Application for Academic Appointment

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

Instructions: Complete this application form and submit this form along with all necessary annexures at the
online submission page. See detailed instructions at the end of this form.
Date of Application:
Post applied for:
Discipline(s) (max 2):

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Assistant Professor
Mathematics

1. Name:
First Name
Saurav

Middle Name

Last Name/Surname
Bhaumik

2. Personal Details:
a)
b)
c)
d)

Date of Birth (dd/mm/yyyy): 03/09/1987

Age (in years):
27
Gender:
Male
Marital Status:
Single

e)
f)

Nationality (Citizenship): Indian

Category (Please attach appropriate certificates):
SC
OBC
PD
ST

General

3. Address :
Mailing Address
Saurav Bhaumik
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
Vivatsgasse 7, 53111 Bonn, Germany

Permanent Address
C/o Amarendranath Bhaumik
B-5/16, HIG, Phase 1, Govt. Housing Estate,
Barasat, Noapara, North 24 pgs, West Bengal, India
PIN 700125

4. Contact Details (with STD/ISD code)

a.
b.

Phone (Office) :
Phone (Res.) :

c.
d.

Phone(Mobile) : +4916090542857
E-mail ID : bhaumiksaurav@gmail.co

5. Academic record starting with Bachelors degree (Please attach photocopies of transcripts/ mark
sheets/ grade cards for all your degrees):

Bsc

Specialization /
Discipline
Mathematics

Msc

Mathematics

PhD

Mathematics

Degree

College/University/Institute
University Calcutta
Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research, Mumbai
Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research, Mumbai

Year of
joining
2005

Year of
leaving
2008

Percentage
/ CGPA
66.5

2008

2010

Distinction

2010

2014

6. Area of Interest :
Core Areas of Specialization
Algebraic geometry

Current Research Interests

Geometric Langlands duality, Higgs bundles

7. Current Employment :
Designation
Postdoctoral fellow

Salary
2100
EUR
per
month

Organization / Institution
Max Planck Institute for
Mathemtics, Bonn

Place
Bonn,
Germany

Date of
Joining
August,
2014

Duration
1year

8. Basic Pay Expected at IIT Gandhinagar : Around Rs. 50,000 per month (plus HRA)
9. Employment History (in reverse chronological order starting with present employment):
No.

Designation

Postdoctoral fellow

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Scholar

Organization/Institution
Max Planck Institute for Mathemtics,
Bonn
Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research, Mumbai
Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research, Mumbai

Date of
joining
August,
2014
February,
2014
August,
2008

Date of
leaving

Duration

July, 2015

1year

August,
2014
February,
2014

6 months
5 years 6
months

10. Awards and Recognitions:

11. List Of Publications
List those PUBLISHED, ACCEPTED, and IN PREPARATION separately
a.

Books & Book Chapters

b. Papers in refereed journals (Please also include the journal impact factor)
Published
1. Characteristic classes for GO(2n) in etale cohomology. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) Volume
123, No. 2 (May 2013), pp 225-233. (arXiv:1201.4628)
2. (Joint with Vikram Mehta) Harder-Narasimhan Filtrations which are not split by the Frobenius maps.
Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) Vol. 123, No. 3 (August 2013), pp. 361-363. ( arXiv:1204.1911 )
Accepted
3. (Joint with Nitin Nitsure) Quadric invariants and degeneration in smooth-etale cohomology (to
appear in J. of the Ramanujan Math. Soc.). (arXiv:1302.0092v2)
4. Chow ring of the classifying space of GO(2n) (To appear in Math. Res. Lett.). (arXiv:1405.4084)
In preparation
5. (Joint with C. S. Rajan) Higgs bundles on higher dimensional surfaces
6. (Joint with Roman Fedorov) Fourier-Mukai transform for Hitchin systems
c.

Papers in conference proceedings

d. Papers presented in conferences but not published

Please enclose reprints of the best papers (about three) in your judgment

12. Please write briefly (maximum 1 page) about why you wish to be considered for a faculty
position at IITGN and how your long-term career objectives tie in with a position at IITGN. Also
comment how you propose to contribute to IITGN and how the Institute can help you achieve your
best possible professional growth.

13. Please attach a brief statement (maximum 2 pages) on your immediate short-term
research plans (2-3 year time frame). Additionally, please also include the research
facilities (equipment, space, funds, manpower) that you will need for the same.
14. Please list the type of undergraduate and postgraduate courses that you would like to develop
and/or teach at IIT Gandhinagar. Optionally, you may also include a one-page statement on

teaching interests and your teaching philosophy.

15. Teaching Experience, New Courses or Laboratories :
No.
1

Title of course taught

Lectures on
Commutative
Algebra

Postgraduate/ Undergraduate
PhD 1st year

Sole instructor or with others

A part of Prof. Raja
Shridharan's course

Year
2008

Indicate any special work done towards developing new course or laboratories
16. Short-term Course/Workshop/Seminars etc. Organized
17. Post-Graduate Thesis Supervision :
Name of student/
research scholar

No.

Doctorate/
Masters

Title of Thesis

Year of
Completion

Co-guide
(If any)

18. Sponsored Projects Undertaken :

19.

No.
No.

Sponsoring
Agency

Title of Project

Organization

Amount of
grant

Title of Project

Amount of grant

Period

Role
(PI/Co-PI/other)

Period

Role
(PI/co-PI/Senior
Investigator)

Consultancy Work Done :

20. Information of Three Referees (It is preferable that you include your PhD advisor and someone who
is familiar with your recent work):
Name
Designation
Organization/Institute
Mailing Address
Telephone
Alternate Telephone
Fax
Email

Referee 1

Referee 2

Referee 3

Professor Nitin Nitsure

Professor,
Tata Institute of

Professor C. S. Rajan
Professor, Tata

Professor Yogish Holla

Reader, Tata Institute of

Institute of

Fundamental Research,

Fundamental

Mumbai

Fundamental
Research, Mumbai

Research, Mumbai

21. If offered a position, when is the earliest you could be available to join IIT Gandhinagar?
August, 2015
22. If you currently reside outside India, when is your next trip to India likely to be?
August, 2015

23. How did you hear about the opening at IIT Gandhinagar?
In Google
24. Any Other Relevant Information You May Like To Furnish
(e.g. Membership of Professional bodies, Editorial/Review work, Additional Professional Training, Patents etc.)

25. I hereby declare that I have carefully read and understood the instructions, and that the entries in
this form as well as in attached sheets are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Date:
Place:

______________________________
(Signature of Applicant)
[Digital signature or scanned signature is acceptable]

Instructions:

After completing this form generate a single PDF file with this form, response
to questions 12 & 13, scanned transcripts/grade cards for all degrees, and
certificate of SC/ST/OBC/PD if applicable.
Go to the online submission page (http://apply.iitgn.ac.in/faculty) and fill out
the details in the submission page and upload the completed PDF file along
with reprints of publications.
Mail a signed copy of the application form with all annexures to address
below:
Professor In-Charge, Faculty Affairs
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
VGEC Complex,
Chandkheda, Visat-Gandhinagar Highway,
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
India - 382424

Checklist:
Completed application form with signature and following annexures ( in a single PDF file)
Response to questions 12 & 13 (if attaching as separate annexures)
Scanned transcripts/grade cards (for all coursework since Bachelor's degree)
Certificate of SC/ST/OBC/PD if applicable.
Reprints of three best papers (in a single PDF file)