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Geetha Venkataraman

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Affiliation

  • Professor , School of Liberal Studies

Email

    geetha@aud.ac.in

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Qualification

Geetha Venkataraman did a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. She stood first in The University of Delhi in BSc (Hons) Mathematics. She was awarded an Inlaks scholarship to read for a second BA (Hons) in Mathematics (equivalent to a Masters) at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral degree, DPhil, is from the University of Oxford. A Burton Senior Scholarship from Oriel College, University of Oxford supported her research for the doctorate. Professor Venkataraman’s doctoral work was in Group Theory, (part of abstract algebra); she researched questions regarding the enumeration of finite groups.

Past Experience

  • August 2010 — Professor of Mathematics, School of Liberal Studies and School of Undergraduate Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi.
  • 2009 – July 2010 Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.
  • Nov 2007 – April 2009 Associate coordinator (Mathematics), Institute of Life Long Learning, University of Delhi (On deputation).
  •  2007 Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.
  • 2003 – 2006: Reader in Mathematics at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.
  • 1998 – 2003: Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.
  • 1993 – 98: Lecturer in Mathematics at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.
  • 1991 – 93: Tutored students of BA (Honours) Mathematics at Queen’s College and Oriel College, University of Oxford.

Area of Expertise

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS AND INTERESTS

  • Research Specialisation: Groups, Enumeration of finite groups, Classification of finite groups on the basis of properties, Groups in cryptography, Groups and graphs.  
  • Other Research interests: Popularisation of Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Undergraduate Education, Issues related to Women and Mathematics, Women in leadership in academia.

PROFESSIONAL DISTINCTIONS/AWARDS

A selection:

  • External Member, Academic Audit committee (Mathematics), Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi, 19 October 2025.
  • Elected as President of the Mathematics Teachers’ Association (India), https://www.mtai.org.in/ for a period of three years from 1 January 2025 (resigned from President’s post in August 2025 due to unforeseen reasons).
  • CWM Ambassador (one of 5 from India); CWM, the  International Mathematical Union Committee for Women in Mathematics, has established about 150 special correspondents worldwide;  https://www.mathunion.org/cwm/about/cwm-ambassadors. (22 March 2021-).
  • On distinguished alumni list of St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi under `Education’. (Web archived on 1/11/2019.)
  • Member of two committees of the National Centre for Mathematics (NCM): IST (Instructional School for Teachers) programme committee, TEW (Teachers' Enrichment workshop) committee. (Oct 2022-30 September 2025, https://www.ncmath.org/committee.)
  • Founding Member, Mathematics Teachers’ Association India (MTA(I)), registered on 23 April 2018 with the Registrar of Societies, Mumbai.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Bulletin of the Mathematics Teachers’ Association (India) (MTA (I)) (2018 –).
  • Member, Executive Committee, Indian Women and Mathematics (sponsored by National Board of Higher Mathematics, Government of India), (2016 – 31 March 2023).
  • One of 6 women mathematicians from all over the world, invited to be on a panel by the Committee of Women in Mathematics (International Mathematics Union) for a panel discussion to be held online on 02 July 2022 in the World Meeting of Women in Mathematics (WM)2 to be held prior to the International Congress of Mathematicians (https://2022.worldwomeninmaths.org/panel)
  • Selected for the MHRD Academic leadership Development Programme under LEAP, organised by NIEPA. Participated in the programme from 13-21 March 2020. (Another week of training at Harvard is yet to be completed.)
  • Member, Executive Committee, Ramanujan Mathematics Society (2016-2019)
  • Member, Editorial Board of Resonance, a Journal of Science Education for a period of three years, (2015 – 2017).
  • Invited by the British Council to participate in the South Asia Education Dialogue Series on Dangerous Demographics – Women, Leadership and the Looming Crisis in Higher Education, Colombo, Sri Lanka (March 2014).
  • Member, Indian National Presentation Team for International Congress of Mathematical Education (ICME, July 2012).
  • Member, Advisory Committee for Technology Vision 2035-Education Sector (TIFAC, Govt. of India) (2012 –2017).

