Name: GOUTAM MUKHERJEE

Designation: Professor
Unit: Stat-Math Unit
Address for communication:
STAT-MATH Division
Indian Statistical Institute
203, B. T. Road
Calcutta, India
Pin-700108
E-mail : gmukherjee.isi@gmail.com
FAX : 0091-033-2577-3071
Phone: 0091-033-2575-3429
Date of Birth: 16th May, 1960
Details of Educational Qualifications:
Ph.D.in Mathematics (1992), Indian Statistical Institute, Cal-
cutta, India. Thesis Title: Equivariant cohomology with local
coefficients.
M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics (1985), Burdwan University, Burd-
wan, India. Performance: First in First Class.
B.Sc. Honours in Mathematics (1983), Hooghly Mohsin College,
Burdwan University, Burdwan, India. Performance: First in
First Class.
Awards:

University Gold Medal having been placed first in the first class in
the M.Sc. Examination.
P. N. Banerjee Gold Medal having secured the highest marks in the
M.Sc. Examination in Mathematics.
N. C. Banerjee Gold Medal having been placed first in the first class
in Three years Degree Course Honours Examination in Mathe-
matics.

Research Interests: Algebraic Topology. Transformation groups.

Algebraic Deformation Theory. Lie Groupoid and Lie alge-
broid.

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Publications:

1. Mukherjee, Goutam and Raj Bhawan Yadav, Equivariant one-

parameter deformations of associative algebras Algebra and its
applications, doi.org/10.1142/S0219498820501145
(arXiv:1804.05355v1) (To appear in 2020).
2. Mukherjee Goutam, Sankaran Parameswa; Algebraic Topology in
India, Indian J. Pure Appl. Math. 50 (2019), no.3, 705-717.
3. Das Apurba, Gondhali Shilpa, Mukherjee Goutam; Nambu struc-
tures on Lie algebroids and their modular classes, Proc. Indian
Acad. Sci. Math. Sci. 129 (2019), no.4 , Art.59, 36 pp.
4. Mukherjee Goutam, Saha Ripan; Cup-product for equivariant
Leibniz cohomology and zinbiel algebras, Algebra Colloq., 26 (2019),
no.2, 271-284.
5. Basu Samik, Basu Somnath, Das Apurba, Mukherjee Goutam,
Nambu structures and associated bialgebroids, Proc. Indian Acad.
Sciences Math. Sci., 129 (2019), no.1, Art.12 36 pp.
6. Mukherjee Goutam, Sarkar Swagata, Sen Debasis, Finite group
actions on Kan complexes, Journal of Indian Math. Soc., 83
(2016), No. 1-2, 145-160.
7. Fialowski Alice, Mukherjee Goutam, Naolekar Anita. Versal de-
formation theory of algebra over a quadratic operad, Homology,
Homotopy Appl., 16 (2014), no. 1, 178-198.
8. Basu Samik, Mukherjee Goutam, Sarkar Swagata, Some compu-
tations in equivariant cobordism in relation to Milnor manifolds,
Topology Appl., 172 (2014), 1-9.
9. Mukherjee Goutam and Sen Debasis Steenrod’s operations in Sim-
plicial Bredon-Illman cohomolgy with local coefficients, Homology,
Homotopy and Applications, 13 (2011), no.1, 273-296.
10. Mukherjee Goutam and Sen Debasis, On a theorem of Eilenberg
in Simplicial Bredon-Illman cohomology with local Coefficients,
International Journal of Modern Mathematics, 5 (2010), 339-
359.
11. Mukherjee Goutam, On Algebraic deformation Theory, ‘Perspec-
tives in Geometry and Topology’, Lecture Notes Series, no. 11,
Ramanujam Mathematical Society, (2010), 49-65.

