Amit Kumar Basistha

Mathematics · PhD student

Amit Kumar Basistha

I am a first-year PhD student in Mathematics at Purdue University. I am broadly interested in Algebraic Number Theory and Representation Theory. My advisor is Daniel Le. I did my Bachelors in Mathematics from Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre. During my spare time, I like watching sports like Cricket, Football, Chess and cycling /walking around West Lafayette.

As I am still in my first year of PhD, I am mostly exploring different areas with my advisor while obtaining some mathematical background to start working on a specific problem. I have done reading courses on Elliptic Curves, Modular Forms, the Local Langlands Program and Representations of p-adic Reductive Groups. Currently, I plan to research on a topic that is closely related to these fields.

  1. Analytic Continuation of the Riemann Zeta Function and the Prime Number Theorem (7th October 2023), Math Club, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Center. Details.

  2. The Analytic Class Number Formula (19th June 2024), as a part of the student presentations for the Visiting Students’ Research Program by Tata Institute of Fundamental Research held online. Notes. (If you want to have a look at my project report you can find it here.)

  3. Homological Methods in Number Theory (11th August 2024), Math Club, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre. Details.

  4. Elliptic Integrals (23rd October 2024), as a part of an online learning seminar on Elliptic Curves organized by the Math Club of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati.

  5. The j invariant (25th February 2025), as a part of an online learning seminar on Elliptic Curves organized by the Math Club of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati.

At Purdue

TA for the following courses: MA 351, Spring 2026; MA 511, Summer 2026; MA 511, Fall 2026

At ISI, Bangalore

Instructor for Galois Theory Undergraduate Directed Reading Course, Winter 2023

Email

abasisth AT purdue DOT edu

Office

MATH 441
Department of Mathematics
Purdue University

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