ACADEMIC CONSULTANCIES:

A selection:

  • Served on an interview panel for award of NBHM Masters and PhD Fellowship. (2022-2026)
  • Member, Board of Studies (Mathematics), University of Sikkim. (2023-2026)
  • Served on the panel for the final interviews of candidates for the Inlaks Scholarship. (May 2024, 2023)
  • Served on the 2024-2025 Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowships (STEM) national selection committee. (December 2023)
  • Served as external member for selection committee for Assistant Professors at Kannur University, Kerala. (May 2023)
  • Served on the panel for the final interviews of candidates for the Inlaks Scholarship. (June 2022)
  • Reviewer for the undergraduate mathematics curriculum for Azim Premji University. (March 2022)
  • Served as Vice-Chancellor’s Nominee in the Selection Committee for Promotion of three Assistant Professors Academic Level 12 to Associate Professor Academic Level 13A at Khalsa College, University of Delhi. (July 2021)
  • Served as external member for a CAS promotion to Professor for Kannur University, Kerala. (April 2021) Served as referee for Tenure/Promotion for a candidate at IIIT Delhi. (March 2021)
  • Research Advisory Committee member for a PhD student at Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, UP. (October 2020-2025)
  • Member, three-member Committee for upgradation of JRF to SRF for a PhD scholar at University of Delhi (March 2020, May 2021)
  • Member, Committee to examine and review Ordinance OC-66 related to UGC-CBCS for Bachelor degree programmes at University of Goa. (November 2019)
  • Member, expert committee to consider candidature of candidates nominated by DSSSB for appointment of TGT (Mathematics) post, DOE, Government of Delhi. (October 2019)
  • Invitee, Sub-Committee on Mathematics for reduction of middle school syllabus, Government of Delhi. (January 2016)
  • Member, Selection Committee for selection of Assistant Professor Mathematics (permanent) at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, Delhi. (March 2015)

Service as Referee:

  • Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews of the American Mathematical Society (April 2014 onwards)
  • Communications in Algebra
  • Springer Nature
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Proceedings Indian Academy of Sciences
  • Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
  • Resonance– Journal of Science Education

CURICULUM DEVELOPMENT:

  • Member of curriculum development/review boards for Shiv Nadar University, Delhi University, Ambedkar University Delhi, Indira Gandhi National Open University and the NCERT. Have also advised on Mathematics Syllabus for the Undergraduate Programme in Ashoka University.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

A selection:

  •  Dean, Research and Consultancy, 30 April 2019-10 June 2022.
  • Chairperson of the Centralised Committee for Syllabus for implementation of NEP, January 2022-October 2022.
  • Dean, Assessment, Evaluation and Student Progression, Ambedkar University Delhi, June 2016- December 2018.
  • OSD with charge to set up Assessment, Evaluation and Student Progression Division, Ambedkar University Delhi, January 2016 - May 2016.
  • Chairperson, Committee for Prevention of Sexual Harassment, Ambedkar University Delhi, September 2015 – November 2018.
  • Dean, School of Undergraduate Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, July 2011 – May 2013.
  • Chairperson, Library Advisory Committee, Ambedkar University Delhi, February 2015 – October 2016.

COURSES TAUGHT (a selection):

  • Undergraduate level: Group Theory, Linear Algebra, Real Analysis, Metric Spaces, Elementary Number Theory, Lattices and Boolean Algebra, Probability and Statistics
  • Postgraduate level: Fields and Commutative Rings, Group Theory
  • Research level: Group Theory and Advanced Group Theory.

