching at the University of Washington
Spring 2016.

Math 307: Ordinary diﬀerential equations (Instructor),

Math 308: Matrix Algebra with applications (Instructor),
Summer 2015, Winter 2015, Spring 2014, Winter 2014.
Math 300: Introduction to mathematical reasoning (Instructor),
Teaching assistant for various undergraduate calculus courses.

Summer 2013.

Invited Talks
Apr 2023 NCMW workshop on Elliptic Curves,
four lectures on p-adic L-functions of elliptic curves.

IISER Thiruvanthapuram, India,

Mar 2023 Ottawa/Carleton Number Theory Seminar,
University of Ottawa (Canada).
Mar 2023 G20 Lecture Series,
Gujarat University, India.
Nov 2022 Random Geometry colloquium,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai), India.
Aug 2022 Conference: Elliptic curves and special values of L-functions,
April 2022
January 2022
Sept 2021
Dec 2020
August 2020
July 2020Feb 2020
Jan 2020
Nov 2019
July 2019
Apr 2019

ICTS, India.

Science Seminar,
Azim Premji University, India.
Number Theory Seminar,
Indian Institute of Science, India.
Philadelphia Area Number Theory Seminar,
Bryn Mawr, USA.
Seminar on Geometry and Arithmetic,
UC Santa Barbara, USA.
Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar,
Indian Institute of Science, India.
Colloquium,Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai) India.
Number Theory seminar,
Seoul National University, South Korea.
Galois seminar,
University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Taipei Postdoc seminar,
Academia Sinica / NCTS, Taiwan.
Algbera and Number Theory seminar,
Universität des Saarlandes, Germany.
Pizza seminar for graduate students,
University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Apr 2019 AMS Sectional Meeting,
University of Connecticut (Hartford), USA,Special session on Special values of L-functions and arithmetic invariants in families.
Mar 2019
Mar 2019
Oct 2018
June 2018
May 2018

Algebra-Number Theory seminar,
University of Maryland, USA.
Columbia-CUNY-NYU Joint Number Theory Seminar,
Courant Institute, USA.
Number theory seminar,
Université Laval, Canada.
Oberseminar,
Universität Duisburg-Essen (Essen), Germany.
The Bielefeld Arithmetic Geometry Seminar,
Universität Bielefeld, Germany.

May 2018 Workshop: Iwasawa Theory and Related Topics,
May 2018 Number theory seminar,
Nov 2017 Quebec Vermont Number theory seminar,
Sept 2017 Number theory seminar,

University of Heidelberg, Germany.
University of Illinois (Chicago), USA.
Concordia University, Canada.
Univeristy of British Columbia, Canada.

Sept 2017 Algebra seminar,
Mar 2017 Number theory seminar,
Jan 2017 Philadelphia Area Number Theory Seminar,

University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Université Laval, Canada.
Bryn Mawr, USA.

Jun 2016 Workshop: New Directions in Iwasawa theory,
Video link: https://goo.gl/EksZ2s.

Banﬀ Research Center, Canada,

Apr 2016
Jan 2016
Nov 2015
Oct 2014
Sept 2014

Galois seminar,
Number theory seminar,
Number theory seminar,
Number theory seminar,
Number theory seminar,

University of Pennsylvania, USA.
University of California Los Angeles, USA.
University of Arizona, USA.
University of Washington USA.
IIT Bombay, India.

Contributed Talks
Feb 2023
Mar 2021
Sept 2020
June 2020
Oct 2018
Oct 2016
Mar 2016
Oct 2015
Sept 2015

Symposium on Algebraic geometry and its applications,
Spring Day 2021,
CRM Members seminar,
Spring Day 2020,
Maine/Québec Number theory conference,
Maine/Québec Number theory conference,
30th Automorphic forms workshop,
Midwest Number theory conference,
Boston-Keio workshop,

CIRM, France.
NCTS, Taiwan.
CRM, Canada.
NCTS, Taiwan.
Université Laval, Canada.
Université Laval, Canada.
Wake Forest University, USA.
University of Illinois Chicago, USA.
Boston University USA.

Awards and Fellowships
2022 SERB Matrics grant,India.

declined due Simons CRM Scholar,
to covid

CRM, Canada.

Oct 2019 Oberwolfach Leibniz Fellow,

MFO Oberwolfach, Germany.

Aug 2018 Research in Pairs,

MFO Oberwolfach, Germany.

with Marc Masdeu and Chris Williams

Summer 2018 US Junior Oberwolfach Fellow,

MFO Oberwolfach, Germany.

Spring 2018 Good Teaching Award,

University of Pennsylvania.

Spring 2013 Robert and Elaine Phelps fellowship,2003 International Math. Olympiad (IMO) Training camp,

University of Washington.
HBCSE, India.

Math 621 Algebraic Number Theory