Sucharit Sarkar
সুচরিত সরকার
ʃuʧorit̪ ʃɔrkar

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics, Topology group
University of California at Los Angeles

Office 6909 MS
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Address
Department of Mathematics
University of California at Los Angeles
520 Portola Plaza
Box 95155
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555

Email address

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Current courses

	Fall	Winter	Spring	Summer
2019-20:	100 101	-	225C	-

Old courses

2018-19:	100	120A	225C	-
2017-18:	100	225B	32A	-
2016-17:	120A	285F	225C	31B

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CV

Journals

• Editor for Selecta Mathematica
• Board member for Pacific Journal of Mathematics

Publication and preprints

• A generalization of Rasmussen's invariant, with applications to surfaces in some four-manifolds (with Ciprian Manolescu, Marco Marengon, and Michael Willis)
  ArXiv preprint
• Khovanov homology also detects split links (with Robert Lipshitz)
  ArXiv preprint
• Chen-Khovanov spectra for tangles (with Tyler Lawson and Robert Lipshitz)
  ArXiv preprint
• Ribbon distance and Khovanov homology
  To appear in Algebraic and Geometric Topology
• Stable homotopy refinements and Khovanov homology (with Robert Lipshitz)
  ICM talk
• An odd Khovanov homotopy type (with Christopher Scaduto and Matthew Stoffregen)
  ArXiv preprint
• Spatial refinements and Khovanov homology (with Robert Lipshitz)
  Published in Proceedings of the ICM
• Khovanov spectra for tangles (with Tyler Lawson and Robert Lipshitz)
  ArXiv preprint
• A simplicial construction of G-equivariant Floer homology (with Kristen Hendricks and Robert Lipshitz)
  ArXiv preprint
• Phutball draws
  Published in Games of No Chance 5
• Khovanov homology and knot Floer homology for pointed links (with John Baldwin and Adam Levine)
  Published in Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications
• Correction to the paper "A flexible construction of equivariant Floer homology and applications" (with Kristen Hendricks and Robert Lipshitz)
  To appear in in Journal of Topology
• A flexible construction of equivariant Floer homology and applications (with Kristen Hendricks and Robert Lipshitz)
  Published in Journal of Topology
• The cube and the Burnside category (with Tyler Lawson and Robert Lipshitz)
  Published in AMS Contemporary Mathematics series
• Khovanov homotopy type, Burnside category, and products (with Tyler Lawson and Robert Lipshitz)
  To appear in Geometry and Topology
• A perturbation of the geometric spectral sequence in Khovanov homology (with Cotton Seed and Zoltán Szabó)
  Published in Quantum Topology
• On transverse invariants from Khovanov homology (with Robert Lipshitz and Lenhard Ng)
  Published in Quantum Topology
• A refinement of Rasmussen's s-invariant (with Robert Lipshitz)
  Published in Duke Mathematical Journal
• A Steenrod square on Khovanov homology (with Robert Lipshitz)
  Published in Journal of Topology
• Khovanov homotopy types and the Dold-Thom functor (with Brent Everitt, Robert Lipshitz, and Paul Turner)
  Published in Homology, Homotopy and Applications
• A Khovanov stable homotopy type (with Robert Lipshitz)
  Published in Journal of the American Mathematical Society
• Moving basepoints and the induced automorphisms of link Floer homology
  Published in Algebraic and Geometric Topology
• Grid diagrams and the Ozsváth-Szabó tau-invariant
  Published in Mathematical Research Letters
• A note on sign conventions in link Floer homology
  Published in Quantum Topology
• Topics in Heegaard Floer homology
  PhD thesis
• Grid diagrams and shellability
  Published in Homology, Homotopy and Applications
• On sutured Floer homology and the equivalence of Seifert surfaces (with Matt Hedden and András Juhász)
  Published in Algebraic and Geometric Topology
• Maslov index formulas for Whitney n-gons
  Published in Journal of Symplectic Geometry
• An algorithm for computing some Heegaard Floer homologies (with Jiajun Wang)
  Published in Annals of Mathematics
• A combinatorial description of knot Floer homology (with Ciprian Manolescu and Peter Ozsváth)
  Published in Annals of Mathematics
• Some properties of subgroup counting function
  Undergraduate project
• Commutators and squares in free groups
  Published in Algebraic and Geometric Topology

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Seminars

• The Joint LA Topology Seminar

(You may add the events to your own calendar using these ICAL links: Topology Seminar, Joint Topology Seminar; see for instance this how-to.)

Workshops

• 2020 Geometry and Topology Workshop
• 2019 Floer Homotopy Theory and Low-dimensional Topology Workshop
• 2018 Symplectic Geometry and Homotopy Theory Workshop
• 2018 Low-dimensional Topology Workshop
• 2017 Floer Homology and Homotopy Theory Workshop
• 2015 Low-dimensional Topology Workshop

Programs

• Analyse Heegaard diagrams: hf-hat
• Compute some Steenrod squares on the Khovanov homology: KhovanovSteenrod
• Compute some new S invariants from the Khovanov homology: newSinvariants
• Phonetic typing in Bengali, Devnagari: Rabindra
• A modified AMSalpha bibliography style file: myalpha

My mathematical genealogy; and as a poster.
My support system, Pami Mukherjee and Nirajana Sarkar.