Mentorship/ supervision:

MPhil Students:

  • Deepshikha Chatterjee         2017-2020
  • Shrestha Chaturvedi             2018-2020
  • Kavita Samant                      2018-2020
  • Neelam Sangwan                  2019- 2021

PhD Students

  • Arushi                      2018- 2025  (Thesis title: Enumeration of finite groups in some varieties of A-groups)
  • Prashun Kumar        2019- 2025  (Thesis title: Enumeration of cube-free groups)
  • Surbhi Tanwar          2023- present
  • Karan Singh             2026- present

External Projects Mentored/Supervised

  • Mitul Verma, Enumeration of Groups of Square Free Order (2015-16).
  • Summer project for four students, including a Department of Science and Technology (Govt. of India) Inspire Fellow on Cryptography and the Enigma Machine (2015).
  • Weekly Seminar for a group of 5-students on `Topology’. The aim was to read James Munkres’ book on `Topology’ (2014-2015).
  • Supervised 10 undergraduate students of St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi on a project related to Riemann Integration (2014-2015).
  • External mentor for a group of students of the Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi working on a project titled ` IT model for parking space management’.

Publications

Policy documents

  • Education Technology Roadmap: Technology Vision 2035, Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council [TIFAC], New Delhi, Government of India, November 2017. (Coauthored with Varun Sahni, Sita Naik, Dhruv Raina, Kuncheria P. Isaac, Rajaram S. Sharma, Gautam Goswami and Neeraj Saxena.)

BOOKS

  • Mathematics for Social Scientists: Learning Essential Foundational Skills, Taylor and Francis, Routledge India (imprint), (24 July) 2024. (Coauthored with Shobha Bagai and Amber Habib.); ISBN: 9781003495932. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003495932
  •  Learning Mathematics through Modelling and Simulation: An Investigative Approach, Universities Press (India) Pvt. Ltd., January 2023. (Coauthored with Jonaki Ghosh and Amber Habib.); ISBN: 9789393330383.
  •  A Bridge to Mathematics, Sage Publications, India Pvt. Ltd., 2017. (Co-authored with Shobha Bagai and Amber Habib.); ISBN: 9789386446121.
  • Enumeration of Finite Groups, Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, 173, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2007. (Coauthored with Simon Blackburn and Peter M Neumann.); ISBN: 9780521882170.
  • Mathematical Awareness, Institute of Life Long Learning (ILLL), University of Delhi, 2009. (Print version of E-lessons, coauthored with Shobha Bagai and Pankaj Jain. https://www.academia.edu/11316838/Mathematical_Awareness))

Papers Published in Refereed/peer-reviewed Journals

RESEARCH REPORTS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • Women in Leadership in Higher Education: Narratives from the Field, Chapter in N.V. Varghese, Nidhi Sabharwal (eds) India Higher Education Report: Women in Higher Education, Routledge India, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003415916-16, pp 244-264, (31 July 2023).
  • Indian Women and Mathematics (Co-authored with Nikita Agarwal and Amber Habib), Chapter In: Beery, J.L., Greenwald, S.J., Kessel, C. (eds) Fifty Years of Women in Mathematics. Association for Women in Mathematics Series, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82658-1_87. (26 April 2022)
  • Acquire multiple skills by combining subjects, chapter in `Higher Education (English) – 2019, Times Group Books, ISBN: 9789388757065, 9388757068, Edition: 2019, 35-36. (February 2019)
  • Curriculum and Pedagogy in Mathematics: Focus on the tertiary level, (Co-authored with Vinayak Sholapurkar and Bhaba Kumar Sharma, Chapter in `Mathematics Education in India: Status and Outlook, Edited by R. Ramanujan and K. Subramaniam, HBCSE, TIFR, 2012, 127-150.) http://mathedu.hbcse.tifr.res.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/INP-Book_Mathematics-Edu-in-India_2012_KS-RR.pdf
  • Enumeration of finite soluble groups in small varieties of A-groups and associated topics, Research Report, ICICI Centre for Mathematical Sciences, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, 1999. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.22813.67043

OTHER ARTICLES

(Related to higher education.)

