Sucharit Sarkar (born 1983) is an Indian topologist and professor of mathematics at the

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who works in low-dimensional topology.

Education and career

Sarkar attended secondary school at South Point High School in his hometown,

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, India. In the

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s in 2001 and 2002, he received gold and silver medals respectively. He completed his Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the

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, Bangalore in 2005. Sarkar received his

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from

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in 2009 under the guidance of Zoltán Szabó. He went on to postdoctoral fellowships at the

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and

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, before becoming an assistant professor at

in 2012. In 2016 he moved to the

. Sarkar's research area is

low-dimensional topology In mathematics, low-dimensional topology is the branch of topology that studies manifolds, or more generally topological spaces, of four or fewer dimensions. Representative topics are the structure theory of 3-manifolds and 4-manifolds, knot th ...

, with particular interests in knot theory,

Heegaard Floer homology In mathematics, Floer homology is a tool for studying symplectic geometry and low-dimensional topology. Floer homology is a novel invariant that arises as an infinite-dimensional analogue of finite-dimensional Morse homology. Andreas Floer in ...

, and Khovanov homology.

Awards and honors

* Sarkar was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in

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in 2018. * Sarkar was a Clay Research Fellow from 2009 until 2013.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sarkar, Sucharit 21st-century Indian mathematicians Indian topologists 1983 births Living people Princeton University alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty Scientists from Kolkata International Mathematical Olympiad participants Indian Statistical Institute alumni Indian expatriate academics Indian expatriates in the United States Princeton University faculty Expatriate academics in the United States American people of Indian descent Scientists from West Bengal