Curriculum Vitae

Omprokash Das

Mailing Address
School of Mathematics
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Homi Bhabha Road, Navy Nagar
Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400005, India
Email: omdas@math.tifr.res.in

Positions
Reader Since July 2019 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Assistant Adjunct Professor July 2016– June 2019 University of California, Los Angeles.
Visiting Fellow August 2015– June 2016 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

Education
PhD 2009–2015 University of Utah, USA.
M.Sc. 2007–2009 TIFR-CAM, Bangalore, India.
B.Sc. Honors in Mathematics 2004-2007 Presidency College, Calcutta, India.

Thesis
• “Adjunction and Inversion of Adjunction in Positive Characteristic”, PhD Thesis.
Thesis advisor: Prof. Christopher Hacon.

Publications
1. On Strongly F -regular Inversion of Adjunction, arXiv:1310.8252 [math.AG], 2013.
Journal of Algebra 434(2015), 207-226, MR3342393, DOI: 10.1016/j.jalgebra.2015.03.025.

2. On the Adjunction Formula for 3-folds in Characteristic p > 5, arXiv:1505.05903

[math.AG], 2015. Joint with Christopher Hacon. Mathematische Zeitschrift 284
(2016), no. 1-2, 255-269, MR3545494, DOI: 10.1007/s00209-016-1655-4.

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 3. The F -Different and a Canonical Bundle Formula, arXiv:1508.07295 [math.AG], 2015.
Joint with Karl Schwede. Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci. (5) Vol. XVII (2017),
1173-1205; MR3726839, DOI: 10.2422/2036-2145.201510 012.
4. On the Abundance Problem for 3-folds in Characteristic p > 5, arXiv:1610.03403
[math.AG], 2016. Joint with Joe Waldron. Mathematische Zeitschrift, 292 (2019), no.
3-4, 937–946; MR3980278. DOI: 10.1007/s00209-018-2110-5.
5. Finiteness of Log Minimal Models and Nef Curves on 3-Folds in Characteristic p >
5, arXiv:1711.10901 [math.AG, 2017]. Nagoya Mathematical Journal, 239 (2020),
76–109; MR4138896. DOI: 10.1017/nmj.2018.28.
6. Appendix A: Contracting the Section of a Weierstrass Threefold, an appendix to the
‘Bridgeland Stability on Blow Ups and Counterexamples’ by Cristian Martinez and
Benjamin Schmidt, arXiv:1708.08567 [math.AG], 2017. Mathematische Zeitschrift,
292 (2019), no. 3-4, 1509–1510; MR3980301. DOI: 10.1007/s00209-018-2149-3.
7. On the Boundedness of Anti-Canonical Volumes of Singular Fano 3-Folds in Char-
acteristic p > 5, arXiv:1808.02102 [math.AG]. International Mathematics Research
Notices, 2021, no. 9, 6848–6870; DOI: 10.1093/imrn/rnz048.
8. Kawamata-Viehweg Vanishing Theorem for del Pezzo Surfaces over Imperfect Fields
of Characteristic p > 3, arXiv:1709.03237 [math.AG], 2017. Osaka Journal of Mathe-
matics, 58 (2021), no. 2, 477–486.
9. Boundedness of Log-Pluricanonical Maps for Surfaces of Log-General Type in Positive
Characteristic, arXiv:2003.13324 [math.AG], 2020. Accepted for publication in the
Osaka Journal of Mathematics.

Preprints
1. On the Log Minimal Model Program for 3-folds over Imperfect Fields of Characteristic
p > 5, arXiv:1911.04394 [math.AG], 2019. Joint with Joe Waldron. Submitted.
2. The Log Minimal Model Program for Kähler 3-Folds, arXiv:2009.05924 [math.AG].
Joint with Christopher Hacon. Submitted.
3. On the Log Abundance for Compact Kähler 3-Folds, arXiv:2201.01202 [math.AG].
Joint with Wenhao Ou. Submitted.

Preprints in Preparation
1. On the Minimal Model Program for Kähler 4-Folds. Joint with Christopher Hacon.

Grants and Awards

• ‘Start-up Research Grant (SRG)’ from 2020-2022, Grant No. SRG/2020/000348,
SERB, Government of India.
• Merit Upgrade, 2018, University of California, Los Angeles.

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 • AMS-Simons Travel Grant Award, 2016–2018.
• INSPIRE Faculty Award, Session II, 2015, DST, Government of India.
• Merit Scholarship from Presidency College during Undergraduate Studies.

Teaching
• At the UCLA I taught the following courses: Advanced topics in Algebraic Geome-
try, Upper division Linear Algebra (Math 115A), Foundation of Real Analysis (Math
131A), Calculus of Several Variables (Math 32A and Math 32B), Linear Algebra and
Applications (Math 33A), Pre-Calculus (Math 1), ODE with Linear Algebra for Life
Sciences (Math 3C).