  • Rubik’s Cube-Mathematical Magic, Bulletin of the Mathematics Teachers’ Association (India), June 2025, Issue 8, 9-20.
  • The Königsberg bridges problem and Euler’s solution, Bulletin of the Mathematics Teachers’ Association (India), January 2024, Issue 6, 5-12. (https://www.mtai.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/blackboard-issue-6.pdf.)
  • ICM 2018 Prizes - Chern, Gauss, Nevanlinna, Leelavati , Bulletin of the Mathematics Teachers’ Association (India), January 2019, Issue 1, 50-55. (http://www.mtai.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/blackboardissue1.pdf.)
  • Is mathematical thinking the new approach to teach Math, Education Times, 04 August 2018. (Understanding the ubiquity of Mathematics Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/65195549.cms utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst )
  • Close encounters of the `Math ED’ kind, (Co-authored with Shreya Khemani), At Right Angles, December 2012, Vol. 1, No 2, 31-36.
  • UGC proposal: The Academician’s nightmare, Economic and Political Weekly, March 28, 2009, Vol. XLIV No 13, 10-12.
  • Revitalising Undergraduate Education, Seminar, 581, January 2008, 79-82.
  • Teaching Students to Think, Economic and Political Weekly, August 25, 2007, 3449-3451.

BOOK REVIEWS

  • The Circle of Reason, Report on the exhibition titled Shunya: The Power of Zero, IIC Diary, THE IIC EXPERIENCE: A FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS 2025, October 2025.
  • Tracing the Story of Numbers, Report on the exhibition titled The Mathematical Sciences: South Asia’s Contribution, IIC Diary Vol. 36, 4, September 2025.
  • ‘Zero’—From India to the World, Report on the conference titled South Asia’s Manuscript Traditions and Mathematical Contributions, IIC Diary Vol. 36, 4, September 2025.
  • Of Monsters and Moonshine, a review of `Symmetry’ by Marcus Du Sautoy, At Right Angles, Vol. 3, No. 1, March 2014. https://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/3083/
  • Universal History of Numbers, Volumes I, II and III by Georges Irfah’, The Book Review India, October 2005.
  • Groups and Symmetry: A guide to discovering mathematics by David W. Farmer, AMS 1996’, Resonance, Volume 10, October 1999, 91-92. https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/004/10/0091-0092

Seminar/Conferences

Organising/Advisory Committee for Conferences:

International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 and International Conference of Women in Mathematics 2010 related:

  • Organising Committee, for International Conference of Women Mathematicians (ICWM) a 2-day meeting prior to International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2010 at Hyderabad, co-hosted by the European Women in Mathematics (EWM), August 15-16, 2010.
  • Organising Committee, Workshop on Geometric Group Theory, University of Goa, Goa, August 9-14 2010. (Satellite event before ICM 2010.)

International:

  • Member, Advisory Committee for the International conference titled `Frontiers in Mathematical Sciences- Theory, Applications & Innovations 2025' organised by Calcutta Mathematical Society and North Bengal University, 22-24 December 2025.
  • Member Advisory Committee, International Conference on Pure and Applied Mathematics 2024 organised by the Department of Mathematics, Janaki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi, 22-23 February 2024.
  • Member, Scientific Committee, Symposium for South Asian Women in Mathematics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, 12-15 October 2017.

National (a selection)

  • Member, Scientific Committee and Member, Organising Committee for Annual Conference 2021-2022 of the Indian Women and Mathematics (IWM) organised in the virtual mode by IWM and Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India during 28-30 January 2022.    
  • Member, Organising Committee, 2nd Conference on Algebra, Analysis and Applications (Online), Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi (2023-2019).
  • Convenor and Member Scientific Committee of the Indian Women and Mathematics Regional Workshop on Research and Opportunities (Hybrid format), IIT Bhilai, 21 February 2021.
  • Member Programme Committee, Second (Online) Annual Conference of the MTA (I), HBCSE, TIFR, Mumbai, 05-06 September 2020.
  • Member, Organising Committee, IWM Regional Workshop on Research and Opportunities, HBCSE, TIFR, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 16-17 February 2019.
  • Member Programme Committee, Annual Conference of the MTA (I), HBCSE, TIFR, Mumbai, 03-05 January 2019.
  • Member Scientific Committee and Organising Committee, Annual Conference of the IWM, SNU, 21-23 June 2018.
  • Member, Advisory Committee, 33rd Annual Conference of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society, Department of Mathematics, University of Delhi, 1-3 June 2018.
  • Convenor, Organising Committee, IWM Regional Workshop on Research and Opportunities, IISER Bhopal, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, 7-8 October 2017.
  • Organising Committee, Workshop on `Indian Women and Mathematics’, University of Delhi, Delhi 2-5 April 2015.

