UTSAVCHOUDHURY

Personal Information

Surname : CHOUDHURY

First name : UTSAV

Born on April 18 th, 1986, at Kolkata, India

Nationality : Indian.

Education and Work Experience

2001 Secondary examination, Behala Aryya Vidyamandir, Kolkata.

2003 Higher secondary examination, Narendrapur Ramakrishna mission residential col-

lege, Kolkata.

2003–2006 BSc (Hons.) Mathematics, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai.

2006–2008 Masters in Mathematics, University of Paris 11, University of Padova.

ALGANT masters program in Mathematics.
2008, November Graduate student in Mathematics, University of Zürich, Zürich.
–2013, February
2013, April Visiting scientific researcher, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen.
–2013, July
2013, Humboldt Postdoctoral fellow, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen.
October–2014,
March
2014, April Humboldt Postdoctoral fellow, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück.
–2015, March
2015, April Assistant, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück.
–2015, May
2015, June – Assistant Professor, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Belur.
2017, May
2017, June – Assistant Professor, IISER, Kolkata.
Thesis

Masters Thesis

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 title Homotopy theory of schemes and A1 -fundamental groups
defended 2008
supervisors Prof. Luca Barbieri Viale

Doctoral Thesis
title Some contributions to motives of Deligne–Mumford stacks and motivic homotopy
theory
defended 2012
supervisors Prof. Joseph Ayoub

Research Interest
Motivic homotopy theory and the theory of motives and its applications.

Awards and scholarships

Full scholarship, National Undergraduate Program in mathematics, Chennai Mathematical Institute 2003
–2006.

Visiting Student Research Program (2005 Summer). Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

Chennai Mathematical Institute and ENS Paris exchange program(2006 summer).

Full scholarship for ALGANT masters program in mathematics (2006-2008).

Visiting scientific researcher in University of Duisburg-Essen (01-04-2013 to 31.07.2013).

Invited to Oberwolfach workshop algebraic K-theory and motivic cohomology (23-29 June 2013).

Humboldt Postdoctoral fellowship (October 2013- March 2015).

Languages
Bengali Fluent Mother tongue
Hindi Fluent
English Fluent
German A2-level

Teaching

Winter Semester 2009, assistant Geometry/ Topology I (Zuerich).

Fall Semester 2010, assistant, Linear Algebra II (Zuerich).

Winter Semester 2010, assistant, Algebra 1 (Zuerich).

Fall semester 2011, assistant, Algebraic groups (Zuerich).

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Winter semester 2011, assistant, Grundlagen der Mathematik (Zuerich).

Fall semester 2012, assistant, Differentiable manifolds (Zuerich).

1st semester, masters first year, 2015, Algebra I (Belur).

2nd Semester, masters first year, 2016, Algebra 2 (Belur).

2nd Semester, masters project, 2016, Number Theory (Belur).

1st Semester, masters second year, 2016, Lie Groups and Lie algebra (Belur).

2nd Semester, masters second year, 2017, Introduction to Algebraic Geometry (Belur).

2nd Semester, masters project, 2017, Algebraic Number Theory(Belur).

Masters Thesis Supervision

title Riemann-Roch theorem for algebraic curves

defended 2017
Student Srijit Mukherjee

Talks

Rational connectivity and A1 -connectivity, ETH Zürich, Pro Doc. 2009.

Skolem’s method, Workshop on the method of Chabauty and Coleman, Pro Doc Arithmetic and geometry,
Alpbach, 2009.

Milnor’s Conjecture, Zürich Graduate Colloquium, 2010.

Diagrams of pairs, Workshop "Motives, periods and transcendence", Pro Doc Arithmetic and geometry,
Alpbach, 2011.

Smooth representation, University of Zürich, 2012.

Motives of Deligne–Mumford Stacks, University of Osnabrück, 2012.

Motives of Deligne–Mumford Stacks, University of Münster, 2012.

Motives of Deligne–Mumford Stacks, University of Freiburg, 2012.

Representation of Weil groups, University of Zürich, 2013.

Deligne’s motivic fundamental group, Essen, 2013.

Motivic Galois groups and applications. Chennai, 2013.