• At the University of Utah I taught the following courses: Calculus I (Math 1210),
Quantitative Analysis (Math 1100), College Algebra (Math 1050), Trigonometry (Math
1060), Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning (Math 1030).

Invited Talks
• Weak-Boundedness of Fano 3-folds in characteristic p > 5, Advances in Birational
Geometry, AMS Sectional Meeting, Fall 2018, University of Arkansas.
• Kawamata-Viehweg vanishing theorem for del Pezzo surfaces over imperfect fields in
characteristic p > 3, Special Session in Algebraic Geometry, II, AMS Sectional Meet-
ing, University of California, Riverside, November 5, 2017.
• Birational geometry of surfaces and threefolds over imperfect fields, Algebraic Geom-
etry Seminar, University of California, Santa Diego, 2017.
• On the abundance problem in positive characteristic, Algebraic Geometry Seminar,
University of California, Santa Barbara, 2016.
• On the abundance problem in positive characteristic, Algebraic Geometry Seminar,
University of California, Riverside, 2016.
• On the abundance problem in positive characteristic, Algebraic Seminar, University of
California, Los Angeles, 2016.
• A Glimpse of Higher Dimensional Minimal Model Program, Mini Lecture Series (3
lectures), Tata Institute of Fundental Research, December 2015.
• Higher Dimensional Minimal Model Program or Mori Program in Characteristic p > 0,
Mathematics Seminar, Indian Statistical Institute, November 2015.
• Adjunction and Inversion of Adjunction Properties of MMP Singularities and F-
singularities in Positive Characteristic, Mathematics Colloquium, Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research, November 2015.
• What is Minimal Model Program (MMP)? at the Student Seminar at Tata Institute
of Fundamental Research, August 2015.

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 • Adjunction and Inversion of Adjunction in Positive Characteristic, Algebraic Geome-
try Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Spring 2015.
• Presented poster on On the Adjunction formula on 3-folds in characteristic p > 0 at
the Wester Algebraic Geometry Symposium at the University of Idaho, Fall 2014.

• On Strongly F -regular Inversion of Adjunction, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar

at the Penn State University, Fall 2013.
• On Strongly F -regular Inversion of Adjunction, Algebraic Geometry Seminar at the
University of Utah, Fall 2013.
• Presented poster on ‘On Strongly F -regular Inversion of Adjunction’ at the Wester
Algebraic Geometry Symposium at the University of California, San Diego, Fall 2013.
• Spectral Sequence and Hypercohomology, Graduate Student Seminar at the University
of Utah.
• Line Bundles on Projective Space, Graduate Student Seminar at the University of
Utah.

Conference Attended
• AMS Sectional Meeting at the University of California, Riverside.

• Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (WAGS) at the University of California, Los

Angeles, Fall 2017.
• Conference on Birational Geometry, Simons Foundation, New York, Summer 2017.
• Georgia Algebraic Geometry Symposium, University of Georgia, 2017.

• AMS Summer Institute in Algebraic Geometry at the University of Utah, July 21-
August 1, 2015.
• Graduate Student Bootcamp for the AMS Summer Institute in Algebraic Geometry
at the University of Utah, July 6-10.

• Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (WAGS) at the University of Idaho, Fall

2014.
• Positive Characteristic Algebraic Geometry Workshop at University of Illinois, Chicago,
Spring 2014.
• The Commutative Algebra of Singularities in Birational Geometry at Mathematical
Science Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley, Summer 2013.
• Recent Advances in Algebraic Geometry at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Sum-
mer 2013.
• Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (WAGS) at the University of California, San
Diego, Fall 2013.

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 • Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (WAGS) at the Harvey Mudd College, Spring
2013.
• Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (WAGS) at the University of Utah, Fall
2012.

• Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (WAGS) at the Colorado State University,

Fall 2011.
• Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (WAGS) at the Stanford University, Spring
2011.
• Instructional Workshop on Differential Geometry at the University of Mysore, India.

• Workshop on Arithmetic of Dynamical System at the Tata Institute of Fundamental

Research, India.

Organizational Activities
• I am a co-organizer of this year’s Southern California Algebraic Geometry Symposium
(SoCalAGS), which will be held at the University of California, Los Angeles, Fall 2018.
• I was one of co-organizers of the Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (WAGS)
held at the UCLA, Fall 2017. I was also the main organizer for the poster session in
the same conference.
• In Spring 2017 I organized the UCLA Reading Seminar: ‘Log canonical minimal model
program in higher dimensions.’

Other Professional Activities

• AMS MathSciNet reviewer.
• Referee for the journals Compositio Mathematica, Journal of Algebraic Geometry, and
Mathematische Zeitschrift.

References
• Christopher Hacon, University of Utah. Email: hacon@math.utah.edu.
• Burt Totaro, University of California, Los Angeles. Email: totaro@math.ucla.edu.

• Karl Schwede, University of Utah. Email: schwede@math.utah.edu.