Conference activities/ Research talks/ Workshops/ Academic visits/ Popular lectures (a selection 2016-2026):

International

  • Mathematics in the Real world and paths to UG research in Mathematics, invited talk at the `International Conference on Exploring Mathematics and Allied Areas 2026’ organised by Hindu College, University of Delhi on 10 April 2026.
  • Fermat's Last Theorem: A brief history and the method of infinite descent, invited talk at the One-Day International Conference on Foundations of Algebra and Analysis on 14 January 2026 at Mata Sundri College for Women, University of Delhi. (Delivered online.)
  • Panellist for the panel on the language question in mathematics at higher education level as part of an international conference titled ‘Linguistic Diversity and Mathematics Education: Making Sense of Indian Reality in the Light of International Research held from 25th to 28th November 2025 organised by Department of Mathematics, SRM University Andhra Pradesh. (Participated online.)
  • Groups defined on graphs: Hierarchies and Inheritances, contributed talk presented at the Asian-Oceanic Women in Mathematics Workshop at the University of Auckland from 6-9 December 2024. (Based on joint work with Surbhi.)
  • Exponent-critical groups, contributed talk presented at the Joint meeting of the NZMS, AustMS and AMS at the University of Auckland from 9-13 December 2024. (Based on joint work with Simon R Blackburn, William Cocke and Andrew Misseldine.)
  • Popularising and Strengthening Mathematics Learning: Some Experiments and Experiences, contributed talk presented at the Joint meeting of the NZMS, AustMS and AMS at the University of Auckland from 9-13 December 2024.
  • Graphs defined on groups: some results and open questions, invited lecture delivered at the `International Conference on Mathematical Sciences and its Applications’, organised by the Department of Mathematics, Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, University of Delhi, from 15-17 October 2024.
  • Participated (online) in the panel titled `Women in Math: The Indian story’ at the inaugural conference of Asian and Oceanian Women in Mathematics (AOWM) held in hybrid mode at ICTS, Bengaluru, 24-28 April 2023.
  • Speaker (panelist) on the open panel and valedictory session, with the theme Future Perspectives on Strategies for Equity in Higher Education at the International Seminar on Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education organised by CPRHE, NIEPA and the British Council, India. (17 February 2023)
  • Groups: Enumeration and other problems, delivered an invited talk virtually in the international event ‘To Constitute a Network of Women Mathematicians in the South Asian and Middle Eastern region’ supported by IMU-CWM and UTAS-Suhar, Oman. (05 October 2022)
  • One of six panelists from across the world on an online panel discussion titled `Girls and Mathematics: reflections and Initiatives’ held as part of the World Meeting of Women in Mathematics (WM)^2. Gave a presentation titled Encouraging Girls and Young Women: Perspectives from India and participated in the discussion. (01 July 2022) https://2022.worldwomeninmaths.org/program/panel
  • Group Theory: some research problems, speaker from India at the Indo-Israel Symposium on Women in Stem 29-30 March 2022 organised jointly by Northcap University Gurugram and Ariel University Israel in a hybrid mode. (29 March 2022)
  • Counting groups some history and open problems, Plenary talk in the 2021 Research WebCon in Mathematics and Statistics organised by The Department of Mathematics and Statistics of MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology, the Mathematical Society of the Philippines - Regions 10, 12 and ARMM, and the Southern Philippines Society of Theoretical and Applied Statistics. (9 July 2021)
  • Invited to make a brief presentation on behalf of the Indian CWM ambassadors in  The first Asian-Oceanian CWM ambassador meeting: Platform for a better connection of Asian-Oceanian Women in Mathematics. The event was held online by CWM, IMU on 25-26 June 2021.
  • Enumeration of Groups in Varieties of A-groups, seminar talk given in (1) Pure Mathematics Seminar Series at Royal Holloway, University of London, 19 June 2019 and in (2) `Maximals’ (Algebra Seminar) at the University of Edinburgh, 21 June 2019.
  • Enumeration of Groups in Varieties of A-groups, contributed talk, The Asia-Australia Algebra Conference 2019, Western Sydney University Parramatta City Campus, 21-25 January 2019.
  • Enumeration of Finite Groups, invited to deliver a lecture at the Symposium of South Asian Women in Mathematics at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. (October 2017)
  • Enumerating Finite Groups, Colloquium Talk delivered at the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. (May 2016)
  • Invited to be a panelist on a panel discussion titled Women in Mathematics: Status and Outlook being held during the International Conference of The Indian Mathematics Consortium (ICTIMC) in cooperation with American Mathematical Society (AMS). (December 2016)