Finite field Iwahori Hecke algebras, affine Weyl groups. Essen, 2013.

The Iwahori Hecke algebra of p-adic groups. Essen, 2013.

Topological recognition principle and a counter example in unstable motivic homotopy category, Os-
nabrueck, 2014.

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An isomorphism of motivic Galois groups, Osnabrueck, 2014.

Galois theory, motives and standard conjectures, Kolkata RKMVU, 2014.

Slices of algebraic cobordism via the Hopkins-Morel isomorphism, Osnabrueck, 2014.

Localization of infinity categories. Osnabrueck, 2014.

Galois theory and motives. TIFR, 2014.

Universal DG-Homotopy theory. Osnabrueck, 2015.

Vector Bundles and K-theory, RKMVU, 2015.

Mixed Hodge Structures, Kolkata ISI, 2015.

K-theory and Vector bundles, Kolkata , SERC School on Topology and Condensed Matter Physics, 2015.

International Colloquium on K-theory, TIFR Mumbai, 2016.

Grothendieck’s Galois theory, IISER, Kolkata, 2016.

Motivic Homotopy theory seminar, RKMVU, Belur, 2016.

A crash course on Motives, IPM, School of Mathematics, Tehran, Iran, 2016.

Geometry and Arithmetic together : the story of theory of Motives, IISER, Kolkata, 2016.

Nori motives, ISI, Bangalore, 2017.

Conferences and Workshops

The Geometric Theory of Quadratic Forms, EPFL, Lausanne, 2009.

Motivic homotopy theory, Münster, 2009.

Leopoldina-Symposium in Algebraic and Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, Ascona, Switzerland, 2009.

Workshop on the method of Chabauty and Coleman in Alpbach, 2009.

Workshop "Motives, periods and transcendence" in Alpbach, 2011.

Motives: Algebra and Arithmetic, Mainz, 2011.

Summer School on Rigidity and the Conjecture of Friedlander and Milnor, Regensburg, 2011.

Introduction to Geometric Langlands, Freiburg, 2012.

Workshop "Multiple Zeta-Values" in Alpbach, 2012.

“Principe de fonctorialité de Langlands et formule de Poisson”, Milan, 2012.

Oberwolfach workshop algebraic K-theory and motivic cohomology (23-29 June 2013).

Discussion meeting on Algebraic cycles and related topics. TIFR, December, 2014.

NS@50: Fifty Years of the Narasimhan-Seshadri Theorem, CMI, Chennai, 2015.

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SERC School on Topology and Condensed Matter Physics, 2015.

International Colloquium on K-theory, TIFR Mumbai, 2016.

Publications

Motivic decomposition for relative geometrically cellular stacks (with J. Skowera). Communications in
algebra, Volume 44, Issue 2 (2016).

Connectivity of motivic H–spaces. Algebraic & Geometric Topology 14 (2014) 37–55.

Motives of Deligne–Mumford Stacks. Advances in Mathematics 231 (2012), pp. 3094- 3117 . DOI
information: 10.1016/j.aim.2012.08.012.

Homotopy theory of dg-sheaves ( with Martin Gallauer Alves de Souza) arXiv:1511.02828v1 [math.CT].
(Accepted in Communications in algebra).

An isomorphism of motivic Galois groups (with Martin Gallauer Alves de Souza) arXiv:1410.6104v2
[math.AG]. (Accepted in Advances in Mathematics).

Preprints and work in progress

Homotopy invariance of truncations in unstable motivic homotopy theory. (with Amit Hogadi) (work in
progress).

Period algebra and pure motives (with Martin Gallauer Alves de Souza) (work in progress).

References

Prof. Dr. Joseph Ayoub.

Institute of Mathematics, University of Zurich.

Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland

joseph.ayoub@math.uzh.ch

Prof. Dr. Marc Levine.

Fakultät Mathematik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen

Thea-Leymann-Strasse 9, 45127 Essen, Germany.

marc.levine@uni-due.de

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Prof. Dr. Oliver Röndigs

Institute für Mathematik, Universität Osnabrück.

Albrechtstrasse. 28a, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany.

oroendig@uni-osnabrueck.de

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