Bharathwaj Palvannan ! bharathwaj@iisc.ac.
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! 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 Selmer groups and factoring p-adic L-functions.
International Mathematics Research Notices (2018), Issue 24, December 2018, Pages 7483-7554
Height one specializations of Selmer groups.
Annales de l’Institut Fourier, Volume 69 (2019) no. 1, p. 303-334
On free resolutions of Iwasawa modules, (54 pages).
with Alexandra Nichifor, Doc. Math. 24, 609-662 (2019)
Codimension two cycles in Iwasawa theory and elliptic curves with supersingular reduction.
with Antonio Lei, Forum of Mathematics, Sigma (2019), 7, E25
Codimension two cycles in Iwasawa theory and tensor product of Hida families.
with Antonio Lei, accepted for publication in Mathematische Annalen (2020)
Conference organization
Nov 2020 L-values and Iwasawa theory, online.
Graduate students supervised
March 2018 Arizona Winter School on Iwasawa Theory, University of Arizona Tucson, USA,
Study group guide for John Coates’s study group on the Weak Leopoldt conjecture.
Masters thesis Weichen Zhou (Spring 2018), Elliptic curves over C with complex multiplication.
Masters thesis Andrea Thevis (Summer 2017), Elliptic curves and cryptography.
Ind. Study Yao-Rui Yeo (Fall 2017), Galois representations.
Short term visits
Oct 2019 Oberwolfach Leibniz Fellowship, MFO Oberwolfach, Germany.
Aug 2018 Research in Pairs, MFO Oberwolfach, Germany.
with Marc Masdeu and Chris Williams
June 2018 Algebraic geometry and Arithmetic group, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany,
visiting Andreas Nickel.
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.
Math 312: Linear Algebra, Spring 2018.
Math 350: Undergraduate Number Theory, Spring 2019.
Math 420: Ordinary differential equations, Fall 2016.
(graduate) Math 620: Algebraic Number Theory, Fall 2017.
(graduate) Math 621: Algebraic Number Theory (Good Teaching Award), Spring 2018.
Teaching at the University of Washington
Math 307: Ordinary differential equations (Instructor), Spring 2016.
Math 308: Matrix Algebra with applications (Instructor),
Summer 2015, Winter 2015, Spring 2014, Winter 2014.
Math 300: Introduction to mathematical reasoning (Instructor), Summer 2013.
Teaching assistant for various undergraduate calculus courses.
Invited Talks
Sept 2021 Philadelphia Area Number Theory Seminar, Bryn Mawr, USA.
Dec 2020 Seminar on Geometry and Arithmetic, UC Santa Barbara, USA.
August 2020 Number Theory seminar, Indian Institute of Science, India.
July 2020 Colloquium, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai) India.
Feb 2020 Number Theory seminar, Seoul National University, South Korea.
Jan 2020 Galois seminar, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Nov 2019 Taipei Postdoc seminar, Academia Sinica / NCTS, Taiwan.
July 2019 Algbera and Number Theory seminar, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany.
Apr 2019 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 Algebra-Number Theory seminar, University of Maryland, USA.
Mar 2019 Columbia-CUNY-NYU Joint Number Theory Seminar, Courant Institute, USA.
Oct 2018 Number theory seminar, Université Laval, Canada.
June 2018 Oberseminar, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Essen), Germany.
May 2018 The Bielefeld Arithmetic Geometry Seminar, Universität Bielefeld, Germany.
May 2018 Workshop: Iwasawa Theory and Related Topics, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
May 2018 Number theory seminar, University of Illinois (Chicago), USA.
Nov 2017 Quebec Vermont Number theory seminar, Concordia University, Canada.
Sept 2017 Number theory seminar, Univeristy of British Columbia, Canada.
Sept 2017 Algebra seminar, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Mar 2017 Number theory seminar, Université Laval, Canada.
Jan 2017 Philadelphia Area Number Theory Seminar, Bryn Mawr, USA.
Jun 2016 Workshop: New Directions in Iwasawa theory, Banff Research Center, Canada,
Video link: https://goo.gl/EksZ2s.
Apr 2016 Galois seminar, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Jan 2016 Number theory seminar, University of California Los Angeles, USA.
Nov 2015 Number theory seminar, University of Arizona, USA.
Oct 2014 Number theory seminar, University of Washington USA.
Sept 2014 Number theory seminar, IIT Bombay, India.
Contributed Talks
Mar 2021 Spring Day 2021, NCTS, Taiwan.
Sept 2020 CRM Members seminar, CRM, Canada.
June 2020 Spring Day 2020, NCTS, Taiwan.
Oct 2018 Maine/Québec Number theory conference, Université Laval, Canada.
Oct 2016 Maine/Québec Number theory conference, Université Laval, Canada.
Mar 2016 30th Automorphic forms workshop, Wake Forest University, USA.
Oct 2015 Midwest Number theory conference, University of Illinois Chicago, USA.
Sept 2015 Boston-Keio workshop, Boston University USA.