National (A selection from 2026 - 2023):

  • Resource person for an `Online Short Term Programme’ on the topic "Administrative Skills & Academic Leadership" organised by the Mahatma Hansraj Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre (MH-MMTTC), Hansraj College, University of Delhi. Delivered an online lecture titled `Women in Academic Leadership’ on 06 June 2026.
  • Resource person for a 2-day SERB sponsored workshop for teachers `On Mathematics and Emerging Applications’ organised by Department of Mathematics, NSUT, Delhi. Delivered a lecture titled Applications of Group Theory and Number Theory to Cryptography on 21 May 2026.
  • Non-abelian Exp-Critical Groups, an invited lecture delivered online in the One day symposium `Celebrating Women in Mathematics’ held on 12 May 2026 by the Department of Mathematics, IIT Jodhpur.
  • Resource person for FDP on Mathematical Principles in Data Science and Machine Learning organised by IIIT Nagpur and Electronics and ICT Academy IIITDM Jabalpur from 16-27 February 2026. (Lectured online on basics of Linear algebra).
  • Fermat's Last Theorem: A brief history and the method of infinite descent, invited talk at the One-Day International Conference on Foundations of Algebra and Analysis on 14 January 2026 at Mata Sundri College for Women, University of Delhi. (Delivered online.)
  • Undergraduate research in Mathematics and Careers after Mathematics, talk given at a National seminar on career counselling on 28 August 2025 organised by the Department of Mathematics, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi and at Mata Sundri College, University of Delhi on 25 September 2025.
  • The (Un)Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics, popular science talk given at the summer school for women in Mathematics and Statistics on 03 June 2025 organised by ICTS, Bengaluru and also a special lecture delivered on 04 July at the IWM Summer school for women organised at Christ University Bengaluru.
  • Women in Mathematics, with a particular emphasis on the Indian context, online lecture delivered as part of the celebration of the International Women in Mathematics Day on 14th May 2025, organised by Department of Mathematics, NEHU.
  • From solutions of Quadratic and Cubic equations to groups, keynote lecture delivered at the Southern regional Conference of the MTA(I) at CUSAT, 21-22, September 2024 and also a talk on Quadractic, Quartics and more in St. Stephen’s College and in Kamala Nehru College, Univ of Delhi on 25 and 24 March 2025 respectively.
  • Applications of Mathematics in the Modern World, lecture delivered in `An Online Interactive Seminar’ organised on the occasion of National Mathematics Day 2024 by the Department of Mathematics under the aegis of IQAC of ARSD College, University of Delhi on 22 December 2024.
  • On the number of elements of maximal order in a group, lecture delivered in the SPS Seminar series, JNU on 20 November 2024.
  • Application of mathematics to medicine and cryptography, talk delivered at the DST Inspire Internship Science Camp Programme at Invertis University, Bareilly, UP. (08 November 2024)
  • Undergraduate Mathematics Education: perspectives on policy, curriculum and pedagogy, plenary lecture delivered at the conference titled `The Practice of Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics’ held at APU and St. Joseph’s College, Bengaluru during 25-27 July 2024.