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12. Mukherjee Goutam and Sen Debasis, Equivariant Simplicial co-
homology with local coefficients and its applications, Topology
Appl., 157 (2010), no.6, 1015-1032.
13. Mandal Ashis and Mukherjee Goutam, Deformation of Leibniz
Algebra Morphisms with Commutative Local Algebra Base, Comm.
Algebra, 37 (2009), no.7, 2246-2266.
14. Fialowski Alice, Mandal Ashis and Mukherjee Goutam, Versal
Deformations of Leibniz Algebras, J. K-Theory, 3 (2009), no.2,
327-358.
15. Mazumdar Anita and Mukherjee Goutam, Errata: Deformation
theory of Dialgebras, [K-Theory, 27 (2002), no.1, 33-60], K-
Theory, 35 (2005), no.3-4, 395-397.
16. Mukherjee Goutam and Pandey Neeta, Homotopy G-algebra struc-
ture on Bredon-Illman cochain complex, Topology and its appli-
cations, 144 (2004), 51-65.
17. Majumdar Anita and Mukherjee Goutam, Dialgebra Cohomology
as a G-algebra, Tran. Amer. Math. Soc., 356 (2003), no.6,
2443-2457.
18. Majumdar Anita and Mukherjee Goutam, Deformation theory of
dialgebras, K-Theory, 27 (2002), 33-60.
19. Mukherjee Goutam and Naolekar C. Aniruddha, On the notion of
residual finiteness for G-spaces, J. Aust. Math. Soc., 73 (2002),
347-355.
20. Mukherjee Goutam and Pandey Neeta, Equivariant cohomology
with local coefficients, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 130 (2001), no.1,
227-232.
21. Mukherjee Goutam and Sankaran P., Minimal models of oriented
Grassmannians and applications Math. Slovaca, 50 (2000), no.5,
567-579.
22. Mukherjee Goutam, Cobordism of Manifolds via Z2 × Z2 -action
having isolated stationary points,
it SEAMS Bull. Math., 23 (1999), 673-677.
23. Mukherjee Goutam and Sankaran P, Elementary abelian 2-group
actions on flag manifolds and applications, Proc. Amer. Math.
Soc., 126 (1998), no.2, 595-606.

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 24. Mukherjee Goutam and Nalolekar C. Aniruddha, Bredon coho-
mology of cyclic geometric realization of G-cyclic sets, Proc. In-
dian Acad. Sci. Math. Sci., 107 (1997), no.2, 155-161.
25. Mukherjee Goutam, Hopfian and co-Hopfian G-CW-complexes,
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 125 (1997), no.4, 1229-1236.
26. Mukherjee Amiya and Mukherjee Goutam, Bredon-Illman coho-
mology with local coefficients, Quart. J. Math., Oxford, 47 (1996),
no.2, 199-219.
27. Mukherjee Goutam, Equivariant cobordism of Grassmann and
flag manifolds, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. Math. Sci., 105 (1995),
no.4, 381-391.
28. Mukherjee Goutam, Equivariant homotopy epimorphisms, homo-
topy monomorphisms, and homotopy equivalences, Bull. Belgium
Math. Soc., 2 (1995), 447-461.
29. Mukherjee Goutam, Equivariant Cohomology, Proc. of the In-
structional Workshop on Cyclic (Co)-Homology, Panjab Univer-
sity, Chandigarh April-1995.
30. Mukherjee Goutam, On some enumeration problems of immer-
sions in critical dimension, Indian J. Pure and Appl. Math., 25
(1994), no.6, 607-613.

Courses offerd: Discrete Mathematics; Algebra and finite group repre-

sentation theory; Algebraic Topology; Complex Analysis; Topology- II,
III and IV; Analysis I and II; Differential Equations; Topology and Set
theory; de-Rham cohomology and its applications; Differential Geome-
try ; Riemannian Geometry; Differential Topology

Ph.D Students:

Anita Majumdar-Title of the Thesis: Deformation theory of dialge-

bras. Awarded in 2003.
Ashis Mandal-Title of the Thesis: Versal deformations of Leibniz
algebras. Awarded in 2009.
Debasis Sen- Title of the Thesis: Simplicial Bredon-Illman Cohomol-
ogy with local coefficients. Awarded in 2011.
Apurba Das - Title of the Thesis: A study of Nambu structures,
submitted, September, 2017.

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Current Ph. D. Student: Ripan Saha.

Editorial Experience

1. ‘Transformation Groups: Symplectic Torus Actions and Toric

Manifolds’, Edited by Mukherjee Goutam with contributions by
Chris Allday, Mikiya Masuda, P. Sankaran. Hindustan Book
Agency, New Delhi, 2005.
2. Reviewer of Zentralblatt Math.

Organization of workshop

Organized a workshop on Transformation Groups at ISI, during 8-26

December 1998.
Organized an Advanced Instructional School on Algebraic and Dif-
ferential Topology at ISI, during 5-31 December, 2005.
Organized (NCM)ATM School on Algebraic Structure on Manifolds
at ISI, during 13-22 December, 2016.

Academic Administration

Serving as the Dean of Studies, Indian Statistical Institute, since 18

September 2018.
Serving as the Chairman/Convener of various academic and admin-
istrative committees of the Institute.
Served as a member of a committee in charge of developing the North-
East center of ISI at Tezpur (2015-2019).
Served as the Professor-in-Charge, Stat-Math Division, September
2010- August 2012.
Served as the Head of Stat-Math Unit, Kolkata, 2009-2010.