  • The unreasonable effectiveness of Mathematics, talk delivered at the Science Fair organised on the occasion of National Science Day at Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi. (29 February 2024)
  • Mathematics in the Real World, lecture delivered on the occasion of National Science Day at Miranda House College, University of Delhi. (28 February 2024)
  • Women in Mathematics and Cryptography, lecture delivered at Bharti College, University of Delhi. (19 February 2024)
  • Redefining the role of Mathematics in the context of NEP, lecture delivered in a webinar organised by IGNOU on National Mathematics Day. (22 December 2023)
  • Delivered an invited lecture titled Exploring Symmetry at the 11th National Conference TIME held by Maths4all and IIT Jodhpur at IIT Jodhpur. (7-9 December 2023
  • Group Action and Applications, lecture delivered during an online FDP organised by Bharatidasan University, Tamilnadu. (30 October 2023)
  • Mathematics in the Real World, lecture delivered at the Science Outreach Programme organised by Resonance- Journal of Science Education (published by Indian Academy of Sciences, distributed by Springer) in Kashmir during 10-14 October 2023.
  • The Art of Mathematics, delivered a webinar for At Right Angles, Azim Premji University, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wfzydt-Wtc (07 July 2023).
  • Delivered an online lecture titled Maryam Mirzhakani: some glimpses of her life and work & Applications of Mathematics, as part of the May 12 Initiative (https://may12.womeninmaths.org/) organised by Department of Mathematics, Janaki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi on 12 May 2023. A similar talk was also delivered online as part of May 12 initiative organised by IIIT Nagpur on 30 May 2023.
  • Delivered a lecture titled Beauty, Ubiquity and Usefulness of Mathematics, to the participants of Young Leaders Neighbourhood-First Fellowship (YLNF 2.0) at St. Stephen’s College University of Delhi on 31 March 2023.
  • Delivered a lecture titled Cryptography: an exploration through groups at Hindu College, University of Delhi in their Mathematics festival Alpha 2023 on 23 March 2023.
  • Distinguished plenary speaker at the `Hypatian Voices: a gynocentric national Seminar on Mathematical Sciences at North Bengal University’ during 16-17 March 2022. Delivered a lecture titled Groups: origins, elements of maximal order and other tales.
  • Delivered a talk titled Applications of Mathematics in the real world at Rajdhani College, University of Delhi at a seminar organised by Arity-The Mathematical Society of Rajdhani College. (21 February 2023)
  • Delivered a talk titled Women and Mathematics: perspectives and prospects in an online mode during the National Girl Child Day celebrations at IIIT Raichur. (24 January 2023)

 

Projects

Work in Progress (June 2026)

Preprints: 

Under preparation:

  • Groups in which mth powers commute and nth powers commute.
  • Themes in Group Theory (manuscript under preparation).

Other Interests:

Bird watching, Bird Photography

Bird Photography related Publications:

  • Photograph of Indian Cormorant has appeared in the Delhi Bird Atlas, Bird Count India, 2026.
  • Photograph of Southern Grey Shrike has appeared in the Handbook of Western Paleartic Birds co-authored by Shirihai and Svensson, ISBN 9780713645712 Bloomsbury, London, (July 2018).
  • Four bird photographs (16(L), 26(L), 41(L), 64(R)). In the Lap of Nature: Let us See Let us Find by Khangembam Shamungou, Loktak Development Authority, Manipur, (August 2014).
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